#this was. supposed to be a cute scribbles

[cherryfyre]

Speed Dating, Figure Eight Style

The sun dipped low over Figure Eight, casting a golden hue over the sprawling lawn of the Cameron estate. The event—hosted by one of the Kooks’ most prominent families—was as absurdly extravagant as you’d expect: a speed-dating competition, Kook-style. The twist? It wasn���t just awkward small talk. Participants would be paired up at random and forced to complete a series of ridiculous couple’s challenges. The grand prize? Bragging rights, free dinner at The Pearl, and a bottle of Dom Pérignon.

Martini!Reader had no idea why she was here. Technically, she wasn’t even supposed to be. But Pope and JJ thought it would be hilarious to infiltrate the event. While they snuck into the catering tent to swipe hors d’oeuvres, you were left to fend for yourself in a sea of Kooks, feeling every bit the fish out of water.

That’s when you saw him: Rafe Cameron, standing by the check-in table, radiating smug entitlement in his crisp white polo and tailored khakis. His sharp jawline tightened when his eyes landed on you.

“Great,” he muttered, running a hand through his perfectly-coiffed hair.

“Trust me, I’m not thrilled either,” you shot back, folding your arms.

It turned out, through some cruel twist of fate—or maybe just Kelce’s bad handwriting—you and Rafe had been paired together.

“Let’s make one thing clear,” he said, stepping closer. His cologne was annoyingly intoxicating. “I’m only doing this to win. Don’t get in my way.”

“Likewise,” you snapped, squaring your shoulders. “Try not to screw it up.”

The First Challenge: “Newlywed Trivia”

The first event was a rapid-fire trivia game where couples had to answer questions about each other, despite having just met.

“Alright, Cameron,” you said, grabbing a clipboard. “Let’s make this quick. Favorite color?”

“Blue. Yours?”

“Green,” you lied, just to make it harder.

The game began, and to your frustration, Rafe was ridiculously good at guessing. He nailed your fake favorite color, guessed your favorite season (“Summer. You look like the type who likes sunburns”), and even got your dream vacation right (“Italy? That’s so basic.”).

Meanwhile, you struggled to read him.

“Favorite hobby?” you asked, scribbling.

“Winning,” he said, smirking.

“God, you’re insufferable.”

“And yet, you’re stuck with me.”

Despite the bickering, you somehow scored the highest points, advancing to the next round.

The Second Challenge: “Obstacle Course”

The obstacle course was set up along the Cameron property, complete with water balloons, rope swings, and a three-legged race section.

“Try to keep up,” Rafe said as the whistle blew.

“Oh, please. Don’t trip over your ego,” you shot back.

It was chaotic from the start. Rafe was fast—annoyingly so—but you were nimble, darting under ropes and dodging water balloons like a pro. When it came time for the three-legged race, things got… complicated.

“Stop pulling!” you yelled, nearly falling as Rafe’s long legs dragged you forward.

“Stop being slow!”

By some miracle (and a lot of yelling), you crossed the finish line first, collapsing into the grass, breathing hard.

“Not bad, Pogue,” Rafe admitted grudgingly, offering you a hand.

“Not bad yourself… for a Kook,” you replied, taking it.

The Final Challenge: “Trust Falls”

The last challenge was designed to test trust. One partner would be blindfolded and guided through a maze by the other.

“You trust me?” Rafe asked, tying the blindfold over your eyes.

“About as far as I can throw you,” you muttered.

“Cute. Let’s go.”

Surprisingly, Rafe’s guidance was steady, his voice calm as he navigated you through the maze. “Left. No, your other left. Watch the step. There you go.”

When you finally reached the end and removed the blindfold, you were face-to-face with Rafe, his smirk replaced with something softer.

“Not bad,” you said, brushing off your hands.

“You weren’t completely useless either,” he replied, a ghost of a smile tugging at his lips.

By the end of the event, you and Rafe had somehow managed to win, much to everyone’s shock—and your own. The cheers and applause were almost drowned out by your mutual bickering as you accepted the prize.

“This doesn’t mean I like you,” you said, clutching the Dom Pérignon.

“Good,” Rafe replied, leaning in closer. “Because I definitely still don’t like you.”

But the way his eyes lingered on yours told a different story….

[deatheaterv]

DISTRACTED

pairing : harry potter x reader

genre : fluff

warning : -

summary : harry gets distracted by you in the library, completely captivated by you. he nervously asks for your help with curses, and you tease him about his obvious crush. despite his awkwardness, you agreed to help, leaving him more smitten than ever.

harry was deep in thought, flipping through ancient texts in the library, trying to find information on something important for his next defense against the dark arts exam. the usual quiet hum of the library was comforting, and he’d gotten used to losing track of time there, his nose buried in dusty books. he hadn’t expected to be distracted today.

but then, you walked through the door.

harry didn’t even realize he was staring at first. it wasn’t until you walked past him, a soft, confident smile on your lips, that he felt his heart skip a beat. he blinked, shook his head, and quickly looked back down at his book, hoping you hadn’t noticed. but, of course, you did.

you glanced at him with a quick smile as you moved to the next table, and harry’s entire world seemed to pause. the way the light caught your hair, the way you moved—everything about you was… mesmerizing.

he tried to get back to his book, but it was like the words were dancing around on the page. his mind kept drifting back to you. he caught himself, cheeks flushing, and quickly tried to focus, but then he heard your soft laugh from across the room. his eyes darted back to you. you were laughing at something a friend had said, but that sound, that laugh, it pulled him in like gravity.

“focus, harry,” he muttered to himself, pushing his book closer, but it was no use. why was he so obsessed with you all of a sudden?

he told himself he was just distracted. nothing more. but the longer he sat there, the more he found himself stealing glances at you. how you tucked your hair behind your ear when you were deep in thought, how your eyes sparkled when you were talking to someone. he couldn’t explain it. it was as if everything you did made him more and more captivated.

before he knew it, he’d lost track of time. the library was starting to empty, and harry hadn’t even noticed. he had to be dreaming, right? he didn’t get obsessed over people like this.

but there you were, still sitting at the same table, scribbling something in your notebook. harry felt his heart race, his palms sweaty, and before he could stop himself, he stood up, walking over to you.

“hey,” he said, his voice uncharacteristically soft, betraying his nerves. you looked up at him with a warm smile, and for a moment, he almost forgot what he was going to say.

“hey, harry,” you replied, still smiling. “need something?”

he opened his mouth but nothing came out. his mind was a jumble of thoughts. just say something cool, something normal. but all he could think about was how stunning you looked under the dim library lights.

“uh… yeah.” he stammered, pushing a hand through his messy hair. “i mean, i don’t suppose you know anything about, um, curses? just, uh, curses in general, i guess.” he winced, realizing how lame he sounded.

you raised an eyebrow, clearly amused by his sudden awkwardness. “curses? you? i thought you were a pro at this stuff.”

harry chuckled nervously, rubbing the back of his neck. “well, yeah, but… just thought you might know something. you seem, um, pretty smart.”

your smile softened, and harry swore his heart skipped a beat. “flattery, huh?” you teased. “i’ll help you out, but only if you promise not to look at me like that anymore.”

“like what?” harry asked, blinking in confusion.

“like you’ve never seen a girl before,” you said, a teasing glint in your eyes. “it’s cute, but it’s making me nervous.”

harry’s face turned bright red. of course you noticed. his heart was racing. “sorry,” he muttered, looking away. “it’s just.. you’re really..”

“really what?” you asked, leaning in a little, clearly enjoying watching him squirm.

“nothing.” he said quickly, his voice cracking slightly. “forget i said anything.”

but your smile only grew wider. “i’ll help you with your curses, harry.” you said, as if nothing had happened. “but only if you stop acting like you’re the only one in the room who’s nervous.”

harry couldn’t help but laugh nervously. “deal,” he said, already feeling a little lighter, but still completely obsessed with the way you made him feel.

[screwpinecaprice]

He communicated through mental text.

[bandtrees]

they would get divorced in one universe just to find eachother in another one

alternatively titled: sometimes you're the level-headed token flesh-head impulse-control-and-polycule-member of a stubborn, eccentric, and hearty telephone-headed drug addict, and there's cruelty in the world you deem fit to suicidally fight, and that either goes about as well as you'd expect it to, or you learn about love and the value of your life and junk along the way

[pbnmj]

i deserve a spider-woman nepal..... miles doesn't have to be the only teen spider with a terrible bisexual mentor (enter my own sketches of the world's most annoying spiderperson, who i fling towards pavitr, complete with a design that's subject to change)

[jadecantcreate]

in the whitchlite carinval. straight up “caking it.” and by “it”, haha, well. lets justr say. My chad

(some gideon exploration & little doodles)

[1percentcharge]

season 14

[surreal-duck]

every girl is born a princess

[dawnthefluffyduck]

Haha here's the doodle dump I promised two days ago

Magma time on Thursday will be 8:00 PM (CDT)! I'll be online for as long as I can stay awake so feel free to hop in and out whenever you want :D there will also be a music queue anyone can add songs to, so even if you don't want to draw feel free to come and chill in the chat! Will send out the link tomorrow evening!

Also, I was slightly wrong earlier; no downloads will be needed, but after testing it with a friend it looks like you might need to make an account to join; don't worry though, it's still free!

[motherforthefamicom]

happy 35th anniversary mother 1!!!!!! love this game 2 death <3

[sinnabee]

sometimes all you need is a little comfort

[p2iimon]

fnaf furries 2 electric boogaloo these are more well thought out and i learned what a fucking rabbit looked like

[reddeadsredhead]

Hand slipped. Drew a Sean

[buds-and-baubles]

i've been meaning to talk about some of my apollo headcanons that have been floating in my head. some of them building upon canon ideas, others inspired by others, and some entirely built up by me. so without further ado, here are my apollo headcanons. i'll definitely make more as i keep reading for him.

apollo headcanons:

- being around speedsters, amazons, blue lanterns, and martian manhunter is hard for him sometimes. he sees his teammates he failed to save. he hears the name impulse and sometimes his brain changes it to 'impetus'. the first time that he met cassandra sandsmark, he became shaky and had to excuse himself.

- he goes out on missions/patrols by himself whenever he's buzzing with energy and or wanting to help people be safer and happier. he will still go out on missions/patrols with midnighter (aka one form of date night), the authority (for only big world ending emergencies since they're semi-retired), swift/engineer or some of his new friends/allies. even though he's semi-retired, this doesn't mean that the midnighter gets all the fun.

- while on the run with midnighter, he researched his namesake in the library. he was horrified for a good period time at his resemblance to the statues and various art pieces of the greek god apollo, but wanted to know who he is named after. he after learning about him wanted to embody virtues of apollo on his own terms. music and the arts, truth and prophecy, medicine and healing, the sun and light, herds and flocks, archery, knowledge, averter of evil, eternally youthful, oracular god, pastoral deity, one of the twelve olympian deities, the most hellenic (greek) of the olympian gods, the favorite son of zeus. to his opponents and enemies alike, he is ill health and deadly plague, of diseases in general, beneficial but wrathful, the deadly fire of the sun.

- the carrier when discovering of his continued research about the sun god apollo made him a lyre, a laurel wreath, a bow and a quiver full of arrows, and a hairbrush with engravings like greek pottery on the brush at jenny sparks request. he still hasn't brought himself to practicing with the lyre or bow, half from not having the time and half from not wanting to break something that means a lot to him.

- midnighter for halloween the first year of being married bought the three of them chitons and sandals to wear as a family and was somehow further utterly smitten by seeing his husband dressed up like his namesake, baby jenny cradled in his arms. they still have the outfits even though jenny's doesn't fit anymore so it's in one of her baby things boxes (because they're both sentimental parents to have such things).

- for their first halloween on their new earth, they dress as batman and superman, with jenny q's costume a mix of steph's robin and kara's supergirl.

- jenny sparks also gifted him and midnighter one of the frog and toad books, which is the first thing they read to baby jenny quantum.

- apollo and midnighter have cute lovey yet cheesy nicknames for eachother and also jenny. jenny's nicknames for her dads' are much the same but take on a sillier baseline.

- apollo's music is primarily in record album format, followed by cd and cassette tapes. the brief time he and midnighter had off before the authority was formed was when he bought a record player and a three in one radio, cd, and cassette player. all his doris day music is in record album form.

- his movie binging and critiquing is comprised of watching dvds and vhs tapes. as shown above, he is rather happy sticking to the older formats of entertainment rather than streaming online, mp3s, etc. he has gone off on a long tangent during a rainy day to midnighter about the differences between regular dvds and blu-ray.

- apollo doesn't wear a wedding ring while in costume, as he considers his and midnighter's symbols on their chests to be their wedding rings. however, they do wear wedding rings outside of costume, which were a wedding gift made by angie. apollo's wedding ring is a gold band with midnigher's chest symbol engraved on it, and midnighter's wedding ring is a silver band with apollo's chest symbol engraved on it.

- apollo began to pursue cooking and baking not only as a hobby and a way to destress but also as a way to build himself further outside of henry bendix's vision. he convinced midnighter to learn as well and they'll do it together or seperately. when both in the kitchen, they'll bicker over apollo following his heart on numerous parts of the recipe while midnighter sticks purely to the recipe out of the feeling that he needs to and just so he can have playful banter with apollo.

- apollo will use various things to focus his superhuman senses on to call him down when overwhelmed. his various hobbies that act as meditation, listening to music, putting up wind chimes, watching movies, lighting candles, you name it. it brings him back to himself.

- apollo encouraged midnighter to find hobbies just for himself outside of fighting, which apollo made sure to help him find ones that would work well with his computer brain.

- every arts and crafts piece and report card of jenny's is hung up on the fridge or framed on the wall. midnighter really loves framing their photographs and art pieces on the walls in specific ways that makes his brain happy. he once put a frame like an exhibit in an art gallery around a dent in the wall made by apollo's ass when he was low on solar charge and tripped on one of jenny's toys titled; "ass of the sun god by: apollo circa xxxx".

- apollo and midnighter split evenly or work together on taking jenny places fun/doing fun things with jenny or otherwise. arts and crafts, singing and dancing, watching movies, helping with homework, taking her to and from school, etc.

- he prefers reading books in the physical format. he owns some but also has a library card so he can take out books (and always return the books on time).

- domestic activities, the arts, gardening, and zen and yoga techniques are his forms of meditation. most of these are canon but i am so on board with apollo doing yoga after other people have said so.

- apollo sees a lot of himself in kon-el/conner kent aka superboy and takes it upon himself to be there if he wants or needs him to be there.

- as a continuation of the above, apollo and midnighter (as well as the rest of the authority) look after the younger generations of heroes to make sure they're safe, happy, and healthy.

- though they lost their old world, angie worked with the carrier (who is hiding from the watchtower) to bring back all their important documents and belongings like birth, marriage and or medical records, photographs, etc.

- to match jenny quantum while turning over a new leaf in this new world, apollo and midnighter made their legal last name quantum. it helps them out in legal matters and is corny cute. andrew pulaski and lucas trent are their undercover names they used for one mission together and jenny q won't let them forget about it.

- the authority sponsors all the causes they support, pride being just one of them. in addition to this, he and midnighter also created a support group/union for escaped experiments like themselves.

- apollo does sometimes still wish he could remember his life from before but at the same time knows it doesn't change who he is now. that perhaps it's better off him not knowing.

- he has nightmares of being experimented on but can't really say if those are memories, representations for his inner turmoil while he sleeps, or his brain building up what he thinks happened to make him who he is now.

- date nights with midnighter when they get the chance to (aka someone trusted watches jenny) are to restaurants, bars/gay bars, or a duo mission/patrol where they're in love and freaky. the public has to simply bare witness.

- he also goes out to spend time with angie and or shen because fuck yeah team air support/cav!

- he also wouldn't turn down the offer to spend time with the other sun-powered supers (including krypto aka superdog). if mister majestic happens to be invited, he'll be unhappy about it but will be cordial when there. once he gets home however, midnighter will be getting an earful of him shittalking mister majestic.

- apollo breaks sexuality meters and wows people on the regular with how gorgeous he is wherever he goes. when people see him as just a dumb pretty face or brute, he'll either use it to his advantage or outright immediately want to prove them wrong.

- his kirlian aura halo changes in appearance depending on his mood, solar charge status, light or lack therof, and visual perspective. it will become brighter, dimmer, change color shades in the warm tone variety, and the amount of solar/lens flares accompanying the primary halo.

- apollo's eyes flicker or fully light up gold when he uses his powers and or when he's upset. in addition to this, he has tapetum lucidum as a result from how henry bendix built his oculars. this correlates with his various abilities regarding his superhuman vision, enabling his eyes to light up gold in little to no lighting and or when light like a flashlight or a camera's flash is focused on his face.

- he has been mistaken countless times for the actual apollo by people he's rescued. there's also been at least two times where an injured kryptonian (you can decide who) he's helped has mistaken him for rao.

- building upon the above, i believe that in addition to being (confirmed) inspired by kal-el/clark kent aka superman, that he's also inspired by these characters; doris aka lightray (superman: the dark side), rao (justice league of america 2015 vol 4), raymond terrill aka the ray (time and tempest), lucien gates aka the ray (the ray 2012 vol 3), and the greek god apollo in every format. though apparently wildstorm apollo is earth-50's variant of the ray according to the wiki interestingly enough. below is images of him and all his listed inspirations (i know this depiction of rao and lucien gates as the ray came after wildstorm's apollo but they still reminded me of him).

image sources:

the authority: revolution 2004-2005 issue #1

the adventures of superman 1987-2006 issue #505

superman: the dark side 1998 issue #3

justice league of america 2015-2016 issue #7

the ray 1994-1996 issue #25

the ray 2011-2012 issue #1

statue of apollo on top of the main facade of the burgtheater in vienna, austria

[caramelmochacrow]

happy birthday claudine!!!! :D (i had to draw mayakuro again. i had to)

[zerothisnero]

More Abel art that I made for mostly myself because I'm carrying the Abel content in this Fandom 🫶