#;;but i have the muse and will be back tomorrow.
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To a Tea 3
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Part of the Sweet and Spicy AU
Warnings: this fic will include dark content such as dubcon/noncon, and other possible triggers. My warnings are not exhaustive, enter at your own risk.
18+ only. Your media consumption is your own responsibility. Warnings have been given. DO NOT PROCEED if these matters upset you.
Summary: A demanding customer grows increasingly needy.
Character: Raymond Smith
The title is a pun, don’t @ me.
Please comment and reblog if it’s not too much. I always love getting to chat about these stories and hearing all your ideas! You all are wonderful and loved.
Six days in a row and you’re ready to keel over. Amid your busy schedule, you hadn’t a chance to fill your quickly dwindling cupboards and fridge. So, after a ten-hour shift on your feet, running all around the tables and between tea rooms, you expend the last of your strength on a quick trip to the shop.
It isn’t too far out of your way. It’s just a half-block away from your stop. You could wait until tomorrow, your day off, but you’re dying for a strawberry shortcake mochi before you tuck into bed. The rest of your night isn’t too unusual; you’ll be happy to fall asleep to an episode of the same old sitcom that you know by rote.
You yawn over the bask hooked over your elbow. You have your mochi and a few other staples to get you through; eggs, oat milk, and your favourite brand of granola. You rub your forehead as a stitch threatens to imprint itself permanently. Tomorrow you’ll do a proper shop.
You stop just before the cashier and peruse the discount shelf. Those chocolate-covered gummy worms are deadly. You shouldn’t.
You reach for the package, eyeing it up, blinking away another yawn. Those will only have you waking up with a sore tummy.
“You’d be better off with the dark chocolate, or even the peanuts,” someone says. The timbre is dulcet but firm, and strangely familiar.
You look over at the figure standing around the side of the shelves. You fear you might be hallucinating as you stare at Raymond. He has a square of protein chocolate in hand but sets it back where he got it, making certain it and every other bar is straight.
“Oh, hi?” You stammer.
The tea shop is busy and you’re certain you’ve probably crossed paths with at least one customer outside store hours, but never like this. If anything, you both look the other way and carry on. Instead, he’s intent on you, shifting to face you fully as he sets his shoulders, clutching his hands before him.
“Though I do suppose you’ve already got the ice cream, it hardly matters what else you add to your lot,” he muses.
You look in your basket then at him. Is he judging you? Mr. Black Tea, plain. You hang the bag back on the hook. As you do, he steps forward and you shuffle back on your heels. He pulls the bag in line with others, rescinding his hand with a flutter of fingers.
“If you’re in the mind for something sweet, there’s a place near here, it has a sticky toffee pudding more worth the expense,” he suggests.
You don’t know what to say. You haven’t seen him since he muttered about your apron strings. In the two weeks after, you assumed he might not come back. As particular as he is, you thought you’d gone egregiously over the line. And yet, you’d forgotten about him for all the other bodies passing through the door.
“Thanks, I’ll look into that,” you say.
“Mm,” he hums and his eyes flit up and down behind his lenses, “you sound different.”
“Do I?” You reach to scratch your neck.
“You look different too.”
You tilt your head and give a confused grimace, “well, I...” you glance down, “suppose I'm not wearing my apron.”
“Must be it,” he agrees, “you sound tired.”
“I guess... yeah,” you take a breath and let it out slowly.
It’s strange. He’s not a customer here, there is no need to please and yet you feel you must. You poke the tip of your tongue out then hide it behind your lips.
“Not in a bad way,” he assures you.
“Right, thanks,” you say in a fracture, “that’s nice, but uh, I... I’m just on my way home.”
“I know,” he says.
“...so then I’ll just be--” you point towards the checkout and falter, “what did you say?”
“Yes, down Trafalgar. I know. It’s late,” he peers over towards the transparent walls along the front of the shop, “these parts aren’t too safe this time of day.”
“Trafal--“ you begin but can’t finish, “Raymond.”
He blinks, his expression scarily placid.
“Details,” he says evenly, “it is best to keep note of them. It is dangerous not to mind them.” He raises a finger, “one might not notice the shadow that walks behind theirs or the window they left open in the kitchen.”
Your lip trembles as your heart sinks, “have you... have you been following me?”
“Following... that sounds sinister,” he gives a crooked expression, “no, no, I would consider it... I keep you safe.”
“Safe. From what, exactly?”
He narrows his eyes and his lips straighten thoughtfully.
“Well, from men like me.”
His words turn your blood to ice. Men like him. What does he mean?
“I...” you take a step back and he moves with you. You put your hand up to stop him as you still, “Raymond, do not come any closer.”
“You don’t understand, I wouldn’t hurt you,” he says, “that’s what makes me different. Not like those other men.”
“I mean it,” you warn him. “If you come any closer, I will make a scene.”
Your adrenaline courses through you. You’re awake now. The yawns have dissipated and your eyes are wide.
“Ah, and that’s where I am like the other men,” he shrugs, “it doesn’t matter if I come closer to you right now. Hardly matters. Because I can wait. I have waited. And when I...” he steps towards you and you put the basket between you, his stomach pressing against it, “come closer, you will not even see me coming.”
You stare at him, horrified. His blue eyes gleam and he reaches to straighten his glasses. He smirks and his brows draw up coyly. He leans in and you lean away. Then suddenly, he backs off and tugs his cuffs straight, then fixes his tie.
“Don’t forget to close your window,” he says as he spins on his heel, “wouldn’t want some nocturnal creature creeping in.”
You gape after him as he saunters off. You can’t quiet move as disbelief has you stuck to the spot. It’s all so sudden. So unexpected. How could you ever predict something like this? The uptight man from the tea shop, a stranger really, a face who disappeared for a whole fortnight, and he’s just shaken your entire world into disarray.
Men like him? You don’t even know who he is. Only his name and how he likes his tea.
#raymond smith#dark raymond smith#dark!raymond smith#raymond smith x reader#the gentlemen#series#drabble#au#sweet and spicy#to a tea
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got a job interview tomorrow but i am hoping to get a dent in my drafts done, they'll likely be queued. i'm so sorry, my steve muse was a little low but we have a flux which is great. so expect replies to start coming out tomorrow.
the ask box will also be open until i get home from my interview so i can work on catching up, so you have until about 12pm est to get any memes or random asks in before I close it down to get caught up.
HAVE A GOOD NIGHT EVERYONE! SEE YOU TOMORROW!
#𝚊𝚊𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚗:// out of time ➙ jj the handler ➙ ( chatter. )#;;gonna start putting a schedule together for my other blogs that aren't my main muse#;;i just was under a lot of stress and just wanted to write ana#;;but i have the muse and will be back tomorrow.#;;basically saying if you want stuff with steve#;;tonight and tomorrow are the times to get stuff in for him
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simulated earth (it does not matter)
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#sherlock and co#sherlock & co#podlock#comic#sherlock holmes#john watson#victor trevor#ft. archie (in like three panels lmao)#need to figure out a podlock specific tag for these guys so this doesnt clutter up the main sh tags#bc ohhh boy. I anticipate being insane abt s&co for a While#this comic def a Hot minute post-gloria scott#what is this about exactly? you ask. haha well (there's sunlight bouncing off a window and when u look back Im already gone)#listen I caught up to everything right before gloria scott and holy Shit that case knocked me on my ass#as a chronic adhd (and thus serious memory problems) haver.... (holds sherlock tenderly)#I have not listened to SOLI yet btw I will tomorrow. I wanted to finish this before catching up#Im obsessed with them. Im such an easy idiot lmao Im a sherlock holmes adaptation enthusiast before Im a human#gloria scott.... the way it muses on the limit of the genre same as the red headed league.... what about the victims?#what about the victims. what about the victims. what part of the pain does the process of investigation cure#victor's like. he's between jobs he's between boyfriends he's living with his dad whose caretaker he just became. who does he have#and sherlock holmes is about the truth but john's been about the solution so far. I just. I really like this john watson lmao#listen the way he complains and then refuses to shoot the underlings in red headed league. based. I love him#I can fix him (radicalize him against punitive justice)#(I am refraining from talking abt sherlock in the tags here bc I Will run out of tags before Im done)#(mariana is not here but I care her too!! she will be here more often in the future I swear I fuckign swear......)#(''I'm in a co-op that's sponsoring my visa. also I just witnessed two actual dead bodies like a month ago'' you mean everything to me)#screams. I got attached SO fast this show is targeting me specifically. my broke millenials suffering in london show#I have like a number of sketches too be prepared. theyre gonna show up soon. until then#have a good day lads. be there! be there.#edit: this comic is finished and assembled in full before I listened to the solitary cyclist part one. this has been an update#I have now listened to SOLI part one. I must hit john watson with a hammer
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I love buzzing my hair but my uhhh my hair grows really fast, like a centimeter per week fast and I always forget then how quickly the buzz looks out of shape :')
#when i get home tomorrow i will buzz it again:(#like sides and back and just let the top grow i think#according to my gf this is one of many proofs that I am a changeling#also yes i have actually measured#idk like it might grow more in periods but uhh#musings#butch
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hey all , just a quick update to tell ya'll where i'm at ( since i'm comfortable sharing about what's been personally going on with me . )
so i was let go from my job about a month ago , which was a long time coming . after two whole years of not being listened to or supported . being gaslighted , being worked to the bone or to the point of burnout and continuing to put to work without so much as a check-in or help . feeling constantly stuck and trapped in a position after explicitly asking for more responsibilities and / or asking to be taught things / showing interest in other ways to operate the shop ( honestly i could go on here , but i'll digress . ) it seems like they only did me a favor , even if the needed a "valid" reason to fire me . point is : i wipe my hands of that fucking place and it's on to better things which are in the works as i speak .
so yeah , that's what i've been dealing with for two years and i'm hoping now that the one thing that was really getting in the way of my creativity . i'll be able to stick my toes back into writing on here . my main focus for this blog still is to cultivate my safe space and i've slowly been doing that already by utilizing the hard block feature . i need to lean up my blog a bit , but i of course have a few things on here that i'm able ot work on and put out . so if you're expecting a reply for either a thread or a meme . i'l get to those in time . but just a reminder it's gonna be a slow process since i'm still getting back into this thing .
#* out of chara .#anyway i'm thinking maybe i'll work on some stuff tomorrow#i'm really going to work on things i have muse for FIRST#only cause it makes it easier for me to get mia's voice back on this hellscape#love ya'll and thank you always for being patient and like...#sticking around#i know it's been a rough two years for me... i mean..#i haven't really been all that active steadily since my dad died in 2020#but i'm feeling more confident in myself than i ever have been#so... yeah this is the year mia and this blog is making a comeback#that is my promise to myself and to you <3
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sparkledog aelyis........
#musings#draws#oc: aelyis#sparkledog#got drunk and entered my default state (drawing aelyis)#and now that ive healed my HIT POINTS with them i should hopefully be able to get back to comms tomorrow#need to teach myself to draw stuff for myself every so often when i have commissions#i feel revitalized .
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Dick Grayson 🤝 Roy Harper
Sidekicks successfully able to move beyond their mentor and more well-known for their own individual vigilante identity now.
Stephanie Brown 🤝 Bart Allen
Original heroes that carried a couple legacy names before going back to their own unique hero names.
Tim Drake 🤝 Conner Kent
Stuck in the same name retelling the same stories and unable to fully grow as a character because DC can't seem to give them their own unique identities that would allow them to move on past this narrow idea of their characters.
#anyway yeah....just having some musings....they don't make 'em like they used to /hj#if they would stop roping Tim back into Robin that would be great actually#similarly i think Kon is being held back by still being Superboy#not to the same extent that Tim is but definitely keeps looping the 'i'm not like other Supers :(' narrative#(looking at you Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow preview)#i am holding out hope for the new SB series but also i am so fucking nervous. don't fuck this up for us dc#and i think he should get to be like 'i'm not like other Supers :D' and then build a new identity in the reconciliation of self#does that make sense?#like....i don't mind him staying SB except that it does grate on me a little that jon is allowed to grow up and become Superman#while kon is left behind and kinda neglected in superfam content and not allowed to Grow™#and growth doesn't have to involve a change in hero name but i feel like tim and kon's names are so tied to their teen years#and them still having the same names is also seems to be why they aren't allowed to literally grow and be aged up at all#which limits the kinds of stories they get to have and can be used to tell#the immortal comic medium vs. the realism of believably semi-mortal characters ig#rambling in tags#spec-text-ular#dc#dick grayson#roy harper#stephanie brown#bart allen#tim drake#kon-el#conner kent#nightwing#arsenal#spoiler#batgirl#robin iv#impulse
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Copperhead's hands and feet are not unlike that of a gecko's, and where fingerprints are normally located on a human are instead covered by fine, highly articulate scales that allow him to stick onto pretty much any surface including glass. This adaptation combined with his skills as a contortionist allows Copperhead to get to just about anywhere he wants providing there is a path avaliable in which to climb. These 'pads' are rough to the touch, leaving no fingerprints yet make it hard to dislodge whatever he's grabbed unless he wants to let go.
#🐍 || musings#🐍 || headcanons#🐍 || character sheet#Be it glass or smooth metal he can climb that shit#Even straight vertical walls won't hold him back#He can't fly so things way up in the air aren't going to be accessed but if there's a path avaliable?#Good luck stopping him#One more long shift then I am free tomorrow#A coworker and I negotiated so she can have my extra hours on Sunday#I need the rest and she wants more work <3
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It's lovely when I read a book and some random paragraph in it hits me in the face like a train at mach speed
#◜✧ . ❪ muse. tobias. ❫#ask to tag#Before this I was catching up with the Doctors are Out webtoon too and atm it's an arc where an abuser#got back to his victim bc he and the authorities dgaf about upholding his restraining order like bro I GET it. I get it. I KNOW#Tobias showing up like that one surprise 'heyyy' girl meme gif bc he's the solution (<- getting rid of them Permanently): >:)#No matter where I look this guy manages to weasel his way in. I cannot escape#Now I'm thinking about how Wammy's orphans have such different perspectives on what they should do and what justice means...#to some of them (ex Near) it means catching sb legally by mostly lawful means and yeeting them into prison#to others (ex Mello) it means catching sb by any means necessary but still trying his best to avoid murder#and then to others (ex Tobias) murdering these people who he knows will escape sooner or later anyway is justice in itself#You try to put Wammy orphans down at a table to come to a collective agreement on how they should operate and they simply Cannot#Watari mildly fucked up when he made them ALL headstrong and under the belief that they're always the right one in the room#I bet any of them comes up w a cohesive plan and there's sb in the room IMMEDIATELY pointing out why that plan isn't it 😭#Obviously they'd still synch with each other if need be (ex Mello & Near) but forbid they work TOGETHER together as more than ~2 people#Tobias and Near would be such a funny duo esp. bc Near sees people resorting to murder as wrong and disgusting no matter if it's valid#meanwhile Tobias sees lawful justice as nothing but a farce because 99% of the time it does nothing besides giving a momentary#ego boost to the person who caught the criminal. and then beyond that it's no longer their business if the criminal escapes or not#but it IS very much everyone else's business; and why many live in terror daily wondering if their nightmare will return tomorrow#to be fair Tobias couldn't care less about their feelings 99% of the time either but Watari DID teach him to enact justice. and to him#getting rid of the root of the problem rather than locking it up IS justice. He perceives the problems from much closer than#other Wammy orphans ever have. He's RIGHT THERE in the middle of it whereas they're in some safe place far away from the victims#plus their backgrounds are far too different from his own to reach a consensus too... you can't make him believe prison = justice#just as you can't make them believe murder = justice. But I do think people would prefer Tobias' approach far more than idk Near's#again it's not like Tobias cares about how he's perceived by the people he saves! (or if he's even perceived at all) but I can imagine#going to sleep knowing the person/people/group/etc having it out for you no longer exists is a much more heartening sentiment than#hearing they've been sent to prison; from where they can send sb else after you or from where they can escape in due time
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feeling really sydney core rn /neg dying from unknown diseases
#marble musings#vent#seriously i cannot breathe rn#ive been sick for like 2 weeks#and im not sleepin and its 11:30 so you just KNOW the nauseas gonna be back tomorrow right in time for me to not be able to curl up into a#corner and die#and woo /sar i dont have any medicine bc the one my mom gave me expired 4 years ago#yippeee /sar
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Like this for Dendra in your inbox, probably tomorrow!!
(And as always, slide into my IMs if you want to plot or continue something!! 😊)
#ooc#(dendra muse is coming back for better or for worse!!)#(specify muse or im gonna pick!!)#(gonna be on a lil camping thing for MOST of the weekend but I should have some writing time tomorrow!!)
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i wanna come back but doing literally anything is so hard
#i have no muse. no drive. no energy to do anything#class is starting tomorrow which is great but. that doesnt guarantee i’ll go back to normal#ive been severely depressed on and off since september but#from christmas eve to now has been some of the worst moods ive had#and it just feels like a cycle where no matter how hard i try to be happy i cant#and every year im like wow. i was so much happier last year#and i dont know how many more years of that i can take
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i paused the queue for a few days so that i could fill it a bit but of course not with replies cause that would mean i was productive
#{kei babble} occ#i'm working on a few inbox drafts but im back to work tomorrow so we'll see how much activity i got in me#~i have to sit down and work on the muse pages a bit either this weekend or after work this week#~so it'll be slow going and stuff will probably be under construction ;u;'''
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In which I'm giving Duke the wrong character drink in this pre-Miles thing.
Because Duke and Miles had the same character drink. Because Duke was mimicking Miles.
Separate from Miles, Duke has a different favorite drink. (Miles is idiot enough to not realize that. Everyone else probably knows. Birdie has probably mentioned this before and Duke waved her off. And Miles STILL doesn't catch it because Miles Bron is an idiot.)
#musings#bandit writes fic#december banditnanza 2023#sorry there isn't a fic up yet#this one is in multiple parts and i'm hoping to have part one up soon#and then go back to writing the one for tomorrow because i actually#want to share it with someone else first for reasons
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Take me to one (1) Muse gig and suddenly my problems with making eye contact have been miraculously solved
#I’m so terrible lol I was looking whoever came to our side in the eye the whole entire time#I was looking Matt in the eye the whole time#Yeah he obviously didn’t make eye contact back that much and fair enough but man. I have had the best night ever#I got barrier! Nearly died on the spot realising what that meant#muse band#muse live#wotp tour#musers#2023#Muse Montreal#Guys I have a few AMAZING pictures! I’ll share them soon#Maybe tomorrow! Still gathering my thoughts…#muse#matt bellamy#chris wolstenholme#dom howard
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hggghghgh okay i did a few things tonight, which is already more than i expected. it's a good start!! i feel a little less overwhelmed, which is what i needed. i'm gonna aim to do more tomorrow, probably (hopefully) focusing more on the threads from my last starter call? but we'll... see how things go
#uncomfortable laughter as i stare at the '67' behind the word 'drafts'#i may have to drop things that i don't have as much muse for but. i'm gonna hold off for now & see how things go#i have so many good threads i want to keep going but i'm so impossibly slow and it's just akjshfsdjkgh#mental health slump has been killing me but tonight helped get some of my energy back up i think#gonna just see where i'm at tomorrow and go from there#for tonight... i'm gonna call it there and go vibe a bit before bed#love y'all ♡ hope ur doing well uvu#━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ OOC ⋮ DON’T @ ME.#tbd.
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