#otp: darling dear

[valiantgentle]

mara el-masri + jonathan carnahan.

Today marks six months we’ve been married. I know how I’m feeling. How are you feeling, Mrs. Carnahan? How am I feeling? Like six months ago I married…the most wonderful man in the world. He’s handsome…funny… And when he looks at me I think I might melt. Really? Mhm. Are you going to tell me how you’re feeling, Mr. Carnahan? Like I found a treasure more important to me than anything we found at Hamunaptra. And like I still can’t believe I’m married to the world’s smartest, kindest, most beautiful woman. Well, I think you should start believing it, because this is going to be forever. I don’t think forever is long enough.               —  ( the breezes whisper, chapter thirty-one. )

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[flowersofstarlight]

Happy Pride Month, Neighbors! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈✨

[iliketodrawstuffilike]

Be honest. Who do you and would you ✨💖ship💖✨ in this AU? I just wanna know!🥰✨

If you want to know more about this AU for your answer, check the “simple little stories au” tag!😊✨

[kazoosandfannypacks]

"bread newly baked, butter fresh from the churn, boiled eggs, and ham."

"well then, aren't you the clever girl?"

SEAN CONNERY & JANET MUNRO in DARBY O'GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE (1959)

[akai-anna]

My gosh, I've been down a nostalgia rabbit hole and been going back to knb and nijiaka and noticed that you were still active. You've given me and other nijiakas precious memories, bless you and hope you have a lovely day!

For once, my timing was just right: coming home to see this precious ask and have the time to answer it. Today is blessed.

NijiAka is still in my heart, so utterly precious, NijiAka has become part of my soul, altered my life in many ways, and to this day I still reread my favourite fics (some of which I would love to rec or talk about TONS) and stare at my favourite pieces of art and follow my favourite Japanese artists and doujinka, still hunt for merch so I can add it to my collection, and think of them regularly.

I would still be actively talking about them if there were people who were interested in chatting about them. Just saying. You can totally take that as an invitation. Just saying.

Thank you for dropping by my askbox, you made me so happy with your words! I truly hope you have a lovely day, and may NijiAka live long in our hearts, even if the manga/anime ended ages ago!

[xreaderanonaccount]

Rythm of of the heart (Capitano x G/N!Reader)

Based off a prompt on OTP prompt generator

tick, tick, tick. 

The grandfather clock echoed in the silent office, as the strongest harbinger sit in his office. Paperwork sprawled across his desk. Capitone didn’t like paperwork, it was boring, something that could easily be done by a foot soldier, not the 1st Fatui Harbinger. He sighed as he slouched into his plush chair. Rubbing his helmet as he stared at the report he is supposed to submit to Pierror soon. The ticks of the grandfather clock matching the rhythm of the pen tap on the wooden desk. Capitano set the paper down, stalling his work. Soft raps interrupted the rhythm of the grandfather clock snapping Capitano out of his boredom. 

“Come in.” His voice is soft as there is only one person who knocks on his door late at night. He watched as you slipped inside his office, you looked so sleepy, your eyes drooped as you walked towards Capitano.

“What’s the matter dear, can’t sleep?” Capitano spoke, resting his head on his hand as he watched you intently. You looked adorable in his clothing, you were practically drowning in his clothes. He was big and he knew it. He smiled as he watched you slip into his lap. 

“Can I just lay on your chest? The sound of your heartbeat helps me sleep.”  Capitano could barely hear you as you nuzzled your face into his chest. Capitano chuckled as wrapped one strong arm around your waist. 

“Of course my darling. Rest all you want, I’ll be here for… a long time.” Capitano sighed as he started to rub the bottom of your back. These paperwork will never be finished. How could he? Not when you're sitting on his lap so cutely. Looks like he’ll just have to pull an all-nighter.

A/N: divider credits: cafekitsune

[jade-green-butterfly]

Coossy 'Love Scratchies'~🧁💜💗💚🦋

Snuggles From Grandmama & Grandpop~💜🌟🩵💙

Okay, I got these adorable beauties around the start of this year and in tribute to how awesome @mangoshibi's Trolls art is, I wanted share them with you all~🩷😊I absolutely LOVE how she draws the Funk Family!💖🥰

I asked for my beloved OTP, Coossy (Cooper and I) spending some sweet alone time together as I give him some love scratchies~💗😚Along with our darling son, Toby spending some quality time with his dear grandmama and grandpop as they give him huge snuggles~💞🤗D'awww...so wholesome~!🥹✨ I am truly LOVING how both of these precious pieces turned out and just how I imagined them too~!💝😍Thank-you ever so much, Mango!🫂💕Hope you are keeping well~🫶🏻😌And I hope you all like too, enjoy~✌🏻😉✨xoxo.

*~Reblogs are also deeply appreciated as well, so please do reblog as well as like! Thank-you kindly!~*

Cooper, King Quincy & Queen Essence (c) DreamWorks Trolls/DreamWorks Animation

Trollsona Jussy/Justina Butterfly & Toby (c) @jade-green-butterfly (Me~!)

Coossy Commissions (c) @mangoshibi🌈

[pikuhanlove]

Pet names that make me want to scream into my pillow because I love them sm

(My) Love

Babe

Pretty girl

Sweetheart

(My) Darling

(My) Dear

Lovey

Bubba

Baby

Baby girl

Angel

Sweets

(My) Handsome boy

Bubs

(My) Sunshine

Bubby

Princess

(Mi) Amore

That's all. Now I'm screaming internally thinking about my otps lmao.

[ghostieblotts]

30 + 15 for the ask game??? and for the one about pet names which ones :3

For the OTP ask game - send me a ship and a number!

15. Who's the first to cry during movies that don't seem sad?

Owen. I think that, even when he and Curt are at their closest, there are still plenty of things that he can't quite seem to open up about. There will be times where something innocuous in a movie will remind him of something, or twist in just the right place. Curt will hear a slightly-too-sharp inhale, and look over and see gathered tears shining in Owen's eyes, reflecting the light of the projection, before Owen notices him and quickly scrubs them away. He will not elaborate.

30. Pet names? Yes or no?

Yes I think so!

The original version of this post included an extra bit about pet names in an au, but I've moved that to a separate post instead. If you're interested, you can find that here.

I cannot for the life of me find that one post that said they would use "agent" as a covert pet name for each other, but I very much agree with that.

I think they also use "partner" in a similar vein to that. Sometimes Owen will tease Curt and say that he sounds like some kind of cowboy - initially Curt was ticked off by this, but soon he plays it up to make Owen laugh.

When they're alone, I think Curt finds it fun to use different cheesy pet names just to see how Owen will react. They don't necessarily always go down well, but they usually get a laugh at least. "Doll face" and "honey bunch" both got a good laugh, and "sugar" is always fun.

Curt's favourite, though, is "darling". It's sincere, and it rolls off the tongue. He likes saying it, and he really likes the way it makes Owen smile.

As for Owen, it's canon that he calls Curt "love". I'm not sure he'd be able to get away with using it quite as easily in Britain (since I think it would be a bit more likely people would notice it there). Elsewhere though, he enjoys being able to very casually call Curt "love" and have people just write it off as him being British.

It takes Owen longer to start varying his terms of endearment. When they're alone, he still uses "love", but the emphasis is slightly different. It's a subtle change, but it becomes just that bit more important in the sentence it appears in. He uses it more at the start of sentences, instead of it mostly appearing at the end.

After a while, when he's feeling unusually sentimental, he starts calling Curt "my love". It's with that casual cadence, initially, but Curt is struck by it all the same. The feeling is even stronger the first time Owen changes the emphasis: again, a subtle change, but one that makes all the difference: my love.

After that, another new addition to the rotation: "my dear". Again, it starts off deliberately casual, before Owen starts to let himself say it the way he means it: softly, sincerely. There is a superlative step beyond this, though for some reason it feels like too much, too vulnerable an admission. One of these days, though, Owen is going to call Curt "dearest".

[pb-loves-owls]

Your OTP on terms of endearment

Character A: my dear, dearest, darling, love of my life, apple of my eye… my reason for living, my moon and stars, the rhythm that my heart beats for

Character B: babe, baby, sugar tits

[magicalyaku]

Hello and welcome to my 2023 reading wrap up! A big Thank You to everyone who followed my ramblings throughout the year! <3 I will continue through 2024. Maybe I'll learn how to write proper reviews, at least I'll try to remember better what I actually want to say about the stories. In 2022, I read 93 books plus my own. Guess how many it were in 2023? 93 plus my own!! xD That was huge coincidence and I love it. Of these 94 books, 4 are rereads (which won't be included in the "Favourite" sections), 2 are non-fiction, 11 are non-queer. I only DNFed 1 book (which is not pictured) and other than that I only disliked 6 books! (And it's a pretty soft dislike in comparison. I don't hate them nearly enough to want to shit on them again. :'D).

So on the the awards!

Most Read Author: KJ Charles (8 books)

Least Favourite Book: Daresh (Katja Brandis) (the one I could not finish for dear life)

Favourite Character: Brand (The Tarot Sequence) and Will (The Will Darling Adventures) (yes, there's a trend)

Favourite Covers (of books I read, not releases):

(There were too many. D:)

Highest Emotional Investment (aka The Agony, the suffering, the why you do this to me Award): Dark Heir - The Scottish Boy - In Memoriam

Wildest Story: The Adventures of Pinocchio

Favourite Books:

The Devil's Luck (L.S. Baird)

The Scottish Boy (Alex de Campi)

In Memoriam (Alice Winn)

Just Lizzie (Karen Wilfried)

Dark Heir (C.S. Pacat)

The Will Darling Adventures (KJ Charles)

Gwen & Art are not in Love (Lex Croucher)

The Buried and the Bound (Rochelle Hassan)

More Books I enjoyed greatly:

Oracle of Senders series (Mere Joyce)

Of Feathers and Thorns (Kit Vincent)

Wren Martin Ruins it all (Amanda deWitt)

Simon Snow series (Rainbow Rowell)

The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley (Shaun David Hutchinson)

The Tarot Sequence (K.D. Edwards)

The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer (S.E. Harmon)

Sixteen Souls (Rosie Talbot)

By any Other Name (Erin Cotter)

The High King's Golden Tongue (Megan Derr) and more!!

Most Used Name: I counted names last year and didn't want to do it again this year because I read so much fantasy, so the names were all over. Still, there was one who stood out amongst them all with at least 4 instances, if not more. Probably more.

Will

Congratulations. I have to admit, I've always liked that name. My favourite character of all times and part of my one and only OTP is named Will as well and I kinda hope the last book of their second trilogy never comes because it will probably make me scream and ... ...

Bonus! This year, I counted pages! Because I felt that most books were much shorter than what I read before. So I wanted to know. Turns out, my feeling was wrong. My 93 books had a whole of 33011 pages which results in approximately 350 pages per book. That's pretty normal I dare say.

That's it for 2023! I had a very good year in books. I wanted to read less actually, and failed spectacularly because I had too much fun. And if anyone's wondering how I read so much, I read fast and I just didn't do anything else in my free time. Escapism to the max. I hope, the new year treats you well! I hope, you have fun with the books you read! Let's meet again soon! <3

[monkey-li]

As every year @/momonoki23 and I do a OTP exchange. Pouty Drake is NOT gonna share his precious gift.

No sir! Merry merry christmas (eve) my dear darling.

On to a next year full of Duck OTPs! I really love chatting, ranting and art sharing with you

[flowersofstarlight]

🪶✨Harpy Form✨🪶

Haven’t drawn Harpy Eddie for months, so I decided to redraw him and also draw Harpy Wally and Harpy Julie since all three of them have Beast form. I’m really happy and proud of the designs I made in their Harpy form. 😊💖🌟✨

[9haharharley1]

for the otp ask thing - 27, 30, and 34 for blackice and/or sefikura?? ♡♡

Ooh I haven't figured out my Sefikura HCs yet!! Let's see...

Sefikura

27. Craziest place they had sex?

Sephiroth's office definitely. The back alleys of Wall Market. The Gold Saucer Skywheel. Against a tree after taking down a King Behemoth.

One time Sephiroth is gonna convince Cloud to sneak into the President's office just for shits and giggles. Genesis will be soooo jealous lol.

30. Pet names? Yes/no?

Puppet and Pet after Sephiroth loses his mind. Before that, Pet is still a go-to for him, but also Love.

Neither of them are really big on pet names, but Cloud has slipped and called him Babe before.

34. How do they cheer each other up?

They both kinda suck at this. They're also both really bad at showing they're upset in the first place, but over time learn the signs. Sephiroth will get this tension to him that no one really notices, especially if someone disrespects Cloud in front of him and he can't do anything about it. Cloud will coax him to a quiet room, and take his hand, gently massaging the tension in his palm and fingers. Once Sephiroth relaxes, he'll switch to the other hand and do the same, until Sephiroth is leaning into him, practically resting his weight on him to bury his face in Cloud's neck. Cloud will wrap his arms around him and rub his shoulders until Sephiroth sighs and quietly admits to what set him off in the first place.

Cloud is easier to figure out, but Sephiroth is so socially stunted that it still takes him a while to notice how Cloud will kinda just shut down when he's upset. He'll retreat into his own head, get lost in his thoughts and what if scenarios, and he'll pull away from his friends. Sephiroth learns to hunt him down, and he'll just sit quietly with Cloud, maybe place a hand on his thigh or wrap an arm around his shoulders or hold his hand, keeping his grip loose, but enough to get the point across that he's there if Cloud wants to talk. Eventually, Cloud will relax against him and quietly tell him what's up, and Sephiroth will ask what he can do to help.

Blackice

27. Craziest place they had sex?

Bunny's Warren. Rooftops. Alleyways. One of North's storage cabinets.

They're trying to figure out a good time to sneak into Tooth's palace and find a spot to christen.

30. Pet names? Yes/no?

Oh yeah. Pitch can't help himself, he's all about pet names. Dear, darling, pet, sweetling, love. They just kinda come to him naturally, but i also headcanon him to be a bit of a romantic.

Jack loves to hear them, but isn't himself big on coming up with them himself. They feel awkward on his tongue, and he's always nervous that he might say the wrong thing. Pitch understands, and isn't bothered by it. Although, the first time Jack calls him "love" unintentionally nearly gives him an aneurysm and he clings to Jack for days afterward.

34. How do they cheer each other up?

Snuggles. Lots and lots of snuggles. Eventually, they'll talk about what caused the problem in the first place, but until then, they're both gonna curl up in bed and simply hold each other.

[pendragaryen]

Happy easter, my dear friends, mutuals and followers! May your holidays be filled with joy, health and love! 🧡🐰🍀🐣

Easter. The return of the light, hope, and life. You don't know how much I need all of this. I had been so damn busy over the course of the last weeks, so at least i was very distracted from all the cases of losses and illnesses around me... On top of that, i had the flu over the past few days. Only today i'm feeling better and look forward to see my family in a few hours.

May the upcoming months and the rest of the whole year be kinder to all of us. Please!🙏🏻✊🏻🍀🍀🍀

Easter hugs to @togetherkru @natassakar @carrieeve @geekyogicheese @ninappon @bellamyblake @roguetwelve @okmcintyre @jeanie205 @infp-with-all-the-feelings @heartbellamy @kizo2703 @julibernardo @poppykru @lee-em-dee @igotbellarkeforthat @burninghoneyatdusk @travllingbunny @the-suns-also-rise @immortalpramheda @otp-armada @johnmurphysass @sometimesrosy @gaiagalit @astridandoddsandends @isweartobreathe @bookwormforalways @its-tea-time-darling @delicatebluebirdruins

[im-tops-bottom]

Just another day at the dorms:

Felix, sobbing: MY FINGER!!!

Changbin, races up to Felix, takes one look at all the blood and faints:

Felix, cries harder: MY HYUNGIIEE~

Hyunjin, races in, trips over Changbin trying to get to Felix and passes out from his forehead smacking against the floor:

Felix: MY HYUNIIEE~

Minsung come rushing in from opposite directions and smash into each other and fall to the ground:

Felix: MY OTP!!!

Chan tries to rush in but accidentally gets knocked out from swinging his bedroom door into his face:

Felix: MY BANK!!!

Seungmin walks in, sees everyone passed out and a sobbing nleedin Felix standing in the middle of all the chaos:

Seungmin, sighs: Oh Lixie

Seungmin, drags Felix out of the dorm and into a car to drive him up to the hospital:

Jeongin on the phone: What happened at the dorm? It looks like a murder zone

Seungmin: Oh right I forgot about those idiots. Can you call an ambulance for them and make sure they're alright

Jeongin: oh god OH GOD WHERE'S THE BABY!

Seungmin: Lix is with me. He's getting stitches in his finger. He cut it opening up a can while he was making lunch.

Jeongin: okay bring my.. our baby back home safe and sound. I'll deal with the Hyungs and lunch

Seungmin: thank you darling

Jeongin: no probs. Tell mt dear jagi, I'll be cuddling him heaps when you get home

Seungmin: will do. Bye! *Ends call*

Felix: Look Minnie! The plaster has 🐥 all over it

Seungmin, smiling at his cuteness: Let's get you home in a bit and snuggle with Innie. He misses you and is making food

Felix: ooh yes please... And ice cream?

Seungmin: yes ice cream

Felix, in excitement gets out of the hospital bed, trips up on his blanket and knocks himself out on the hospital bed:

Seungmin, facepalms and heavily sighs: I'm in a group filled with clumsy accident prone idiots