#kinda wanna name him Astrid just for fun

[monster-noises]

Need to make a demon OC who's constantly morphing in and out of his human disguise in small ways just to cause trouble.

[murkystarlight]

DREAMZZZ SEASON2 (PART2) SPOILERS

Well. You know what that means...

*sigh*

Episode 11

The gold armory looks nice. But, Dreamzzz really has a habit of starting episodes randomly. For a split second I thought it was like.. episode12. Not 11. I thought I skipped something-

Inspector being worried-

Old men bantering. Always fun to watch.

For once, Royce said something right. How did you not notice Mateo wasn't the real Mateo!! Still confused of how it works

Oh cool. The Never Witch has her own special edition of barbie's dream house

Dressing for the occasion? Heck yeah! Whooo (the colors look a bit brighter or... some like that in this season. Is it just me?)

Also, Madeo. Your mom is weird. Stay safe. I mean.. seriously. Why does she love dates so much

Honestly- the crow with the house.. was kind of disappointing. The crow looks so... dull. The lego set makes it look SO cool

NOO!! Burrzerker!!!

Astrid and Logan are so frickin cute

Oh... so they aren't trapped forever. Only while they're dreaming...(why is he repeating so much?)

Crosshatch technique?? What's that- I want to know

Cooper is being creative people!! (Wich is a good thing. Yes. Improvement! But... already? I mean.. it's technically the middle of the second season. But if they keep releasing it half and half... it feels like they're two different seasons. Which brings my brain to believe, "how is Cooper getting his character arc during the very beginning and he barely shows up afterwards??" So... yeah. That's kind of a problem for me..)

Cooper's favorite animal is geese! Ah- he's getting more creative!! Look at him! LOOK AT HIMMMM (I'm very normal. Don't worry)

"Our dreams need to be wild and free so we feel inspired and creative during the day"

Exactly. Such wise words. Sad I don't dream

Nova and Sneak is back!! (And they seem to be getting more spotlight and story?? Omg- yes)

The incursion(Bernie) is adorable. Absolutely ADORABLE!!

The repeating stuff is getting annoying already-

Ah- Cooper bonding with the bot- baby voice- aughhh

Sneak:"You saying we can't handle watching a harmless little robot?"

"Pretty much"

"Yeah...[stammers]" (sneak is also very cute. We need to appreciate this very normal looking cat)

Logan has a lot of middle names-(but his real one is Nico apperantly? Nico?? For real??)

Astrid looks like she's going to be apart of the story(big time) too

Space(generic 1980s airbrush album cover) theme!!

"Your girlfriend is so cool"

"She's not my girlfriend!"

"Wait. Do you think she'd wanna be?"

(Look at these cuties-)

Fireworks!

"Ready?"

"If I'm going out, I'm going with a bang."

Fireworks!!

Team move! Whooo look at them go!

Nova: "I wonder what kind of robot he is"

Sneak: "the cute kind?"

You are absolutely right.

"Are we winning?"

"Nope-"

So... Cooper can make fireworks. But no technology. He can make a moving sculpture. But no tech related stuff. ....

"The Never Witch really messed me up when she took my memories"

"I still don't feel ready to tackle tech stuff"

She did indeed. And it made a wonderful, beautiful sight(I'm sorry Coops. But it has a lot of potential and I love this concept. You go boy!)(and if he said that, there's a opportunity that he can do tech stuff now. But he just hasn't tried it yet)

Awww dancing with a cute creature and a cute robot-

Oh- multiplication. Neat

Did... did that clay geese eat a three headed eel??

Nova and Sneak having a breakdown. They're having a lot of fun aren't they

They're faces when they get hit by the Never Witch- lol. It's cute

And Mateo- your sister is right there and you only care about Cooper? Seriously. Sometimes, they make questionable dialogue choices(but- its sweet. Very nice)

Too bad we don't know what qualities the Witch took from them to make the clones...

Okay- lots of hands out of the cauldron. Creepy kinda-(the rhymes are still so amazing-)

Whoa- those neon signs have a lot of energy

Sick- look at them. The matching colors make them look like a real team

"I got Madteo and Doomblob"

"Cool name, broseph. I'm on Dizzy"

"For Doppel Izzie?" (Oh... okay. That's why they have 'd's)

"Guess that means I'm taking Dooper"

"Bogan has met his match" (I thought it was Dogan this whole time???)

"What? Sounds better than Dogan"

"[Sighs] I got Zoey"

And Astrid doesn't get one because... she ain't one of the original dream chasers we know. We need to keep a line between it^^

I am loving the attitude on Dooper

"Need to be saved? Pathetic"

The Bunchu's and the hammer- the hammers! The hammer is so pretty! I want that- so bad

And Dizzy.

Bogan is big for some reason. Okay-

And Madteo! Good to see you again.(also, those pencil ninja stars are cool. Kind of creepy looking tho)

The guardian looks so- squishy. I like it

Also the smashing two together- lol okay

So.. the Never Witch causes chaos, waits till the Guardian wakes up. Then stabs them in the heart to dome the realm. Okay... okay, cool.

Mrs.C: "That is one mangy-looking gato"

Um.. nope. Nothing wrong with him

Seriously, mrs.C is really cool. She's the best adult here

That guardian has a wonderful face. Darn cute adorable face

Oh no... they menace- they menacing bad..

(Still cute though-)

Um... yeah. More repeating sentences. Even I'm going to memorise them at this point...

And there you have it. Nova and Sneak are officially dream chasers now!

"Ew- enough mushy stuff"

Ooohh Mr. Oz's landing!?? Yessss sso curious

Okay

So... it escalated a bit. And the story went by way too fast for my taste. But a lot of new things and facts... it's a pretty nice start I think

Episode 12

"Let's turn up the heat"

"Oh, this'll be a sweet feast"

It rhymes too! (Also, that 'dressing for the occasion' thing? Really paid off. She looks hot. Like... what?!??)

"Ah yes.. let's have dessert before dinner tonight"

Yup. Here we have a single mother with a bunch of strange pets, and her five children

Cooper can drive(pilot?) again! Yay~ and I seriously love how he refers to all vehicles with pet names. Like 'sweetheart' or 'baby'

"I wonder what's in his fridge"

Hm. Now I'm curious too

Oh- it's on autopilot. Well- Cooper still gets to be the one behind the wheels in case something goes wrong. That's something!

So this is dream space. And it's nice to know that the fact Mr. Oz wanted to be an astronaut when he was younger is still a thing and not just a one time mention thing that gets scraped

Izz- take Astrid everywhere!

And here we are! Mr. Oswald's landin-Whoa- that looks amazing... I wish that came out as a set too- but. I guess nows not a good time for that.

Anyways, what is that asteroid centipede thing! Uggghhhhh I don't like it already...(not a fan of bugs. At all)

That dreamling is going to get kicked off soon.

"Welcome, to castle Nocturnia!"

Poor Albert-

Oh look. The night hunter is being a caring dad for Zoey again

Booby traps?? Okay- but why centipede looking thingies? Albert!

"We need to get hold of the kids!"

Mr. Oz....

Augh- the night hunters eyes when they're closed- so beautiful

Astropedes? So... they are centipedes. Aw just great-

"Uh- no. I'm not okay with anything that has more than four legs. [Yelps]" I agree with Zoey. Very strongly.

Old men fighting again. It's hilarious really. (They're both worried for the kids... aw-)And mayhem

Ah- nope. Cooper is driving it

Really fun looking at this like a game

Logan, did you forget the seatbelt again?

Sorry mr. Oz- your ship blew up

Ooh! Space car!

More booby traps? Of course-

Where does this music keep coming from?!

Mr. Oz and the Night Hunter bantering is so fun. Also- why does Mr. Oz have a monocle over his glasses?..

Oh- both sides are going pretty hard on the fight. They know their mistakes and everything... good. Very good

And talk about Lunia again! We might get more clues about her

Z-blob rocket!

I'm surprised they didn't notice that earlier. The light were turning red! C'mon, no one thought that was weird?

"And then there were three"

Well- nice to know they're still kids at heart?

Oh yay. Cooper

"You look uh.. dirty"

"Thanks. You don't look so hot yourself"

...I think Astrid is doing stuff. Like- she does kind of give off a vibe she's only here to add drama and a love interest. But she still has a lot of stuff going on. But she is doing a lot of stuff- she just said hot. As in- that kind of hot? ...really? Am I just stupid or did she really use that word that way?

Ooh! Red button

Albert has... a lot of things. Um.. and is good with animals I guess.

Night Hunter talking about Hannah? Ooh yeah

"It's not gonna hold"

"It's gonna hold"

"Its not gonna hold!"

"Its gonna hold!!"

"What do we do if it doesn't!!?"

Love these two

"I think I'm going to wake up"

"Don't do it Astrid"

"I'm going to wake up-!"

"Stay cool, Astrid"

These two are fun too-

The implications they're giving out on Astrid-

Looking for your best friend as soon as his son comes into a... trash dump. Yup. Always good to have a friend with you

"Don't push that red button!"

And- the red button was bad. They're gonna get crushed-

"Oh, wonderful"

"What can we do? The walls arw coming in! How can be so calm with this much pressure!?" (I know! Right? He is so-)

"Eh- you haven't met my family"

...someone. TAKE HIM TO THERAPY!

Oh my goddd this poor boy- Cooper- we really need more info about your family too-

Oh dang- king Albert sounds bad...

That. Is a lot of sand. GO Cooper! You can do this!(the effects are pretty awesome though-)

Sorry mr. Oz-... again.

Ahhhhhh! Yes! YESSSSS Cooperrr (he looks so dang cute with that smile- and also, matching puffy jacket with Mateo) it's c-rex! Looks sick. Nice details with the rusty parts. And it's also tech related stuff! He did it!!

Look at all that lighting- and the flames!

Mateo did it! Yayy

King Albert is... dead.

Cooper's laugh. That is everything

Doppel-usses. Yeah. That's a great word.

So... yeah. Like I said. Cooper has gotten his arc. It's finished. Good for him though!

Episode 13

Ooohh disguise?? Nice...

The wharnal looks prettier than how I remember it!!

Also, Mateo is doing a.. really nice job pretending to be Madteo. Like... savage-

"Man! That never Witch don't tell us nothin'!"

They're already fed up with her- lol

Confusion of the giant house inside the small house

Bottle library... cool

Z-blob really becomes.. anything. Don't you z-blob

She made a Doppelganger of herself??! Wha- okay. More like. I repeat- we got a whole lot of stuff ahead of us! (And she's crying too-)

Liquefy? Oh.. so they're just the liquid with the memories sculpted into her puppets... or.. something like that.

"My rugged good looks?"

Oh I love those dopples

Her memory is being hidden! We need to know

Reform the dream world spell. Spiral key, eye of confusion. Ruby replication. Crown of- omg. So much information

"Don't tell me the answers on the next page"

"It's on the next page"

Astrid just- can't stand the fact that she isn't noticed. ...oh.. noticed. Showing her worth.. she's that kind of character... I get it now. Hopefully

They're using the space car now- hopefully that doesn't blow up too

Bantering. I love it.

So apparently the dopples just decided to use the names they were given

The dreamlings in the candy realm have blue pudding heads? Ooh-

Mateo I is great at mirroring- except... uh- not the best athlete. He didn't manage the flip(which was awesome by the way)

These Doppelgangers are going to get mad at the Never Witch.. soon enough like- they have a lot of stuff they got problems with the Never Witch-

And- now they're howling and cawing

Cooper is- jealous? Or.. something I don't know. It's not exactly jealousy but Uh- I don't know.. something. Logan and Cooper ate competing

Uhm- what? Hm. Okay... it's like a spider human

Ooh now we get to see the candy chameleon!

Speaking german? Ooh. I mean- okay

They're all giving a shot at different teams. It's nice to see that

And a new barbie dream house for the Never Witch

The barrier works in... wonderous ways..

Yeaah. I need to sleep now. Way too tired- I'll finish the rest eventually

[lordfreg]

BEHOLD: B&B!RAPHS BAD B*TCH GF

This is Astrid, she's fully human but was raised by some Spider Mutants that found her on the streets as a wee little baby

Seems life couldn't be too bad... If that weren't for the fact she acts like a spider, meaning the many dates she has had... She's tried to eat- causing her to be sent to prison a few times, and she's a bit cannibalistic- but she's a sweet heart!!

So when she met Raph... There's a few times she tries to uh- eat him, but other than that she's super bubbly and loves spending time with him and his brothers!and blowing things up but that's for another day-

HOW DO I EXPRESS MY LOVE MORE???????? she’s perfect.

live Raph reaction (ft. Donnie)

Cannibal? He can deal with it.

also, she’s my new hyperfixation. might actually start drawing a comic or something. Also, some color tests, just tell me which one(s) look closet to what you have in your head.

I kinda like the 3 color ones, but I think green is cool too

kinda feel bad for the B&B team because Leo has paralyzing arachnophobia, so that’s fun 😀.

I’m just going rabid because she’s so cute and imma just love her forever ahhhhhh. also, tweaked the design a bit, to make the “PRISONER” tattoo on her arm to Krang language, for plot purposes.👍

she’s not gonna have a fun time trying to eat Raph since he’s not only muscle, but he has tough skin; to the point where he can take a bullet. Bring your knives, ladies.

Research …

So uh…. The first dates must be going good then—

sorry, sorry, I hate myself

aNYWAY, have the concept designs for the spider mutants

Wanna guess her name?

charlotte:)

average mother-daughter talk about eating your partners 🤩

[artinandwritin]

Okay okay okay I wanna hear all about that next gen thing bc that is crazy dude how did that even happen omg

OH YES alright! This is gonna be another full-on Mona-rants-moment so strap in bestie!

I don’t know exactly when I started thinking about a HTTYD next gen, but it must’ve been somewhere around 2014, after I had watched both movies almost right after each other. Gotta confess, before watching HTTYD1 on a vacation to Germany as a little 10-almost-11-year-old, I thought it was a horror movie. Oops. I thought the same about Shrek, but now I unapologetically adore both of them.

So as little kids, me and my twin brother (let the record state, he’s younger than me. By four minutes. It’s a real thing) were absolutely obsessed with HTTYD. So much, that we would roleplay as dragons and – wheeze – HiccStrid’s potential twin kids. Oh, yeah, we were deep into it. We were so deep. We played out adventures and pretended to fly on our pretend dragons, whom we named Fly Fly and Toe Toe and they were, you are allowed to laugh, the kids of Toothless and a Whispering Death. My brother’s favorite dragons were the Whispering Deaths, and we were great at biology. Nope.

After that whole shabang, we went to middle/high school, my brother grew past his Dragons-phase, I stayed right where I was cuz ofc I did, and after meeting some new friends who were just as much into HTTYD as I was (one of them was the friend who gave my the nickname Mona and helped me with Of Thrones and Heirs!), we kinda created a new next gen based of what we thought was cool lmao. I couldn’t find a lot of information on that on my laptop, since most of it was handwritten or only spoken to each other – and tbh, I’m not really feeling up to checking my chats about it with one of those friends cuz I’m not friends with them anymore. But that’s okay, we have a lot more information for what came next!

I developed the next gen a bit on my own, I remember, still with some influences from the friends I had created the last version with. And for this one I still got a lot of details, so let me grab them for ya.

In this next gen, HiccStrid had five kids. Yeah, they be being busy. Zephyr and Nuffink got added a bit later, after I had seen THW, before that they only had the oc children I created as a lil 14-year-old. They had, in order, Zephyr Stormfly (20 y.o.), Nuffink Toothless (18 y.o.), Alischa Valka (14 y.o., aka, the main character), Stoick Finn (13 y.o.) and Lunette Ansfrid (3 y.o.). Oh yeah, that’s a mouthful.

Next to HiccStrid, back then I also shipped Heather and Fishlegs. Not sure if I still do now, but back then they had the following kids; Helen Windshear (19 y.o., she was Zephyr’s best friend), Fay Heather (16 y.o.), Veena Astrid (16 y.o., she and her twin sister were created by my friend I think), Beril/Hugo Oswald (13 y.o., not sure which of the two names. All I know is that he was Stoick’s bestie).

To the more… complicated part, young me put some drama into this next gen by making a divorce plot. So what I thought was cool (and because I didn’t really like Snotlout back then. Very stupid, he’s the kingest of kings), was the idea that Snotlout and Ruffnut had a son right after THW after a one-night-stand (Thorvald Hookfang, 21 y.o., all I know is that he had a huge crush on Zephyr). After that, they tried to make things work, but they didn’t, and they did a divorce thing. After that, Ruff went with Eret and had twins, Audun Eret (19 y.o., he’s the guy I wrote down as the Gustav of the next gen lmao) and Hialti Ruffnut (19 y.o., I don’t think she had a very good life). Meanwhile, Snotlout had a daughter with Minden, Ylva (13 y.o., she had a crush on Stoick).

Tuffnut had two kids with some chick, Annika Macey (19 y.o., she and Nuffink were in love or something) and Kjell Lloyd (19 y.o., I don’t know shit about him).

For the rest, I only had kids for Dagur and Mala cuz oh yeah they were a thing. Don’t think I really shipped them, but they were fun to include. Their kids were Ingrid Heather (16 y.o., I literally don’t know anything about her), Oswald Dagur (5 y.o.) and Siri Mala (3 y.o., the first Siri! I don’t know anything about her).

So that was that next gen. Alischa was the main character, she later got a whole fledged out story involving Grimmel’s grandkid, Arcum (who she got a crush on ofc, I basically redid the whole “enemies to lovers” thing I loved doing in Of Thrones and Heirs), while trying to prove herself to her overprotective dad Hiccup, finding the Hidden World and the Night Lights in the process. She bonded with Toothless’ daughter, Safire, which would’ve been pretty cute.

That whole thing was pushed aside in favor of Siri in December 2019, unfortunately. While I did try to recreate the next gen several times (I am still figuring out what the actual fuck I wanna do with ships in the original cast and who would have kids and who wouldn’t. All I know is HiccStrid has Zephyr and Nuffink cuz that’s canon and Tuffnut is aroace and the cool uncle. For the rest… man, I don’t know. I love FishLout, I love RuffLegs, I love the idea of Minden and Snotlout, I wanna see Snotlout with a daughter, etc etc. I just don’t know anything lmao), things never really stuck, as I was in the height of creating Siri’s story, and in addition, Niv’s story. Now I primarily wanna think about the next gen cuz I wanna give gussiri’s kids some friends pff

Like, at some point I tried to change up the entire next gen; I paired up Tuffnut and Heather (some weird idea from the friend I’m no longer friends with. I don’t know why), they had four whole kids (Dagny, Kyll, and Lloyd, who were triplets born in 1018, and Oswald Loki Chicken Sverd, yes, who was born in 1028). It was a weird move. I also cut down on Dagur and Mala’s kids, giving them only a daughter, named Hedvig, born in 1022. Zephyr (1018) and Nuffink (1021) still existed, but they no longer had any siblings. Lloyd and Zephyr were in love and it was very cute, and Hedvig and Nuffink had a thing going on.

Next to that, I removed the whole thing with Snotlout, Ruff, Eret and Minden, now Snotlout and Minden only had twins (Vidar and Ylva, born in 1021, Vidar wanted to become a wingmaiden). Eret and Ruff had a son named Sol (1023), which is very weird now, considering one of my best friends is named Sol lmao. Fishlegs had a son from a one-night-stand (Kjott, 1019), and the only reason for that is because the friend I’m no longer friends with didn’t like Fishlegs for his “disgusting” relationship with Meatlug. Glad I’m finally allowing to love this precious boy instead of being forced to go along with their opinions.

At this point, Sunniva and Helene didn’t exist as GusSiri kids, rather being replaced by a daughter named Funnet (1025) and a son named Agnarr (1028, Aggie and Oswald had a cute thing together). Niv did exist! I created him and he never changed, he’s just too much of a baby boy for that.

So yeah, that’s how it all shifted and turned over the years! I hope I can point my vision on trying to point down some good characters to be- WAIT A FUCKING SECOND

OH MY GOD I JUST FORGOT THAT I LITERALLY HAVE A DOCUMENT WITH MORE NEXT GEN STUFF THAT IS FAIRLY RECENT AND INCORPORATES INTO SOME STUFF FROM STARCHASER

FUCK LEMME LOOK INTO THIS REAL QUICK

Okay so turns out this is from 2021 and luckily for all of us it’s short and to the point so let’s get cracking. HiccStrid only had Zephyr Valka (1018) and Nuffink Stoick (1021), Snotlout had Vidar and Ylva (both 1019, idk who their other parent is), Dagur and Mala had Hedvig (1017), Ruffnut and Fishlegs had Reider Fishlegs (1018), Saga Meatlug (1023), Amund Tuffnut (1025), and Steinar Barf (1028). For the rest, nothing, and honestly, better, I don’t really wanna keep track of so many kids lmao. I’m not a daycare (read: has created a new oc last week)

Anyways, I think that’s all for now! Thank you so much for being so appreciated, I really appreciate it bestie <333 you’re amazing!!

[one-strugling-bean]

Random Thoughts on HTTYD RoB S1 (Ep1-6)

Ep1 - Ahhh, the animation is so olddd

They all look so weird, Hiccup is smaller than everyone else, Astrid's hair is l spaghetti, Snotlout's all dressed in grey, Tuff's hair is straight, Ruff's face is round and the voice is different, and Fishlegs looks like a soft marshmallow instead of the giant mountain he turns into in rtte - so so weird

Hiccup, the show-off and Toothless, the one actually doing everything

Hookfang chomped on Snotlout hard

"Every night, Meatlug would lick my feet. Who's gonna do that now??" "I volunteer Tuffnut" "Whatever... What time should I be there?" glad to know Tuff hasn't changed that much

Meatlug throwing herself at Fishlegs and Hookfang picking Snotlout up by his shirt even before Snotlout gets to hug him - dragon/rider moments give me liiiife~~

Hiccup drew a picture of them all?? That's so adorable!

Ep2- Is Hiccup going to narrate the beggining and ending of every ep? I kinda like it

I'm gonna take a guess and assume the whole "Hookfang turning on Snotlout/setting him on fire/chomping on him" is gonna be a regular gag

I have a soft spot for Gobber so this is making me super sad... Gonna try to find some fanfiction where there's some Gobber appreciation later, the man deserves it

Also, Mildew, you're already extremely hateful, thanks

"Is that another crack about my weight?" Stoick being self conscious about his weight just makes him that much more humane to me. Am I the only one?

Jeez Stoick, way to leave your son hanging

Oh yeah, the others don't have saddles yet, damn

Yeah, something does seem to be up with Hookfang

"That's what the chief does, he delegates." Okay, I'm sorry but that just sounds so much like an excuse

Check his teeth, peeps, there's something in his mouth, or he's got a broken tooth probably

They wanna kill Hookfang??? What is wrong with you people??

Aw, it was cute until Snotlout ruined it

Ep3- Way to start the episode; some near death expiriences, some rescuing, and some Hiccstrid crumbs

Gothi's great, I like her

Their protective instincts? Why is that surprising? Toothless did the exact same thing in Httyd1, it was a whole thing; Hiccup lost a leg, dragon of gigantic proportions was killed, feud that lasted hundreds of years was resolved, all that jazz. Why are you so surprised now

Of course the farm animals would be scared, can't blame them there

Astrid being competent and everyone else being useless, as usual

Toothless is such a good boy, saving the sheep

Man, I feel for Stoick and Gobber, they got a handful of kids to protect and no way to do so

And now they're huddling for warmth, ahhh, how fluffy is that

I know it's supposed to be an emocional moment, but the scene with the sheep and chicken and yaks getting closer to the fire is just so funny. The mighty score that accompanies it just makes it that much better

Watch the scene with no context and you'll see what I mean

Ep4- Hiccup could've just pulled Fishlegs from the other side, but okay sure

"It scared us, okay? Is that not good enough for you??" Jeez, Fishlegs was mad

Huh, cute little thing that dragon is - he's probably poisonous or super dangerous or something

Oh no, he's just a little guy with an angry, overprotective mama. That's good to know

Snotlout's habit of naming every single thing he sees is something that already comes from RoB I see

I find it cute that Hiccup went to Gobber for advice

If I were Toothless, I'd feel wronged. Hiccup chose to keep a dragon he doesn't even know in his home over his best bud. That was a bad move Hiccup

Wow, that mama is huuuge, her wings are bigger than Toothless himself

All's well that ends well I suppose, but yeah, Toothless deserves a good apology and his weight in fish for this

Ep5- Fishlegs has a good point

"Should we tell Hookfang something?" "Eh, let me sleep on it." Pffft, the twins want to see Snotlour dead so bad, that's also something that came from RoB apparently

"Hey! Things happen after dark." Again, Fishlegs has a point

"It's not supposed to be fun, it's a Hiccup idea" Ouch Astrid, that hurt

Hoofang has been causing so much trouble, and I'm like, 5 episodes into this

"My three weddings, their three funerals... Oh, the funerals~~" what. the. fuck. Mildew. Isn't this kind of implying he killed his wives??

"I gave up thinking years ago. Never been happier." That's such a Tuff thing to say

Mildew is definitely the responsible here, Im already calling it out

Mildew is such a freaking psycho

Ep6- "-our chances of finding those feet are as good as Snotlout and Astrid-" "Don't go there." Okay, that was really good. Fishlegs deserves a brownie

Yeah, Alvin is an ally in RttE so I'm not getting a lot of fear from this unfortunately. Curious to see where it will go though

Fishlegs was making Meatlug a poem?? That's so freaking sweet

Also, he's such a marshmallow in this design my god, I just wanna hug him

And Bucket, such a sweetheart, he went all the way back just to get the girl's lamb

"Alvin? What'd he do to earn that?" Tuff, I appreciate you

Hiccup is such a sassy little shit to his enemies, I love every single second of it

Astrid has suffered a nice plethora of injuries this episode, someone please check on her

A little annoyed Mildew didn't get his deserved karma but okay, we'll get there

Since I don't wanna cover 10 episodes in just one post, I'll just stop this one here, and cover another handful of them next time

My conclusions until now are: Mildew is freaking creep and in just a couple episodes he was able to climb up there right next to Spitelout in terms of "I dont wanna see him ever". And speaking of Spitelout, he hasn't appeared yet, yayyy :DDD

The humor isn't as good I'd wager, or at least very different. The twins speak like, two small lines every episode, if at all, and they haven't shown nearly as much charm as they did in RttE, but who knows, maybe they'll grow into their role, it's what im guessing. Same thing for Snotlout

Hiccup also seems so much lighter, and less tired and I honestly love it, because it's proof his growing is done well moving forward. He's still a sassy little shit to his enemies though, and I gain years of life every time he calls them out on their dumbness

For now that's all - moving on!!

[astrafairy]

HI BESTIE IM BACK AND JUST FINISHED ST 4 (THE FIRST HALF) and now i wanna shift there now i wanna hear all ab ur st dr for motivation hdhhshfhsh

AHHHH I'VE BEEN WAITING TO WATCH IT BECAUSE MY FAMILY WANTS TO WATCH IT ALL TOGETHER BUT I DID WATCH EP 1 AND BYLER?????? IT'S GONNA HAPPEN GUYS

ALSO HIGHLY RECOMMEND SHIFTING THERE BUT SCRIPT THAT THE DEMOGORGON CAN'T COME NEAR YOU BECAUSE HOLY SHIT IT'S SO SCARY UP CLOSE IT'S LIKE EIGHT FEET TALL

fun fact: i shifted for max and then mike hit me with a the (unscripted) "i've been in love with you since the fourth grade" bomb and kissed me and now...safe to say i'm just the slightest bit down bad for michael wheeler

okay, here we go!

STRANGER THINGS DR

So! I started at the beginning of season two because, as previously stated, I was going to shift for Max...that did change later

My name is Astrid Wilson and I've been besties with Mike, Will, Lucas, and Dustin since kindergarten; I was friends with my first, then Will, then Lucas, then Dustin, so Mike, Will, and I are kinda the three amigos

Steve Harrington and I's parents are besties, so Steve and I grew up together kinda like siblings. He drives me to school and stuff

So when I shifted, season one had taken place, so I knew all about the Strange Stuff and whatnot

After school, Steve would go to his job at the movie place (which I scripted he had a season early) and I would go to the arcade next door, where Max would always be

So yes, I was getting very close with Max and like this close to asking her out, when Mike just had to come in and FUCK EVERYTHING UP DAMMIT MICHAEL

love him though. so it's okay.

Although I am slightly confused how this is going to go because as far as I can tell, Will has a crush on Mike in my DR - I've noticed some lingering glances that scream [tender, emotional music] so idk where that's going

Max and I are besties though :)

El/Jane doesn't really like me? I think it's because she liked Mike but whatever

ROBIN ROBIN ROBIN I LOVE HER she acts like my cool older sister and we bond over the whole being gay thing (I came out to Steve when Robin was there and he looked between us and goes, "You guys are both gay?" and Robin said "She's half. But I am 100% gay, yes." and that is so iconic actually I'll never forget it)

General note: script that scary stuff can't get super close to you, because I didn't and the Demogorgon pinned me to the ground and roared in my face and it was so terrifying I was shaking and I still have nightmares about it in my CR (side note: TRAUMA CARRIES OVER. JUST A PSA.)

Fuck Billy. He's a jerk and I don't like him. I met him approximately once at Max's house and he made some creepy comments about me to which both Max and I told him to fuck off

Also I think Elmax might be happening?? Because Lucas and Max never got together and Eleven and Max are spending a quite a bit of time together

Also! Hop never died and the Byers never moved because I cannot deal with the idea of someone else living in that house

Right now I'm towards the end of the s3 plot, so Starcourt is probably going to be demolished soon...

But yeah! That's the gist

[dl4draws]

okay so here is my little bullet point story for the httyd au lol, hope you guys like it

love amongst the dragons

this is a zuko centered au but the story actually begins with how sokka got foof

sokka and hiccup are one no one can change my mind

the swt hunts dragons because dragons hunt them, same thing as httyd

so basically the httyd storyline isn’t zuko’s story but sokka’s

he shoots foof (sprinkle of saber tooth moose lion mixed with night fury, mostly changing the size and teeth – foof would look almost exactly the same as toothless but is taller, has bigger legs, is bigger in general and well the saber tooth of course – also night furies aren’t extinct!)), not because he cant actually participate in the hunting, he’s perfectly allowed, but he creates these machines and people are like just use a spear like the rest of us lol

he shoots the saber tooth night fury down and no one believes him so he’s like “okay fuck it im gonna go find it”

he does indeed find him, foof is too cute, sokka instantly loses the battle, he doesn’t wanna fight dragons anyway

he keeps foof a secret until katara one day sees sokka sneaking away while she’s practicing water bending (the war doesn’t exist, there’s just problems in the fire nation – so the SWT is full of people)

katara is like sokka what the fuck are you doing

sokka cant lie to katara, he can charm anyone else but not katara,, sisters are charm proof

anyways events of httyd proceed to happen

sokka learns how to fly, learns stuff in general about dragons

katara is kinda like the astrid but she’s like confused at the beginning bc sokka’s getting too good at handling dragons and she’s sus

they both get good with dragons after that

until they find another dragon when they were flying around

a Very Large tm dragon

basically a water dragon, inspired by the unagi but from the south pole, it can leave the water but it prefers to live in the deep ocean

katara loves her, she starts “practicing” water bending at a special spot so one can find her, only sokka and her know where it is since they found it while flying

blah blah blah the swt proceeds to have a happy ending and everyone gets a dragon

the swt starts a life with dragons this time and they believe they are the only ones doing this (aside from the air nomads) (there is no war so aang is born 100 years later)

BACK TO ZUZU

Crown prince zuko and soon to be chief of the swt sokka are penpals, they’ve met eachother once or twice, sokka never tells him about the dragons

The fire nation has few dragons left

The fn is the birthplace of all dragons, but they have very little dragons now, they hunt them for fun

It is a ritual for the crown prince to kill a dragon and bring to the palace its heart

ozai is aware that there’s only one dragon left in their territory and the last dragon nest is weeks away

he sends zuko anyway and zuko goes, but he really doesn’t want to kill a dragon

he finds one, he goes through all that same stuff sokka (hiccup) went through with “he looked just as scared as I was” so he lets the dragon free, the dragon isn’t hurt so he can fly away but he doesn’t

he knows zuko won’t do anything to harm him so he stays with him

zuko doesn’t know wtf to do so he does what he knows always sets him in the right direction

he writes sokka a letter and tells him exactly what happens, about the dragon (his name is druk obviously) and how he doesn’t have any idea about what to do, he hopes sokka can reply as soon as possible and if he has time he can come to the fn and help him, he’s an engineer right? He can help him build stuff for druk, right??

He sends the hawk with the letter, knowing it’ll reach sokka in about week, since he’s farther south right now, so he expects sokka’s answer in two weeks

He most definitely is not expecting sokka to get there a week later riding a dragon the color of the night sky, you’d think the dragon was black if it wasn’t standing under the sunlight

Zuko hasn’t seen sokka in a few years, so he’s not exactly the same as he was back when they were still 19 (they’re 21 and 22 now)

Sokka isn’t expecting to see zuko with a supposedly extinct dragon when he gets there tho

He’s fascinated by druk (also zuko looks very pretty)

Sokka teaches zuko everything he knows about dragons, how to fly them, how to treat them, everything (they’re like little dates but they don’t mention that, they’re buddies tm)

Zuko comes back to the fn and he finds out that ozai is planning to wipe out the last nest, so zuko tries to stop him

And ozai lashes out so druk appears to protect him, and ozai is like oh bitch you’ve done it now and his little army is about to attack both zuko and druk when sokka and foof (both were hiding there in the palace) do a sneak attack and get them both out

Azula sees all of this from the shadows (this is important)

Zuko and sokka grab some stuff and leave the fn

They fly to the swt, zuko’s nervous about ozai’s plan but sokka knows that once they get home and set up a plan he’ll be okay

Once zuko lays eyes on the swt he goes holy fucking agni and sokka laughs so hard he almost falls off foof

The swt is built to house dragons and such, it really is a sight to see

They make a plan and basically go all out, the swt and the air nomads are good buddies, so aang is there with his cloud jumper (appa!!!!! Flying bisons exist but they’re like very important to the air nomads and people don’t ride them, they just vibe)

Aang is the avatar, so he has a deep connection with alpha dragons (the bewilderbeast)

They all make a plan, and they start flying to the fn, katara takes her big ass unagi like dragon, but she goes underwater with aang following her from the skies (they’re trying to find an alpha to ask for help)

They get to the nest before the troops, and stand their ground

It seems like they’re about to lose when katara appears with her dragon, the cloud jumper and aang in the avatar state on top of an alpha

The battle ends quickly after that and zuko and sokka are like !!! we did it and they share a sweet little kiss bc I say so (currently listening to coming back around and it’s making me emotional)

Azula appears after all this in sokka’s room (he’s staying at the fn palace for a bit to help the fn get adjusted to the new dragon rules) sokka hasn’t gotten the chance to talk to azula much, but he knows she isn’t opposed to dragons (or that is what it looks like)

His answer comes in the form of azula actually asking him for help, because she’s been hiding two dragon eggs for about two years

Sokka’s like!!!!!!!!!! Yes I can help!!!

She takes him to the eggs and he realizes that he hasn’t seen those types of eggs before but the coloring of the egg indicates that they are fire nation born dragons (they’re bright orange at the top and dark red at the bottom)

He asks if she found them near a volcano and azula’s like, hm yes but are you aware this palace is IN a volcano, and sokka’s like oh yeah right, and he tells her those are most likely dragons that live inside volcanoes and they like extremely hot temperatures so she should keep them near lava or with constant heat

Azula takes note of everything, and she starts going to sokka if she needs advice with her dragon eggs

Azula: how long until they hatch? Sokka: you gotta wait, depending on the dragon they can take from 2 to 5 years to hatch Azula: hm okay

Time passes, zukka dancing and singing to the dancing and the dreaming is all I need in life (will draw tomorrow)

Anyways yes sokka and zuko start living their best life riding their dragons under the moonlight and early in the mornings watching the sunset from between the clouds the end <3

[loquaciousquark]

Talks Machina Highlights - Critical Role C2E113 (Oct. 27, 2020)

Good evening and good night, lovely people of the world! We’re on the internet and ready to go. Tonight’s guests are Travis Willingham and Sam Riegel. This will be calm, controlled, and sane, I can feel it. Brian points out it’s been seven months since either of them were on Talks. Oof. (Sam asks if it’s been going the whole time without him. Bigger oof.) Travis keeps sneaking bites out of an acai bowl or something and tries to look sneaky about it, and I laugh every time because he’s just...so big. He’s such a big person.

(Brian is wearing a lobstrosity shirt. He and Travis talk about Dark Tower for a bit; then Sam tries to get into the conversation: “Is that the thing from It?” Brian: “Is what the thing from It?” Sam: “Is that lobster the clown from It? I’m not very literate. Is that a Langolier? Is that a Shawshank?”)

Announcements: none! Maybe they just forgot. We’ve been talking about Sam’s spooky skeleton decorations for like five minutes. Brian suggests taking them to Travis’s house. Travis: “That’s the fastest way to get to the smell of burning plastic.” Brian: “Speaking of your girlfriend...”

On Avantika: Fjord wouldn’t call it a relationship as much as a casual sexual interaction. Not official! Super not official!!

The first sea voyage wasn’t great for Fjord, but he tried to be thoughtful about preparing for this one before they left: praying, kneeling at the bow of the ship, etc. He’s a little disappointed the Wildmother didn’t even throw him a “yo, fam” heads up.

They weren’t sure how to resolve the conflict at first, since Avantika went for Fjord rather than the crystal. No one expected it to get exposed in that way. Travis thought the necklace was a pocket dimension and was alarmed to learn it wasn’t. Travis wants it destroyed along with the third gateway, so until they are he won’t rest easy.

Everyone enjoyed watching them all fail on the battlefield again. (Sam: “You used [Counterspell] so effectively!”) Travis thought he’d said Thunder Step, which would imply Avantika was running, rather than Thunder Wave. Sam says it’s fine since none of them have that spell and he wouldn’t know it anyway.

It’s very difficult for Veth to find reasons to stay with the M9. She loves the adventures and making a difference, but she also wants to come home and have weekends and have a husband and life. “She’s a career girl!” He’s very excited about the possibilities of Caleb’s transportation effectively creating an easy commute for her. He also, as a player, doesn’t want to be the person who’s always leaving the party. “My characters wanna roam!”

Travis was fully tilted that Avantika might have gotten away right before the break. He doesn’t think he could have focused on Vess DeRogna’s task knowing Avantika had gotten away; he was seriously working out how Fjord would leave the party to go make a last stand at the third gate if she’d escaped.

Sam looooves how Matt plays Yeza, but it honestly makes him feel a little worse at how encouraging he is for Veth to chase her dreams. “He’s always like - go shine! Go blossom!” He wants to have the conversation about Yeza feeling a little ignored. It’s fun to share the tales of adventures with Luc & Yeza. 

Travis says there’s no way it’s Molly--it’s all Lucien. They don’t know if it was a resurrection, if he’s undead, possessed, etc. Everyone--everyone--rags on Taliesin’s accent work. Brian surreptitiously claims Ashly was brought on to relieve him of the burden of the accent. Poor Ashly, ha!

Initially, Travis landed on the Oath of the Ancients, but it had more nature & pacifism in it than he felt fit Fjord very well. Many of them also had a focus on good & lawfulness, which also didn’t feel quite right; he also wasn’t that vengeful for some of the others. He & Matt got together and discussed options. Matt asked what Travis liked about Fjord; Fjord’s love for the ocean was a huge part of it, since Travis himself also loves the ocean & scuba diving, and so Matt created a custom oath for him. Travis does not plan to post its details, but he thinks Matt will at some point.

Cosplay of the Week! a lovely Scanlan by Air Bubbles Cosplay! Sam tells us the “canon” Scanlan cosplay was actually borrowed hodgepodge, and the boots were falling off all day.

It was really cool to see how Yeza & Luc have made a home in Nicodranas. Felderwin was okay, but kind of your basic D&D fishing village, and she likes the Nicodranas is much better. She’s confident & comfortable knowing her family is safe and sound.

Why is Fjord so interested in finding Sabian? To him, post-orphanage, his time with Vandren was the best of his life & the most love he’d ever received, because he mattered & had worth. It was taken by someone he’d known basically his whole life, so Fjord is not going to let that go. “That fuckin’ bill needs to be paid, my friend.”

Sam acknowledges that he should NOT have looked at his phone in re: the Vilya reveal, but it was pretty surprising! He can’t believe none of them recognized it! Travis points out the M9 had never met, heard of, or known anything about Vilya, so it’s not that surprising. Brian points out Matt has also done a really good job keeping the two campaigns separate, so any references were tasteful. Sam marvels that it was so well done: it was tasteful, had emotional and story impact... “That Matt. He’s getting better!”

Liam texted Sam back something like “oh SHIT.”

Knowing Veth had a chance to help someone else return to her child made Veth feel almost karmically forgiven for being away from her kid, but it also made Veth a little guilty--”this lady wants to desperately return home, shouldn’t I want to go home too?” Caleb’s teleportation spell couldn’t have come a better time.

Sam wants Caleb & Astrid to get back together (well, he says “hump each other”), and Dani’s eyebrows climb off her forehead. Veth/Nott really thinks Caleb needs to have a roll in ze hay, and feels like after meeting her that there is a kindness or vulnerability to her that could be worthwhile. Travis thinks she feels like someone tethered, that it feels like she has a bomb or something in her chest that’ll explode if she tries to leave. Sam thinks Eadwulf is super cool. None of these names are spelled like I think.

Travis found the dinner super frustrating, because he felt Caleb was trying to walk a diplomatic line and he just wanted to backhand Trent. 

Fjord is still coming to terms with his feelings for Jester, and the feelings are definitely real, but there’s a lot of timing that he’s considering and he also wants to figure out what the relationship is like outside of constant tension and battle. Fjord is also having trouble figuring out how to exercise the ability to display affection as well since he’s never received them, and is feeling out how to give and receive them. “It’s fine now, because he’s feeling it, but once you say it out loud, or once you come to a point where you make it known to the other side, then what happens? It might be ruined. It might be broken. Or it might not be!” The moment with the porcelain unicorn was too good not to try. Travis also sighs that he’s not a romance D&D guy, “but now I am! Fuckin’ Laura Bailey!” He’s definitely feeling it out and will see how it unfolds in the game.

If Jester hadn’t let go of the Traveler, Fjord would have either attacked the Traveler or the Moonweaver and tried to kick them both off.

Sam doesn’t think the Traveler’s realized yet what a dick he is. Brian thinks it may not happen in this campaign, but agrees the full weight of what he deserves hasn’t been felt yet. Travis: “Yeah, he came to the edge, but it didn’t cost him anything.” Brian: “Yeah, he’s a real edgelord.”

Fanart of the Week! a beautiful portrait of Molly in the snow by @claygryphon on twitter.

Veth acknowledges that they work for shady people with shady pasts, so Vess DeRogna isn’t her first rodeo, but this time it’s personal. It’s Jaws 2: Electric Boogaloo. Sam can’t commit to actual actions, since Vess is like level 20 or something, but “I will get some kinda revenge. Be it petty or significant, I will get revenge.”

How are they feeling about being in Eiselcross? They’ve only just landed, so not sure yet. The cold is intimidating. They’re excited to explore a new island that’s part of Wildemount, especially with the river of lava running through it. “It’s icy with lava? Sounds like a Dairy Queen.”

There’s still a ton of unknowns regarding the Tombtakers, Vess, the nature of their job, and who’s here on whose orders. They’re excited to see how it’s all going to play out. Travis laughs that he doesn’t take notes, he’s just here to fight things. It just washes over him when Matt starts talking about names and places. “It’ll reveal itself in time. [...] I don’t write those notes down. I don’t even know how to spell it off the bat.” I have never identified more with Travis. Sam actually does pay attention and take notes and was really impressed by Marisha’s dive.

Veth became interested in branding her own spellcraft as soon as she saw Caleb doing it. “That’s what the influencer agents are gonna be looking at. It would be nice to leave the world better than we found it, but also with some branded spells.”

What were Fjord’s thoughts on dropping so much money on the ring & the Ioun stone? It wasn’t about money for Fjord, it was about a cool thing to acquire. It’s why he saves money in his campaign. Caleb needs “as much of a flak jacket as he can get.” He also REJECTS the idea of buyer’s remorse on the ring and touts the effectiveness it’ll have on the lava river.

Travis talks about his old coins - a 340AD coin he bought at a ren faire and a 120BC coin that was a gift from a friend.

Sam marvels at the love and thought that Caleb put into the tower. Sam points out they forgot to go to the top two floors altogether. Travis: “Did the mansion get as much careful planning from Scanlan as the tower did from Caleb?” Sam: Absolutely not. But they were still thinking small in C1, figuring out how things went, and they didn’t have as much detail in their heads yet.

And that’s all the time we have for tonight! We end on everyone whispering way too close into their mics and tapping fingernails on mason jars. A fitting end to this crazy episode, I think.

Is it Thursday yet?

[slytherinbangchan]

Gray joggers (Hyunjin One-Shot)

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Pairing: Roommate Hyunjin x FemReader

Warnings: Smut, masturbation, dry humping, thigh riding etc

Word Count: 1.4k

So you come back home after a long day at work and there's your roommate again drinking in the living room with a bunch of friends. You wish he'd ask you at least if it's okay to bring so many people in that late but you're too tired to argue so instead you say hi and let out an exhausted sigh.

There's this girl sitting on one of Hyunjin's thighs as they keep drinking and she's really beautiful. It's not the first time you've came home to this picture. Not that you care... Well, maybe you do. He's really handsome and hot too after all. Which it's a fact kinda hard to ignore when he likes to walk around the house shirtless for a bit after coming out of the shower.

So yeah, maybe you care. Maybe you wanna be the one sitting there so all those other girls know he's yours and only yours. But well, actually he's not. He doesn't even know you find him atractive or cute.

Cause he is cute too, at least he is when he's around you.

'Hey, y/n. Why don't you join us?' He asks as he quickly pushes the girl off his lap. 'Nah, it's okay. I'm really tired'. You say then leave to your room wishing they'll behave and won't make a lot of noise. But a bit later you can hear his friends walking to the door. 'You're fucking whipped for that girl huh?' They say and he laughs. 'Fuck off, you're all drunk'. He says as he chuckles. A second later he's knocking at your door. 'Sorry y/n, they're gone so you can sleep now ok?'. He whispers. You can only see his nose and mouth poking out the slightly opened door making you chuckle softly. 'Thanks'. You say. 'Good night'. He says then leaves.

Ahh, he's definitely cute. You wanna tie him up and hear his sweet voice begging you to just touch him. You bite your lips as you imagine him in your head but you're so tired you doze off before you can even realize. You wake up a couple hours later cause you're hungry. You shouldn't have skipped dinner but anyway. You get out your room carefully not to wake Hyunjin up in case he's asleep but as you are about to walk in front of his room you hear some soft moans. And he sounds just as good as you had imagined. You bite your lips as you get a bit closer to the door to hear better and you can tell by his breathing and noises he's about to cum. Then you hear your name falling from his lips making your heart stop for a moment.

You smile to yourself as you slowly open his bedroom's door startling him a bit. 'y-y/n...' He says as he quickly pulls his pants up. You walk towards him. His length is bulging so obviously under his gray joggers and he's blushing so hard about it. 'Were you calling my name?' You ask and he blushes even more if possible. 'Y-Yes...' He says making your heart flutter at his cuteness. 'Why did you stopped?' You say as you guide his chin up with a finger so he looks at you. Then your hand runs down caressing his entire body on its way to his crotch. 'I-I don't know...' He says answering to your question. 'You don't?' You ask as you palm him a bit. He's so hard. 'You were about to cum right?' You ask and he nods. 'Then cum for me baby'. You say as you rub his cock a bit over his clothes making him whimper and cum in a second. You smile as his sweet moans fill your ears and a dark patch forms on his pants.

'Wow, that was quick Jinnie, baby'. You tell him and he covers his face still blushing. 'Ah.. so embarrassing'. He whines and you chuckle. 'Ah.. really... I didn't know you were this cute Jinnie. It only makes me want to embarrass you more~' You chuckle and he blushes even harder. 'Aw, adorable'. You say before ghosting your lips over his.

'Now, tell me'. You say, 2cm away from his mouth. 'What were you thinking about as you were moaning my name?' You ask and he gulps down some saliva. 'N-Nothing'. He says and you move away a bit, tilting your head. 'You won't tell me?' You pout and he bites his lips. 'I-I...' He avoids your eyes. 'I was thinking...About you...r-riding...me' He confesses and you smile. 'Yeah? Should I make that fantasy of yours come true?' You ask as you palm him. Getting him hard in a heart beat. 'P-Please...' He begs. And he's so cute. It only makes you want to mess with him a bit longer.

You sit astride him with just your underwear on. His shirt on the floor long forgotten too now but you make him keep his joggers on and start grinding on him. His hands climb up your tits but you slap them before they get there. 'Am I gonna have to tie those hands?' You ask and his dick twitches so you smirk. 'Guess that's a yes'. You say, then stop to tie his wrist on his back with his rescued from the floor shirt. 'Thank you.... M-Mas..ter...' He blushes as he calls you that and your heart skips a beat as you blush lightly. 'Is that what you call me in your fantasies too?' You ask and he nods still blushing making you smile. 'I see. I like it'. You say and his eyes shine in excitement.

You've been grinding on him for a while and you can feel your orgasm burning with every movement. He closes his eyes as you lick on his neck to later nibble on him sweetely. You allow him to bite on your tits softly and, noticing how he's panting more often now, you cup his face and peck his lips as you rotate your hips. 'Are you gonna cum? Mhm?' You ask making him blush then kiss him. 'You're gonna cum in your pants like you did earlier, right?' He whines from embarrassment as you kiss him again. 'You're always acting like such a big boy with those girls sitting on your lap as you drink with your friends'. You say then lick his cheek before biting it. 'But you're just a boy, right? A boy who can't hold it even for a minute when his Master touches him'. You say and he moans at your words but bites his lips hard so the pain would help him keeping it in. You scoff as you smile and move your hips a bit more intensely. 'Why are you holding it?' You ask. 'I love to see my babyboy not being able to resist me. I wanna see your face again as you cum'. You kiss his neck up to his jaw and to his lips as you keep moving on his lap. 'So, be a good boy and just cum, okay?' You reach behind his back as good as you can to untie his wrists. 'My beautiful babyboy just cum for me'. You say as you place his hands on your tits and make him squeeze. Then you bite his neck. A choked 'Fuck' leaves his mouth as he cums and you look down to see a second dark patch forming on his joggers. You kiss him and shift to one of his thighs to get off on it as he nibbles and kisses on your tits.

You moan softly as you reach your high and he looks up with puppy eyes as he awaits for his kiss. You cup his face and kiss him still kinda breathless after releasing. So many sloppy kisses after that.

He happily sighs as you play with his hair and you smile. 'You're so cute'. You say and he lightly blush. 'But if I ever see another boy or girl sitting on your lap again...' You say and he sits up a bit. 'You won't, you won't!' He repeats. 'I was only trying to get your attention'. He says and you scoff. 'Is that why you walked around the house without a shirt so often too?' You ask and he blushes even more. '...Did that work?' He asks and you both look at eachother as you blush too. '...Shut up'. You say then kiss him so he won't ask again. He smiles on the kiss but he shuts up as you asked. 'Good boy'. You say. 'We're gonna have so much fun from now on'.

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c2e91

Fingers crossed for more Essek tonight

Did Matt get a haircut?

Oh lord Sam xD

"Cryptonic Override" lol hi Laura

Lol Laura xD

She’s such a good friend

"0010011 which is binary for YES" is it tho I wanna know

[[MORE]]

I love how the ads have become an arc xD

I’m pretty sure the gauntlets are forfeit already based on the time limit they gave her, but I hope Matt just ignores that

Also TravelerCon keeps getting further and further away I swear lol

Hott boi! OMG HE WANTS TO COME OVER FOR DINNER

IM GONNA CRY

A BABY BOI

he came for dinner to hang out with them and he brought a gift I’m crying

Whispers

OH MY GOD he stopped floating

He’s like!! Relaxing around them!!

Guys I’m so stupidly happy.

He’s opening up just a little bit

Not only is he a prodigy but his mom is the head of his Den?

"I’m not imposing, am I?" Oh honey never

They’re making him so at home guys I’m so emotional

I live for all this domesticity

Cad’s cooking, Essek is chilling casually with them. I’m so happy.

Oooo that’s an interesting take. Essek is consecuted but he doesn’t really buy into all the religion aspect, feels like it distracts from good things that could be done

Oh my god Laura just connected a dot from AGES ago

E: "I can see a similar spark in you, Caleb. I want to unlock these mysteries.... To pursue beyond the limits of what you’re told is capable. To seek the impossible. To do what every archangel before us has failed to do."

Like not to get too shippy on main but Caleb and Essek could be SUCH a wizard power couple

Beau I understand what you’re getting at and you’re right but let the wizard boys geek out about endless magic possibilities

Ohhhh no now he’s talking about things that would definitely interest Caleb

...Okay I can see now though how he and Caleb could not be good for each other, if neither is likely to restrain the other. If they’re both just the sort to delve headlong and get lost in it (even though Essek said they’d go slow) it wouldn’t be healthy.

Whispers!

Essek’s like where is this happy fun ball where is it

He’s a lonely boy who just wants to be friends!

He needs hugs tho and to be slightly less aloof still but it’s fine he can work on it

Y: "do you ever get lonely? In your solitude?"

E: "I didn’t think so, until recently. How about you?"

Y: "Yes, I think so... to be honest, I... didn’t feel lonely in my solitude until I became friends with them."

My HEART

Also Beau likes him which means the whispers were good

Fjord talking about how his goals are now to keep the group safe I’m EMOTIONAL

There’s a lot of sweet things being said I’m crying

I’m so torn about the Traveler because on the one hand for Jester’s sake I do not want him to be malicious (he was her only friend for such a long time, and who would she be without him in her own eyes), but also story wise it would be so fascinating.

J: "trying to find... you know... where I fit in...." oh honey

Jesus Essek you’re dropping the HEAVY lore oh my god

He got his dad killed??

"Doesn’t bother me necessarily, he wasn’t a great man. He had... little aspirations." Hmm... see okay that’s a side I don’t like and a side I don’t think would be good to have around Caleb.

Like doesn’t that sound a bit similar to the Trent/Astrid/etc way of thinking? What’s a life in the face of aspirations? What’s a life when that life doesn’t value what *I* value?

That’s something I hope we get to see Essek grow out of, but for the time being I’m gonna have to admit that suddenly I’m not vibing with Essek/Caleb as much. It doesn’t seem healthy just now.

Here’s another question: is Yasha consecuted

Is there a chance her WIFE could be consecuted?

I get what he’s saying and why he’s advising it, but it would backfire so hard if the Bright Queen ever found out

Ohhh that’s an interesting take. They want to "stop" the war so the war stops prying into what they’re doing

Oh man I forgot about the potion I’m glad they have it.

Oh my god he’s gonna dip in the hot tub xD

Getting some Cad lore and more found family feels

"Supported then as they’ve blossomed into heroes" babyyyyy

"These are good people, despite themselves." That’s the ultimate description of the M9

Beau cutting in is good because Caleb/Essek is now a potentially dangerous thing but I still crave that Caleb/Essek interaction

"It is one of many things that are fascinating about him." Goddd Liam

They’re trying to give Jester pointers for recruiting to her cult

And it’s actually kinda working xD

"Jeff is sold" that’s so sweet Fjord

And then she mentioned the volcano and it’s done xD

Talking about Cad’s stuff now

As much as I love the overall arc I’m ready to get back to character’s personal arcs too

Oh my GOD

"When you’re at an orphanage they give you a shit last name. Mine was Stone."

HOOOOOLY SHIT IT’S DESTINY

Oh my god if this is a coincidence it’s an AMAZING one

Caleb taking some time to encourage Jester

C: "I’m the transmutation wizard but... you’re the one who changes people. I see it every day."

J: "Really?"

C: "Ja. You’re a good friend; and you move people. I don’t know if you see that, but you do. Every day."

Oh Jester, honey... it’s not your fault, sweet pea.

Caleb offering to use major image to "decorate" to cheer her up

God they’re such the best

I’m cryyyyying god remember when they used to snip and snap at each other and now Caleb’s being so soft and sweet with her

TT: "You were my first, and you will always be my favorite." See that seriously lends to my personal favorite theory that he just didn’t exist until Jester imagined him into being and then he became a god because she believed so hard

Awww Yasha ans Cad sleepover because she doesn’t sleep well alone right now oh honey

Cad taking care of them all has just been my favorite. I can’t wait for them to get to/have to take care of them.

Yasha: slightly more buff

Beau: is aroused

It’s so cute that she was so determined to pay for them herself, didn’t want anyone to feel obligated to help her, and everyone was like NOPE

Also I’m so glad that Matt just let her have them and ignore the original time limit

So the first two hours were chilling with Essek, hour three was shopping, hour four will just be trying to decide where to go next

I’m imagining Essek just like sitting there at the table with all this breakfast food wondering when they’re going to show up and wondering if they just forgot or if he scared them away last night and they don’t really want to have breakfast with him, and when he gets Jester’s message he just jumps up and then has to try and play it cool

I love how he stopped floating as soon as someone mentioned it

Are they trying to

They are trying to teach him how to swagger now xD

He’s like please just eat the cheese and stuff I laid out

Caleb geeking out over Essek’s magic tower god they need to stop being cute

Oh my god we could get Veth fully back TONIGHT

Fuck I wish I hadn’t decided Essek/Caleb was probably not a good idea because I am LIVING for the shippiness right now

Like the whole exchange of “we should work together more” like GOD

Okay okay okay slow burn slow burn is fine they’ll have time to work out their issues and learn to reign each other in and it’ll be okay I can live with that and still slow burn ship it

But anyway this is about Nott

I’m... gonna. Miss Nott a lot of she leaves.

Oh fuck oh god it’s happening

Oh god oh god

Caleb is gonna miss her

I mean they all are but if she leaves Caleb will miss her the most. They started this together.

This can’t possibly be the end I can’t tolerate the idea of saying goodbye man

Sam why do you do this

Fjord coming in to say he understands the fear of making the choice to change

Oh god oh god oh god

It’s fine for Sam to crush us all huh

I’m crying guys this whole thing

What

Oh no oh god

What’s going on????

WHAT THE FUCK

WHAT THE FUUUUUUCK MATTHEW

oh god she’s cursed??

Matthew MERCER

HOLY SHIT

what the FUCK

The episode was a ROLLER COASTER

What if she’s just cursed?! What if she didn’t actually die??

On the one hand I’m glad Nott won’t be leaving but FUCK what a plot twist

Goddamn that was good

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ask and you shall recieve mwahahahaha

WELCOME TO MY TED TALK

liam o’brien? bastard man. remember when we all thought that caleb was a werewolf because of his name and he made fun of it? for that he is a BASTARD. MAN. as previously discussed on this, my justice-for-the-werewolf-theory blog, i talked about how bullshit it is that he roasted us on talks for thinking that caleb “my first name means dog” widogast because bren- caleb’s real name- means flame. but here me out: that’s not the only thing weird about his name.

when we first learn about bren’s story, we also learn about his two biggest allies during this time- astrid and eodwulf. we don’t really know anything about the two of them besides what caleb tells us, which is mostly that they went through what bren did under trent (which, by the way, i’ve been referring to as trent instead of ikithon because ikithon is a domineering, mysterious figure while trent is a man. taking power away from him, even in a small way, amuses me. same reason why i refer to my own trent as “that motherfucker” or “that man i will one day slay in battle”. sorry for the side tangent- i just wish i could give caleb some advice, pass on what i know now yknow? it’d be nice to put it to use for once). the three of them are implied to be close, and the only extra, individual details we have about astrid are that she is “handsome” and that she and caleb had some sort of romantic relationship- but more on this later.

the point i’m getting at here is that- right up until bren breaks- trent’s trio (what an evilly tragic nickname! i’m gonna keep using it) is inseparable. it adds a fun and spicy level of heartbreak in the fact that these kids (literal children, by the way- the three started school at 15, taken in by trent at 16, and bren was 17 when he was submitted to the asylum) only had each other to rely on. they obviously couldn’t trust trent- we know he was abusive. he shows all of the signs of an abusive figure- promising to teach them to be powerful wizards while actively hurting them, manipulating their memories (a magical version of gaslighting) and, ultimately, cut them off from their support system by forcing them to kill their parents as their final piece of training. the only people that they could truly trust is each other.

but wait! i already led you in you know what this essay’s about baybey! let’s get to it, then! there’s one part of the traits of an abusive figure that i’m leaving out- they like to isolate their victims.

look, when you are in an abusive relationship, other people are your lifeline. with just a touch of irony here, it’s a lot easier to tell if the house is burning if you’re outside of the house. when you’re inside the house, you can stay in a room that isn’t burning yet and if you crack a window and tell yourself that the person downstairs is probably putting out a candle or lighting up the fire place, it’s like everything’s okay. when you’re standing outside, you can see the smoke billowing and the fire roaring. sometimes the house isn’t quite burning yet and the lawn looks kinda nice so it’s a little convincing, but it’s still easier to see.

in other words, trent’s worst fear would be someone else realizing what he was doing to bren and telling him. If bren realizes that he’s being manipulated or is given a way out, all of his “work” that he’s put into him is gone. bren won’t believe in the empire or in trent anymore.

at the same time, though, if bren is alone, he is a child, all alone, dealing with an incredibly bad circumstance that he sees no way out of. he is terrified and in so, so much pain. while this- as abhorrent and disgusting as it is to say so- is exactly what helps trent to mold him into what he wants, fear never creates a strong of a motivation as passion does. bren can be hurt into serving the empire, but if he ever becomes extremely powerful, he could overthrow trent. he has to make sure that he never wants to.

enter astrid and eodwulf. his best friends, his only confidants, the only two who he understands and who understands him in turn. even when the world is horribly bleak and there is no way out of pain and suffering, he isn’t alone, so how bad could it be? besides, even if he really wanted to leave, how could he leave the two of them behind?

i’ve been leading you along this horrible road towards this final conclusion that trent somehow did this to him- and don’t get me wrong, that’s entirely possible. trent convinced him that his parents were traitors through false memories. he could’ve done the same thing, except this time, he’d be creating a much longer illusion. If bren was that desperate for companionship this could work, but not unsupported. we also know that bren was cured of all of his false memories in the asylum- at least, the ones magically created.

what if bren was so desperate to not have to go through this alone that he convinced himself he wasn’t?

It’s a horrible, horrible thought, but there’s little details that point to it- caleb only ever mentions his two companions when he’s having a breakdown or out of it, like when dancing with Jester or when explaining his trauma to nott and beau (and you can tell he’s not doing okay during this, especially towards the end). when he explains himself to the party at large he also very specifically doesn’t mention astrid or eodwulf, a strange detail since the whole reason he finally explains himself is that he fears people who would recognize him from his past.

but here’s my favorite detail, and the one that really got me thinking about all of this:

remember how i brought up caleb’s name before? caleb’s real name is bren aldric ermendrud. his initials are BAE, which we’ve all already joked about, but wanna see something much worse that that could stand for?

bren, astrid, eodwulf.

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Get to Know Me Tag

It has been 84 years! Thank you @nerazennxx for tagging me and now I’m finally doing them all!

I wanna tag @bisexualstruggles, @happy-weird-me, @blueeyedstark, @jiemae

Have fun :D

Rules: Tag followers you would like to know better!

Name: Kati Star sign: Pisces Gender: Female Height: 5′5′‘ or 170cm Sexuality: Straight? Maybe bi? 

What image do you have as a wallpaper: Actually I’m one of those people who like to keep those standard screens almost everywhere, but I have this thing as lockscreen on my phone:

Where do you see yourself in ten years: humm... I’ll be 32 so I hope to have great work, a beautiful home and some mayybe already children. and a cat. although my bf is allergic I’m hoping certain breeds may be okay with him :( Also I’d like to have a motorcycle license, maybe I’ll do that one day.

If you could be anywhere else right now, where: In bed honestly. I’m up for traveling but not in summer, I fucking hate the heat. But if I could also travel space and time then I’d choose the schoenbrunn Palmery in early october. So beautiful (and peaceful in october). What was your coolest Halloween costume: ummm. Halloween is not that common in europe, we’re more into karnival. So I could choose my only real Halloween costume, which was a undead marylin Monroe, or, what I personally like more is my Alice in Wonderland costume :3 What’s your favorite 90s show: Since I was born in 1996, most of my fave shows are form the 00′s :’D But Stargate SG-1 probably counts, that one was old already when I binged the reruns on saturday nights Last kiss: My boyfriend :) Have you ever been stood up?: I guess only on accident by some of my friends, specifically one of them who just never is up to date with her own plans :’)

Have you ever been to Las Vegas: Nope Favorite pair of shoes: HOW COULD I EVER DECIDE? FOR WHAT OCCASION? (One of those people with wayyy to many shoes.)

Favorite fruit: oh god. Blueberries, Strawberries and Granny Smith apples Favorite book: Those are some fucking hard questions. I have a particular love for children and yound adult books, which taught me a lot when I was young, for instance Astrid Lindgren Stories and Momo, Harry Potter and A Series of Unfortunate Events. But for Books I still think about, I’d say ‘P.S. I Love you’, ‘Girl on a Train’, ‘Die Einsamkeit der Primzahlen’, ‘Art of hearing Heartbeats’ Stupidest thing you’ve ever done: Chilling on shut down train tracks, but in plain sight :’D Favorite gif: 

this is kinda like my everyday mood :D

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alright I wanna hear all about this ghost hunting au please please please

OH YEAH OFC!! Id love to infodump hehe

As for the "basic knowledge " for this au, cuz ofc I can't do an au without vicariously planning every single detail, we're talking about a modern au type of au here, set between 2015-2021 in the small - kinda haunted - town of Berk. Ghostly appearances and voices that don't belong are a regular for some inhabitants.

Luckily, we got some Ghost Hunters to take care of things, and not just any Ghost Hunters, no, these are famous, inspiring ones. Everyone wants them, everyone wants to be them, cuz they've got money from living off of YouTube. Great.

Spoiler, these Ghost Hunters are the Gang cuz ofc they are. Hiccup's a successful capturer of supernatural evidence and a great exorcist and operates the most dangerous houses with his trusted crew, existing of his wife Astrid, his cousin Snotlout, and friends Fishlegs, Ruff and Tuff. They're having fun and I love them in this au <3

Zooming in a little bit, we're turning our cameras to the biggest fanboy of Ghosts, first year college student Gustav, and his new bestie, Liam Arnesen (my friend's Sol's oc!). Well, Gustav has big hopes and dreams for the future; one, getting rich af, two, get a pretty person to be the love of his life, and three, to start a successful Ghost Hunting company like his big half-brother Snotlout and cousin Hiccup. Sure, he's got no money cuz daddy Spitelout stopped paying child support to his mom, but he's got the spirit and the diplomas from online courses about Ghosts to make up for it.

Luckily, fate decides to be nice to him and brings him a medium, in the form of Solveig Onfroy (another one of Sol's ocs!), Liam's fierce girlfriend. She's an absolute queen who is able to sense Ghosts around her, like a badass, and Gustav's like, "you. I want you. In the company". And Solveig says, "um. Well okay I guess?".

So Solveig, Liam and Gustav schedule a time and date to go visit an abandoned, allegedly haunted house - Gustav takes his childhood friend, high school senior Siri Vínteri, with him as well, just cuz he likes her face and gets all butterflies when he's around her. Totally platonic. Siri is a hashtag rich kid, a cousin to Ghost Hunter Astrid, very sweet, a bit naive, that whole shabang. She's also a horse girl and thinks a 100 bucks is the same as 10 bucks. Yeah, that's what generational wealth does to a person. It's a problem.

The four go on an adventure in the haunted house and after some wacky shenanigans, they decide to finally start Gustav's company and air their show online! The Ghost Hunter. Inc is a fact. This all happens in autumn to winter of 2015, its a wild ride. Soon after this, Gustav and Siri start dating - Siri treats her broke boyfriend to a lot of little presents cuz she doesn't know how to handle money - and life goes on.

Skip to a few years later, to december of 2020, Solveig and Liam have gotten married, the company has gained two more employees, Luka Grimborn and his girl Kristen Everson (two ocs of my friend Chloe, Kris' name might get a change! Idk yet, she's been talking about it), and they've settled into an easy life style. Most of them have part time jobs outside of their Ghost Hunting business, but it's a sincere passion project for all of them - even if Hiccup's company still has more subscribers, lmao.

One night, Gus and Siri do a little haunted house exploration of their own. They had gotten engaged a few months prior and were currently getting ready for their wedding, fun times. However, shit sure does happen in that haunted house, called Edgewater Mental Asylum. Siri gets attacked by the Ghost of an angry mother who had lost her baby in childbirth, called Isabella, now searching for a new baby to raise. Welp, Seer finds out she's pregnant. Fun times for her for sure. After a long struggle and some injuries, the Ghost disappears. GusSiri goes to Solveig and Liam in a panic, not sure how to handle with what had happened.

While Solveig doesn't notice anything weird, her adoptive daughter, five year old Elanor, does notice. A medium as well, she senses Siri's pregnancy and how the baby is a little boy. However, she senses something else as well. Something... Dark, inside of Siri.

Ding ding, our girl's possessed!

No-one believes little Elanor, though. Sadness. However, she seems to have been right as time passes and the signs get more and more noticable, until Isabella fully takes over and attacks the little girl, with Zephyr Haddock, Hiccup's daughter, in the room.

Time for an exorcism! While, after much struggle, Isabella leaves Siri's body, her influence hangs around, causing Seer's son to be born prematurely. After this, Siri temporarily leaves the company, but returns after working things over with Gustav and Solveig about her role in the workplace. She wouldn't go on trips anymore, just stay home with her son and do the work behind the scenes. I have the feeling she would start a podcast and invite other ghost hunters for the hot tea. Astrid would probably be a regular.

So yeah, that's kind of the basics! Since it's a pretty old au, some parts are under construction and backstories are being rewritten, which has forced me to leave a lot of shit out which i think is sad.

Anyways, its more brutal than i show here. It's so, so much more brutal. Isabella nearly murders Seer in the first chapters and Solveig is forced to use violence on her highly pregnant friend. Also, child abuse by cranky ghost. It's fun >:)

Thank you sm for the ask!! I loved answering this sm you have no idea. This au is so dear to my heart - cuz it's my oldest - and i love it sm. All the hugs to you <333

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Nuestra Familia (RCD MC: Astrid)

Book: Red Carpet Diaries

Rating: G

Pairing: Astrid-centric, minor Seth x Astrid

Summary: Astrid realises she doesn't know her family as well she had thought. Minor crossover with The Freshman/The Sophomore/The Junior.

Author's Note: This is a bit late for MC Appreciation Week, but I figured I'd put it out there anyway. This is my origin story for Astrid Ortega, my second RCD MC, who is involved with Seth. There's a cameo of one character from TF/TS/TJ in the end and I have a feeling you folks have already figured out who it is 😅 I used (of course) the "crossover" prompt from this list for my fic. I'm tagging @choices-mc-rules, in case they would still like to reblog this.

Translations:

Nuestra familia - "our family" in Spanish.

Chanclas - slippers/flip-flops

Tres leches cake - Typically a very moist chiffon cake soaked in a mixture of evaporated milk, condensed milk and heavy cream. Tres leches literally means "three milks".

Abuela - one of the terms used for ‘grandmother’ in Spanish.

Ita - Short for Abuelita, also used for grandmothers. Astrid calls her grandmother the former, her mom Teresa calls her grandmother the latter.

Manda Huevos - Can mean a lot of things according to context, but generally used to express a range of emotions, such as annoyance, disappointment, contempt or disbelief. In this context, Teresa means “it's not fair”.

If I've gotten anything wrong in terms of references, please do tell me, and I'll definitely fix it in the fic.

“One more foot inside my kitchen and it'll be my chanclas for you later.”

Teresa Ortega said these words to her daughter Astrid, in the same tone one would use to offer a guest some tea.

It wasn't that her mom didn't allow her kids to help with the cooking. She did. Salome was too young to do much but set the table yet but Astrid (and her big sister Letitia, whenever she was home) often pitched in to help with the meal.

But heaven help anyone who tried to help Mom with her tres leches cake.

This recipe was from Mom's Ita’s faded little diary, passed down to her by her mother on the condition that she would learn its recipes off by heart. It was her pride and joy, Mom would often say. Her baby before her actual babies came along.

And today it was even more essential Mom get this cake right. Astrid's abuela was visiting, and ever since Astrid's mother insisted on naming her Astrid (“She’s already named my first and last - at least leave the middle one to me!”) she could do nothing right.

Perhaps it would've been easier to handle if Dad wasn't Abuela's only son, if Mom had someone she could jointly ignore Abuela with, if they had cousins they could play with while the adults sorted out their issues. Or perhaps not. Still, it would have been nice to know.

“Easy, mom, I'm not going to touch your precious cake,” Astrid said, grinning, “Lemme demolish it at lunch instead.”

She'd be lying if she said she wasn't tempted, though. She could get the scent of baked cake wafting in all the way from her bedroom, and her mother was already starting to combine Carnation milk, condensed milk and 1/4th of a cup of heavy cream into a thin, but somewhat creamy, mixture.

Mom raised her eyebrows. “Why are you here, then?”

Astrid felt the muscles around her neck tense up, but schooled her face to a look of injured innocence. “What, can't I just want to talk to my mom once in a while?”

She craned her neck a little further behind Astrid, a tiny frown beginning to form between her brows. “What's that you're holding behind your back?”

Ding! The cake was ready now, just in time for soaking. Astrid let out a sigh of relief. She wanted Mom to see this wedding card, yes - it was why she came to the kitchen in the first place - but now was probably not the time for questions. Questions about family or about secrets. Not when she knew how important it was for her mother to get her weekend cakes right.

“Family” was always a big deal around the Ortega table. Dad was his mother's only child, and Mom’s parents passed on long before any of them were ever born. Her father was as annoyed by Abuela's antics as her mother was, but it never stopped him from having her visit every Sunday because “she's the only family we have left”.

It was as if he needed her to keep himself rooted, as if without her he would be floating aimlessly, no aim or identity, taking his wife and children down that path with him. Abuela knew this. By God, did she know this.

Or so I thought, Astrid said to herself, gripping the wedding card tightly and creating new creases where the word Ortega was written.

Mom was gritting her teeth now, carefully pouring the three-milk mixture over the cake and muttering to herself. “One more word about dry cake this time and I'll give her soggy toast, I swear I will.”

Astrid would have stood up last week and said something to Abuela, if only Mom would let her. It was probably a good thing Leticia wasn't around, she'd fire shots at Abuela for less. She was protective over all of them and often in the heat of the moment she'd forget she’d be landing them all in further trouble.

She was still muttering. “Wants chiffon cake. Screams bloody murder if I use box mix. What, Teresa, looking for shortcuts again?” Mom's voice was raised in an accurately nasal imitation of Abuela's voice. It was almost like she'd forgotten Astrid was there. “Then I make it from scratch like she wants. Then it's Oh Teresa this is so dry oh Teresa it tastes like sawdust. Why else do you think I use box mix, eh? You want it from scratch and you want moist. ¡Manda Huevos!”

The diatribe kept Mom occupied while she finished pouring, so Astrid kept silent. Mom needed this. This wasn't something she can say in front of Letitia (resulting in another Sunday screaming match) or Dad (what would he do?) or Salome (no way would the kid ever take Salome, language! seriously again). Mom needed someone to have her back, no matter how silently or secretly. And that someone had better be her.

“If only Linda had stayed…”

Astrid froze. “What did you say?”

Mom looked up, blinked twice, then stiffened. “Nothing. Nothing.”

Silently, Astrid handed over the card she'd been holding, all this time. She found it while searching for her dad's treasured García Lorca poetry collection, hidden between a page that exalted love and a page that mourned loss.

Mom took it from her, her eyes widening as she read the words.

LINDA ORTEGA

and

DOMINIC SANDOVAL

request the honour of your company at their wedding.

“Dad always told us he was all Abuela has, right,” Astrid said, “The only Ortega for miles around."

Mom answered by busying herself with more activity than ever. Keeping the soaked cake in the fridge. Pouring the remaining milk mixture into two glasses. Washing her hands. Washing the dishes.

“I'll do that for you,�� Astrid took a plate from Mom's hands, “Just talk to me.” She grabbed a sponge and dish washing soap, cleaning vigorously. “All this time, Dad's been telling us Abuela's the only family he has, Mom. Like, he has no one else. Like, we have no sisters or brothers besides the three of us. Was he lying?”

“You're wrong,” Mom said, her voice suddenly sounding sharper, harder, “Abuela's the only family he has left. Your father didn't lie.”

“Just omitted the truth, yeah,” Astrid wished she knew how she felt about this. Right now there was so much she was feeling that she didn't exactly know where to begin. “There's no “together with our parents” above their names either. Not like yours’.”

Mom sighed, picked the card up, then held up two glasses of milk-mixture in front of her. “Take one and give the other to your sister. I have a lot of work to do.”

On any other day, Astrid would have grabbed that glass and relished its creaminess, wiping the milk-moustache off her mouth with a flourish. But today no amount of sweetness was going to take away that weird metallic taste in the roof of her mouth.

“I'm not done asking about this,” Astrid said, scowling, “to you or to Dad. If I have aunts and cousins out there, that's something I wanna know.”

Astrid did try in the weeks to come. But she never saw the wedding card again, and neither Mom or Dad ever responded when she raised the topic again. Still. It felt nice to dream.

Every time Abuela made a snide remark at lunch, she imagined her cousins there. A snarky younger girl who’d make smartass comments. A strong boy her age who’d shut Abuela up with just a glare. A nice aunt who’d take Mom's mind off all this nonsense. It didn't help much, but it felt nice.

It felt nice knowing she had company out there. Somewhere.

--

6 years later.

“Donuts, Iowa?” Seth’s eyes were gleaming at the prospect. He was more a bag-of-chips kinda guy most days, but he also liked having massive sugar rushes before a comedy gig.

“As long as the insides of six of those are practically spilling over with fruit jam, I'm game,” she said, standing on her tiptoes to kiss his cheek. It felt exhilarating, freeing. She hadn't felt this normal in a while - normal enough to kiss her boyfriend without worrying about paparazzo jumping out from a bush. There was a guy in a leather jacket she didn't recognize - three blocks across - looking at her like he wanted to talk, but not in a way that made her feel unsafe.

That was the nice thing about Northbridge. People looked, sure, but they were less likely to make you feel like an exhibit from a zoo.

“Wait here, yeah?” Seth said, planting a kiss on the lips instead, “I'll be back before you can finish spelling “OHIO” with your arms.”

Astrid laughed. Seth said the most Ohio things sometimes. Neither of them had had this much fun since she was offered a lead role in Tender Nothings, which was why Seth always jumped at a chance to take up gigs in Northbridge, and why he always offered to take Astrid along when she was free.

The guy from before stepped forward a few minutes after Seth entered the donut shop. The summer heat must have been too much for him - his leather jacket was now slung over his shoulders. “Um, hello. Astrid Ortega?”

He stood with his hands in his pockets, mouth pursed into a thin line, a tiny curl slipping carelessly from his hair and resting on his forehead. She caught a peek at the tail end of a bird tattoo (Owl? The tail looked pointy) on his left arm.

“Yeah,” Astrid said, wondering whether it was her or Seth he wanted to talk to, “but I don't know what your name is.”

“ Zigmund. Zig for short,” he replied, looking behind him from time to time, “My sister Lucy’s a big fan. Asked me to help her get an autograph from you.”

“Is she here?”

“Yeah. But she doesn't want to come out. She's shy.”

Ah. So that was the cherry-red blur barely hidden by that building. She learned long ago that no matter how friendly you appeared, your image would precede you and intimidate people anyway. Autographs were great, but somehow she didn't want to stop at just that.

“Would she come out now if I asked?” she gave him her sunniest smile, “Tell her I won't bite.”

Zig hesitated, then nodded. Astrid watched him walk to the other building, move his hands expressively as he tried to convince his sister to join him (from that angle he almost looks like Letitia, Astrid thought), and return with a curly-haired, starry-eyed teenage girl.

“H-hey,” she said, then blushed, clearly embarrassed by her nervousness. Silently, she hands over her autograph book. She keeps her eyes studiously away from Astrid's face. “I, um, I like mystery films, and I really, really liked Tender Nothings.”

A girl after my own heart. “Maybe you'll like Sunset Boulevard, then,” she said, smiling.

Astrid could have just signed and left it at that, but there was something about these two. Something about the way they stood together, or exchanged glances, or something, that reminded her of home. Which was silly. But it didn’t change the fact that she wanted to leave a good impression on them.

“What would you like to be when you grow up, Lucy?”

Lucy didn't miss a beat. “Ballet dancer. Like my brother.”

Astrid smiled, particularly at the look the girl gave Zig. Yes, she could see on second glance that even though some people would say he didn't have the body of a dancer, he held himself with a certain grace, a certain lightness that belied a stronger core. Hit by a sudden rush of inspiration, she quickly scribbled a little note to go with her signature, and asked Lucy to read it.

To Lucy and Zig, future (hopefully!) best ballet dancing duo in America. Be sure to save me a seat when you folks get famous. Love Always, Astrid.

“Wowwww,” Lucy whispered. Zig suppressed his smile, trying not to let how he felt show, and failed. A corner of his mouth lifted upwards, revealing an almost-invisible dimple.

The two left before Seth brought his box of donuts,but they thanked her at least thrice as they walked away.

“Wait till I tell Mom about this,” Astrid overheard Lucy tell her brother as they left, “I told you she'd be really, really nice.”

“You did,” there was a note of indulgence in Zig's voice.

"Ortegas all around the world. Wherever we're from, we're nice.”

Had Seth come out a moment later, Astrid would have probably walked up to them and asked. Perhaps asked them where they were from and their parents’ names.

But Seth was here, with donuts, and there was never a moment she could take her eyes off either.

“Do you know those two?” Seth asked her, passing her a tres leches cake donut that was claimed to be one of their best, “They looked familiar.”

“”No,” Astrid replied, closing her eyes in bliss. Mmmm. The treat was taking her back to Des Moines, back to home, back to her mother's little kitchen. “But I wouldn't mind meeting them again.”

--

[one-strugling-bean]

Random thoughts on HTTYD RttE S3 (Ep8-13)

Ep8 - Yayy, cousins on a mission

God, Snotlout is like, a whole head shorter than Hiccup, why do I keep noticing these things??

Oh nooo, they're gonna make Toothless participate in the dragon fights! At least that's what I'm predicting

I'm gonna take the twins messing with Snotlout then as their way to calm him down - he really looks worried

Why would you trap those two together?

The difference between Fishlegs and Heather asking where Toothless was taken

That hunter must be so confused

Snotlout is actually really serious for a change

That exchange with "the business was fun

Also, Astrid my girl!!

I swear the Gronkles are so freaking cute

You know, it would be pretty funny if Toothless just made friends with the Razorwhip

God, I love the twins

Triple Strike looks totally like a Pokémon

Yayy, Toothless made friends with the Pokémon!

Guessing Toothless' mercy was a callback to HTTYD1

Snotlout and Fishlegs are pissed, as they should

Sleuther is sho cute, good for him

Ep9- I really don't wanna go over another "Snotlout being an idiot with girls" moment, please don't do that again

Awwww, he's so cute!!

Please, someone shut Snotlout up, I love you boy, but there's a limit

A bunch of time from this episode is being dedicated to Chicken, and I'm okay with it

This is the second time someone sings a lullaby to a baby dragon, and I'm kinda surprised to know Snotlout was the other one

God, Astrid please punch Snotlout, he's been asking for it all day

Oh yes are they all singing, that is so cool!

Garff riding on Hookfang's head looked so sweet

Wow, so we actually get to see how he got all of his gadgets from HTTYD2

Astrid, your jokes are awesome

The Deathsongs are so prettyyyy

They're all singing together that's so cool!

Ep10 - Sooo, today Ruff and Tuff are stylists?

No reason in particular, but I really liked that Heather cut their sails like that

I mean, I get the confusion since these are Hunter boats, but marble is usually a very precious rock, so it wouldn't be too surprising for the sailors to protect the cargo so fiercely

Pink and blue Nadders are so pretty

"I regret nothiiiing!" "I regret everythiiing!" the twins always get the funniest lines

Nuuu, poor Barf&Belch

Sometimes I forget Monstrous Nightmares are supposed to be like, super powerful and scary and all that

Weren't there three guards tied up? where'd the other two go?

That is so messed up, poor Quakens...

"Oh, no, he did not." My reaction, exactly

God, he's even posing and everything

Today is not Barf&Belch's day

Yes, Fishlegs showing how competent he is, I'm into it

Of course, Tuff would have a cousin in Stockholm who related better to their captor's cruelty than to an outsider's help

Aww, they made him an eye patch!

Why haven't they taken the hammer from the hunters?

I'm gonna start a petition for Dreamworks to make a new show about the riders where Fishlegs has a hammer like that - he looks so cool and it fits him pretty well

I can just imagine Snotlout, in all his bi glory, drooling over Fishlegs with that hammer - you cannot tell me he wouldn't

Oh, it's on, biatch

Ep11 - I love Dagur, his character is so fun to watch interact with others - and his VA did a really good job with his voice

Yikes, so who's gonna tell him?

Not sure keeping him a secret is a good idea Hiccup

Shattermaster is an awesome name, and it was given to the cutest Gronkle ever, my god, he looks so sweet

I'm guessing Snotlout appearing on that one shot where the riders catch Dagur is a continuity error

Toothless is cool with Dagur now, it seems

The peeps are actually teaching him, wow

Whenever they want to point out what not to do while Dragon riding, they use Snotlout as an example, it's a funny joke

He would get along well with Tuffnut

Like, I guess it's easier for me to forgive Dagur because i havent seen even half the stuff he's done, but I really feel bad for him

Also, he's got the makings of a himbo, doesn't he? Just thought of this

Why would you trap them together? That feels remarkably dumb

Ha, he used their tricks against him

How many daggers does he keep on him?

Wait, whaaaaa- how? This was a really sudden death scene

Yeah, I refuse to believe he's dead, sorry

Ep12 - I really like Johann acting with the Riders

You wanna send in Snotlout disguised? Uhm, not sure about that myself

Wow, Stoick has zero confidence in Snotlout

He's blond! Doesn't look too bad on him, but I gotta say I prefer his original color

Yayy, Gobber!

Hookfang doesn't look like he's with the rest of the dragons, what's up with that?

No way Viggo doesn't know what's going on

Snotlout is really loving his part

Wait, so this is how he meets Grump?? Nice

Nice improvising skills there Snotlout

Uhm, Ruff, Tuff? Why did you hold onto the cages?

Everyone got caught, wow

I feel like I say this about every single dragon, but, Grump is so cute

"Is he ever going to learn?" "None of them will" Nice words

Fishlegs deserves the clapping

Man, I love Gobber, he's my favorite adult, he is so badass but also such a great father figure - I'd even dare saying the best father figure in the franchise

I mean, losing all of Berk's gold is kiiiind of an issue, but sure

Ep13 - Not best girl Meatlug!!

Did they all look kinda guilty raising their hand or is it just me?

"He needs to go to a seminar." I'm sorry if this sounds repetitive but, I love the twins - this whole conversation was super funny

I am curious about this

"I accept your surrender." Ha, that was good

So, basically what Viggo is proposing is a treaty akin to the real-life Treaty of Tordesillas signed between Portugal and Spain on the 15h century

Random little history class for you guys

We're meeting a whole new dragon-friendly group, that's fun

Uhm, okay, Throk

Ohhhh, she's pretty!!!

And her voice!!! And accent!!!

I'm in love

The little glance between Toothless and Hookfang

Pffft, I love Hookfang

Okayyyy, now she's scaring me

"He's been on trial more than anyone in Berk... Of course, he's also been convicted more than anyone Berk. But who cares?"

Ruffnut's little comments in the background while Tuff's talking make thr scene for me

This trial does bring an interesting issue though - like, sure they give their dragons a choice and they take care of them, and love them, but they do use them to do their bidding and make their own life easier

I'm surprised Toothless and the gang haven't broken free to rescue their partners yet

I'm hoping that will happen at some point

"You're betting all our lives on it." Fair point, Astrid

Wait, didn't you guys bond with a speed-stinger last season? Even Snotlout grew a soft spot for him and all

"Thankyouverymuch-"

Still not sure how I feel about this alliance

"What? You don't even like flowers!" I love their dynamic so much

To be fair, the twins did warn you

Well, that's a nice cliffhanger to wrap up the season!

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Once upon a Tyranny

aight so theres this short story I had to make and I think it’s pretty cute so love to or hate it my dudes

Once upon a time there lived two little girls named Mayla and Lillian. Mayla had light brown skin, short tan colored hair with highlights of purple that partially covered her cherry red eyes. She also had a baby fang that barley hung out of her mouth, (she would have had two but she lost it’s pair last week) and of course she was covered in freckles. She wore her favorite button down back dress completed with silver buttons with matching long black gloves, black flats with gray and lavender striped socks (she loved how the purple matched her hair) and she never left home without her magical dress up fairy wings. They matched her socks with a gray and lavender purple scheme and hardly ever took them off. Lillian on the other hand dressed quite different. She had dark brown skin and bubble gum pink hair that she kept in two fluffy buns that sat on the top of her head and bright ocean blue eyes. She wore an adorable poofy light blue floors length princess dress with a deep blue heart and matching layers on the front. Of course she also brought her fairy wand wherever she went as well. The two girls were best friends and did everything together. They played games, learned magic spells, hosted tea parties, trained baby dragons and played dress up. However the two wanted one thing more than anything else; to become real princesses. When they weren’t learning spells or training dragons,  they were coming up with ideas of how they could take over an empire or kingdom and become the new rulers. 

“ What if we just ask them?” Said Lillian while coloring a picture of a castle. 

“I don’t think they would listen to just the two of us.”

“Well what about if we asked nicely? I’m very persuasive.” The two discussed the topic of how to take over a kingdom many times but they could never think of something that would work. (usually it was Mayla who disagreed with Lillian’s ideas because they were not exactly how she would have done it but Lillian never minded to much because the ideas never left paper.) Just then their teacher, Sorcerer Mayhem walked it with a tray of cookies and milk for the girls. He was a tall, ancient sorcerer who has lived in Dove-fire manor for hundreds of years and has only ever been seen wearing his large gray hooded cloak. The cloak covered his whole face except for two large white circles for eyes and he spoke with a deep menacing voice. However he got bored living all alone and decided to take on an apprentice. That’s when Mayla’s parents sent her away to train in the ways of magic with Mayhem and she found he was really a sweet man behind a bitter facade as for Lillian, Mayhem had been a close family friend who had agreed to also train her when they knew she could make a friend and that she did.

“I think you should ride in on your dragon and scare the people into listening to you.” Mayhem said levitating the tray over to the girls.

“Papa Chaos!” Mayla exclaimed and ran over to her teacher hugging his legs as he scooped her into his arms. (the two had become very close and when Mayla started calling him Papa chaos, he never bothered to correct her. Frankly he was quite fond of the name and was honored to be called it.) “We thought of that already but what if the people try to hurt the dragons and they get scared and fly off without us? That wouldn’t be fun.” Mayla said trying to sound serious but Mayhem found it cute.

“Nothing scares a dragon small ones, they are fierce, mighty beasts who are ridden into battle for they are brave and bold.

“Then how come Astrid got scared when she saw a mouse yesterday?” Lillian asked, nibbling on a cookie. Mayhem laughed and put Mayla down and knelt .

“She is still only a baby, in time she shall become just as mighty and fierce as any other dragon to charge into battle. Until then you two should learn there basic tips for taking over a kingdom to claim as your own.” Mayhem slowly pulled a small cauldron and a few potions out of his cloak and carefully poured them into the cauldron. (Mayla never did know where he kept all the things in his cloak.) as he poured in the potions, the girls watched as it overflowed with a pale purple smoke that soon danced in the air before coming together to form a moving sculpture of men riding on the backs of dragons. “the first thing you will need is an army of your own. You won’t get very far without one my dears. The girls watched in awe as the smoke once again danced around into a tall person and a short person shaking hands with one another. “The next thing you will need is is trust and loyalty within your army. Without loyalty, your army will crumble and fall before you can rule anyone. The girls kept staring with large wondering eyes and nodding as their teacher went along. The smoke then once again changed its shape to look like two small figures in dresses holding hands “The last thing,” he says, “is indeed the most important, so remember this my dears. One cannot rule all on her own and needs a good friend by her side in order to make decisions that are best for everyone. There will always be something one needs the other for that they cannot do herself. Great minds rule alike like I always say my dears. besides, the more friend you have, the bigger your army.” Mayhem said with a wink and a chuckle. Suddenly the smoke swirled and faded away into the air. “Now, if you got all that then I believe it’s time for Lillian to head on home. It’s getting late and young princesses need their beauty sleep to rule effectively.” Lillian had a cookie in her mouth and only pointed to the tray that now held only a few cookies. “Yes you may take the cookies.” With the flick of his wrist, Mayhem had the cookies in a small royal purple velvet bag and in Lillian’s hands as she was escorted out of the room and Mayla waved goodbye. 

“Gather an army, earn their trust. I can do that.” Mayla thought as she nibbled a cookie of her own. “gather an army, earn their trust. Gather an army, earn their trust.” Mayla was so focused on the first two that she had completely forgotten about the last and most important tip to ruling a kingdom. (But more on that later.) Mayla made her way to her room so she could come up with her own plan and take action….. Just as soon as she got a good night sleep. That night she dreamt of army of her own as she rode on the back of a mighty dragon as her hair flew in the breeze. 

The next morning Mayla ate her breakfast quickly and rushed to the door. “where are you off to in such a rush my dear?” Mayhem asked as he followed the girl to the door as he pulled her fairy wings out of his cloak. “you are in such a rush that you almost forgot these.”

Thanks Papa Chaos,” Mayla said quickly slipping on the wings. “I’m going to the dragon stables to recruit an army to take over the kingdom.”

“Lillian is to meet with me for lessons today, are you not going together?”

“No just me, it was my idea.” Mayhem’s large white circle eyes squinted at the girl. 

“I thought you two were going to rule the kingdom together. You didn’t forget what I told you girls yesterday did you?” 

Of course not Papa Chaos, Get an army, get their trust and take the kingdom.”

But what about-“

I have to go before I miss everyone, I’ll be back later!” Mayla added as she gave him a quick hug before and raced out of the manor. On her way to the stables she passed Lillian who called to her to stop. 

“Mayla! Where are you going? I thought we had lessons today.”

“You do, but I’m heading to the dragon stables.”

“Why?”

“I’m going to ask some of the knights to be my army so I can take over the kingdom.”

“Whoa so cool! I wanna come too! That’s a great idea May!“ Lillian was bouncing at the idea as she spoke. “They could be a big help and I bet that if I-“

“No, this is my idea. I’m going to get the army, I can do it myself.”

But- but I wanna help too! I thought we were going to rule together. What about what Papa Chaos told us yesterday?” Lillian stopped bouncing and looked as if she might cry.

“I do remember, get an army, get their trust, then I can get the kingdom all by myself.” Lillian only stared at her friend with sad eyes.

“We were going to rule together. I thought we kept making plans together to become princesses. Don’t you want to rule together? ”

“I can do this all by myself. I don’t need help. Papa Chaos told us the most important things about ruling so I can do it.” Mayla said crossing her arms. Both girls were getting frustrated with one another.

“He gave us three rules! But you didn’t care enough to listen.” Lillian said teary eyed and grabbing the end of her dress as she bolted away from Mayla. “he gave us three rules!” Lillian’s words echoed in her mind. 

“What was the third? I guess I wasn’t paying attention.” Mayla shook it off. “that doesn’t matter. If I can still get an army, I can take over the kingdom.” Mayla then turned to the stables and took of in that direction. As soon as she reached it, she saw a gaggle of dragons as they were being groomed and trained by their knightly owners. They seemed like strong warriors who could accompany her on her as she faced the king to overthrow him in power and become the new ruler of their kingdom…or whatever she heard Chaos tell her the first time she told him she wanted to be a princess. The knights were in a rush and quickly passed one another to get their work done. Mayla poked the first person she could grab to get their attention. “Excuse me. Umm excuse me?” She asked louder.

The tall warrior looked down to see two ruby red eyes staring back at her. “oh uh hello. Did you need something kid? We’re kinda busy right now.”

“I need some help. I need an army.” 

The knight chuckled and ruffled Mayla’s hair. “Oh? And why is that?”

“Because I wanna be a princess, and every princess needs an army at her side.”

“Sorry kid, but we’re really busy right now. We don’t have time to play around. Maybe if you come back later we’ll be free okay kid?” With that the knight walked of to tend to her businesses again before Mayla could get in another word. She tried with multiple other knights with about the same results as the first. (but one did let her brush his dragon.) the more she tried, the more frustrated Mayla got until she finally decided to just leave and go back home. When she  reached Dove-fire manor she found that Lillian was no where on the house. Papa Chaos, where’s Lilly? I thought you said she had a lesson today.”

“She did,” Mayhem started, “But she seemed sad so I sent her out by the creek to practice a few water spells. Those are her favorite after all. Now when she got here she said you were, and I quote, “being a real meanie.” Now my dear, why don’t you tell me what happened and what you did.” Mayhem sat on a chair and gestured for Mayla to sit in his lap.

“i don’t know what I did wrong Papa Chaos. I came up with a plan to get the kingdom by myself so I wanted to get the army by myself. But Lillian was sad that I she couldn’t help when it was my plan but no one would listen to me. I guess she’s better at talking then I am.” Mayla pouted and snuggled into his cloak as he wrapped his arms. Around her.

“Ah I see, you thought of the first two rules but not the third. Did you forget the most important one of all?” Mayla only nodded into his cloak. “The most important thing my dear, the most important thing is to have someone to rule at your side. One does not hold all the answers on their own, they need a good friend to stand at her side to make decisions together that work well for everyone. Does that make sense?”

Mayla nodded again and sat up. “I was a meanie to Lilly. I thought I could do it on my own but I can’t.”

“well what are you telling me all this for? Go tell Lillian herself. She’s the one who needs to hear it all.”

Mayla hopped out of his lap. “Yeah, you’re right Papa Chaos.”

“Of course I am my dear, when you get to be my age, you will learn a thing or two yourself. “ he said with a wink and a laugh. “Now off you go then.”

With that Mayla gave him another quick hug and was off again down to the creek where she saw two fluffy pink hair buns sticking up from behind a rock. “Lilly?”

“Lilly isn’t here. She moved to Not Here Land.” Mayla climbed over the rock where she saw her friend hugging her knees with her face to her knees. “And even if she was not in Not Here Land she wouldn’t wanna talk to you because you’re a meanie.

Mayla sat next to her friend and also hugged her knees. “You’re right. I was being a meanie. I was wrong and I can’t do everything myself. I tried but I couldn’t get anyone’s attention and I need your help. I’m sorry. Can you tell Lilly I said all that and I hope she comes back from Not Here Land?”

Lillian lifted her head up and smiled at her friend. “She was just visiting there and will be back soon. The two laughed and hugged each other and stood up from behind the rock. 

“Come on, Im sure that together we can get the knights to listen to us. You are very persuasive.” The two giggled and ran off to the stables once more. Once they were there they were greeted by the same knight Mayla had asked first when she had been there by herself.

“Oh hey kid, I see you brought a friend. Sorry girls but we don’t have time to play right now.”

“No, we’re not here to play.” Lillian started. “We need an army to help us face the king and become real princesses. Plus I’ll bake you all some double chocolate chunk cookies.”

“Well, maybe we’ll have a little time, especially if you’re promising cookies! Hey Fellas!” The knight called. “This kid is promising us free cookies if we help her and her friend out to see the king you guys in?” All the knights were interested and went over to saddle up their dragons then helped Mayla and Lillian onto two of the dragons where they would ride with a knight each to keep them safe. (They were only little kids after all.) Together all the knights and the girls rode off to the castle where they landed their dragons and were greeted at the front gate by two other guards. 

‘These two wish to see the king.” One knight said. “They have promised cookies if they do.” Immediately the guards opened the gate and the girls were lead through the castle into the throne room where they saw his royal highness on his throne. 

“State your purpose before me children.” Mayla was at a loss for words but as always, Lillian knew just what to say;

“We, uh.. we want to be princesses sir. If you let us take power, we’ll give you cookies. They’re double chocolate chunk and very yummy. The king, not being a heartless man and being quite fond of cookies himself agreed on a compromise. 

“How about this young ladies. I will allow to be royal princesses for a day and you will allow me to taste one of these cookies you talk so much about. Do we have a deal?”

Both girls found this to be a fair trade and agreed with the king. “Deal.” they said together.

The next day the girls were waving from the balcony of the castle onto their temporary adoring, loyal subjects. “i told you I was persuasive.” Lillian said with a large smile. Both girls agreed that they could always try to become real princesses for longer some other time but for now, this would do. Mayhem of course was cheering from the crowd the loudest of anyone for he was so proud of his girls. As for the rightful king and knights, they cheered along happily munching on Lillian’s delicious cookies. (She did learn from the best sorcerer/baker in the world after all.) And they all lived happily ever after. The End.