#living vicariously thru the tinies

[eddiepeaches]

follow up to my wednesday post they went back to bed bc ed was sooo sleepy! he's happy now :3

[dayurno]

what are ur fav useless hcs. about kevin or anyone from aftg :) like they aren’t really significant but just little things you like to think about. bc i have so many but no one ever talks about theirs and im curious if you have any!

YAY i love this question and also feel free to send me yours too i think useless hcs are really fun

i think renee is a fast and furious fan and an action movie enthusiast….. in the first kevjean fic i’ve ever written there was a scene where she sat jean down and made him watch half of the fast and furious franchise with her and he hated it so bad but he couldnt tell her that so he just sat there very awkwardly the whole time. and renee knew he hated it but she loves the damn movies so much she thought it was a worth it sacrifice. i also love a dyslexia/adhd hc for renee, i think she has a hard time in academia and has a really really really fickle attention span. if you put jean and renee in the same room they might be able to finish a short book between them but its going to take at least 8 hours because they're going to get sidetracked talking to each other about dumb stuff

ex smoker jeremy is still real and beloved in my heart... i think he quit cold turkey in his junior year and it still gets him more often than not, but he's trying and that's all that matters

neil shoplifts on instinct. doesnt even think twice of it

kevin actually HATES the gym. he will not confess to this in any way shape or form but he genuinely hates it. its so early in the morning and the movements are so repetitive and its so boring. in evermore at least there was the threat of getting beaten up if he didnt do his sets right, but in psu its just plain boring. he will still go but he will hate every second. get this man to a court now

jean is horrible with performing small actions :) i think he has big shaky hands that struggle w the minutiae of any process ever. you do NOT want to ask this man to put thread through a needle or give you an injection or pack you a bowl or even light your cigarette. the #irreversible damage of multiple head injuries

also do let me know urs cause i also love hearing about this kind of stuff! i love small hcs... save me mundane realities of life. save me characters with little details

[daisychainsandbowties]

May I vicariously experience living with a tiny baby cat thru your posts about Sushi the cat? I would love to get a kitten but my cat is an elderly girl who has earned her peace and quiet so I should not subject her to such shenanigans. Anyway, love your fluffy, handsome, lovely son and I think he is very fortunate to know you <3

🥺🥺 of course you can! my elderly cat is blind and mostly deaf too, so she’s blissfully unaware that Sushi exists unless he runs into her, but i’m glad you’re protecting your elderly one’s peace 🥹.

bdbdbdb i guess you should also experience the epic highs and lows of kitten rescuing. i got my mom to babysit him will i was at work and fortunately for us all she spent the whole day taking videos of him which means she caught this… unfortunate moment bdbdbdbdb

[nathanialhowe]

living vicariously thru my gf as she lezzes out with minthara with her tiny evil gnome wizard

[keepthedelta]

“why would she be so stressed” fed was playing djokovic at wilbledon final bro. next question. like it wasn’t some r1 atp500 match that was a wimb final😭😭. i do think about how before they had kids mirka was w him at practically every tournament and every match of his tho. random wag could never! also yeah she was a pro player herself so of course it would allow for a greater involvement and understanding, doesn’t necessarily mean she “vicariously living thru him” tho.

it was just an insane take to me on so many levels tbh.

does this man not know how sports work? like yes, a lot of people watch sports that they themselves play at an amateur level, but the act of watching is not inherently a way of living vicariously through whoever is playing. sport, especially team sports, are borderline religions in many parts of the world. there's a reason why football world cups and the olympics are some of the most highly watched televisual shows. people love sports, they love their local and national teams with insane amounts of passion. i have seen people stress out and weep and cry and celebrate for tiny local sporting events because it mattered that much to them and i have seen them do the same for huge international events.

and you care every time. if you follow a sport do you stop watching the moment that your team or the athlete you're supporting wins once? no, that would be ridiculous. "oh but roger's already won loads of grand slams" who fucking cares, he's still playing in the final of another one and he might be about to win again. live in the moment.

and yes, mirka was a professional tennis player, and served basically as roger's manager and should rightfully be credited with much of his success. but even if she hadn't been, even if she had absolutely nothing to do with his career, that's still her husband??? of course she cares how well he's doing and wants him to win, she loves him. tennis is his job, are you not supposed to care about how well your partner or your loved ones do at work? my friend had to give a presentation worth 20% of her final grade last year and i was incredibly nervous for her because i knew how much it mattered. that's what people do???

[obwjam]

this screencap from hilda? a Schmood™

[golbrocklovely]

I’m glad they are not filming this trip as much as Vegas it was fun in the beginning but it got old so quick, all the ” omg I’m so drunk” ” i blacked out yesterday”...etc was kinda cringe ngl

i don't think it's cringey that they would film themselves partying, but i'll admit it did get tiring real fast lol

but i think it's always good to remember they are only showing us a tiny little blip of what they do daily. like, it's more "enjoyable" to the vast majority of fans to see them partying than it is to see them just walking around vegas or wherever.

and i also think a lot of fans get to live vicariously thru them, so the partying is nice to those of us that don't party at all or are too young to, if that makes sense.

[skullrock]

the tree - Steve x Reader

12 days of Christmas fics, day 9 - the tree

pairing: Steve x Reader

summary: Steve decorates the tree with his kids for their fifth Christmas. (early 90s au)

word count: 1.3k

warnings: it gets like a lil suggestive towards the end but, as they say, only if u squint

a/n: hi this is like... a major comfort fic for me!! when I was growing up I used to decorate the tree w my mom, dad, and brother, and learned a lot about my mom and dad through the ornaments they collected over the course of their relationship. decorating the tree was my favorite day of the year, and though we don’t do it anymore, I can at least live vicariously thru writing <3 hope u enjoy!

“You started without me?”

You whirl around to face Steve, who’s shrugging his snowy jacket off at the front door. Your kids, Lily and Audrey, jump off the floor and fly towards him. “Dad!”

“It’s me,” he smiles, bending down to hug them both. “I thought I told you guys to wait til I got home?”

“We couldn’t wait, daddy,” Audrey pouts. “You took too long!”

“I was gone for five hours!” he laughs. “Can’t believe mom let you.”

“They were very persuasive,” you beam.

“Yeah?” he asks, looking back at the girls. They were his pride and joy, his everything. His face always lit up when he walked through the door, or when he went to their preschool plays. He loved them more than anything in the world. You couldn’t get over his adoration for them - and their adoration for him.

“It sounds like maybe… maybe… it’s time for….” Steve grabs Lily and starts tickling her, giggling when she starts giggling.

“Dad, stop!” Lily shrieks, trying to twist away from him.

Audrey goes behind him and wraps her arms around his neck, jumping onto his back. “Daddy, don’t!”

“Oh, you want some, too?” he beams, reaching for Audrey, pulling her down and tickling her, too.

“Mommy, help!”

“Okay, tickle monster,” you say, walking over towards them. “Leave ‘em alone, it was my idea, anyw-“

“You!” Steve shouts, letting go of Audrey and grabbing you. “My own wife!”

“Steve -“ you laugh, and then shriek when he starts tickling you, too. “St- Steve! Stop!”

“Tickle monster stops for no one,” he says, but lets you go, both of you panting and giggling. You step forward to hug him, pressing a kiss to his cheek.

“Missed you,” you say quietly.

“Tell me about it,” he mumbles, pressing a kiss to the top of your head. “I’m here now.”

Lily tugs on Steve’s jeans. “Daddy, tree!”

“Okay,” he says, pulling away from you. “Show me what you’ve done already.”

Lily and Audrey take him to the tree set up in the corner of your living room. It only had a few bulbs on it, but Steve always loved decorating the tree. He liked the nostalgia, and he especially liked all of the sentimental ornaments you’d both collected over the years. Every year for the past five years, he told Audrey and Lily the story for almost every ornament, and let them put it on the tree, sometimes lifting them up to get towards the top. It’d quickly become one of your favorite traditions, too.

“Here, look!” Audrey says, pointing at a snowman shaped ornament and tugging on Steve’s hand. “This one is me!”

It was a picture of Audrey when she was a newborn, her hair as thick as Steve’s. Steve looks at it, and even though he’d been the one who told her who it was, he still furrows his brows. “That’s not you.”

“Yeah huh!”

“Can’t be,” he says, trying not to smile. “You’re right here.”

“No, dad, it’s a picture!”

“That’s a baby,” Steve says, smile breaking through. “You’re not a baby now, are you?”

“No!” she shouts. “I’m five!”

“That’s right!” Steve laughs. “I’m kidding, sweetheart. That’s you.”

“Me!” Lily yells, pointing at her own picture. She was born on the same day and took after you, her eyes the same color as yours. They both took after their dad in terms of loudness.

Steve gasps. “Look at that! You’ve grown up so much!”

“Let’s add some more,” you say, sitting down on the floor, the rest of them following. Audrey climbs into Steve’s lap and Lily presses herself as close as possible so she can listen to him tell stories.

You pull out one that says Christmas, 1988. It was in the shape of a candy cane with a mouse propping it up. “This was our first Christmas together.”

“My mom bought us that,” Steve says, taking it from you. “So tacky.”

“What’s tacky?” Lily asks.

“It’s like when mom wore that neon green dress to prom.”

“Oh, shut up, Steve -“

“Here, go ahead and hang it Lil.” He passes it off to her and grabs another one. This one is a small wooden nutcracker. “This is from your house, right?”

“Yep. I think my first grade teacher gave me that.”

“Boring,” Steve says, handing it to Audrey. “Hide it somewhere.”

“You’re so mean!”

“Am not,” he says, leaning over to kiss your temple. “Just gotta keep the crowd entertained.”

You roll your eyes but smile. You grab another ornament - a snowman with a tiny picture frame. It had a picture of you and Steve in it from your second Christmas - Steve wore an extremely ugly sweater. “That’s tacky.”

“Yeah,” he says absentmindedly, taking it in his hands. “Girls, what do you think?”

“It’s my best picture of you and mom,” Audrey says, turning around in Steve’s lap to kiss his cheek. “Pretty.”

“Pretty,” Lily repeats. “Were you guys in lub?”

“In love? Yeah,” Steve smiles. “Or, I was, at least.”

“Oh, I was, too,” you assure him quickly. “I’d never been so in love. I still am.”

Steve smiles over at you while your daughters shout an awwwww!

“Was daddy, like, your prince?” Lily says, pushing herself harder into Steve to be closer.

“More like my knight in shining armor,” you say. They didn’t know about the Upside Down - and they hopefully never would - but Steve really was more like a knight than anything. And a prince. He’d saved your life in more ways than one. “Or, well, in a Members Only jacket.”

“I loved that jacket.”

“I did, too.”

“Yeah?” Steve asks, leaning towards you again.

“Focus, daddy!” Audrey shouts, pulling his chin back towards the tree. Steve laughs and keeps going, grabbing ornaments and explaining their origins, then letting the girls put them on the tree. You leave after a while to make them hot chocolate, and the girls run into the kitchen, hugging your legs.

“Thank you mommy!” they say in unison.

“For what, babies?” you ask, grabbing their mugs.

“Hot choccy,” Audrey says, and you laugh - Steve says it that way and they’d both attached to it.

“We lub you,” Lily says, planting a kiss on your thigh.

Steve walks in, smiling. “I lub you, too,” he joins in, coming to lean on the counter next to you. You give their mugs and they leave, heading upstairs.

“Where’re they going?” you ask, handing Steve his mug.

“I told them they should go watch the Muppets,” he smirks, bumping his hips into yours. “Which means we are alone.”

“Interesting,” you smile. “That Members Only jacket comment must’ve really gotten to you, huh?”

“And the tree,” he says. “And you. And our pictures. I love you so much.”

You smile smugly. “The tree got you excited?”

“No,” he laughs, sitting his mug down so he could hug you. “I just love you. Okay?”

“I love you, too,” you sigh, pulling him in close. “Maybe we should watch Muppets.”

“We can,” he says, “but only if you sit by me.”

“Can do,” you hum, pressing a kiss to his cheek. “I love you, even if you called my prom dress tacky.”

“And I love you, even if you lost my Members Only jacket when we moved.”

“That was not my fault and you know it!”

“Definitely was,” Steve says, nodding, a piece of hair falling over his forehead. “It’s okay. I still love you.”

You kiss him. “Love you too, Steve.”

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[44hive]

Just realised that my crush looks a lot like Trent but just a tiny bit darker and without freckles I am shook

now i have to hear more abt ur crush pls anon let me live vicariously thru u

[wienerbarnes]

happy fic writer appreciation day!

there are so many talented and amazing writers on here! I'm going to try to get as many of favs on this list as possible along w my fav works by them, and I encourage everyone to tag their fav authors under this! love all y'all <3

THESE ARE IN NO SPECIFIC ORDER!!! literally just going down my likes and following list lmao

ALSO! I tag everything I've read with “fics” so feel free to search that on my blog for some recs too!

ANOTHER ALSO! I only read bucky fics! so that's what these are lol w a mix of oc’s and unnamed readers

@moteldwelling​ - ok honestly??? some of the BEST smut I've ever read. I think the first work of theirs I read was “let me show you” and y'all... just do yourself a favor and read thru their master list bc it is SMUT PERFECTION

@ballyhoobarnes​ - LIBRARIAN BUCKY YALL THATS ALL I GOTTA SAY! I'm such a sucker for these pairings that show so many moments between librarian boy Bucky and reader like there's cute stuff and insecure stuff and smut stuff and UGH I love it sm

@trillian-anders​ - ok the ENTIRE master list is PHENOMENAL but my fav has got to be “amor de mi vida”. like being cuban American it was so awesome to read ME not to mention 40s!Bucky ??? say less. 

@all1e23​ - if y'all have not read “astrophile”... u r MISSING OUT! you've got firefighter bucky AND dad bucky? PLUS the cutest daughter and the more heartwarming and slow burn story? amazing I love it

@nacho-bucky​ - NGL IM STILL WORKING THRU THIS MASTERLIST but I recently finished “the cupcake guy” and AH literally the most descriptive writing and I actually FEEL what buckys feeling... plus he bakes and there's cupcakes cmon

@goddamndameron​ - ok miss hannie doesn't write much bucky anymore BUT IF U LIKE STAR WARS STUFF CHECK HER OUT bc she's literally so talented and I love her sm

@wonderlandmind4​ - I think “delicate stages” was one of the first stories I read when I got into bucky like a year and half two years ago whatever and dude. TO THIS DAY I reread it every once in a while bc its SO AMAZING. gonna warn u it will TEAR YOUR HEART APART. ESPECIALLY THE SEQUEL. but still well worth it bc its AMAZING.

@wkemeup​ - ok THE SMUT is *chef’s kiss* and I'm honestly torn between all of their series’ bc they all literally PULL YOUR ASS IN and like YOURE THERE and ugh. def another one I go back and reread often nuff said

@asadmarveltrashbag​ - another one whose smut is UN FUCKING REAL like p much all of the head cannons... fucked me ALL THE WAY up

@heli0s-writes​ - ok I can't NOT talk about the “cdr” series. literally the funniest thing you'll read ever. it got humor, its got personality, its got soft moments, its got smut, its THE BEST THING EVER. I miss them but the puns live in my mind rent free for the rest of time

@ugh-supersoldiers​ - “under oath” has gotta be one of the BEST fics I've read. like it one of those stories where you assume it'll be an interesting and good plot and it literally BLOWS YOU AWAY. like the writing is so good, so descriptive, and makes you feel ALL the things ok

@wiensrsoldier​ - another smut GOD like ALL the kinks and their “tiny and beefy series” THE BEST THING I COULDVE HOPED TO EVER READ ON THIS APP (I'm a slut for size kinks - clearly.)

@shreddedparchment​ - one of the very first blogs I followed and some of the very first fics I read. the ashes to ashes universe? actually INCREDIBLE like “you're my mission” is yet another fic I reread constantly bc its SO GOOD like the story is AMAZING and so well written w all the feelings and emotions and action and ugh. actual perfection

@sgtjbuccky​ - the most AMAZING SERIES’ like “death do us part” was one of the coolest fics I've ever read the plot is so GOOD and unique and just ugh. the whole master list is fire

@redgillan​ - the ENTIRE masterlist is worth reading but “under pastel skies” owns a part of my heart bc being an artist myself I love the idea of living vicariously thru the reader and living out my dreams of living w Bucky ok I love it

@cametobuyplums​ - makes me wish I was French and also buckys sugar baby bc “artistic license” is the BEST smut story ever like it will make u horn-nee not to mention the actual PLOT lol. also most beautifully organized master list ever ?? ily fizz

@writingcroissant​ - my fav has gotta be “paper walls” bc I am the BIGGEST SUCKER for tropes like these where like he doesn't *know* his neighbor but they're able to bond and form a relationship regardless and UGH I love this story sm they are AMAZING

@tropicalcap​ - ok torn between “midnight hour” and “black lines” (also - forming this list has made me painfully aware how much smut I read LMAO) but actually I LOVE the way they write and, cmon who doesn't love bucky smut especially when it involves tacos or tattoos

@indyluckycharlie​ - still v new but I'm currently reading “tinman” and UGH it so unique I've never read a plot like this and the FEELS are amazing this story is so COOL and I have a feeling it'll be another one of my multiple reread stories lol

@samingtonwilson​ - if you like friends to lovers wait until you read “apartment 8c” bc its literally friends to lovers to exes and back to friends and roommates to possible lovers again LMAO but actually this story is so fun and I LOVE stories like this that play w common tropes and make them cool and super amazing I love

@suz-123​ - “crazy, beautiful” has both smut and veterinary!bucky like what more could someone want. I literally CAN NOT WAIT to see where this story goes its so cool and interesting and I'm OBSESSED with the readers personality and her and Bucky’s lil bonding moments ugh

@justreadingfics​ - “its a deal” has the biggest stamp of chef’s kiss literally ever its got the juiciest smut and super suave bucky and a crazy ex and the just the overall PLOT is fantastic I'm obsessed

@tinyglamdramaqueen (omg idk why I can't tag) - ok so they recently finished “alls fair in love and war” and DUDE. my jaw dropped p much every chapter like I'm begging you this is unlike any sugar baby fic ever its so AMAZING and I'm so excited to see what happens for the future of the reader and just. so so so good

holey moley. I love fics. and bucky. appreciate ur fav writers y'all.

also going to shamelessly include myself on this list bc I'm proud of the works I've written even if I'm not the most into it as some other talented writers on here

@wienerbarnes​ ME ok idk if other writers do this but do y'all ever re read your own works bc they're so good bc that's me w “cheek to cheek” like my ACTUAL favs I've never loved writing for a pair more and they be living in my head rent free ok I always be thinking of those rainbow underwear sets and mis matched socks 

PLS!!! I ENOURAGE YALL TO TAG YOUR FAV WRITERS!!! REC ME SOMETHING!!! SHOW YOUR FAVS SOME LOVEEEEEE <3

[catboysuigetsu]

i miss my joyfriend so im living vicariously thru tiny squishy bois

[thatsouthernanthem]

You wanna know why all my OCs (except Marian) are short??? Bc I’m freaking 6’1 and haven’t had a forehead kiss or been nestled beneath a chin since I was like ten years old!!!

I tower over all but like 4 people I know and that’s FINE, I enjoy being tall but I LIVE VICARIOUSLY THRU MY TINY OCS

[peachyteabuck]

carnation - allium - rose (i just wanna hear about you two leave me alone)

Carnation: If I handed you a concert ticket right now, who would you want to be the performer?

if i can ALSO pick an era i’d want to go to an early 1d concert. like, that’s what i’d do if i could time travel. i saw them live twice (in the year before and year after zayn left) but nothing can beat those tiny little twinks running around those stages :(

or go to monumentour again. that shit slapped so fucking hard i cannot even tell y’all. where did the party go? live changed me as a woman

Allium: What’s the best thing you can cook?

i don’t do a lot of cooking - i have a very short attention span and have a, uh, long history of walking away from things and forgetting they exist. the last thing i made was sugar cookies last night, which are pretty good. i think i prefer baking to cooking? like normally when the gf and i cook together, they take the lead and i do lowkey stuff and with baking it’s switched. 

like, when we made lesbiagna (lesbian lasagna), i measured things and put things away and got out ingredients, but when we made cookies last night they stirred/poured flour at the rate i decided. 

Rose: Are you currently in love with someone?

i’m fine with being vicariously lived thru so yes!! i am in love with my girlfriend. i think my favorite thing about them is that like, one they’re really calm because i am a fucking nightmare (oh yall think i’m just like this online? false.) two i can always learn from them. 

i never wanted to date someone who was exactly like me, because if i wanted to be by myself i’d choose that, but i didn’t want someone who was different enough that it’d cause a rift in my ability to love them (i.e. political views, stances on declawing, whathaveyou). they’re like...perfectly in that middle. we both have adhd, are nonbinary, and think capitalism is bad, but they’re into different hobbies than i am and love to organize things and sleep a lot more than i do (the bar is low on that last one, though). 

i also think that bc i met them under the circumstances i did (i assumed we’d fuck and then we’d never really talk again), i’ve always been very honest with them. and when it moved into relationship territory, i never felt like i needed to lie to make myself seem better than i was, and so i feel very comfortable around them. most of my life i’ve had to be around people who were/are super draining, and i spent every minute i could locked inside my room because i was emotionally exhausted. with them i don’t feel that. that was prob when i knew i loved them, and that i want this to last for a very long time. the only other person i’d felt that way with is my best friend, who is the best fucking human being on the planet and is my favorite person alive. 

no one else had ever made me feel as loved and accepted as her, yet was willing to tell me when i was being an asshole or needed to do something differently. both of them very naturally took their space in my life and made it something concrete, and i don’t think i could live without either of them. 

floral 🌷 questions

[noorengels]

mannnn i was really invested in the nose ring boy story and i was vicariously living thru u,,,,,, and now i'm actually a tiny bit sad,,,,,

me too bro like today when he was looking at me and i looked at him and he quickly looked away cause i caught him i felt our souls yearn for each other im so sad that’s over😔😔😔😔

[lovlae]

in free people’s sale section there is a shirt called mari baby tee and it’s this beautiful lilac silvery velvet print and I want it SO BAD but they only have XS and S left... get it maya, let me live vicariously thru your tiny lil pixie form

CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but crushed velvet scares me and I hate wearing it mjhkyltkghjkgytlrd;

[unkillability]

posed like phone pics & the context is i run fake rp twitters for my main ocs in my own dumb oc au where they would use twitter/be online in any social capacity bc i think its fun & anyway the event of the month is theyre fostering neonate kittens which im living vicariously thru bc i miss fostering tiny babykiddens & i keep seeing bitches posting abt their quarantine kitten fostering projects & its giving me fever & braindeatbh