#thank you for the ask cindy ! !

[ketchupandpickles]

Do you have favourite kindergarten au(s)? And if you have, Who's your favorite design?

Hehe :3

Ones mentioned: @applesoftgaze (the Huxley twins), @malumonarchy (Ron), @lovesick-blue (Kidd), @kinderkillerau (Cindy), @kgmilgramau (Ozzy)

@kggamewithgun (Cindy), @displacedbias (Alice), @cursed-kg (Buggs), @cheeselix, @ozzyandfriends (Madison)

@kindergartenbuttiny (Austin), @good-and-evil-unveilied (Carla), @gabycantart (Witch Nugget), @sunnysunnatko (Hitman Kidd), @blues-kindergarten (Nugget)

@drfirsnogayny (Penny), @ask-teen-dorks-au (Lily and Billy), @namnwjehdjjdjd (Felix)

Ones I didn't draw but still love:

-does Huxleypocolypse count? Probably not but If so that's like all I've been able to think about for the past two months lol

-I also love @flower-color-gram! I cannot choose a favorite design I love them all and I want to draw all of them sometime :DDD

Sorry If I didn't draw your au! I have a lot of a lot of others that I love but I wasn't able to fit them 😔 perhaps I'll draw fanart for them eventually though!

[americankimchi]

FACE PRESSED AGAINST THE GLASS PLEASE DRAGON AGE PLEAAAASSSEEEEE

[tardis-technician]

Titan comics has changed my life the first time I read them a couple years ago. Now every time some clothes get extremely dirty and I'm stuck rubbing them with soap for half an hour or something, I always think, "Well, if I had a laundro-demat..."

This would be extremely helpful for getting out stains, and I definitely want one. It did create some sort of laundry monster, but I feel like that’s an exclusively doctor type of laundry problem. The worst I’ve done is run my earbuds through the wash (three times) and once through the dryer.

[severedscales]

hello! im so sorry for the random ask but my oc cindy gives out flower crowns to everyone in s40 and im doing a little drawing series for it so i was just wondering how jiu and kioku would react to receiving one? i hope ur doing well! :]

hello!! sorry this took so long to answer!! originally I was hoping to draw a little something for it but time did not end up on my side this week...

first of all, I love cindy. what a sweetheart :)

I think kio would love cindy too! and she'd be absolutely overjoyed at receiving a flower crown from cindy, would probably try really hard to contain her shriek of excitement. she'd have a hand over her mouth when receiving the flower crown!! she'd also ask if she could give cindy a hug after, and if she said yes cindy would probably be able to feel kio's whole form thrumming with joy. kio would definitely wear the flower crown around the whole day and would keep it somewhere safe in her quarters afterwards, no matter how destroyed/wilted it got.

jiu, on the other hand, doesn't have much of a reaction. he'd receive the flower crown with polite thanks, but he'd deposit it somewhere in his room right after and forget about it sooner or later. not that he disregards cindy's effort, he is grateful and acknowledges her work above all else, it's just that he has a lot on his plate and rarely places much importance on things that aren't practical to him. though, in his slower and more contemplative moments, he'd pull out the flower crown and stare at it for a while in sheer guilt and quiet appreciation.

[rockwgooglyeyes]

*bokuto voice* hey hey hey! invading ur inbox to ask nausi thinks of cindy in the resistance group and how you think theyd interact :3

I am so sorry this took me so long to get back to you, Syd!

Nausi definitely appreciates Cindy's kindhearted personality, having someone around who is emotional and sensitive is a welcome change. Not that the people of the rebellion are unfeeling or mean folks, it's more just that Nausi herself can be pretty happy-go-lucky. Her cheerful persona means that she's often the one people go to when they want to talk to someone about their problems, something she is immensely honored by, but it can be difficult to have no one to talk with her problems about. Maybe she and Cindy could have relationship built on common traits and similar roles- they can commiserate over both being more friendly/amiable and the problems that represents, namely the maintenance of that kind of persona and the emotional labor involved.

Basically, Nausi is grateful to have Cindy around and happy to have someone else that the others rely on to be their emotional anchor, if only because Nausi can't do all of that heavy lifting herself.

Thanks so much for the question, Syd!! I hope you are having a great day and that you're doing well <3

[crownrots]

C? 💕💕

CINDY WARD — for tcsmg’s new game mode that’s dropping whenever! she’s a college student (studying literature) and horror / sci-fi fiend 😌 she works off campus at the local video store and just generally keeps to herself and likes to fill her free time either reading or hanging out at the local drive in on their least busy days. she’s also got an uncanny resemblance (same fc, i’m unoriginal 😞) to perry (another tcsmg clown) so, when johnny starts snooping around the campus it’s on sight

CHARLIE BURCH — dbd verse charlie is an up and coming insta influencer / model and sugar baby that’s taken by the entity during a luxury vacation in the 2010s. there’s a whole media storm and true crime baddies ate that case up since her sugar daddy was charged with her disappearance. tcsm (its own universe set in the early / mid 2000s) charlie is still a sugar baby but she’s also a petty thief who ends up going on the run after she stole from the wrong dude. she ends up meeting @queennymeria’s cecil after her car breaks down, steals his expensive camera after a one night stand and wants to pawn it for money to get the hell outta texas but it doesn’t work out that way 😙

CHARON BROUSSARD — vtmb 🦇. brujah he was embraced in the 1300s. he’s the owner of the popular bar / tourist attraction ‘hallowed ground’ that used to be an old church in new orleans. it’s pretty neutral territory with a mixing pot of outcasts that hang out in the back of the bar. he’s been a situationship with @queennymeria ‘s nima, after he ghosted her for like nearly forty years 👹

[jaylver]

a part two where she finally moves on and it's the next Christmas but this time it's hoon who's heartbroken because he got cheated on and realised the other girl was only using him as some sort of rebound and now they are meeting again for Christmas, he's happy to see y/n and she has moved on so it doesn't hurt her to see him, she just smiles and then he thinks he has a chance but then her boyfriend ( could be any other enha member or other bg member ) comes in and kisses her on the cheek, then hoon gets devastated and realised this was his karma for breaking up with you the way he did because now he understood how you must have felt

why would you do this to me

i mean, hoon got what he deserves so 😊�� ! ngl it's literally like the lyrics from 'last christmas' too 😔 (loved this btw !!!!!)

[coraleethroughthelookingglass]

🌻 If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your mentions, anonymous or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog 🌻

Okay, I’m miles behind with the inbox asks but I’m going to try and answer some today!

1 I once went to a convention and embarrassed myself in front of Anthony Head

2 The only time I’ve ever cosplayed was as Abby Scuitto from NCIS

3 I have a collection of Lego fairground pieces including a ferris wheel and a carousel

Thank you for the ask!!!!!!

[oculusxcaro]

Which rogue are you most afraid of meeting?

"All of them?" Khare replied, eyes darting back and forth apprehensively as though one might be listening in their conversation that very second. Who wouldn't be afraid of these people? Sure, she hadn't crossed paths with any just yet but there were a number of these criminals she'd heard the most horrible stories about, on the news and from word of mouth from the police who liked breakfast at the diner early in the morning. "I mean, these... rogues, they're all very different people, right? It's like you're asking which method of execution I'd prefer when I'm happier staying alive." And what creative methods of execution at that! Khare still had shivers at the first story she'd heard about the Joker and Harley Quinn, how their 'Joker Venom' killed a bunch of policemen and civilians who'd died laughing with the most twisted smiles on their faces. The Riddler was famous for ingenius traps and putting his victims through twisted 'games', asking them riddles where the wrong answer resulted in a gruesome death. Killer Croc lurked in the sewers, devouring any who crossed his path. Professor Pyg liked abducting people. He turned them into Dollotrons, mindless puppets who obeyed him and the Mad Hatter! He thought he was from the book Alice in Wonderland, kidnapping blonde women in his pursuit to find the titular character. Well, maybe she didn't have to be afraid of the Mad Hatter? She was brunette after all, not blonde like Cindy who'd actually gotten caught by him. The topic was afraid however, and there was one name who fit that definition. The Scarecrow. Pauli couldn't even hear the rogue's name without trembling, the man still affected from the rogue's Fear Gas which had devastated the Grand Avenue months ago and affecting people to this very day. "I guess I'd be afraid of the Scarecrow? I mean, who wouldn't be scared when targeted by the Master of Fear?"

[silver-inked]

3, 12, 1nd 13 for the wip ask game? 👀

#3. My most recent WIP is a month old. I started it after a huge burst of energy and I wrote down ideas for several fics but this one is the one that has stuck (the rest are on a long pause). I have no idea when I will finish it because it’s become a monster that consumes my brain but doesn’t write itself. Which is bad, because I already had one of those and I can’t finish the previous monstrosity either (RIP Unboxing Intro).

#12. I have multiple drafts mostly because when I write story always changes five times at least from what was originally planned. This time around, I was originally writing just a Saya fic and Black Cat team up fic, which turned into a Cindy Earth-65 meets Saya and Black Cat that digs deep into their relationship with “our” Cindy, which turned into Cindy Earth-65 does all of that but also Saya gets to have an existencial crisis and deal with her inner motivations and family issues. So help me, idk if I will ever finish this, but I promise I have a vision!! I swear!

#13 I Don’t know exactly what the summary will be or the tags. This fic puzzles me. Maybe something like….

Almost a year after failing to strike the deal of her career with the gangs in New York City, Saya finds herself cutting lose ends and preparing for her final showdown. This time she won’t fail.

New York however isn’t so keen to have Saya back. After the reveal of one of her father’s scandals, reporter Cindy Moon is one of the first to reach out and ask for a statement.

And how could Saya say no to her?

But things aren’t as they seem as months pass and Saya prepares for her final checkmate. Every visit to New York becomes more unsure as Cindy’s past starts to bleed into the crime scene of New York and onto Saya’s doorstep.

And then one day to the next, Cindy Moon becomes another. The new Cindy Moon could give Saya everything she ever thought she wanted, but faced with the chance of working with Black Cat find out the truth, will Saya choose what she has been working towards or will she give Black Cat a fair fight for “our” Cindy’s love?

Thank you for the asks!! I loved doing these!!

[ketchupandpickles]

What are your favourite kindergarteners? 🫶

These peeps right here

[battleshot]

Me with my morning coffee, sees a nsfw prompt reply from Cindy. @aurumesque (Dani’s nsfw sideblog 🥲)

Well,,,, guess who has the brain cell today now

[eideticspider]

@xenjoyedthat asked: Lyla's 5' 5"

[lyranova]

Send this to ten other bloggers that you think are wonderful. Keep the game going, make someone smile!!! <3

AAAHHH CINDY AND ANON THANK Y’ALL SO MUCH 🥺💕💕!! This is so sweet and kind thank y’all for sending this and for thinking of me, sending y’all all of the hugs and love in the world 🥰🫂!

[landoughnut]

My Woman

♡ masterlist - request!

♡ pairing - max verstappen x fem!reader (fc - cindy kimberly)

♡ summary - max fighting with people thirsting in his girlfriends comments

♡ warnings - horny/simp max, crack, some fluff, some cursing, use of y/n

♡ w/c & a/n - smau | i actually love writing these ones but ive gotta learn how to do the other types of smau's people make with twitter and stuff ahahahaha

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[cosyvelvetorchid]

Emergency Contact

Based on an idea by @annurb

*********

Buck patted his turnouts and furrowed his brows as he looked around the rig. He bend forward and brushed an arm under the seats.

“Do I even want to ask what you’re doing?” Hen said.

“Uh.. I can’t find my phone.” He said checking his pockets for the third time.

“When did you last have it?” She asked.

“The hospital.” He answered remembering putting it down on the reception desk while he was deep in conversation with one of porters who had asked him about applying to join the department. “I think I left it at reception.”

“You really want us to turn the engine around for your phone?” Bobby asked incredulously from the front.

“Please?”

“Fine.” Bobby sighed. “But if we get a call on the way back we’re going to it and you’ll have to wait until after shift to get it.”

“Copy that, Cap.”

“It not healthy to be this attached to your phone.” Chim told him.

“I’m not!” He protested.

“Oh it’s not his phone he’s attached too.” Hen teased and Buck rolled his eyes and looked out of the window in a failed attempt to hide the flush to his cheeks.

She was absolutely right, though—it wasn’t his phone he’s was obsessed with but that it was it means of communication with Tommy when the universe dared to keep them apart by working opposite shifts.

It’s had been a world-wind 2 months and Bucks feet were barely ever on the ground Tommy had swept him off them so incredibly. For the first time in any relationship he’d been in he’d never once felt the need to ask or beg for attention—Tommy lavished him with it. If he couldn’t physically be there to cook dinner for him, or with him, or watch movies together or go hiking together, or just simply effortlessly be in each others presence, he was messaging or calling in his spare time during his shifts. And not for any real reason but to talk to his boyfriend.

Buck was already falling hard for the pilot.

“Make it quick, Buck.” Bobby said as the rig pulled up in front of the hospital.

Buck jumped down and jogged into the building.

“Firefighter Buckley, you miss us already?” Nurse Jasper said as he approached the desk.

He smiled. “Uh, I think I left my phone here?”

“Ah. It was yours! I put it in the staff room. Can you wait for just a sec? We got 3 nurses out with the flu so we’re run off our feet.”

“Sure, no problem.”

“Thank you. Cindy?” She called to another nurse. “The lady in 204 needs her meds, and the gentleman in 207 needs his dressings changed. And I’d see to him first—he’s a grumpy one.”

“Is that the hot one?” Cindy swooned.

The other nurse rolled her eyes. “Cindy, this is a hospital and he is a patient.”

“A hot patient.” Cindy said back and Buck laughed.

“Just go and see to Mr Kinard before he gets even worse.”

Bucks heart shot up into his throat at the same time his stomach dropped a thousand feet.

“I-I’m sorry, did you just say Mr Kinard?”

“Yes.”

“Thomas Kinard?” He added just to be sure.

“Yeah. Do you..” Buck didn’t hear the rest of her words as he quickly left the desk for the corridor to find room 207.

A mixture of sadness, anger and relief hit him all at once when arrived at the room and saw Tommy through the window.

The man he- his boyfriend was laid on the bed—his left leg in a cast up to below his knee, a bandage wrapped around his right forearm and a stitches on the right side of his forehead surrounded by deep pinkish red bruising.

“What the hell, Tommy?!”

Tommy’s head shot up, his face a mixture of shock and sheepishness. “Shit.” He mumbled under his breath.

He’d hoped to be out of the hospital before he told Buck what had happened—ask for forgiveness not permission, right? He didn’t want to lie to him, and felt bad for doing so, but in the small amount of time they’d been dating he’d come to know that Buck would throw down his whole life to take care of the people he cared about.

It wasn’t that Tommy didn’t appreciate the sentiment, but he was fully capable of taking care of himself and was absolutely not going to be a burden on his boyfriend.

“What the hell happened?! Why are you here? Are you okay? Why didn’t you tell me?!” The words all melded into one almost indecipherable sentence.

“I’m fine, Evan.” He protested as he squirmed in his bed trying to give off the air of someone who was absolutely totally fine and not at all beginning to regret refusing pain meds from the nurses.

“You’ve got to be kidding me? You’re in hospital Tommy. With obviously a broken leg and other injuries.” He gestured to Tommy’s arm and face. Buck was immediately reminded of his own near career-ending leg injury and fear fizzed its way around his body as he looked at Tommys leg.

Buck was angry as hell that Tommy, or anybody, hadn’t told him that he’d gotten injured, but overshadowing all of that was sadness and worry that Tommy was hurt.

Tommy hated the worried look on Bucks face. “It’s a basic leg break, a few weeks in a cast and some PT and I’ll be back to normal. Really, it’s nothing to worry about.” He argued.

Though that did alleviate Bucks worries a small amount, he still had to breathe away that anger that was trying its damndest to rise up. “Tommy, being fine is not the issue here—you were hurt and you didn’t tell me.”

“There was no point—there’s nothing that you could do. There was no point worrying you.”

“You’re my boyfriend—I’m going to worry regardless.” He told him. “And it’s not about being able to do anything, it’s about wanting to know that you’re okay and being there for you.”

“Yeah, but then you’d insist on taking care of me, which I don’t need you to do.” His voice had an edge of strain to it. He was getting frustrated. This was the reason he hadn’t told Buck—he didn’t need anybody worrying about him.

“I know you’re capable of looking after yourself, Tommy, that’s not- wait.. how long have you been in here?”

Tommy looked away from Buck before he answered. “Two days.” He answered quietly.

“Two days?! So, the whole time you were texting me telling me you were at home resting on your 48 off you were lying to me?!”

“Evan..” Tommy reached out for Bucks hand but he stepped back. Tommy felt a pull on his heart at the rejection. It was the first time since they’d become a couple that Buck had rejected any physical touch from Tommy.

It was one of Tommy’s favourite things about Buck—how tactile he was. Mostly because he was the same. Physical touch was a big love language of his and having a boyfriend who so readily gave it and received it felt wonderful.

“No. You.. you lied to me, Tommy. I-I don’t know what’s worse. That, or that you didn’t think it was important for me to know that you were injured.”

Tears were threatening his eyes. He felt stupid. He thought things with Tommy were different—that he’d found someone who wanted him around.

“Is everybody in the dark or was it just me?” He asked not being able to hold the contempt out of his voice.

“No, nobody knows. Well, aside from my captain. He’d have noticed when I didn’t turn up for my shift.” He huffed a small laugh which did not go down well with Buck.

“This isn’t funny, Tommy. None of this is. What even happened?”

“Engine hoist chain snapped while I was working on my car. Engine landed on my leg and the chain hit me on the arm and face.”

Bucks heart cracked open at the image in his mind of Tommy trapped in his own garage, alone and in pain.

“And you didn’t think to call me?”

“I was too preoccupied with trying to get an engine off my leg, Evan. Besides, I called 911 straight away.”

Buck was having a hard time with this. His boyfriend hurts himself in a way that could have been much more serious, and spent two days alone in the hospital and nobody was there for him?

“You said nobody else knows?” He asked and Tommy shook his head. “Did they not call your emergency contact?”

“I don’t have one listed.” He said plainly.

“Why? You’re an emergency responder—you know how important it is to have someone to make decisions on your behalf if you can’t.”

“I‘ve never had anybody to put down!” Tommy’s voice was raised which surprised them both. Tommy’s frustration was getting the better of him. The problem was Buck had always looked at Tommy like a hero; a big and brave and confident man who had his shit together. And okay, he may have those tendencies now on the surface, but underneath all of it was a man with a lifetime of trauma he was still unpacking at the age of 40. They were early enough in their relationship that he hadn’t felt comfortable talking about it all yet.

If there was one thing he admired the most about Evan it was that he wore his heart on his sleeve and that had the ability to be open and honest about himself and how he felt. Tommy knew that his boyfriend probably wouldn’t run a mile when, if, he told him about his childhood, but by his own previous experiences in relationships, there was always that chance.

But, he had to give something. The fact was he was falling for Evan and it utterly terrified him. It terrified him that Evan would figure out who he really was and want nothing to do with him. But what was more terrifying was losing him.

He took a deep breath to calm himself. “Evan, it’s been a long time since I’ve had anybody in my life that actually gave a shit about me. And I had come to terms with that—I get by just fine on my own.”

Buck’s heart broke hearing that. His parents hadn’t exactly been there for him growing up but he at least had Maddie taking care of him. Maddie was always there when he needed someone; always his biggest champion.

“Tommy..” Buck pulled up a chair and sat close to the bed, taking Tommy’s hand in his. “I know you’re fully capable of taking care of yourself, but.. I’m here. I’m in your life now and-and I want to be there for you. You don’t have to do this shit alone anymore.”

He concentrated on not allowing the tears to spill over. He knew what would happen—Tommy would immediately focus on him and comforting him, which Buck didn’t want. Tommy was the one who needed comforting.

Even if his stubborn ass couldn’t accept it.

“It’s not easy for me; to let someone be there. I don’t want to be a burden to anybody.” Tommy admitted quietly.

“You’re not a burden, Tommy. You’re my boyfriend—I want to take care of you. And-and not out of obligation or because you’re incapable, but because I-“ He had to stop “L” word from falling out of his mouth. “-care about you. A lot. But you have to let me.”

Tommy looked into Buck always earnest eyes and his mouth moved into a soft smile.

“Okay.” He conceded.

“Okay?”

“Okay.”

“Good.” Buck smiled standing up.

“Where are you going?” Tommy asked.

“To tell Bobby that I need the rest of the shift off, and to get the forms you need to fill in to make me your emergency contact.” Tommy opened his mouth but Buck didn’t let him speak. “Look, it doesn’t have to be me if you don’t want that—you can put down Bobby. Or even Hen or Chim—I know none of them would mind. Don’t argue with me on this Tommy—you’re not leaving this hospital without someone on those forms.”

Bucks face was stern, but with an underlying current of affection that Tommy couldn’t say no to.

“I was going to say that I want it to be you.” He told him.

“Okay then.” Buck said with a smile, walking to the door. “Oh, and don’t think I’ve forgiven you for lying to me. You’ve got a lot to work to do to make it up to me, Kinard.” The corner of his mouth pulled up into a small smile telling Tommy that it would be okay.

“Whatever it takes.” He said back.