#starchild—27

[guardians-of-exo]

i love your new theme!!!! 😱💕✨️✨️✨️

Thank you 🤩💕

Saw the new teasers and was immediately obsessed 😍😍

[vallkyr]

Firstly, when you get this, you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) <3

That's really sweet 🥺 5 things I like about myself in no particular order are: - my humour - my hair, I put a lot of effort into maintaining my curls and I'm really proud of them - my baking skills, I've gotten rather good even with more complicated stuff (I'm still really happy I managed to make the burnaway cake for my friend's birthday) - that I'm getting better at accepting and loving my body the way it is - my teeny tiny hands that make everyone who sees them drop all their uwus (had that conversation with a friend just the other day)

[candescentkpop]

Tagged by @starchild--27 to do this picrew tag 💜

It's been ages since I did one of these, so it was fun to try again ^^ Since last time I've gotten glasses, and I've dyed the bottom layer of my hair purple, so lots have happened 😊.

I tag: @jambolska-grozdova @pajamas-lipstick @yoonkyoong @pashminabitch

[baekslight]

Firstly, when you get this, you have to answer with 5 things you like about yourself, publicly. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) <3

hii 👋 I already did it here 🩷thank you for thinking of me though 😊

[starchild--27]

hi :)

'tis me. starchild.

i blog here :)

some things about me:

i am born 02 (do the math yourself lol)

technically i go by she/they pronouns, but anything's fine with me really, just go with your gut xD

omniromantic, somewhere on the ace spectrum

sometimes i cry here due to having emotions about being alive :')

if i am not doing that, i like to scream about media i enjoy (music, books, series, movies)

yes, i do like kpop (find me on @wolveswithblackpearls too). especially exo. especially chanyeol:

if i feel like putting a lot of thought and effort into a post, i might put it on @the-fckn-stars

i think animal pictures are neat. especially those of cats.

i have ocs, i make up stories in my head, sometimes i write them down.

i make music, write songs n stuff.

[defloey]

🎶✨️when you get this, put 5 songs you actually listen to, then publish. Send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)🎶✨️

thank you for this! i always love doing them 🥰 i think i'm gonna go the non-kpop way for funsies

thuy - vapor rub

club boybnd - kiss me thru the phone

eivør - verð mín

cashmere cat - quit (feat. ariana grande)

kehlani - distraction

^ lately!

[thedeviousdo]

✨🤍✨ SEND THIS TO TEN OTHER BLOGGERS YOU THINK ARE WONDERFUL. KEEP THE GAME GOING ✨🤍✨

Awwwwwwwww thank you so so so much. This is beyond sweet and it really makes me smile knowing you thought to send it to me! I hope you know I think you're incredibly sweet and kind.

[nomie-11]

The Wounded Healer, The Drowned, and The Guilty Masterlist (completed, under editing!)

The Empyrean Book 1: Fourth Wing - Xaden Riorson x OC, Violet Sorrengail x Liam Mairi

Read Book 2 Here!

Word Count: 147.9k Chapter: 28/28

In the dark, suffocating confines of a basement dungeon, Genevieve Hale has spent over a year enduring relentless torture at the hands of Lilith Sorrengail. Her only companions are the stars she's etched into the ceiling—symbols of the hope she once had. But when Lilith offers a twisted deal that promises freedom in exchange for betrayal, Genevieve is forced to confront a future she never imagined. Now, set to become a rider at Basgiath War College, Genevieve emerges from captivity not as a broken prisoner, but as a weapon forged in pain and driven by a burning desire for vengeance. As she steps into the light, a dangerous resolve takes hold—Lilith Sorrengail will pay, and no one will stand in her way.

Chapter 1 -Chains of Starlight* (rewritten!)

Chapter 2 - Into the Storm* (rewritten!)

Chapter 3 - Secrets at Sunrise* (rewritten!)

Chapter 4 - The Dance of Survival

Chapter 5 - The Unyielding Duel

Chapter 6 - Echoing of Silent Screams

Chapter 7 - Forged in Flames

Chapter 8 - So What?

Chapter 9 - The Freedom of Wings

Chapter 10 - Shifting Tides

Chapter 11 - The Awakening of a Life Weaver

Chapter 12 - Above the Clouds, Beneath the Earth

Chapter 13 - An Inferno of Desire

Chapter 14 - Threads Unraveling

Chapter 15 - A Moment of Peace

Chapter 16 - Whispers of Winter

Chapter 17 - The Pursuit of Knowledge

Chapter 18 - The Scrutiny of a Sorrengail

Chapter 19 - Shadows of Secrets

Chapter 20 - The Silent Clash Before the Fall

Chapter 21 - A Renaissance of a Heart

Chapter 22 - To Take a Leap of Faith

Chapter 23 - Between the Fading Stars and Fireworks

Chapter 24 - The Double-Edged Dagger

Chapter 25 - When Death Waits Just Beyond The Horizon

Chapter 26 - Shadows of Blue and Silver

Chapter 27 - Starchild Rising

Epilogue - Unsent Correspondence from the Desk of Late Rider Cadet Liam Mairi

[guardians-of-exo]

6 recent fav songs!

Thank you so much for tagging me @starchild--27 , as you said in your own post, I’ve had these songs on repeat for days now 👀

I tag: @miramizar @yasmini24 @jambolska-grozdova @your-sophie18

[vallkyr]

If you received this, you are a great mutual 🫂 Send this to 10 of your mutuals to spread love ♡♡♡

that's so sweet 🥺 thank you very much, you're a great mutual too 💕

[niurd]

tagged by @bwaldorf to make a poll of my fav female characters!! thank you ramasha 🖤✨

(transplanted this tag from my main @niurd-main bc i wanted to tag some new moots!! 🤠)

tagging: @bumblingest-bee @plumhao @glittertrail @earlynite @0806cafe

@chrysanthemmums @oathome @forbidden-interlude @florese

@kimjunnoodle @starchild--27 @yvain @woven-birds @wonhosgrl

@rosy-tea @werewolfcafe @popsicyeol @bangchansversion

@fastorslow @mondo-grosso @herbaklava @fleeceyang

or anyone who wants to!!

*only the original animated version

**NOT the 2014 movie version, even though meryl streep is pretty good in that movie imo

[baekslight]

I got tagged by @starchild--27, thank you for the tag ❣️

tagging: @baekhyunsbestie, @babyueare, @miabbh, @baejoobun, @bunnybbh, @valentinejaes, @keroinnie and anyone who wants to do it 💖

[we-survive-endlessly]

Tagged by @starchild--27 to post the top ten songs on my On Repeat playlist 💚

In The Stars by Benson Boone

Nightwalker by Ten

Bad News by Bain, Bitsaeon, and Minseo from Mnet’s Build Up

Dangerously by Bitsaeon and Jay Chang from Mnet’s Build Up

Good Things by Ekoh and Lø Spirit

Beautiful Things by Benson Boone

Grab Me by AB6IX

Meos (The Real) by DKB from Peak Time

Slow Dive by A.C.E

What Do You Want by Benson Boone

I’m still not over Peak Time clearly 😂 also if you wanna cry just give In The Stars a listen

Tagging: @groovychimera @kim-woonhak @toxicrevolver @sunminshine @onmywayv @babytunninjadrac @elevators-and-things @apencilandpen @a-moth-to-the-light and anyone else that wants to!

[defloey]

this is a tumblr hug, pass it on to your favorite followers and mutuals <3

thank you my sweetest! 💞

[oatmealdaydreams]

Hiya there oatmeal, I could help but notice ur very awesome music taste and I’d just like ask

May I have some song recommendations please? /nf

Any genre but I very much like indie and folk pretty pls

Oh honey, I have plenty of song recs for you! I love indie and folk as well (my music taste is just everything basically, lmao). This got kinda long, btw.

When I say 'indie', I mean some of the artists aren't as popular as you'd think. Irina Imme has less than 100 listeners on Spotify, and Cath Calypso has less than 2k. They're both some of my favs <3

A few music artists I recommend (folk): The Crane Wives, The Oh Hellos, The Paper Kites, Fish in a Birdcage, Cosmo Sheldrake

A few music artists I recommend (indie): Cath Calypso, Posie Pocket, Irina Imme, Indie Anthony, James the Seventh

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A Few of My Favourite Folk Songs

The Moon Will Sing by The Crane Wives

Little Soldiers by The Crane Wives

Featherstone by The Paper Kites

Thus Always to Tyrants by The Oh Hellos

Hello My Old Heart by The Oh Hellos

Rule #27 - Drunk on Pride by Fish in a Birdcage

The Moss by Cosmo Sheldrake

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A Few of My Favourite Indie Songs

Starchild by Posie Pocket

history by Cath Calypso

Stupid by Irina Imme

I Don't Want U in My Life by Irina Imme

On and On by Indie Anthony

Dumb and Shy by Indie Anthony

The Moon by James the Seventh

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Okay, I have a lot more recs, but this got long. I have a lot of music artists and songs that most people don't usually know, and I love sharing them. Always put in asks about songs recs. I love it!

Anyway, hope this helps, Duckie! Have fun :D

[wolveswithblackpearls]

When the nights get cold

genre: angst, hurt/comfort, dog hybrid!baekhyun x reader (if romantic or not is up for interpretation)

cw: nightmares, feelings of panic and anxiety, laboratory/hospital setting in the first half, violence mention, abuse mention (non-sexual), medical experiments mention

word count: ~1.6k

a/n: hey there @vampwrrr - 'tis me, your secret santa (find me @starchild--27, I am Admin S on here ^-^) and i come bearing gifts, hehe :D i did a little mix of all the things we talked about the last few months with what you promted for your gift, so i hope you have fun reading this little one-shot i came up with! i, for one, had lots of fun with it xD gave me a chance to dive into unknown waters here - i never wrote anything in this setting before!

finally, a big thank you @exols-silver-christmas for hosting yet another year of exo-l secret santa. it takes a lot to organize all this so i am, as always, very thankful that we can enjoy this event again this year. i can't wait to see all the creative things everyone came up with! <3

~ Admin S

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Baekhyun woke up feeling uncomfortable. It was the rough fabric of the hospital gown against his skin. It was the cold metal chain that ran tightly over his face. It was the darkness and the penetrating smell of disinfectant. He hated it all. So much he just wanted to fall asleep again. But the bed had no pillow and no blanket, and he was freezing too much to fall asleep again.

I am back.

The thought slowly settled in his mind, exhaustion and resignation putting a dull feeling in his chest. He had been here before, in “The Clinic” as the people here liked to call it. But he knew that clinics are to help people that are hurt. And this place did the exact opposite. This place was a lab. And he had been created here. From some scraps of DNA the doctors had collected and altered.

Baekhyun didn’t know the specifics of how the lab worked, how they got the resources they needed, what the purpose of it all was. And he wasn’t sure if he even wanted to know. And while the question of “why” was a huge mystery to Baekhyun, the goal of The Clinic was quite clear. They wanted to create a new species. They were breeding hybrids. And Baekhyun was one of those.

Raised under constant probing and testing for the first couple years of his life, then put in a shelter with other hybrids to be socialized and later to be sold. And even then, there was no escaping The Clinic. There were regular checkups and tests the hybrids had to undergo, even after being bought.

Baekhyun crouched on the cold bed, thoughts racing. Why was he here again? Why didn’t he remember how he got here?  Why didn’t he remember what had happened before he fell asleep? Anxiously, his tail wrapped around his legs while he rested his chin on his right knee and he realized how helpless he was. He didn’t know what to do, how to get out. Damn, he didn’t even know what year it was.

Goosebumps spread over his skin. This was the most scared he had felt in a long while. It reminded him of when he was still a puppy that hadn’t known anything but the lab. Even back then, when he was entirely disoriented, he knew this was not a good place. He might not have understood it back then but he had felt distinctly that this place was harming him.

The utter silence made Baekhyun nervous. Or was it just the lack of any hints that would indicate other alive beings close by? He didn’t know and his ears twitched restlessly, eager to pick up a sound. Any sound. Just… anything besides the sound of his own beating heart.

Baekhyun put his head between his knees and buried his hands in the hair at the back of his head, tightly shutting his eyes and praying for it all to go away. Praying that, when he released all the tension in his body, he would be at a better place, a safer place.

But Baekhyun was scared. He didn’t dare to let go, to loosen his grip on himself. Any moment without your guard up would be exploited. That’s what his years in The Clinic had taught him so painfully. He couldn’t let go. They would come and immobilize him in ways that hurt and give him medicine that made him feel sick and run tests until he passed out from exhaustion. He couldn’t let go. He couldn’t let go. He couldn't-

A blaring noise ripped through the quiet, so sudden that Baekhyun let out a bark. That never happened. But, gosh, this was an alert of some sort and Baekhyun could practically feel this horrible, booming sound vibrating in his bones.

He had to get out.

Faster than he thought his body would be ready, he scrambled off the bed. The floor was unbelievably cold against his bare feet, but he started running towards the exit anyway. He pulled harshly and opened the door just far enough so he could slip through and out in the long, white hallway that was rhythmically illuminated in deep red from the flaring warning light. Baekhyun didn’t have time to look around more, he just bolted into a random direction. All he wanted was to get away from this room, but as soon as he had started running down the hallway, he started to hear steps behind him. Fast. Running.

He peaked. It was the nurses. Their skin-tight, white uniforms had them look like they were clones themselves. They might as well have been. There was no way of knowing what else was going on in The Clinic - and if there was a way, Baekhyun didn’t want to know it, wanted to be as far away as possible from that way. 

When he heard the nurses’ steps accelerating, Baekhyun ran even faster. He had not expected to have enough strength for that. His sight got blurry and his cheeks were getting wet. He could tell by the cold feeling that bloomed where the tears were running down his face. But he couldn’t stop running. Not when there were these nurses following him. They would catch him and do God-knows-what to him and-

-- -- --

Baekhyun opened his eyes so abruptly that it startled you a little, despite having tried to wake him up for the past few minutes.

He had been shaking in his sleep for a while now. You were laying next to him, waiting for this painful scene to come to a halt again but it only got worse the further the nightmare progressed. He started whimpering and yipping, making the most puppy-like noises you have ever heard from him.

You had tried to soothe him without waking him at first, started with rubbing his back and stroking his exposed arm. That usually calmed him a lot – but not this time. So you adjusted his blanket that he had kicked away from his body, letting his own warmth comfort him and, as a last resort, softly petted the wild strands of his hair. But nothing helped. When tears started running down his face, you decided it was best to wake him up and free him from whatever was going on in his head.

You had a pretty good idea what he must have been dreaming about. That was not the first time Baekhyun had suffered from these nightmares and when it got as bad as tonight, they were most likely about The Clinic. Just the thought of that place started a fire of scorching fury in your belly. They gave him pain his entire life and not even now that he got out of their grasp, he had no peace. You didn’t want to imagine the things that happened to the hybrids and other “experiments” there. Actual living beings, scientifically created there, only to-

You closed your eyes and forcefully stopped your train of thought. Your anger wouldn’t help anyone. Not right now, in the middle of the night with a scared dog hybrid sitting next to you, his messy black-and-white hair sticking out in every direction, puppy ears pressed flat against his head, whimpering quietly in the darkness as he wiped the tears from his face with shaking hands.

You took a few deep breaths and slowly so that Baekhyun wouldn’t get even more scared, wrapped your arms around his warm body from behind. And as soon as Baekhyun felt your presence, he let himself melt in your hug and shifted to rest even more comfortably in your arms, turning around to rest his head against your chest and your arms to wrap around his shoulders. Softly, you started to stroke his back again and tried to breath very calmly so Baekhyun’s irregular gasping for air would calm eventually as well.

You knew better than to confront him with questions in this situation. He needed to calm down first, realize that he is not in a dangerous situation anymore, that he is at a safe place, and he needed to take his time for that. The last thing both of you needed at this moment was another panic attack caused by Baekhyun being overwhelmed.

You lifted your eyes from the top of Baekhyun’s head and gazed towards the window. Tonight, the temperatures had dropped deep, and it had started to snow. It was always the first icy cold nights that gave Baekhyun the worst nightmares. It had something to do with the whiteness, quiet and cold that reminded him of The Clinic. It made you even more determined to create good and happy memories in the winter months with him.

You loved the winter, the crisp cold and how the first snow makes the world look like it has been put under a spell that makes everything really still and silent. It had always felt magical to you and even if Baekhyun would always feel a much greater relief when spring would finally come around, you didn’t want the nightmares to be the only thing Baekhyun remembered from winter nights. But it would take work to get there. He had been through too much. You had heard a lot about it from Baekhyun already but you weren’t sure if you knew everything yet. And if tonight’s nightmare brought up new memories that caused the dream to be especially bad this time around.  

But you were certain, Baekhyun would immediately talk to you tonight. When he felt he was ready and not in shock anymore. You two would figure it all out from there. Or maybe you would just fall asleep again and figure it out tomorrow. And with Baekhyun’s breath becoming more and more even and your eyelids feeling heavier and heavier… tomorrow didn’t seem like such a bad plan.