I had the thought of Tom or Billy sniffing their new babies and I thought of you for some reason.
-cj aka @cheesewritings
no bc billy loves the new baby smell. like from the minute you bring your baby girl home (he’s a girl dad, first and foremost, fight me. maybe he’ll have a son later on, but his first kid? a girl, the girliest of girls.) and she stops smelling like hospital (probably after her first bath… which was somehow both a chaotic scene and a warm, wholesome bonding moment for the three of you), he’s got his nose to her dome like all the time, just breathing in the newborn baby smell mixed with the lavender nighttime baby shampoo you two had cleaned her fluffy, downy hair with. at first, billy tries to be discreet about it, because he thinks it’s weird. however, when he catches you sniffing her too one night as you rock her to sleep, he realizes that maybe he’s not so weird after all… or maybe you two are just equally weird… but, billy thinks, if he’s weird in the same ways that you’re weird, then that truly wouldn’t be so bad after all because at least your brand of weird isn’t off-putting (in his opinion… you disagree on the grounds that 1) you don’t think his brand of weird is off-putting because you don’t think anything about him is off-putting and 2) you think you can be at least a little off-putting sometimes).
as for tom, i hc tom (at least the version of him from my older!tom au) as not ever having kids (simply because he doesn’t want to have them), but you can bet that anytime he meets one of his newborn nieces or nephews (he has quite a few siblings… which means he also quite a few nieces and nephews) for the first time, he’s always quick to cuddle up to them, cradling them gently in his arms (now that’s been through this whole thing a dozen or so times, he’s a pro at holding newborns), and luxuriating in their soft skin and sweet newborn baby scent.
I have spent like five hours listening to someone give a play by mommy of a kdrama and it feels like having brunch with the besties who are spilling tea with you over mimosas and everything is cozy and comfy while you all squeal and cackle about the most unhinged shit
This candle store I used to visit as a kid when I would see my grandparents during the summer is still in business. I visited them a couple weeks ago when I saw my gparents and I got a candle that smells like my gparents old country house.
Do you have any series planned ?? I’m obsessed with your work 😭♥️
I have a kind of miniseries in the works! I have a Masterlist post almost ready to go and I’m working on the first two fics, I’d love to get one up tomorrow evening! 💗
Aleksander becoming jealous and prickly is just gonna drive Alina away from him and to Nikolai-how can he not realize that omfg what a disaster i love him
Re: this ask chain about a fanfic
AFDHDHDGF frankly he’s just so stupid and he refuses to admit it!
Sorry I forgot to get to this in the midst of season two hype, but yeah Aleksander just constantly operates on mind games. He has a pattern worked out of like putting her in positions to test her loyalty, offering a careful gambit of vulnerability/affection if it looks like she’s in danger of drifting away, and generally just keeping her in uncertainty. And it’s a strategy that’s worked very well for him so far. But like that is a fucking exhausting and incredibly toxic situation to be in! And interacting at all with a genuinely nice person is going to bring that into sharp relief for her!
But he’s not very quick on the uptake that she’s becoming more aware that he’s like legitimately terrible lmao vs the usual pattern of “he’s mean to her for a few days, she’s hurt about it and then very grateful when he turns his attention back to her eventually.” And frankly, I think he’s overall just too vain and prideful to react to her basically going off script and, from his perspective, betraying him, in a way that isn’t either lashing out even more or simply withdrawing entirely and waiting for her to essentially come crawling back.
And the trouble is that he might *claim* he’s a very patient person, but historical data points to that not being the case lol. So I don’t think he’s even capable of going with the latter plan for an extended amount of time if she doesn’t immediately break. So. He’s going to spiral :)