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ohhyperbola · 6 months

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john hancock i will defend you with my life

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daily-hanamura · 1 year

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#persona 4 #p4 #persona 4 dancing all night #p4d #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #narukami yu #souyo #GUYS THIS IS PEAK FAMILY DYNAMICS #yosuke looking on like the proud mother/father/brother figure that he is for the team #ok yu says yosuke was muttering it to himself but like fuck man it looks so much like “oh aibou look how big our family has grown”#yosuke really is one half of a parent pair in their friend group and in this essay i will-#NO SERIOUSLY THOUGH he keeps them in line #he lifts morale up he cheers them up he looks out for them he speaks on behalf of yu when yu doesnt want to talk #just you watch i have receipts too #he's good with his queue

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triglycercule · 1 month

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sleep deprived dust can't recognize what's dream and what's real when he goes in and out of consciousness so i think dust is allowed to be incredibly reckless when he's awake but thinks he's in a dream. he will kill whoever passes by him (or attempt to. for him it's an instict to shoot bones anyways.) he will drink 4 bottles of alcohol just because he thinks its just a lucid dream. have incredibly loud conversations with phantom paps because he's asleep so nobody will hear him talk. or just have loud ass breakdowns because again he thinks he's asleep!!! nobody's gonna know what he gets up to in his dreams. and until someone (probably phantom paps) tells him that he's not asleep and this is reality he won't realize until he's done something really reckless

horror is seconds away from exploding dust's skull open with his magic while dust is trying to strangle him and FINALLY phantom paps tells him he's awake and dust snaps out of it. killer is walking around the house with bones sticking out of him like pins on a sewing pattern (casually too. another day in the life for him) and he just asks dust what that was about. dust just gets off of horror and shrugs his shoulders with an idk. and then walks away. this is the 6th time its happened this month

#horror needs to find a way for him to get back at dust for almost killing him #horror IMMEDIATELY booby traps dust's room's door with several fatal traps. and then dust just teleports away to dodge them #horrors incredibly cool bone manipulation power is incredibly underrated. neither dust nor killer can do what he does #when i say people underestimate just how powerful horror is i mean this #he has MANY shows of power where he summons a shitton of bones. or when he's clever and tricky #using tiny bones so his karma can hit the guards more and kill them faster??? GENIUS #granted kist could definitely think of something like that but that doesn't mean horror's a coughing baby #ok back to my original post. i came up with this after doing my little dusttale translation thing #dust is such a fucking asshole during it all istg and i whooped and cheered every time he was a fucking dick #when he doesn't know what to do when in doubt destroy everything you see. what a guy #he'd definitely be a lot smarter than that in real situations but again #he came up with that strategy while he was under the impression that he was in a dream #so i do think this little prick can be quite an unrestrained destructive force when he doesn't know whats real or not #can i just talk more about translated dust because GODDDD he was SO FUCKING COOL IN MAD TIME SERIES I SWEAR #when he plucked floweys petals off him one by one???? and then berated him??? and the nursing home comment??????? fuck i lov him #can you please unspill the spilled blod??? sick ass line. i think he knew from the start he was gonna betray flowey in that one #god i love canon dust so much he's such a sadistic shit. and he likes it. what a freak. HE LIKES IT #the only person he outwardly expressed regret about killing was papyrus. you'd think he'd care more about everyone else but NOPE #or maybe he did in the earlier runs. still doesn't hide from the fact that he was cruel to everyone else. because thats dusttale 4 you #youre on death row and theyve sentenced you to endless torture and then the mtt pulls up #listen man if i were on death row and they were my torturers id let them do whatever. my babies can get back at me for making them suffer #canon horrordust my beloved i love canon horror and dust #idk if killer in this is like totally canon but idc. it's such a funny idea to make him unbothered when he's injured its hilarious #horror and dust's personal little punching bag ✨✨#killer sans #dust sans #horror sans #murder time trio #utmv #tricule hc

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goldenwaves · 1 year

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it's your name in my mouth i'm repeating it's the taste of your tongue i can't spit out

#ok yes i had 2 other pictures i took but the coloring was a pain so ur getting one lol #ts4 #ts4 edit #sims 4 #ocs im gonna post a lot soon :)#sophie #sumire #folie a deux #an in game edit???? we cheer

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revvywevvy · 1 year

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tmw you get isekai'd into tewtow and the toons try to kill you (very bad), buuuut the giant pretty robot lady REALLY likes you and you get a girlfriend out of the whole situation (very good)

gift for @photondoesstuff <3

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heyaritou · 1 year

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Roman Roy's last scene.

Love you forever you little weirdo♥

#Roman Roy #Succession #Succession HBO #Succession season 4 #succession spoilers #I refuse to say I'm gonna miss him bc I can just go and rewatch any episode I want #But god I'll always mourn the fact that I'll never hear new weird sh*t coming out of that mouth ever again #(I'm coping ok?)#THE MARTINI THO #So many feels #Yeah he'll never get over her #And I rejoice #So cheers you little slime puppy🍸#Bc I'll never get over her either #Romangerri

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mekatrio · 3 months

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people saying that despite the misogyny and sexism the trilogy still likes women bc it has compelling and well written women

WHAT WELL WRITTEN WOMEN PLEASE SHOW ME THE WELL WRITTEN WOMEN. WHO THE HELL ARE U TALKING ABOUT

#perhaps its mia who i dont know had everything abt her end up being attributed to godot instead and has no consistent characterization #whatsoever and is consistently sexualized despite being dead; and at the expense of her much younger relatives #or maybe its maya who is 'character who hides her sorrow behind a cheerful facade".. which never gets deconstructed or meaningfully examined #and is put thru So Much Trauma but shes so strong! look at her put up a strong face! ok thats all for her bye #maybe its dahlia and iris who. um. hmm.#franziska is the only well written female main character in the trilogy but u keep seeing ppl say shes badly written merely bc of her #lack of screentime in 2-4 like. brah #but franziska herself is not enough to carry the games treatment of women. the fact that maya is brushed aside in aa3 says everything 😑😑😑

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seaofreverie · 3 months

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Anyway.... Back to what I was pondering earlier today... It's been 4 months but I'm still as deeply obsessed with Exotic Creatures of the Deep as at the very start

#00s sparks albums save me #save me 00s sparks albums #the question of how it's been 4 months already aside #i have decided to name this album my official Mental Breakdown Album TM #so it's a good thing that it doesn't really bring me any unhappy associations. even though it could #because when i started listening to it in early march #it turned out to become one of my lowest periods in the mental well-being sense. like. ever.#it's gotten better though and later i discovered that whenever i got into that slump again #and nothing at all felt like an alluring thing to do and even most music couldn't cheer me up #i still felt like listening to ecotd at least #sometimes you get into specific albums or artists at the exact right moment and this was one of such times for sure #i have so many thoughts about this album but if i tried to write them down #it would probably all just be an illegible mess. one day i'll do it though. or at least try to #as for now i can at least say that the possibly most suffering-inducing (positive) songs for me are strange animal and likeable #i'll never forget the moment i first heard strange animal as part of the from the basement set #what a SONG!!! and that entire performance changed my brain chemistry forever #and. GODDDDDKJHKEFLJMKBELKPJ... LIKEABLE!!!#the connection i feel on some metaphysical level to that song the melody the instrumentation the lyrics #is way beyond what words can explain. or i'm just bad at putting these kind of things into words #it's soooo oooughhggahgh.....#also i don't know exactly how it happened #but i can't believe etc immediately became my most listened to song according to my last fm (which i made around then)#and it has stayed in that spot ever since #ok that's my sparks madness talk for today. i'll probably never be normal about them. not that i even want to #sparks am i right. goddddd #goosepost

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astro-inthestars · 2 years

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Hi guess who feels like he just experienced 8 consecutive days in a matter of 2?

#rennikorambles #holy fuHUCK I AM SO EXHAUSTED. I AM LITERALLY EXHAUSTED #I WOULDNT BE SURPRISED IF I SAY THIS MIGHT BE THE MOST EXHAUSTING TWO DAYS OF MY FUCKING EXISTENCE...#yesterday in class our very first subject was our advisory one and since the cheer dance has been crucial we just went down to practice #great straining start to the day! (i do like our cheer dance though i think we'll beat the other sections but MAN IS IT TIRING.)#and then i had to go over to the avr to get prized and shit for winning 1st place on the spelling bee(it was nothing dont even care abt it)#and then after that immediately had to go down (since this was the end of class) and practice AGAIN for 2 more hours #good god and thats friday for you #and im pretty sure this was when i discovered that my brother (who usually goes home at 4 and my practice ended then)#had left me behind and gone home already. and like usually whenever i have practice and end at 4 we just go home w #*together #but. yeah. that didnt have me feeling good but it was okay #and when i was ready to pass out hoHOH NOO NONO #my aunt decided hey! we should celebrate your wonderful high grades by going out together (me my brother and my cousin) and h #have a sleepover! and we were just. sure ok. so we had to pack IMMEDIATELY and get on going #more stuff and more waiting in traffic happened and shit and more shit #and then we got to the street mall and hogh boy MORE WALKING. but i love the place so i didnt mind (still walking though. haugh)#and then ate at a place ive never eaten at. i liked the food really! but then my stomach decided death for me #(apparently eating dinner 9 hours after lunch isnt good..?) so the rest of the time my stomach was squeezing and i felt like throwing up #but it was fine i didnt throw up! AND THEN ALSO I FAILED TO MENTION. My class paid to reserve 4 hours at a court to practice #which was at 10 am the next day. so i had to sleep early which i did! woke up at 7 <3 watched enola holmes....#bUT I STILL GOT SO FUCKING LATE I ARRIVED AT 11. didnt even get to savor the sleepover haugh..... and then practice OH practice. sufferings #after a whole problem with a bunch of idiots at the court that barged in we decided to cut the practice at 12:30 #i got picked up by my parents then we went home! .BUT ITS NOT OVER YET. WE HAD TO BRING OUR HOUSEHELP TO HER HOUSE #and they said it'd be quick. just a quick drop off to help her.#bUT NOOOOO WE WENT TO THE FILIPINO EQUIVALENT OF COSTCO AND THEN AN AMUSEMENT PARK #WHICH WAS SO COOL OH MY FUCK BUT ALSO HOLY SHIT.#first of all i got to finally try the Vikings ride and a roller coaster! good news i can handle roller coasters!#bad news i cannot handle vikings. theyre.... overwhelming- i couldnt even SCREAM from how scared i was #anyways i roamed phil costco it was so fun. but my poor feet. i have sustained 5 different kinds of body pain.

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twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat · 10 months

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me every time i see ari getting love for any of their writings 🥺🫶🏻🥹

literally me every time sel appears on my dash

#u r the sweetest . sniffle 😥😥🥺#i hope col 4 is going ok sel!!!!! im jumping up n down w pompoms cheering u on <3 #ask tag ✩

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moonfromearth · 2 years

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Checking out the latest trends...

Willow: And I can afford.. None of these. Cool.

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advisorsage · 1 month

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also your art is cool af

I'm gonna answer all three of your asks in this one if that's OK just cause I don't want to direct anyone to the post you sent the asks because of. It was a late night vent post and I probably shouldn't have posted it but I did so thank you for what you've said. I'm going to hold on to your other two asks for a bit. And I'm glad you like my art. I probably should draw more or post some old stuff just to pass the time.

#I'm not fully OK mentally from last night but i think i slept a tiny bit so that helped #and I'm going to talk to my therapist today so that should help too #and i have a date planned with someone i like so hopefully that will cheer me up #i stayed awake way too late (4:30 am) after a really bad day so yeah #but uh if you're reading the tags maybe check out my commission post?#it has the best examples of my art #i know it's weird to be talking about my mental health on this ask but it's part of a series and I'm keeping the other ones #i think this is the same anon that sent me nice messages over the weekend but i can't be sure

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wild-at-mind · 11 months

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Seeing some posts on my dash that are kind of in the wheelhouse of the stuff I was just posting about. I really like their posts normally and I don't want to unfollow but :/.

#it's a certian kind of rhetoric #like honestly i don't talk about this but i got kind of a bit...radicalised into some antisemitic beliefs at one point in about 2016 #because i didn't know what i was talking about or understand how antisemitism works #a lot of this makes me think of a horrible murder case in the uk that caused an outpourting of right wing radicalisation #lee rigby was a white soldier who was off-duty when he was attacked and killed by two British Nigerians who claimed #to be avenging Muslims kill by the British army.#i mention this because it's long enough ago to not be super fresh and raw in people's minds #and because it makes me think many things at once and none of them contradict each other.#1. this murder was from day 1 basically tailor-made to incite far right hatred and that is terrifying to all Muslims in Britain #and all black Brits too.#2. Lee was a human being and did not deserve to die #3. a lot of the valorising of Lee as a person focuses on his position in the army fighting for queen and country and help for our heroes #and as someone who does not like the armed forces and is anti-war i find this rhetoric troubling and likely to become very jingoistic #4. Lee's mother had to go to the press MULTIPLE TIMES asking people to please please PLEASE not taint the memory of her beloved son #by using what happened to him to incite hatred of Muslims even more than what was already happening in the UK at that time #Ok list over now with all of that do you think that anyone at all who claimed that Lee's attack was some kind of justified revenge #would have been helping the cause of Muslims at all? ESPECIALLY if it came from a white British non-Muslim lefty type??#If you said this do you think a Muslim terrified of being attacked in 'revenge' for Lee would have cheered you on?#Or would they have wanted you to stop deliberately making tensions worse??#ETA i realised i never returned to the point about me being radicalised- i had to do better and i hope i have fully moved away from that.#the thing is saying that it's wrong for you to be asked to mourn for the terrorism victims in Israel is kinda right #for the same reason no one should have been forced to perform grief for lee rigby to seem virtuous #but also it's your duty especially if you are someone without any ties to Israel or Palestine #to not make tensions worse at a time when they are incredibly inflamed already

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fixomnia-scribble · 2 years

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Scientists are very serious.

This is a post about science. And soup.

Dr. Elinne Becket, a microbiologist from Cal State University, is in the middle of one of those Fridge Experiments that happens to us all - except in this case, she is uniquely placed to unravel the science down to the microbial level.

While cleaning out her fridge, Dr. Becket found that a tub of family-recipe beef vegetable soup had turned bright blue. “Ok I'm outing myself here,” she tweeted, “but there was forgotten beef soup in our fridge we just cleaned it out and it was BLUE?!?!? Wtf contam would make it blue??? Like BRIGHT blue!! Even w/ all my years in micro I'm not handling this well.“

Read on for a breathless and ongoing saga of Soup and Science, and the wonderful international community that is Academic Twitter.

Academic Twitter quickly reminded her of her Responsibilities to Scientific Inquiry. (Cue the chanting from around the world of “CLONE THE SOUP! CLONE THE SOUP!”)

“I can’t believe y’all talked me into going back into the trash.” she tweeted in response, over a photo of a puddle of beautiful Mediterranean-sea blue soup in the trash bin, with bits of veg and noodles arising from the depths.

Scientists being scientists, Dr. Becket agreed to take a sample and send it to colleagues for cloning and microbial analysis.This involved getting arms-deep into the trash bin of Old Soup. “I’m never forviging @ATinyGreenCell (genomic biologist Sebastian Cocioba) for this.” Dr. Becket tweeted, with a photo of a properly dipped and snipped and VERY blue q-tip in a small clear plastic tub.

Diving into decomposing soup was not the only hazard. She writes: “My mom (who made the soup for my birthday) came across this thread and now 1) I have to answer for letting her soup spoil and 2) she's worried @ATinyGreenCell will figure out her secret recipe.“

Dr. Becket and Sebastian were able to culture the Blue Goo!

Becket posted a photo of three petri plates of streaked beef bouillon agar at 72 hours incubation, at 37C, room temp and 4C. She writes: “Left the plates where they were for another 2 days, except the 37°C one was brought to RT, which then grew white stuff over the yellow stuff and stinks to high heaven. RT looked the same. 4°C had impressive growth. Restreaked them all onto TECH agar, awaiting results!”

Sebastian, from his lab, tweeted a photo of three more covered petri dishes, with early results: “Great progress on isolating the glowy microbe from our #BlueSoup! It's so fluorescent the streak is GREEN. Still needs another restreak as it seems there is a straggler but should clear up in the next plate. Exciting!”

Then yesterday, Sebastian tweeted out an updated photo of his plates under daylight and blacklight. “Whatever grew on the #BlueSoup colony plates overnight glows under UV, but only on King's Agar B! That particular media is used to tease out fluorescein expression in pseudomonads. What are the chances that the same cell line expresses fluorescent AND blue pigments?“

“Looking closer, there definitely is a handful of different microbes showing distinct phenotypes. Could be that the blue producer and the fluorescent microbes are totally different microbes!”

At which point, Professor Cynthia Whitchurch of Norwich, England, responded: “Consistent with P. fluorescens being at least part of the #BlueSoup community. The fluorescence is due to production of the siderophore pyoverdine which is up-regulated when iron availability is limited. P. aeruginosa produced this too but my guess is you have blue Pf.”

And Australian agricultural researcher @WAJWebster helpfully tweeted a petri dish of ALL KINDS of colourful bacterial colonies from white to yellow to orange to stark black, with a cheerful: “You need bact-o--colours? I got you, fam.”

The best part is that as of today, March 9, 2023, THE BLUE SOUP MYSTERY CONTINUES. WE ARE WATCHING SCIENCE HAPPENING!

A paper is being written. And Dr. Becket’s mum is getting an author credit as the proprietary owner of the #BlueSoup recipe.

Dr. Becket’s Twitter is here: https://twitter.com/bielleogy

Sebastian Cocioba’s Twitter is here: https://twitter.com/ATinyGreenCell

Fun IFLS story is here: https://www.iflscience.com/microbiologist-investigates-after-her-beef-soup-turned-blue-in-the-freezer-67894?fbclid=IwAR0H27KqVZhzzrosnjzzKkxuKASZ-0L0Lt6hGwCRDJK8xvFbbSlyS4JvwlM

#soup #science #science twitter #academic twitter #fridge experiments #bluesoup

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planetary · 1 year

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25 SHOCKING TRUTHS ABOUT YOUR FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TV SHOWS😱

1. POKEMON - ash is in a coma and the show is he's dreaming

2. RUGRATS - the babies are on drugs

3. edd edd eddy - they died in 1962 (tuberculosis)

4. scoopy doo - theyre on drugs too and the dog cant really talk :(

5. rugrats - angela is in a coma and the show is her dream

6. spongbob - songebob is in a coma and the show is his dream

7. spongebob - spongebob and his friends are the christian hell sins

8. spoinegbob - squidward is heroin?

9. COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG - it was real it was all real none of that was a dream or a nightmare everything you remember is real

10. rugarts - angela is on drugs and all the other ones are dead

11. jimmy neutraon - jimmy is weird because he is gay

12. fairly oddparsnts - timmy is in a coma and the show is his dream

13. spongebob - sandy is taxidermy

14. higgly town heroes - higgly town is all cannibals and they eat other people and thats why they do that . how could they do that..? my heroes..

15. max & ruby - they are bunny rabbits and thast because thrre was. an apocalypse and max is a real human little boy but there was an apocalypse and his parents died and he's with ruby but he got hit on the head with a steel pipe because of the apocalypse so now he's in a coma and the show is his dream

16. disney aladdin movie - the tiger head cave is really really scary

17. danny phantom died - this one really happened they tell you in the theme song and you can see it happen in blood and gorey detail if you watch that one scary episode that only comes on at 3am. does anyone else remember that episode

18. dora the explorer - dora is on crack

19. faaiely odd parents - the fairies are drugs and timmy takes drugs and maybe goes into a coma for this reason and maybe has a dream that they're his magic fairies

20. caillou - hes bald. this theoru explains that cailiu has no hair because he is bald. and perhaps his parents are nice to him because he is bald. this could also explain why he has no hair (because hes bald)

21. courage the cowarsly dog - courage is a dog and he's in a coma and

22. the magic schoolbus - its magic because the bus was on drugs and then it blew up (becasue it was high) and they all went to purgatory and clones took their place

23. tom and jerry - tom should have been allowed to cook and eat that baby chick. and its fucked up that the show didnt allow him to. me and my friends watched it and we were all clapping and cheering for him to cook and eat it and we were so excited but of course the writers pussied out and didnt let him do it

24. finding nemo - that thing in the beginning didnt even happen but the dad made that story up so people would feel bad for him

25. sponegbob - in the latest season patrick says "Ok boomer!" to mermaid man and barancle boy

CHILDHOOD = RUINED 😫

#roscoe read this out loud and it was funny. he said i should post it #unreality #chatter🦋#coma tw #coma #drug mention #family death

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mischievousmoony · 1 month

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hi, ok i have another idea for a fic which again totally up to you to write!! but i had an idea with dad!james and r where their kid is like equally obsessed with their mum as james is with r and one day james decides to prank their kid by saying something bad about the r while their kid is present and the baby just goes off. i feel like you would do an amazing job with this! feel free to ignore too. have a perfectly splendid day!!

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"the baby just goes off" painted a hilarious picture of an infant yelling at his dad in my mind lmao. ty for the request this warmed my heart to write + special thanks to @moonpascal for chatting a little about kids, gave me the reassurance & inspiration i needed

𝚋𝚞𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚔𝚜

⟢ dad!james potter x fem!reader ⊹ 1.1k ⟢ warnings/tags: fluff, dad/husband!james, mom/wife!reader, no use of y/n, no name for the son, idk how to write a child's dialogue tbh son's supposed to sound 4 years old

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James gladly goes out of his way to mention to anyone who will listen that his little one is unmistakably a Mummy's boy. From family to friends to the poor souls who bag his groceries, James will talk the ear off of anyone he can.

He finds it to be the most endearing thing in the world— the way that your son is as obsessed with you as James is. Always staying close and clinging to you, touching affection radiating from every hug and smile.

Today, as he watches his son run back and forth across the carpet, handing his mother block after block just to see her face light up after each gift, his awe and admiration are insurmountable.

Last night, James surprised you with a pair of earrings that you have been wishing for. When your face lit up upon receiving the little leatherette box, so did your son's. He didn't quite understand why you were so excited about some cube, but since then he's been trying to replicate your excitement with presents of his own.

"Oh my! Another one! Thank you, buddy," you beam, you're gratefulness and delight unwavering as he hands you the sixth block.

Your son giggles, bouncing in his spot as you inspect each side of the little wooden toy, telling him how much you adore the blue penguin painted on one of its faces.

That's another thing that touches James' heart: the tender nurture and care that you bestow upon your son with such unwavering devotion and warmth. It has James convinced that you must be the best mum in the entire world.

He might just melt at the sight of you now, kneeling happily in front of a growing pile of blocks as your son scurries back and forth, adding to your collection. James sits cross-legged to your right, resting his elbow on his knee and laying his head in his hand, watching the two he loves most in the world with hearts in his eyes.

You gasp, as if surprised when handed block number seven. "Oh, this is my favorite one yet. How did you know I love zebras?" you ask, your thumb tracing over the red acrylic paint on the side of the block.

By the time you have twelve, nearly half of his collection, you say, "I have a lot of blocks here, buddy, do you want to give some to Daddy?"

"No!" your son protests immediately, running off to his toy box for the thirteenth time.

You and James both chuckle, exchanging amused glances. Finding your son's reaction hilarious, James’s mischievous side has him dreaming up new ways to push his buttons. Your son thinks the world of you, and James is curious to see what the little guy will do if he claims otherwise.

"Well, what am I gonna do with all of this? Should I..."

You leave your son in suspense for a moment, and his hands hover over his toy box as looks at you, hanging onto your every word in anticipation.

"...build a castle!?"

“Yeah!” your son cheers, scooping three more blocks into his arms, thrilled to supply the bricks for your castle.

James nudges you, a sign of his upcoming playfulness. “You sure about that, bud? Mummy is absolutely rotten at building castles.”

Halfway across the carpet, your son stops in his tracks, glaring at his father as he tries to keep his blocks from falling out of his arms.

Stifling a laugh, you press your fingertips to your lips. By now, you’re used to James’ bursts of mischief, and you’re more than happy to sit back and let them play out. Unless you’re an active participant, of course.

You muster up a scandalized gasp as he reaches for your mountain of presents, claiming three blocks in one hand.

“No!” your little one complains, rushing to drop his three in your lap to replace the ones that James stole, “those are Mummy’s!”

“You sure Mummy deserves all these blocks?” James asks, starting to stack them into a tower, “You watch, I’ll build a castle that’ll make her’s look like rubbish.”

Your son hastily makes his way over to his dad, both arms extended as he collides with the tower and sends the blocks flying. "Stop it," he says as he scoops up the nearest block and runs it back over to you, shouting, "Mummy's castles are the best!"

He climbs into your lap, clutching onto the toy tightly as one of your arms wraps around him, and you feel your heart start to melt as you rub soothing circles into his back. You look over your son's head, your eyes sparkling with affection as you meet your husband's tender gaze.

Not having the heart to mess with him for very long, James concedes, "You're right, I'm not being very nice, am I?"

"Nuh-uh!" your son replies, shaking his head with exaggeratedly vigor, the curls he gets from his dad bouncing about.

"What can I do to make it up to her?" James asks, turning the ordeal into a subtle lesson as he dramatically feigns sorrow and despair over his actions.

"'Pologize," your son commands, his head swiveling to look at James expectantly over his shoulder.

James puts on his most sheepish, apologetic smile, looking from his son to you. "I'm very sorry. He's right, your castles are the best. Can you forgive me, love?"

"Aw, of course I forgive you," you say warmly, your amusement manifesting as a wide smile. You lean back so you can get a good view of your son's face when you tell him, "You know, I bet what Daddy really wants is to build a castle with us. I love your presents, bud, but we don't want to leave Daddy out do we?"

He looks down at the block in his little hand. "No," he replies shyly.

"So why don't you ask him to build a castle with us?" You give him a pat on the back before releasing him from your arms. "Go on," you coax.

He steps closer to James, holding the block close to his chest. "We can all build a castle," he offers.

"Yeah?" James' face lights up, and it's not for show. Genuine joy takes over his features as he ruffles your son's hair, responding, "I'd love nothing more, little man."

"But you have to be nice to Mummy!" he demands, his little voice firm and earnest as he looks up at James with wide, serious eyes.

"I promise, I will be on my best behavior," James assures him, his voice sincere as he gives a playful salute. That's enough for your son, because he finally awards James with his very first block, which he accepts with pride.

"Good!" your son cheers, already moving on to the pile of blocks to start stacking them as he proclaims, "Mummy is the best, and we have to show it!"

Your lips part as you suck in a breath, a quiet gasp. Receiving your son's affection never fails to make your heart swell.

You don't feel James' eyes on you, but he's watching— admiring, more like, as he takes in the way that you soften at your son's sweet words. A smitten smile plays at his lips as he agrees, "She is the best, isn't she?"

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