#worth it lol I won

[jellyswissroll-art]

AMber UwU @ginncide

Fanart for: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58368667/chapters/148661965

[quaranmine]

i remember once in middle school my PE class did like 3 days of ping pong and if you won you got to keep playing. anyway, i was the first up and i just kept playing all 3 days because i never lost one time. all of this is to say i am watching olympic table tennis right now and i think i could do it

[pinkyjulien]

Tagged by @arcandoria MMWAH Thank you bb 👁👄👁

Rules: Make a poll with five of your all-time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite!

▶ Tagging, no pressure in doing it 🤏 @lokiina - @elvenbeard - @wraithsoutlaws - @cybersteal - @teddys-shion

[tenthdocter]

I got so much good writing done tonight! And I actually feel like my filler chapter is finally actually coming toghter. I felt like the writing was a bit lazy when I first started it and thought it deserved better. I mean I had no real plan for this particular chapter except "amourshiping fluff" and "ash and serena go on a date" lol. But I've somehow made it more dramatic and gripping now 😂 and I've even figured out a way to lead it into to the next chapter. So yeah I'm quite happy with it now! 😁

[weedle-testaburger]

i saw a video earlier of someone saying happy endings feel wrong to them and respectfully i don't know what the fuck they're on about. happy endings are the most powerful thing fiction can do as far as i'm concerned. so often the real world ends up going in miserable directions so being reminded that yes, good things can happen too is way more powerful for me

[sw1mmy]

idk anymore man

[mintjeru]

allow me to be obnoxious just this once when i say. f2p btw.

[the-physicality]

i do think, aside from mercury bias, if bg had been in all season she would have been all wnba, first or at least second. i think people undervalue her because of the rebounding but she is 1000% the worst officiated player in the league, on both sides of the court. so the fact that she's been able to have the performance that she had is incredible, and that she didn't get the acknowledgment really just underscores how much people take what she does for granted.

[pumpkingeorge]

I had a dream that I won a hideous yellow cybertruck and I wasn’t allowed to get rid of it 🙁

[hummus-birb]

How did she win again

[ourlovelines]

a tired moment.

setting: royalverse / pairing: catalina x nicholas / word count: 1.4k

Running a hand down his face, Nicholas waited for the audible click of the door closing before sighing, his eyes slipping shut as he rested against it. Returning from a late-night meeting, full of fake smiles, forced pleasantries, and having to soothe egos of men twice his age over the fact that his father had delegated these meetings to him, although last minute -- their thinly-hidden glares resting over him as if the Crown Prince title he carried meant nothing to them. “What a good load that meeting was anyways…” Nicholas muttered, pushing up from the door, “we didn’t get anywhere.”

Shaking his head, he couldn’t help the small smile pulling at his lips as he walked up the stairs and towards their bedroom; the remnants of still-held tension leaving his body with each step, loosening from being Crown Prince Nicholas and relaxing into just Nicholas - who had nothing to worry about other than being Catalina’s boyfriend and making her happy in their little bubble for the next two weeks.

Quietly opening the door, Nicholas stuck his head into the room, checking to see if Catalina was still sleeping, his eyebrows furrowing momentarily as he found the bed empty before an inelegant, but oh-so-fond snort was pulled from him. Stepping inside, Nicholas slipped his suit jacket off, placing it within the clothes hamper next to his wardrobe, “Hopefully you’ve fallen back asleep,” speaking to no-one in particular, the prince walked back out the door, setting his path for further within the duchy, already having a guess where Catalina had disappeared to.

The call from his father had come just shy of an hour after Catalina had retired for the night, having previously been resting in the armchair in the corner of the duchy’s office despite Nicholas’s best attempts to convince her to go to bed before him.

Reaching the last set of paperwork he needed to look over and sign off on, he stood, walking over to the armchair and kneeling beside it, “Darling, you should head to bed, your eyes are having trouble staying open,” smiling at his girlfriend, he grabbed the bookmark off the side table and placed it within the folds of the book, “your book can wait until the morning.” A low chuckle filled the space between the two of them as he took the book from her hands, “You, on the other hand, cannot.”

“But I don’t want to leave you here alone, Nick. I know you don’t like--” Catalina’s sentence cut off, a yawn overpowering her. Nicholas nodded his agreement, knowing what the rest of her sentence would’ve been.

“I know, love, and I appreciate that you want to stay down here with me, but I’ll be fine, it’s one more set of paperwork and then I’ll be up in bed with you, alright? Besides, despite how comfortable that armchair is to sit in, I can tell you from experience, it is not that comfortable to sleep in.” Grasping Catalina’s hands, he pulled her to her feet, his arms immediately wrapping around her waist as she rested against him.

Catalina moved her head, her chin resting on Nicholas’s chest, a grin covering her lips while she looked up at him, “Aw. If I woke up in any pain, I know you’d be there to help me out.”

Rolling his eyes fondly, Nicholas pressed his lips to hers, a sweet, soft kiss, just happy to be there in the moment with her, before pressing her somehow closer, ending the kiss with a little nip and a pull of her bottom lip. “You're right, I would. Now go, I won’t be far behind.” Opening the door for her, he stood in the doorway watching her with a smile until she disappeared around a corner.

‘That feels like hours ago.’ Nicholas mused, pausing outside the double doors that led to the library. Stifling a yawn, he moved his head closer to listen for telltale sounds of Catalina being awake; waiting for him, even though he had pressed a loving kiss to her lips with a soft apology and a quiet promise of “I’ll be back as soon as I can, go back to sleep, darling”, he heard nothing. Pressing a hand against the door, he pushed it open as quietly as he could. Nicholas’s tired gaze swept across the contents of the room, hoping that if Catalina was in here, he’d be successful in not waking her.

Feeling the last of his tension leaving as his eyes stopped on her blanketed body, amusedly noting the same book from earlier in the night held loosely in her hand as she slept on. Closing the door behind him, Nicholas’s smile turned softer, more genuine as he looked back to find Catalina blearily blinking over at him. “Hi, sleepy. Figured I’d find you here.”

“Hmmm…" She paused, stretching, "I didn’t mean to fall asleep,” pouting, she sat up, the blanket falling to lay across her lap, “but I’m happy it got you back to me sooner.” Reaching out, she intertwined her hands with his, bringing him closer to the chaise and closer to her.

“Trust me, if I had it my way, we’d have been curled up together in bed the whole night.” Sitting on the edge of the chaise, Nicholas brought one of her hands up to his lips, pressing a light kiss to the back of it, grinning happily in the wash of light blush appearing on Catalina’s cheeks. “But with that being said, why didn’t you stay in bed, hmm?” Brushing a few loose strands of hair behind her ear, Nicholas let his hand rest on her cheek, holding her gently as his thumb softly swiped along her cheekbone.

“I wanted to wait for you, and I figured I could read some more while I did.” She says, her voice low before leaning forward to rest against him, a pleased hum coming from her as he pressed a kiss to the side of her temple, “Bedtime?” Feeling, more than hearing the laugh from Nicholas, she wrapped her arms around his neck.

“You would be correct, Ms. Bartlett.” Putting his arms around her waist, he stood slowly, humming a random tune as Catalina wrapped her legs around him, his arms tightening into a more secure hold as she settled into place.

“How was the meeting?”

Nicholas sighed, rolling his eyes as he stepped back out into the hallway, “Useless. If I’m not the King, I might as well be useless, so Father dearest will still have to be the one to have the meeting with them. Another score to my failures as a prince, I’m sure," he sighed, "but I did call him on the ride back, and told him not to contact me for the duration of us being here, and given everything that happened beforehand,” he paused, voice suddenly stuck in his throat as he recalled the last meeting he had with his parents, days before the academy closed for winter break, “I needed time, and as my parents, the least they could do was this for me.”

Ignoring the sudden burn in his eyes, Nicholas gave Catalina a small wobbly smile. “It’s okay though, I’ve got you and that’s all I currently need.” Closing his eyes to fight back the beginning of tears, Nicholas felt Catalina press multiple kisses to his lips and cheeks, pulling a quiet laugh from him as he opened his eyes to look at her. “Let’s go to bed, darling. I think we both need it.”

Entering their bedroom, he walked straight into the bathroom, putting Catalina on the counter before leaning in to press a kiss to the crown of her head, reaching for his toothbrush and quickly brushing his teeth. Humming a song he’d heard Catalina sing along to earlier in the day, he started to move his hands to the top of his shirt, intending to start unbuttoning, but paused, already finding Catalina’s slender fingers already there, making quick work of the buttons. With a quiet murmur of thanks, he slipped his shirt off as he stepped back, giving her room to hop down and followed behind her back into the bedroom, thanking her again as she dropped it into the hamper.

Yawning, Nicholas lifted the blankets slipping under, immediately turning towards Catalina, one of his arms resting against her pillows, his free arm up, wordlessly inviting her to lay against him, holding her close as she did. Placing his hand under her chin, he gently tilted her face upwards, placing a featherlight kiss on her cheeks, “Sleep well, sweetheart. I love you.” Huffing a laugh at the slight beginnings of a pout, he kissed her, instantly smiling into the kiss as Catalina kissed him back.

“Sleep well, darling, I love you too."

[katyspersonal]

Cool.. Our rent price got raised. :') I did not know it was even possible to get even MORE poor than me and mom already were, but here we are. Guess I'll start surviving on literal bread and water at this rate.

[brittleshins]

4/20 is way more fun working at a producer instead of at a dispensary. god bless

[frogbeholder]

HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE 😈

[lesbiansanemi]

I need a new pfp but I cannot leave lesbian sanemi behind I need to make a new edit of her in front of the lesbian flag

[naitosutan]

A claw machine in Vegas, ft. @kingukairu over there lamenting her failure to win Kyle