#man is so in love

[sharlleglerg]

[sweetbrier2908]

soft domestic stuff | bringing home flowers (prompt by @/creativepromptsforwriting on Tumblr)

- lucifer & gn!mc (could be read as platonic/ romantic)

- fluff cute little story

- lucifer acts like a hopeless romantic

- no proofread

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you are doing your homework, and there is a knock on your door. you look up just to see the clock has striked midnight, it's already a new day. a name and a familiar face appear in your head, he's the only one who politely knocks on your door at this hour. you wonder if you should open this damn door (he's gonna let himself in no matter what, you know for sure, your light is on, and he's the one who pays the electricity bill), or maybe you should pretend that you were wearning your headphone and the music inside your ear was real loud so you couldn't hear a thing, or maybe you should pretend to be asleep (again, he's gonna let himself in; in the end, he needs to turn off the damn fucking light because of the electricity bill and not because he knows you don't have a habit of having the lights on so you always turn all your lights off before you go to bed and if you don't, the lights will wake you and he doesn't want that to happen). you lost in your thought before a you hear someone (the one on the other side of the door) called your name: "mc, are you awake? i see you don't turn off your light" and you reply: "i'm coming". you quickly approach the door and open it, and before lucifer speaks something you take the chance: "listen. i know i promise to not stay up late in week days but tomorrow there is a test and i know that you told me don't study in the last minute but but there are just too much. please let me pull the last all-nighter and i pro-"

"mc, calm down. it's fine". you look up and there he is, signing, like he is so done with all the times you pull an all-nighter ("do you remember that you're a human?") the avatar of pride, the mighty first-born of the family of seven (or whatever people call him), he's still in his uniform (man just got home), his hair looks messy than it normally does, and he smells like all the paperworks he has dealt with and he's holding a small bouquet- a small bouquet, totally normal- a what? you stared at his cute little bouquet made from little tiny glowing white flowers - a kind of flower that you've seen before, and he stares at you with his weary eyes. he gives you the bouquet and you receive it while still staring at it in disbelief. so this is why lucifer showed up at your door at midnight on a normal tuesday, so he can give you this little bouquet which-

"i saw it on my way home. this kind of flower only blooms at night so i think you've never seen them before and i think you want to have some-"

"thank you", you interrupt him with a bright smile. suddenly, you don't feel tired anymore. you look at the flowers, which is glowing like they has been casted with magic. lucifer picked it for you. lucifer gifted it to you. sometimes, you realize, he's kind of romantic, and sometimes he does all the things that normal lucifer will call "silly": like picking up flowers and giving them to the one he loves at the middle of the night because those flowers can't last to the morning. "thank you" you repeate, "i'm gonna spend all night looking at it".

"no, don't. it's my responsibility if you fail the test, so please wrap up your study session and go to bed." he dryly says "i can't believe you stay up this late. you are a human, you remember? your body can't take that many all-nighters. what if you get sick and-"

this time, a sound of a growling stomach interrupts lucifer's speech. you slowly looks up to his blushing cheeks and you chuckle, "so you skipped dinner? am i right?". see, now he's the guilty one. you step out of your room and pull his arm, "hey lucifer, let me whip something right up for you as thanks for those flowers, okay? and you're not allow to say no!"

[swedenis-h]

Wife lovers till they die

[yujateaandpi]

y’all just— thinking about how excited Stanley must have been to host the twins— Alex says he smokes cigars but he doesn’t smoke once in the show— has a beer gut but he only drinks sodas in front of the kids— doesn’t swear when they’re around which must have taken INCREDIBLE effort— Stanley Pines, known crook, buying pancake mix at the supermarket and many bottles of syrup— learning to cook basic healthy meals and burning so many of them before he gets it right— buying new sheets, new mattresses— avoiding bunk beds because it reminds him of Ford— looking at the attic room he made wondering “is this enough will they like me”— trying to act aloof at the bus stop so he doesn’t betray the fact that he was there hours early— watching them goof around and thinking of New Jersey beaches— then the first night they’re there, he watches them debate running away and only stay because Mabel shook a magic 8 ball. That must have kept him awake all night.

[rambling-robot]

crazy that gravity falls was like, hey what if we made twin brothers, and one of them is the worse one. he gets bad grades, he likes to punch his problems, everyone thinks of him as “the other one.” he’s engulfed in a shadow that’s shaped like him. he doesn’t even have his own name—it’s derived of his brother’s name, the only one his parents planned on having and using. everything about him is derivative—imitative of another person (his twin brother) (the one everyone likes and wants) and is disapproved of for that reason (he isn’t just “bad at this thing,” he’s “not as good as his brother”). and then he ruins his brother’s science fair project (the one next to his own—no one noticed it because it’s not good, it’s almost stupid next to a “perpetual motion machine” made by a high schooler) (he tried to fix it) (he doesn’t know how; he’s not as smart as the guy who made it) and he gets kicked out. the potential of the money his twin could’ve made is enough to throw him onto the street, and he can’t go home until he makes that money back (the money that was never gained and therefore was never lost. he never had a chance of making enough). he took every job he could (his brother went to school). he got banned from multiple states (his brother bought a house). he traveled internationally and went to prison and had people try to hunt him down and kill him because he couldn’t make enough money (his brother’s house has three basements. he made them himself, as secure as can be). and when his twin finally summons him for help, things go wrong (he messed up this machine like the last one) (he doesn’t know how to fix it. he isn’t as smart as the guy who made it) (he tries to fix it) (he was never any good at reading and these blueprints are impossible, coded and fragmented and in a science that he didn’t know existed) (he tries to fix it). the townspeople ask who he is, and he doesn’t even say his own name (it was hardly his to begin with). and he invites them to a house that isn’t his to show off experiments that aren’t his because he needs to make money that can’t be his. everything he does for the next 30 years is in his twin’s name, for his twin’s sake. he had two funerals for himself and it isn’t even his body in the casket; he had to wear his brother’s name to both of them. if he had died before he fixed the portal, that funeral wouldn’t have been for him. we meet him as a funny and unique character, but in-universe, he’s only ever been defined by someone else.

and then they went, this is entirely in the background btw. most of that is going to be revealed in one episode and won’t be addressed again. he’s a primary comic relief, even. I’m ill about this.

[qiinamii]

one braincell transfer (divided by four)

[morganmnemonic]

I'm thinking of kris repeating berdly's name in shock when you try to tell ralsei that you are going to the festival with berdly of all people. Thinking about the conversations we only get to hear half of, where kris presumably tells ralsei and susie that ralsei and asriel don't look that much alike. Thinking about all the times where kris changes the prompt we give them into something that they'd prefer to say.

Kris talks. They chatter, even, but we as the player don't get to hear it. They don't get a text box. We only ever know that they spoke at all from the reactions of other characters, and even then, we rarely know exactly what was said.

And part of this is that whoever the deltarune narrator is seems intent to pretending like kris doesn't exist. You check the mirror, and it says, "it's only you". Kris plays the piano and it says, "your hands begin moving on their own." If kris speaks without your permission, the narration doesn't acknowledge it at all, committed to the lie that kris doesn't exist beyond their role as our vessel. But that's not what this post is about.

This post is about how it's entirely possible that kris has tried to talk to us when no one else is around. They could have tried to tell us their plan, or begged us not to make certain decisions, or explained that we don't actually need to steal asriel's 5 dollars because they have a piggy bank buried in the front yard. Kris could be asking us questions, or asking us not to look for the bunker password because they have a plan and we should trust them, or asking us to let them sleep a bit longer, and we the soul just carry on the same regardless, their one-sided monologue falling on deaf ears. We would never even know, because of how thoroughly the narrative of deltarune has denied kris a voice.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

You're just not toxic enough.

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

It's always so weird to come down from the biology heavens to see what the average person believes about animals, plants, ecosystems, just the world around them. I don't even mean things that one simply doesn't know because they've never been told or things that are confusing, I'm talking about people who genuinely do not see insects as animals. What are you saying. Every time I see a crawling or fluttering little guy I know that little guy has motivations and drive to fulfill those motivations. There are gears turning in their head! They are perceiving this world and they are drawing conclusions, they are conscious. And yet it's still a whole thing if various bugs of the world feel pain or if they are simply Instinct Machines that are Not Truly Aware of Anything At All????? Help!!!!!! How can you look at a little guy and think he is just the macroscopic animal version of a virus

[shrimpyjackal]

more flustered tenna...perhaps...if i may request...such a rare treat...

P I N K

part 2

[kendyroy]

“They gave me runway in this film. There’s one monologue in there. I can’t tell you the details of it. I say more words in that monologue than I said in an entire movie once as Wolverine. But there are sides of the character that I’ve been scratching at for 24 years […] There is stuff in this movie where I was like, ‘This is the thing I’ve been trying to get out’ and I feel so excited about it.”

— Hugh Jackman talking about Logan in Deadpool & Wolverine (x)

[thephantomsdream]

Soap: What did you do on break, Lt?

Ghost: Rode my bike and slept in an alleyway behind a bar.

Gaz: Checks out... (leaves the room)

Ghost: ...

Ghost: Want to know what I really did?

Soap: (immediately interested)

Soap: Yeah!

Ghost: (pulls out his phone)

Ghost: (shows picture of him having someone cuddled up next to him, both under a blanket, two switches in hand, both on the Stardew Valley logo screen)

Soap: (his smile falls immediately)

Soap: Wh—

Ghost: I played Stardew Valley with the missus.

Soap: The mi—?!

Ghost: Planted crops, went to the mines...

Ghost: (swipes through more pictures of them playing)

Soap: (stunned silence)

Ghost: Upgraded the house for the missus, made some town friends... (screenshots of more gameplay)

Soap: Wait—

Ghost: Even fishing. (shows a picture of him catching a legendary fish)

Ghost: The missus doesn't like fishing. (clicks his tongue) Caught them all though. (nods to himself)

Ghost: (smirks) Want to know why I'm telling you this?

Soap: (still stunned, but nods)

Ghost: Because nobody will believe you.

Ghost: (starts deleting all pictures in front of Soap)

Soap: (pained gasp)

Soap: Ye monster.

[museofvoid]

Not to like be too enamoured with celebrities but Stellan Skarsgård really is some kind of nationall treasure

x

[scurvyboy]

and he may ask himself "well, how did i get here?"

[kensatou]

make men slutty again.

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