#so now i have time to do fun things again wheee

[roseofnohr]

i really want to make an "assigning you to a fire emblem class based on vibes" uquiz

[fairyhaos]

seventeen and being cafe workers

requested by anon: "hi! i really liked your take of svt having a cold! what are your thoughts on svt as cafe workers? thank you for your hard work! "

notes: LMAO this was actually sm fun

masterlist

seungcheol

he doesn't know why he's working in a cafe tbh. he doesn't even know how it happened. jeonghan brought him to the cafe he worked at one day and the next thing he knew, he was being hired as a barista at that very same place. oh well, he supposes it's kind of fun (?) to work alongside such chipper people, and it encourages him to talk to a vast range of people while he works

jeonghan

assistant manager, sleeps in the back room half the time, only ever gets called out for it by chan. somehow a master at handling orders during rush hour, though? gets through coffees in a flash, taking orders and yelling at minghao to get on with it and also packaging pastries and working the cashier and still smiling and greeting people nicely. but don't call for his help until it's rush hour again okay he needs another nap now

joshua

doesn't actually do, like . anything. he's out there on the floor chatting to people and (sometimes) taking orders and (not really) clearing the tables and smiling and doing nothing whatsoever. gets away with it bc he's pretty and good at talking to people so it gains them more customers anyway. works in a cafe, but doesn't like coffee. asks people if they want a cake instead when they ask what coffee he recommends

junhui

bright and sweet and has the weirdest recommendations when customers ask him how he normally takes his coffee. either looks like he's buzzed up on way too much caffeine or looking like he's about to doze off any second. has probably slept during a lull in his shift before. whizzes around the shop with his broom going "wheee!!" while he's cleaning up when they're closing up the coffee shop for the day

hoshi

bids all the customers goodbye with a wave and his signature move (his horanghae hands), gets slapped on the head with a tea towel by woozi every time he catches him. is always stealing the pastries from inside the display during the lazy times of the day, swears he's innocent and pins the blame on poor seungkwan who was on the other side of the cafe at that time

wonwoo

has literally every customer in their early 20s giving him their phone numbers/ asking him if he wants to go grab something to eat with them. typically hides behind the coffee machines and doing the barista work bc ngl he's kinda terrified because one time this lady just Kept Coming Back to talk to him and his social battery was just not up for dealing with her level of bright chatter. 

woozi

he gives me manager vibes. he's the one who scolds mingyu whenever he gets within a three foot radius of the coffee machines, who hits hoshi over the head for his excessive tiger agenda, who lets jeonghan sleep in the back room but denies that it's because he's lowkey scared of him. very very good at manager-ing and can also barista when it gets too busy. the cafe would fall to pieces without him tbh. 

minghao

one of the best baristas ever. memorises complicated orders in the blink of an eye. rattles off the order back to the customer when they claim that he made their drink wrong and then raises an eyebrow and goes "isn't that what you wanted, sir?". grins almost sadistically whenever someone orders an insanely caffeine-loaded drink. is in horror at junhui's coffee preferences. 

mingyu

isn't allowed near the coffee machines after that one time he almost broke one of them while pulling the lever too hard. is great at doing cashier work because he's such eye candy, pulls in the greatest amount of tips because of it. sometimes works the floor, but that's also risky bc there have been times where he's gotten in the way of his colleagues as they hand out coffee and spilt it all down his uniform

dokyeom

brighest sunshine smile ever. asked to work mainly morning shifts, and woozi agreed because putting seokmin and his sunshine brightness in an evening shift would probably make their tired customers feel even more exhausted while talking to his unending brightness. has gotten the second most amount of numbers given to him after wonwoo, but the clueless boy doesn't even understand why

seungkwan

that one chatty barista who talks about anything and everything to anyone who looks at him too long while he's working. hates the opening shift. always complains long and loud at how sloppily the shop was cleaned up by the people on the closing shift of the day before. scolds hoshi when he snatches a cake pop when he thinks no one is looking. 

vernon

Good And Honest Worker™. nothing to say tbh, he's just actually genuinely good at the job. everyone wants to be put on the same shift as him. gives customers song recommendations too whenever they ask him what drink he recommends they have. once tried to write the prop-up sign for the cafe, was laughed at by woozi bc it looked like it was written by a child

chan

newbie. doesn't know how to work the coffee machines, isn't allowed to figure them out in case he becomes the next mingyu and destroys the machine that was almost killed by the guy's hands. is in charge of drawing smiley faces on the coffee cups. writes everyone's name wrongly on the cup, and yet calls it out flawlessly every time as he hands them their coffee with a beam and a chipper "have a nice day!"

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[your-queer-dad]

parents and school and everything is getting a hell of a lot more dangerous for me way fast I’m trans in Florida with a fuck ton of disorders I send stuff here to vent a lot never sign my shit so you probably don’t recognize me by my situation or typing cause a lot of people here vent about similar stuff but I said before things are dangerous I don’t have safe spaces or people but there’s this new kid in class and our schools hella bigoted the kids were joking about nazi shit again and this guy was like dude why are y’all so racist and stuff and it was such a shock hearing someone else say somethin when I first went to this school I tired reporting kids and talking to them and explaining etc nothing worked they don’t care teachers are worse then the kids etc and I got rlly nervous about it cause I get assaulted and bullied alot and they all made fun of me and said I was paranoid it’s just jokes I have my head up my ass and I’m like truamadumping by explaining why bigotry is bad not even using my experiences!! so after a couple months I stopped talking but this one new guy just completely called it out in the smoothest way possible and then when everyone tried making excuses he was like nah that’s stupid actually anyway my parents are getting more dangrous and I’m struggling with my health and trying to get them to actually make appointments with the fucking doctors so my medical shit doesn’t catch up to me and mess me up more and I still don’t have a job or drivers license I’m seventeen trying to get hours for the license and trying to get medically ok enough to put effort towards the hours and a job and getting my homework done that a whole thing I’m in so many classes this year and it’s to much work and the classes are at the same time so no matter what I have to miss a lesson etc anyway I’m so stressed everything’s going to shit basically but this one kid is nice lowkey and mentally I’m doing better I used to be a lot worse due to stress but I stop blaming myself and proriize my health and manage to make things slightly better with my routine by fighting for years with my parents and it finally paid off sort of it’s really weird now things are so much more dangerous and I’m the most scared ever but also mentally clear the most I’ve ever been I can actually feel lonely and hungry and thirsty and process the emotions I couldn’t do that before and I’m in less pain generally my plans are paying off years and years of planning and working and just like locking in and trusting my gut no matter what anyone does to me I’m happy I was right I would eventually meet someone who wasn’t racist and I did and even if things are more dangerous now and everything’s gone to shit at school and home I have what I need to really flip shit around I just need to rest and get a little more energy to pull it off

also there’s a whole thing with like my parents putting me in situations wheee they knew I’d get hurt and assaulted then they leave me to it I’ve almost died a lot because of medical neglect I need to be like not put through extreme stress assaults intense sports and getting threatened to get killed and etc but hey that never stopped them new schools new intense extra curriculars with people who hurt me in every kind of way and leave me to die being put in places that work against my mental disorders leaving me to fail and then blaming me when it happens or when I try to get out or talk my way out or go to the bathroom so I can calm down from panic attacks and getting ducking assaulted just to be followed in the bathroom and assaulted there to :/ and when I tell my parents I get hit with the “well high school is hard for everyone” not even a full talk just that sentence then I get ignored again also I’ve also been assaulted by my parents so that’s fun/sarcastic “but it’s ok because it’s just family and just roughhousing and just a joke and no one means anything by it this is just what family family is allowed to get touchy does but don’t tell anyone because you know how people are” it really is the home stretch now everything I’ve worked for is paying off and I have the tools to get what u need to leave and get support I just need to stick it out and figure out the specifics and then actually go do it things feel weird physically and mentally I’m dissociating less so I process more and by body feels all different I feel emotional when people are mean to me and lonely to and there’s so much but also when I hit my limit I can’t tell because it doesn’t hurt like before cause I’m not like fatally fucked over anymore it’s weird

anyway I love you dude you’ve really helped being listened to is hella validating thanks dad 🫂

Hey kiddo, gosh I am so so sorry you have to go through all of that. That's awful and you don't deserve any of that. You don't deserve to be treated like that, by your classmates or your parents. And I wish I could take all that pain away from you. I know it sounds cliche but I promise you things will get better. You're seventeen, you're almost there I promise you please hang on til it gets better. There is hope and you deserve all the hope and happiness in the world. 🫂🫂🫂

- dad x

[annieqattheperipheral]

I'm reminded of how duchene was fired the following mid-season from the habs after taking them to the mothaflippin scf just that prior season.

What was the biggest most important thing martin st louis said in all his press conferences and interviews upon being hired??

These boys need to get back to having fun. Have fun playing hockey. Have fun on the ice.

Obviously, paraphrased. But yea that was it. He made suzuki smile again. He brought cole back up from Laval and made him laugh again because they had all become forlorn chimney sweep boys covered in soot riddled with despair coughing and hacking up their young depressed lungs

The oilers started this season with the same level of expectations as the habs did-- if we could do that last season we should be even better this season.

Ofc the habs actually went through some MAJOR roster changes over the summer bc of LTIR weber & price, etc, and instead had to eventually accept that they needed a full rebuild from GM down.

The oilers went in fact in the other direction this summer. Added in brown, etc. Trained together as a team (good number of em) in newmarket w davo's gary, then headed to edmonton early for captain's skates prior to preseason.

Pressure is a helluva shitpile that just keeps growing.

Yes, oilers need to get back to having fun. That will help them. But you can't just tell them to "stop feeling so much pressure. Just have fun"

Just smile. Be happy. Why can't u just be normal and have fun at the party?

My god how many times have i heard that from my family.

Cup or bust

There actually needs to be a moment of realization that they can actually no longer lose the cup. Right now they're still operating at:

Win game = win the cup

Lose game = lose the cup

There will be a game very soon where if they don't win it, that's it, they're no longer in the running for a playoff spot, not even a wildcard.

That's when the pressure will lift. It will be a point of tension break. Bliss. Their outlook will change to:

Win game = huh ok.. wheee! that was fun

Lose game = oh meh whatever. we were just fucking w the other team's playoff chances. that was fun

They will at that point actually be able to:

...get back to having fun. Have fun playing hockey. Have fun on the ice.

Now. Will the owners, president, gm wait for that point? Ofc not. Heads will roll. Someone will have to take the fall.

The oilers players are in so deep that the lose = lose the cup gets heavier and heavier around their necks like those oversized novelty hockey team logo necklaces on huge thick shiny chains, but like instead heavy as a few bricks with more being added on with each game.

Really hope for themselves as people that they've got therapy and meditation going on to help them bit by bit ease the grip on their sticks.

And let's see who gets fired/traded first because that's how the hockeymen operate. They literally all have the yips. Two of the best scorers in the world are whiffing. Whiffing. That's incredibly sad. A break of pace through a trade or a change in coaching or management is what'll do the trick, the trusty ol' sports team plan.

[sonic-spirit]

Spinning on Horses

Blurgh. Spinning so hard on horses and blogging and crafting right now. So let's scratch the blogging itch a little, anyway.

Chaos, I want a horse of my own. Riding the lesson horses, particularly exercising the horses that aren't getting enough use as we get the new location running has been good, buuuut it's not quite scratching the same itch. Partially cuz I don't super feel like I'm learning/growing very much doing so (and I'm always second-guessing myself. Not like that will change much), and partially...not feeling like I'm getting a lot out of doing it? Which I'm p conflicted about. Wheee.

I'm so, so damn thirsty to try Endurance--Competitive Trail Riding really, but chaos. I want the community, the fun, the challenge. Ever since talking w/ A last week about her students' results at the show that weekend I've been burning to compete. I want to grow, and learn, and again, I want community. I want to have fun, I want friends. Heh, I guess I want it to also be a hobby.

Not a smart move to taunt myself with this, but I did check the local listings and came across a for a 13 year old Arabian gelding for lease for $300 per month, which...urgh, I want to do the things! I'm so broke, I can't even, but stilllll...It's tantalizing.

And then watching the crafting drama channel Emma in the Moment's vids is making me want to sell crafts. Chaos. I have crafts I want to make, after all. It'd be super cool to do those.

So then my dumb brain is all, "And then I can fund my horsing with craft sales! It'll be perfect!" Like running up a crafting business AND my jobs AND anything else that goes with having a life wouldn't be incredibly time consuming, and probably each block out each other. But regardless, brain still go brrrr...

[nocturnefactory]

tagged by @eddie-rifff yay thanks!

what book are you currently reading? Actually I just finished one and I'm about to head back to the library today to renew my card and get a new one--hopefully not over 500 pages again lol

what’s your favorite movie you saw in theaters this past year? ...I don't see movies in theaters anymore whoops, we did sit down at the TV to watch the original Willow on New Year's Eve though, someone explain to me why I'd never heard of it until then

what do you usually wear? uhhhh pants. shirt. My job has conditioned me to be as boring and inconspicuous as possible and I need to change that so so so much, time to splurge this year on a new look

how tall are you? 5-foot-4, wheee

what’s your Star Sign? do you share a birthday with a celebrity or a historical event? Capricorn! I believe I share my birthday with Ted Danson and Dexter Holland of the Offspring, Ray Thomas of the Moody Blues...some more people...and Buck-Tick's Day in Question concert series always falls on that day for some reason

do you go by your name or nickname? I've been going by my own name for so long that I never actually stopped to think about an internet nickname and now I'm thinking of Squid (yes I know my avatar is an octopus I'm just really lazy and indecisive) :P

did you grow up to become what you wanted to be when you were a child? When I was a kid I wanted to be a paleontologist because I fixated on dinosaurs, I wanted to be a mangaka because I fixated on manga, I wanted to be a guitarist because I fixated on musicians...I don't know how to take fixations seriously lol

are you in a relationship? if not who is your crush if you have one? noop, single as heck. ...all my crushes are middle-aged musicians. Yeah.

what’s something you’re good at vs something you’re bad at? Good at? I can bust my arms hyperfocusing on something until it's done. Bad at? Socializing and having anything to say in general (cringe)

dogs or cats? I own neither but they're both beautiful

If you draw/write, or create in any way, what’s your favorite picture/favorite line/favorite etc. from something you created this past year? I drew a lot of Buck-Tick fanart that I mainly posted on Twitter/Instagram, not sure which one stands out to me the most but goshdarnit I need to post here more often even if no one understands lol

what’s something you would like to create content for? uhhh probably something that's not real people if I can just get into the headspace somehow

what’s something you’re currently obsessed with? hardly anything new, except for getting nostalgic over 90s video game music and following the lives of the composers on Twitter

What’s something you were excited about that turned out to be disappointing this past year? I never get my hopes up very much anymore since hardly anything ever happens around here anyway but I'm disappointed that I keep losing my creative muse...which I guess is inevitable at that point, lol I gotta change that

what’s a hidden talent of yours? How would I even know

are you religious? not in the way my parents would've preferred lol, it's private

whats something you wish to have at this moment? I have a lot of things that I'm not even taking advantage of so I think I just need my motivation hurr hurr also a warp portal to the stores in town would be nice

tagging @bjonka @wonderous-lawnmower have fun, no pressure :P

[theadventurerslog]

King’s Quest III: To Heir is Human | Part 2

The Adventurer’s Log

King’s Quest III: To Heir is Human Part 2

Last time I left off I was ready to cast what spells I could before going out to get the ingredients I was still missing. I particularly wanted to make sure I got 'Understanding the Language of Creatures' before leaving so that I could make use of it while wandering around. It lets you hear what animals say when you're passing by as a completely passive ability, so it's nice to just have it active as soon as possible.

Naturally I had to mess it up first.

My, what big ears you have, Gwydion.

Then I did things properly.

That 'VERY' felt extra pointed after messing the spell up.

I also messed up making sleeping powder.

Once I did successfully create it I was ready to go (although I forgot to cast how to fly like an eagle or a fly which I could have done at this point to my annoyance).

Oh so ready to go.

Ooor not. I guess I had to trip over the cat sometime.

Once I got going again, after falling off the mountain path a few more times for good measure, not remembering until later that I could have used the magic map to teleport away from there, I started looking around for my missing ingredients and found them quite quickly.

I also got to overhear some squirrel chatter.

Then I came across a big ol' web again where a giant spider lives. Naturally I had to poke it.

Munch munch, bye Gwydion. It just gobbles him right up. It was here I had my 'oh crap I forgot to make the flying spell.'. It creates an essence you dip either an eagle feather or fly wings into when you want to use it. So, while I had been missing the feather, I still could have made the essence.

More mountain trips for me. More falling because while you can avoid going down with the map, the map only takes you to the base if you teleport there, so you gotta climb back up. More falls for me especially when cocky and thinking, sure I can handle on fast; not like it's fastest. Psh no problem.

Anyway, back to messing with spells and torturing Gwydion. That's what reloading is for after all.

Truly a talented wizard.

He looks so put out.

Don't worry, Gwydion. I got those spells made properly and nothing more would go wrong and I certainly wouldn't cause anymore deliberate deaths...

So, that fly spell turns you in either an eagle or a fly depending on whether you use the eagle feather or fly wings.

And I mean. Well, there's a big web right there. And fly wings right here.

That said I was a tiny speck of a fly and this is a huge spider. Would it even have noticed? Oh no ate a speck of dust.

I did get revenge. Eagle time!

This cracks me up and is even funnier in motion. The spider is so stiff but still wiggles. Fly a couple screens and dump it into the ocean wheee.

The game took me back to the cave and the spell wore off. I entered the cave to find an oracle and their crystal ball. They spoke to me and it's time to get some backstory and plot!

"Hi!" Something about this dragon staring straight at you from the orb is funny to me.

And yep, Gwydion is actually the prince of Daventry. Here's our connection to the previous games after all! After all the adventures Graham has had, including against a different dragon, I guess this one was just too much? And now it's his own daughter. What are you doing, Graham? Valanice? Guys...

The Oracle gave me an amber stone. As it turns out we need a stone for the teleportation spell I was still missing. Now it's up to Gwydion to find a way off of Llewdor and somehow get back to Daventry and save his unknown sister, family and kingdom.

First off is messing up, I mean making that spell.

One last failure for the road. He was just popping in and out in place in an endless cycle. One of the less fun failures, but also sort of scary when you think about it..

Now we know it's time to leave Llewdor I went back to the little port area. I popped into the tavern, bought a drink and got drunk as that will surely help the cause! Gwydion staggered around the place out of control for a bit.

Once I regained control I talked to the seamen over at the table and they offered to let me on their boat in exchange for gold. Then it was time to meet them at the dock before they leave without you.

Unfortunately, it turns out they were pirates. All (nearly) of my inventory was taken and Gwydion was thrown in the hold. However, they didn't get everything!

Still got my trusty Dough in Ears. You may take my freedom, but you won't take my dough.

I wandered around the hold, got a bit stuck because I didn't realize it extended more in one direction, but found my way and listened to some gossiping mice.

Clearly we need Mouse's Quest as well to learn the full story of these events.

I picked up the small crate and used it as a stepping stool in the previous screen with a larger crate so I could climb on and reach a dangling ladder.

The ladder leads to a screen next to the captain's quarters. Thankfully, the captain wasn't in, so I was able to poke around a bit. A chest had all my inventory. There was a chart above a desk and I tried "look at map" thinking to look at it, forgetting that'd mean looking at my magic map. So I was surprised to see my magic map pop up now filled in with ocean and a little ship. Just for kicks I tried teleporting to another tile and landed in the ocean. And swam. And swam. I kept expecting to drown but it was just wasn't happening. I could have used the teleport spell to try to go back or possibly the map again, but I just reloaded as I'd saved just beforehand.

I stopped there in terms of making progress. However, I knew I'd missed some fun stuff back in Llewdor, so I reloaded an earlier save to do some more wandering and listening in on animals.

Rosella's not just a sister, but a TWIN sister. It'd be something to have heard this without knowing anything, before seeing the oracle.

I also went out to the desert and listened in one some lizards discussing how to get cactus stickers out of their tails.

And then for a final measure I went back to visit the three bears' house and slept in all their beds. Funnily enough Papa Bear was not impressed with me sleeping in Baby Bear's bed.

Papa Bear means business and threw me out of the house. Sorry bears. I'll be out of your hair now.

And that was that. I have my save back on the pirate ship ready to go.

Okay, no, there was one last thing I thought of as I started to write this post and just had to go check. I can understand animals! Manannan's cat is an animal!

So I loaded an older save and went to find and try talking to his cat.

His cat was not impressed. No love lost here, it seems.

And with that, this session is done. Next time: explore the pirate ship and find our way to Daventry. Got a twin sister to save!

Death Counter: 36, some deliberate, some very much not. The joy of mountain paths.

Time Played: 2:35

Points: 171/210

[semimedieval]

the beach part 1: cannonball

Starting The Beach Part 1 here because, well, after a lot of time-wasting in the lobby of Charlie's house, we finally, finally get to the beach itself. Which constitutes a lot of, well. Individual disparate actions that people do at the beach. Like, really, I cannot understate the degree to which the first round of beach narration constitutes nothing but individual beach actions in which everyone interacts with each other very little.

Soon they stood before the beach. The wind whipped Quartz's hair, and at one point it hit Obsidian. "Ow." "It's salty." Chuji said. Spark felt a grin form on her face. "Wheee!" She ran around on the warm sand. Obsidian sat down on the sand and let the waves wash over his feet. Tozi sat on a cloud a yard from the water. Chuji dashed into the water with Miyon in her arms. Clothes and all Ky cannon balled into the water. Lupus soon dissappeared underwater, then his head popped up again. "Get under here, it's fun!" Lorcan ran to join him.

Not entirely sure how one cannonballs at the beach, either, but I'll let it slide if Augustine's doing this. Caribbean isn't a generic adjective describing water! Where does everyone think this roleplay is taking place? (reader, this problem would go on to get so much worse in next gen)

Chuji came out onto the beach and set Miyon down, then she ran back into the clear carribiean water.

Chuji and Ky have an argument about whether one should hold their nose when they swim. Lupus claims he's "been to the ocean many times," which does not really gel with my lore for Leander, who has been to the coast, sure, but not necessarily to the beach. We start a Spark Is Scared Of Water thing, which gives Quartz her first things to do besides standing on the beach with her hair blowing in the wind beautifully.

Spark took a hesitant step into the water then backed away quickly. "What's wrong, Spark?" Quartz asked her friend. "Nothing, nothing." she said, lightly bushing.(Someone pull her in to the water) Lorcan ran over to Spark. "COme on, the water's beautiful!" he yelled and pulled her into the water. Spark splashed into the water. It flowed all around her consuming her. She was going to drown! No! No! Jets of fire blasted out of her palms making the water around her evaporate.

Not trying to dunk on 12-year-old Jack here (though maybe dunking on 15 year old me for keeping this) but Spark having water trauma feels poorly thought out. I mean people can be afraid of anything but it feels like silly shorthand. "She has fire powers so she's scared of water." HER PARENTS DIED IN A FIRE!!

Anyway I've already lost interest in this scene because I immediately passed off the act of encouraging Spark from Quartz to Lorcan, and I simply don't care about that boy. Stop trying to make Lorcan happen. He's not going to happen. Anyway, it truly doesn't matter, because Spark masters swimming in 20 minutes. I love how fast these children get sick of their own damn plotlines.

Everyone bullies scratchlover999, who, for his part, fails utterly to integrate with the tone of the roleplay. Unstoppable force vs immovable object, business as usual.

We really didn't come up with story ideas for these early beach stages. Everyone is literally having fun in the sun. Ky is bodysurfing. Chuji is laughing. Augustine writes the setup for an angsty interaction between Chuji and Tozi that he changes his mind about, which is almost a shame. Chuji and Obsidian go swimming after Obsidian fails to have sufficient Fun In The Sun by himself. (Now there is someone who, in my heart of hearts, is transgender.)

Rim "shoots through the water like a fish" and OH MY GOD WE'VE COME UPON THE RIMQUARTZ PEARL DIVING SCENE PLAYTIME IS OVER WE'RE DOING SERIOUS LITERATURE

(i am hyping this up way too much but whatever. maybe i'm just stoked about two people getting to meaningfully do something that isn't filler. cut-off point REACHED.)

[madraleen]

Demon Slayer - Season 1 Rewatch "...And then I cried": A Commentary

-nnngh, i'm excited, it's been too long. but i still remember the opening 'cause it made me sit up and pay attention.

-oh shut up, i'm tearing up, i've missed tanjiro. HE LOOKS SO YOUNG :')

-GIYUUU

-eyyy, the way tanjiro and nezuko jump out of the manga in the taisho secret is so cute!

-i hadn't realized how lonely and isolated it all was in the beginning, when there were no hashira around. sort of like missing a home base

-SABITO AND MAKOMO! hello yuuki kaji, we meet again <3. there's few characters with so little screen time/page time that have left such an impression on me as these two

-i understand it's their job, but how, how does yuuki kaji go from blue exorcist konekomaru and black butler finny to this, how!

-you could say i like demon slayer, yes. i'm tearing up every other scene. it's just so damn engaging!

-dude i'm tearing up, the fact that urokodaki keeps giving the same masks again and again to protect his children that all get eaten...

-oh god, i was legit crying and i didn't even realize, okay (after tanjiro beat the urokodaki children-eating demon)

-i remember thinking on my first watch, "zenitsu's va must have had so much fun voicing him," and now, knowing it's hiro shimono, i'm 5% more certain that he actually did

-kind kind kind, gentle gentle gentle. tanjiro's such a perfect mc for literally everyone in the cast

-SHE WAS THE BEAUTY OF OUR HOMETOWN! OUR NEZUKO!

-tanjiro and nezuko are just the best siblings, they're so lovely

-FINALLYYY, WE'RE MEETING THE BOYSSS

-i remember feeling quite overwhelmed by zenitsu on my first watch, but now i find him so amusing

-see, that's one of the things i love about tanjiro that i think makes him an interesting good guy mc. he can appreciate and congratulate a strong blood art technique AND strike down the demon. he can understand and empathize AND still cut them down ruthlessly, without holding back not even a little. he can pray for them AND not forgive them. he's more than just "the good mc." and also, nothing is just handed to him, ever. he's fought and struggled for every single thing he's gained.

-no, i love zenitsu too, because he's, well, zenitsu, but he's also protective and loyal and in conflict with himself and-

-i really do believe the kny characters are much more complex than one would assume at first glance, all of them.

-WE'RE GOING TO RUI, WHEEE

-GIYUUU, SHINOBUUU <333

-lol, zenitsu is a one-man show

-have i mentioned i love hiro shimono's work? 'cause i really do

-aw bb zenitsu, he's so strong :")

-dude i love shinobu. sweet-presenting but incredibly deadly

-i'm screaming, the way giyuu says "mizu no kokyuu" compared to tanjiro IS SO CALM, ASKFNJD, "unbothered" king!

-tanjiro: *doing the hinokami kagura* me, who knows how he's come to know how to do that: *bawling my eyes out*

-GIYUU'S ELEVENTH FORM WAAAH

-everyone in rui's demon family look like humans except the big brother and the father, like what happened there, did rui go through a phase

-not me crying for rui

-THE HASHIRAAAAAAA

-not me letting out a reflexive small scream at muichiro's/aventurine's voice

-mui-kun's little feet compared to gyomei's omg

-OBANAI MY LOVE

-he's so young, i want everyone to know how young ubuyashiki is because i don't think it's clear at all, he's only 23, okay?! :'( HE'S YOUNGER THAN GYOMEI, OKAY?!

-AOI <3

-i've been listening to some genshin voiced lyney stuff along with demon slayer and i have to say, it's a pretty big contrast switching between the lyney and zenitsu voices

-i love kanae, kanao and shinobu, okay, i love everyone in this cast

-NOOO, don't send them on the Infinite Train mission :'(((

-NOOO, DON'T GO ON THE TRAIN, DON'T GO ON THE DAMN TRAIIIIIN :'(((

[mysticalbookkeeper]

Spelunking

Lilac woke up in Rook and hopped out of her bed. She was going to go see Id again today as they had planned to go on an adventure, just the two. Lilac had found a mysterious cave that appeared on the island and wanted to see what it had.

She ran into the bathroom to do some business.

After she flushed, she brushed her teeth, brushed her hair and slapped it in another ponytail and went to go get dressed.

Outside, she took her broom and kicked it into gear and it sped off into the sky.

She landed in front of Id’s house and knocked on the door.

“Come in~.” Sang a voice on the other side.

Lilac walked in and saw Id. He was making breakfast of Quesadillas and tater tots.

“My favourite breakfast meal! How did you know?” Asked Lilac, walking over to join him.

“Well, you told me, remember? When you were staying here when your house was currently under construction?” Asked Id.

Lilac playfully punched him. “I know, I’m just playing with you.”

Id laughed.

“Alright, breakfast will be ready shortly. Go have a seat.” He said.

“Are you excited?” Asked Lilac as the two ate breakfast.

“Yeah. Although…”

“What’s wrong Id?” Asked Lilac.

“I just…it’s another cave. Sure, many things get pulled to this island (which is annoying), but I don’t think it’s going to be anything special or exciting.” Said Id.

“Oh come on, where’s your sense of adventure?” Asked Lilac.

“True. It could be fun, but…don’t you think it’s odd that so many things keep getting pulled here? Why is that?” Asked Id.

“Dunno. Do you know why that happens, or who’s doing it?” Asked Lilac.

“Well…I know WHAT’S doing it. Why that thing is doing it, I don’t know, but…”

Lilac looked at Id patiently.

“There’s actually a giant computer in the centre of the island in the spooky woods. It’s how everything is pulled here.” Id said.

“So that’s what brought me here. I honestly thought you did it, but I didn’t want to accuse you, so I just didn’t bring it up.” Lilac said.

“I wish I had that power, but no. The machine’s been doing it this whole time. Even as we speak, it probably has pulled something else here.” Id said.

Lilac nodded.

“Is there a way to stop it?” She asked.

Id shook his head. “No. I nearly got blasted and got shot at several times. And flattened into a pancake. Really, that thing does NOT play nice.” He put his chin on his hand and pouted a little.

“Yeah, doesn’t sound like it.” Lilac answered.

“But let’s not worry about that. We have a cave to be exploring.” Id said.

“Yeah.”

The two resumed eating.

Lilac and Id walked out of the house and Id was ready to teleport them, but Lilax gently dodged out of the way.

“Lilac? You usually love my teleporting.” Id said.

“Yeah. But I think we should go there broom style!” Lilac said, twirling her broom in her hand like a baton.

“Uhh, maybe we shouldn’t…I mean, not that it doesn’t sound fun, but…”

“Oh come on! You float all the time! It’s the same thing!” Said Lilac.

“But that’s different! I’m used to floating around on my own! Flying on a magic broom seems…unnatural.” Id shuddered.

“Come on! Give it a chance!” Lilac grabbed Id’s arm and pulled him onto her broom.

“L-Lilac, Wait! Please, this thing doesn’t seem safe!” Id protested, clinging onto her.

“It’s plenty safe! Trust me! I’ve done this millions of times!”

“But I’ve done it zero…” Id screamed the word “TIMES” as the two zipped up into the sky at Mach twenty four.

Id clung tightly to Lilac, closing his eyes.

Lilac laughed.

“Wheee! Come on Id, this is really fun!”

“No! No it’s not!” Id shouted.

“Oh, don’t be such a party pooper!”

Id didn’t protest any further as he held on for dear life, bracing himself against Lilac.

They soon straightened out and flew much more smoothly through the sky.

“Okay, okay. You had your fun, now put me down!” Id said.

“If you’d like, you can float beside me.” Lilac said.

Id looked down at the island far below them. Though he could easily float beside Lilac, he was afraid he’d fall straight to his death. His stomach had dropped a thousand feet when they had rocketed into the sky and now he was feeling a little queasy.

“Uhh, m-maybe I should hold on.”

“Alright. Tell me where to land when we get there.” Lilac said. Id buried his face again into Lilac’s back.

“Uh huh.” He said.

Lilac gave a warm grin to her nervous friend. She gently patted his hand to comfort him a little.

She looked ahead.

“Wow. Would you look at that? You can see the entire island from up here.”

“Uh huh.” Said Id.

“Would you just open your eyes?” Asked Lilac. Id carefully cracked his eyes open and was amazed. The clouds breezed passed them, some of them getting caught in their hair like cotton candy.

Id caught some in his hat and tapped Lilac’s shoulder. She looked back at him and he pulled out a pretend bouquet made of the clouds.

Lilac giggled and Id laughed as well, gently letting the cloud go and it dissolved behind them.

They looked down at the island and the endless ocean beneath it sparkling in the morning sunlight. The clouds further above them were beautiful and it made the sky and the rest of the world seem like a painting come to life.

“Id? Where are we landing?” Asked Lilac.

“Down there. Close to the swamp.” Id said.

“Alright!” Lilac pointed her broom downwards and they sped down at the same speed they had when they first ascended.

Id held onto Lilac, his eyes open this time, watching in terror as the tree line got closer and closer.

Lilac found an opening in the trees and zipped under the canopy and stopped a few feet away from their destination.

“Alright. Everybody off!” She said.

Id carefully climbed down and laid flat on the ground, wishing for the world to stop spinning beneath him.

“Yeah. First timers usually have a hard time adjusting to the broom.” Lilac said and held it in her hand and helped Id stand up.

“Are you gonna be okay?” She asked, laughing a little.

“Y…yeah.” Id answered, feeling less dizzy than before.

“Awesome. Come on. Let’s go find this cave.” Lilac said and ran towards the direction that Id had pointed earlier and Id flew beside her.

They stopped before a large cave that opened widely. Lilac looked for a sign.

“Hmm, we have no idea if it’s really dangerous or not.” She said.

“How would we be able to tell?” Asked Id, suddenly feeling nervous.

“Easy. Here. Found these in the lost ‘n found at the library.” Lilac said and tossed Id a walkie talkie. He accepted it and put it in his pocket.

“Here’s a rope and some trail markers, so we don’t get lost.” Lilac said. Id took a bag of the trail markers and Lilac pulled out her lantern and lead the way.

Inside the cave, it was actually very roomy, so there were no narrow tunnels for them to get stuck in.

“Pretty big for a cave.” Lilac said.

“Y-yeah.” Id said. He was worried they would run into something really dangerous.

“Id, are you sure you’re feeling okay? We can go back outside and…”

“No, no. I agreed to this, remember? I’m just…still feeling slightly woozy from the broomstick ride, no worries.” Id said.

“Alright.” Lilac replied and lead the way.

They passed by more dug out paths in the cave, branching off in different directions. Lilac walked down one and Id followed.

He looked at the path he’d been marking, in case they needed to follow it back. Though, he remembered he could teleport, so he stopped using them.

“Hey, look at this!” Lilac ran up to something and Id ran after her.

The two looked at a glowing substance that was spread on the ground. Lilac looked up and laughed.

“They’re glow worms!” She said.

“What?” Asked Id.

“They’re glow worms! They emit a phosphorus light and leave droppings of the same colour….try to avoid stepping in it.”

“Ew! Ew!” Said Id, as he backed away from the poop that was near his foot.

“Come on. There’s probably something even cooler up ahead!” Lilac said.

Id followed and was floating, trying to stay away from touching the piles that littered the cave floor.

They came across a flowing river, gently flowing down from a tunnel only big enough for the water to fit in.

“Wow…wonder where it’s coming from.” Lilac said.

Id took a guess.

“I think it’s coming from the swamp.”

“Really?”

“Yeah…or that bridge that that troll likes to hang around and block travellers in his path.” Said Id. “Probably that latter one, know that I’m thinking about it.”

Lilac nodded.

“Wonder where it’s headed.” Lilac said as they crossed a stone bridge.

“Probably into a lake that drains out at the bottom. Good thing there’s an ocean below us, so it’ll just feed into that.” Id said.

“Should we follow it?” Asked Lilac.

“I guess we could…on land!” Id said, grabbing Lilac before she jumped into the wet waters below.

“Aww, you’re no fun.” Said Lilax.

Id scowled and considered pushing her in the river, but decided against it.

“I’m plenty fun! I just don’t wanna get killed on this adventure!” He protested.

“Okay. Fine. We’ll take the loonnnggg, boring dry way.” Lilac said, a little salty she didn’t get to ride the river.

The two walked along the river’s edge. Lilac saw a rock and skipped it across the river.

“Ha! Nice kiddo!” Id said.

“Watch me.” He said and grabbed a rock himself. He floated over the river and skipped the rock and it disappeared into the darkness.

“Show off.” Lilac said, smiling.

“You can’t beat the skipping champion. I’m the master at this.” Id said, floating to walk beside Lilac.

They continued and saw that the river came to a halt at a large spring that had water gurgling in the middle.

“Whoa.” Said Lilac.

“Yeah.” Id added.

The two walked around the permitter, before walking to the ledge…and saw another awesome sight.

They had to actually crawl on their hands and knees, so they wouldn’t fall and looked down to see a huge waterfall spilling down a hole in the cave wall and down into the void below.

“Yikes. Imagine falling down that. You’d get beaten pretty badly at the bottom.” Said Lilac.

“Yeah.” Said Id.

The two continued looking.

Lilac stood up and went to walk further into the cave. Id noticed her walking away and hurried to follow her.

They walked into another section of the cave that had dark puddles with stalactites and stalagmites growing out the top and bottom of the cave.

They stumbled upon a huge lake. Lilac noticed how deep it was.

“I guess we should head back.” Said Id.

“Are you serious?” She asked and hopped on her broom.

“We…won’t go fast, will we?” Asked Id.

Lilac looked out.

“Oh, I don’t know, looks pretty spacious. I’d dare say we would have time before we ran into a wall and I’m pretty good at dodging things.”

“Lilac!” Id shouted, careful not to be too loud.

She laughed. “I’m just kidding! I’ll take it slow this time.”

Id timidly climbed onto the broom behind her and held her tightly again.

“Loosen your grip Id, you’re crushing my ribs.” Lilac said.

“Sorry.” He said and loosened his grip a little. Lilac nodded and the broom gently rose off the ground and the two soared over the water, creating a steady ripple as they created a slight gust in their wake.

“Oh look Id. Glowing fish.” Said Lilac.

Id looked and saw fish lighting up the deep water. The broom gently floated down and Lilac dipped her hand in the water, creating more ripples with her fingers.

Id smiled and did the same thing, removing his glove.

Smiling more, Id used that opportunity to splash Lilac with a little water and she glared back at him and he chuckled a little.

“Oh, is that right?” She asked.

“That’s payback for scaring me earlier.” Said Id.

“Hmmm.”

Lilac brought out her wand and cast a spell on some water nearby and it rose up a bit, before it squired at Id, splashing him in the face.

“Hey! That’s not fair! You’re using magic!” Id protested.

“If you didn’t want to get splashed back, don’t splash a witch.” Lilac said.

“Oh, it’s on now!” Id flipped the broom upside down and Lilac fell into the waters below.

Id laughed. He stopped laughing when Lilac didn’t come back up.

“Lilac?”

A hand gripped his ankle and yanked him down into the water below.

Lilac popped up from under the water and grinned at Id.

“Ugh! Well that backfired.” Id said.

Lilac squirted him in the face and he backed off.

“Lilac! Jerk!” Said Id.

“Takes one to know one.” Lilac said with a wink.

“Oh, you…”

Id splashed Lilac back and she returned with another splash with her arms. Id’s hat flew off his head and hovered over Lilac. He snapped his fingers and a bunch of water poured down on top of her.

Lilac cast a spell and suddenly, blast of water shot Id in the face again.

Id laughed and he climbed back on the broom.

“Okay, okay. Come on, let’s get moving. We need to explore the rest of this cave.” He said.

Lilac nodded and accepted his hand and climbed onto the broom, Id lowering it so Lilac could climb on easier.

“Thanks.” She said.

Id nodded and the two flew over the water again.

Id watched as a bunch of fish splashed in the water, catching whatever bugs were unfortunate enough to end up in the damp cave.

Then he saw something shot out of a hole and catch one of the fish. Id blinked and rubbed his eyes.

“Uhh, Lilac…?” He asked, nervousness growing in his voice.

“Hold on. I can see the shoreline.”

Id looked and though it was still pitch black, he also could see the shoreline somewhat drawing closer to them, a faint line standing out amongst the dark waters.

They stopped on the shore and gently got off the broom.

Id wrung his tuxedo out and pulled his hat up and a bunch of water came out, fish splashing out of it as well. One of them landed on his head and he grabbed it and tossed it into the water.

“Come on. Let’s keep going.” Said Lilac.

“R…right.” Id said. He looked back at the water, but didn’t see anymore signs of the strange thing, so he shrugged and followed Lilac.

They walked between more stalactites and stalagmites and found another entryway to another cave inside the first cave they found.

“How big is this cave?” Asked Id.

“Dunno. We should have brought some paper to map this thing out.” Said Lilac.

“Actually, I did. I usually carry scrolls on me, since I like to write down and draw about everything I see on this island.” Said Id.

“Awesome. You can draw what we have seen so far.”

Id nodded and a quill appeared in his hand and he began to draw the entrance at the top, along with the woods around it and made a drawing of a tunnel going down and branching off (to which Id cut off the branching areas that they hadn’t explored yet and just placed question marks under them) and continued to draw the areas they have seen and drew the big cave with the river and the stalagmites and stalactites and the large underground lake, with the glowing fish for added measure, then stopped.

“Alright. Let’s continue and see what the rest of this cave holds.” Id said, feeling a little better now, shoving the map under his hat.

“Awesome.”

They walked through the entrance into the other cave. There were a few loose stones, but not much more than that and some small streams leaking out of the cave walls.

Lilac and Id continued and they stepped into another large cave. This time, they almost didn’t need flashlights because there were giant mushrooms glowing above them, growing from the ground.

“Sweet.” Lilac turned off her light and pulled a piece of mushroom from one of the stems.

“Free light source. Come on Id, use it.”

Id took a piece of mushroom and the two lit the way through the cave.

They reached another entrance to another cave. This one split into many tunnels as well.

“Let’s keep going straight.” Lilac said.

“Yeah. Sounds like a good idea.” Said Id.

The two walked ahead, looking at the other caverns. They noticed something about them.

“Is it just me or do these caves look like…doorways?” Asked Lilac.

Id inspected them closer and noticed the perfect curves of the entrances as if they were carved. “Yeah, you’re right.” He said.

“But how…oh, right. Someone must have done this in their own world.” Said Id.

Lilac nodded. “Yeah. Come on, I think I see something up ahead.”

The two walked a bit further, having to turn in some places as there were dead ends blocking them off and they stepped through one of the doorways into a large cavern with a giant pool. Lilax and Id scoured around the room, noticing the lake actually ended at a cave wall and didn’t go any deeper. They looked down and saw nothing but deep water again.

“Darn. I was hoping there’d be more to this cave.” Said Lilac.

“We’ll, we still haven’t explored those other areas yet. Let’s go see…” Id heard something moving in the water.

He floated over to it…and shot back when a large tentacle almost had grabbed him.

“Id!”

“Run! Get out of here!” Shouted Id and he flew to Lilac to teleport them out, but something caught him and he couldn’t move.

“Crap! Id, can you teleport?!” Shouted Lilac.

Id tried, but shook his head.

“N-no.” He gasped out, his ribs being crushed by the large tentacle.

Lilac dodged a tentacle herself when another tried to grab her. She flew high on her broom and tossed her mushroom light down.

The tentacle snatched it. Realizing it was just a mushroom, the creature tossed it aside and it floated in the water and the creature rose out of the water.

“Oh shit…”

Lilac had expected many things, but what she did not expect was a giant squid to have made its home there. She wondered how it got in.

Lilac zoomed down.

“From the heavens and skies up high, I ask that you make this squid say goodbye! From this world to from whence it had came, let it return, so mote it be!”

Lilac shot her wand down and blasted the squid, but it dipped under the water, causing the beam to disperse and disappear.

“Shit!” Lilac cursed.

She chanted something again and tried to hit the tentacle holding Id, but it moved.

Id tried to squirm, to move something, to do anything, but he was trapped.

Lilac looked around and was almost nabbed by another tentacle. She quickly flew into the caves from where she and Id came from and hid deep in the hallways.

“No, Id.” Lilac teared up, but refocused, trying to figure out how to save her friend.

She noticed the branching hallways and dashed down one.

She heard a slam behind her and saw a tentacle behind her.

“Oh crap….” She trailed off and ran away as another tentacle broke through the wall behind her and she continued to run through the hallway, hoping to find something to help her.

What she found was a pool of water jutting up from somewhere. She debated whether to go in.

A tentacle slamming her leg and nearly causing her to fall in head first made the decision for her and she immediately dipped herself in, casting a bubble around her head and she zipped through the narrow passage.

She swam for quite a bit until she zoomed right and found herself in the giant lake from before. She looked up and saw the giant squid looking around, trying to figure out where she went.

That thing could not have gotten in here on its own! Not even in its own world! It had to have gotten in here…

Lilac saw a passage that was rather large and appeared to be dug out by someone or something.

She brought out her wand and zapped the squid a little with a small tapping spell that created a small hand and it tapped the tentacle from underneath.

The squid jerked and looked down at jer.

“Hey loser! Come catch me!” She said. Lilac then zoomed down towards the hole.

The squid zoomed after her, holding a nearly unconscious Id in its grip.

Lilac saw how fast the squid was swimming and she worried she wouldn’t be able to out speed it when her wand shook. Lilac rose it up and the wand’s magic enveloped her and she transformed into a dolphin.

Seeing she was granted an easy win, she didn’t waste the opportunity and zoomed down towards the hole at an even faster speed than her broom had done (which she held in her beak).

The squid gave chase and tried to grab Lilac, but she was just too quick and continued to speed through the tunnels and zoomed left, right, left, left again, then another left, before going right and she ended up having to swim up when the tunnel reached a dead end, going only up.

Lilac burst out of some water into another large cave. She saw a hole just a little ways away. She transformed back into a human and ran towards the hole. She saw the squid burst out of the water behind her.

Ljlac looked down and saw the same lake she and Id had been flying over, thanks to the glowing fish. Lilac jumped down.

A tentacle almost grabbed her before she fell down out of reach. Using some quick thinking, Ljlac turned around so hee head was facing the waters below and she used her broom to slow herself down, and she righted herself, just before she hit the waters and she splashed inside.

“L…Lilac…” Id croaked feeling faint as air began to leave his lungs.

He and the squid both watched for her and a sudden splash of water burst forward and out came a dripping wet Lilac, waving a flashlight around, temporarily blinding the squid.

It glared at her.

“Hey ugly! This way!” She shouted and dove back into the waters below, transforming into a dolphin again.

Id looked down worriedly as the Squid carefully climbed down the wall towards the water and splashed inside.

“Yoo-hop! Over here~.” Said Lilac.

The squid saw her and swam towards her and she zoomed away. She found another hole. The hole she hoped for. She zoomed inside and the squid wormed it’s way inside as well.

Lilac grinned and sped further.

Id was beginning to see spots in his vision and he almost blacked out a couple of times. He almost hit his head on a rock, had his hat not hit it for him and it got knocked off.

Id almost gasped, but kept his mouth shut. He worried he’d never get his hat back. But even more worrisome was Lilac. Hopefully she had a plan to stop that squid and get rid of it.

Ljlac appeared to be lifted up by a strong current.

The squid followed and it rocketed upwards and slammed into the roof of the cave, before falling back down.

Id opened his mouth to get air, but nothing came in. He groaned and felt dizzy.

The squid looked around, but saw no sign of Lilac.

That was, until a blast of water hit it, even harder than it had when Ljlac had splashed Id with the same spell and a torrent of water sent the squid towards an opening in the cave wall.

Id tried to squirm free, but his lack of focus and the grip of the tentacle made ir hard for him to escape.

“Id!” Lilac flew towards the squid and though it tried to grab her, she blasted it again and it narrowly missed as she and the squid both fell out of the cave.

Ljlac dashed on her broom. She looked at a barely conscious Id and grabbed his arm. The squid refused to loosen its grip, but Lilac used the same spell she cast earlier to zap its tentacle and it loosened its grip slowly. It was soon loose enough for Ljlac to freely pull Id away and he was slowly slipping out of her grip due to the pounding water. Ljlac cast a protective bubble around them and she gently released Id and he fell onto the soft surface.

Ljlac jumped down and joined him, hugging him.

“Oh, Id, I’m so sorry! This was a stupid idea! We should have never come here, I…”

Id gently placed a finger over her mouth and grinned. Using the last of his strength, he began to glow and they both disappeared from the waterfall, the bubble included.

They appeared in front of the cave and the bubble popped and they both fell to the ground.

“Id, are you okay?! Say something!” Said Lilax.

Id was breathing slowly, consciousness slowly returning to him.

“W…”

“What? What is it?”

“Wa…water. I need water.” Id said hoarsely.

Ljlac pulled out a bottle and gave it to him.

He drank.

Id slowly began to sit up and Lilac helped him and she held him up as he continued to drink more.

Colour began to return to his previously pale face.

“No more…” He said.

“No more what?”

“No more getting ourselves nearly killed. I don’t know how much more I can take.” He said.

Ljlac grinned sheepishly.

“I’m sorry.” Then she turned serious. “Seriously. If it hadn’t been for me, we would have…”

“Don’t beat yourself up. Besides, I wanted to come, remember? No one had any idea that that monster was in there.” Id said.

Lilac nodded.

“Hey. At least we’re both still alive. That’s something and hey, we got rid of the monster. Now the cave should be safe for everyone else. We can head back some other day.”

“Y…you mean you actually liked it?” Asked Ljlac.

“Yeah. Aside from the whole getting crushed by a giant squid, it was pretty fun.” Said Id.

Ljlac grinned.

“Thanks Ljlac.”

“You’re welcome.” Said Ljlac. The two grinned at each other for a bit.

“Well, shall we head back?” Asked Ljlac, grabbing Id by the hand, ready for him to teleport them. He smiled and shook his head, gently pulling away and grabbed the broom.

“I think, I’d like to take the much more fun route, if you don’t mind. It’s very scenic.”

Lilac grinned and gently climbed on.

Id climbed on behind her and the two zoomed off into the air.

[lokiarc64]

White Knight Pregnancy:

Part 1, Discovery

“Early Morning, Outside a Cafe”

Weiss: “Stares at Coffee“

Yang: Weiss.

Weiss: “Continues to stare at coffee”

Yang: WEISS!!!

Weiss: Huh, what?

Yang: Hey are you okay?

Weiss: Yes I’m fine why do you ask?

Yang: Because you’ve been staring at your coffee for ten minutes and haven’t listened to anything I just said.

Weiss: “Worried Look”

Yang: So what gives Ice Queen?

Weiss: “Sigh”

Weiss: Yang, as my close friend and teammate I have to tell you something important but you can’t tell anyone because I don’t know how to react.

Yang: Well what is it?

Weiss: Recently I’ve been feeling off, I’ve been feeling sick in the morning and having stomach pains at times.

Weiss: Jaune thinks I might be sick but there’s more to that, so I went to see a doctor and took a test and well.

Yang: Well what?

Weiss: “Deep Sigh”

Weiss: I’m ”Mutter”

Yang: What?

Weiss: I’m “Mutter”

Yang: Weiss, your going to have to speak up cause I can’t hear you.

Weiss: I’m pregnant.

”Complete Silence”

Yang: WHAT!!!

Weiss: I’m pregnant.

Yang: Oh my god Weiss congratulations.

Yang: “Hugs Weiss”

Yang: This is amazing your gonna really be an Ice Queen.

Weiss: “Smiles & Hugs Yang back”

Yang: So how did Vomit Man take the news.

Weiss: That’s the problem I haven’t told him.

Yang: What how could you not tell him?

Weiss: It was a surprise to me as well, I wasn’t exactly planning for a baby yet.

Yang: Well last I checked it takes two to tango so whens the last time you guys well.

Weiss: 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

Weiss: What me and Jaune do in our bedroom is extremely private.

Yang: Oh cmon do you not remember?

Weiss: Well it might be from that one night when my mother invited me to the Schnee Manor to bond a bit and well I may have had to much to drink.

“Flashback”

”Ding Dong”

Jaune: Hmm, who could that be?

Jaune: “Gets up from couch”

Jaune: “Walks toward front door“

Jaune: “Open Front Door”

Jaune: Weiss?

Weiss: Hey “Hiccup” Prince Charming.

Jaune: Weiss are you okay?

Weiss: Y-You betcha.

Weiss: “Wobbles Closer to Jaune”

Weiss: “Falls Toward Jaune”

Jaune: “Catches Weiss”

Weiss: Wow your strong mister.

Jaune: Weiss are you drunk.

Weiss: “Giggles”

Weiss: Maybe.

Jaune (Internally): Damnit Willow.

Jaune: Alright we are getting you to bed immediately.

Jaune: “Picks her up bridal style“

Weiss: Whoooo.

Weiss: I-I-I’m can see pretty stars.

Jaune: That’s great hon.

Weiss: Why are there bananas one your head, they go in your mouth on your handsome face.

Jaune: 😑😑😑

Jaune: Weiss, that’s my hair.

Weiss: But it’s so spikey

Jaune: It’s been like that for years.

Jaune: Down you go!

Jaune: ”Lowers Weiss onto bed”

Weiss: Wheee.

Jaune: Alright leta get you out of those clothes.

Jaune: “Starts to remove Weiss’ Dress”

Weiss: Ooooh getting handsy are we?

Jaune: “Mildly Blushes”

Jaune: “Puts Weiss’ clothes into hamper“

Jaune: “Pulls out pajamas for Weiss”

Jaune: “Starts putting pajamas on Weiss”

Weiss: Aww this is no fun.

Jaune: There now just get some rest I’ll bring you some water.

Weiss: “Grabs Jaune”

Weiss: Wait.

Jaune: What’s up Snow Angel.

Weiss: I-I love you.

Jaune: 😳😳😳😳😳

Jaune: I love you too Weiss.

Weiss: Y-Y-Your very important to “Hiccup” me.

Jaune: Same thing to you.

Weiss: “Pulls Jaune onto Bed”

Jaune: Whoa.

Jaune: Weiss what are you do-

Weiss: ”Interrupts Jaune by Kissing him”

Jaune: 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

Jaune: W-Weiss.

Weiss: “Puts Finger over Jaune’s mouth”

Weiss: Shh Shh Shh.

Weiss: “Gets on top of Jaune”

Weiss: You are “Hiccup” really important to me.

Weiss: “Takes off pajama shirt”

Weiss: And I’m going to show you just how important you are.

Jaune: Weiss wait I got-

Weiss: “Interrupts Jaune by Kissing him again”

Weiss: Don’t worry just let me do my thing and you just enjoy it.

”Flash back End”

Weiss: And that’s how it happened.

Yang: “Smirks”

Weiss: Oh wipe that grin off your face Xiao Long.

Yang: I’m sorry, but this is just priceless.

Weiss: Yang this is serious I’m freaking out I’m not sure how to be a mom, my mother Isn’t exactly a good role model for me, I don’t want to be a horrible mom, and what will Jaune think of this would he even want to still be with me after hearing I’m pregnant, what if my baby hates me like how I hated my family?

Yang: Hey hey hey, calm down Weiss

Weiss: “Takes a deep breath”

Yang: Now things look rough now but there guaranteed to get better I mean you’re starting a family with Jaune that’s a huge deal but it’s a blessing in disguise, your bring life into this world.

Weiss: Yeah I guess your right but what if he freaks out.

Yang: If he does talk it over like you said this is a surprise to both you and him my dad freaked out when summer was pregnant with Ruby, but they eventually talked it out and sooner or later they got the hang of having a second child.

Weiss: Really?

Yang: Yeah couples are sure to freak out at first

Weiss: Thank You Yang.

Weiss: “Hugs Yang”

Yang: “Hugs Weiss Back”

Yang: No problem Ice Queen.

Yang: Sooo have you thought about names yet.

Weiss: Yang I had only recently found out, I don’t even know if it’s a boy or a girl.

Weiss: Though during our wedding out of nowhere Jaune said he liked the name Frost

Yang: Heh he’s keeping up with your family’s cool names.

Weiss: “Rolls Eyes”

Really wanted to do a pregnant story for a while now, thought I would finally do it hope you enjoyed it.

[darealsaltysam]

what your paladins main says about you

a comprehensive essay by a paladins player of right around 4 years

this is like really long so i’ll make it under the cut so my followers don’t have to scroll through this if they don’t wanna

(for context i’m a current maeve main, i used to main skye and sha lin and played tyra a long while ago)

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Androxus

it’s not a phase, mum

“i don’t care we don’t have healer, i’m really good at him i swear”

you ult every time it loads in and you die before the final shot

your favorite mode is siege because you can fly up and shoot the whole point on ult

you’re usually really stand-offish and don’t communicate much and/or a 13 year old boy with anger issues

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Ash

you are level-headed but in a scary way

you will hold the point solo even if it costs you your streak

“get on the point” “guys get on the point” “attack the objective”

you’ll ult to save yourself 99% of the time

good leader

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Atlas

you probably used to main lex or androxus before he came out

“he’s like a flank, but a tank, he’s great!”

you chase after solo kills instead of sticking to the point

healers hate you, flanks and damages fear you

your favorite mode is death match

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Barik

you’re a former/current tf2 player looking for something fresh

you don’t like working too hard so you spam turrets on the point and hope for the best

“healer stick to me i’m boutta ult”

actually really nice between rounds

but you don’t communicate much mid-game and kind of do your thing

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Bomb King

you’re a really old player. you have the beta makoa skin and you were there when lex was first released. veteran’s discount.

your favorite maps are the old ones and they barely show up any more

the team always underestimates you

“who plays bomb king in 2021 lol?”

you need a hug

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Buck

“wait, he’s a flank? i thought he was a tank??”

you’re also a veteran in the game

you’re a dying breed. i like never see you. do you even exist?

you’ve been here since like the first day of the game

buck gets so many skins and you want all of them but the best you have is a random recolor

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Cassie

sweetest person alive

“we can do it guys! let’s try to all rush the point this time!”

you are the bane of every flank

the opposing team hates you, your own team kind of doesn’t notice you’re there

*casually gets a pentakill*

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Corvus

you know those weirdly political kids who like ww2 and know the details of every tank to ever exist? yeah that’s you

but like that’s corvus. as a character.

but no one ever plays him.

like i never even see him do you exist???

you are a cryptid.

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Dredge

yo ho you’re a hoe

no seriously the other team views you and they FEAR you

“yeah i just got a penta kill” “YOU WHAT?” “eyes on the point mate don’t get distracted”

hella good at the game and hella casual about it

you like onslaught on the one sea map the most

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Drogoz

another veteran, are we?

you’re either useless or can wipe out a whole team in seconds. there is no in-between.

you always have a really cool skin.

dovahkiin, dovahkiin...

“i don’t care about the point i gotta get them trips”

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Evie

you bought her because you thought she was cute, admit it

*turns into ice right before dying* *turns into ice right before dying* *turns into ice right be

your personality type is identical to her. no question about that.

always buys faster reload and better speed

strangely good communication with the team

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Fernando

gay gay homosexual gay

“he’s kinda hot if you look at him the right way”

fernando is the tank for gay people

you are gay people

i don’t have much more to say

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Furia

mum energy. not as much as inara mains, but still, mum energy.

will protect every member of the team with your life, even the flanks

you’ve been maining her since she was first added

i bet you didn’t even know she’s canonically seris’ sister

“we’ve literally failed to capture the point the last 3 times we might as well give up and go to another game”

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Grohk

“yeah i have a gremlincore tumblr blog, how could you tell?”

i honestly have no words

you’re kind of like a catboy but a racoon

do you even heal the team or do you just pretend

you were there when lex got announced and thought he was cringe, now everyone finally agrees with you

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Grover

he was your first purchased character and he’s stuck around ever since

he’s the only healer you can play well

“i am groot lmao”

you would never say a word to your team

would give your life for the tank but that’s about it

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Imani

daenerys targaryen on drugs

your favorite anime is my hero academia

your husbando is todoroki

you see where i am going with this

“team protect me i’m gonna ult” *dies 5 seconds into ult*

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Inara

BIG MUM ENERGY

your team is your family. you will protect them with your life.

can only hold your own with a good healer so you have good teamwork going for you

*cutely places wall in front of your ult*

useless in tdm so you stick to onslaught, siege and koth

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Io

are you a furry, furry, or a furry?

“victow! dont ult on my tweam pwease! uwu!”

you 100% find her attractive in some way shape or form

you are either a 30 year old redditor who enjoys loli content or a 16 year old teen who is playing a shooter for the first time

she’s kind of cute, i guess

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Jenos

i can never tell if i’m going to absolutely destroy you or if you’re gonna kick my ass

*cutely holds you up so the whole team can shoot you to death*

kamehameha

you’re a healer??? i guess???

your character has such deep lore and i bet you don’t even know half of it

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Khan

one day you were playing and your team desperately needed a tank. you picked the first one you saw. suddenly, you’re lian’s foot stool

despite 2 layers of heavy armor, you’d still let this man walk all over you

“this skin is really cool, wish it wasn’t behind a pay wall...”

YEET

you actually know the game’s lore, for some reason

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Kinessa

i never trust people who are good at a sniper. if you’re bad that’s natural and you’re 99% of the population. if you’re good you are definitely up to something

you’d sell your sister for 5 pennies if you could

you’re missing from the team all game and somehow have the most kills

“we have a kinessa???”

you are an urban legend to your team

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Koga

someone’s been watching naruto

you are so shit at the game. like i’m sorry. no one’s good at koga i’m so sorry

how do you have so many skins for one character???

you’re always missing from the point

healers hate you. so does the enemy kinessa.

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Lex

quit the game /nm

“who mains lex in 2021??? lmao???”

wall hacks, aimbot, and it’s all legal for you as an ability. you are a hacker in a world of puny vanillas. you like it easy so you go for the easy min max character. have fun getting hated

you think he’s hot and press on his loading abilities just so he can scold you and you can hear him being mad at you

*bonk* go to horny jail

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Lian

"she could step on me”

you used to main some sort of healer but switched over when you got sick of everyone being needy

you can hold a point all on your own for a really really long time but the moment your team gets there you start flunking

you wish you had more skins for her

you don’t

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Maeve

so imagine this. it was like 2018 and you were just chilling playing the game. you kept getting killed by maeve. in every game. she was in every game you went to and she kept killing you over and over and over again. you got frustrated, snapped, and bought her to see if you could do the same to others. you are now the maeve in every game. the cycle repeats.

your whole team doubts you but then you casually get a quad kill and they just sort of look away

you die a total of two times each round and 99% of the time it’s because you go too fast and fall off the map

you repeat everything she says in her accent because you think it’s cute

“welcome to ze meant streets, kitten!” “can you shut the fuck up” “i hate to cut and run, he-he!”

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Makoa

you have the plushie skin or the beta skin, otherwise you don’t main and only play casually stop lying to yourself

“attack turtle go brrr”

you’re really good if you get paired with a good healer

otherwise you’re useless

you wish you could get better teammates because you could really thrive with an organized group. but on paladins you won’t get that, i’m sorry-

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Mal’Damba

i always forget this guy is even in the game

you’re definitely under 6 foot IRL

you have an older sibling you always fight with

you’d love to have a snake irl

you’re really chill outside of the game, but when playing you hella rage

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Moji

you are so precious

but also such a little shit

you annoy me but i also want to give you a hug

“let’s go guys!! to the point!! wheee!!”

please never change but also get out of my sight

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Octavia

you always main the new character until the new person drops

somehow always have enough credits to buy the new champion whenever they come out

you don’t like having a stable main cuz you get bored

you like hanging out at the training rage

hate siege and love team death match, you like your games quick

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Pip

you are the worst and best thing to ever happen to this game

you only pick him to heal yourself and hardly ever heal your team

no one notices you there until you ult

then you get focused

honestly you just seem like you wanna do your thing and i can respect that

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Raum

you probably go to therapy or desperately need it

“BIG MAN BIG. HE IS BIG. BRRRR”

you always love the demons in media

you like being in charge of the team and wreck the point any time you are there, you like fighting on your own but having a healer nearby is nice too

you probably have daddy issues

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Ruckus

you think ruckus’ and bolt’s dynamic is cool and that’s one of the main reasons you started playing him

he’s the only tank you can play

you used to main either inara or ying at some point but chose violence instead

really short irl. you physically relate to ruckus and spiritually to bolt.

“funny goblin man :)”

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Seris

certified girlboss

you can hold an objective all on your own or heal your whole team no problem. either way you are SLAYING

“alright. who’s ass am i kicking today?”

mum energy is inferior to inara but still kind of there

i’m like 50% sure you have a foot fetish

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Sha Lin

*pointing and chanting* incel, incel, ince-

whether that’s about you or the character you can decide

you like minecraft bedwars on the side

“if i don’t get this headshot i am literally going to spontaneously combust”

really useful when there’s no other long distance people - otherwise a nuisance

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Skye

AWOOGA *jaw drops to ground, eyes roll out of head* BOOBA BOOBA BOOBA

you bought her for the tiddies, didn’t you?

she’s actually really satisfying to play once you get the hang of her, but can be real tough on rough days

you need a break i think - maybe play some other game for a bit?

*casually gets team kill with ult*

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Strix

you own at least one pretty knife

you played him when he was unlocked on rotation, fell in love, and spent a whole evening collecting credits to buy him fully

“haha bird man”

i’ve said what i said about snipers. if you’re actually good at him you are hiding a body somewhere. i fear you.

why does everyone ship him with viktor????

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Talus

little furry child

he reminds me of tommyinnit because he is small and annoying

if you play him you are tall and intimidating 

i’m friends with a tall scary talus main

i can’t say bad things please spare me

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Terminus

you always ult at the worst time and just get killed again 5 seconds after

“hey losers watch this” *goes on the point, dies, revives, kills one person and dies again*

you’re only a good tank if you cooperate

you don’t

on your own you’re a pretty good player

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Tiberius

*sigh*

you think the cat is hot, don’t you?

“his accent is kinda cute tho hehe”

you saw that one ending scene in zootopia with the dancing tigers and it CHANGED you

you are probably a furry. if not your awakening is coming. be ready.

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Torvald

you’ve been playing this game for too long

you’ve seen skins rise and fall. you’ve seen nerfs and buffs. you’ve seen reworks and remakes. you are ancient. older than the dragons and wiser than makoa. respect.

people see you on the opposing team and get really annoyed

“the point is really crowded, we can’t move in” “don’t worry guys, my ult is charged up”

you’re really good at all the characters but you like this guy a lot because you think he’s funky fresh

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Tyra

you’re either new to the game or have been playing for too long

either way you can KICK ASS but you need to keep behind your team to do the most damage

flanks are the bane of you, especially the fast jumpy ones

you really want one of the cooler skins but you can only ever get the basic ones. such is the curse of maining one of the OG characters.

“bite me”

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Viktor

you are level 100+ guaranteed, and everyone fears you

“oh shit they got a victor. flank focus him”

you probably play COD and CS:GO normally and wanted to go with something familiar and easy. your skill from the other more advanced games DWARFS everyone else

but why are you playing “guy with gun 132″ in a game with magical elves and fairies. like come on bro.

you don’t have any in-game friends because paladins is your guilty pleasure game you would never admit to

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Vivian

“step on me” syndrome cranked up to 100%

this woman could spit on you and you’d still respect her more than your own mother. good for you

“i’m not a simp. i’m just tier 3 subbed to pokimane ironically”

you sweat the game hardcore. former victor main or he’s your secondary.

you’ve got her on level 50+ at least

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Vora

like the maeve mains but somehow worse

bought her out of spite or played her while she was on rotation, now here you are grinding credits for her a day after she became unavailable

honestly you’re really good at the game i have nothing else to say

you enjoy the newer characters more than the OGs - you’re either a former vivian or lian main

you miss the play of the game feature in the game because you’d get all of them with this girl

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Willo

you seem like the moji mains at first but show your true colors soon after

“fuck you” x50

you are a trash talker on max overdrive. you need to sit down, do some breathing exercises and have a drink.

you hate your own team more than the opposing guys

when you see a willow on the opposing team you make it your sole goal to eliminate her as many times as humanely possible

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Yagorath

i bet you didn’t know she was canonically female until you read this

you don’t like sweating too much so you pick the tank that leaves you heavily relying on your healers and damages

you can hold a point really well so you like siege and onslaught

“are vora and yagorath connected in the lore somehow and do i really care?”

you have a friend who you always party up with to be your healer, otherwise you might switch to another character

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Ying

“tanks love me, flanks hate me”

you are too powerful. literally. how are you so strong

you’ve mastered the most difficult healer in the game. the others are really easy for you to play but you have trouble with seris

motivate your team a lot but start shading and trash talking if they don’t cooperate

you’ll gladly play someone else for a long while and like taking breaks from her

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Zhin

this is your first main after switching over from overwatch. we can smell it on you.

you’re really annoyed with his personality and voice lines but the character is too good to play for you to pass him up for that. you respond to his voice lines aloud very aggressively to let him know he’s an ass

“YES ZHIN HEALERS AREN’T USELESS YOU SELFISH PRICK”

you try your best but you’re not a great team player

infinite trips on a good day, die repeatedly without kills on a bad one and you switch over to vora or skye for a bit.

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this took me hours to write out pls leave reblog and note thanks uwu

[a-purple-lizard]

Hello lovely! I know ur still working on part two of the smutty raiden story but can I request a short fluffy one shot of Raiden making sushi with his wife who’s a total cinnamon roll 🤗

Thank uuuu🙏🏼

Sushi at the sky temple

Raiden x Fem wife reader

Oh goodness! I’ve been writing too much angst, the fluff- it’s putting life into my soul! Goodness! The tooth rotting fluff!

Raiden groaned slightly in his sleep, arm stretching to his right, searching for a warm body to no avail. He grunted at the lack of contact. “Raiden.” An excited whisper sounded in his ear. “Wake up darling.” The god groaned, rolling on his side. A frustrated huff sounded above him as he was suddenly pushed out of his semi conscious state by a weight on his chest.

Opening his glowing eyes, he could see the source of his slumbers interruption. His beloved wife, S/o sat on his chest, thighs pinning his arms to his sides. She smiled down as him before dipping her head down and painting gentle butterfly kisses over his face. The thunder god smiled and closed his eyes, enjoying the feeling.

With one last light kiss on the tip of his nose, she sat up and allowed him to open his eyes. “Is there a reason for this awakening, s/o?”

She smiled down at him, sliding off of his body to stand next to the bed, “Yes, come with me, I have a surprise for you.”

Standing up, he started to take off his silk pajamas as s/o grabbed his robes, laying them out on the dresser as she grabbed the thunder gods armor plating from its stand. Raiden quickly slipped into his robes, turning as a/o approached with his metal plating. The god attached the arm plates as his wife strapped on the chest and back plate. After a few more adjustments and layers, the god was fully dressed and ready. Well almost.

His silver hair was in tangles from his restless slumber. S/o ran her hand through the silky substance before grabbing a brush nearbye and gesturing for him to follow her.

The two made their way down to the next floor of the sky temple, Raiden didn’t worry about anybody seeing his messy appearance since the top three floors of the sky temple were forbidden to the monks and they were not expecting any visitors.

His beloved finally halted at the food preparation area, her smile bright. Raiden scanned the surface of the table, two wooden bowls of rice sat side by side, behinde them was a large sushi bowl decorated in carvings of Sakura trees. A small glass pitcher of amber liquid rested in the countertop next to a large wooden spoon.

“I’ve been really wanting some sushi recently, I mentioned it to Kung Lao last time he visited, and he surprised me the other day with the items needed to make it.” She gently grabbed his hands, leading him over to a spot wheee he could easily access all the items. “I thought we could do it together! Make it fun?”

The god felt his neutral expression shift to a smile at the woman’s offer. After all, not even a god could resist that hopeful look in her eyes. “Where do we start?”

The light of her smile was enough to shame the sun as she stood beside him, brush still in hand. “I’ll fix your hair while you prepare the rice, I’ll instruct you.” She explained, stroking the object through his hair. “First, pour those two bowls of sushi rice into that big wooden sushi bowl.”

Raiden could feel the heat radiate off of the rice as he gently let it fall into the sushi bowl, she must had just made it. S/o hummed behinde him, “okay, now grab that glass of seasoned rice vinegar and pour it on the rice.”

Turning around to grab the glass pitcher, he was ambushed with a kiss on his cheek. He managed to playfully nuzzle her hair in retaliation before returning to the task at hand and guiding the glass over the sushi bowl and pouring it onto the rice. A playful tug at his hair told him what when to stop. “I’m almost done, now grab that flat wooden spoon and break up the rice.”

Glowing eyes, slid over to the wooden spoons location, next to where the glass pitcher once was. He turned once again to obtain the object, smiling as he saw movement from the corner of his eye. He quickly turned his head as S/o’s lips landed on his. She squealed in delight, allowing their lips to press together for a moment before she returned to her task, smiling at the brush as she did so.

With the spoon in his hand, the god broke apart the vinegar soaked rice, a smile still on his face. S/o ran her fingers through his silky locks, a hum of approval sounding from her throat. As she walked over to the table in the next room she yelled over her shoulder, “oh, make sure you’re folding the rice over itself.”

She returned shortly after, the brush no where to be found. She nodded in approval at the sushi bowl. Opening a drawer, she pulled out a bladed fan that Raiden recognized at Kitanas. He sent her a questioning look as s/o started to fan the rice. “What? She left it here! Plus I’m going to give it back to her! I just keep forgetting...” she smiled sheepishly at her work.

The two stood side by side, repeating the process over and over until the glass pitcher of vinegar was empty. S/o took charge, placing a sheet of silk over the bowl before disappearing behinde Raiden, returning with sheets of nori. “Lay these out Raiden, make sure to put the shiny sides face down, oh and put them on those wooden mats I have piled up over there.” She instructed before disappearing again.

Doing as he was told, he lay out each sheet in an orderly fashion on the counter, carefully aligning them with the wooden Mats, His wife returned, a wooden basket filled with cut up herbs and vegetables as well as a bowl filled with water. “Here, wet your hands.” She placed the bowl down. Raiden dipped his hands in, shaking off the excess water.

“Why did I do that?” He asked as s/o placed the vegetables in a neat row. She smiled at him, leaning forward to kiss his eyelid.

“So the rice doesn’t stick.” She explained briefly, “now get a bit of rice for each sheet and press it down to cover the sheet, leave an inch of nori paper open though, it’s for later!”

Softly, he pressed the rice on each sheet into the requested position, as soon as the last grain was put in place, he felt lips place themselves on the back of his neck. “Thank you, love. Now go wash your hands, I’ll take over.”

S/o slid in front of him, placing the herbs and vegetables in a neat line in the center of the rice covered paper. Walking over to the sink, Raiden pressed down the leaver, showering his slightly sticky hands in water before pouring liquid out of a small red bottle nearbye into his hands.

When he turned around, he found that each sheet had a row of filling on top. S/o was currently folding a mat over, rolling the paper along with it. She tucked the mat in at a certain point, squeezing the mat before undoing it, revealing a loose roll underneath. She then flipped it over, using the mat to shape the roll.

When she noticed raidens gaze, she smiled warmly at him, “do you think you can do the other ones? I can start the cutting!”

He chuckled at her cheerful smile, walking over to the remaining rolls and mimicking her movements. As he did that, s/o grabbed a knife from the drawer and delicately pressed it down at multiple points in the roll, cutting it evenly. She religiously swiped a silk cloth over it after each cut.

Finally, they were finished. Raiden handed his wife a glass platter. She smiled and gave him a thankful look as she started to neatly placed each sushi roll. “Here, I know I had some soy sauce saved in that cabinet.” She gestured to a cubby above raidens head. Ye thunder hod opened it, finding only a few small bottles, “it’s the one next to the pink one.”

Grabbing the desired bottle, he handed it to s/o who had just finished her work. She nodded before placing it on the counter and leaning down, opening the cabinets below her. Raiden turned away, grabbing the supply’s that needed cleaning and taking them over to the sink. As he washed, s/o took out three bowls and a few more unnamed bottles.

She placed each bowl on the platter, spreading them out and filling them with soy sauce. Taking the unmarked bottles, she drizzled different sauces on the rolls. S/o screwed the bottles shut, walking around the food preparation area, putting each back in their place. Raiden had finished up with cleaning the supplies and started to put each item away.

S/o quickly dashed over to help. After everything was put away, Raiden grabbed the platter and headed to the table, his wide staying behinde to grab two pairs of chopsticks.

She handed a pair to Raiden as the two sat down side my side. S/o leaned on her husband as they both tried one. The woman anxiously grabbed at her clothes, waiting for the gods response.

Raiden didn’t eat food, well not anymore. When he was still new to existence, he tried many kinds of food, experiencing as mush as he could. As time went on, the god started to lose interest since eating gave him no benefit other then the temperal pleasure on his tongue.

His expression morphed into a satisfied one as he finished his last bite. S/o smiled and let out a small squeal, earning a playful nuzzle from the god.

The two lovers stayed there, side by side, tasting their creation as s/o went on and on about different things they could try. Raiden just smiled, enjoying watching the adorable passion rush throughout her face.

[toweroftickles]

DISTRACTIONS (Frozen Tickle Fic)

Requested by @sapphicsierramist !

Work, work, work; nothing but work.

That’s all Elsa did.

She sat in her study at the polished oaken desk, writing with her long brown quill. Every day was like the other. Early morning sun from the massive wall-sized window stroked the right side of her face. The queen of Arendelle had barely woken up for the day...her braid was loosely tied, her periwinkle nightgown fluttering around her bare ankles...and she was already scribbling her way through mountains of royal decrees. Next to her, antsy as ever, sat her sister.

Anna’s cheek rested in her left palm and her face settled into a dull, emotionless stare. But Elsa didn’t even seem to notice.

“And therefore as we the people of...no, the community...of Arendelle......must....convene....” Elsa muttered under her breath, barely audible. Like all tiny repetitive noises, her whispers danced around in Anna’s eardrums until they seemed loud enough to shatter boulders.

“You still talk out loud when you write?” Anna blurted.

Elsa’s concentration broke, and she frowned.

“It helps me organize my thoughts,” Elsa snapped defensively. “....I don’t HAVE to.” She returned to writing, a bit more self-consciously.

Anna rolled her eyes and rocked in her seat. She tapped her fingers against the desk, and against the unsigned property treaties in front of her. She played with her tied-up hair, twirled her own feather pen in between her fingers, and even picked her nose once or twice. But nothing relieved the boredom.

“UUUUGGGGHHH; come on, Elsa. If I have to read one more of these things my eyes are going to pop out. Let’s play a board game.”

Once again the snow queen snapped out of her work-induced trance.

“Anna, please, we have a lot of these to go over! We can goof around later, but this is important,” Elsa sighed frustratedly.

Anna was downcast. Since their reunion, she had hoped that Elsa would loosen up and have fun again. But all their time was occupied by the endless tedium of governance and paperwork. She’d simply traded Elsa’s locked bedroom for another, less-physical one.

Her tongue involuntarily clicked to the rhythm of the nearby wall clock...something which visibly began to annoy Elsa. The queen kept pausing and stumbling over her words when Anna clicked.

“And...this celebration of....rrrrg...this celeb shall be...ugh....a highly...a highly...gah!....A celebration of a highly relished fart! ....ART!”

Anna burst into giggles. Elsa blushed.

“Please stop doing that,” she moaned.

“Oh, cheer up! Being a queen is supposed to be fun.”

“Anna, I want to have fun with you but we’ve both been given so many responsibilities! Can’t you grow up a little?”

Elsa returned to her work. Anna pouted and wiggled her feather on the end Elsa’s nose.

“Gah, stop it! You have work of your own to do!”

Frustrated, Anna stood up and stepped away. All she wanted was to make her sis smile. Then she looked down.

Beneath Elsa’s chair, her bare feet rested on their toes and swayed back and forth over one another. They squirmed and wiggled as the busy queen tensed up. As Anna glanced at the long, thin feather in her hand, a big grin stretched across her face.

Without making a sound, Anna flattened herself against the crimson carpet and crawled forward on her belly until she was just behind her sister’s chair. She had to cover her mouth to keep from laughing. It had to be a surprise attack. The tip of the feather wiggled in the air as she reached forward, until finally, it made contact with the arch of Elsa’s foot.

Elsa gasped. Something felt funny. But she shook it off and kept writing.

No real response.

Anna wiggled the feather again. Harder this time.

“G-HAH!” A sudden laugh burst out of Elsa. She looked horrified. “Anna, what are you doing?!”

“Heheh-Heh; you can’t get away now!” Anna giggled and grabbed Elsa’s right ankle. The queen’s pale skin always felt so cold to the touch.

“Anna, please don’t. Leave me alone,” Elsa stammered.

“Ok...I won’t leave you alone!” Anna immediately began to stroke her sister’s sole with the feather.

Elsa’s whole body twitched. But she couldn’t let Anna get to her. Maintain composure, she told herself. If she could just focus on her documents, she was sure she could ignore the tickling.

“Hooooo...At this next juncture in our history, we as countryhee...we m-hust...mmm...we mhuhust....!” Elsa jumped in her chair and covered her mouth. The feather caressed her heel, her arch, her toes...it tickled so bad. Having been locked in a room for so many years, with so little contact and such little outdoor life, Elsa’s skin was smooth, unscarred, uncalloused, inexperienced...highly sensitive to touch. She couldn’t pry her ankle from Anna’s grip.

Keep writing. Keep writing!

“Wheee must join together and remain f-hirm in our values. As a country uhundergoing a sh-hift in regiheehime...!”

Elsa buried her face in her hands and bit her lip, desperately trying to contain the helpless giggles bubbling up in her tummy.

“Come oooonnn; I know you’re ticklish right heee-errrrrrre...” Anna teased in a gratingly sing-songy voice. The tip of the feather danced around on Elsa’s bare foot, stroking the tender spot just below her toes. It was all the Snow Queen could handle.

She struggled. She fought valiantly. But she couldn’t hold it in anymore.

“Ha-Ha Ha-Ha Ha-Ha! *gasp*Ah Ha-Ha Ha-Ha Ha! Ahanna! Ahanna, stop!”

The drawback to such a husky, melodious voice...in Elsa’s mind...was how well it carried. When she laughed, she was sure the entire palace could hear her, and this notion embarrassed her to no end. She blushed.

“Heheh! Cootchie cootchie cootchie cootchie cooo!” Anna giggled excitedly.

“L-hee...leave my feet alone, Ha-Ha Ha-Ha!” By this point Elsa was doubled over against her desk, her ticklish toes desperate to escape. Her feet wiggled and kicked, but her right ankle was held still by Anna’s iron grip, and that feather was relentless. “Aha-Haha Ha-Ha Ha! I c-han’t...I can’t!”

Suddenly the tickling stopped.

Elsa gasped for air, still overcome by giggles. She fanned herself with her hand and tried to catch her breath. But in doing so, she didn’t notice Anna standing up behind her.

“You still feel like goofing off later?” Anna giggled. Snapping like a crab, Anna pressed her fingertips into Elsa’s sides and wiggled them furiously.

“Ha-Ha Ha-Ha Ha! Heehee! Cut it ou-hout! STOP!”

A wave of snow and icy air exploded out of the queen’s quivering frame, and without warning, Anna was thrown back 15 feet onto the floor.

But far from being hurt, Anna could only laugh hysterically. It had been so long, over a decade, since their last tickle fight. For all the changes, it was nice to know that she could still make her big sis lose control.

Suddenly Elsa’s head snapped around, and her eyes glinted with burning ice. Her scowl could have melted Marshmallow. Her breathing was heavy, labored, like an angry bull. It slowed. Anna’s playful demeanor vanished as she retreated into herself, overcome by visions of what punishment awaited her. She backed up on her hands, prepared to run from some expression of icy wrath.

But to her surprise, Elsa’s frown became a wicked smirk.

“So that’s how you want to play, huh?” From behind her, Elsa’s right hand emerged to reveal its own long quill, which she wiggled menacingly in the air.

Anna panicked.

“Wait...no....nonononono; NO....”

But it was too late. Elsa had already dived on her sister and pinned her to the floor, and her sharp fingernails dug their way into Anna’s tummy.

“AHH!! Heehee-Heehee Haha-Haha Ha! No fair! No fahair!”

“No fair? Oh, it’s not funny anymore, is it?” Elsa giggled.

“Heehee-HEE! Heheh, Heh; Haha-Haha Ha! Ah! Ok-hay, ok, I’m sorry!”

“Sooo, is this still your weak spot?” Elsa poked the sharp stem of her quill just to the side of Anna’s belly button.

“GAAAHHH, Haha-Ha! *gasp* Whoa-hoho; not there not there not there! *squeak* Ha-Ha Ha-Ha!”

“Hmm....ok! Let’s try something else.” With that threat, Elsa spun around, still sitting on her sister’s knees, and pulled off Anna’s green slippers.

“Wait wait...I lied! Go back to my belly!” Anna giggled. Despite her protests, she was having fun.

With one hand, Elsa began to viciously tickle Anna’s soles with her fingers. With the other hand, Elsa sawed the feather quill back and forth between her toes.

“AAHH! *squeak* HA-HA HA-HA! *gasp*Heehee-Haha Haha! St-hop, stop!”

“Cootchie cootchie coo!”

As the sisters laughed and wrestled, they were interrupted by an unexpected guest...a knock at the door.

“Your highnesses?” It was the voice of a soldier.

They froze perfectly still, and didn’t even need Elsa’s magic to do it. In a flurry of panic, the princess sisters straightened their hair, pressed wrinkles out of their gowns, slipped on shoes. Anna spit on her index finger and even made a half-hearted attempt to brush her teeth with it. Elsa pretended not to notice. 20 seconds had passed, and the door creaked opened.

“Um, yes?” Elsa said in as official a tone as she could muster.

The guard before her coughed awkwardly.

“The, um, the visiting royal family of Corona has arrived early. They’ll be at the castle within 5 minutes.”

“Oh! Ok, uh, well, show them in and give them a tour, and we’ll be down to entertain them in a few minutes.”

“Yes, your highness.”

The door shut with a loud click. Elsa looked back at her sister.

“Alright, enough horsing around. Get going so I can get dressed,” she laughed. Anna eagerly skipped toward the door.

“So I won, right? I totally won.” Her freckled smile could have lit up the room all on its own.

“Oh, get out,” Elsa replied, opening the door.

Instead of obeying, Anna simply stood there and gawked. Both sisters were visibly trying not to giggle, each wondering if the other would slip up first.

Anna didn’t wait for fate to decide. She jabbed her finger into Elsa’s tummy and then ran out the door like a shot.

“AH! Heheh!” Elsa yelped and reflexively bent over. By the time she steadied herself, Anna was already halfway down the hall.

“Oh, you’re gonna get it now!” Elsa chased after her sister, both of them laughing like little girls, the halls echoing with their reminiscing and their joy.

And so the day marched on.

These two are so cute though 😆

[suzuki-violin-school]

First I Love You HCs

First “I love you” headcanons !

Content: fluff, I Love You, bakugo throwing a temper tantrum, very cheesy, nicknames, bakugo insulting someone, getting caught passing notes in class, spiderman

Denki Kaminari

his: he short circuited and between all the mumbling and wheeeeee,,

“jkafbhe did you know i love you? ...wheee ukbajhfgdt”

honestly it’s the funniest thing you’ve ever seen 

you’re laughing as you give him a water bottle but neither of you actually address it

yours: snuggling up to him in bed when you’re half asleep

he’s awake though

he’s stroking your hair all comfortingly and you just hum contently

“mmmm i love you”

“yeah... right back atcha”

Eijiro Kirishima

his: after an intense water balloon fight in the summer

everyone’s wet and while everyone is congratulating deku on winning bakugo is throwing a tantrum about losing

kiri takes your hand while everyone’s distracted

biggest smile ever

“that was so fun! you were great! i love you so much!”

all the water on your face evaporates as your cheeks heat up

yours: you were working out together in his man cave very manly room

super tired, sweaty, fatigued, already sore and dreading tomorrow

he’s sitting on the floor and you’re laying down, still panting

“god... i love you, but you work me way too hard sometimes”

Fumikage Tokoyami

his: actually it wasn’t him, it was dark shadow

you were both sitting on his bed, reading quietly

tokoyami was looking up at you every five seconds and you definitely noticed but didn’t say anything

then dark shadow popped up out of nowhere

“FUMI REALLY LOVES YOU”

“JESus you scared me! ...lol, fumi”

yours: the two of you were having a tea party mad banquet of darkness

you wound up behind him at some point and put your hands over his eyes

“guess who!”

“...kaminari.”

“What? No, try again.”

“...hagakure.”

“No! It’s the person who loves you more than life, you idiot!”

“...dark shadow.”

Hanta Sero

his: spelled it out in tape on one of the walls in the common area of the dorms

that’s it

yours: you stood in front of his door playing a cheesy love song on your phone

but you only sang along when the lyrics said “i love you”

Izuku Midoriya

his: he did it during lunch, sitting in his usual spot surrounded by friends

because they all had his back, right? they were supportive, right? that’s what friends are for, right?

stuttering the whole time

“h-hey y/n? i-i uh, well, um, i-i wanted to s-say that i uh l-love you. a whole lot.”

everyone cheered

legends say he’s still blushing

yours: lyrics prank over text in the class 1-a group chat

hagakure and ashido were in on it and definitely helped

they were the backup singers !

the rest of the class thought it was really cute excluding bakugo

even aizawa supports you two

Katsuki Bakugo

his: he just said it straight up

instead of saying bye when you were going out with some of the others, he just

“i love you. see you later.”

“OH MY GOD THAT’S SO CUTE!!!”

“Shut up you invisible cunt!”

yours: passed a love letter to him in class

“roses are red, violets are blue, this is the stupidest format of poetry in the world and it’s so overused. anyway, i love you, time bomb”

he’s usually pretty chill but jeez he was flushed

aizawa saw you pass the note and asked bakugo to read it to the class, and he did so very proudly, followed by “and i love my girlfriend/boyfriend/date mate a lot right back!”

Mashirao Ojiro

his: okay, so you know spiderman?

he was in a tree and he grabbed a branch with his tail and dropped down in front of you as you passed

you grinned because what is he doing now

he was also grinning (nervously) because what am i doing this is ridiculous

upside-down kiss !!

“love you.”

and then he disappeared back up into the tree

yours: at the end of a date !

as you both parted ways afterwards, you kissed him on the lips and said it plainly, like in the movies

Shoto Todoroki

his: very straightforward

he walked up to you, completely unprovoked, said i love you, and then walked away to go do whatever it was that he was already on his way to do

“...what”

yours: very soft

you walked up behind him and wrapped your arms around his waist

(he was talking with deku at the time)

you rested your chin on his shoulder

(he rested one hand on yours and reached up with his other to caress your cheek)

you whispered it right by his ear

your breath sends shivers up his spine and he stiffens

“todoroki? are you okay?”

“y-yes, fine midoriya”

you thought it was really funny and he was very flustered for the rest of the day

Tenya Iida

actually you both said it kind of at the same time

you were both sitting on your bed

he was holding you from behind while you studied

“i love you, y/n”

you smiled softly and turned around to kiss him

“and i love you too, class rep”

then he died, the end

[nanoland]

Title: Besyd the scarcety of bread amowngst us

Fandom: Supernatural 

Pairing: Crowley/Dean Winchester

Summary: In which Dean asks a question.

Warnings: Crowley being Extremely traumatized and kind of oblivious to that fact + SPN demons being SPN demons (i.e. remorseless bodysnatchers) + Dean being his casually misogynistic self + graphic descriptions of starvation + exhibitionism (sorta?) + sexually explicit content because this was MEANT to be straightforward smut and then Crowley happened, the prick.

Also on AO3!

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“So how come you aren’t a hot chick?”

The glass stills an inch from Crowley’s pale lips. “I humbly beg your pardon?”

It’s late. The bar’s quiet. He doesn’t need Dean to repeat himself. Just a moment to decide on a response.

Well on the way to utterly shit-faced, Dean gestures vaguely, meaninglessly. “You offer people stuff. Then, ten years later, you drag ‘em to Hell. And – and they know that’s what’s gonna happen if they make a deal with you. Which means that you gotta be real fuckin’ persuasive. Which you are. Grade A Bullshit Artist and don’t I know it. But... uh, what was I gonna… yeah, wouldn’t it be easier, right, just way easier if you were a hot chick?”

Crowley can tell he’s not done, so he keeps his silver tongue behind his faintly yellowed teeth for the moment.

While Dean is usually delightful company, in his surly, macho way, this evening there’s an uncommonly obnoxious edge to everything he says. That almost certainly means his insecurities over what he’s been letting Crowley do to his arse lately are acting up.

Understandable. Still annoying.

So Crowley’s more than willing to let his favourite human dig himself a wee bit deeper before pouring boiling tar into the pit.

After quickly throwing back the last of his drink, Dean goes on: “Now, I didn’t go to some dickslurp business school. I ain’t that brand of asshole. But I’ve seen enough beer ads in my time to have an idea of how marketing works. You got something you want people to buy? Fastest way is to get a hot chick in a bikini to hold it up. Because guys have most of the money in this shitty world of ours and guys think with their dicks. I know I do. So why did you decide to possess someone who looks like a balding, middle-aged banker going through a stressful divorce? That ain’t enticing. That ain’t capturing anyone’s interest. Y’know?”

“Mm,” says Crowley, and stands up.

“Fuck’re you doing?” Dean slurs, watching him take off his tie.

“Ever heard of the Seven Ill Years, Squirrel?”

“Nope. Seriously, what’re you doing?”

Draping his overcoat over the back of his chair along with his tie, Crowley sets about taking off his jacket. “‘The Seven Ill Years’ refers to a particularly shitty time in early modern Scotland; the 1690s.”

He tugs off his costly leather shoes and places them side-by-side under his chair. “I was in my… early thirties at the time, I think. Thirty-two? Maybe thirty-one. Whatever.”

Dean is gaping now. He’s never seen Crowley without his outer layers, much less the growing slice of exposed chest as Crowley unbuttons his shirt.

“For a lot of complicated reasons relating to oceanic thermohaline circulation, solar activity, and a few ill-timed volcanos, the weather turned rotten. These days, it’s called the Little Ice Age. Us pigshit stupid peasants who lived through it didn’t know anything about all that. All we knew was that it was freezing bloody cold and the crops kept dying.”

“Dude,” Dean hisses, red-faced as Crowley sets his shirt alongside his jacket and overcoat. “Stop it! We’re going to be thrown out!”

“No. Look around. Is anyone paying attention to us? Precisely. We’re invisible to them at the moment, Squirrel. One of my little tricks.”

“Oh. Okay, that’s good. But that’s still not an excuse to take your fucking pants off in public oh my God oh my God!”

They’re expensive pants and Crowley takes care to fold them before putting them down. “To cut a long story short; famine struck. And famine, it’s…”

Crowley pauses, thinking, ignoring Dean’s pathetic attempts not to gawk at his dick.

“It’s hard to describe famine to someone who hasn’t lived through one,” he says eventually. “Language – English, at least – isn’t equipped to convey what it feels like to be so hungry you’ll try to boil and eat someone else’s shoes. Then someone else’s children. Then your own children. There are no words for it. Or, if in some distant corner of our monstrous universe there are, then they’re words that would drive a human raving mad to speak them.”

Naked now but for his black socks, Crowley scratches his stubble. “Sometimes I think that’s why I got on so well in Hell.”

He sits back in his chair. Folds his legs. Taps his fingers on the side of his empty glass. “Don’t get me wrong; having someone cut open your lungs, fill them with scorpions, and sew them up again isn’t fun. But – how can I put this? – you can process it. You can grapple with it. You know why you’re suffering; because you’re in Hell, and that’s what Hell is for. It makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is going about your everyday life and watching all the people around you – the baker, the priest, the prettiest girl in the village – go about theirs while they turn into walking skeletons. And knowing they didn’t do anything to deserve it. Couldn’t have done anything to deserve it, because no crime, no matter how vile, warrants that kind of punishment.”

Dean says nothing.

After a moment, Crowley pulls himself from the dark, sucking well of memory to add, “Anyway, to answer your question; I don’t want to be a hot chick because a. I’m a man and b. hot chicks are skinny, and I will cheerfully burn this world to the ground before I endure living in a hungry body ever again.”

He glances down at his unclothed meat suit and smiles proudly, running a hand up one of its thick thighs. “Also – y’know – I personally think this long-deceased lad of mine is sexy as Hell.”

Gazing at his shoulder, Dean says roughly, “Didn’t know you had tattoos.”

“Oh. Those. Yeah. Can’t stand them. Worst decision the stupid bastard ever made.”

“I think they’re kinda cool.”

“Do you? Well, you do have incredibly bad taste so perhaps that’s not surprising. Now, are you going to get over here and put that erection to good use?”

Oh, bless him; he’s adorable when he squirms.

“Here?” Dean asks, eyes wide.

“Here.”

He says it like a challenge, for Dean can never resist one of those. Immediately, those wide eyes become narrow and determined.

The boy stands. Looms over Crowley, who casually flicks both their glasses to the floor and moves to sit on the cool wooden table. It’s clean, more or less, thanks to Dean (for once) agreeing to follow Crowley to a semi-respectable establishment.

“These hands,” Crowley murmurs, running them across Dean’s broad chest, “don’t have a single callous or scar. See? Soft as butter. Not a single day’s honest work, either of them.”

Dean swallows. Leans in to kiss him, hesitant and gentle.

Contrary to popular belief, Crowley likes gentle. Or, more accurately, Crowley likes being pampered.

He goes on: “And these legs…”

A groan escapes Dean’s lips as one presses up against his crotch.

“…these legs haven’t walked more than ten miles, collectively, since I moved in. No muscles. No blisters on the undersides of their feet. Not so much as a splinter.”

“Jesus,” Dean mumbles, drawing him in and latching onto his neck.

“And this stomach is never empty. Never even close. Never once forced to digest anything that isn’t purely, perfectly delicious. I treat my meat suits better than most people treat their family heirlooms.”

“Crowley. Fuck.”

He squeezes Dean’s arse and growls, “Because this is my reward, Dean. I won this. This softness, this safety. This nurtured, nourished flesh. I endured the seventeenth century and all humanity’s horrors. Endured my mother. Endured Hell. Built myself a reputation and a kingdom. All for this. And isn’t it wonderful? Say that it is, Dean.”

“Yeah,” Dean moans, even though he can’t understand a word; Crowley slipped into Gaelic a while ago.

(The things Crowley wants to tell Dean and the things Crowley wants Dean to know are categories that rarely overlap.)

Crowley takes Dean’s leaking cock in hand.

“Say I’m beautiful.”

Dean’s knees buckle as he whimpers, so Crowley wraps an arm around his narrow, underfed waist.

“Say you love me.”

Dean comes in his palm, gasping and cursing.

“Say you love me more than anyone else.”

“I’m guessing that was all Scottish dirty talk?” says Dean when he has his breath back. “You were – what? Calling me your bitch?”

Crowley smirks, licks the sweat off Dean’s jaw, and gives his backside a pat before reaching for his clothes. “None of your business. Go get me another drink, would you? Ta.”

 the end

NOTES: The title is taken from a quote found in Karen Cullen’s ‘Famine in Scotland: the ‘Ill Years’ of the 1690s’ (you can find extracts via googlebooks). Yes, canonically Crowley WOULD have been about thirty when this happened. Just in case his origin story wasn’t horrific enough wheee :D