#oh well do as i say not as i do lol

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Whumpuary Day 19

Whumpuary Masterpost

Prompts List

Prompts: "let them go" | overworked | headache

Fandom: Stardew Valley

Words: 500

Tag List: (message me to be added or removed) @fourwingedsnake @whumperofworlds @pigeonwhumps @mr-orion @scaewolf

@the-ellia-west

CW: insomnia, worry

A/N: Finally dipping my toes into Stardew Valley fanfiction and got myself the fluffiest piece of whump I can conceive of

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"What are you doing still up?"

"What are you doing still up?"

We stared at each other for a long moment, Sebastian lit by the blue of his computer, myself lit by the gold of my glow ring.

"It's one in the morning," I finally said, fully conscious of the watering can still clutched in my hand.

He raised an eyebrow. "I was working, same as you."

"We talked about this---"

"Says the one who stays out until almost two in the morning doing the season's planting. This happens every season, Rose."

I sighed heavily through my nose, letting the watering can fall to the floor with a hollow thump. "Yeah, you got a point there."

Sebastian winced at the sound, but no water spilled out. I had made it a habit of emptying it over the flowers near the bee houses behind the house the month after we got married. Before, I always left the watering can---and my other tools---next to my bed so I could grab them and start working as soon as I got up. That stopped pretty quickly after he tripped over it.

"And you always get up at six in the morning no matter what," he continued, "even after falling into bed and passing out from sheer exhaustion in moments. You can't run on four hours of sleep, Rose."

"Four hours of sleep and a Triple Shot Espresso," I corrected.

"Rose...."

I held up both hands in mock surrender. "All right, all right, I get your point. I stop the late nights if you stop."

He regarded me for a moment before nodding. Reaching for his computer mouse, he quickly saved and backed up his work before turning off the computer. Now the only light came from my glow ring as he stood and crossed the office until we stood face to face.

"You know," he said softly, "the only reason I stay up is so I know you got home safely, right?"

I nodded.

He chuckled softly. "I guess I don't need to tell you that, huh? It's just... I know the valley is usually safe, but weird things still happen, y'know? We've both seen the caves. That random green rain that showed up the summer you moved here. Hell, there's literally a wizard living in the woods south of here."

"You know I can handle myself, right?" I reminded him, putting my hand on the hilt of my sword. It was a beautiful thing, carved entirely out of obsidian, a sharp, deadly weapon. Many a monster had died by this blade, found deep within the mountain caves.

And yet, according to Marlon, stronger blades existed still, should I look in the right place. Or something to that nature. The adventurer wasn't nearly as cryptic as the wizard, but he came pretty close sometimes.

Sebastian exhaled slowly. "I know. Doesn't mean I still don't worry."

I grinned and punched him playfully in the shoulder. "And we always have Harvey."

Sebastian closed his eyes. "I'm going to bed now."

He walked past me into the bedroom. I trailed after him, still giggling.

[sadagios]

double victory, was it? (it doesn't feel like one)

i saw a post about 3L!Grian meeting SL!Scar, but since SL!scar never died i figured he can't see any of the winners nor join them before the next session, and they appear before him as shadows. also, i thought 3L!Grian would be really happy to see a scenario where scar didnt die by his hand and actually won.

❀ bonus sketch ☘

[wasabi-gumdrop]

Kabru has a secret admirer in the castle!

[chatlote]

Just because you don't love yourself it doesn't mean I will stop loving you.

[noornight]

Long distance besties. This definitely happened after the third movie (source: trust me bro)

Based on this

[theabigailthorn]

"Good" Acting

i have a theory that a lot of people say acting is "good" when they're emotionally moved by it, and a lot of cishet white people have a lifelong habit of not listening or empathising when minoritised people speak, so minority actors get called "bad" even when they display some pretty fucking amazing technical skill

[vaguely-concerned]

the strength it must have taken for illario to not immediately go full 'lmao since when have you even had a kiss hello lucanis' sibling violence mode during the café talk. inspirational. rook and lucanis really were doing all that right in front of his salad huh

[bilaudad]

wing stuff!

experimenting with a more cartoon style, idk what i'm doing loll

tagging: @goodomensafterdark <3

[qualityrain]

why are they batshit insane

[puppppppppy]

my attempt at making a fursona

[captainharlock]

took too long to crosspost all my xb1 x xb3 ortiz/shiora extended family content and now i just have a giant compilation for you all. if its not already observable the family tree i imagine in my head here is as follows:

thanks that's all

[biblically-accurate-dca]

first meetings (bonus panel under the cut!!)

i didnt wanna add it to the main post bc it's a different size and it would mess up the format lmaooo

i think about these two a lot i think they could be really fun together in several ways. monty golf is right next to the daycare after all!!

[sparxyv]

quick nosebleed seb doodle 😗😗

[starrysharks]

winter assassin outfit

[yuwuta]

gojo would kill your work husband. but if he were the work husband, that's a different story

REAL!! he’s such a hypocrite because if someone mentioned you had a work husband, his entire world would stop and he wold devise the absolute worst plans to make sure that your co-worker, everyone at your job, and everyone in the next building over knew that he was happily committed to you 

but if he is the work husband, he’s very........ dutiful in his role. there’s a loose office/lawyer au in my head where satoru is your secretary, and for all intents and purposes, your personal assistant, and he’s good at his job, but mostly because he considers his job to be pleasing you. he has coffee for you when you arrive, he moves your schedule around without you asking, he has answers to questions before you can even ask them, he has fresh flowers on your desk weekly, pokes into your meetings to pretend to hand you a file that’s really just maybe a single document in a manilla folder with candy on top of it—he’s made himself your business, your partner; he’s made himself irreplaceable, and he loves to remind everybody of that fact. 

he’s also extremely loyal. sure, he could day a week’s worth of work done in about a day, but that doesn’t mean he’ll just use his talents for anybody. he’s your secretary, so he’s at your beck and call, and everyone knows it. they know he’s the best, but also that he’s off limits—not because you won’t share him, but because satoru won’t let himself be shared. 

he also extends his duties beyond work, of course. when he hands you a print out of your schedule for the day and you’re confused by the three-hour block of time you have in the middle of the day, satoru just helps you shrug your coat of your shoulders and smiles, “that’s for the lunch date you have with me, of course!” hanging up your coat in your closet for you, “i’m paying, see you soon, sweets.” and because you’re great at your job, and satoru helps you be great, nobody really questions when the two of you have time for a 13-course tasting menu at 1pm on a tuesday afternoon. and if they did, all satoru would say that you two had a lovely date 

[poetglasses]

In Defense of Jacks in ACFTL

I do have spoilers, so this is your warning not to venture further if you haven't finished reading.

First off, I love how the story was told and how it ended. Could we have gotten more of the other characters? Yes. Did we really need to? Maybe, but I certainly didn't mind the absence. I didn't think we needed to address every character that we've met. We saw Castor and Lala, and I was happy about it, but I was strictly here for Evajacks story, and that's what I got.

I think Eva and Jacks had character development in this novel.

Eva isn't as trusting and hopeful as she was in the previous two books, and I was happy about it! Girl was getting murder attempted on her, and her husband is a narcissistic, manipulative psychopath. The only people she could trust were 1) being kept away from her or 2) avoiding her because they thought they were doing the best thing for her if they did so *cough* jacks

Jacks watched the girl he loved die! He blamed himself for what happened to Eva, and then continued staying away because he felt guilty and thought he was keeping her safe in doing so. He didn't know Apollo took Eva's memories away. He was too busy making sure Castor didn't go within 10 feet of Eva because Castor did attack Jacks after he went back in time to save her! He was still around Eva, he was just hiding in the shadows or out in the balcony peering through the windows. He genuinely thought Apollo was the better choice for Eva because at least Apollo hadn't done anything to her (as far as he knew).

Jacks apologized to her under the phoenix tree, saying that when he went back in time, he thought the stones would have taken something from him, not Eva, or are we all ignoring that because of that beautiful love confession Eva gave? He wanted our girl to live! When Eva met Castor in the Cursed Forest, Jacks literally put a knife through his best friend's chest in fear of having a repeat of the first timeline! Castor wasn't even doing anything, he was just trying to have a conversation with her.

Jacks was the tortured lover we all knew him to be. He wasn't Jacks, Prince of Hearts, with a trail of deadly kisses in search of true love in this novel. He was Jacks of the Hollow, a man who loved his girl so much he wanted her to live instead of dying at his kiss. We all know how badly Eva wanted to kiss him, and we all know Jacks can hear her thoughts. Can we blame him for staying away? He literally said that if she died again, he could not bring her back. The idea of that was terrifying to him. He already used the stones, and going to Honora would have the possibility of turning her into a vampire, maybe worse.

Jacks felt different in this novel because he finally admitted how much he loves Eva. We've seen him do so many things for her throughout the series. Was he holding back in the other two books? I'd argue not really, but he certainly wasn't going to let her be with him. He didn't want to admit he was in love with her. Dude literally held her like a grudge in the first novel, a secret in the second novel, and then a promise in the third. The hints were there for us. He would literally do anything for her. He just didn't want to admit to himself he loved her because if he allowed himself to there was the possibility that she could die.

Does Eva die in this book? No, thank god. But don't act like you read their kiss scene and didn't fucking break a little when Jacks went "No! Not again".