#todays Tuesday but still tagging:

[babygirllinds]

Can we please see a sneak peek of the babysitter? I’m a sucker for this particular trope 🙈

Hello lovely 🥰 I’m also a sucker for this trope and I’d love to provide! Thank you for this request! I really want to work at getting this one out soon since I love it sm! No smut yet, but I still hope you enjoy this little snippet 💗

warning: age gap/power dynamics. If that isn’t your jam, just skip on over this post :)

“You’re really good with them, ya’know?”

Pete’s mouth drops open slightly, “Thank you, Sir?”

“No, really. I know Sarah rants about you being a lifesaver, but I didn’t realize how much they had taken to you,” the man shakes his head and a slight smirk graces his plump lips. “I must admit I was slightly jealous when I walked in and my kids stayed glued to your side. You’re a real natural at this and what? You're only 21?”

“22, actually, Sir,” Pete corrects. “I, um– I just have a way with kids, I guess? I was always stuck taking care of my younger cousins and it just became second nature. Two of my friends got married pretty young and they have a kid between Hanna and Leon’s age. His name is Bradley. I’m the godfather and I spend a lot of my free time with him.”

Pete doesn’t realize he’s rambling again until Mr. Kazansky is smiling that same smile as earlier again.

“I remember your old man calling you a baby whisperer when he gave me your number. I thought he was full of shit, but the more I see you with them, the more I have to believe him,” Pete’s own smile makes itself known and Mr. Kazansky’s smile tilts into a quirk of lips. “Don’t let it inflate your ego too much, kid.”

“Never, Sir. My ego is already big as is.”

They’re both laughing as he fishes two $100 bills out of his wallet. It’s more than expected for the short day of work and Pete thinks the man is in a generous mood today. He moves to stand in front of Pete and Pete is helpless to accept the crisp bills being pressed into his palm. Then Tom is winking at him.

“I think you deserve this for being so good with them today. And please, Pete?”

“Yes, Sir?”

Now that Mr. Kazansky is closer, Pete watches as his jaw jumps slightly and his eyes go a bit dark. It sends something dangerous shooting through his spine as he watches the older man.

“You can drop the honorifics already. I know Sarah has asked that you call her by her name and now I’m asking you to do the same. Tom is fine.”

“Yes, Sir,” Pete replies on autopilot, barely registering the words. “Shit, oh God, sorry. I mean Tom, Sir.”

His words are coming out fast and nervous sounding, but Mr. Kazan– Tom is just laughing and Pete is hit by the minty smell of chewing gum and an underlying scent of cigarette smoke. It’s all so intoxicating as Tom stands too close, practically sharing Pete’s space.

[surrender-souls]

he is pathetic i think im enamored

[simgerale]

me after attempting to get back into sims and realizing i had a lot more to do than play the game

[kindaorangey]

unfortunately i am still an introvert after all this time so even if i have a really gratifying and positive interaction with someone outside of my comfort zone i will feel the need to weep afterwards from the stress of it all

[sea-buns]

ive had a horrible day. like fucking god awful. i thought it was tuesday. i open dropout thinking maybe ill watch a silly little game changer cuz frankly i dont even feel like existing rn

AND ITS NEW FHJY DAY?

WHERE THE FUCK DID MY WEEK GO?!

[so-long-soldier28]

i need to be writing but i have the ✨ depresso ✨

[openphrase123]

if my beautiful lovely coworkers could get everything together today i can get a half day. and then i'll probably be pretty quiet on here for the rest of the weekend cause i got shit 2 do

[sushiburritonoms]

My ability to choose fandoms right when they're about to die continues. ;_;

Jokes aside, I saw this coming from a mile away. Anyone who's listened to this MF talk knows he'd been planning his retirement for the last year. And I do like Santi, Amy, Tom and Lee (and Ash?) so I'm content with his announcement. Honestly, just as Matt said I fully expect to see more of the old guard retiring soon (my money is on Safiya or Sean/Jacksepticeye next).

I hope the next few weeks are full of awesome batshit insane theories, a real celebration of this ridiculous man. Thank GOD Matt's going out with style and grace instead of a corporate mandated movie (*sigh* Mandalorian. Escape the Night. What are we gonna do with you).

All my love to the Theorist community right now. You guys will be ok, take it from someone who is APPARENTLY GRANDPARENT AGED WTF MATTHEW PATRICK old as dirt.

[gornackeaterofworlds]

Idiot brain wants a chapter out this week, despite me having to completely start 4 over due to how shit it was the first time. One panel of 10 done. 9 to do by Friday....

[dutybcrne]

The first night Kaeya had been brought to the Ragnvindr house, he could not sleep. He lay awake in bed, half expecting to be thrown out once morning came, so he wanted to be ready to face that. The second night, and the very night he realized he might actually be there to stay, he had followed an old Khaenri’ahn tradition his father had mentioned to him to cement that fact.

He had waited for all to sleep then snuck to the great fireplace he’d spotted while being shown around the place, and, after clumsily murmuring what he remembered to be the proper rites, walked through the still spot-stained place.

He had been caught by Adelinde during this process, and in spite of his fears at the time that she would hurt or scold him, she in fact not only heard him out to find out why he had done this, but also had helped him complete the final step of the process, letting him walk into her arms to show her acceptance of him in this new place. This new home.

It is for this reason, that Kaeya is quite attached to Adelinde, and had warmed up to her the fastest out of everyone else in the Ragnvindr household. From that moment on, she was now his safe place, when he wouldn’t trust most any other with his deepest, most painful emotions. For that moment on, no matter what happened or what may happen to him, wherever Adelinde would be, that to him, would certainly above all else truly be Home.

[swordsonnet]

i'll start tagging my magnus protocol posts as #tmagp from now on, as that seems to have become the most popular acronym. so anything spoiler-y will be tagged "#tmagp spoilers"!

[curiosity-killed]

on the bright side, i got the work done i needed to get done post-teaching AND finished the scene i was noodling on in the plant fic i accidentally restarted and my single glass of wine post-dinner is having the intended soporific effect

on the downside. i so so so so so so badly don't want to have a meeting at 8 AM with a client who i am mostly neutral towards but about a project that is the bane of my existence atm

[army-of-bee-assassins]

i have my last big semester-long project due tues night, and i have barely touched it the whole semester so this is the weekend i really need to buckle down. did absolutely nothing yesterday. sat down to do some other work due tomorrow real quick before transitioning to working on this project, generally feeling stressed about having enough time to finish. and what do you know, we just got a message in the group chat about a discrepancy with the due date listed on the syllabus, so the professor is honoring that date and now it's not due till friday at midnight. just. the way i feel relieved except this is all just also reinforcing my procrastinator tendencies. why am i like this

[water-fan-art]

I’ve had covid for the last week and I’ve gotta go back to work tomorrow. At the start I joked that I would get so much drawing done, and all I’ve done is this Jasper doing an incorrectly drawn navy salute

[feymarche]

there is nothing in this world better than dungeons and dragons tuesdays

[possum-tooth]

hi mutuals hiiiiiiiiiii tell me how ur days going