#this was for my friend and I kindof popped off

[hongluboobs]

Good morning to Angelica projectmoon ☀️😘🥰 the rest of you … gm I guess 🙄

[catre33]

the myth of Perseus

So basically, this man Acrisius -- who's arguably the king of Argolis -- only has one daughter. No sons. And he's freaking out, so he goes to this oracle like 'how tf am I gonna get a male heir?!'. The oracle doesn't really help, he's kindof a Debby Downer. He says that Acrisius will have no sons, and that his grandson will kill him. Acrisius is freaking out more, and he tries to prevent this by locking up his only daughter Danae. But no brazen doors can stop Zeus when he's horny, so BOOM. Perseus is born.

Thus, Acrisius is just not having a good life. He doesn't believe that it was Zeus who got his daughter pregnant, he thinks it's his twin brother, the one who had it out for Danae before. And he doesn't want to kill his daughter, who would do that? So (and this is the part Sally talks about) he locks her up AGAIN in a wooden chest/ark/whatever and yeets her into the sea.

The box floats toward Seriphos, and Dictys, a fisherman, nets it. He opens it to find Danae and Perseus both still alive and he wheels them off to the king. So Perseus is raised in a royal household.

But not really a very good household.

See, the king is after Danae since the moment she arrives. His name is Polydectes, and unfortunately, he has the support of his subjects in pursuing Danae. Finally, Perseus is old enough to step in and protects his mom from the king.

The king gets plotting. Polydectes calls up all his friends and they all pretend he's gonna ask some other girl (Hippodameia, daughter of Pelops) to marry him. So he's going around the whole island asking everyone to contribute to his love-gift. He finally comes around to Perseus and asks him for a horse.

Perseus is like, 'Dude, I don't have a horse nor the means to get one. But, uh, since you're not trying to marry my mom anymore I can try to get you anything else. Even Medusa's head.'

Polydectes is like 'Yass, he'll die trying and then I can get his mom. I MEAN THat would please me greatly.'

So Perseus is off to go kill Medusa.

Athena hears what's going on and helps him out, then Hermes does the same.

But Perseus isn't ready yet, he's gotta get better equipped. He still needs winged sandals, something to carry the head in, and Hades' invisibility helmet. (aka the introvert hat) All three of these things are in the care of the Stygian nymphs, but no one knows where they live. Except the Graea (the Gray Sisters).

So he finds them at the foot of Atlas’ mountain and steals their tooth and eye, forcing them to tell him. Once he’s got all the stuff he drops the tooth and eye in the ocean for them to get.

He finds the swamp the gorgons live in, and all three are sleeping; Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale. So he backs in using the reflection in his shield, Athena guides his hand, and off comes her head. Out pop Chrysaor and Pegasus! Fully grown! And armed! Weird way to be born. Perseus runs off before the new dudes can wake their aunties to go chase after him, so he escapes.

Now, he’s on his way back towards Seriphos. While traveling he sees this lady chained to a seacliff and falls in love with her. As he’s flying over (using the winged sandals) he sees the girls’ parents: Cassiopeia and Cepheus. That’s right, here’s Andromeda!

He asks what’s going on and they both explain that an oracle told them that sacrificing Andromeda to this sea monster was the only way to keep from being attacked and flooded by said sea monster.So he goes, ‘Hang on, I can get rid of the sea monster. If I do, can I marry Andromeda?’

And her parents are like ‘Uhm, suuuuurreeeee… haha….’

So he goes and kills the sea monster, slicing its head off.

The wedding is to happen immediately so he can continue on his travels, but in bursts this completely random dude, Agenor. Cassipeia shouts that Perseus must die. Turns out, Andromeda’s parents had already promised Agenor HE could marry her. But Andromeda is sticking by Perseus.

Perseus fights off as many soldiers as he can with his sword, and then he just petrifies the rest of them.

AND OFF THEY GO.

So he’s flying back to Seriphos with his new wife in tow. He lands, and he calls for Polydectes like ‘ay I got your gift.’ Polydectes is confuzzled and PISSED. He’s like ‘Umm I don’t BELIEVE YOU show me.’ Perseus is a little worried he says ‘well, uh, are you sure???’ ‘YEA YEA JUST SHOW ME’ aaaaand Polydectes and his entire court end up petrified.

And they all live okay for a while the end. 

My point in this is the fact that Perseus used Medusa’s head to save both his mom and his love. Sound familiar???

[telltale-tabletop]

Cie'th from FFXIII are heartbreaking and really fuckin cool.

I know the FFXIII trilogy is divisive among the fandom, and this discourse is not without merit. However, I feel all the people who dislike the games have failed to consider: the setting kicks ass????

In the world of FFXIII, mechanical god-like beings (one is literally just like, a building,) known as Fal'Cie watch over humanity, exacting their unknowable goals under the guise of having mankind's best interests at heart. This is total bullshit, of course. They serve their own interests, and for many of them that is awakening their creator at any at all costs,

When a Fal'cie has use of a servant, in a spin on the classic image of a paladin, they fuckin BRAND their chosen hero. These branded chosen are known as L'cie, and are given three things:

1.) Both magical and physical strength. Except instead of like, casting smite, you get fireball for free. It's kinda rad.

2.) An ominous fucking fever dream showing what they must accomplish in easily misunderstood surreal imagery! This is known as the L'cie's Focus. Good news! If you complete this you get eternal life! Probably. Okay it's more like you're encased in crystal and put into storage until your mechanical overdiety needs you as a meatshield again- but like, cmon nothing's free right?

Congrats, assuming you've been branded! You now have magic, incredible strength, and a limited time left to live. You better work out your Focus, and fast- those who fail to fulfill their focus become shambling monsters known as Cie'th. Imagine zombies that can sling spells but lack any of the sanity or intelligence to use them properly. Cie'th live in constant agony, cursed to wander and lash out at anything that comes close- including themselves. In an especially heartbreaking touch, some Cie'th occasionally cast healing magic on themselves only for it to do absolutely nothing.

Kindof a lose-lose situation huh?

Little recap, in the form of a helpful image for you!

Could you imagine how fucking soul-wrenching this would be in a DND campaign? Picture this: The party's favorite NPC is branded by some dark deity, and given a focus. Cool! You now have an extremely powerful ally that can cast some pretty good spells, and kicks serious ass.

Except, of course, they must complete their focus. And as a GM, i'd take this in the most heart wrenching direction possible- that is to say, your beloved NPC is now in complete opposition to the party. Give it a few sessions for the party and NPC to work it out, slowly drip feeding the information through the cryptic dreams the NPC has every night.

Let's assume your NPC is a good-hearted person, who deeply cares about the party. In my mind, they completely denounce their focus, outright refusing to fulfill it. Determined to find another way, they lock themselves away to study and research- looking for any possible way to rid themselves of their fate.

If your party pops in on them from time to time, describe how this dark crystalline material creeps around their body, spreading from their brand. Once the head is covered, it's game over. This could be both a great launching off point for a sidequest (save your friend!!!!) or a hopeless task in the shadow of higher beings. Alot can be done with this, I think!

You could also just like, have your NPC go along with their focus? A battle against a once-friend now-divine-battlemage also kicks significant ass. A good 7 on the AssKickometer.

We actually see this happen in-game, its pretty cool!

Ignoring the sexyman himbo in the image, this would be absolutely devastating to your table if they're at all sympathetic to NPCs.

Man. If only someone made a statblock for one of the Cie'th varieties from FFXIII for use in such a plotline. Sure sucks that no such thing exists IM LYING IVE DONE IT ALREADY.

This is a statblock I'm giving to you, dear reader, for absolutely free!

When I was making this, I imagined this as the absolute rock bottom for the character, a mere shell of their former power and self.

ENJOY!!!!!

This is my first ever tumblr post, and my first time trying something like this, so critique and input is highly valued!

Additionally, submission and ask boxes are open! So like, yell at me about cool monsters you like from Things and Such!!!! Do it!!! Right Now!!!!!!

[friskykittyunleashed]

May as well do version two of the musical challenge that @lets-dance-to-joy-division kindly tagged me on. Last night I did five (six really) fairly new to me songs that could evolve into obsessions (pretty sure I'm well on the way with at least three of them). Tonight it's going to be five acts that I've been playing a lot as of late, so I'm kindof obsessed with the band if not necessarily a single song. Again, I don't like to tag people on these things, but if you want to play, you really don't need my permission or anyone else's; just do it.

Five musical acts that Kitty's listening to a lot lately:

Aesthetic Perfection

This will come as no surprise to anyone who has payed attention to my musical posts. I have been absolutely obsessed with Aesthetic Perfection for a good year anyway, and this song has probably been my most obsessively played. I damn near died when I got to be within I can smell your sweat distance of Daniel Graves twice on their recent North American tour. His music has evolved over the years from harsher, angrier stuff with a more electro-industrial edge to what he now calls industrial pop. He does lots of interesting things musically and in his videos. He has the freedom to do so as he told his label to piss off some years ago and he's forging his way independently. He's very fan friendly, and having met him in Baltimore last October, he seems like a nice guy who'd be fun to talk to at length.

Papa Roach

Wait, what? This is nowhere near that synthy dark dancey stuff I posted before. Yep. I didn't like Papa Roach when I heard their first big single, Last Resort, back in the day and I still didn't like it about a year and a half ago when a good friend said that he liked PRoach. But for the last year or so I have LOVED much of their music, including Last Resort. I do actually like rock, but the thing with these guys as opposed to the cock rock and glam rock I grew up with is that Jacoby Shaddix writes and sings about emotions and feelings, not just sex, drugs, and rock and roll. And his lyrics are very catchy and singable in the privacy of my own car. The songs are musically interesting with good use of bass and drumplay that is often more complex than a simple beat. They've also added some synth and electronic elements in their more recent work. It was hard to pick just one song for them, I love so much of their work now. Papa Roach was my big band obsession before Aesthetic Perfection.

Linkin Park

Yes, another rock group, but to me they've always been so much more interesting than that. Mixing rap and singing, two vocalists, Joe Hahn's turntable work, and again with the personal, deeply emotional songs. Their first album Hybrid Theory might be my all-time favorite album, and if not, it's definitely in the top fucking three. Back in the day, at work we called Linkin Park our "angry music." I left them behind for awhile after their second effort Meteora but started to get back into them when I discovered Burn It Down in the mid-2010s (definitely my biggest LP obsession song). It wrecked me when Chester Bennington took his own life. If anyone bothers to throw a funeral for me when I die, I humbly request that two Linkin Park songs be played--One More Light (still cannot make it through that song without choking up) and Leave Out All the Rest.

Ashbury Heights

The first three obsession acts were obvious to me, the last two not so much, but going by my Last.fm stats, Ashbury Heights is my fourth most listened to act in the last year and a half or so. I had never heard of this Swedish duo until they came up for me on Last.fm. Their sound is varied and they've had at least three female singers during their run (I believe they are currently back with their original). I don't like everything, I tend to prefer their older stuff, but what I do like is fun, basically synthpop like this song Spiders. My most obsessive song though has been Spectres from the Black Moss, a catchy tune about a person with mental health issues and an unsupportive partner. The repeated use of the line "no sympathy" is the musical equivalent of fuck you and it is glorious.

God Module

God Module is a bit of a surprise for fifth place as I've only really started listening to more than a couple songs of theirs relatively recently. Their song Plastic was one of the ones I was considering for the final slot on last night's obsession list (and it definitely will become an obsession as I listen to it more). Again with them I don't love everything, but what I do love has a very different and interesting sound with a good beat and something funky going on with the synths. Something stompy I could dance to at the club. Lunacy was definitely an obsession song for me and inspired one of my mixes. Looking forward to digging in to more of their work.

Josie Pace

Bonus artist! I have to add Josie Pace as while my online stats don't reflect an obsession, I listen to her CD a lot in my car. She was one of the openers on Aesthetic Perfection's fall tour. I had never heard of her before and was impressed enough to buy the CD at the show (not typical for me). I swear she is better live than on the recordings. She brings such energy to her performances. Her best stuff isn't even on the CD. The song I wanted to put here hasn't been released yet. Also check out her cover of Pure Morning. She is also extremely sweet and is very happy to talk to you, give autographs, and do selfies. I hope she gets some new music out soon! (Oh and @lets-dance-to-joy-division, she's from the Detroit area.)

[ittybittybumblebee]

Hi hello hullo hey Bee Buddy ♥️

You’re amazing and wonderful and COOL so keep your chin up and blow the world’s socks off with your awesomeness

Also a question about New Guy just popped up in my head! If New Guy and Goopy interact with other people, what do others think of them? Or are they more solitary? Sorry I’m just so interested in your characters because aaaa I love them so much

HELLO HELLO HIII HI MY FRIEND MY FANTASTIC PAL OLE BUDDY O MINE

I WILL DO MY BEST TO BLOW AS MANY SOCK OFF AS POSSIBLE, IN YOUR HONOUR, And we can be awesome and cool together and then have ice cream

As for what people specifically think of them probably just think theyre like kindof rude and weird and loud and freaky and like oh no what are they trying to oh god are they trying to blow up a fire hydrant oh god i have to get away from here immediatly.

But honestly it depends on the person, sometimes they scream and run away and sometimes they stay long enough to slip on a strategically placed banana peel

New guy can be more solitary sometimes but xer penchant for mischief and just plain tomfoolery usually involves people so they usually dont keep to themselves for too long. And sometimes interactions are Normal (used loosely) (for comedic effect)

Like hey this guy who set bees loose in the grocery store yesterday is now getting a carton of milk and eggs is talking with the cashier acting like nothing happened.

((( sometimes the havoc is intentional, and sometimes it isnt, either way some poor soul usually gets caught up the the path of wreckage. ( new guys horrendous driving skills cough cough))) so um,,,, most people hate her right off the bat lmao.

Goopy though doesnt really interact with people and is mostly just there for snarky commentary. And staring. And uh,,, goopying.

Either way new guy and goops are bonded (they hate eachother <3) so they usually go most places together. They have a Passive Aggressive Friendship. And people hate them :)

(Also dont apologize for asking abt my ocs i literally love it so much, but keep in mind i usually end up going off on tangents with extra info so keep that in mind lmao)

[yinaeun]

・❥・looking for love ? ! (1)

wherein genshin characters are on a reality tv show, "looking" for love. (1)

genre : more on comedy, good vibes

characters : rosaria, raiden, albedo, beidou (randomized)

au : modern

pairs : plat!rosakae, kindof!albecrose, BEIGGUANG, 'mom' beidou & her 'son' kazuha

warnings : NOT AT ALL ROMANTIC, JUST FOR FUNSIES !! a bit ooc, and it's my first time writing these sort of stuffs <3 anddd, this takes place in a tv show, and idk a crap abt how those things work !! own hc's!! very short stories :<!! some characters are very much from fanon roots LOL

note : no criticisms pls ´͈ ᵕ `͈ ♡

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rosaria ⨾ "KAEYA?!! "

"we're going live in 5!" one of the camera crew reminded everyone.

"rosa, sit here." kaeya assists his friend, rosaria, on a chair. but seeing thousands of people infront of her, she can't help but ask. "kae.. what is this.. wait, why are we here again??" she asks as she sat down on a comfy chair.

"4!"

"oh, don't you worry about it!" kaeya gives her a reassuring but.. somewhat evil smile.

"3!"

"just answer the host's questions whenever he asks, alright? he's going to sit the chair across you." kaeya explains, this made rosaria more confused. "... what questions are we talking about?"

"2!"

a crewmember shouts, kaeya then proceeds to walk backwards, almost as if he's avoiding something.

"1!"

the host swiftly sat down on his assigned seat across the very confused lady. the behind-the-scenes crew pointed its camera's and lights to the two, making rosaria look away.

"HELLO! HELLO! welcome back to tonight's show, 'LOVE TALK.' we have here another guest looking for true love. and it seems like she knows her style! very 'gothic!' introduce yourself, please."

and at this moment, rosaria popped up from her seat as she grasps what's happening right now.

"KAEYA?!!"

"i guess this is my cue to.. GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE." kaeya runs, bumping to everyone he encounters, and knocking some equipments.

"we'll take a 5 minute break.." the host announces with a defeated look.

5 minutes later

"and after some *ehem* minor incidents, we're ready to start tonight's scheduled program!" the host announces with a smile plastered on his to reassure his audience.

"let's start off with introducing yourself." the host then looks at rosaria with a smile but with a threatening aura. "rosaria. tattoo artist. and just so you all know, i was FORCED to be here." she says glaring at everyone with her arms crossed. "*ehem* so! i see you're quite an interesting.. character! with your style and.. manners, you'll surely get along with our chosen candidates!" the host says with a smile. rosaria lets out an audible 'ugh.'

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so let's just say that it didn't go well, and the candidates were all.. 'flamed.' rosaria was banned from ever coming to reality tv shows. her reaction?

"they wanted reality, i'll give them MY reality."

but, needless to say, she gained quite some fans, and became a 'trending' character. her tattoo business is currently BOOMING ever since her appearance on the tv show.

overall, she won. she never has to set foot on tv shows, and she also gained money from her appearance on one.

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raiden ei  ⨾ "mmf? "

"sara.. i really don't think this is necessary.." ei said tugging on sara's coat like a little child. "ms. ei, this isn't entirely unnecessary, this can promote our business, this is a business strategy, trust me." sara reassures while looking at her checklist.

whilst the host was already hyping up the audience, sara and ei were waiting for their cue to come up on stage.

"without a further ado, let's call in today's guest, an esteemed businesswoman, raiden ei!" as the host welcomed their guest, ei comes up on stage, the audience roars. ei sits down, an adorable, shocked expression plastered on her face. "now you all know 'eternal bliss,' right? here we have the VERY ceo of the company." the audience roared louder as ei waves at everyone. "now, now, everyone, this isn't a concert, we're here to talk LOVE!" the host jokes, making the audience laugh.

as the host starts explaining the show's concept and what they do, ei spots a delicious treat on the table infront of them. 'are these.. free to eat? ' ei thought. but without hesitation, she took the cupcake and munched on it, no one took notice. 'so it is free.' ei continues on munching as she cups her cheeks. 'these are shoo.. sweet..! ' her eyes sparkles as she continues to ramble on her seat.

"do you get it now, ms. ei?" the host turns to look at ei.

"mmf?"

ei puts down her cupcake, her mouth smeared with frosting.

"aha.. i see you're busy with our cupcakes? you know, you have a scary look but i had no idea you had a sweet tooth!" the host said, making ei fluster. the audience simultaneously lets out an 'aweee!'

while the show was ongoing, sara, in the backstage, was holding her laugh, her hand covering her mouth. 'i-i'm so sorry ms. ei! ' she thought.

--

the show ended after ei chose a candidate who shared their love for desserts. their interaction was cute, and everyone thought they would be better off as friends who'd go and taste sweets everywhere they go.

yae miko, who was watching the show from home, had a funny reaction.

"oh my! our ei's in a reality show?? i should do an article about this!" her writer's instinct sparked.

meanwhile at ei's workplace, she was being ridiculed by her employees. they're quite lucky as they didn't get fired.

but atleast sara was right, their business was booming. but anonymous gifts were always stuffed on the company's p.o. mailbox, they were all nothing but delicious sweets. ei decided to host a company get-together to share the sweets.

sara, who was tired with organizing the anonymous gifts: "maybe let's close our p.o. mailbox for now.."

ei, stuffing herself with desserts: "hmmf? let'sh kweep it ofen.."

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albedo ⨾ "i can see our love having chemistry.."

"let's welcome in, mr. albedo! a well-renowned scientist!" the host welcomes their guest, a well-suited albedo makes an entrance. "oh my! how fancy~ please sit down mr. albedo." the host invites albedo. "you need not an introduction mr. albedo! your works have truly taken over the world!" the audience cheered, a smirk plastered on albedo's face. "what can i say, 3 years ago i said 'i WILL take over the world,' but being on this show.. i guess taking over the world includes taking everyone's hearts too." albedo winks, gaining screams from the audience. "ohoho! then let's explain today's program, yes?" the host says, suddenly a projector flashed visuals in an empty space on the walls. "so we have 3 candidates chosen for you, talk love to them, entertain them, anything! the challenge here is to make atleast make one of them fall HEAD OVER HEELS FOR YOU!" the host explains. as albedo looks at the screen, he massaged his chin. "ahehe, i guess i can do it." albedo accepts. then the host pointed towards an empty space on the stage, it let out smoke, then appeared the 3 candidates.

"well then, mr. albedo, take their hearts will ya?" the host left albedo alone on the stage, the audience was quiet as albedo picks a lady to choose. albedo then chose the candidate at the middle.

"why, hello there, dear." albedo smiles, his eyes closed. and of course who wouldn't feel their knees wobbling when you're at that situation? albedo chuckles on the lady's manner and went on to the 1st candidate.

"you're quite a bea-" albedo gets cut off by an univited guest who somehow got on the stage.

"you-!" the unknown shouts at albedo, this made the audience turn to look at.. another albedo??

the other albedo was.. well.. untidy. his glasses positioned in an awkward position, he was still wearing his lab coat, and at his back was..

"a-albedo.. you're causing a scene.." sucrose says, whimpering and slouching behind the 'other albedo.'

'the other albedo' went on the middle of the stage, everyone was puzzled. "good day, everyone.. i apologize for the rude entrance, but there's been.. a 'minor' mishap.." albedo pauses, "the albedo flirting around with the candidates is a prototype of.. me. science and alchemy is what made him." the audience gasps.

sucrose went near the prototype albedo and injected some substance in its arm, the prototype albedo immediately landed on sucrose's arms. they then took off, leaving the real albedo alone on the stage.

"my, mr. 'real' albedo.. i didn't know your creations can actually fool us all!" the host jokes, but albedo genuinely felt bad. "well, since you're already here, should we get back to the show?" the host invites albedo, and with albedo's usual poker face, he nods.

albedo went near to the 3rd candidate as he fixes his lab coat.

BADUMP, BADUMP -- the heart of the candidate beats.

"i can see our love having chemistry.."

suddenly a 'THUMP!' is heard from backstage. it was sucrose dropping the prototype albedo from shock. 'albedo not a pun!! ' she mentally facepalms.

just when we thought things were getting awkward, the audience suddenly screamed in delight. "mr. albedo, you're so cute!!!!" someone shouts. albedo smiles.

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LABORATORY

'i can see our love having chemist-" the tv shuts off. the remote being held by albedo. he was leaning on the doorway.

"gaaah! albedo.." sucrose shouts. "mm.. sucrose, were you watching the show?" albedo asks, sucrose nods defeatedly. "you don't have to get so shy about it. i should be the one getting embarassed.. but atleast we won the grand prize." albedo says, sipping on his coffee. sucrose went to a table to experiment with her vials. "albedo.. the one who won the grand prize for us was the prototype albedo.." sucrose says, gaining a chuckle from albedo. "hehe, you're right. though, having the prototype albedo at our workplace is quite.. tiring. i've had multiple dm's from all of the candidates saying they'd pay for the prototype albedo.." he shares, making sucrose laugh.

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beidou ⨾ "..i'll be going with ningguang, thank ya."

"beidou, this isn't like you.. ever since you and ningguang broke up, you've been a nervous.. wreck.." kazuha pats beidou on the back while mentally laughing about the pun he made on the last word. "gaah! i need to take my mind off of her.. i can't be always seen surrendering to her." beidou says, shaking her head. "mhm.. and this 'fight' you had with her.. was it really serious?" kazuha asks observing beidou's expression fading into a 'not really' expression. "okay! but still, she made such a big fuss about it!" she crosses her arms. "but that doesn't mean you have to give up on her like this, right?" kazuha says with a smile, his adorable dimples showing. beidou looks at him, rethinking her decision. "d'AWW! you're so cute, kazuha.. and.. you're right, i shouldn't give up! i'll-!" she then gets cut off by the director. "your cue, ms. beidou!" a small push was felt by beidou, then all of a sudden, she was at the stage.

the crowd cheered for beidou as she walks awkwardly to her seat. 'that director.. i swear-' her thoughts were interrupted by the host's voice. "welcome, captain beidou!" the host gestured a salute.

"heya! so.. look-"

"so what we have here are 3 candidates! 'love the talk? see them fall!'"

'i swear to god i keep getting interrupted.' she thought, her fists ready to punch someone. but her fists fell as she saw one of the candidates,

ningguang.

with surprise, she stood up, the host notices this. "oh? i see you've taken a liking to one of the candidates? fufufu.. you're the one who's supposed to make them fall for you, but it seems like you're the one who fell inlove." the host jokes, the audience letting out an audible 'aww! '

ningguang, who was looking somewhere else, takes notice to the audience. 'what are they 'aww'-ing about? ' she asks herself. she then looks at the guest, beidou. ningguang's eyes largens.

"ning- what are you doing here?" beidou asks the candidate. ningguang ignores her question as if she didn't hear it. the host forgets their lines and starts to indulge in the drama. the audience does the same.

"ning, answer me." beidou insists. ningguang heaves a sigh. "beidou, we'll continue this after." ningguang says, this doesn't falter the latter. "ning, please, we can solve this now, we can just go home and cancel this."

the host hears the word 'cancel,' then quickly went back to the scheduled program. "ahaha! alright, ms. beidou, please proceed with the program." the host reminds, a hint of nervousness in their voice.

beidou looks over to the host, her eyes a determined look. "no need, i'll be going with ningguang, thank ya." she then goes near ningguang, who was still mad about the past argument they had. "beidou, stop. we're live-" beidou gets ahold of ningguang's wrist.

no one was stopping them, it's as if this was more interesting than the show itself. 'the people will consume this type of media! ' the director thought, grinning.

beidou lifts up both ningguang's hands. "ning, i'm so sorry, i shouldn't have argued with you further, i know you didn't mean ill about me, i just got mad because the ship went through a serious wreck.. and i shouldn't have took the stress out on our argument. i promise, i can do better."

a long pause encapsulates over them.

"hun, you can stop blabbering now, ahehe. and i understand. i am at fault too and i should've considered what you felt while we were arguing." ningguang reassures, the huge waves were finally calming down.

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"ugh.. this is so embarassing." ningguang says, watching the drama they caused at the tv show they were in. beidou suddenly pops up behind her, "but don't you think we were so romantic about it? man, look at spark in our eyes." beidou says, observing the scene. "hmp, beidou, don't you still have a ship to tend?" ningguang reminds her. "oh right! then, i'm off to the docks! i love you my boo-boo-bear~" beidou kissed ningguang goodbye, 'ugh..when will she stop acting so immature?? ' she thought as she smiles at herself, her rosy cheeks brightening.

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NOTES !

hello hello !! this is my first time to actually commit on something that has to do with writing short stories (i think LOL)

anyways, my grammar and wordings are not perfect, but i hope it's understandable enough <33

also!! these short stories are supposed to be funny and i'm not really taking it seriously LMFAO.

please!! read the warnings and note on the top of this post :<

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TYSM Does this mean introduce 3 ocs??? Idk it does now, just for u bestie <33

(Also important info, all my OCs are magic like it started as a Harry Potter thing but then we obviously transferred them to our own thing and here we are, gay idiots at magic schools)

Cassidy💫

(Bby ur my -inhale- aNGELLL)

Name: Cassidy

Age: 17

Pronouns: She/her (cis)

Sexuality: Omnisexual

General description: The sunshine in the biggest sunshine x stormcloud relationship we have

TRIVIA:

- She has spastic diaplegic cerebral palsy, she can walk independently but not for long so she uses crutches most of the time, wheelchair on low energy days

- All her mobility aids are covered in sanrio stickers or is otherwize bedazzled somehow

- She actually always has beads in her braids, picrew is just a bitch and never has her hairstyle :')

- Has an angsty autistic Kaz Brekker core boyfriend named Booker (my S/O made him) and they are disgustingly in love it's very cute

- She's really good at making origami and she's constantly making little lotuses and dinosaurs for Booker and little frog hoppers for his little sister Bessie

- Talks to her stuffies, she has s o many of them.

- Has been keeping diaries since she was 6, never doesn't have it on her. She's painted a bunch of little white rabbits on the cover because they're her lucky animal

- When she was 9-12 she put those bicycle beads that go click-click-click when you turn the wheel on her chair

- Adores puzzles, riddles and brain teasers. Her rubix cube record is 31 seconds, she's very proud of it

- Idk man she's just really pretty in an aesthetic way, like she always has cute patterns painted on her nails, she has hearts in her edges and eyeliner, she wears cute pajamas to bed, she's just very cute-

- Feels love pains in her arms, needs to squish something

- Love languages are physical touch, gift giving and quality time

Milan⚡

(Bastard./affectionate)

Name: Milan

Age: 18

Pronouns: He/him (cis)

Sexuality: Bisexual

General description: Leading man but he's a little fucked up actually/lh

TRIVIA

- Lead singer and frontman of a famous pop-punk-kindof boyband, at first me and wifey dearest(/lh) couldn't think of a name for the band so we started just calling them Guys Being Dudes but that's what they're called now.

- Is dating his other bandmates, Ruben (mine), AJ and Zach (both my S/O's). Won't shut tf up about them in interviews

- Early diagnosed with bipolar disorder after very nearly decimating their careers.

- Had a really traumatic fanmail incident when they were really starting to break it big. Has some issues with their fans now but he's working on that-

- Has a therapy rat named Eddie (after Venom, not Stranger Things). The band also has one of those crusty white woman dogs/lh named MJ

- He will tell you his favourite movie is Back to the Future. This is a lie, his favourite is How to Train Your Dragon

- Best friends with an Olympic gymnast named Evangeline, she's had to hear his pining for his bandmates for years now

- Was really emo when the band was just starting out. Like bottle blond smeared eyeshadow Set It Off Band-T over striped shirt emo

- He gave Ruben his first haircut and thus saved Ruben from the "Awful First Trans Haircut" narrative because he's been cutting his own hair since he was 11

- Kind of emotionally distant Catholic family. Didn't outright say they don't like his lifestyle but by god they made it known. He only sees them around holidays and he only attends church loosely or for special occasions

- Really loves interacting with fan content, his twitter is a constant spam of fanart and fanfic, he follows back content creators, he reads and hypes up fanfic, all the time

- When he's scared (like harmless horror movie viewing kind) he doesn't scream or jump or anything, he just tenses up and starts crying-

- Colours his nails in with sharpie

Caio 🏁

(I promise you he is not as threatening as the picrew shows he's just got a ~persona~)

Name: Caio

Age: 18

Pronouns: He/him (Cis)

Sexuality: Bisexual with a bigg male preference

General description: We're genius for this ship trope.

TRIVIA

- Drag racer, his cars are his fucking babies

- Yes that's cars plural, his adoptive parents are RICH rich and are away for work a lot so they give him and his sister Genesis more allowance than they know what to do with. So what's an ND adrenaline-seeking teenage boy gonna do? Drag racing of course.

- Autism and ADHD and enough people-pleasing trauma to power a small nation. Most of his past relationships were his partners not communicating their relationship expectations and him wanting more than casual hookups and kinda being used :/ and now he doesn't really know how to value his own needs he's working on it-

- But he has a boyfriend now and they are also disgustingly in love and they're gonna make it everyones problem. His name is Keanu (S/O's) and he's a drag queen and I told you we were geniuses for that

- HoH and always forgets to wear his hearing aids, he mostly relies on lip reading. He has a walkie-talkie-radio-thing in his car that flashes when Genesis needs to contact him mid-race (cos like. Cops)

- When he has meltdowns it creates these magic power surges, he's been known to blow out lightbulbs. Once broke down so hard that he cut off the whole house's power

- He used to be on the cheer team and he can still do the flips and stuff, still super flexible

- Has like. No actual friends-

- He acts big at races and stuff but he is just the embodiment of the autism creature. He is just an excitable affection puppy who intensely autism stares when he's hyped

- Is an awful gossip, he needs to know everything about everyone at all times

- He makes rly good coffee-

- Him and Genesis are both fluent in ASL but his parents never bothered to learn. Genesis goes nonverbal sometimes though so Caio acts as translator when that happens

- Love languages are quality time, physical touch, verbal affection and late night drives

[marshieee]

Yes boss!

Headcanon

Normal day for them to flirt to their superior

A/N: ah it’s been awhile, i just noticed that my story about you being yamaguchi’s twin is still in my drafts hahahahaha.

Oikawa tooru

He didn’t expect that their temporary coach was someone HOT not that he doesn’t see any attractive people who coaches volleyball it’s just that it was shocking he expected someone who’s a bit old around their 50’s kindof guy, but you look like you both are in the same age

It’s been awhile since he met someone who was his type, unfortunately you’re his coach.

Let’s just say your filling in the spot of your uncle after he accidentally injured himself and have to rest for 6 months.

Good thing you’ve got alot of experience of coaching from little kids to college students.

BUT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE NATIONAL TEAM HERE

Pressure was already tough, stress was literally your second self now unfortunately it became worse.

“Oh good morning coach you look lovely today, you’re putting some models to shame”

“Save your sugary words for the ladies outside oikawa, ok guys warm up!”

One of your players who’s name was Oikawa tooru likes to flirt with you.

Whenever he has the chance he’ll take it and throws a cheesy pick up lines or lame puns.

“Ah it’s so good to have a sunshine who can light up my world thank you coach”

“Thank the sun Oikawa not me”

“But you are my sun”

“No I’m your COACH”

Honestly you’re not interested to get into relationship as this was one of your biggest gig, you can’t just blatantly flirt with your player.

I repeat YOUR PLAYER

But you can’t hide the fact that he is kinda cute when he’s trying to get your attention.

“What’s this?”

“My love~”

“.....”

“Ok ok can you do my bandage?”

“Why don’t you ask—“

“Look their busy doing the others bandages”

“Then wait”

“Don’t tell me you don’t know how?”

“Of course i know how idiot”

“Great then! It’s all yours”

He’ll just look at you with soft eyes as you were doing his bandages with a serious look.

You just look so cute

When you’re already done doing his bandages he’ll take your hands and place a soft kiss, which boi caught you off guard.

“Thanks coach, let’s do our best today again”

Maybe liking him won’t hurt right?

Kuroo tetsurou

Your schedule was a normal schedule for a working adult

Wake up, go to work, finish your task then go home.

It’s a cycle that you’re used to. Not until you got a new employee.

He was a hard working guy, never really bothered you and doing all of his work done and on time.

Not until he marked you as HIS.

“Hey boss~ got you some coffee”

“Oh, thanks....is this?”

“I made it my self it’s my own blend”

“Really?”

“Yeah really, it’s nothing special really just a little bit of love potion that i got in the corner of the streets”

You would immediately spit it out, though it was so good

“ARE YOU CRAZY?! WHAT IF THAT WASN’T A ‘POTION’ WHA—“

“I’m joking I’m joking I’m sorry I didn’t mean it,but I’m serious about it being my own blend”

He would be so sly about flirting with you that you can’t do anything about it.

“What?”

“Whoah easy now tiger I’m just here to tell you that hinata shoyo agreed”

“REALLY?”

“Yeah can i have a kiss now? I think i deserve an reward”

“Your ‘reward’ will be in your paycheck kuroo”

He seemed to be one of your best employees and it would be a shame if you put him in another division.

It’s not like you hate his flirting tho, but you just wanted to be professional that’s all.

“So it’s bring your kids to work day and since i don’t have kid i brought our children instead!”

“Our?”

“Yes our”

You’re so used to this you didn’t even bother to argue with him, he would just dodge it and get back to you 2x

“Tadaaa~”

He would show you a basket with a persian cat and a saimes cat sleeping.

“OMYGOSH THEY’RE ADORABLE”

“You’re adorable”

“I didn’t know you were a cat person kuroo, you don’t seem like it”

“Really? Um boss question”

“Yeah?”

“Do i really don’t look like a cat person?”

“No”

“But I’m pretty obvious that i like you right?”

“Wha-?!”

He just straight up confessed his sin to you in the OFFICE, your co workers who heard all of it started to “oooohhh”

“How bold kuroo-san”

“Just straight up confessing hahahaha”

You cheeks will immediately burn from his sudden confession. Grabbing the basket you turn around.

“Yes, yes it is kuroo and what about it?”

“Nothing just making sure that you know you’re loved”

That’s where you immediately started to combust, you can’t face him with a very red face.

It would be embarrassing. Head down you gave him the basket back.

“I swear to God kuroo if you continued doing this a little more push and i might fall inlove with you”

You whispered to yourself, which you thought only you can hear it.

“What’s stopping you then?”

You really can’t take it anymore and stomped all the way to your office.

“YOU AND YOUR SUPER HEARING IS SUPER ANNOYING”

“I DONT THINK YOU HATE IT THO~”

You’re falling for your employee named kuroo and you can’t help it.

Yamaguchi Tadashi

Well you were appointed to a new department

It was all good, you got good workers who actually do their jobs and a cute employee who basically lowkey flirts with you.

It wasn’t the first time someone is flirting with you at work but it was the first time where it wasn’t very...

Forceful, and it was super sweet.

Yamaguchi cannot straight up flirt with you like kuroo because you’re his boss. He respects that.

So he would do it in a subliminal way. Like he would volunteer to buy you coffee and when he gets back it’s not just your coffee but it was with a tiny little trinkets.

Like cute stickers, a candy, a flower, a note saying “let’s do our best today” “have a smile sunshine” “you can do this boss!”

To be honest you’ll just find yourself having a shit tons of butterflies in your stomach early in the morning.

He would also bake something for you, but also gets all embarrassed and started to bake for the whole team.

Like he would bake some cookies and give it to your department just 3 cookies per pack but when he gives one to you he will give you a dozen and with a cute little heart on the ribbon.

Or when he would give you his papers he would sneak a little motivation note for you, or a poem he made himself.

You never really got the chance to tease him back as he immediately shys away from you.

Well heavens wants you now.

It was a rainy night, your dumbass forgot to check the weather today so you didn’t have any umbrella with you.

Your friend already went to her date, so you got no choice but to wait until it stops.

“Boss?”

“Oh yamaguchi good work today”

“Ah y-you too, I’m sorry but what are you doing out here?”

“Well i forgot to check the weather today so I don’t have an umbrella with me”

“Um if you don’t mind you can share with me”

You would just look at his face, which reminded you of a strawberry which is fucking cute btw

“Sure why not”

As you two were walking towards the station he would be so stiff that you immediately noticed when you went besides him.

His shoulder was wet as he was trying to cover you from the rain.

“Hey yamaguchi scoot closer you’re getting wet”

“A-ah y-y-yes”

You would pull him closer only for him to get even redder.

As you two arrived at your stop which was the train station. You’ll instantly shot him a smile, the smile he really loves.

“Thanks yamaguchi i owe you one”

“It’s nothing boss”

“Oh you know what i can pay up right now”

“P-pay up? But the pay day is—“

You cut him off as you kissed his cheeks. It took awhile before it sink in yamaguchi’s mind that you’re kissing him rn

“There i don’t owe you one now we’re quits, see you tomorrow”

You would wink and left the blushing boy.

Flirting back might change some things a little.

Sugawara Koushi

You never thought you’d be a principal at a elementary school.

It’s not like you hate it though, you’ve been always so fond of kids. Your kids at school are so very sweet and respectful as they always greet you whenever you’re around.

You got the nickname “pretty sensei” to the younger kids as you often play with them whenever you got time. Though you weren’t a teacher there but you don’t mind them calling you sensei

A new teacher was assigned at your favorite class, which you weren’t aware since you’ve been too busy with some other stuffs.

As you visit your favorite class per usual you met the new teacher which was sugawara koushi.

“Sensei sensei! This is our pretty sensei!”

“They always plays with us”

“And they’re very nice too!”

Sugawara was aware that you were the principal and you told him it’s fine that the kids calls you sensei. It’s cute

Sugawara know that their principal was good looking but that won’t give any justice to what he was seeing right now.

You look so pretty and gentle as the kids surrounds you, laughing and running with them.

He can watch this forever.

Later that day when you already left sugawara confessed to his kids.

“I like pretty sensei but I’m too shy can you guys help me get pretty sensei’s heart?”

Well a few of them cried as they misunderstood the “get pretty sensei’s heart” but that was fixed.

The kids helped their sensei courting you. Like handing you flowers or heart shaped paper with “pretty sensei x suga sensei”

There are also times where the kids wanted to play house and asked you to be the parents.

“Looks like we have a big family huh?”

“Yeah hahahaha”

This always happens that you’re already used to it. How sugawara calls you honey just to tease you or how you would help sugawara put the kids to bed.

The girls decided that they want to play wedding and wanted to be the flower girls and bridesmaids.

“Really?”

“Yep, you and suga sensei will get married”

You blushed when she said that. Ok maybe you do have a little crush on the teacher so what?

“M-marry?”

“That’s a great idea! Pretty sensei you don’t mind do you?”

Sugawara pops up besides you agreeing with the wedding game.

“Huh? Y-yeah sure it’s just a game so why not”

The game already started and the girls have their own pretty little flower crowns as they just throw some colored papers.

One of the kids decided to be the priest tho he didn’t know what to do and just asked.

“Suga sensei do you accept pretty sensei?”

Sugawara would hold your hand and just looked at you with a soft expression.

“I do”

“Pretty sensei do you accept suga sensei?”

It’s just a game why am i blushing?!

“I do”

“Um suga sensei do you like pretty sensei”

You don’t know why but your heart skipped a beat as you anticipated his answer, you don’t know why you’re so curious but...

Sugawara just laughed and smiled.

“Yes i do like pretty sensei”

The girls immediately squealed and asked “really??”

Still looking at you sugawara squeezes your hand.

“Yes really”

“Then you may kiss pretty sensei”

“K-kiss?”

“Hahaha it’s fine don’t worry”

Sugawara gave you a soft kiss on your forehead which made you redder than anything.

“Pretty sensei is red!!”

“Sensei are you sick?! Are you ok?!”

“I-i’m fine”

“Suga sensei! Pretty sensei is sick!!”

“Don’t worry pretty sensei is fine”

After school sugawara immediately would apologize about what happened.

“Please don’t stop visiting the kids”

“Why do you think i would?”

“Because of what happened?”

You would just laughed at him.

“Of course i won’t and besides...”

“???”

You raised your hand with a flower ring that was made by the children.

“We’re a big family aren’t we?”

Now it was sugawara’s turn to be red

[purgatoryandme]

Hello!!! Happy 3 day new year!! I just saw your previous reply on shadow work and just wanted to ask you a question. What behaviour would you call someone who has hurt you in the past but tells you to "get over it" and to "not hold any more negative energy" anymore about that hurt? Would you say that it's gaslighting to dictate how long a person can be hurt over something/an action that you do? Thank you!!

I think it really depends on the full context of the situation and how holding onto that hurt affects you and a relationship that you may or may not want to keep. If a person has a pattern of behaviour that is injurious to you, wherein they are consistently disrespecting boundaries that have been communicated or are being inconsiderate after conversations about how their behaviour is hurtful, then ‘forgive and forget’ is a poor approach and them treating your hurts as ‘negative energy’ is skewing your relationship in an unhealthy direction that puts your needs below theirs. However, if a person isn’t aware they hurt you, or if the hurt was a single time event that they have apologized for and tried to move past, then the situation becomes a little more complicated.  Mindfulness exercises will teach you that holding onto hurts, especially for years, and using them as a reflexive defence or punishment in a relationship in which you feel insecure is bad for YOU. For instance, if you were friends with someone who stole your boyfriend in high school, bringing that up whenever you fight or feel insecure is hurtful behaviour on your part that fails to acknowledge any of the work that person has put in to make up for their mistakes and also avoids the real issue (whatever it is you may be fighting about currently). This kind of behaviour is common in families - when you live with people, especially since childhood, they cannot avoid hurting you at some point, but bringing it up constantly in a competition of who-hurt-who-the-most only makes each new conflict worse. Everyone makes mistakes, and while some hurts are difficult to move past, when leaning on that hurt only hurts you and the other party more...what’s the point? Nobody can dictate when and how they get over something fully, but we all dictate when we start that journey and how much work we put into it for ourselves and others. We also dictate how we communicate those hurts and the limit to which we will tolerate exposing ourselves to them. In that vein, I really think ‘gaslighting’ has become a pop psych term online that people use to highlight the current divide between ‘toxic’ and ‘good’ people. Genuine gaslighting behaviour has intent behind it, is an established pattern of behaviour, and is designed to make a person question their own perception and memories of an event. Telling someone to get over something isn’t gaslighting, but telling them that everyone else involved has moved past it, that it wasn’t that bad, that it happened longer ago than it did, that you weren’t that hurt at the time CONSISTENTLY is, especially when the person tries to highlight the irrationality of your behaviour to yourself and brings in other people. Gaslighting is manipulative behaviour and needs to be squashed quickly when it arises if this is still someone you want in your life, which they might be.  Anyway, I don’t believe in removing negativity from your life either by cutting people off or by simply getting over things (re: no negative energy :))))) ). Life isn’t black and white, people are stupid, and it’s hard to be human. Anger, sadness, grief, hurt - they’re all important emotions and I think their expression allows us all to become better people and to feel more connected at the root of it all. It’s best to express those things and struggle your way through communication at least once before deciding if you want to work with somebody to patch things up or if you want to remove them entirely. Fight with them! Argue! Cry! Punch a hole in their wall! Be vulnerable enough to expose why you can’t get over something! Maybe you’ll iron things out, or find out enough about how they feel that you can work towards forgiving them. Or, if you feel they’ve changed since they hurt you (in a good way or a bad way) and you’re tired of it all, tired of yourself, tired of not being able to discuss it with them because maybe you two aren’t the kind of people who can do that, sit with the feeling for awhile and change your perspective of their relationship with you. You can keep people in your life without trusting them. You can learn to love them again from a different angle, knowing that the scar they left will always be there. You have choices when you stop trying to think of everything as right and wrong or healthy and unhealthy. People have friends for different things, and some people aren’t the friends that you share all your thoughts with, and some people ARE but they’ll never agree with you and that’s ok. There are friends who cut you off at the knees because you’re destroying your own life, there are friends who help you rebuild, there are friends who are only friends when the world is falling apart - they’re not all the same, and not all of them can be trusted with all your secrets, and some of them can become damaging when you place them in a different context, but none of them are inherently right for you or wrong for you. To finalize this whole thing without knowing any of the context in which you’re asking, I’m definitely hypocritical about a lot of this and it isn’t easy. That said, I’ve kept a lot of people in my life for over a decade, and I’ll tell you with complete honesty that plenty of that decade hasn’t been good for us. Most of my closest friends were, at some point, people who hated me, and some were bullies directly involved in one of the worst periods of my life. We’ve been close, then grown apart, then close again until we learned each other’s limits and even then new limits came up through mental health crises and mutual ignorance. I’ve grown apart more permanently from some of my best friends when they’ve changed, not necessarily into worse people, but into people incompatible with me, too. So yeah, thinking on shadow work and the like, everybody has something terrible inside of them and if you stick around you’ll see it. Sometimes it can be worked past, where the shitty things in them match up with the shitty things in you, and you’ve hurt each other enough times that it all kindof evens out. Sometimes it can’t be. But you’ve got to look into yourself, consider what you can tolerate and if you want them around, and then either try or walk away - and even then it doesn’t have to be forever. Hopefully that helps? 

[fluffy-marshmallow-heart]

A Twist of Fate ch.16 -In My Eyes

The Elementalist AU

Beckett x MC (Oriana)

Words: 1961

Warnings: NSFW

Master List (Catch up here)

  This AU is set after everyone graduates Penderghast, and Beckett and Oriana were never friends. Fate, however, may have a different plan for them.

  The next morning, Beckett groggily opened his eyes, immediately overcome with Oriana’s presence. His room smelled of their joint arousal, and he found himself smiling, thinking back to the previous night…or rather, the whole night. He thought of their date, and how well it went, he thought of Chase showing up and how he punched him, hard. He thought about how he fingered her in his car, and how much she liked the sweet comments he murmured in her ear while doing so. The way he undressed her, and touched her gently, before entering the slick apex between her legs. He’d never had sex without a condom before, and it was the most amazing thing he ever experienced. But it was amazing because it was with her. He was her first for something, and he could hardly believe it.

In the middle of the night, he woke up to her gently stroking along his inner thighs, teasingly not quite touching his growing erection. He’d made love to her again and she purred in contentment after he came inside her for the third time that night, and then he didn’t stop kissing her until she was just about to sleep again.

Instinctively, his arm tightened around her in the early morning hours, and he pressed gentle kisses on her shoulder and back. He couldn’t get enough of her, and the evidence of that was pressed into her back. He felt her stir in his embrace, and he froze his movements, not wanting to scare her.

“Mmmm you don’t have to stop.” She murmured. “By all means, keep kissing me.”

He chuckled lightly and resumed his kisses, now starting to run his fingers up and down her stomach, moving his head so he could kiss her neck, making sure to get that one freckle he discovered behind her ear. He fell in love with that freckle the first time he saw it, years ago. He was sitting directly behind her in class. She had swept her long dark hair over one of her shoulders, revealing one side of her neck, and there it was, almost hidden away. He’d felt a current of electricity when he saw it and wanted to kiss it ever since. He always looked forward to days she wore her hair up, as he knew it would be revealed to him once more. She gasped as he sucked gently on her earlobe, and reached an arm behind her, until she was touching his back, pressing him closer, and giving him better access to her front.

He massaged one of her breasts, gently kneading it and rolling her nipple between his fingers, causing her to whimper in pleasure. He thrust his hips into her, letting her know exactly how turned on he was. He took his top leg and moved it between hers, so one her legs were draped over his, then slowly brought his fingers down, cupping her pussy in his hand.

“You’re soaked…again.” He groaned into her ear. He circled her sweet spot with his finger, going faster and faster until she was begging him to take her. Not needing any more encouragement, he removed his hand and guided himself into her, grunting at the sensation as her silky warmth wrapped around his cock like a glove.

“Oh my god, Beckett, you feel so…ohhhhhh….”

“Your pussy fits me perfectly, Ori.” He thrust harder into her, his hand splayed across her stomach, keeping her tightly against him, curious how she likes sex. Does she always like it slow and sweet? Does she sometimes like it hard and fast? Which does she actually prefer? He was determined to find out.

She cried out at the pressure, but to his surprise, encouraged him along. “yes, Beckett, yesssss…take me…fuck me…ohhhhhhh”

She pushed her hips back into him, taking him deeper and matching his thrusts, and he buried his face in her hair. His finger was back at her clit, rubbing it in the tempo he was fucking her. She was writhing with pleasure, and Beckett felt himself become even harder. He didn’t even think that was possible, especially since he was already inside her, but the sounds she was making drove him wild. “How do you like it, Ori, tell me more what you like.”

“I like you!” She rammed herself into him, taking him as far inside her as she could, and Beckett exploded inside her, unable to contain his orgasm.

“Shit” He muttered, completely embarrassed, after he’d finished emptying his seed inside her. “I’m sorry.”

“For what?” She laughed. “Why on earth are you sorry for that?”

“I...came too fast. You should have come first. That won’t happen again.”

“Hmmm. So, you really, really like it when I say that I like you?” She teased, and Beckett turned bright red, thankful she wasn’t facing him right now.

Then she moved so he fell out of her and turned herself around in his arms, cupping his cheek with her hand. He stopped breathing as she met his eyes. “I really do, you know. I know it may not seem like it…and you’ll probably say I’m crazy, but…I’ve always…kinda…felt you. Not like this.” She added quickly, seeing the surprised look on his face. “But I could tell when you were around.”

“What do you mean?” He asked.

She bit her lip, and he leaned into her, taking it between his own teeth, biting softly while pulling back. He grinned when he saw her smiling at him.

“Well…” She trailed off, looking at him sheepishly. “I kindof already told you. Not that I ever expected you to think anything of it, or that I’d ever explore to just what depths that sense could go.

Beckett furrowed his eyebrows. “Ori, what are you talking about?”

“When you were around, I would always feel this…tingling sensation. It really troubled me at first, but as time went on…eventually I found a bit of comfort in it.”

“Tingled?” He asked. She nodded, and he looked over to his bookshelf where his yearbook now sat. The words she wrote to him flashed in his mind.

I would notice you near me, and I would tingle in excitement thinking you were going to come up to me.

His heart started fluttering as she continued. “I felt it in the bar before you approached. But I hadn’t actually seen you. I thought it was weird feeling that again when you clearly were not around. I hadn’t felt it since graduation. But then you were next to me, stubbornly refusing to leave my side.”

Beckett went silent. She…felt me? She felt that same recognition I felt when she was near?

“Beckett…”

That’s not possible. There is no way this happens. No way it’s always happened, no way it’s grown.

“Beckett!”

In all my studies, why did I never research this? There has be literature, why did I never come across it? I was constantly in the library, it doesn’t make any…

“BECKETT!!”

He snapped his eyes to hers, finally realizing he had actually stopped breathing.

“What’s wrong?” She asked

“Oriana, is that a serious question?”

“You’re freaking out again.” She said quietly.

“I…”

“It’s okay” She sighed. “I get it. I’m a freak.”

“On the contrary.” He responded. “I felt it too.”

She gave him what he interpreted as a look of relief mixed with surprise. “Really? You don't have to say that”

He smiled softly. “Really. And you’re right, I did always put myself near you. In class, in the quad…I just wanted to be near you. I still just want to be near you, Ori. Do you have any idea how excited I was to see you? How excited I still get to see you? You are the best part of my day, every day. Being with you, it’s…it’s like a dream.”

“You know, you are very sappy, Beckett Harrington.”

“Only because I love…” He stopped short, exhaling loudly and avoiding her gaze.

“You love…?” She pressed

He could feel the blush creeping up his neck, spreading over his face, his cheeks burning. Shut up you idiot. Don’t say it. Whatever you do, don’t say it. Oh my god, I’m such an idiot, I almost said it!

“I love kissing you.” He quickly supplied.

She eyed him a long moment before responding. “Then I guess you should kiss me.”

And so he did. He kissed her and poured every ounce of love he had into it, and she returned it eagerly before breaking apart breathlessly.

“You said you wouldn’t cum before me again?” She murmured, reaching down and wrapping her hand around his length.

“Within reason.” He told her, suspicious.

She flashed him a mischievous smile. “I’d love to see you try.” She placed her hands on his chest and pushed up to straddle him.

“I’m afraid you’re at a disadvantage, Oriana. I just came. I probably won’t even be…” He moaned as she ground into him, causing his dick to harden immediately.

Her eyes lit up as she saw the effect she had on him, as she turned herself around, her pussy directly over his mouth, taking the tip of her tongue and running it along his shaft before swirling it around his head and taking him deep in her throat.

“Fuck” He hissed, diving into her depths with his own tongue. She moaned in response, the vibrations of her mouth around his cock driving him wild. He gripped her ass as he ate her hungrily.

“You taste so fucking good.” He growled against her and she moaned again, louder, more desperate, before letting him go with a ‘pop’.

“I want to taste all of you” She murmured, and once again Beckett turned a deep shade of crimson.

And then she was on him again, her sweet mouth warm and enveloping, and he was trying so hard to continue with her, but he was failing. She took him more and more, deeper and deeper into the back of her throat.

He grunted as she worked him, and good god, how many times he’s fantasized of this, never allowing himself to get out of control and take matters into his own hands. This is astoundly better than he ever pictured, and he began involuntarily bucking into her mouth, moaning loudly as she cupped his balls with one hand and started sucking on just his tip.

“Ori” He muttered out

She went faster, swirling and sucking and running her tongue along his shaft.

“Ori. I can’t cont…ohhh”

She released him, turning herself back around, sliding herself down his body, meeting his gaze as she lowered her head between his legs and began again. She never broke eye contact, and the visual became too much to bear. He came inside her mouth with a loud guttural growl, still pumping inside her while she swallowed every last drop of his fluid.

He stared at her, at this goddess before him, unable to speak, having no words to describe what he was feeling. There is so much he wants to tell her, so much he wants to say, starting with how he’s been in love with her for years and wants an entire lifetime with her.

She crawled back into his side with a smirk. “Now who’s the silent one?”

He turned his head and stroked her hair gently with one hand. “Thank you.” He whispered.

She looked at him curiously. “For the blow job? You don’t need to…”

He cut her off with a deep and soulful kiss. “Just for being you.” He murmured, before kissing her again. Pulling away, she swallowed, hard.

“I, uh…you’re welcome…” She said uncertainly, searching his eyes for something he couldn’t quite pinpoint.

In a million years, he never could have guessed she was thinking the exact same thing he was.

You are everything.

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[ella-ashmore]

*blinks cutely* 💌

firstly. i associate you with spacedolls youre fr the top spacedolls shipper ever kindof popping off there bella. though on a more serious note i associate you with campfires. crackling wood and stories shared between beloved friends. i associate you with the sound a pen makes on paper, bookstores, the feeling of an old book in my hands

[multiplayingorg]

Battlefree Realms Heroes

| Repost: Originally posted by Slurms on July 1, 2009

Word started popping up around the interwebz that EA/Dice’s next installment of the Battlefield franchise, the free to play Battlefield Heroes was secretly released for open play last week. I assume they figured that enough word would get around without the need to throw out large bags of cash for advertising. They were probably right. I finally got around to downloading and playing the game this past weekend. My first problem off the bat was the lack of support for Opera. You can only play this game with Internet Explorer or Firefox, and I couldn't get it to work with Firefox (kept getting an Error 1002 message). I was told by a friend that they didn't support Opera, because people who use that web browser have small penises, and they’d rather not get involved. I guess I'd rather just not have to worry about memory leaks.  After getting the game to work in….ugh…IE and getting my Royal Soldier to level 7, I think I’m ready for an initial review.

It doesn’t take long to get going in Battlefield Heroes. If you have an existing EA user account, it takes even less time. After logging in to the website, and downloading a small installer, it took all of a few minutes to get a character made and join a match. It’s web-based a la Free Realms. In fact, the whole process of getting the game, and entering is eerily similar to Free Realms. There is a store in the browser where you can buy new equipment, clothes, and widgets (items that can aid you in combat like Band-Aids and wrenches). The price for many of the items costs real money converted into a form of online currency, others (like the widgets) can be purchased with credits earned in game via missions. This is one of the things that in theory makes me cringe, but I actually quite like it in practice. While on the character screen, you can upload missions which act much like quests in an MMO. Some missions have you destroy X amount of vehicles, or kill X amount of people and do X amount of damage total. Some require you to do a set number of things within the time of one round. You can have up to three active missions at one time, and when you complete one, you usually get a follow-up to select which is a touch harder. It seems to be a way to “specialize” your character by going down one quest chain, but I’m unsure at this point if you will eventually receive anything more than store credits for their completion.

The graphics and feel is like a cross between Free Realms, and Team Fortress 2. It has a stylized look much like TF, but something with the goofy sounds and interface feel just keeps making me thing Free Realms. I don't mind the look at all, in fact I kindof like it. But I do find that some of the character animations (like running) seem a bit stiff. The sound is decent, but the Warner Brothers-esque soundboard used for the effects can get on your nerves. It’s hard to take a tank seriously when it’s cannon’s blast sound came right from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

The gameplay is like a normal Battlefield game. There are objective which you have to fight over for control points. The more people on a point, the faster it’s captured. The more points you control at once means the faster you will win the match. There are vehicles which include tanks, planes, and automobiles. Tanks in the BF series have always been my mainstay. I’m an armor person, and love tank on tank warfare. The only disappointment in Heroes is that it doesn't seem to take any less time to kill someone in a tank than it does to kill someone on foot. Let me clarify. While in a tank, I can kill someone who is also in a tank in about 4 hits. While in the same tank, it takes me about 4 hits to kill someone on foot. hmmm. Some of this has to do with the points system that is used to show damage. A person may have 100 hit points. A shotgun blast to the chest on foot will do about 20-30 damage if you are in good range and get a square shot. A tanks cannon blast can do that same damage from a longer range to the same person on foot, maybe a bit more if its a square hit. But not much more. They seemed to do this in order to keep beginners less frustrated with the game, and give it more balance across the board. People don't go nuts over tanks like they used to in BF2, because it’s pretty obvious that being in a tank has a questionable benefit.

The classes in the game are Soldier, Gunner, and Commando. The Soldier acts as the basic weapons specialist and medic. They get optional grenades, flame bullets, an area of effect med kit blast, and the choice between a sub machine or shotgun. You can switch between both weapons, but I usually stick with the shotty. I like to be up close and personal. The Gunner has the larger weaponry. They wield a large machine gun and a bazooka. They act as the tank destroyer and longer range shooter between the soldier and commando. After some recent ass kicking done to me, by one, I may give these guys a shot next.  The commando is the all around douche-bag class. They have stealth, a combat knife for large damage up close stabbery, TNT so they can sneak up and plant explosives on tanks, and yes to cap it off, they also get the sniper rifle. WHICH, they can shoot once while stealthed before being exposed.

I started with a Royal (Allied) Soldier, because I figured it would be a good basic class to get familiar with the game, and I like the look of the characters and equipment on that side. This may have been a bad choice for one reason; most of the decent players seem to have made a National (Axis). I have been in numerous matches, and maybe won three of them. I usually sit in one of the top two spots for the Royal team. But this, like most team based first person shooters, doesn’t need a one man team to do well. It needs the whole team. That’s a good thing and a bad thing. It’s good because they didn't make this a game where a hardcore gamer could step in and dominate. But its bad because you cannot go into this game expecting teamwork. It happens sometimes, don’t get me wrong, but being a free game, anyone can easily pick it up and play. By anyone, I mean the games target demographic, the young. It’s not a game that was made for serious gamers. It’s not for people who organize groups on Call of Duty 4, or Team Fortress 2. Its not really even for avid Battlefield fans. It’s for potential Battlefield fans. It is a great game for someone who doesn't play a lot of first person shooters, or just has a passing likeness for them. With that said, I have had fun playing the game. It’s got that carrot on the stick accomplishment system much like most MMO’s. It’s hard to gain a level and not say, “oh man, one more level and I'll get this” or “ooh, 50 more credits and I can buy this.” If you want something new and a touch different, then its worth the price of admission.

[shineyunaa]

happy drop day!!!! i have so many thoughts n feelings... under the cut cuz it turned out to be a lot LOL :) 

 this album IS the album of the year LET’S GET THAT OUT OF THE WAY! i am sooo happy w it like every song is good in its own way and what i love abt itzy’s music the most is how the songs are on like the edge of me not liking it but there’s always something abt the song that is so different and iconic that they push me out of my comfort zone kinda? their music is never basic. and i always end up loving it and screaming along w every word

i gotta say yeji has absolutely floored me this era. she is so fuc;kin fierce!!! and i can’t believe she apparently used to score kinda low sometimes in vocal tests at jyp cuz she’s emerging as a Real Singer!!! she’s doing things with her voice that we haven’t seen yet from any of the other members! and her expressions in the loco mv are... exquisite??? like listen to me i’m generally a yuna/ryujin double bias but yeji my darling is a superstar. and she’s rly doin it for me rn!

now the music video is great and i love it, it’s very random tho? like it all feels a bit disconnected which makes u feel like ur going crazy which is the point and it’s just wild. they all look amazing, and here’s the thing i LIKE the choreo but this is the first itzy dance i’ve seen that didn’t like... absolutely gag me the house down boots? it’s LOVELY. but it just hasn’t rly amazed me the same way all the others did. like dalla dalla is my least fave dance but it still had it’s moments where it popped off like malijima u kno? but loco, while it’s amazing and technically difficult and they killed it, it just doesn’t have those moments for me where i was like “i’ve never seen a dance move like that before”. i rly like how the dance was kindof harkening back to all the prev eras tho! i rly still do like the dance break a lot but it seems almost like the choreographers were trying to give itzy a bit of a break with this dance after they went SO MF HARD on in the morning (my fave dance tied w wannabe). which i totally understand like they work so ridiculously hard i genuinely believe this choreo is giving them a bit of a break. not saying it isn’t still hard and intricate af cuz they r still itzy #houseofdancers no matter what!! 

this album slaps and it bangs, it’s so cold and then it gets so heartwarming. yuna’s “we’re gonna be okaay” in mirror hits different like i BELIEVE HER. her sagittarian influence is so strong there’s so much joy in everything she does SHE WAS BORN TO BE AN IDOL okay i need to stop i probably sound crazy lol, if u actually read this um thank u? im not expecting anybody to this is just my personal lil itzy diary cuz i have no friends irl who like stan them so i needed to get this out somewhere!!

[the-red-avocado]

Awwwww THNAK YOUUUUUUU

Lmfaoooooooo that pun is pure gold😩😩😩

Im very bad at putting whats in my head into pictures so ima just put her description here 😅😅

1. Shes an arsonist and a thief lmao

So her names Seneca, and the first thing people notice about her is her skin, its fuckin pink, a pale muted pinkish/purple. It looks very close to lighter human skin color but its just slightly off, not thanos-purple but not exactly human, i dont want it too be a too overwhelming purple though

So her wings, they perk up and flutter a bit when shes excited, kinda like a dogs tail, but they vibrate when shes nervous. they're a metallic purple, with hues of teal and coral-orange when sun shines on them. shaped similarly to dragonfly wings, she definitely sprinkles glitter on them.

Now with other physical features, her natural hair is medium length, wavy, and fuchsia colored (sometimes dyed different colors)

but she usually wears it in a side braid while in action, shes got slightly straight eyebrows and a barbell piercing on her right eyebrow, and purple lips, and has a hooked nose and brown eyes. Shes pretty small, which is useful because it would be easier to commit atrocities and create mischief, get into and usually easier to get away, height is 5'2". Her build is rather muscular since shes almost always flying or running. Shes got pointy ears that are pointed back so the piercings are plenty

Personality wise? Think of puck from midsummer nights dream, but a little more laid back. Id say shes childish at times but will be mature if need be. Will not hesitate to break your nose if you harm her or her friends, anyone really. Kindof a ride or die chick, she refuses to let anything bring her down, she'll find a way to make you or herself happy. Absolutely determined to have fun in any situation. Also likes shinies ✨✨✨🌟, shinies are life, shiny rocks shiny coins, jewelry, everything, enjoys making herself shiny too so body glitter is a must. And bits of glitter everywhere, I mean everywhere. Laughs while kicking her enemies' ass' , and ig her maniacal laughter freaks people out, her temper is shorter than she is and weapon of choice is a baseball bat.

Clothes wise, usually open back blouses and baggy pants, rarely wears dresses cuz yk, flying, carries a concerning amount of knives (all hidden ofc) and a lock picking set. Shes got an old black bolero hat from her mentor, and boots? Calf high combat boots hell yeah. Wears a lot of black to make herself look intimidating and it usually works Idk. But she incorporates a few pops of red and gold into it. Carries around a leather bag full of clothes, money, meds, glitter, weapons and glitter. When she wants to hide she puts on a black cloak to help hide her skin and wings

^^These ladies are what inspired her the most

Shes basically a wannabe Zorro

You dont gotta draw her if ya dont wanna but here it is lmao

Ive decided that my mc for the pirate au is a fairy with purple(or maybe green) skin cuz why the fuck not yall can fight me over it

Basically this bitch with less feathers :/

YES YES YES. YES!!!! YES!!!! NO ONE IS GOING TO STOP YOU BC I SAY SO!!! NON-HUMAN MCS MY BELOVED 😭💞💘💗💖💞💓💗💘💕💕💞💓💗💘💖💕💞💘💖💕💓💗💕

I'M SO BISEXUAL OH MY GOODNESS

Pirate captain x fairy?!?!?! WOWIE HHHHG I SHIP IT (ahaha see what i did there? *gets a tomato thrown at me*)

[endless-vall]

Prompt 23 & 36, please.

Hi anon! thank you for requesting! I chose Liam x MC, I hope this is fine with you 😘 Thank youFavorite momentsSummery: Liam’s favorite moments are always the moments he and Mc have to themselves, when the eyes of the court and the press doesn’t prick into them.When his brother, Leo, drops off their niece without prior notice, they share another one of those moments.*Written from Liam’s POV*Author’s note:  This was so fun, since I had the creative freedom to choose which pairing I’d like to use those prompts on. Thank you!I loved the possibility to do a (kindof) crossover from my fav couples from roe and trr :D I hope you’ll like that!@thatocladyplayschoices I hope you’ll like this too, this is a light & fluffy piece ^^ Pairings: Liam x Mc, Leo x Kelly (ROE’s mc)-Liam and Mc were still getting used to being a married couple. They were married for six months now, and while MC wasn’t raised at court, or prepared for that her entire life, as some people have, she’d been a natural. Even Bertrand said that, during their wedding, when giving them his regards in person. “She was a delight to sponsor” “Maxwell did an outstanding job” and “She brought hope for the entire court” were just few of the things he’d let slip when talking to them, but Mc wore a proud, slightly teary-eyed smile and pulled him into a hug afterwards.“This, for an example, wasn’t queenly-appropriate behavior” He had to remain his judging, grumpy self, but the smile on his face and the hand around her back - returning her gesture - told them otherwise.She was still her stubborn, cheery, and righteous self, but she’s also been a wonderful queen. All those traits only made her a better, more generous ruler, alongside with Liam.Liam loved it when Mc eyes sparkled after every time they’d pass a law that helped those in need.And they’ve faced harder decisions, together, too. No matter what they’ve had to face, they always pulled through. While the photos scandal shook them at their core and almost broke them apart, it also taught them a lesson. If they managed to overcome that obstacle, they could do anything, as long as they’re together.“Your love makes me stronger.” Liam had told Mc. And each time they’ve faced a new hard decision, she’d squeeze his hand, reminding him and reassuring him they could do it.They both had busy schedules, and were pre-occupied with many things, each had his duties to attend to, and so Mc suggested they’d make a promise; every other weekend was a date night, and they’d have an entire day to themselves. They made it as much as it was possible.Those were still his favorite moments together, when the eyes of the noble families and the press weren’t all directed at them.Liam finished off a busy day at the office, after countless meetings and political discussions, and headed for their bed chambers. He knew it was supposed to be date night, and the exhaustion vanished off him right over, filling him with excitement instead.It was only when he reached their room, only to find it – unfortunately – empty, that he had thought to check his cell phone for any text messages or notifications.There was, one unexpected text message waiting for him there.Sorry, bro. She’ll be in the garden ;) – Leo.That was strange, Liam thought to himself, while changing from his royal attire to something more comfortable, while still keeping it appropriate for outside of the bedroom.He got out into the palace’s garden, searching for Mc and scanning the garden.He finally found her, and started making his way towards her, while Mc didn’t notice his presence. She was too busy playing along with the 4 year-old angel who happened to be their favorite (and only) niece.The sun was starting to set, coloring the sky in a pinkish color, and it made both of them glow in the dim light, making the scene unfolding in front of him to even more lovely.Mc was wearing a simply white sundress, and her hair was tied up in a slightly messy bun, it was obvious a certain 4 year old was tempering with it earlier today, but she still looked just as beautiful as ever.This seemed like it would join the list of his favorite moment, too.“So this is where my two favorite girls have disappeared to.” Liam amusingly commented when he reached them, making Mc jump in her place, and wrap him in her embrace, and the little girl giggle. “Liammm!” their niece jumped up as well, and hugged his leg. Mc broke their hug apart long enough to let her pick her up, and then returned and hugged Roselyn from the other side, planting a big kiss on her cheek. She was named after her grandmother, from her mother’s side.“So, is little Rosie ready to go to bed yet?” Liam wasn’t even bothered his brother leaving them on babysitter duty, not ever. “Nuh-uh!” She protested. “Mc promised I could play a little longer today!” She used those puppy-eyes of hers, and Liam was sold. “I did promise that,” Mc confessed, popping her head behind Rosie, and both of them looked at him with those big, hopeful eyes.“Okay, okay, you know I can’t say no to that face. That’s unfair!” He joked, putting Rosie down. The little girl didn’t waver, running back to her toys and continuing what seemed to be a fight between a knight and a dragon. Liam chuckled at the sight, and felt Mc leaning against him. He instinctively wrapped a hand over her waist, holding her close.“Leo and Kelly dropped her off today afternoon. I finished off early and thought I’d rather spend time with her instead of a assigning her a nanny, though they’re great and she loves them too. She especially loves Bastien, even though he insist he’s not her nanny. They said they had some urgent business, and were in the neighborhood, they should be back tomorrow.” Mc updated him. Liam chuckled when Bastien was mentioned, memories of the last visit of Leo, his wife and Rosie, when Rosie decided to ride his back, and his ‘upset’ reaction, even though everybody knew he loved it.“I also wanted to send you a message, but I knew you were in the middle of meeting, and afterwards I must’ve trailed off.” She blushed.“It’s okay, Leo told me to go looking for you in the garden.” Liam kissed her cheek, thinking that Mc would make a great mother. She absolutely adored Rosie, but then again, Mc always loved kids. Liam got a wave of excitement wash over him, when the thought of having their own kids came to his mind. He couldn’t hind his smile, and Mc sent him a questioning look, still wearing a smile.He sat on the porch, watching Rosie continue her play, and motioned Mc to sit beside him. She sat and instantly lean into his touch, and he hummed happily.“I was just thinking how good you are with Rosie.” Liam started, placing a hand over Mc cheek, and stroking it lightly.“Well, you’re not so bad yourself,” She returned at him, with a satisfied tone.He was glad she thought that, she always seemed to know how to get Rosie’s attention better than him.“And I’ve just thought… about having our own kids one day.” Liam admitted, looking into her eyes. There was some kind of blissfulness in her eyes and the way her lips curled up into a wide smile, with something additional hiding behind it.“Just one day?” Before Liam could ask why she looked at him like that, she replied.“W-What…” He stuttered for a moment, trying to understand what she was meaning.“The reason I finished early today was that I needed to take a test.” She explained. “One day might be closer than you’d think.” She added. Liam’s eyes shot wide open in surprise. “Are you saying?-“ He caressed her face with both hands, waiting for her to say it out loud.“I’m pregnant.” She confirmed it, smiling excitedly at him.Liam almost felt tears of joy forming in his eyes, when he pulled her into a long, passionate kiss.“Ewww!” They pulled apart when they heard Rosie commenting, and burst into laughter with her.“I’m so happy.” He told her, when they both caught their breath.“Me too.” She said, stroking his cheek. He pulled her into a hug, holding her tightly against him. “You have no idea how happy you make me. With you, I always feel like the luckiest man in the world.” He whispered into her ear.It was getting late, Liam helped Rosie gather her toys, and Mc lifted the yawning, sleepy-headed girl in her arms. They accompanied her to her room, which was right next to theirs. A nanny already prepared it earlier today, so they only had to tuck her in.“Did the knight beat the dragon?” Liam questioned Rosie before she made it to her bed.“Nope. But don’t worry, the princess was there and she saved the day!” She excitedly told him about the princess defending the knight, and how it all ended with them being friends. Liam nodded at the delightful story, and Mc stood proudly beside.Rosie fell asleep immediately when she lied on her pillow, and they slipped out of her room before she’d notice.They entered their room afterwards. The moment they closed the door behind them, Liam’s lips were on Mc’s, and his hands were on her waist, holding her close.“Liam,” She breathed out. “I love you so much.” She pulled at his shirt, until he helped her and pulled it off. “Me too.” He rested his forehead against hers. Afterwards, they changed into their sleepwear, and fell asleep curled into each other. Liam drifted away into a blissful sleep, with Mc’s in his arms. This was defiantly getting in his list of favorite moment. Actually, it just shot up to the head of the list.

[cherry-wise]

Feeling good feels weird (but good).

GOSH

I don’t even know where to start. In the immediate future! Tony is coming up on Friday and we’re getting people together to start playing D&D on Sunday and Sean is so cute when he’s in the DM zone and I feel really happy for and like proud of him because I think this is a goal he’s had for a long time and he did have a D&D group for, like, a year but that fizzled out/he hasn’t been able to go since he started working so it’s just really exciting for him to have goals for the campaign and for him to be in his element playing his characters and I mean having regular times set to see friends will be awesome for me too. And I start a new job on the 29th but I’ll still work date nights for one family and hopefully do the AM school run for the other so it’ll be nice to be able to keep up with them and hopefully ease the transition for my kids. But also working 40 hours a week when I have to pay my own taxes equals about what I make working 30-odd hours a week when my employers pay them for me so it’ll make a real difference having that extra money still coming in and plus I’ll get commission at work. So my brain is happy having a puzzle to solve: do I want to use my babysitting money to make extra payments to my loans so I’m back on track of paying them off early, or do I want to contribute that money to my various savings goals? What about for commission? What’s the total amount of all of my various goals and is getting *there* as quickly as possible going to be more or equally as satisfying as feeling like I’m breaking things into chunks and solving multiple problems at once? Like, do make extra payments to my car loan, say, whenever I get paid for babysitting but any commission goes to savings goals? Or everything “extra” goes to debt until it’s paid off and then that payment + extra goes to big savings goals? Or vice versa! Keep paying what I’m paying to debt and save every other little bit until I’ve reached my big goals and then get all gungho about not having to make payments anymore? Or heck, what about investing some or all of it and giving future me more money to work with? I don’t know! But it’s fun to be able to spin options around in my head! 

And that isn’t even everything going on! Sean’s parents want us to come out for a weekend and the first one of August works the best for them before his siblings will be at school in Boston and at first we were like, “Yeah I don’t know with me starting a new job THAT WEEK Sean might have to plan to go by himself what if they want me to work that Saturday?” But they don’t! So I can go! And I really like Sean’s family and weekend trips with people who are, like, excited to see me (and knowing there’s probably good, swanky food planned and, you know, not having to pay for the plane tickets ourselves...) are just the best and I’m such a better version of myself for a nice weekend trip so I’m looking forward to that too. I’m not the best version of my self during, like, beach week I’ve found and I feel bad for that still. But whatever. It’ll just be good to start this whole new! phase of life with a good trip to ol Naperville and then come back and get back to learning my new office and community and being the friendly face at the front desk which I honestly kindof miss and I hope my residents and new coworkers like me and stuff.

And then eventually summer will end! And in the fall Sean is going to try and schedule some meetings to get reoriented to the path he’ll need to take to finish his degree and he’s hoping to be able to work three days a week during the semester so that he can schedule his classes for Tuesdays and Thursdays in the spring. We’re not really sure how much longer he’ll have in school so that’ll be interesting to see, but I think we’re pretty much planning on staying in one place until he finishes his B.A. at least. So that’s kindof nice, penciling in plans to maybe renew our lease again next summer which will mean a total of four years at least in this house. Which is I think the longest I’ve ever permanently lived in one place, though I guess that depends on what my parents’ house in Charlottesville counts as. And I want to grow a kitchen garden! I want to buy cedar planks and put together a raised bed and get some soil in there! I don’t even care if we don’t renew our lease next summer after all, I just think the backyard needs a chance like that!! But that might be another savings goal I have to configure before I go around buying lumber and stuff so maybe it’ll have to wait for late fall or spring after all. We’ll see. The point is that these last two years have been so nothingy which is probably what I needed after the Worst Year of My Life (Including That Time I Had Cancer) but it feels SO GOOD to feel like the shoots are starting to pop out of the soil and stretch out to the sun and where there’s shoots there will be buds and then flowers and fruit and I’m at a place of beginnings and endings and I’m happy to be here.