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this house is sick so are we
#I'm have plans to giving him a weird girlfriend#like a totally off putting girl#daryl dixon#twd daryl#twd daryl dixon#daryl dixon fanfiction#the walking dead#daryl dixon imagine#moodboard#daryl dixon headcanons#daryl dixon x reader#Spotify
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"Well now that's just uncalled for."
#some Kanai off-screen said something offensive about humans and now they've gone and made Ruyak all growly#tsk tsk#listen I just wanted to draw Kaelin sitting calmly surrounded by giant claws and teeth#mildly peeved about something else but totally unconcerned by the snarling 18 ton death machine holding her#like “whatever I'll just put my hand on his nose it always calms him down”#the girl is utterly unfazed by him at this point#tmatb#tmatb iv#g/t#sfw g/t#grace makes art
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I really don’t like any of the romantic options for sasuke but i also like the idea of him having someone who loves him and he loves in return so i started wondering about what kind of person he would be drawn to and somehow that devolved into a whole cadre of ocs, like a whole new branch of nart lore was created. I can’t even keep focus on the hypothetical sasuke gf i keep getting stuck on her mom who’s SOMEHOW in all this turned into a botched otsutsuki momotaro coded haruka from flcl…
#naruto#naruto oc hell#the gf is based off 2 clips of kobeni (i dont watch chainsaw man) and the parents…#haruka coded space orphan momotaro girl and greedling red-blue oni testtube baby made by orochi#the mom was adopted by the uchiha via her ‘brother’ finding her in the woods and luring her with peaches like a stray animal#orochi just brought the dad around like ‘oh look at this Random Child i totally found and didnt make! lets put him on my genin team!’#his genin team at the same time as jiraya/minato’s is the mom the dad and the uchiha brother and plot twist they are all comedic maniacs#LIKE LOOK AT THIS THE LORE I HAVE FOR THE DEAD ADULTS IS INSANE I NEED TO FOCUS ELSEWHERE AND YET!!!!!
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TBH If you were to go back in time and tell me TOH was going to be the show that completely turns me off from consuming and analyzing stories, I would have called you crazy.
#I'm definitely in my ''I will not consume any piece of media unless it's from a person who can create good conflict and puts effort#into their storytelling instead of making their weird little self-indulgent fanfic shows''#I honestly wouldn't be so annoyed if the fanbase was tolerable - but it isn't#because the pick me bisexuals keep letting the lgbtq+ biphobes run rampant instead of telling them to fuck off#see the thing is most of these clowns rlly do think the show would be better if Luz was a lesbian#but they won't overtly say it - what they'll do is make shit up abt Luz and Hunter and their dynamic#or they'll say some crazy stuff like: it's good Luz didn't end up with a boy to subvert expectations... as if bisexual media#needs to subvert those expectations CREATED BY STRAIGHT PEOPLE. As if straight people can relate to bisexual people...#Right because the bisexual girl getting with the bisexual boy is totally relatable and appealing to straight people... this is sarcasm btw
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If you want character requests to draw and stuff, maybe Izzy?
SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG ANON LOL. anyway another big fave of mine, this is inspired by that one action aftermath episode where she swings in on a vine in typical izzy fashion. whenever I draw a character a few times I start feeling confident to give them little design changes, so I gave her a snake earring (given how much she’s associated with snakes) and her dramarama hairstyle bc I think it suits her a lot!
character thoughts like I said I’d give on all these. so izzys an interesting case bc… we simultaneously know a lot and basically nothing at all about her given how. well, she lies. a lot. i like the theory popularised by bhultra which suggests izzys more strategic and perceptive than she seems, though I also do like to think her “craziness” is genuine, and that she had to mask during her childhood in a (from what we see in the audition tapes) likely upper middle class family that had very specific expectations for her (like!!! the shift in cadence and personality from her audition inside the house with her mum and her one by herself in the backyard!!!!). I guess in a strange way, izzy actually thrives in the total drama environment better than anyone else, getting to be weird and do weird things without those pressures… and achieve her dreams of becoming an actress, even if it was short lived. a very interesting character to think about.
#not to make this abt yuri also but like. this is the evzy appeal. girls who are labelled as weird and off putting by everyone around them.#then they kiss#getting the hang of this new tablet also ^_^#total drama#total drama island#total drama action#td izzy#izzy total drama#izzy#gekkos art
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when we get names for all these characters THEN YOU'LL SEE
#was talking to my magu fan friend the other day & they were like#hopefully they'll put the character names in the booklet when they make an album finally#& im like i HOPE so#again i think we have one or two names but i cant say for sure who they belong to#the kyuuyaku girl COULD be layla bc of that line in shoushitsu. or she might not be#& the hisame saginuma COULD be the shoushitsu chara. or it might not be#but thats it thats all we have#we'll get names for characters & i'll just suddenly start referring to tenshi by name#& all of u are going to be like what happened to tenshi u used to love tenshi but its just her#itd be objectively funny if magu DID name her tenshi but they take the series very seriously#i dont think the names will be funny i think theyre going to be like of course u'd name them that fuck you#like. totally and completely tying in tightly to the plot and adding another layer of understanding to it#esp if the hisame saginuma is anything to go off of. of course the character name we get#in the series where rain is a constant omen of the end would be one related to rain. of course it would be
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y'all I knew my fellow student was a t**** supporter but like. she's a SUPPORTER supporter
#she fell off the cadillac and hit her head#and the third student is a nurse so she was asking her all the usual questions#and she went 'who's the president'#and this bitch goes 'trump elect. but. biden right now.'#like girl you just hit your head why is it still so far up his ass that that's your answer#anyway the student who hit her head and the student who's a nurse and our instructor all went to the ER#so I'm here just waiting for them to come back#btw this is the same student who told me that it must be nice to have a brain that remembers things#cause I keep doing well on our tests and she's not#she's in her 50s I think and she was in a car accident like 40 years ago and that's her entire personality#she barely puts in any effort for studying and then blames it on lingering effects from the accident#and listen I totally understand that not everyone can study in the same way and it's gonna be way harder for some people than others#I also understand that I'm lucky in that I work at this pilates studio so instead of making a trip to the studio to self practice#I can just stay an hour later and practice then#like it does make it easier#but she self practices like once a week for like 30 minutes and then reads over her book and expects to do well on the tests#like girl don't make weird remarks at me about how my brain just magically remembers things#as if I'm not studying my ass off cause I care about this class#also like I really hope she's okay I do but it is a MIRACLE that it took this long for her to fall
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remembering on my circa 2017 booklr I used to tell people to read Gemma Doyle by describing it as trc but with an all girls boarding school / all girl group in a historical setting… I was trying to do the lord’s work she deserved tumblr fame
#I do think that was an oversimplification of both but. Not totally off base there are some similar char tropes used I’m proud of past me for#the attempt. Also I think I’m going to start advocating for Diviners in that way now that trc fandom is apparently quite miserable post GW#you like gay people doing dream magic? you like witchcraft and ghosts and strong ensemble casts?#you like an ambitious abuse survivor getting a healing arc with learning to control magic/psychic abilities as a metaphor? you like four#book series where the first three books rock and the last book which is named king + corvid is a bit underwhelm who said that?#a positive point in diviners favor is Ling x Wei Mei >>>> RonanKavinsky. Generally find the take on dream magic in diviners more compelling#(although LingHenry + RonanHennessy both being mlm wlw duos who are the dreamers is kinda fun)#anyway. This is not actually a fair comparison because Ling is my fav or at least top two w Theta of the leads and I love Ronan but he is m#least favorite of the trc leads of which there are four all of whom I love so it says nothing bad about him. But it does put me as an#outlier re: fandom priorities..#on the flip side while I love diviners dynamics sadly I don’t think they ever come anywhere close to Gangsey levels of extreme codependency#so I can not care quite as much….#from what I remember the girls in Gemma Doyle are a lot more codependent good for them. Would have to reread to compare codependency levels#Ling and Theta are both my favorite in diviners in the same way Blue and Adam are my favorite in trc and Abed and Annie are both my fav for#community. basically one char who I love and overidentify with (Ling/Blue/Abed) and one char I love who in many ways I’m not like#but in a handful of very niche specific ways I also relate quite a bit. And am fascinated with (Theta/Adam/Annie)#s speaks#very off topic from my initial point which was you should read Libba Bray’s books#and in both cases I have a second and a half tier fav (Evie/Gansey/Britta) who I love fictionally but if I was trapped in a room w them I’d#kill myself. with the white blonde women I’d also want to make out w them debatable if that makes it better or worse#but like. I could not stand listening to them speak for that long I know this#Gansey might just die a third time by my hands…
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huh i just realised. we don't get imposter syndrome anymore nowadays when posting about our system
#back when we had just newly discovered ourselves#(or rather; discovered ourselves to be plural; stayed in the closet abt it for a year and a half; experienced An Event;#went through a full system overhaul; the new guys made a new blog to post system stuff)#but anyway back when we had just started posting about ourselves (and kind of even up to the third cycle with Ro and the others)#we felt like. wrong. posting abt it. like we'd get chased out of the community#now we're a bit older and more experienced#and we know so much more about ourselves and about systems#we actually put in the effort to learn and it *stuck*#and now we feel totally comfortable posting as a collective#i mean we're still paranoid about like. leaving this safe little bubble of nice people I've found on the internet#but I've gotten a bit more confident and am more able to reach out to people where i was almost completely unable to send asks before#like we actually split a girl specifically made for sending anon asks bc it was so stressful 😭😭😭😭#now we sometimes even have the courage to ask stuff off anon which makes us feel proud we've made so much progress :)#it might not look like much but for us it's a huge step that makes the rest of the journey so much easier#maybe we'll be able to start talking to people regularly again :)
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Me: I do not care about Descendants enough to watch that new movie. I barely cared when I saw the original ones. Me: *Watches one behind-the-scenes dance rehearsal of Brandy and Paolo* Me: *Silently SOBBING* Me: Ok fine. Fine. I know they have barely any screentime but AH ok. Fine.
#descendants#like legit i KNOW they probably have 10 minutes total of screentime since the movie is about the kids time traveling#but still ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh#also this reminds me of the time i saw Paolo in an off-broadway show (shoutout to Bella: An American Tall Tale)#(very weird show and i was the only person in my musical theatre intensive who enjoyed it)#(look the song The Language of My Nose and Lips and Hair really spoke to me as the only Black girl in that class ok.)#and i remember thinking this man was SO attractive but could not put my finger on why he looked kinda familiar#then at intermission i properly read the playbill and i was like THE PRINCE!?!??!?!?!#since at this point it'd been 20 years since cinderella and the man had not. aged. a. DAY.#oh and a few years prior when Brandy was Roxie in Chicago i went to Stars in the Alley and to this day i'm not sure what came over me#but her coming onstage to sing Roxie made my little tiny child self come to the surface and i SCREAMED in excitement#and my friend was like '...what was that' and i was like '...i have no idea... i didn't realize she'd have this affect on me...'#i really went from 'it's cool she's on broadway. i probably won't see it though.' to ear piercingly high screeching#i think i'm gonna give in and watch this stupid movie. i say 'stupid' affectionately.#because i generally enjoyed the other movies even if they're not my favorite of the DCOMs. but it's really just to see them.
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Something about procrastinating booking a hotel for a wedding until 2 days before the deadline and then being told they'll call back for 2 days straight and now it's 11:35pm and in 25 minutes it is technically too late to confirm this shit and I Know The Person At The Desk By Name Because She's Been There All Day and I still haven't got a call back. I am out of school and still procrastinating deadlines continue to tear my stomach up
#ohp its me again#my stomach is in knots i was so ready to go to sleep but then remembered vanessa said she would call back 30 minutes ago#when her manager got it#and i called bc 30 minutes isnt Long long but theres a Deadline or else im spending like double the total cost#and poor vanessa put me on hold and then asked if her boss could call back#girl you should be clocked out im so sorry!!!!!! you were supposed to get off at 11! take care of urself!!!#but ALSO!!!! you have Got my credit card info so can i PLEASE just RESERVE ONE ROOM PLEASE#GUYS PLEASSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE#JUST PUT THE DIGITS IN IM GOOD FOR IT#god fuck Jesus#its 11:41 as i type this. if they dont call back by 11:55 what do i do. what do i Do#cutoff is the 15th i thought i was doing it early by calling on the 13th but noooooooooooooooooooo apparently#apparently their Phones are capable of calling back#anyway im Stressin#mainly about the Money#not about the service#i get it#im just stressed abt having to pay More because they didnt 'get to me' the whole afternoon
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#this is so pathetic because i don't want to cook for myself#there's this girl she's like a total cook#she sends her bf snacks and drinks everytime and she does it so religiously#initially i used to be like wow poori gharwali banti jaa rahi hai#its also because she pooja paath too#much like she even had karvachauth vrat anyway that was so fucking cringe#but seeing her cook with so much heart and soul#she puts tissues in the tiffin and puts ketchup packets and makes compartment for additional servings#and makes tea and put it in flask#you can gwt everything at canteen or have food together outside#but she cooks#and if someone passes by she makes them taste asks them if it is appr#appropriate#and its making me sick (in a good way)#i want to do that too ☹️#everyone loves food like you simply cannot deny dil ka raasta pet se hokar jaata hai#amd i want to send off food to bf too ☹️#like#it comes naturally to ehr because she loves cooki#but i don't#like i like cooking but i don't like getting groceries#you know ugh its eating me up#right since childhood mom used to make the tastiest food#and experiment and try out new recipes#and ecen though dad would make fun of her ina silly way#i know he was so proud#because she used to get COMPLIMENTS EVERYWHERE#but i don't wanna cook for everyone#i juat want to cook for hi#and if isn't another way i want to see him happy
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Stubborn

Pairing: Old!Joel x Reader
Summary: Joel sees your baby bump for the first time.
Warnings: 18+. Unprotected piv. Breeding/Impreg Kink. Hurt/Comfort (mostly comfort). Mention of insecurities related to changes in Reader’s body from pregnancy (!!) Praise kink. Creampie. Girthy but unspecified age gap. Nothing bad happens to Joel Miller. He lives to 103 :)
Word count: 4.9k
Prequel | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
It had been a long week.
The one before that had seemed even longer. Joel Miller spent every night of it curled up on too-cold hardwood floors in remote cabins or in guard towers, on duty. He would’ve given anything to be someplace else, but as it stood, Jackson was on high alert for hordes of Infected. That meant he had had to contribute his fair share and go on extended patrol, no matter how loudly every last ligament, muscle, and bone in his old body protested.
Evidently, there was a dearth of strong and gun-savvy folks in town. No exceptions could be carved out for anyone among them—not even expecting fathers.
Today, Joel stood in a greenhouse, running off two hours of sleep. He’d made it back home that morning, but before he’d even slid off his boots you’d told him you were headed to the farmer’s market and you wouldn’t be gone more than twenty minutes at most, just stay here and get some sleep while I’m out, OK? Joel had refused.
“Already spent too much damn time away from you two,” he’d said grumpily, pressing a kiss to your temple before ushering you out the door. He caught you smile at that.
By ‘you two,’ Joel hadn’t needed to gesture to your belly and the life growing within it to explain what he meant. You both knew it—had been aware of this little world-altering development for weeks now—but no matter how much time had passed, neither one of you seemed quite capable of saying the words without a glance or a grin.
“Me and baby did just fine on our own these last nights,” you’d assured him teasingly as you walked along then. “In fact, I think he was glad not to hear all your snoring.”
Joel had almost chuckled through his latest yawn.
“Yeah? She tell you that herself while I was gone?”
He was convinced the baby was a girl.
You swore you were having a boy.
As Joel leaned against a display of sun-dried tomatoes and yawned extra big again, he decided it didn’t matter one bit what the gender was going to be. He just wanted to meet the kid. He hated that he would have to wait another six months to see their face and pinch their pudgy cheeks between his fingers, but that was a minuscule price to pay for what was to come in time.
Tiny feet. Bright eyes. Beaming, toothless smiles. Greedy hands that would no doubt be yanking at his silver hairs all hours of the day. He just hoped they’d take after y—
“Joel?”
Your eyes flickered to him in question. He hadn’t heard it.
“What’s’at, sweetheart?”
You furrowed your brows.
“I’m blanking on what Maria asked us to buy. Zucchini?”
Joel had no fucking idea.
A sea of fruits and vegetables lay out before him like a technicolor dream; he was so sleep-deprived it almost seemed surreal to see so much vibrancy at once, and he had to blink a couple of times to get his vision to adjust.
Then he was looking back at you. You were frowning.
“Baby, we can go home. You’re about to pass out.”
And Joel knew you meant it—despite only being at the market in town a grand total of five minutes, he knew you’d be willing to leave in a heartbeat if it meant giving him a moment’s worth of rest. It had been his own doing in bringing his drained, deadened, stubborn body here.
“I’m fine. Really, I’m good. You said, uh…cucumbers?”
“Zucchini.” You fended off his taut forced smile with a warning look of you own, as if to say: ‘You suck at lying.’
That look remained on him for a while and was only marginally diminished by a kiss he dropped on your forehead, followed by a promise to sleep the rest of the day. He didn’t like seeing you put off in the slightest, but if it meant getting to spend an extra half hour with you and Junior, Joel decided he was willing to bend the rules.
Fortunately, your scowl was even more short-lived than expected. The next second had you turning and, seeing something in a small wooden crate across the way, glowing with a bright, eager look. You walked over.
“Look—our baby!” you cried, peering into the box.
Joel was puzzled, but then you turned again and were suddenly holding a lemon up to your stomach, grinning.
“At thirteen weeks, the baby’s about the size of this.”
You balanced the thing proudly in your palm, just over your navel, and flashed him an irresistibly sweet smile. Joel smiled back, and was right about to squeeze the little fruit and tell you he couldn’t believe this kid was growing so fast, when a new voice cut in. It was some neighbor of yours. You turned to greet her, scarcely had a second to get through ‘hello’ before talks of an upcoming potluck were entered into, and before Joel knew it, he’d lost the opportunity to marvel your fruit fetus. He felt unusually dismayed at that but blamed it on burnout.
Why did he feel like he’d missed so much already?
It wasn’t like he could change the fact that this world you inhabited was overrun with the living undead, and he had to help defend this community against them, but still.
Joel was just about to yawn again and rub his bleary eyes when his gaze meandered somewhere else.
His yawn caught in his throat as soon as he saw it, and like before, he had to blink several times to clear the sight in front of him. This time, though, it wasn’t total exhaustion which clouded his vision—it was something more, snagged in his periphery at first, only to gain his full attention an instant later. Joel’s chest tightened.
Surely it wasn’t fatigue alone making him see this.
You’d tilted your body from him a little more while talking to your friend, and in your profile, Joel could make out an unfamiliar shape in your ensemble that he hadn’t noticed when you were holding the lemon: just under the swell of your breasts, beneath the apricot-colored material of your dress, he could see the faintest outline of a bump.
Joel stared harder, half-expecting that picture to fade like a mirage. He couldn’t believe the sight before him.
He’d seen you in fits and bursts over the last two weeks—he worked double shifts on patrol, so you were often asleep when he was home, and there were all the times he was forced to sleep at one of the far outposts, but no.
No.
Joel wouldn’t have missed something like that.
He couldn’t have missed the first glimpse of your growing belly when he’d gotten so…fixated on you, this baby, the thoughts of your future together as a family.
No, he shouldn’t have missed that. A good dad wouldn’t.
Hell, even a halfway decent father-to-be wouldn’t have not noticed the growth of his own child inside you. That seemed so rudimentary—how the fuck had he missed it?
Suddenly, a coil was forming in his stomach. Unlike the one in yours, it wasn’t a child but a pit of guilt growing there. He felt his legs weaken underneath him, and he swallowed dryly. He cleared his throat. He tried to cast a sideways look at you, maybe try and urge you to get on with this neighborly conversation and be done with it, but who was he to say anything now? Joel slumped against a table full of leafy greens and tried not to sulk.
He blinked and five minutes had passed, at least. His head was swimming with thoughts of shame and remorse, wanting to kick himself for agreeing to pick up shifts for his brother last week, and feeling like he’d failed you and your baby already—and they weren’t even born.
He nearly jumped out of his skin when he felt a hand on his shoulder again. Two bloodshot eyes darted to the left.
“Joel,” you said, softly. Your voice was full of sympathy.
The man couldn’t bear to hear it. He didn’t deserve it.
In fact, he felt so down on himself and dead tired now that he couldn’t muster up the strength to speak when you nudged him back onto his feet. You walked beside him with a basket that now contained three zucchini, two bulbs of garlic, a lemon, and a dozen other food items that he couldn’t place at the moment. Joel had no idea what you’d be cooking tonight, but he couldn’t help but wince at the sight of that tiny yellow fruit in front of him.
You knew this would be a long day.
Joel never slept well after those week-long stints going back and forth between patrol and home, and ever since taking Tommy’s as well while he was out sick, the man before you was drained of all his energy. Dead, almost.
Okay, maybe ‘dead’ was an overstatement.
Joel was very much alive; his body just sagged, his head lolled forward where he stood, and he refused to sleep.
It made no sense to you. It was like the longer he’d been awake, away from you, the more adamant he became that he couldn’t spare a minute while he was home dozing off. When you’d dragged his hulking body up the stairs to your bedroom, he shook his head in protest.
“I— I missed seeing her,” he mumbled dejectedly. Resisting your efforts to push him onto the bed.
“I know. You can talk as much as you’d like after you get some rest, OK? We’ll be right downstairs in the kitchen.”
That didn’t seem to appease Joel at all. If anything, he made an effort to shake his head harder and seemed ready to follow you back downstairs to help you cook.
You weren’t having any of that, so you nudged him back.
“Joel—”
“No, I missed it, honey. I missed it.”
He was talking nonsense now, surely.
“What do you mean? Missed what, Joel?”
With a deflated sort of sound, he collapsed on the bed behind him. Joel steadied himself wearily, blinking more.
Seeming as if he wanted to meet your gaze but couldn’t.
Then, to your surprise, he slid off of the bed and sank to the floor, on his knees. He shuffled closer to where you stood, and then slowly, sheepishly, peered up at you.
“I missed seeing this,” he clarified quietly.
And two hard, muscly arms wrapped around your lower half from where he kneeled. Joel’s face was mere inches from the fabric of your dress—where it flared the slightest bit out front and almost prodded at his nose.
Your little bump was protruding under your clothes now. It couldn’t be helped, no matter how loose of winter attire you wore, and you felt guilty that, at first, you hadn’t liked how it looked. Wasn’t motherhood supposed to be some exquisite, transcendent experience wherein every waking moment had you cherishing what your body did for you, like sustaining a brand new life? You’d felt awful.
So terrible, in fact, that you hadn’t even thought to mention the development to Joel, which somehow made things even worse. You just wanted to wrap up and hide, for no other reason than that you felt so self-conscious.
Now here Joel was, pressing his face to the little bulge in your frame and peering up at you with the widest, most glass-like pair of eyes you’d seen in a long time. He was watching you like he was riddled with guilt himself, oddly
You couldn’t imagine what the shame might be for.
“What are you talking about? You didn’t miss anything,” you said softly, lowering your voice to just a murmur.
Joel winced as if you’d just reared back and struck him.
“I did,” he whispered back, tone hoarse. Then, somehow, his next words came out even more broken. “I was gone so long I— I didn’t even notice you had a bump already.”
He sounded so despondent as he said it—like he’d missed some great milestone in your pregnancy and not an event that you’d actually wanted to keep out of sight.
Your heart ached in your chest. You hated seeing this.
You wanted to join him on the floor and hold him tight, tell him he hadn’t missed one single thing, but Joel’s grip around your hips was far too much to move an inch. So you remained standing instead and stroked his hair.
“What, this?” you said, gesturing toward the swell of your belly against his face. Forcing a smile when you felt guilt flood your insides. “It’s…it’s just a little bump, Joel, it’s—”
Joel drew back momentarily to meet you, eyes serious.
“It’s our baby,” he resumed, tone all soft solemnity.
That made the shame balloon in your chest.
You should’ve told him. Shown him.
But no, you’d been too afraid of what he might think of your changing body. You’d kept the news to yourself and let things go on as if nothing had happened at all. At the time, you told yourself you were doing it in Joel’s best interest—letting him rest and not spend too much time off-duty worrying about you. You’d played tougher than you really were and ended up causing the man pain over missing a moment like this. Your bottom lip trembled as you pulled him in closer to you. You hugged him to you.
“I— I’m sorry,” you croaked. You touched his head gently.
You’d just threaded your fingers through the soft, grey hair at the back of Joel’s head when he tilted his whole face back up to you. His chin hovered above your bump, and his eyes were shining up at you. Shortly, he frowned.
“Sorry for what, sweetheart? You didn’t—”
“I didn’t tell you. I didn’t want you to see.”
You blurted it out before you could think.
Joel was watching you so intently—tenderly—with his face so close to that spot you’d been trying to hide away. His look was open and sincere, and you felt like shit, so you just kept rambling on to clear your conscience of it.
“Ever since I saw the bump myself, I…I just…” you trailed off, feeling dumb as soon as the words started tumbling. “I didn’t like the way I looked. I wanted to keep it from you, because I was…scared of what you might think.”
And here he was, on his knees from how bad he felt.
His grip loosened, like he was processing things.
You found yourself lowering to the floor, too. You couldn’t help it. Your eyes began filling with hot, wet, hormone-induced tears like you’d been experiencing a lot of these last few weeks, and you hugged Joel again. You winced.
“I didn’t think it would mean so much to you, Joel. If I had known…If I knew it would hurt you not to know…”
Your wince became a full grimace—an ugly kind of cry that you’d long chastised yourself for doing—and you pulled back. You placed your palms over your eyes to hide your shame, but a couple stray tears leaked out.
Before you knew it, there were arms around you again. Big and muscly and warm, not hugging, but lifting you.
“Joel,” you sobbed into his neck. “I’m so sorry.”
You expected the father of your child to respond in words, but instead, at first, he just sat down on the bed with you in his hold. He let you rest your head on his chest, and for several long moments, he rocked you.
He held you, and you cried, and one of your hands came to fist the warm flannel of his shirt for sometime before you realized that Joel’s own palm was stroking your hair. Caressing it. Then, slowly, moving so he could thumb at the tears sliding down your cheeks, and holding you as close to his body as possible. Because of this, your ear was pressed flush against his chest, and you heard him.
Joel’s heart was hammering, and his breaths were quick.
You lifted your head, and as soon as you did, you were greeted with the sight of Joel peering down, face no more than a few inches away. Eyes soft and glossy.
“Joel, I’m so sorr—”
“You don’t,” Joel cut in, words still impossibly tender. “Don’t gotta apologize for nothin’, baby. Not one thing.”
You searched his face and saw exhaustion in every feature—there was no hiding that. Not just in the weeks but in the years he’d spent living in this world, fighting to survive and having all the scars and striations and thick, shining grays to prove it. You took stock of every sunspot and wrinkle, seeing a softness there that no pain had stolen, and found yourself all the more in love with this man. Your old man, the one who’d put this baby in you.
Without thinking, you reached for the hem of your dress.
You couldn’t get to it, as the skirt was long, and the material was splayed out all over Joel and the bed, but you were still able to bunch the fabric in your hands.
Tug it gently, but resolutely, up your legs. Near your hips.
Then over them. Suddenly sitting at your ribs, while your eyes stayed locked on Joel’s. The air felt a bit cooler now.
The house that you shared was always warm in winter. Now, with your stomach bared and your hand sliding at a snail’s pace up your front with Joel’s fingers clasped in it, you’d never felt a chill so biting in your life. Or frightening
Joel’s touch brushed the little bump above your pantyline, and instantly, you wanted to squirm. You hated how you felt that way, but it also couldn’t be helped. Your belly never protruded like this before, and you were still getting used to it—it would take time.
Joel hadn’t seen it even once before today.
Although he touched your body nonstop, with his focus centering a lot more on your tummy these days, he’d never actually gotten to feel the proof of his child growing inside you until now. You were showing.
Your belly was swollen beneath his hand and heaving lightly with every breath you took. You looked up at Joel.
And for once, he wasn’t looking back. He was looking at you, but his gaze this time was plastered to your lower half, where his palm was gradually moving to rest atop that tiny bump. He splayed his fingers. Yours sat timidly above his, and you wondered if you might not move back
Then you felt wetness on your hand. It was an odd, foreign feeling at first; you had no idea where those little droplets came from, but in a second, it dawned on you.
Joel’s head was bowed, and he was blinking hard.
The moisture was from his tears dripping down.
Your body almost caved with the realization. Your fingers tightened around the back of Joel’s hand, and presently, your voice was as hoarse as it had ever been as you shifted to sit up. Trying not to cry anymore yourself.
“Joel, don’t—don’t, no. This is my fault.”
“It’s my fault. I haven’t been here.”
And just hearing those words leave Joel’s mouth seemed ludicrous to you. He’d been there every step of the way to date, rubbing your back through the worst bouts of your morning sickness, spoon-feeding you on days you found it difficult to move a muscle, stroking your cheek and speaking soft words of consolation—he was there.
And here he was, meeting your gaze with bleary, bloodshot eyes as he blinked through his tears.
You couldn’t bear to see it.
You scrambled up from Joel’s lap and hugged him—no, attacked him with an embrace that knocked him flat on his back on the bed. Your arms wound around his neck, and your stomach brushed against his softer one. If it weren’t several weeks premature, you might’ve thought you felt some movement inside you. You squeezed your old man even tighter then and started shaking your head
“Oh, Joel…”
You pressed your body to his, hoping he’d feel your sincerity, if not the heat and the swell of your belly, thanks to what he’d done inside you. Now, more than anything else, you wanted to show him what he’d made happen—what you were so happy to feel every day, despite your insecurities and fears about some parts.
You wanted him to know how much you loved him.
“You’ve been here,” you assured him softly. Lifting slightly so you could lie on top with your front to his. “You always have and you always will. You hear me?”
Joel swallowed as soon as your lips attached to his neck and started peppering kisses to tufts of black and silver.
Gently, he reached around your back to hold you to him. His arms had just constricted in a protective grip around the base of your spine when you wriggled out. You sat up
You unzipped your dress and shifted on your knees to pull it off you completely. You tossed it and took a breath.
Now you were naked, save for your pale cotton panties, and sitting there. Straddling him. Soft rays of morning light filtered in through the window, and for a beat, you hoped the shadows it cast on your body didn’t make you look…odd, or undesirable to the man lying beneath you.
Fortunately, that fear was dispelled as soon as it arrived.
Joel’s gaze melted at the sight, and he swallowed again.
Wiping his eyes with one hand and beckoning with the other, he said, soft as anything: “Sweet pea, I love you.”
“I love you more.” You were fumbling to get your panties off—not even with sex in mind, but just so that Joel could see more of you. All of you. You wanted him to be able to drink in every inch now, like he couldn’t before.
You wanted to be naked with him, like you’d been when you made this baby together. It didn’t have to be anything more than pure and simple appreciation.
Though when you fumbled with the bottom buttons of Joel’s flannel and murmured, ‘Take yours off, too, please,’ you couldn’t deny that it had an edge of something else, as well. That was only natural.
Within seconds, Joel was stripped of his clothes, and his body was on display, the same as yours. You could stare at him, he could stare at you, and together, you could cherish the knowledge that these bodies made a third. There was a new one growing inside of you, day by day, and now you could see the proof as well as you’d felt it.
For once, Joel hardened, and it didn’t feel like just lust or love or arousal at the sight of your nude body, but a primal urge. When your folds dripped and glistened in turn, it wasn’t merely a product of wanting but of acknowledging what had already been done here.
This big man, this stiff and graying man, this kind man had put his seed inside you more times than you could count, and one of those moments had made him stick.
Stuck as he was, claimed as you felt, you were happy.
At last, one of your hands came to rest over your belly in a sweet, appreciative, and loving way, and you rubbed it.
It might’ve been the first time you’d done it.
That was definitely a first for Joel.
His hand immediately joined.
“You put a baby in me.” You said it gently.
“I put a baby in you,” Joel repeated.
In a breath, it was affectionate. In the next, it was protective. In the one after that, you felt his cock pushing inside you, but it hardly felt that way at all sitting on him.
It was sex, though. You rolled your hips and took him to the base. Joel’s hand stayed on your belly, trailing each movement with a look of awe. And strain. His smooth, bulbous tip grazed somewhere deep within your body, and your walls contracted around him. Sucked him in.
“Right there.” His fingers flexed over where his cock was currently stretching you out from the inside, and you whimpered softly. “Ain’t that where I stuffed you full?”
“Yes,” you breathed, free hand anchoring on his chest.
Joel fucked up into you gently, and damn, this was even better in the second trimester than the first. Your body was more responsive. Your slick warmth drew him in.
Every nerve-ending in your system seemed attuned to the one man who’d made himself a part of you, like he was made to be exactly where he was, and no place else.
“My sweet girl let daddy make her a mama, huh?”
It didn’t feel like fucking and still, you were a minute from coming. Joel’s words, paired with a hand on your swollen belly and the soft, pleasuring cadence of his thrusts made you helpless to the sensation. You looked down.
And for once, you relished the sight below. You loved it—Joel’s hand over your belly, his cock splitting you in two.
“Y’like how it looks? Me in you?” Joel chuckled. Behind it, you could sense that he was getting close too, though.
His thrusts sped up, and you bounced to meet them, a smile spreading across your lips once you found his gaze.
“Yes, daddy.”
“Know how goddamn pretty ya look swole up with me?”
“Yes, daddy.”
Your voice was sweet. Supplicating. Sincere.
It wasn’t as if your fears and insecurities all vanished the moment Joel told you you were pretty, or when he said that you had no need to be sorry. That would have to come with time—but the praise certainly helped. His words spoken so tenderly to you then had an effect.
You wanted to believe all these things, and the closer you got to climax, the more readily you shed your inhibitions. Your hips started gyrating with more force, and you no longer gave a shit whether your body looked so different.
For now, at least, you’d just have to accept that growing Joel Miller’s child inside you meant many things would change. There was no escaping it. What mattered now was your health, being together with Joel, and knowing how much he loved you, no matter what might happen.
And that much was clear from the way he eyed you suddenly—needily—and how the fingers splayed across your front migrated down your stomach, over your bump, and between where your body and his were joined. He always made sure you were taken care of, and of course, that concern extended virtually everywhere.
A series of quick, deliberate circles on your clit and his cock hitting you repeatedly in your most sensitive spot made you see stars. Your eyes were tempted to roll back in pure bliss, preparing for your orgasm to hit, when Joel snagged your attention back. He pulled you in until your chest was practically parallel with his, and then he drilled you from below. His mouth moved dangerously close to your ear, and from there, it was apparent he had plans.
Pushing you closer and closer to the edge with every thrust, he spoke gently. He made sure you heard, though
“Y’like the way this feels now, don’t ya, sweet pea?”
In response, your words were more like a babble.
Still, you somehow managed to whine a ‘yes.’
And that was all Joel needed, apparently.
He leaned in even nearer, murmuring:
“Good.”
Good?
You were seconds from release. One hand was fisting the sheets now, your body moving in frantic tandem with Joel’s, and all at once, he was lifting your head. Tilting it sideways to meet his own while he fucked you relentlessly from below. He was beaming.
“Better get used to how it feels, ‘cause I’m keepin’ this belly full as long as you’ll let me keep on givin’ it babies.”
Fucking hell.
Your stomach clenched as if to say yes again, your brain went blank, and all you could think while you came on his cock was how much you loved him back—no matter how wary you were about these changes, how unwise making a man change diapers all throughout his sixties might seem, you’d give him as many babies as he wanted.
You might change your mind.
You might not.
But by the look on Joel’s face as he finished and flooded your insides with all his hot, sticky seed, you wanted to believe you would. One baby or a hundred, you’d give just about any number a shot with your old man, Joel Miller. You let him fuck you and fill you to the brim, and when it felt like he couldn’t go any deeper, or give you any more of this release, Joel pulled you in for a kiss.
Against his lips, muted between soft, sloppy movements, you managed to get out quietly:
“Whatever daddy wants.”
And when you’d finally pulled apart and were eye-to-eye again—after everything you’d been through today and these last couple weeks, these past few months—you couldn’t help it. A grin broke out on Joel’s face at the same moment it did yours. You both breathed heavily and felt your belly pressed against his. You were reminded, once more, of what brought you here and all you had to look forward to in the next months and years.
It would be hard, but well worth it with Joel by your side.
Gently, you nudged his nose with yours.
“I love you so much, Joel,” you whispered.
“I love you more, sweet pea,” he whispered back. Smiling
#HE’S SURROUNDED BY YOU YOUR TEN KIDS AND DOZENS OF GRANDKIDS BTW#CONTENT AND LOVED BY EVERYONE LIKE HE DESERVES#joel miller smut#joel miller x reader#joel miller x you#joel miller#joel miller fanfiction#joel miller imagine#joel miller one shot#joel miller tlou
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Robin accidentally puts a letter (meant to ask a girl out on a date) in the wrong locker. She waits, watching totally inconspicuously, except her crush walks up to the locker NEXT to the one she put it in. And dear old Eddie Munson strolls up to the same locker.
Robin watches as he unfolds the letter and blushes. She's immediately groaning and feels bad, because now this guy thinks someone likes him. And thats just mean but to confess and break his heart? She's missing lunch lamenting on the pay phone about the situation to Steve who is at Family Video.
Steve who has thought about Eddie for years. Captivated by the guy who will get up and yell on top of tables but also stopped and helped a freshman pick up all their papers when they dropped them. Steve who once got winked at by Eddie and felt his entire worldview shift.
"Well I'll go- yea, I can go in your place. Don't even worry about it." Steve offers. And Robin is so thankful she feels she would have combust spontaneously if she had to break Eddie's heart. Robin thinks Steve is gonna let him down gently. Meanwhile Steve is putting on his date jeans and adding a bit of lip gloss and winking in the mirror ready to charm the pants off eddie
#Guys I think I have lost how to write or maybe thats the migraine speaking#Anyways I dreamt this so yall can have it#Steddie#Jade is talking
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packing my husband's lunch
simon "ghost" riley - inspired by this
tags: smut & fluff, domestic, established relationship (marriage), housewife!reader, butcher!simon, food, body worship & praise, missionary,
a/n: changed a little bit of it for the fic, i hope that's okay! i hope everyone loves it!!
it wasn't supposed to be a big deal, these were little videos that you made when simon was at work. people did a lot worse on the internet! you were mostly in sweet aprons with your username embroidered onto them and occasionally one of the dresses that your loving husband bought you!
you wanted to keep yourself busy now that you were a stay-at-home wife and the income from being part of the creator's program was a nice bonus.
"thank you for the banana bread recipe, mrs. riley!"
"where did you get that dress?"
"i wonder what mister riley looks like! i bet she totally lucked out!!"
you built up a sweet little community that was mostly sharing recipes that you've aquired over the years. viewers were impressed of how well you could handle spice despite your gentle demeanour, but you once said in a video that you had been eating spicy food your whole life!
"plus, my husband loves it too!" that was the big mystery of the account, who was mrs. riley's husband? viewers knew he existed and that videos occasionally were about making his lunches. but he had never showed his face in any video.
you thought the comments were cute, you'd often show them to simon while you were in his lap on the couch.
"they think that you're like christian grey."
"who the hell is that?" simon chuckled as he rested his head on top of your head so he could look down at your phone, "sounds like a real prick with a name like that."
another day, another video. you worked within the kitchen explaining the recipe. "you have to remmeber to add the spices before it all comes together or else it won't have time to mingle with the potatoes or the carrots. the taste will be all off!" you tone was like a bird's chirp as you had one hand on yourhip and the other stirring the pot with a spoon.
"my husband loves this! and i think who ever you make this for, wife, husband, boyfriend, partner, family member, friend, they'll love it too! but i suggest if you're making it for your nana that you tone down the spices a little!" you talked away as you continued to cook.
it filled the near silence in the kitchen and allowed you to keep viewers engaged!
but this video ended a little different. while you showed off finished stew in a pastel pink bowl, viewers caught the sight of him. hulking mass of man in a white t-shirt with a suspicious amount of red stained across it.
"girl, are you okay?"
"who is that?!"
"pack him a sandwich in the next video if you need help!"
"hey girlie, close your fist with your thumb inside if you're not safe!"
you were confused by the comments, simon wasn't a bad guy? he had never hurt a hair on your head. you've been trying to get him into more experimental kinky play in the bedroom!
you heard the door unlock and peeked out of the kitchen to see your husband coming home. you were use to grime he brought home, you met at the butcher shop his long time friend price owned. so a t-shirt stained with blood was nothing new. but then it clicked in your head.
oh they thought that simon was some kind of serial killer.
before you could say anything to your husband, he pulled you in for tight kiss and held you by the back of the head with his strong hand. you smiled against his lips and giggled when he picked you up. you wrapped your legs around his waist and held onto his shoulders.
you weren't the lightest thing in the world, but simon had spent most of his life hauling things (meat) heavier than you could ever be. he eyed you from top to bottom and smiled. his smiles were rare to others but frequent with you.
"how's my love bug today? makin' more videos for the fans." he asked as he carried you to the couch and put you down gently. he then leaned in to kiss you on the lips.
"yeah, they think you're a serial killer though."
his blond brows raised, "serial killer?"
you looked at him in return, "you were in the back of one of my latest videos, i didn't notice anything until i realized that you were in a work shirt and it looked like you were a serial killer."
"i see, i see." he said as he sat next to you and laced your fingers with his, "tell them i'm not, i don't need rumours to start." simon didn't like being the center of attention.
he once told you that he married the brightest woman he could find so she could be the center of attention and he could be supportive from the sidelines. it was why people gravitated towards you while being a little afraid of you towering husband.
you pulled him closer to you and kissed at his scarred face. he was an active service member before he became a butcher, so much history on his body and you loved every molecule of him. when you kissed him, he deepened the kiss and held both your hands.
"simon."
"let me take you to bed." he replied softly before he pulled you to your feet and then pulled you up into his arms bridal style. it took you a while to get used to him carrying you. not that you were worried about him not having a good hold on you, but rather you not having a good hold on him!
he brought you to your shared bedroom and placed you on the bed delicately. he then got his shirt up and over his head, exposing his strong body to you. he wasn't model trimmed, he was built with proper strength.
i ain't no pretty boy, dove.
but you thought your husband was the prettiest of them all. slowly you started to take off your dress, you could feel your husband's hungry eyes on you as you undressed for him. your viewers saw a sweet little wife, bu simon saw that sweet little wife totally nude.
when the mis-matched pair of bra and panties ended up on the floor with the dress, simon felt like a new man. he worked hard to provide for your family of two and would continue to work hard every day. you were his wife, his everything. and he loved you more than he could ever articulate.
so he expressed his love by getting undressed and into bed with you. laid out on top of the covers, your head in the pillows with simon between your legs.
"look at mrs. riley." he cooed as he rubbed his rough hands up and down your bare thighs, "prettier than those little cookies you make.' he chuckled a little, "boy at work watch your videos all the time, you've been a big help to them, finally able to cook for themselves." he went in to kiss you on the lips.
"glad i could help." you replied as you held onto one of the pillows under your head. you arched your back a little when he lined his cock up with slick entrance and pressed himself in.
he leaned forward and braced a hand up against the headboard as he got his cock inside of you. the issue with a size difference like yours, it made it a little hard to have sex in certain positions. usually you were on top, but since you got married you've been able to figure out missionary.
"honey."
"i got ya, dove. you feel so good as always." he said lowly, "everything i have ya, it's a complete treat. you take good care of me, you know that. you are a good wife. happy you're making your little videos, and i'm happier i get to come home to you."
you blushed a little bit and wanted to hide your face but he stopped you by pinning your hand to the bed.
"don't hide from me, dove. i want to see my wife's face." he said with his voice tinged with affection. he loved the sight of you, you were beautiful under him, he couldn't help but lick his lips at the sight of you.
"you make me blush too much." you said as he moved against you. your loving, caring husband moved his hips in a steady pace as he held onto your hand and the headboard. his thrusts were easy on you, not too rough but just enough to make you excited all over. you loved the feeling of him, there was just something about it that made you feel a twinge of excitement in your core.
he was a perfect lover and you loved him so much.
"all mine." he purred as he continued his movements. he watched your videos daily during his lunch break, happily eating the food you made for a video that morning or the day prior. the stews, baked goods and pasta dishes that you were known for.
your emphasis on couponing and how to store foods to make them last longer. it was an honour for simon to be with such a lovely woman. you encouraged food as a form of love. and you showed that love ten times over with simon.
he captured your lips and continued to move against you. he devoured the feeling of his lover up against him. you felt amazing, you felt like heaven. he couldn't help himself. he moved against you and continued to kiss you.
"work so hard every day, you work your ass off beautiful. and i love it, all of you. you know that. i can't get enough of you, how you feel against me. how i feel like our souls are connected."
you giggled, "no need to butter me up, handsome." you smiled when he placed another kiss on your lips. you moaned into the kiss, you eventually held onto his strong shoulders. you two moved against each other, husband and wife. quite the pair you were, and simon wouldn't want it any other way.
"baby." he cooed.
"shh, shh." you said, you opened your eyes and stared into his brown ones, he was so handsome. even when he tried to deny it, you knew the truth. he was quite the handsome man. the kind of man that made your toes curl with each hardy thrust of his hips.
the pleasure ran through both of you, the intensity of it made you kiss one another once more. he continued to work himself inside of you. live in each of this thrusts, affection in every movement. simon loved you and you loved him, hence why you held onto him so closely.
"oh, dove. look at ya. perfect for your husband." he cooed as he felt closer to his climax, it was an intense feeling. the kind of feeling that excited him greatly. he loved you and when he watched your pleasure reach its peak, he felt a swell of pride when you clutched onto him tighter.
"fuck, honey." you moaned as pleasure crushed down on you. you tensed up then relax, enjoying the feeling as it moved through you. you shared another kiss.
simon continued to work his body up against yours, and soon he finished inside of you. he rocked against you through his climax and then only broke the kiss when he stopped. he looked you in the eyes, those beautiful brown eyes.
you giggled lightly and pulled him in once more before he laid out on the bed beside you and held you in his arms.
"not too bad for a serial killer."
"yeah, i bet they'd never know that you're such a teddy bear." you dragged a finger across his strong chest and let out a small giggle. he felt so good against you. you soon sat up and said, "i have something i want you to try, i am working on a new recipe."
before you could get too far, he pulled you back into bed with him and wrapped his arms around you. he held you close and said, "whatever it is, dove. i bet it's amazing, but right now i just wanna hold ya."
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the following day, on one of simon's days off. you set up the camera and stood beside your much taller husband. you were all smiles as you were ready to bake a nice spring treat.
"hello, love bugs! it's mrs. riley again, and today i have a guest!" you gestured to your husband. you whispered, "you'll need to crouch down a little." and simon bent his knees, "this is my husband, mister riley!"
you hoped that this would quell any concerns your fans might have. and while the comments were positive one made you blush.
"i used to think i had a crush on mrs. riley, but now i have a crush on mr. riley too!"
i hope you love this fic! if you have any suggestions, my open! till next time <3
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i started ranting about moira to my dad today. He has no clue I'm a cherik shipper and i'm not telling him AND i still had a solid argument, which means we're not hating on moira for cherik reasons thank you for coming to my tedtalk-
i don’t hate Moira because she “gets in the way” of cherik, of course not. thats silly
the real reason i hate her is because she’s a terribly written character and i need her to leave immediately. she may not mean it but she brings chaos into everyones lives and a lot of people are dead because of her
thanks a lot Moira for shooting the bullet that paralyzed Charles, awakening a false god, causing the death of Erik’s family, bringing Magneto out of hiding, being the reason Charles is bald, being the reason nearly all of Cairo is destroyed (with extremely high casualties), and for just kind of being you. i just don’t like you
the one good thing i do praise her for is bringing cherik together
but lets be honest, that would’ve happened regardless 👀
anyway thanks for coming to my Ted talk ☺️🙏

#like i honestly feel so bad for her#there's very limited girl characters in x men#and i feel like they fumble their character development a lot#she's just a particularly bad case of it#like i always try to write her good in fics if she's a character because i feel like she deserves a better story#i just KNOW she could've been Charles's cool bestie who works at the cia if they'd put the romance plot aside#like it wouldve been like “oh yeah that's charles. we met because he hit on me in a bar. of course i told him to fuck off.”#“yeah he apologized when he was sober and we're totally chill now”#“I watch him when we go to bars now though”#“me and raven make sure he stays in line”#like COME ONNNNNN#i want them to be besties if the writers aren't going to make an actual good romance plot#that's always where i land#poor moira#moira mactaggert#moira deserved better
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