I had a private channel open with Ratthi in the shuttle, in case he was nervous and wanted to talk without tying up the feed. (System Collapse, chapter 10)

this is so cute. murderbot is like this is my emotional support human ratthi. and this is ratthi's emotional support direct feed connection with me 🥺

" Aster . . . ASTER ! " Her dainty form rushes down the hallway towards the room they both shared ( and she, likely, should PACE herself, but the definition is as foreign to her as alcoholic moderation is to a certain bard ), and the moment she's within reach of Aster, she's tugging at his arm to pull him closer. " I felt . . . by the skies, I cannot explain it, Aster! Oh, I hope it happens again. Here, right here! " Lumine guides his palms to either side of her stomach, somewhat comforted by that familiar, cooling effect his touch seems to have against her warm skin, and just as she had attempted to explain, there's a slight brush of something against his left hand, followed by another. " That one . . . was even stronger than the last, I swear it. You felt it, right!? Aster, PLEASE, tell me you did, because it wasn't purposeful. I'm not losing my mind, am I!?"

Unprompted Ask - Always Accepting!

@tenebriism

          As always, the sound of Lumine calling for him has Aster’s attention almost immediately, eyes lifting from where he’d been straightening the sheets of their shared room. Though Lumine was spending far more time home now that her pregnancy was progressing further along, it was still Aster who took care of most of the household chores, with the homunculus more than content to continue looking after their home. After all, Lumine could still strain herself while cleaning if she wasn’t careful.

     Though the lack of urgency in her tone kept him from becoming too alarmed, brows still rose with curiosity as the former Abyss Princess hurried over to him. “Felt what? Are you alright?”

     He got his answer as she led his palms to the swell of her tummy, a soft movement from within her stomach causing him to blink with surprise before his eyes widened slightly. He knew that unborn babies moved about within their mothers’ wombs and that it was quite normal - but to feel it himself was far different than knowing about it in theory. His lips were soon parting, an expression of awe crossing his features as he focused on the little ‘kicks’ that could be felt from inside Lumine’s belly. For not the first time since Albedo had diagnosed her condition, Aster felt a warmth welling up inside of him, the knowledge of what was to come causing excitement to bubble up within him.

     They were going to be parents.                He was going to be a father.

     “I... I felt it, Lu,” he assured her, a soft chuckle escaping him as his eyes, which had been fixated upon her baby bump, rose to meet with hers, a wide grin drawn across his face, “You’re quite sane, love. The baby’s just moving - ‘kicking’, as a lot of people call it. You remember with Aether and the twins, right?”

     It felt so surreal when it was happening to them though - when it was their child letting its parents know that they were there and that, soon enough, the two of them would get to meet him or her. Feeling a warmth pricking at the corners of his eyes, Aster draws one hand back to wipe away the moisture, though he can’t bring himself to remove the other - not when he hopes to feel a few more of those little greetings from their unborn son or daughter as they continued to grow within the safety of their mother’s body. Drawing himself closer, the homunculus presses a quick kiss to the blonde woman’s lips, then her cheek, her brow - hoping that each little gesture was enough to convey everything that he was feeling in that moment.

     Somehow, he doubted it, though words seemed even less adequate right now.

     “I guess that you could say that they’re telling us hello from in there. Maybe they’re just as excited to meet us - what do you think?”

Y'know how they canonically don't know if Jason or Cass is technically older than the other? What if

Possessed doll AU belongs to @phoenixcatch7 so go check them out <3

A couple of boyfriends nerds to match these nerds hehe 👓✨✨

FL, Baby, Coworker and Sweetheart are fluent in sign language, idc.

FL bc they go non-verbal when stressed + their tryna compensate for their past and become an overachiever

Baby bc they used to blast music in their ears to distract them from everything else and fully thought they were ganna go deaf (it was just tinitus)

Coworker bc they're a professor and wanna be accommodating for all their students and fellow teachers

And Sweetheart bc they wanted a more discreet way to talk on missions/interrogations

“i’m not the bad guy you think i am”

“i got a boat that can get us off the island… we gotta get out of here, it’s better if we work together”

“they’re going to find john b and your sister” “sucks for them, that’s good for us tho”

“i told you we just had to work together”

“i can give you a ride out, drop you wherever, somewhere safe”

“i know your friends and my sister are on the island, i’m not helping them, i can’t trust them okay… i’ll give you a ride out but not them”

“i mean i always liked you kie, you’re at least half kook”

+

“i just lose control in moments like that, i’m trying to get better” kiara nodding along and her small “okay” as he explains himself

and her “oh god” and teary eyes when he starts slapping himself

HOW is this canon we were fed a full course meal 😭

okay anon you did it-- this delicious assortment of canon dialogue is the straw that broke the camel's back bc now i've got a new fic in the works directly based off of the line “i can give you a ride out, drop you wherever, somewhere safe”

or, the one where sarah was right and ward/rafe are the ones after them and rafe accidentally kidnaps kiara instead of sarah and uses her as extortion >:)

why is there so little going on in my life that a simple crush on a person i barely know takes up so much space in my brain...why

i'm so desperately in love right now

if the universe wants me to be girlfriendless that's fine but can she at least not make me have dreams about having a girlfriend... two nights in a row man like wtf

Hello, I have come with an angst brainrot I've had. After all the reader has gone through, in any of these SAGAU variations, we find out we aren't the player somehow brought here through mystical means, but a copy of that consciousness in a body made to serve as a mimicry of the original. Like, what brought us to Teyvat couldn't bring the "real thing", so it saved a copy and brought that over instead (with alterations such as golden blood, among other things.) The despair I imagine for us to find out, especially in an Imposter AU, I just.. I just love this idea for some reason.

Hi! Owch!

So basically, the reader isn't actually the god - by technicality. They share the same memories, but their body is but a copy. So perhaps its a situation similar to the Raiden Shogun's.

I think most would still regard you as their god, considering the fact that they can't exactly get the real thing. You're the closest they can get and so they'll treat you the same.

I think it'd be similar to Bones' beloved imposter? maybe. Although not as obvious as her series describes it, and I think there would be some die-hard fans that wouldn't like you being in the position you're in.

Which is why it's kept a secret, for the most part. Majority of the archons are aware of it, and you most favored/trusted acolytes are also aware of it. Other than that it's quite hush-hush, for your safety.

All of your memories before you came here might've been fabricated but that's alright (it's also their fault you're here in the first place) but they'll help you create new - and real - memories in Teyvat. They'll walk your technical first steps with you and they'll be there for your thousandth, even if you're not what the actual god, they'll still adore you like you are them.

Hey, thanks for your post about the us, it's nice to see a little bit of positivity when shit is literally constantly thrown at your country, and I really appreciate it /gen

Oh I'm glad! I've gotten some nasty responses and I'm like. Jesus us usamericans have so few Ws on a personal level. Let us keep what we got. And like if ur gonna make fun of usamericans I think some lighthearted ribbing is fine actually! It's about tone and what is actually being teased. Feel Free to actively complain/rally against/actively call out our government I do the same thing shit is bad! I KNOW the USA was built off of genocide slave labour and invasion and is still profiting of of all of that!! I think one of my favorite quotes when thinking about any country in general was "people are lovely, governments are assholes". Most people are just trying to live decent lives and having cultural differences that don't hurt other people is a good thing actually. I love that norms are different in different places i think it's COOL that cuisines vary I love that people are diverse and dynamic and that humans are simultaneously not a homogeneous race AND have some near universal similarities! Also like. yeah it's a tone thing it's a people you're talking to thing. I've gotten into JOKING fights about food with like one of my Australian friends (i was like what the fuck is UP with fairybread? and they were like HELLO?? TWINKIES?? and I was like lmao fair) but that's not the same as writing off entire fuckin swaths of food you know?

TLDR: halloween road trips and big drinks rule. If I make a joke that's like 'english people be saying "it's chewsday innit"' i expect a response like "americans be saying 'I wanna hamborger and wader boddle" you know? I'm literally not trying to defend the bad shit I'm just saying occasionally that are framed as weird/bad are cool and fun actually

it’s just i spend so much time sharing little things about myself in the hopes that it sparks a connection with people and also i guess that maybe sometimes people will think of me yk. to feel like i exist outside of my own head. i dont think this is a bad thing it’s just where im at it’s a natural want for connection and it like. works for me. and i also dont think it’s bad to have the friends i do that are like ‘surface level’ yk. i still appreciate them and love them. it’s just, this is where im at, desperately clawing in different spaces in my life to be known even tho it’s embarrassing lol. and it just sucks that i never had to try to with her. not only did we have this extremely insane chemistry right off the bat, she’s someone that in like every way has made it seem like she actively wants to know me. beyond just the polite and whatever kind of level. and it’s like, of course that feels absolutely amazing given ive been pining since day 1 but also i just like her a lot as a person. you know. and it all sucks and makes me wanna combust sometimes that things aren’t the way i’d like them to be between us of course lmfao but i also think she’s an incredible person and she’s managed to make me feel so safe and calm and simultaneously obviously fucking crazy and energized and whatever. u know. whatever my point is here im gonna be done now <3

i am going to stab my manager

Love the slight AUs where Bruce as Batman has been a member of the league for ages, but he's somehow managed to keep his assortment of children under the radar.

Because it sets up the wildest misunderstandings within the league. He routinely talks about his babies, his children who are all so sweet and kind and occasionally assholes yes but only because they are young (and traumatized) hell I don't think the league would even be aware that they're adopted. So they're all thinking literal children

Barry: Bats really loves his kids.

Hal: I mean they're babies, wait till they hit the angsty teens and I'm sure we'll be hearing the opposite

Which means the day they finally meet Nightwing they don't know wtf to think. For one thing, how old would he have been when he had this kid???? Should they be worried about that???? And for the other, that is not a baby, that is not a precious little thing.

He could break someone in half. Like a twig.

He won't, but he could. And they can see that. (He's bat trained, they have seen what the bat can do they are not fools)

And they're like, okay. Okay maybe he isn't the baby (he is). He's got younger kids right? He's never said how many, they have 0 clues. They've been expecting 1 child, maybe 2 because he'd said kid in the plural exactly once when comforting an older woman while they were searching for her children in the aftermath of a rough battle.

And then a week later they run into Red Hood. In his leather, with his guns. And he drapes himself across Batmans back with all the self confidence in the world and starts whining about the "Brat" breaking into his safe house.

To steal his dog.

And yet again. He is not baby. He is bigger than Batman. He could probably break Batman in half given the bat didn't put up a fight. But Batman looks at him with probably the softest expression they've ever seen on that mans face and tells him very earnestly that the kid just wants to spend time with his older brother, next time they should try a walk. Maybe go to the zoo.

But probably not one of the babies. They're kind, and gentle, and at least one just loves reading and Bats has been trying to encourage that!!!

And then a day later he mentions his "babies" going for a walk in the park and they all instantaneously lose their minds at the confirmation.

?? you can order tortillas at wendys?

my mum got us each a box of plain donuts the other day and I have exactly 2 left now. and this is only bc I am exerting a fair amount of self control. otherwise I would’ve inhaled the whole dozen in like an hour and then been so sad.