#//i might clean this up a bit later and color it idk

[mechahero]

messy mon.ster ball concept idea sketch

#//the old hyperfix is nesting in my brain again #//and maybe mon.ster ball as a line lives in my brain along with mon.ster fest #//listen maybe some of his outfits should be somewhat inspired by other horror movie characters #//but i think i said that before so never mind then dhbfgnh #//listen again though mons.ter ball is a homecoming/prom themed line carrie has a prom in it it makes sense #//also went and turned that alternate pointy hairstyle i draw him with sometimes and made that an actual hairstyle he has here #//there's an actual name for it but i forgot it dhbfnjgn #//i might clean this up a bit later and color it idk #//really like how this came out though like wow #mocha's art

[magpigment]

wholly based off an off handed comment grizzly made in the disaster every five minutes video and the hardest minecraft difficulty video so have this! my general concept for what grizz as a nomad shepherd turned deity looks like!

#my art #scu grizzly #scu #grizzlyplays #grizzly plays #no clue how to tag this ngl #this was a pen sketch that i transferred and colored and cleaned up a bit digitally so it’s not the best but eh #wanted to mess w lighting and colors and stuff #i really liked grizz's character in the scu videos he was in. might draw fallen grizzly later idk #anyway yeah lol

[circusclownproductions]

seeing a lot of videos that are like “I didn’t know babies couldn’t have water” so here’s an incomplete list of things you need to know before having a baby

- the obvious, they can’t have water bc milk is incredibly high in water already so excess water leads to over hydration

- babies cannot have honey until 1

- if ur breastfeeding your kid and saving excess milk, make sure you label what you pumped in the morning vs at night bc your body produces different melatonin levels throughout the day and giving your baby daytime milk at night can make them more alert and fuck up their sleep schedule

- idk why ppl keep saying this but swaddling your babies or getting them those baby straight jacket things is not abuse. It chills them out cuz it reminds them of the womb

- babies have a dandruff like buildup on their head called cradle cap, and it’s very easy to deal with and remove with just some baby shampoo, a gentle scrub brush (MADE FOR BABIES!!) and a comb. It does need to be removed tho cuz it can be very painful after a while. This can also continue to happen late into toddlerhood it’s normal

- you have to clean out the creases of your baby’s skin and hands and feet they WILL collect dust😭😭

- you cannot bathe your baby until their umbilical cord naturally falls off. Use a warm damp rag until then

- tummy time is actually very important

- your baby might have a misshapen head at first (not all the time but sometimes) this will either sort itself out or they’ll need a corrective helmet ask your doctor

- I wouldn’t recommend having your baby leave the house very much until they’re at least 6 months old, especially if they’re born near cold and flu season cuz the common cold can kill a newborn

- you’re not an awful horrible person for having postpartum depression and it’s always a million times better to let your baby cry a few minutes longer than normal while you regain your composure than to freak out and give ur kid shaken baby syndrome

- you’re not an awful horrible person for giving your baby formula milk either

- don’t put shoes on your baby it’ll compromise their toe box and balance

- babies put every single thing in their mouths

- the easiest way to burp a baby is to hold them straight up (spine straight) and hold their head a bit higher

- always support their head they barely have necks

- if your baby fights away food, fights tummy time, vomits every single time you burp them, is gaining or losing an unreasonable amount of weight at a time, wheezes after eating, or goes red after eating, chances are they’re probably allergic to the type of milk they’re eating (again ask a doctor but these are just some signs it’s not just colic)

- they will wobble a lot when learning to do things but you gotta fight the urge to help them every single time cuz they gotta learn

- they’re not always spitting out baby food cuz they don’t like it they just don’t know how to eat. Like they don’t know how to push food down they only know how to stick their tongue out so be patient

- babies craniums are broken up into three parts at first that later fuse together, this is to help make birthing easier but it results in a small EXTREMELY sensitive spot in the top of their head that has no protection. This puts their brain at a high risk. Always protect their soft spot

- read to your baby!! Get cute bright colorful sensory books with sight words and read them to your baby it makes such a huge difference in their educational growth and will help them acquire a love for reading early on. And talk to them never shut up just say whatever comes to mind all the time this will strengthen their vocabulary growth also.

- babies poop like a lot. A lot. an unreasonable amount. Bring back up clothes and more diapers than you think

- no pillows or stuffies in the crib and only use a muslin blanket unless it’s especially cold to prevent suffocation

- babies kick reflexively until they’re out of their newborn scrunch (they stay womb shaped for a while) and if your baby is crying and pushing at the swaddle try letting them flail around for a minute

- consoling your baby is not spoiling them ! They need comfort and they will learn to self soothe on their own

- singing lullabies actually works, they can recognize your voice a consistent place of comfort from the womb and the cadence of lullabies is literally engineered to create a calm headspace

- for the love of god do not get boring ass beige toys. Colors are important for their neurological development

- babies are very responsive to praise from a young age so be as supportive of them as you can

- babies get constipated a lot and you have to do like tummy massages to help ease their pain the easiest way is to lay them on their backs and hold one foot in each hand, kick their feet like bicycles, scrunch up, and then stretch their legs out

- holding them on your hip too much will not cause bow legged-ness if your baby is bow legged that was always gonna happen

- they drool so so much and you have to get bibs for them so they don’t get chest eczema

- don’t use scented products on their skin cuz their skin is sooo much thinner than ours

- when your baby first starts sitting on their own never walk away from them without setting up a nest of pillows and blankets around them. Even minor head trauma can mess them up sometimes

- this one is kinda morbid and scary but sometimes babies just die out of nowhere and it’s no one’s fault or anything it’s called sudden infantile death syndrome(SIDS) and it’s about 1.3k deaths on average per year in America so not super common but still very real. 90% of these deaths happen during the first four months however edit: apparently it’s bc of an enzyme deficiency which at the very least you can take steps to try and prevent

- smoking and drinking during pregnancy WILL affect your baby and your breast milk and also might contribute to SIDS cases

- babies sometimes have a big red mark on them somewhere called a stork bite immediately after birth but typically it goes away

- babies can’t see very well for a while after birth and they’re VERY wobbly so they’ll typically bonk their head into your chest and face a lot while trying to support themselves

- female babies might have smth similar to a period the first few days after birth, this is because of the hormone transfer that happens during the birthing process and the days leading up to it

- male babies get random erections for the first few days after birth(hormone transfer again) literally do not be weird about this it’s a baby

- things like weaning your baby onto solid foods, potty training, weaning off pacifiers etc, can actually be directed by the baby and will happen naturally will minimal guidance from the parent(some guidance is still necessary) although I would do individual research into baby led weaning for food to prevent choking

- get those chewy feeding pouches to help with weaning

- the most random things will scare the hell out of your baby don’t take it personal 😭

- baby carriers are life savers (tulas are one of my favorites)

- once babies hit toddlerhood they’re tougher than you think, and a lot of their reaction is based on YOURS. they’re always going to be looking to you for how to react to a situation. Remain calm and if they’re ok they’ll calm down but if they’re genuinely hurt they’ll keep crying

- babies will most likely get ridiculously attached to an inanimate object and you have to keep this thing intact at all costs until they’re old enough to abandon it or they will throw a FIT. I got a lemur plushie from a zoo once and every single one of the kids has bonded their soul with it until about 6 years old and once a month I have to stitch him back up

- don’t compare yourself to other parents. Maybe your kid isnt getting grass fed wild caught north Atlantic cheerios but at least they’re fed. If your kid is alive and healthy and happy you’re doing a good job

- you will need 3 car seats, an infant seat, a grow with me toddler seat, and a booster seat

- getting a good diaper bag is a MUST

- the hair a baby is born with will most likely all fall out or they’ll get a bald spot on the back of their head where they sleep cuz their hair is so fragile and thin but once it grows back it grows back thick

- get like 20 muslin blankets so you always have a backup when the main ones are covered in spit up

- the babies grip IS stronger than yours (keep your hair up and keep pets away best you can)

- your best bet for your teething baby is a pacifier you can put your finger in so you can massage their gums and some chewing toys numbing cream can be dangerous and should be used sparingly

- go ahead and come to terms with the fact you’re gonna have to use a Frida Baby to manually remove snot

- babies can get hair and thread wrapped around their toes and fingers that can cut off their circulation try to make a habit of checking

- don’t hit your kid please it’s nothing but trauma and fucked up coping mechanisms from there pls empathize with your child they’re a person too

- be careful not to pull too hard on their arms and legs(like during play or holding their hand while they walk) and NEVER pick them up by their hands this will very easily cause dislocation

- they might have a little tooth like callous on their lip from their pacifier. This does not hurt them and it will go away but it may hurt during breastfeeding

- breastfeeding will make your boobs different sizes

Yeag that’s all I can think of rn but yk i Will add as I remember stuff ppl are also adding things I forgot in the tags in case you’d like to look thru that as well <3

#🍱 #baby care #parenting #first time parents #newborn care #parenting tips #can’t think of any other exposure tags #‼️‼️‼️

[mera-k1]

Hii!! Can we get a first kiss hcs with TCW and/or AKYR, please? Whether its cute giggly ones or the slow and steady,,,🤲🌹

(((I actually sent an anon ask on this but i got a notif that something went wrong with it lol, but lmk if it actually slides into your inbox:0)))

Have a nice one!

it never did come into my inbox but dw!! hope you enjoy the fluff~ later note: GOT WAY TOO LONG... PUTTING AKYR IN A SEP POST!!

First Kiss

TCW x gn!reader

-fluff, idk u guys kiss 😱, not rlly in order so here's order i wrote in -> yohei, shiki, ryu, saimon

having to watch your boyfriend clean counters and sweep the floor wasn't the most exciting thing in the world. but.. he didn't look half bad while doing it. with the sleeves of his bartender 'uniform' rolled up and his focused expression, you couldn't help but admire him. well, okay.. you hadn't been dating that long but the crush you had on yohei was... you've had to for a little longer than you'd like to admit. so when he accepted your confession, you were extremely surprised that the cold-fronted man had actually accepted.

besides that, you really just had wanted to spend some time with him lately. after all, he'd been working so much! why not take some time off and spend some time with you? that's what you had proposed but-

"i needa finish cleaning, babe."

"oh.."

those were the only words that had been spoken since you had gotten here. letting out a dramatic sigh, you slumped down onto the bar counter that he had just finished cleaning. the damp, cool counter smelled of cleaning supplies and you wrinkled your nose at the sudden strong smell and lifted your head back up to wipe your now wet cheek.

"what're you sighing for?" he looked over after you had let out the dramatic sigh, cloth in hand as he wiped down the opposite end of the counter from you.

"i just wanna spend time with you!" you put your elbow onto the counter, leaning your face into your hand as you stared at him. yohei returned your sigh with one of his own as he shook his head.

"i told you i've-"

"i know what you told me!" you huffed out at him, a pout forming on your face as he walked over to you.

"tell you what," he started, looking at your pouty face. yeah... there was no way he could say no to you now. he was being a little mean, wasn't he? he briefly leaned down, planting a quick peck on your lips before walking back over to the previously abandoned cloth he had been using to clean. "we'll go out somewhere once--" you didn't hear the rest as your face turned pink as you suddenly shot up, shock evident on your face.

"y-you kissed me!" you covered your mouth, half from shock and the other half... you weren't really sure. "that was the first time you've ever kissed me!" he looked over at you, a faint pink color appearing on his cheeks.

"...mh. i- i guess i did."

okay so.. maybe it was a little bit awkward, eating lunch with your boyfriend. or well... new boyfriend. not like you've ever had one before but it felt awkward to sit by him during lunch uninvited. but... it's kind of an unspoken thing that you're allowed to do that, right? you had been friends beforehand but... this whole relationship thing was kinda hard... especially with your shy boyfriend.

"uh- uhm- th-thank you for eating with me, (name)..." shiki mumbled, shyly. his face growing pink with blush. you weren't sure if he was flustered by you unexpectedly sitting by him or if he had just remembered that you two were technically dating after that mess of a confession from you. god, you didn't even want to think about it right now...

"no problem!" you gave him a content smile which seemed to make his face go redder. even though it hadn't been long, you were happy that this sweetheart of a guy was your boyfriend. he might be timid but you still loved him!

"ah.. (name)?" he looked over at you, a hesitant expression on his face. it was almost impossible to tell what he was about to ask you with that expression. it almost looked like pity, but you knew it wasn't- but it also looked like shyness? but he was shy about a whole lot of things!

"what's up?" you asked, trying to keep the conversation casual and not think about the possible question.

"w- would you like to go somewhere after school?" he mumbled, looking down shyly. "ah-! with- with me! if that's okay..." he quickly added. as if it wasn't obvious enough! of course you would love to go on a little date with him!

"of course! why wouldn't it be okay, shiki?" you gave him a smile as he almost immediately brightened up too.

"really?!" you nodded happily in response, getting up from your spot on the bench beside him and gave him a quick kiss on his cheek before taking your bag and rushing off as the bell rang.

"i'll meet you outside your class after school, okay?!" you called as you jogged away, leaving him an embarrassed and blushing mess as he stared at you disappear in shock.

some days, you weren't sure if you should regret asking ryu out. deep down you knew you didn't regret it, of course, but times when ryu was running around the room in a dino onesie, pretending to be a dinosaur made you wonder what you had really gotten yourself into when you asked him out.

"ROARR!! i'm gonna get ya, (name)!!" he made a scary face as he ran over to where you were sitting with his arms outstretched, ready to grab you. you couldn't help but laugh at his childishness when he tackled you down onto the carpet. "iiii... got you!!!"

you both became a fit of giggles after ryu tackled you down, cuddling in closer to you as if being on the floor was a normal occurrence for the two of you. "okay, okay.. it's time to actually get up and ready, ryu." you patted his head as he childishly wrapped his arms around you and shook his head with a pout.

"not yet! just a little longer, 'kay? and then we will blast off, captain!!" he declared, suddenly an astronaut instead of a dinosaur now. you couldn't hold back the laughter that bubbled up inside of you.

"from dinosaur to astronaut? what a drastic switch!" you playfully teased him before he suddenly jumped up, pointing up towards the ceiling (which you assumed he was pointing towards the sky) and brought his finger back down to point at you on the floor.

"yes! we will be blasting off to the moon! astronaut ryu and (name) are making it to the moon!" he declared loudly as you got up from your spot on the ground and walked over to his excited face.

"i'm sure we will, ryu, but it's time to get ready, okay?" you smiled at him before he sighed, seemingly accepting the fact that he couldn't sit and have fun with you all day in his room.

"one thing before we blast off!" he gave a determined look, his hands on his hips. you raised your eyebrows at him as a silent 'go ahead'. "astronaut ryu needs a kiss before he gets ready!" you would have been flustered by his sudden request but seeing him so determined made you forget the blush that had burned onto your face when he said it. leaning in, you gave him a kiss on his smiling face before he cheered leaving you to look at him with a content smile on your face. yeah, he was definitely the one for you.

"you don't have to force yourself, love," the deep, comforting voice of saimon sounded beside you as you both sat on his bed. you wanted to take your relationship a little farther and sleep beside him instead of sleeping in another room whenever you visited him. "take your time."

"no, no it's alright. i trust you and stuff, but i'm just nervous..." you sighed, nerves getting the better of you as you fiddled with your hands in your lap. his hand lifted from its spot behind you and rubbed your back, gently nudging you closer to him.

"you don't have to rush anything, love. i'll wait for you to be ready." he assured you as he rubbed your back, leaning down to kiss your temple.

your hand reached up to touch his face gently, leaning up to reach his face as well now and kiss him. for real this time. although it was your first real kiss with him, it felt so natural and comfortable as his hand held yours, thumb rubbing over your knuckles as you both held the kiss for what felt like minutes till you had to pull away for air.

"...sorry! i should have asked before doing that-" he had a soft smile on his face as you rambled on, flustered that you had done that without even asking him beforehand.

"it's alright, i enjoyed it just as much as you did. nothing to fret over, my love." god... this man would be the death of you without even trying..

#♡ fics ♡ #paradox live x reader #paralive x reader #yohei kanbayashi x reader #naoakira saimon x reader #ryu natsume x reader #shiki ando x reader

[sanctus-ingenium]

how clean are you colors before you merge them into the lines for painting? because i cant seem to find a balance between "my god i need to do this whole thing from scratch (too sloppy)" and "well whats the point of painting here (nothing left to paint if i merged the lineart)". sorry if this doesnt make any sense idk how to word myself better sometimes

I think I get you! Honestly I have a kind of threshold I reach where I know that I’ve done all that I can on separate layers and if I were to keep them separate, I’d just be creating more hassle for myself/forced to select layers and keep everything properly organised and it becomes a drag when I’d just rather be painting. And this is usually because I want to take advantage of the mixing effect of Sai’s paintbrush tool to start blending stuff. Also all my colours are on one layer anyway from the beginning (if I need especially ‘clean’ colours I might have a layer for them but I always merge them to the main colour layer before continuing). (also sorry I am away from my pc for a bit so I can’t show you actual Sai screenshots.. you will have to imagine). I ended up writing out the whole process in a way which is probably unhelpful

So for a painting like that one in the last post, I do my lines. Then I close the lines with a separate layer in the same folder (because the lineart looks better with gaps, but i fill colour by selecting outside the lineart while the folder is active, inverting selection, and paint bucket tool. Then delete the layer that closes the lineart). Base colour is usually the most common one in the palette. When I plan to merge the lines I usually make them solid/normal layer mode and colour the lines exactly to match the colours beneath, which is tedious but helps avoid the kind of translucent look lines on multiply layer give. But for that one the lines are on multiply. I lock the colour layer and paint in the other colours - different markings, materials, etc. It can be pretty rough because I know I can just paint over a wonky looking edge, but not so rough that I will have to go over it excessively later. Then with the lines and colours still on 2 separate layers, I put them both in a folder and clip a multiply layer onto that for cast shadows. Paint in cast shadows (again, it’s pretty rough, I know I will be merging & touching up everything at the end so it doesn’t have to be perfect. I hate multiply as a way to shade but I wanted shadows fast, again like I said it was a sketch I over-rendered I didn’t plan to polish it up so much. Normally I choose shadow colours and paint them like normal in the colour layer).

Then I merged the folder and the multiply layer into one layer (i usually make a copy of the lineart to keep it intact, just in case, and keep it hidden in the psd file). I make a new layer and paint in details that need to be sharp - usually around the eyes and face, where there is a focal point. This is because the default paintbrush in Sai has a slight mixing effect, and if I went in on the same layer it would not be as sharp. I use this new layer to paint in areas that need this sharp contrast and clean, tapered lines - like the stray hair and fluffy bits. Then merge all. Now I paint over the main layer all the things that don’t need that sharp treatment, this time taking advantage of the slight mixing effect of Sai’s paintbrush - I like this effect a lot and it’s what I use to blend the lineart into the colours, you can kind of ‘pull’ the lines out a little into the surrounding colour to make them less stark. Then I clip a new multiply layer to it, all one shade, to dim the entire painting so that the stark white highlights stand out more, clip a new layer on that, do the white highlights, merge all and bam it’s done

#no readmore sorry

[ch3rriewine]

Pink in the night ♡ {R.L}

summary: Remus drunkenly confesses his feelings, romance ensues

warnings(?): 1.6k words, idk like fluff, loosely based off of the mitski song "pink in the night", little bad idk how i feel about this one, i wrote this with fem!reader in mind, reader has hair long enough to be tucked back lol, reader has a cat:D, remus is a cutie as always, remus is a clingy drunk, theyre at a party and drinking alcohol, like one mention of a weed smell, the time it takes for the pain meds to kick in is a tad unrealistic but it's fiction so who cares, i'll add more when i think of more

authors note: ahhh!!!!! second fic thing idk tell me what u think :p also tell me what else u want writing wise im trying to write more

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Remus needs to talk to you, even standing near you would be great. You might as well be glowing pink, and the alcohol makes you look no less than a ray of sunlight. In a little black dress and some kitten heels, you stand close to Emmaline. That dress does wonders for your already lovely self, he thinks. You arrived a little later than everyone else, so you only had a few sips of some cocktail in you. He stumbles over to you, okay maybe he's drunk, not tipsy. Still, he managed to get over to you. Your perfume hits his senses and suddenly he’s forgotten why he’s over there. Oh yeah,

“Hey” you speak up first glancing at him with furrowed brows accompanied by a concerned smile.

“H-hey!” he yells, maybe a bit too loud, over the music. You're still smiling, now it’s not in concern, it's in fondness. He hopes you never stop.

“Having fun?” you chide, cocking your head a bit to the side. The smell of vodka and a small hint of cologne is eminent on him.

“No, not really” he slurs his words ever so slightly, grinning the smallest bit of pearly whites showing and something glinting in his eyes that you can't quite place.

Small talk ensues, and then he starts following you around the flat, chatting about nothing. Soon enough you're sat on a couch that smells faintly of booze and weed with Remus playing with a small lock of your hair. The strands twirl through his fingers, he seems oddly entertained by it, how much alcohol had Sirius given him?

“Rem, you look tired, you wanna stay the night at my place?” you ask, worried he’d pass out in this sticky mess. It’s only a friendly worry, not I secretly want to take care of you because I like you a whole lot worry, totally not.

“If it’s not too much of a hassle, sure” he mumbles, apparently too tired to speak up. Thankfully, your flat isn’t that far within walking distance. You two eventually make it back with no problems, other than Remus would occasionally trip on nothing. You lead him to your couch and sit him down, he’s already half asleep and he doesn't notice you taking off his coat for him and his shoes. You drag him back onto his feet and lead him to your bedroom, a lot harder than it sounds when it's a six-foot drunk man you're dragging. He plops down onto your bed, sighing at the feeling of your blankets and pillows surrounding him. You get a glass of water and some paracetamol on your bedside table for his oncoming hangover, then leave to change into your pajamas. He slowly assesses your bedroom, your bookshelves, the color of the walls, to your photos hanging up. It’s so you, everything just fits in perfectly with your character. You emerge from your bathroom changed and cleaned.

You're so lovely, he thinks. With your sleep shorts and an oversized shirt, you make your way over to your bed. “Get some rest, please, you had a lot to drink” ending your sentence with a small smile. That damn smile again.

“You’re so beautiful” he admires while sitting up, his face flushed from the alcohol and maybe something more. He eyed your lips with hazy eyes. “I really like you, as I think of you all day, it's hard to get stuff done. I really want to kiss you right now.”

“You’re drunk, get some rest and drink water” you insist.

“I’m serious!” he presses “you're so lovely” he sighs and falls back down onto the mattress.

“Scooch” you push him lightly so he moves over to the other side of the bed. “You won't feel like this in the morning, you're drunk.” you look into his eyes in the dim room, his dark brown irises looking almost black in the dark.

“I will,” he says before closing his eyes “I always will”. After a while, his breathing deepens and he's snoring lightly. He was saying that you were the one that was beautiful but look at him. His fluffed-up yet put-together hair, his bushy eyebrows, and the small, sparse freckles dotting his face, I mean come on. You fall asleep with your body turned towards him.

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Remus awakes with meowing in his face. He blinks his eyes open slowly, looking at the black cat staring back at him. It was a small thing, with big yellow eyes and a pudgy figure. For a moment he was incredibly confused, he didn’t have a cat. He looked around to find that he wasn’t in his flat and he had a raging headache. His head was pounding and the shrill meowing wasn't helping. He looked over to his left seeing you. You were so peaceful like this, hair a mess, face completely relaxed, and hand resting on his chest.

He put the pieces together, he was in your flat after Sirius’ party, God did he say anything weird? Being too tired to think about it, he looks to his side to find water and some paracetamol. Downing the water, he turns toward your cat. Sashimi, he thinks is the name. Sashimi is sitting at the end of the bed now waiting patiently for his breakfast. Remus would feed him if he knew where you kept the cat food, so he has to wake you up. He dreads it, he'd rather not take you out of your peaceful state, but it’s for your son, as you call him.

“Hey, your cats hungry” he shakes you awake softly. “I'd feed him but I don't know where the food is”

You mumble something incoherent into your pillow, rolling into it. He laughs. That stupid, gorgeous laugh. “Ugh ok, I’ll feed him,” you say, not putting in any effort to get up. He rubs your arm comforting, the paracetamol already taking its effect.

You fight off the sleep still in your system and sit up. “Ok I’m awake, stay here if you want” Finally sitting up and getting out of bed. You smooth your hair, trying to salvage your appearance in any way possible. He follows close behind, walking out into your kitchen/living room, actually getting a good look at your living space. Your fake plants, your photos with your friends, and even a photo of you two. The photo is slightly blurry with you on his lap laughing wildly at something he said, a quaint smile spreading across his face at your reaction. It’s cute. He remembers that night, the party you guys were at, the smell of your perfume, the glitter coating your eyelids, the heels you took off halfway through the night, everything about you he remembers, yet he can't, for the life of him, remember what he said to make you laugh that hard.

The sound of a can opening pulls him back to the moment. Your cat meows at your feet, incessant with his demands for his breakfast. “Here you go, sweet boy,” you say to Sashimi while plopping the wet food into his bowl. Crouching to pet the cat’s soft fur, you turn your head and smile at Remus. “You want to go out for breakfast? There's a diner right around the corner.”

You sit opposite each other, him still in his alcohol-smelling clothes from the night before and you in sweats and a tank top with a flannel thrown over. The coffee is burnt and the bacon is too salty, but you couldn't be more content, what can you really expect from a diner whose main consumers are people like you, fighting hangovers with greasy food and coffee. “How're your eggs?” you ask, still kind of groggy.

“Rubbery,” he says around a mouthful of said eggs. “How’re your waffles?”

“Eh, they're ok,” you say moving your cut-up waffles around the plate with your fork, mind occupied.

“Are you ok? Something on your mind, lovely?” he asks. Of course, he can tell when you're out of sorts. Stupid, smart, amazing boy.

“You said, uhm, you said something last night.” you say “I just-I’m just thinking about it” you give him a small smile.

Oh God, what did he say? Did he mess it all up before he could even make a move? The poor boy looked mortified. It all came back to him, shit. He really said that to you? Drunkenly no less?

“I’m-I’m so sorry, genuinely. I was drunk and wasn't thinking and I should've expressed myself in a better way! I'll make it up to you! We can forget I said it or-” he rambles on.

“Did you mean it? Do you still feel the same way?” you stare at him anxiously, waiting for an answer.

“Do I-what?” he stares dubiously “Of course I do! How could I not? I meant every word I swear.” he takes your hands in his. This is all happening in a corner booth of a run-down diner, by the way. How romantic.

“Can I kiss you now?” he says, sincerely. Remus Lupin wants to kiss you, what a dream.

“Mhm,” you nod leaning over the table already. He laughs, shaking his head, then winces as his headache is coming back. You chuckle a little, it’s endearing in some odd way. He meets you halfway, putting a hand on your cheek and rubbing small circles with his thumb. His lips meet yours softly, just barely brushing over yours before you take the notion to deepen it. He smiles into the kiss, grabbing your face with both hands now. You break away after a while, smiling and on the verge of giggling like a schoolgirl.

“I think I didn't do it right,” he says tucking hair behind your ear "Maybe I'm still a little bit drunk," a knowing smirk ghosted his mouth.

“Oh yeah?” you question him.

“Yeah,” he nods “Can I try again?” a kiss “and again?” another “and again?” one last for good measure.

#remus lupin blurb #remus lupin fic #remus lupin x reader #young remus x reader #remus lupin one shot #remus lupin imagine #remus lupin fluff #remus lupin #marauders #marauders fluff #marauders fic #remus my babygirl #marauders era

[alltimefail-sims]

Has anyone posted screenshots for the teaser video the sims team posted for this "season" of upcoming releases?

I'm cleaning up my cc right now so I'm going to break it down. Speculation below the cut! Feel free to reply with your own thoughts because this teaser has kind of stumped me in some ways ngl... but I have theories!

Jewelry box theme, so I think "jewelry" will be important to this "season." I'm unsure how that ties in, perhaps the stuff pack? (More on that later.) Either way, I think we can all safely assume that it's the big selling feature of this season.

Already got those obviously: Goth Galore and Castle Estate. Moving on!

SDX drops are kind of wildcards - they don't usually cover just one kind of thing. In this pic though I'm a bit complexed by the "W," mannequin head, and Bella-style bodycon dress. Not sure what they're going to give us, but the last few SDX drops for basegame have actually been great, so I'm hopeful it's more than one or two things. I'll always take free stuff!

First thought is could be a new skill like gem cutting/jewelry crafting with an accompanying career, but that seems niche to me idk why!! But with the theme of this entire teaser being so jewelry-focused, I have to believe that the stuff pack is going to be jewelry related in some way (it's the largest thing on this list, so it makes sense that the teaser would mostly be connected to the most profitable item.)

I do want to say this: although I really don't think they would make fairies a stuff pack (sorry to my fellow occult lovers and TS3 Fairies enjoyers... I know you all have been wanting fairies so bad) HOWEVER!!! I will admit that the spooky all-seeing-eyes in the earrings, the gnome, the color palette, the crystals, the butterfly necklace in the header... it's giving nature/fairies/magic. Guess we'll see! 🤷‍♀️

Hmmmmm this feels so straight forward that it's going over my head somehow. We have luxury party, we have wedding stories, toddler and backyard stuff have a lot of great "party" items, seasons gives us a ton of seasonal party items... what could this give us that has to do with celebrations that aren't already covered? Birthday stuff maybe? That might be fun, but I am not sure what to expect from this kit.

I'm going to controversially say this though: I like build kits. If we get even one new activity from this kit and some good clutter that's reusable with good swatches, I'll happily buy this one. Birthdays might be one of the only type of celebration we have next to nothing for, so I don't think I'd be upset with getting a kit for general celebrations (graduation parties, for example) and birthdays. Plus the disco ball swatch is kind of silly but could be exciting!

No idea what this could be, but more than likely it seems like it will be a CAS kit that is a collab with one of two people: either a gamechanger/big cc creator in the community OR another collaboration with a brand or company (like we saw with Moschino stuff or Depop in HSY).

What do you all think? I'd love to hear thoughts and feelings on this teaser and when/in what order you guys think things are going to be released!!

#the sims 4 #sims 4 #ts4 #simblr #the sims community #season of the sims #personal thoughts #the sims #ts4 new releases #idk what else to tag this as lmao okay bye

[sleepsacked]

kim hongjoong nsfw a-z

18+!! mdni!!!

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tumblr is fuckin ugly on mobile & duplicates shit idk how to fix it but if u do lmk >> anyways a lil smth til i get more motivation </3 im working on a masterlist rn & im debating if i should jus post it and edit it later </3 anyways doing all the members for this bit hopefully finished by the end of the week ^.^ enjoy<3

a ⋆ aftercare

not the type to be too crazy and loving after sex, of course wants to clean up but i think he'd also be the type to kinda wanna wind down post-sex in his own mental so would probably just clean up and lay with you quietly, depending on his mood and how much he is in his head or not, you might get lucky with some affection

b ⋆ body part (his favorite body part)

ok i know i said he was an ass man, but now im like . thighs. i could see him being a thighs guy, or even tummy </3 bye i could see him giving soft ass kisses on ur tummy </3

c ⋆ cum (anything to do with cum)

idk why but i cant see him being the type to like coming inside often, but if he did he would make it worth it. would probably hold off on sex for a while just to make sure he'd give you it all. other times would probably come on your tummy or ass depending.

d ⋆ dirty secret (his dirty secret)

why do i feel like he'd be curious about getting a footjob LOL and i will Not Elaborate unless asked. Other than that . WOULD Love when you top, but he's to prideful to admit he likes it when you do

e ⋆ experience (how experienced is he?)

average? LOL like not crazy experienced but not clueless either, but also picky who he opens up to sexually - a lot of trust and interest needs to be involved

f ⋆ fav position (sex position)

as ive said before- speed bump!!!!!!! && idk the name for this but the position where like his lovers head would be hanging over the bed and he'd fuck their mouth YEAHHH i could see him really enjoying that <//3

g ⋆ goofy (how he acts in the moment)

probably during foreplay he'd be a little goofy depending on comfortablity, but for the most part likes to be pretty serious and intimate. i feel like he'd be the type to say smth super cheesy like "sex is an energy exchange" LMFAO so he'd probably keep it pretty serious in the moment

h ⋆ hair (how groomed is he?)

i dont think he's hairless, definitely trimmed and groomed

i ⋆ intimacy (how passionate is he?)

hm this man is a scorpio so i hate to fall into that stereotype they're super like freaky and passionate but i do think he is - but only if he's all about you - like a tunnel vision type of love. you can see how charasmatic and passionate he is in terms of music and performing and i think that would translate into the bedroom if he feels like you're the only one for him

j ⋆ jack off (how often he masturbates)

i dont think he's the type to be horndog 24/7 but probably 1-2 times every other week idk horomones are weird </3

k ⋆ kink (one or more)

ORGASM CONTROL. i feel like even though his personality seems very colorful and wild or open-minded, in the bedroom he likes structure and being the one to call the shots and this definitely reflects in how much your orgasming and if he's letting you - maybe breathplay and some biting

l ⋆ location (fav place to do it)

not too keen on exhibitionism, so the bedroom/home is where it stays but if he's too eager for you then he doesnt mind somewhere more open

m ⋆ motivation (what keeps him going)

LOVES LOVES LOVES how reactive you are during sex to whatever he gives you, and loves that your honest about it, would be the type to stop in the middle of something if you're not giving your normal "feedback" and would ask where he needs to touch you or if he needs to go faster or slower

o ⋆ oral (giving + receiving — is he good?)

likes both equally but loves when you go down on him, refer to fav position bullet point >> loves seeing him bulge in your throat, enough said.

p ⋆ pace (fast and rough? slow and sensual?)

prefers to start off slow and hard and gradually pick up pace from there >> if you guys are in missionary though, definitely takes him time with being slow and sensual

q ⋆ quickie (his opinion on it + how often they happen)

since he'd prefer more at home/in the bedroom environment i dont think quickies would happen often unless you guys went a long time without seeing each other and were just too eager

r ⋆ risks (is he willing to experiment, does he take risks, etc.)

would be open to experimenting some in the beginning of a relationship, but could see him falling into a routine and feeling comfortable in that.

s ⋆ stamina (how long can he last?)

probably two rounds MAX, but i think he'd be the type to wanna get you off first as much as possible before he has his way with you, would wanna edge you a lot first so you both could cum together

t ⋆ toys (does he use/own any?)

nahhh, would probably get you a dildo or a vibrator or something to use when you guys are away and wanna have phone sex >> but no matter the distance, mans is still in charge

u ⋆ unfair (how much does he tease?)

a menace, i definitely feel like he's a mean tease in public and likes seeing you embarassed or flustered so would be mean nonstop but fear not! behind closed doors, he loses some composure after seeing how riled up you are for him

v ⋆ volume (how loud is he + what noises does he make?)

dont really see him as whiny (at least all the time), but i do think he's a moaner, and definitely dirty talks but only if you guys are in close proximity and he can say it in your ear type vibe. i definitely think he would risk it all if it means getting to have you in his studio and letting him record yalls session(? LOL) >> feels confident in his own volume and moans to wanna incorporate it into something for later + he'd love to flex knowing his lover (you) sounds so good <333

w ⋆ wild card (random headcanon for him)

oh . dont even get me started . for one, i think this man is super into making out or just kissing in general. i definitely think he falls apart if you suck on his tongue in the middle of a makeout session 1000%

x ⋆ x-ray (what’s under his clothes?)

not thaaaaat big (but got some girth to him) and knows it </3 but makes up for it everywhere else >> might be insecure abt it in the beginning of a relationship

y ⋆ yearning (how high is his sex drive?)

dont see him the type to be clingy a lot and doting on a lover all the time, especially because he does have that "work now play later" vibe so i think itd really be like once a week or so but would make it a whole scene (foreplay, teasing, edging, etc.)

z ⋆ zzz (how quickly does he sleep after?)

dont think he'd fall asleep quick but not have much energy afterwards, probably stay up long enough to clean up and come down from post-nut state and then end up cuddling up with you

#ateez #ateez smut #ateez x reader #kim hongjoong x reader #hongjoong x reader #kim hongjoong smut #hongjoong smut #park seonghwa #jeong yunho #kang yeosang #choi san #song mingi #jung wooyoung #choi jungho

[purplequay]

Hmmmm Owl House requests… maybe any dollified belos you’d be willing to share?

hi anon ty for reminding me i had a bunch of wips surrounding this au . im going to use this ask as an excuse to ramble abt some

i think this one was supposed to be for an anon ask for when i just posted about the au ? i think ? this one is not finished cuz well he missing a hand . i might finish this later and color it for practice . BUT anyways this is about how since he got dollified and was in the demon realm all those two months flapjack is completely fine . he is still well . wary and suspicious to say the least

this was a wip for just a general art i wanted to do because sometimes a kid gotta do some silly evil stuff as a little treat :-33 will hopefully finish

i have a teeny bit more but its like just sketches of the poses (nakey) and also a comic i was doing for fun that i wanted to at least clean up the sketch for before posting BUT idk if i have the . energy for that . would you guys wanna see it anyway

#the comic doesnt have belos in him btw . its a hunter thing #but uhhhh ya damn i should finish these that last one has such a cool sketch n shit #also i had another rly cool art idea but im kinda ass at backgrounds SOOOOOO idk if that will ever see the light of day and not just be #stuck in my mind for forever #ya .... :-3

[somewillwin]

Sorry I know this has nothing to do with art, which ur art is beautiful! I was just wondering if you had any facts about nico (your infamous oc) that you could share. I love their aesthetic. 👀

oof! do I have fact! ajsdjhdajh i think i made one of this a while ago but who cares i love nico.

-ok so first of all she's a mess. ajdkadj tho thats obvious.

-she uses glasses when she writes songs and contacts all the other times

-she has abandonment issues, I mean her parents where never there…. And then…. Seven. She basically thinks she’s the problem. I mean she’s the only constant in all the abandonment.

-she’s bisexual. Sometimes hides the seven tattoo with a bisexual flag wrist band

-she plays the piano, guitar, and had an harmonica phase hahahha

-she doesn’t think she’s as talented in those as Rowan or Iris. So she just uses them to help compose the melody of the songs.

-(this is a headcanon for now cause idk if it will come up in the book or not. I might change this later depending on what happens) she shut herself off from the band after what happened with the vote and the fallout with seven. She blamed them for a while, but then she went back to blaming herself.

-she started to fall into drugs in that period where she was shutting everyone out. That’s also when she shaved her head.

-she never dated after seven. Just flings and one night stands with men, cause she knows she will be comparing every women to seven.

-(this is another headcanon cause I don’t know if it will be addressed in the book) she hit rocked bottom from all the drugs and stuff. She OD once and got scared after so she got herself into rehab.

-I think there might have been a year she was clean, before the botb started and all the pressure kept mounting and she did a bit of cocaine in the bathroom before the audition.

-she misses Lucy everyday ofc. But she loves seven enough to respect her boundaries…. Even if it hurts her cause Lucy was also her mother figure. (I need to know Lucy POV of this whole issue with ex seven or im gonna die)

-she’s still madly in love with seven ofc. But she doesn’t think she’s good enough. I mean, if she wasn’t good enough then she’s def not good enough now.

-she blames herself for what happened between them…. Even if she doesn’t understand how it really happened. How did they get to that point.

-she regrets most of all losing her best friend tbh.

- she’s def jealous of avina…. But think they would make a good match. She just wants seven to be happy.

- she would fight for seven tho. Even if she’s not enough…. If seven shows even a silver lining of interest. She would fight everyone.

And lastly! No one figured out why she dyed her hair green hsjsjsjs so.

-green is her favorite color since it reminds her of seven’s eyes 💚

Oof! Those were a lot! A wip to add some art to the mess that it’s Nico.

Anyway! Play @infamous-if

#gabi answers things #infamous if #nico rose #infamous oc #seven x Mc #myart

[swimmingclassicrockpizzawombat]

Ok, so @beetled-juice, @batxmasisrjuice, @diaryofassortedimagines and I have a discord server where we started thirsting for the trash goblin and we've been brainstorming/writing some stuff that's just to good not to share:

Note: I will revise it and edit it later, for now I just copied and pasted my side of the conversation.

Note 2 to the person who asked me to write a fic of Beej getting pet: I haven't forgotten, I'm on it, I've just been really busy.

First off, look at the way he squirms.

Well, Imagine him doing that thing with his leg and that expression with his face while trying to get himself off as you tease him but don't touch him/allow him to touch himself 👀

... God I really wanna fuck him, I want to grab his stupid mug and kiss him (and love him and take care of him an hug/cuddle him, and why am I such a simp for him?)

On a slightly more sweet note, he's totally clingy afterwards and won't let you go, he's a sucker for after sex cuddling sessions/soft make out sessions where you just remind him how much you love him and how much he means to you and vice versa (beyond just having sexy times with him, you love having him there, you love, accept and want ALL of him), I don't recall if cock warming was already mentioned... But that, he's a sucker for that, desperate for any kind of touch he can get, and not breaking away any contact he has with you like... He hasn't gotten any kind of touch for a milenia (I imagine his love language is physical touch) he expects a milenia's worth of affection now UnU

@beetled-juice wrote a tiny bit/fic of that so I'll let him upload it here without taking too much credit, but building on what he wrote:

He's also kinda turned on by the idea of having you lay there with his cum still in/on you... just smelling like him... and will try to keep you from cleaning yourself afterwards.

He's happy to have you there knowing that you're not going anywhere, you're not leaving, not like other people in his life.... He feels safe with you <3

He'll even go as far as laying ON TOP of you, just to keep you trapped in there with him like a big cat, to the point you have to convince him to let you go and clean yourself bc you don't want a) any UTIs afterwards and b) to have to clean the cum once it's dry

In any case, he might still not let you go, he will simply magic his cum away, to take away any excuse you might have to leave and keep you as close to him for as long as possible.

You end up going to sleep with your head resting on his soft chest, maybe playing with some of his chest hair (at this point all of his hair/body hair has taken a baby pink color), his arms tightly wrapped around you protectively and your legs tangled. He's mostly holding you there like a big Koala bear, he may even go as far as summing extra arms and legs just to wrap himself around you like an octopus.

You're not going anywhere now, not now that he's found you <3.

And if you do want to go pee or something you have to be careful with your wording since he gets all sappy afterwards. If you say something like "Lawrence, let me go" while trying to free yourself from his embrace, he will just chuckle and reply with something like "never (not now that I found you)" and nuzzle into your neck wrapping himself even tighter around you.

(Eventually if you really have to go pee he will let you tho lol

"Babes, I'm a demon, not a monster UnU. Besides, pretty breathers like yourself need to take care of yourselves... Specially if I'm gonna make you pay for teasing me like that later 👀")

All this sweet stuff having been said, he's totally getting his revenge afterwards. You don't get to just tease him like that and get away with it. He's gonna make you pay. Perhaps with something involving the clones and endless edging idk

On top of that he'll always try to hold you when you do chores or work!

Trying to cook something? He'll be there nuzzling your neck and groping you or just holding you from behind as you cook.

Working on your computer? He will either try to have you sit on his legs or sit between you and the chair/couch/bed (wherever you're working) or try to lay his head on your lap and have you pet his hair while you work (idk if You've ever seen cats lay on your keyboard while you're trying to work to demand attention but I can totally see him tryin something like that)

And imagine his hair glowing pink wherever you trace your hands or leave a kiss (like, it's already pink, but he's getting so overwhelmed that your hands/kisses seem to leave glowing spots of pink on him)

(and he's of course already sporting a boner before you even get to finish)

(I imagine once he's alive he's so sensitive that he cums on the spot lol)

PS: I can also imagine him getting overwhelmed not just by the physical touch but also by feeling so loved, and bc he has some insecurities about his body (I mean he does slightly hint towards having an eating disorder, in the musical?) and the fact that you're there worshipping his entire body is too much

Okay, now I really want it fill his entire body and particularly his tummy with love bites <3

#beetlejuice x you #beetlejuice x reader #my writing #pizzawombats writing

[cheesy-mak]

Not sure if this is what you meant by the kratos x heimdall scenarios, but this was this first idea that popped into my head.

Y'know how kratos is a man of very few words and his vocab is mostly grunts (faye: am I suppose to decipher your grunting?) And how heimdall has a very... colorful language that is centered around sarcasm and dry humor? What about them two trying to figure out their love languages with each other?

Like, since heimdall has probs never felt what love is and has no idea what it means, he gets super self conscious whenever he hears kratos responding to him with his signature grunts? Even if he can read his mind he still can't really pin if kratos truly likes him.

And with kratos, maybe he doesn't understand heimdall's choice of words and stuff like that.

Idk i kinda rambled lol but thats just what I thought. You def do not have have to listen to me but I thought I'd share 😊

LOVE your writing!!!!

I find this adorable for some reason, so let me just write something for this. Its gonna be short but i might continue it

Consider this as the sequel to Humiliation for Pleasure and Mercy (and it's rewritten version which I will finish later on lmfao)

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As Kratos carries Heimdall back, he stops for a moment. Heimdall was still fairly limp, but still messy. His outfit had a few tears in them, but what worries Kratos is the stains and leftover liquid. He takes out a small rag that he occasionally uses to clean his weaponry and sits down, laying down Heimdall across his lap, almost cradling him. Heimdall felt small in the god of war's arms, it almost felt calming and protective.

He starts to clean the smaller god, getting stains out of his clothes the best he can, and being gentle when it comes to the leftover liquid that was stuck on his skin. Heimdall reddened at how gentle and soft Kratos was being towards him, feeling his hardened, calloused hands glide on his soft skin shot some sort feeling up his spine.

"Why.. Why are you being so soft to me? After everything I've said to you, and about your son.. Why?" Heimdall is curious about Kratos' intentions, so he looks up to him and looks at him in the eyes. Surprisingly, there isn't anything he could see. "Mn." Kratos murmurs. Heimdall seems a little confused with Kratos' response. "..Why?" He asks once more, and Kratos gives the same response, which confuses Heimdall more.

He picks up Heimdall once more after cleaning him up, and he continues onward to meet up with Freyr, Freya, Atreus and the others. "How do you think the others will react? With me being alive?"

"I suppose they will be surprised and shocked."

"What about your son?"

"Perhaps glad."

"Really?"

"Mnm." Kratos grumbles in an agreeing tone. Heimdall processes that for a moment before nodding.

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As they reach nearer and nearer to their destination, where Kratos and the others reside, Heimdall decides to strike up a conversation. ".. Why do you grumble so much?"

"It is apart of the way I converse, I am a man of few words."

"Use so little words, yet uses them wisely. You're an interesting man, Kratos.." Heimdall can't exactly tell if Kratos likes him, or if he just deals with his bullshit, and would kill him if he wanted to. It's confusing him, and he tends to overthink, which makes everything more confusing. It irritates the god of foresight. Heimdall then feels a bit, lightheaded. "..I feel, like I'm going to pass out.. What's happening..? Kratos..—" He attempts to reach out to the god of war out of panic, before his body fully goes limp and ragdoll, him going unconcsious. This was one of the side effects of the medicine that healed Heimdall's wounds from earlier.

Kratos sighs, continuing to traverse further, hoping his companions wouldn't freak out too badly about bringing home an Aesir god.

#god of war ragnarok #gow ragnarok #heimdall #kratos #gow kratos #god of war kratos #kratos god of war #thank you for this ask anon!

[silverstream2]

More Baul and Modeus headcanons

-They're both pretty physically affectionate with one another, especially for demons. Partly due to Sparda’s influence (*insert "cuddle bug" pun here*), and partly because of how they were raised. They were meant to fight as a pair, equals but also opposites. Sometimes they bicker and fight, or even go their own ways, but its easy for them to click once they get back together. Unless something major happens, some major disagreement, like what happened with who gets Sparda's power, and all that.

Might just headcanon them being physically affectionate as a normal demon thing, for them? At least for their type of demon, anyway. It's about scent marking and sharing body warmth, that kind of thing. Which probably translates to "cuddle your tiny, squishy human friend and wrap them in your coat to keep them Warm" whenever it gets cold out, especially if the human is a child. Baul is probably the one most likely to do this, tbh- Modeus probably knows more about Personal Space by now, but Baul is just like. Running more on instincts? "Must keep Friend Warm, must protect Friend from harm, must make sure Friend smells like me/my group". "Must protect the younger members of the group, must keep them Warm, must make sure they are Fed and Safe". Constantly carries around snacks and hand sanitizer (the harsh smell makes his nose burn, but keeping the human young clean is Important) and tissues, especially during the colder seasons.

That, and Baul's main reference to "what level of physical affection is acceptable" is way out of date, and also based on humans that were his comrades in arms- which tends to be a high stress thing, where you're more okay with physical affection than you might otherwise be, because its comforting. Like, Baul still does the whole "affectionate headbutt" thing that soldiers do, largely because you can't really hug someone while they're wearing armor and a helmet, but you CAN knock your helmets together to show affection. Which is sweet, but also not really a thing normal humans do in society anymore (with a few exceptions).

-I doubt Dante would be down for cuddling with the guy that tried to kill him and take his soul, but maybe??? Idk. Maybe after they beat the shit out of one another a couple of times, and Baul helps with the whole Sid thing, and maybe the whole Order thing, too, Idk. I headcanon that Dante has his own "cuddle bug" demon instincts, just not with Modeus and Baul. Definitely with Nero, tho, and Abbie and Trish.

-The lads are hairy, in their human forms. Their demon forms are covered in fur, it looks like, in canon (or at least as canon as the DMC anime can be considered), so I'm gonna headcanon that whatever part of the Underworld they're from is probably cold, or has cold seasons. This also means they've got thick body hair, in their humans forms. I'm playing with the idea of them growing winter coats, tbh, and that maybe translating over into them growing more hair/body and facial hair when it gets cold? Like. Modeus' hair gets so long and thick he just straight up braids it and uses it as a scarf (Baul: "Somebody is going to strangle you with that one day, brother, and I am going to laugh when that happens."), and Baul's hair grows out so much it looks like a lion's mane (Modeus: "You look like a dandelion."). Baul would probably grow facial hair, Modeus I don't think could stand it. Might change that last bit later on, Idk.

It might make more sense for Baul to be adapted to a winter environment, and Modeus to be adapted for a forest one? Just because Baul has white fur and hair and Modeus has brown hair and fur. Maybe wherever they were born/lived in the Underworld was between an ice plane and a demonic jungle (like the kind we see Echidna create/live in)? Might go some ways to explaining why a pair of twins would have such different fur coloring.

They also like to cuddle and stay indoors, preferably wrapped in a blanket or in bed, or at least in warm clothing, when it gets cold out. All their demon instincts tell them to stay somewhere safe in their territory/den, warm, with as much food as they can gather.

Also because they're both inhuman, and old as balls, so their ideas of what's socially acceptable for public displays of affection, especially for men, are kinda skewed and/or out of date. Modeus is probably more versed in it than Baul is, just because Modeus has been in the Human Realm more/longer than Baul has, but tbh, I'm still not sure how much either of them would care about following society's rules. Toxic masculinity is bullshit, and all that.

-(For the AU where they both live past Episode 10 of the anime) They both kinda adopt/bond with Patty, in their own ways. Modeus we already saw in the anime, but Baul I think would be fond of her, too. "She's all vinegar. And frills. I like her. Tough little kid."

Baul's still always nervous around kids, especially little kids. They're just so small! And fragile! And he doesn't really know what to do with them. He's gotten better at it, to be fair, after 2,000 years, especially with Modeus' and Dante's help, but they still make him nervous. He's always worried he'll make a mistake around them and hurt them, or scare them, or make them cry. (That and demon parents- those that don't just abandon or eat their young- tend to be ferociously protective of their young, so Baul's always halfway expecting that from human parents.)

With Patty, all of that kinda translates into Baul awkwardly trying to protect her- which mostly means she has him wrapped around her finger. Dante and Modeus calling her out on it and giving Baul advice helps her not go mad with power.

Tbh, I think Baul would help Sid with summoning Abigail, if Sid threatened Patty or Nina (Patty's mom) first. It'd help that Baul also is like, 90% confident that Dante could defeat Abigail, or Sid, if Sid absorbed Abigail's powers. Because if Dante could defeat Mundus, could make himself and even his brother Modeus look like weaklings, then something like Abigail, and especially someone as weak as SID, wouldn't be a problem for him.

-Baul's love language is acts of service and physical affection. For physical affection, this mostly manifests in gentle, loving headbutts, hugs (he's a big guy, so he'll just pick you up or hunch himself over you, engulfing you in his arms and squeezing you in a hug), cuddling (platonic or otherwise), head pats or combing his fingers through your hair (please do likewise to him, he loves that shit- its a sort of demon preening thing), and hand holding. Also sparring and helping you stretch. Even if he's stronger than you, he's still proud of you for training and trying to improve. Especially if you do it scared. (That's one of the things he likes about Abbie- she's terrified of demons, including him, and she still stands up to him/them and fights anyway. Its like a sort of verbal Defeat Means Friendship kind of thing.)

Acts of service can be basic stuff, doing chores or running errands for you, but mostly it manifests as him offering to kill demons/people for you. Like, that person made you cry? They were abusive assholes to you? Would you like them maimed or dead? No? How about biting? Is he allowed to bite them for you? Would that make you feel better? What do you need?

(This also means that Baul kinda wants to punch Vergil, once they get to the whole Qliphoth thing, because Vergil makes/made his friend Abbie sad. Baul and Modeus both want to slap Vergil for what he did to Temen-ni-gru, since putting that seal in place cost Gwen her life and had such a negative effect on Sparda- that was the first time they'd seen him cry and be depressed- not to mention what it cost humanity, and how hard the humans had to work to get their world to the point it is now. But that's a more distant thing- the difference between seeing an alive friend cry over a broken heart, and somebody stomping on your old friend's grave.)

He's not very good at like. Emotional stuff. Like TALKING about his emotions or offering comforting words. Even using sign language, he still fumbles. Mostly he just tries to hug you better. But he does try. Modeus is better at comforting words, so Baul will go ask him for advice, and try and learn how to be better at it.

Like. He tends to get pretty emotionally attached/devoted to people... not exactly easily, but fairly quickly.

-I'm not sure if Baul and Abbie could be friends, tbh. It depends on how much Baul is willing to let go of his whole "kill Dante to get Sparda's power" thing. If Baul did let it go, tho, then I could see them being friends after the whole thing with Patty and Sid. Modeus and Baul probably spent that whole mission trying to get Patty and Nina out of the burning building and protecting them from demons- and since Baul was needed for the ritual, he probably had more time to interact with Patty, too. Like I said, he'd go along with Sid, but he'd try to make sure Patty was okay, too. Try to keep her calm, reassure her that everything will be alright, all that.

#fic stuff

[rai-knightshade-art]

"Hi! I'm Jasa, what's your name?"

Zekk heard an echo of the past, in this little girl's voice and face. Another young girl, another question. ("Hi, I'm Jaina, what's your name?")

"...I'm Zekk."

(or, Zekk's not sure why he feels so drawn to these children, especially this boy looking at him with such a familiar expression of guarded fear but with eyes the color of Corellian brandy rather than emerald green. It takes looking into his own eyes, staring back at him from the face of a young Jaina Solo, before he fully realizes the magnitude of what they've found.)

(A long story explanation and details below the cut, image id in the alt text)

So. Who wants to hear this story I've concocted but won't actually be writing properly cause that requires an amount of world building and explaining that i simply cannot be assed to do for the self-indulgence of "what if my favorite ships had kids would that be kickass or what?". At least in this case. The answer is probably no one but i don't actually care because if i don't explain this in detail in some way to the public i will actually go crazy!

So.

So, as stated in my last post, way back in ye olden days of 2012 (roughly), pre-Disneyfication of Star Wars, i read the Young Jedi Knights novels and decided that i wanted Fankids of those kids. Specifically ones inspired by Maximum Ride aka basically test tube babies. I gave the profiles of the kids in that post and briefly explained that this was a Brakiss plan (he's not dead btw) that the Jedi stumbled upon, and Zekk and Anakin Solo were sent to take it down, round up the scientists and all that nonsense, and that nobody was expecting 4 kids to be there, least of all Zekk and Anakin.

Zekk and Anakin show up and know, like, immediately that something is up with these kids. Their auras ring with familiarity, they're force sensitive, and they just... Look like familiar faces put through a strange holofilter. Anakin figures it out completely shortly thereafter, recognizing the echoes of his siblings that he's known his whole life. It takes Zekk a bit longer to put the rest of the pieces together, to understand why he feels so drawn to the eldest boy looking at him with such a familiar expression of guarded fear but with eyes the color of Corellian brandy rather than emerald green. It takes looking into his own eyes, staring back at him from the face of a young Jaina Solo, before he fully realizes the magnitude of what they've found.

So of course they're like "oh we gotta tell Master Luke about this Force whatdoweDO" and extract the kids to take them back to Yavin IV after a cryptic holocall to the Jedi Master himself like "heeeyyy Uncle Luke so. Don't freak out. But turns out Brakiss's experiments were successful and we're bringing back 4 younglings with us and also we can't say more than that even on a secure link. Also you might wanna call for the Queen Mother of Hapes and her Consort and have them meet us there just saying k thanks bye"

(they might confront Brakiss here they might do it later idk something about Brakiss calling Zekk his Darkest Knight again even as Zekk stands defensively in front of his kids, defending them with his orange lightsaber is. Yeah.)

So they get back to Yavin IV and Luke's like "what's with the cryptic message??" And they show him the kids who both very obviously look like Solo-Skywalkers and feel even more so in the Force and he's like. Oh. Oh Force. And yeah that about sums it up. They get them inside where Jaina's waiting and she quips with Ani (because he uses verbal jabs as a defense mechanism and so does she) right up until she sees and feels Jasa and--she makes about the same expression Zekk made, when he first saw her, and abruptly runs off to freak out in private. Someone takes the kids off to clean up and eat and maybe start their years of therapy early while Luke debriefs his nephew and soon-to-be nephew in law, which goes relatively smoothly, and then it's just Luke and Zekk and now it's Zekk's turn to freak out.

So cue Zekk's freakout to Luke cause he's not ready to be a dad, they only just started talking about kids and-and Jaina didn't want biological kids! Yet here they are! Oh Force what if she says no to taking care of them (which he wouldn't begrudge her for, really, this is A Lot), could he choose between the love of his life and the children--the family-- he's wanted for years? Luke talks him through it though, until he comes to the understanding that, however they came to be, Zekk at least wants these kids, and that can be enough. He has a family already who can help, he has the Jedi, and the Solo-Skywalkers, and all his friends. Even if Jaina... Doesn't want to take care of them, it'll still be ok.

Jaina, for her part, is very much freaking out herself over an emergency holocall with Leia. She's worried that she won't be good enough, that she's too young, that she didn't want kids in the first place (because, really, why would you willingly bring another Skywalker into this world, when the lives of the ones already in it have suffered and caused suffering in such devastating amounts?), that she won't be able to be there for them when she needs to be. Leia tells her that she felt the same, before the twins were born; she worried that she'd be a terrible mother, an absent mother. She admitted that at least one of those fears was founded, and warned Jaina not to make that same mistake if at all possible. But, she also made mention of one crucial detail: in this specific case, Jaina could say no. She'd be well within her rights to say no, given that she hadn't wanted biological children in the first place. They would be taken care of, by Zekk or the teachers at the Praxeum or by an adoptive family in need, somewhere in the galaxy. If she truly didn't think she was ready, that she would do more harm than good as a mother, she could say no, and Leia would never shame or judge her for it. Zekk, she suspected, would never judge her for it either. And yet. If she decided she would be their mother, she wouldn't be doing it alone; she had her family, her friends, the Jedi--they would all help, where they could. They would take care of these kids when and where she could not.

Jaina had to take a while to think about it, but ultimately she decided... Since they were already here, and it was her blood running through Ani and Jasa's veins, it should be her, standing at Zekk's side and guiding these children through life. The thought of someone else taking care of them, seeing their smiles and easing their aches... She felt like she couldn't breathe. No, it wasn't the hand she'd wanted, but it was the one she was dealt, and she'd always been a good sabacc player.

(there's an emotional meeting between the two afterwards where they're both dreading what the other's going to say right up until they both blurt out that "I want to keep the kids!" "Wait, you do?!" And they hug and talk it out and become a stronger unified front, it's great.)

(For the record, and you'll see this in full force in another post featuring the other two kids more prominently, Jacen and Tenel Ka had a much easier time adjusting. Once they got over the initial shock, they immediately threw themselves into planning how to explain two sudden adoptions to the Hapan Court, sheepishly admitting later on that Tenel Ka was already pregnant anyways. (Allana it's Allana we're just gonna make that clear right now, she's, like, the only thing from the actual later books I'm keeping.))

Further notes:

All this is taking place roughly 10 years after the Shadow Academy thing, so Zekk is roughly 26? And the twins are about 24, if I'm remembering their ages at the time right (Zekk's wookieepedia page had many useful details about his timeline! Actual timestamps outside of a very few key dates were not among them). At this point, Jacen is the Prince Consort of Hapes because fuck court politics Tenel Ka is literally the Queen Mother. (Absolute power is bad except when she uses it to keep her boyfriend in which case it's good actually), and they're quite happy despite all the court machinations.

Zekk and Jaina are engaged (Jaina proposed it was a whole thing) and have only just started discussing plans for kids, which in my headcanon involves Jaina not particularly wanting any bio kids (it's a headcanon i subscribe to for most Jainas, including this one, tho it's especially strong in the true canon Jaina--I cannot see that woman going through the absolute ringer the way she did and seeing her family basically fall apart at the seams and deciding, "yeah i wanna bring another kid into that" like. Nah. Adoption, maybe. Biological kid? Kriff no. And that's that on that.); they'd tentatively agreed to a compromise of adoption, since Jaina knows how important building a family is to Zekk, being an orphan himself. So she was never against kids as a concept, just intentionally bringing more Skywalkers into the world--which she did not, intentionally, do, hence her decision that the best course of action would be to raise these kids as best they can.

On the art itself:

Idk there's not much to say here tbh, it's just Jasa blithely introducing herself and Zekk looking on in complete and utter shock. I tried to give it a kind of dreamy texture to the background with, like, crystal shapes and stuff, cause Zekk is very much "no thoughts head empty" right at that moment. The main detail, i think, that I'm not quite sure is captured very well here i may have to digitalize this to really get it across, is that, while Ani looks more like an even blend of both parents, Jasa is basically just Jaina 2.0 but with Zekk's eyes (it happens sometimes). So, Zekk sees this little girl, and it's like he's looking into the ghosts of his past, at Jaina the first time he met her. So, behind Jasa there's a spectral young Jaina, and behind Zekk there's a spectral version of his younger self, repeating the same lines over again in a moment of echoes and deja vu. Idk it maybe seemed cooler in my head but whatever I'm at least proud of those expressions.

If you've stuck around to the end, thank you (and my condolences).

#young jedi knights #star wars eu #star wars legends #jaina solo #zekk #jaina x zekk #zekkna #myposts #myart #oc: jasa solo #au: test tube babies

[bythepen98]

🚨😭😭

I had my cpu cleaned yesterday, which felt great bc the dust that's piled up was stressing me out, but it suddenly started acting out today for some reason and I'm just ????¿¿¿¿

Like I was in the middle of coloring that Zutara wip and only walked out the room for a bit to attend to something important (and fortunately I managed to save my progress too as a habit) but when I came back, the display was black and wouldn't turn on no matter how many keys I pressed. I restarted it, but instead of turning on, the fans in the cpu started getting louder and pretty much just stayed that way. There were some beeps too (which seemed significant according to Google. The search results weren't encouraging btw) but it didn't happen again when I restarted my PC for the third, fourth time.

Idk man the timing is just weird and well, I'm definitely upset but also, considering my bad sleeping habits, too sleepy to really digest it at the moment? Like I would definitely check my cpu again later after dinner but right now...I don't want to deal with it 🥲. Don't even want to think about it lmao. Might have a meltdown too if the problem is worse than expected bc I won't be able to continue drawing anything on my tablet until it gets fixed.

There's also the matter of money and pc parts being expensive UGH

Anyway, just wanted to get this feeling off my chest. I usually vent in twt but the format wasn't satisfying enough and my tendency to ramble just fits right here in tumblr.

#rant #cpu problems #HELP #odd timing #pc problems #🥲 #ofc i can still draw on paper #but i really wanted to color my wips today #crying insidehahaha

[svnny-day]

  ok, so, i’m putting this here as a way to archive and so I don’t forget (memory issues boii) but I this had this dream last night (night before that?) and like, idk, i’ll try to recount as many details as I can but I think that I may of gone to an alternate universe of sorts and I think I died in it but the reason I think so,,, i’ll get to.

 so, I don’t remember exactly where I was but it was a camp of sorts I think. it had a TON of buildings/rooms (they were almost like apartments I think? also people had roommates and I think I had some and if I did I vaguely remember them being chill). anyways, I think mine was #205 (this is most likely wrong but it’s the number my brain is insistent on when trying to recount/think about my dream)

  anyways, some kind of event happened I believe (I don’t remember what lead to up to it but-) there was another person who I think I bumped in to and we became friends (he was pretty tall (granted i’m short), kind of serious but really kind, had light blond hair that was short-mid length and I think some of it covered one of his eyes, he also had these light blue eyes I THINK but that’s going off of the eye color commonly seen in people who are blond and I vividly remember that he wore a somewhat civic, plain black shirt; it was kind of like a formal dress-shirt).

  me and the other boy (I don’t remember the name :{  ) were chatting and wandering around a bit but eventually we (I??) where/was trying to find my way back to my room (???) but we couldn’t find it (he was tagging along, trying to help) no matter how much we wandered around. 

  anyways, and this part is hella interesting btw, we ended up somewhat far from everything else and also lost but we ended up stumbling across a weird building that was a bit more,,, high tech looking? like an old lab (it was really dark and somehow pretty clean on the inside despite being seemingly abandoned. also, by dark I mean as in the floor was this really dark, somewhat sparkly smooth tile. I don’t recall much about the walls, though, except that they where kind of plain. OH! and also, there was stuff scattered around such as old boxes, some with stuff in them I think and, well, that detail can wait ‘till later). 

anyways, thinking that maybe we’ed be able to find out destination (or maybe it was because we got curious) by going inside, we do so (I don’t think the door was much trouble, seeing as the building was seemingly neglected and forgotten). anyways, it’s pretty vast and at this point, i’m following blond boy’s lead and as we go deeper, the layout seems a bit less astronomically big. anyways, we reach this stretch of hallway and there’s a weird,,, creature there (it was a giant humanoid-blob) it was glitchy, unstable, and had the look of static slapped into reality. 

luckily, it didn’t seem to notice us and I don’t think it reacted much to minimal noise. anyways, I don’t remember much leading up to this part, either, but we end up sneaking past the creature into another room. now, this is where that earlier cutoff when describing the environment comes in, the thing we sneak behind is a big whiteboard (one that has the legs extending down+wheels). 

anyways, we makes it to the other room in time, as the static thing had noticed us (and also this creature wasn’t like a scooby-doo villain either, it was some weird kind of guard experiment, from what I recall) when we got closer to the room. 

  sooooo, yea, we are basically sat behind a big mahogany wood (?) desk that is scattered with paper, stacks of paper, books, trinkets (I think an old-looking globe was on there), etc. and there’s a lot of this weird tech running.

  now, anyways, right now the objective is to escape and make it out in one piece but the thing is, we don’t know exactly where the creature is and peeking out from behind the desk might make it see us (in which case, we’d of been doomed considering we where in an office with only the one door). 

  unfortunately, this is somewhat where the dream cuts out. idk what happens but it ends up only being blonde boy in that office and it’s almost as if I was seeing through his point of view? I do know that he was panicked and trying to figure out the creature’s weaknesses (we had concluded that it was invincible to any ordinary means of physical harm like punching, biting, kicking, etc.).  

and then I woke up.

again, I think I ended up dying near the end of my dream? idk, with the way it was, having that void space between being there and not being there, seeing though blonde boy’s pov and then waking up??? idk.

#dream #I don't usually remember dreams even if I had just woken up #but when I do I seem to remember them in detail #also lmao pretty boys keep appearing in my dreamssssssss #the plot of my dreams doesn't wholly focus on them either #also lmao tfw you crush on boys that appear in ur dreams :p #also I genuinely don't think i've ever seen anyone that looks like blond boy had #like... surely with such a unique appearance I would of at least taken a mental note of sorts #anyways.. enough gushing about my dream and also exposing myself loll