Baker! iwa and Office guy! oiks ( 🍞x💼 )

"Negative connotions" then lists two troon characters in a tag exclusively for "male characters who appear" female I can't lmfaoooo

"Reverse trap" is a tag, but "Trap" by itself is too much ?

Hello.. can we get more ghostmace headcanons. If you ever wrote any pls link them too...

:)c YESSS i love talking abt maceghost.. i know ive made a bunch of sporadic posts about them but i havent done a like dedicated hcs post. i feel like often im struggling to understand the narrative of their past but generally i keep the same vibe to it all.

mace is for sure the more level headed of the two only because relationships and love freak ghost out. ive mentioned on a post like years ago hes traumatized by watching his mother stick with his father and i still believe this. hes like scared to be in a position where something Isn't working anymore but hes too emotional to cut it off so he self sabotages the relationship so mace will get pissed and stop talking to him.

in the past (as i mentioned in another post) mace Did also feed into this. he had a good home life but his own personal issues and anger at more outward issues caused him to like. seek an outlet for this sort of petty squabbling. and he found it in ghost. until he got tired of festering and being pissed off all the time and decided to actually like Do Shit he feels good about. and he broke up with ghost.

now in modern times where theyve caught up with each other it's like a weird mash of their past and them both being more mature. ghost struggles more because hes very adverse to actually improving himself and how he feels about himself bc hes like. hes Given Up on being a person. while mace has done a lot of healing.

like the toxic factor of maceghost Is Ghost at this point to me. but theres a lot of love there bc theres a lot of mutual respect and, like, easy familiarity there. mace understands how ghost works at his core.

so like. when ghost is being Normal and not anxious they literally just. like. Click? mace can extremely put ghost at ease with just his presence. and mace in turn rly enjoys his company bc a calm ghost is actually just sort of casually funny.

and ghost does like making mace laugh i imagine mace has a really beautiful smile bc he has resting bitch face so when it lights up it's very special.

ghost also i think would be 100% willing to take his mask off in a room of just him and mace. no special occasion needed he's just comforted. mace has already seen it over many, many years.

because they're like an Old couple i think theyve been on and off since their mid twenties for ghost and late twenties for mace. WHICH is another reason mace like wont entertain the childish picking ghost does theyre literally too old.

but he does play along a little. sometimes. old habits die hard. if it's petty mace will have a back and forth w ghost for old times sake its just how ghost communicates sometimes. emotions are just hard for ghost mace understands this. to put all of this simply.

i will say tho if more comes out and they end up more antagonistic than my current read i will still be a huge stan i love when dudes try to fuck and kill each other 💪🥰💕

speaking of fucking tho. tw for implying sexual assault also i just got kinda nasty sowwy.

LIKE we know ghost has a complicated relationship w sex a lot of his past history w it is like traumatic. i think he was already promiscuous as a teen bc he already had issues from his upbringing so hes like. well experienced. and he likes sex. and he likes fucking mace bc his dick is thick, hes good with his hands, and he's not afraid to be rough with him and take their time bc mace likes to be edged and when ghost is rly into it he Likes it to Last esp if he can cum more than once. he likes when his pussy is sore.

BUT ALSOO theyre both like. verse esp w each other. ghost likes topping more tho. he likes fucking mace for being a little bit vocal and just. like. huge. ghost loves bending him over and watching his fat bounce. ghost would blow off any task and anyone to go fuck him.

but also, bc its ghost and i think if the wrong buttons get pressed in the wrong order and it goes sour he gets quiet and, like, disassociates. and mace keeps watch for that bc he doesn't want to put ghost in that state. its not fun

This is kinda random but i thick it coukd be fun: How do you think kavetham would play overwatch. What would be their prefered roles and prefered mains? What is their playstyle?

i think haitham would mainly play flankers or heroes that require skill and brains to play well. rein or winston (i see him more on winston since he is indeed the hero that requires brain the most) are very difficult to play well bc theyre all about perfect timing and making the right choices. do one wrong step and youre feeding

flankers like genji or sombra who have a high skill ceiling would also suit him well. haitham would know and be so good at proper target priority, awareness, counterpicks, predictions and strategies. never joins voice, is super casual but naturally such a god gamer. he picked up winston, genji, sombra, whatever annoying hero simply bc he wanted to be a pain in kavehs ass and make him ragequit HHHHHDHH

kaveh i can see mostly chilling in support and having a fun time in voice, absolutely beaming when ppl praise him for good support - probably someone cute as mercy or lifeweaver, he also def uses super cute/gorgeous skins like pink mercy. i think hes also good on ana

or when hes not playing support, hes rlly good at junkrat bc i think he would be very good at quickly calculating the right angles etc to snipe his target or nuke them mid air. just by feeling alone i can also kinda see him enjoying sym or hanzo tbh, idk why but i just feel like it hjabkkjd i think he would be average in general but being fine with it. def gets super upset when hthm keeps hunting his ass and more than once he left his desk mid game to stomp over into haithams room and start yelling

......which leads to them getting kicked for inactivity bc they get busy w other stuff 😌

rank your top 5 horror movie antagonists by how likely it is that you'd survive them

LMAO HI

oh god let me think about this. first of all, who are my chosen antagonists to deal with:

Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, OG Ghostface (for simplicity), and Jigsaw

i think id die pretty much immediately with every single one so we're going 2 have to get silly w it

5. Freddy: I would probably die before i even know whats happening dawg i would never suspect that my dreams were really happening to me and never confide in friends about it. id be the first dummy dead. id be cold-open dead.

4. Michael: I'd 100% be that random death just to add to the killcount bc i was in the wrong place at the wrong time and id be dead before i see who killed me, but ill survive til mid-movie when the bodies start really dropping

3. Jason: He would kill me for smoking weed :,((( but id be, like, maybe the second to last person standing bc im nice :))))))

2. I am too trusting, id simply follow Jigsaw's instructions and survive. unless its, like, one of the really really hard traps. i couldnt cut my leg off :(

1.. OG Ghostface. Theyre just nerdy theater kids. i can take 'em

SEMI COHERENT THOUGHTS ABOUT THE NEW TD CAST

okay so i made a post earlier about my first few faves BUT here is a full compiled thing of THOUGHTS

PRIYA:

- she seems nice ??

- nothing else really to say other then that sorry girlie

MILLIE:

- also just seems nice sorry 😭

- her and priya seem like friends tbh

- seems like theyre just fodder so far , but if they get far i wanna see a friendship arc btwn them and axel bc i think itll be cute !!

RIPPER:

- i see all the nowen lovechild posts and u guys are simply all correct

- other then that i can DEF see him as the noah of this season

- like the sarcastic dry guy u know ?? even tho hoping hell be a little more helpful so he doesnt get canned early like noah did

- maybe villain of the season ?? hes one of my top candidates for it

DAMIEN:

- literally cool guy thats all i got

- he seems like he’ll be the mediator of the group

- esp if priya and millie go early the rest of them seem like theyd clash a bit

AXEL:

- OOOO ive seen u guys go crazy over her AND FOR GOOD REASON

- she seems the most interesting personality wise so far (aside from scary girl)

- also her fit ??? GORGEOUS

- while she seems villain coded im hoping that itll be more like a brick situation where even though shes strict shes like the straight man (woman??) in the group and is very rule abiding

- like very mean !! but sticks to the rules of the game rather then sabotage/manipulation yknow

CHASE:

- he seems very nice !!

- idk there is just a good vibe about him

- based on that one promo pic im hoping for a chase/zee friendship

- while it seems likely that they’re gonna be kicked off early on im hoping they can have their friendship arc !!

- like. idk theyre the mellow guys that are kinda background but they have friendship moments

ZEE:

- similar thoughts to chase

- liking the ponytail tho !! long haired guys ftw

- hes a tall lanky boy too !!

- even tho he doesnt seem physically strong i feel like there will be some kind of uber specific challenge catered specifically towards his talents

SCARY GIRL (?):

- naur cause why did they just put scary girl 😭

- i mean im assuming itll be for some mid season reveal or some kind of gimmick where no one knows her name but STILL

- couldnt have even given her some pretentious fake name,,,

- ANYWAYS again another one of the stronger personalities appearance wise

- also like ?? are we getting a second chance at the true goth girl we deserved ???

- i feel like shell be izzy but more potions and spells esque u know ??

second half of ppl (where i have SO MANY OPINIONS) will be in a seperate post bc this is getting too long 😭 ill link it when its posted

"they otherwise had a good relationship so tbh if he wanted to act on one side of his bisexuality, i dont think they wouldve chosen to end an otherwise good partnership"

the lbl bisexual women do it all the time, it happens. a partnership can be good and still not be what one truly desires more

true i guess, but the way she framed it made it sound like hes gay and there were signs of that their entire marriage that she overlooked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ meanwhile the bi women who claim theyre lesbians all of a sudden when mid-aged state they were genuinely into men or werent even into women until they were middle aged, some say they just stopped being into men (which is why they think theyre lesbians but they dont seem to understand that lesbians NEVER were into men at any point) etc. i think the genuine late blooming lesbians that married men exist but are overshadowed by the far larger group of women that realise theyre bi at an older age but only want to be w women so they call themselves lesbians.

with gay men this phenomena is seemingly far less common tho bc i guess they just simply do not face the same pressure women do to get (heterosexually) married and men’s life and worth isnt attached to their ability to get married and reproduce as young as possible

big bundle of oc thoughts pray emoji

srry. thinking abt ls calling up void crying so hard he can barely talk or breathe. void showing up and he has to take a small approach when he does arrive to check up on him because he can tell ls is Petrified at him showing up. ls is too deep in his head to realize its actually his bf instead of some Clone of him with malicious intent and needs reassurance from void to make sure hes like.. Actually safe. starting by holding ls hand and giving him lots of room to move around and moving farther up his arm and Will Back Off if ls wanted him to. but if he didnt! hed end up hugging ls and giving him gentle kissies to ease him back into touch. LS typing in his phone to ask him to check the rest of the place for anyonw  that may be hiding. ALSO not relevant to that at all but loid high kissies.  ls approaches ven one day like Hey do you think you can get me something? Ive been super stressed recently and shes like Yeah i gotchu! and she gives him an edible or two and he takes one and it sets in over the next few hours and by the time hes at voids place he is Stoned he can barely see straight. void giving him so many kissies but then ls gently pushes his face away bc Every little touch feels Huge but also so small at the same time. he gets overwhelmed by the kissies a little quick but void does not mind he can and WILL respect his boyfees boundaries. them talking and ls Trailing off mid sentence because he completely forgot what he said just a split second ago. him and void laying together and tryig to watch shows and they both chuckle at how ls is trying So Hard to see straight. BUT void will not laugh at him if he starts getting #scared he will then try his best to be comforting. i also think loid sloppy makeout could be sooooo real( EXTRA SLOPPY SINCE LS IS HIGH OFF HIS ASS ). idk i just think theyd have fun ls would feel super nice throughout( if he needed to walk anywhere hed get void to help him bc he does Not trust himself to walk on his own. he has horrific balance usually like he will go Plummeting to the side out of nowhere ). i think hed chuckle about it too bc hes not in any danger of getting hurt so hes moreso just giggling abt how he can hardly keep his eyes still. him and his Infectious giggles+snorts seep into void and now theyre both chuckling and bouncing off of eachptjer and GRAARAARARRARAA they have so much fun. end it by simply laying together and probably dozing off (on ls part. he is so eepy all the time).

another thought i had was umm. ls can click his tongue really really loud and i had the idea of 1. void using it for a basic yes/no answer(if he is unaware that its a vessian phrase) (void vc Hey, do that clicky thing if you DONT want me to come in.) 2. him accidentally saying a full phrase in spiple+veevees language. like he clicks a few times just for fun and he actually ended up saying the vessian equivalent of a phrase of reassurance or Yes(its ok! or something along that). seeing spiple and veevee turn to him with strange looks of both Understanding and BEWILDERED CONFUSION(as to how he knows that phrase) and when they explain (bc he was Terrified when they turned their heads so fast in his dirección) what he just said hed get really giddy(he feels super smart) bc he didnt expect to say something In Their Language. oh fuuuck void knowing some vessian lang and using that 3-click reassurance when ls cant speak and Understanding what he says. spippy teaching him more click-only phrases perhaps(bc ls just . Doesnt have the anatomy for the trills. vaguely gestures i have my own idea of vessian anatomy in my mind.) oughhhh another way of veevee showing  affection by putting their neck around yours or ontop of your head and doing a gentle trill. imagining how that would feel garararrurururururu... also never forget veevee sensitive gills. i think they try to hide how bad it can startle them sometimes(if you brushed your hand against them or gave them a surprise kissy). OH YEAH veevee is a hashtag drugs fan too. i think People Drugs would affect them in negative ways so they have their ownfrom their own planet. they get very loopy and kind of dazed? a lot more publically affectionate too( they usually prefer to smother osiris in kissys and head bumps and trills on their own time instead of where Everybody can see). theyd also have a constant gentle smirk on their face they genuinely cannot help it then. oh fuuuuck them leaning In to gill kissies. youd  start to hear a gentle trill because they are Loving it.( they like them w permission Usually but the mushrooms from their planet affect sensation and like. vaguely gestures hard to word the mental images are vivid for me. ) a bit more sloppy walking(they have their tail for balance though!) and you can see the frills on their tail Fluctuating with how they may be "standing up". they usually make a Conscious effort to keep those frills up 1 out of pride. they looove how their frillslook i think they deserve to put (perhaps bioluminescent?) piercings in them sometimes for an extra glow or like. Pizazz. Idk. 2 to seem like.. Bigger? theyre big on their own(6 ft. no less) but they like rhe idea of people being a little intimidated of them(esp since they arent at home anymore theyre on a Ship in Space with new people entirely and they dont quite have the reputation that they did at home)

also a thought abt ls i think he is immobile for a few seconds after he stretches. he just gets so lightheaded and hit with a Huge wave of exhaustion he has to actively recover from it. he also has bad knees and hips and he cant really run for long periods of time(unlike venus she is Super in-shape compared to him. she has big strong arms that umm he wishes she would hold him with.) bc well One his legs give out entirely. TWO his throat can and will start closing up. i think it makes him freak out Super fucking bad when it happens but thankfully being on a high budget ship in space you dont really need to run that much if at all(although recommended to work out to keep your muscle mass to a healthy amount but hes mentally ill he never has the motivation for any of that so ven hypes him up and pushes him to do it out of necessity. shed hate for him to get the opportunity to go on a planet but his muscles+bones arent. Integrous? enough? to support him). speaking of breathing if someone lays on him while hes on his back he will struggle SO BAD to breathe  his lungs and chest fucking SUCK!!!! i think he also has rly stiff joints and can never crack his back or neck or anything(can only do his shoulder Consistently). he also gets horrific phantom pains ever since he lost his left arm to cancer. ven deciding to come to his place and sit with him while he Writhes and offer some support(as best she can shes not all that good with words. Also on her own accord he would hate to waste her time but shes like No no man its fine i promise u. ion mind sittin with you for a bit.) i think also if he lays on his side for too long his hip gets Excruciating pain so thatsa reaosn why he lays on his back so much. OH YEAH HIS BACK i think it aches . very often. especially when he sits down? he also has SCOLIOSIS so thats not fun. i think hes a little conscious of like.. he has kind of a hump. another reason why he avoids looking in mirrors. theres a looottt of things he doesnt like about himself sometimes he feels like an Amalgamation of parts used to make a human body. HOWEVER. i think lovey-dovey spinoff of main void au void should praise Every little bit of him so the next times hes looking in the mirror he feels just a Little less shit about himself. appreciates his curves a little more and his flaws and that hes no less worthy for having them. ofc it doesnt fix his Depersonalization and just feeling like hes separated from his body but he can still start to simply appreciate it w some pushes from his partners and his friends(mostly ven). SPEAKING of eating actually i think LS has issues with eating regularly( he genuinely thinks he doesnt deserve it ) and void wouldnt jab at him for eating so little but instead reassure him that Hey just let me know if you wanna go out somewhere, i got all the money in the world babe i can treat u to anything<3 and his heart would melt at that. However he has a hard time straight up Asking for things so he ends up bumping his head against voids shoulder and  looking around while struggling to say " Can We Go To That Fancy Restaurant Again I Liked The Steak ".  bitsy is the more emotionally intelligent one of the voiditsybitsy trio so she would be the best at picking up on ls subtle little signs. so he does the thing he did to void To Bitsy so she guesses like. You hungry? and her heart kind of skips  a beat seeing him light up and nod because it is So cute. pros of being as tall as itsybitsy include looking down at your boyfriend and seeing how cute he is and the glimmer in his eye and and and* i get shot dead *. speaking of i think ls LOOOOVES bitsys voice. how it rumbles and how its so deep and how she calls him  such a sweet thing. How she says ' good morning, baby.' followed by a slow kiss on the forehead. How she holds him so close and he can Feel her voice in his bones he ffFFFUCKING LOVES IT!!!! he loves voids voice too and how well he can hold a note. sounding so graceful and pretty even when theyre laying on their sides in a hotel bed near voids next performance venue(IMAGINING VOID SINGING HIM TO SLEEP).every word coming out of his mouth so smoothly. HED PROBABLY WRITE A POEM ABT IT TO BE HONEST.. hed also love when void  decreases his mass so he gets like No joint pain. also startles him at how easily he can move up and how its kind of hard to go Crashing into a wall. also his relationship w the apodo " Elsie ". i think his ex used to call him that so theres kind of some Negative connotation until ven comes up w it and starts calling him that regularly so he then starts to associate it with Venus one of the loves of his life instead of the TOTAL CRINGE his ex was. he forgets abt his ex almost entirely with the nickname Elsie especially when void+itsy+bitsy start calling him by it and when they call it out with such Love in their tones. when will bitsy call him elsie-baby for the first time while theyre laying together and he Melts. when will ls cry because he feels so loved. THE SAME FOR VEEVEE  xeyre not used to genuine loving relationships where they arent taken advantage of and expected to sit and be pretty but iurrororougiguhugu when they start Officially dating osiris( i think they had a good few months time of them just being very intimate and close before they both were like. Oh. Are we together now. before making it Official official)  they are still accepting how osiris is completely genuine and she just loves them so so much and they should do the equivalent of crying over it( i dont think vessians can straight up cry but they can do everything else associated w it ). cuddling w osiris one day and it sinks in just how good they have it now and now theyre Clutching onto osiris and kind of whimpering. its a happy 'cry' i prommy. Oh yeah and them getting to visit their home planet again. them getting fucking PISSED at other vessians for giving nasty looks at spiples appearance. anyone who made comments abt it shut the fuck up REAAAL fast when v- starts yelling them down for it. perhaps jabbing at them like You should have a look at your-fucking-SELF before you even CONSIDER ragging on my dear friend here.  Just bcuz veevees been gone a while i dont think theyre any less like.. Respected? than before. the vessian theyd yelled at definitely gets a little shunned by their friends for a while after. they also find themself chatting up other vessians ( a lot less Condescendingly too) that theyd usually avoid for being 'Unattractive'  since beauty standards were Heavily ingrained in them a few years back.  The growth is fucking crazy.

OH YRAH and v-enus FIGHTS. i think theyd be snippy with eachother early on before v- actually gets good at seeing other people on the same level as theirs.  theyd probably give her nasty looks bc shes so unapologetically Herself. shes loud and rambunctious and rough and they dont Like that. theyd make sure she knows it too and Usually ven takes it pretty well. but when veevee starts jabbig At Her or How She Acts i think thats when it can start with her Shoving v- out of her way. v- then is like DID SHE JUST DO THAT? bc they hold themself Far above her and for her to have the audacity to do that? UNHEARD OF! that results in a Swat from v-( WHO HAS VERY SHARP CLAWS) then venus lets out a GRAOW FUCK! and thats when. A full on fight starts. they get broken up sooner or later but it gets nasty  anddd now their perceptions of eachother are Tarnished. not forever but for a Good long while. hissing things abt one another under their breath and only holding back on full on arguments if their friends were in the same  room. example osiris+veevee+spiple+ven.  imagining them all on the couch and v-enus are doing passive middle fingers at eachother every once in a while but not sparking a full on fight.  over the next few years i think veevee gets their nose a little broken and they get the Terror of having thought that they killed venus(THEYRE STILL VERY ELECTRIC) but really she just blacked out for a moment. v- wants to kick her ass and come out on top but good god theyd never want to Kill her. theyre Horrified of killing people especially having seen it first hand back at home w/ the Ever deadly tridacts. electrocuting venus and watching her instantly fall to the floor without her getting up righy after and staring blankly into the ceiling their heart would Drop. any rage they had before is completely gone and now theyre on their knees shaking ven trying to get her to wake up but she Wont( theyre too panicked to check for a pulse but trust me shes alive ) and theyd start choking up and the frills on their tail would Drop and and andnandnnand. Until ven groans and shes blinking the bright ass lights out of her face and rolling over confused on what was just happening. It doesnt help that when she turns over to veevee kneeled beside her seemingly Frozen with terror shes like. Hhuh? and veevee goes on this Tirade like OH MY GOD I THOUGHT YOU WERE FUCKING DEAD! dont you EVER do that shit to me again do you HEAR ME? and ven who just woke up from crashing on the ground and her heart feels soo heavy is so confused cus everythings still a little muffled and her teeth feel weird and shes being Yelled at and barely remembers the fight they were in before. i think v- would actually help her up but the second she teases them about it theyd let her go bc they are So upset about thinking they murdered her. osiris would have limited sympathy hearing abt it bc she Would explain to them that. Veevee i love you with my whole heart and more. But that was kind of your fault. and theyd only be mildly mad about it until theyre like. Okay. Yeah. Youre right. and groan while rubbing their face because they Need to say sorry to ven about it<- emphasized by osiris.  ven wouldnt accept their apology because Holy Fuck That Could Have Been So Much Worse but she appreciates them doing it at all. more years go by and (in main void capture au) i think theyd fight less over stupid things because the ships radar has been detecting some. Weird things trailing behind it. Sort of like heat-seeking missiles. and they dont quite have the time to fight over petty diferencias when theres something This Strange going on they Need to be working together. which is  perfect timing wise because when the accretions finally manage to catch up w/ the ship and break void out ( venus spiple and LS and veevee were all on an external ship a safe distance away from the main one doing maintenance ) osiris is Killed in the process and i think venus would be a good comfort when theyre coping. their heart would beBroken. their chest would Sink seeing the ship get ripped apart and knowing shes in there and there being No goddamn way she survived. theyd start banging at the glass screaming and wailing because one of the few genuine loves in their life is Gone and this time it wasnt a breakup shes dead. i think theyd be inconsolable for a month their mental+physical health would Plummet. spiple and ven are there for them too but they Arent Her. i think they deserve to scream and Shriek about having lost her. when they think about why it happened for a moment theyd regret having helped void be saved at All. keeping the secrets of why venus took so long in the dyson sphere under wraps. All of it they regret so horribly theyd be tempted to give up all of the info they have about void to assist in his Recapture but they wouldnt because i think theyd be a little aware of how emotionally compromised they are and ven being Very impulsive can tell that they would do it out of impulse( also being Horrifically traumatized but you know). also going back i think v-enus would also fight over them tormenting LS. back then theyre unaware of how emotionally repressed they are and they subconsciously take it out Mostly on him because hes shy hes vulnerable hed Never stand up for himself. which is why ven does it for him! they could be berating him to the point of tears and him agreeing w everything theyre saying Just So They Go Away but god forbid venus shows up. seeing how upset he is and how hes basically backed into a corner  shrinking into himself crying harder and harder the more they go on she would be fucking FURIOUS i think shed shove them REAL hard to give him space to retreat so she can give them a piece of her Fucking mind. ls walking out feeling awful 1 because v- cornered him and yelled at him 2 venus standing up for him. he feels like Such a burden for her needing to stand up for him (despite it being completely on her own volition. shed def talk to him afterwards though like You cant let em talk you down like that man!!!!!) i think ven is a lot physically stronger than veevee(never really felt the need to workout) so theyd back off of him for a while because theyd def walk away with some Nasty bruises a few hours later bc ven is a HARD hitter. 

1, 6, 40, 45 for jason and marcus too :)<3

SO SORRY I DONT SHUT UP HERE I CANT STOP

1. How do they fall asleep? Wake up? Any daily rituals?

the important thing to know here is that jason Does Not Sleep. he doesn't really need it. that doesn't mean he can't sleep though. he still gets tired, he just chooses not to sleep. the time between getting in bed and falling asleep is always Much Too Long, and gives him way too much time to think about everything that's happened, process his feelings and so on. which is something he wants to avoid at all costs, so he's constantly keeping himself busy. he never felt safe enough to sleep either, because truly anything could happen to him at this point, so he's always on high alert, just in case.

when the two of them first met, jason still didn't sleep. it felt even les necessary because he not only has to defend himself, but a whole entire human man too. and even though they had just met, if anything happened to marcus, he'd hate himself for it because it's something that could be 'preventable' to him. he always takes it on himself to protect anyone he's with no matter what, and he CAN'T fail at any point ever. can't let his guard down for even a second.

and when they start hooking up (but aren’t Officially Together) he starts kind of drifting off occasionally - not even bc he’s tired but because he’s letting his guard down. listen usually when he hooks up with people it’s Him doing all the work. so he wouldn’t let marcus absolutely rail him unless he trusted him to some degree. yes this is an important part of this answer thank you. IM THREE PARAGRAPHS IN AND I STILL HAVENT FULLY ANSWERED IT YET WHFHUSF OK CARRYING ON.

so basically. the more time he spends with marcus, the easier it is for him to just. fall asleep. and sometimes he even sleeps through the whole night!!! he doesnt even realise until he wakes up and he Panics for a second but then he realises that theyre both STILL alive and safe and nothing bad happened. and the more that happens, the more he realises he doesnt have to be on edge 24/7 and it makes me insane. and because he’s not used to sleeping anymore, it always takes him FOREVER to wake up.

marcus can fall asleep at any time anywhere if he’s tired enough he doesnt care. if he wants to go beddy byes he WILL and no one can stop him. no matter how uncomfortable he is, he will be gone within minutes. he falls asleep so fast. he’ll fall asleep mid-conversation.

they never fall asleep hugging but they ALWAYS wake up tangled together somehow which i think is very sweet. but bc jason is so Strong and Large, marcus always gets stuck whdsgkjh poor guy. he doesnt care though <3 he loves the affection

6. Any tasks that are always left to one person?

marcus always does the cooking, because jason would either give them both food poisoning, burn the food, burn the house down, or all three all at once. he simply cannot be trusted. and as much as marcus hates it, jason is always the one who drives. ONLY because marcus can’t drive, if he could, jason would have his driving privileges revoked. he’s very insane on the roads and goes Very Fast at every given opportunity like he’s in a car chase. the man needs to learn how to calm down

40. Any special memories? Do they have a special place they like to go to?

im still working on a lot of things w/ their relationship and where the story’s going bc it’s definitely nowhere near finished in my mind so i don’t really have an answer for this yet dghfjgjh but if i Had to say something, it’d probably be when they first met. because that was a very bizarre situation - marcus, lou, + morgan hutning for a ghost only to walk in on jason torturing some guy. great way to make a first impression! they both think about it a lot

45. Any special dreams or goals they have as a couple? Any heartbreaks? Regrets?

they’ve got a very solid relationship so there’s not much they’ve hurt each other over or regretted at this point - other than maybe not getting together sooner, not saying anything etc etc. like they BURIED those feelings so deep to the point they were bursting at the seams. two very smart boys <3

more than anything else in life they just want to make it out alive, together - well, as alive as jason can be because that is certainly still a Problem. also still kind of undecided as to whether marcus ‘dies’ near the end of the story too. ive got a lot of thoughts on THAT like so many i think i’ll explode. i shan’t go into that rn i will be insufferable sorry.

another thing is going on holiday somewhere nice and quiet, getting away from everything for a bit. they deserve to relax and feel SAFE and just be normal guys for a few days. and by GOD they will get it. trust me

sdffhghjhdgfhghgfhghdgfhghj ive been trying to work on this fic update for weeks but goddamn lmao i just. i am STRUGGLING which is ??? bc i still like it im still enthusiastic abt the project i simply feel like thats an unpopular stance and at this point im just getting embarrassed to keep posting my writing when the notes are just. me trying to reblog for exposure fdggh no one is obligated to ofc i know that but that post thats like ‘numbers arent everything but if you spent six hours on a cake that no one ate you might be more than a bit disappointed’ is extremely fucking real & im already having a hard time trying to convince myself im not universally disliked as-is tell me why people stop talking as soon as i contribute to the gc without fail like. every time i want to contribute i delete what i typed out bc i physically cant take this happening over and over again i dont know what i did wrong or what im doing wrong but clearly it was Something im just too stupid to figure out what. someone i am begging on my knees please explain what it is about me that repels people after a bit of time what do i lack just tell me so thats not helping either. 

im also trying v hard not to infodump about other interests at the moment bc once again. embarrassing as hell i just keep thinking abt how annoying i am rn to litcherally everyone esp when i want to talk about obscure shit no one but me is into so it feels even worse lmao. & having someone ask out of obligation feels patronizing bc i know theyre not interested about hearing about the thing its just pity. ive been the pity/obligation person my whole life and i Hate it i hate just being tolerated i hate feeling like nothing i say actually matters in the conversation and like everyone is just waiting for me to stop talking i hate the way i can see people’s eyes glaze over and how they dont even notice if i cut myself off mid sentence theyre just glad ive finally finished talking. im so deep in it im actively trying to start up some sort of maladaptive fantasy where i can to talk Guilt Free about stuff but hgjhkjj im also struggling to conceptualize a universe where thats a thing lmao i cant enjoy my comfort characters bc they would also find my ass grating gfhgh like straight up i know they wouldnt like me thinking abt that is actually just making me feel worse lmao i hate it here

ive spent so much time in my own head lately just Spinning tf out and overanalyzing every sentence i type or speak and still somehow managing to fuck up in spite of that. like its not about the fic!! its not about the fic! and i know its not bc im still working even if its slowly. really truly is not just about the fic but thats something i guess more acceptable to complain about bc at least people kinda understand that frustration even if its cringe to vent about but at LEAST. its better than this. also ive taken care of all my basic needs for the day so ive confirmed that im not just deprived of sustenance or some shit gfhgj no ive truly just been feeling like this for weekssss on end now and im so tired. i already typed a version of this in my private server (its basically just like a journal/reminder set up for myself, very convenient & gives me the illusion of replies temporarily gfhgjh) and that wasnt enough so hopefully posting here just alleviates it a bit 

doing this, simply bcs i can. am i a private blog i cant rly tell

1.) i have Tons of favorites. i dont think ive written anything i hate (except for that markhyuck robinhood fic? its atrocious cause theyre british). i think this one banger markren short fic i wrote, tagged nihilism.

2.) most popular is the noren time mage fic. it was mid for my taste.

3.) i rly wish the banger markren was more popular but i tagged it with '&' rather than '/' so it didnt rly reached the masses. why i tagged it with &? i was being self righteous.

4.) mcd. im so sorry but i just love it when. or maybe angst or past lovers. glances at my 3 not-happy-ending tyunning wips.

5.) meet-cute. i hate it. I HATE THAT I HAVE TO INTRODUCE THEM TO EACH OTHER. i have never met anyone Organically i think

6.) SEVERAL. uhm. mostly i think my ot5(?)/ot3(?) droid fic? i have the general gist but i think its too ambitious. so much world building and angst,, and for What

7.) theres this unrevealed yuwin crack fic around 20k. it was disgusting (written in 2019) and its abt exes (surprise!) that met again in a driving course thing (i dont have a license)

8.) probably the first fic? i used to write 600-800 and i couldnt break to 1k but lately most of my fics r 10k. anyway this question isnt abt that. my shortest was 400 iirc. nomin. oh my god it was mcd

9.) i think collabing is such a cool idea but im too territorial w writing and Very Shy. i dont think it will go well with me. unless im collabing with myself that is 4 beers deep, then i would

10.) "i can fit so many product placements in this bad boy", i love writing like this so much but then like 700 words later im probably trying my best to make u Cry

ohhhhhh my fucking god.

I need to get around to making that neocities.

EDIT: um. Ok. Accidentally Posted a vent mid typing

I dont feel like retyping any of that so ill just edit this in the morning since its getting late

So yeah here i go free write venting sawry <3

Just gettin them (unfinished) feelings out

fyi recently decided to check out what neocities is abt after hearing friends gushing abt it n after scrolling around sites I got hyped n decided to make my own neocities after I realized this could possibly solve all my problems sdhkhkfgd

first of all,

............. not to bring this up for the 7848234th time but. yeah Im still having spiraling thoughts abt my girl + the AU. Yes, as I said earlier the intensity of those spirals have died down significantly. but unfortunately its still there, at the back of my mind. and uh oh!!!!!!!!!! unfortunately theres days where it spikes!!!! and frankly brothers i cant take these thoughts anymore,, i need a place to get the fuck away from social media 

I honestly feel thats the reason why I have these thoughts. I haaaate having to fucking overthink posting anything that could be percieved as cringe on my own fucking accounts to prevent the possibility that it could be the post could have me marked as a sort of “lolcow” or laughing stalk known to the internet. I haaaaate that when I have to talk to ppl, fuck even my own online friends, i haveta be walking eggshells via the irony mask and hide shit bc if i feel if i do i have justify my stance to not be seen as cringe!!!!!! I haaaaaaaaaate this fucking terminally online paranoia!!!!!!!!

and I know me saying “I need to get away from social media, im growing paralyzingly sick from my chronically online brainrot” and proceeding to still do this in an another online public space instead of just simply just stop posting abt Her + the AU and maybe even mass delete anything abt them if theyre doing nothing but causing me stress is a weird decision.... but ok.. hear me out

as a creative, the alternative (just mass deleting + stop posting)  is just.....feels so alienating? Like we all crave..an audience??? idk how to fucking explain it but we all like the idea of at least a few ppl liking our stuff? And despite all this headache,,, i still care her 🥺

the thought that this thing I care abt, that I made with my own two hands, that I cannot ever show that to anyone.... thats devestating

I think the reason I keep spiraling is that I feel there is no safe space for me to post abt this. Perhaps specifically fear of the wrong type of ppl catching wind of it.

The current online landscape is fucking hell. Irony poisoned n the standards are so high, ppl will not put up with mediocrity or cringe and they will be LOUD and clear about that.

Not even tumblr is safe.

Neocities though, from what ive seen its the fucking safe haven for self indulgence. Its not uncommon for ppl to have these things called "shrines", a small subwebsite within a website commonly used to just like. Infodump abt whatever thing they like, often obscure and maybe a little "cringe" (i dont mean this to insult them but like. Yknow what i mean right)

Additionally, I wont have to worry about the Wrong People" finding out abt me and My Bullshit. Or most anyone discovering me and My Bullshit. Being into neocities is kinda a "niche", most ppl dont know anything abt neocities asides from programming nerds rlly nostalgic for the old days of the internet!

If anyone for whatever reads this made it this far... Yep. I finally actually went through with the decision of deleting any trace of her off both my tumblrs. I will no longer be talking about her on tumblr unless until this game releases.

Its the perfect place to hide her for now....

Besides, ive been let go of the only job my incompetent ass could ever do but probably still fucked up anyways.  Think I need a fucking hobby that could maybe double as a skill so. Why not dust off what little programming stuff I know and expand upon in it in case my moms right and I cant rlly get my art career to pop off

Though... I guess the one downside for this is that while I hopefully wont be able to directly recieve hate about the AU...I dont think I will be able to recieve any possible love for it either.

As much as i hate to sound like some attentionwhore, and as much as i had a crippling fear of being found out by the Wrong People... there is a small inkling hope and..curiosity for people that might like it

Again, neocities isnt well known. The one upside to me posting my GLITCHED shit on tumblr is that this is prrobably? The only place where GLITCHED has an actual fanbase on tumblr, so i could like get engagement (ugh.... Hate phrasing it like that. Like im sort of numbers obsessed influencer. But i cant think of what else to call it. The possibility of the fans + the rare outsider interacting n being able to read nice or funny little notes), so I highly doubt anyone is going to think to click on the link to my Gina shrine since GLITCHED isnt well known either once I finish my neocities. Even if someone was curious enough to find my website + the shrine n wanted to express that they liked it, Neocities doesnt have a built in system where people can send messages to the creator.

I am going to post the link to my neocities, since well. I know that there is a small few who did like her (or just appreciated the passion i had).

had a training day at work, we have decks of cards w participant names on them to assign to guests and already we have begun assigning them tarot meanings

10 Anti LO Asks

1. I find it funny that I am supposed to be shocked and angry about Zeus cheating when we know Hera was also cheating. Also Hera got to banish Leto basically forever from Olympus and no one has batted an eye over this. Could you imagine how much hate Zeus would get if he tried to banish Hades.

2. Love how the punishment is basically just forcing Persephone to actually do her job for once. No wonder Rachel and her fans see this as some great slight, Rachel notoriously does almost none of the work in LO and her fans are overwhelmingly well off teenagers who don't work and have their parents paying for everything for them, so the idea of actually doing their jobs (or even having to work) is the worst punishment ever. It's so entitled esp when Persephone is a rich heiress in this too.

3. I've never seen such a terrible take on Greek Mythology since Disney's Hercules.

4. it doesnt help either that not only do a lot of gods share roles so there cant simply "one" job as the single earth goddess, but also the norse gods (and probably others) exist in this too, so why would there only be ONE earth goddess for the whole planet? plus wouldnt that mean Eros shouldnt be a love god then since that's his mom's job? like it's just overcomplicating mythology by trying to "simplify" it instead of just letting there be more than one deity per thing. it's really dumb IMHO

5. oh 1000% persephone will only be thinking about hades over any sort of self reflection and figuring herself out. rachel has spent literal years at this point making sure she has nothing to her beyond her relationship to hades, and this is already framed as their "tragic separation", so there's no way it won't just be her yearning for him and nothing else. the long winter will probably be persephone being sad too. get ready for another 2-4 years of the same dragged out "romance".

6. why are they acting like this is the greatest tragedy in the world as if theyre not immortal but also theyve literally only known each other a month? this isnt like splitting up a married couple, it's not even a dating couple. also didnt persephone claim she wanted to "own up" to what she did? then why is she so upset she got an actual (tho minor) punishment? bc that seems to tell us she said that just to save face but actually expected her sob story/hades to get her off scot-free. 🤔

7. the mid season finale was truly a homage to rachel's special talent of backtracking, retcons, inconsistency, plots being added and dropped. jumbled characterization, and just plain bad writing. despite having it in the name she cant even remotely keep her own lore in check. i wouldnt hold out that her "break" will fix anything either, as the B&R creator confirmed Webtoons won't even allow them to make new episodes unless they give the okay, so look forward to more bad writing and rushed art too.

8. WHY DOES ERIS LOOK LIKE A REJECTED MUPPET I HATE IT HERE

9. you know i could buy the "take away" powers bit if it was via say gaia, ouranos, khaos (do they even exist in this?? i hope not) bc theyre the most ancient beings of which they could claim power from and it would make sense for them to be able to take it away since they created the universe as the first ever gods as opposed to just?? randomly giving it to zeus?? like if he can do that then why doesn't he just depower everyone lmao. it makes no sense.

10. lo hades when his childlike intern slash trophy bride turns into flowers: :V

I had a dream that harry and draco were both aurors and they were married to ginny and astoria and then got sent to a mission and they had to do a steak out????? But ofc there was tension so they were like uuuuhhhhh we should bring our wives bc uuuuhhh we cant be away from them too long ya know and they all spend a month or two in a house and shit and ginny and astoria fall in love and bc theyre badass ladies they are upfront about it and then harry and draco are like.... Guess we should a dress

our thing too huh?? And then albus and scorpious have 2 moms and 2 dads (ginny and astoria were both pregnant btw, dont know if i already said that) and it was weirdly amazing and i didnt know who else to tell so yea

***

Anon, your mind. First of all, thanks so much for sharing your dream with me because it's honestly amazing. Second of all, I was re-reading your asks the other day wondering if I should try to write this, and soon after that I took the (ill-advised) decision to take a nap and started dreaming about your prompt. Now I feel like I share a special, oneiric connection with you! Anyway, I hope you enjoy :)

Thanks @april-thelightfury115 for betaing!

Drarry | 2.3k | Teen and Up | Falling in Love, Break Up, Getting Together, Kid Fic, Pregnancy | Read on AO3

At first, Ginny had been mad. Offended, even, that her husband had thought it a great idea to make her share a house with Astoria Malfoy for Merlin knew how long while he and Draco ran off to chase some suspect.

“The only thing that woman and I have in common is that we're pregnant,” Ginny had argued, “and that we're both married to bloody idiots!” 

Three weeks into the stakeout, however, Ginny had to admit she’d been wrong. Although wrong wasn't perhaps the most accurate of word choices, since she and Astoria were, like she’d suspected, completely different kinds of people. Where Ginny was passionate and intense, Astoria was quiet, an aura of serenity always surrounding her. Where Ginny bickered and joked and threw jibes around with her husband whenever she had the chance, Astoria was all subtle touches; a small caress to Draco's shoulder before they left home in the morning, a careful take care whispered in his ear. 

Where Ginny was fire, Astoria was water: cleansing and soothing and calm. 

But she had been utterly, dangerously wrong in that she couldn’t help but find Astoria Malfoy intoxicating. 

“Darling.” Astoria had recently taken to calling her that when they were on their own, in a tone that Ginny could not bring herself to believe to be purely neutral. “Are you sure you're not tired? I sincerely doubt they'll arrive before dawn this morning—we don't have to stay awake if you don't want to.”

“No, no—” Ginny couldn’t help but shiver as the small realisation washed over her for seemingly the hundredth time that night: the realisation that Harry, as much as she adored him, could not have had any less to do with her wanting to stay awake. “I don't want to give up the chance to beat you one more time.” 

Astoria smiled at her, cheeky.

“Very well,” she said, and, after a moment, moved one of her knights on the board. She didn't take her eyes off Ginny as the Knight destroyed one of Ginny's pawns; her eyes sparkled with naughty mirth, and Ginny's breath caught. 

A moment later, a wave of guilt drowned the butterflies in her stomach, and Ginny looked down at the chess board and told herself that she was in love with her husband. Utterly, helplessly in love. 

Except you aren't, a little voice said. You love him. You love him more than anything. You’ve loved him since forever; you'll love him for forever, because he'll always be the person who gave you your son. But you are not in love with him anymore. You haven't been for a while now. 

“Ginny.” 

She raised her head. 

“You're not thinking about the game.” 

It wasn't a question. 

Astoria knew. She wasn't stupid. She knew she wasn't meant to be calling Ginny darling, knew of the emotions—deep, fierce, raging—that ran under Ginny's skin whenever they shared a smile, a look; whenever one's fingertips found the other's knuckles and their knees brushed and bumped almost on their own accord in the middle of their nightly conversations. 

“I'm not,” Ginny said. “I'm thinking about us.” 

Astoria let out a breath, shoulders sagging. She looked down, but Ginny waited, gaze steady, for Astoria to look back up at her. 

“It's late,” Astoria said after a moment. 

“I think I'm falling in love with you.”

Astoria closed her eyes, a slow frown twisting her sharp features. 

“I know.” It was barely a murmur. 

“I know you know,” Ginny said, a challenge. 

Astoria met her gaze, then, and Ginny's resolve wavered when she realised just how terrified Astoria was.

“Hey,” Ginny murmured, standing up. Astoria, lips trembling, buckled over to make room for her in the settee. “Hey, I'm sorry. I'm sorry—” 

“It's not your fault.” Even though her head was turned away from Ginny, Astoria leaned into her touch. “None of this is your fault. Draco is—” Her voice broke, and Ginny held her hand with both of hers, aching, yearning to hold Astoria in her arms and take the pain away. But she couldn't. “Draco is a wonderful man. He's attentive, and loving, and he's funny, and…”

A tear fell into Astoria's shirt over her tummy. 

“And he's my best friend. But he and I are not in love. We never have been.”

That caught Ginny off-guard. 

“Never?” 

Astoria laughed, a broken, pathetic sound. 

“Never. Our parents planned our union soon after I left Hogwarts. I was horrified at first, but after getting to know him, there was a time when I really thought I would fall in love with him in time. That he'd fall in love with me. And we did end up loving each other, mind you: he will always be my closest friend. It's just not…”

“Yeah,” Ginny said softly. “I understand.”

Astoria turned to look at her, then. Seeing her teared up made something inside Ginny snap, and she reached out, held Astoria's cheeks in her hands, thumbing at her messy tears. 

“Harry and I were in love for a long time, but… I think he knows just as well as I do that the love we feel now is purely platonic.” She smiled—chuckled. “In fact, a small part of me suspects whatever he feels for Draco right now is more intense than what he ever felt for me.” 

That tore a laugh out of Astoria. 

“I would not be surprised if that was the case. Those two…” She shook her head. “They're incorrigible.”

Ginny groaned in agreement. A moment later, though, her smile faded away and she was left with Astoria's face cradled in her hands. Their legs pressed together, their eyes searching the other's face. Scared, but hopeful. 

Sliding her hands down Astoria's neck and shoulders, and then squeezing her arms, Ginny let out a slow, deep breath. 

“I think we need to have a conversation with our husbands.”

***

“You… What?” 

To Harry's credit, he looked more baffled than anything else. 

“We're in love,” Astoria repeated, voice steady, but gaze pleading with Draco to understand. 

“I… Okay. Okay. Give me one second.” Harry turned around and sat down on the nearest chair. 

Draco remained still. As far as Ginny was aware, he’d barely even blinked since they'd started explaining the situation to them.

“Are you going to say anything?” Harry asked after a moment, turning to Draco. When Draco shook his head, gaze still fixed in some distant point in space, Harry stood again, leaning his weight against the table. “Okay, so first of all, this is all extremely awkward.” 

“We were aware of that much, thank you,” Astoria said. 

“I mean, both of you are pregnant. With our babies.” He gestured between him and Draco. “Not to mention that we're married, although that's slightly less permanent…” 

Draco huffed, and the three of them turned to him. When he didn't say anything, Harry continued. 

“But I guess it… makes sense? I mean—you two are sort of like… the perfect opposites, you know. I always knew you would get on well. I didn't suspect you'd get on this well, but, hey—” 

“Have you—” Draco's head seemed to be stuck mid-shake, eyes scrunched closed. “Have you done anything? With one another?” 

“No, darling.” The word sounded different, Ginny thought, when Astoria used it for Draco. “We were waiting to tell you.” 

He nodded, but didn't say anything else. When Astoria approached him, Ginny took a step back to give them some space and leaned into the table with Harry. 

“I love you,” she told him. 

“And I you,” Harry said, eyes low. Gulping, he took Ginny's hand in his. “But… I mean, I think both of us had noticed that something was… that something wasn't…” 

“I know.” She squeezed his hand. “I know.” 

He looked up at her, and Merlin, he looked so, so vulnerable in that moment that Ginny wished more than ever that she could love him the way he deserved to be loved. But that simply wasn’t for her to do.

“I still would like for us to raise our son together,” he murmured. 

“We will. Harry, I don't care what happens from now on. You're still my best friend, and you're still the father of my kid. Nothing is going to change that. Okay?” 

Harry nodded, and, biting his lip, turned his gaze to Draco and Astoria. After a moment, Ginny did too. 

Draco was crying. 

“Come on, let's give them some space,” she said, pushing herself off the table. Harry followed her out of the room. 

***

“Draco…”

No reply came. Harry looked at him, but Draco's gaze was fixed somewhere outside the car window. 

They'd spent countless hours inside that car, in that very watch post. Hours chatting, and bickering, and taking turns to sleep while the other watched the house for any signs of activity. 

It had never been awkward before now. 

“Look, we need to talk,” Harry said. Draco huffed, unamused. “We need to talk because we both know our wives are not the only ones who’d noticed something wasn’t right before yesterday’s conversation. They were just the only ones brave enough to be upfront about it.” 

In the moment it took Draco to turn around, Harry thought of Draco's head on his shoulder; of the way it had felt when Draco had fallen asleep there, of the way he'd been so careful not to let it fall so Draco wouldn't wake up. He thought of the way their arms brushed whenever they walked, wands in hand, toward a dangerous location. Thought of the very reason they'd been so adamant that their wives should come with them on this mission: a truth they'd refused to confront, and that had gone and slapped them in the face anyway. 

“Do you understand how terrifying this is for me?” Draco finally said, body turned to Harry, but gaze fixed on his knees. “To know that my life as I know it, as I always expected it to be, is over? Do you think”—he looked up at Harry, and Merlin, he looked so scared Harry had to hold back from reaching out to him—“that I haven't noticed that I'm in love with Harry Potter, and not with the woman I'm about to have a baby with?” 

Harry held his breath. Searched in Malfoy's eyes, desperately, for any hint that he was about to take back his words. Then, almost out of breath:

“I'm in love with you too.”

Draco let out a desperate laugh. 

“I know that, you bloody idiot,” he choked out. “Fuck, I know.”

Harry bit his lip. Reached out, rested a hand over Draco's trembling, fisted own. 

For a few moments, neither spoke. 

“I'm sorry,” Harry murmured eventually. “I'm sorry things can't be different.” 

Draco started playing with Harry's fingers, and Harry closed his eyes—marvelled in how warm Draco's hands felt. How careful they were even as he fidgeted. 

“I'm glad they told us,” Draco said. “I want Astoria to be happy, and I know she'd never be completely happy with me.” A sigh. “I wouldn't, either. Not with her. I just… I need some time to come to terms with it.” 

Harry's fingers turned and turned between Draco's nervous own. 

“That's okay. I don't mind waiting for you.”

Their eyes met. 

“Okay,” Draco said. 

Harry squeezed his hand. Smiled. 

“Okay.”

***

The whoosh of the hearth letting someone through was quickly followed by two high-pitched squeals. By two very excited cries of, “Daddy!” 

Harry smiled to himself when he heard Draco's laughter coming from the living room as he—presumably—was tackled to the floor by Albus and Scorpius. 

“Boooys,” Harry called after a moment. “Come grab some cookies from the kitchen!” 

A few seconds later, the two five-year-old tornadoes were rushing toward the tray, barely sparing Harry a glance. Harry shook his head, grinning. 

“Where's my hug?” 

“Daddy!” Albus, face already full of crumbs, ran toward Harry's arms. “Your cookies are the best!” 

“Mmh!” Scorpius agreed. 

“I'm glad you like them.” Harry ruffled Al's hair. “Do save some for later, though!” 

Draco walked in, grabbed a cookie. “How are your mums?” he asked while he gave Harry a sonorous kiss on the cheek, the crumbs on Draco’s mouth scratching against his stubble. 

Harry was about to complain when Albus stretched his arms out, asking to be picked up. 

“They have a date today,” he—quite loudly—whispered in Harry's ear. 

“Do they, now!” 

“A date in a restawant with candles and a lot of different forks,” Albus explained. “And—and they were wearing really pretty dresses!” 

“Really? What colour?” Draco asked, picking Scorpius up too. 

“Mum's was red,” Scorpius said. “And mummy's was, uh, it was really pretty, and—” 

“And sparkly!” Albus squealed. “Black and sparkly!” 

“Wow! I don’t think Draco and I own anything so pretty!” Harry turned to Draco. “What do you think?” 

“Hmmm…” Draco dragged the sound out, sharing a mischievous look with Scorpius. “I’m not sure… I think we might have some sparkly garments hidden in the back of our wardrobe, but I’m sure Al and Scorp won’t be interested in—”

“We want to see!” Scorpius screamed, wiggling in his father’s arms. 

“We want to see, we want to see!” Albus chanted.

Harry and Draco shared a smile. 

“Very well, then,” Draco said solemnly, setting Scorpius down. “Let’s see which of you can find the prettiest clothes in our bedroom for us to wear today.” 

The kids darted upstairs, and, before following them, Harry took Draco’s hand in his and kissed his husband’s cheek in return.

As fellow Mayuri lover I have a question, is ther sources for mayuris new outfit being based on a beetle? because i thought it was more of a caterpillar bc his butterfly motif. like the headwear looks like a caterpillars defense organ i.e osmeterium (see image attatched). which is hilarious if true bc hes feeling defensive against urahara for sure lmao hes so sensitive also the segments on his outfit looks like caterpillar segments and theyre orange with is a natural danger indicator of an poisonous insect. so basically in my mind hes like OH FUCK urahara after my gig time to go into defense mode. also earlier in the series his flamboyance always read as a butterfly to me so now hes reverted to a caterpillar, so its kinda like him going back to the drawing board on his mindset. like his theory on perfection, so hes changing courses, of course to reflect the major changes in his life, not only regarding the seireitei but also baby nemu 😭 also itd be fitting for him to be in a caterpillar outfit bc of the hell butterfly plot point, which r shown to be swallow tails and i think the caterpillar hes mimicking is a swallowtail,,,, very interesting. kubo mayuri is ur fav character and its showing

SIESEL!! I was just think about him being a caterpillar, earlier, after seireiteisins sent me THIS picture and the extra color reminded me a lot of 'eyes' that can be found on caterpillars/butterflies. So, I think you are 100% correct, especially with how 1 for 1 the osmeterium is with his headpiece.

But the thought you've put into this is simply *chefs kiss*. You once again are the big brain Mayuri smoocher we need.

Also, his outfits before have definitely always read as 'in control' and 'most important' (Pharaoh, the Sun). He felt secure in his place not just because of Urahara's absence and Nemu's presence, but because of his ability to surveil and outwit/outsmart his enemies. Mayuri really believed he could fight a God and win, because he has never failed (that we know of) when it really mattered.

Something that I thought was actually done well in TYBW was the theme of soul reapers paying for the crimes of their superiors. Mayuri was just one soul reaper who paid a price for Yamamoto and Unohana's crimes with the quincy while also having to face the fact that Yamamoto and Unohana had been shielding them from the truth of their own world.

His performance as the 12th division captain/leader of Research & Development was put into major questions at the same time he realized that being on Urahara's level might be a minimum when it comes to keeping his work relevant to Soul Society.

I definitely think his retreat into dressing as a caterpillar is an indication that he's gone back to the drawing board and is hyper defensive not just indicated with the osmeterium but the eyes too! I think it might even suggest that he is attempting to camouflage what he is currently working on/discouraging an ever closer Urahara from catching on to what his next 'success' is.

If we were to get an outfit change mid-arc that more resembled a butterfly being paired with some ex machina invention that would USUALLY be reserved for Urahara to dole out, I think it would be perfect. But with Kubo, who the fuck knows.

Personally, I think it's so odd that Urahara is in soul society????? But hopefully it'll lead to more interactions between the two. I'm v interested in seeing wtf is going on with Urahara Shoten and if Mayuri knows what Jinta & Ururu are or if Urahara will reveal that?? (Give me that sweet sweet blow to Mayuri's ego Kubo).