Met a new neighbor tonight, started talking about work.
Me: So yeah, I'm trying to work my way toward something more stable, especially because I have a queer nibling in Texas who might need a place to land.
Neighbor: NIBLING?
Me: Yes?
Neighbor: Is that one of your millennial words?
Me: (wondering what age I look rn because "millennial" sometimes means "kid" and it's too dark to see the gray in my hair) Not ... really? It's a gender-neutral term for, like, nieces and nephews. Like sibling, you know? If you have a brother and a sister, then you have siblings?
Neighbor: Yeah, but what's a nibling?
Me: In this case, it's one of my brother's kids. He has four of them.
Neighbor: ???
Me: One of them is ... kinda figuring some stuff out, gender-wise, so I'm using gender-neutral language for them until they ask me to use something different. Just giving them space, you know? They're a kid, they need some time. So: my brother has four kids, and I have three nephews and a nibling. (Decides not to mention bff's kids, whom I have also adopted as niblings.)
Neighbor: That's...
Me: (smiles desperately)
Neighbor: That's really kind of you. I've never even thought of that. That's a really good way to let them figure it out for themselves, you know?
Me: Exactly! It's not like I can figure it out for them, right? So I'm just holding space for however it shakes out.
Neighbor: They're lucky to have you.
Me: I'm trying. That's all I can do, right?
Neighbor: Nibling. That's a GOOD word.
Me: Yeah, I like it.
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I was having Feelings so I put them into the child. sadness awaits.
They curled up on the not-quite-grass, glaring at their gauntlets.
Slowly, they turned their right hand over, gaze unbroken. They growled at it.
...
No, they didn't.
Their shoulders hiked up, and they slid off the armor obscuring their hand. They held their palm out for a good chunk of time, willing something to happen.
It didn't.
They forced out a breath and took the other one off, rubbing their hands together against the cold air. They don't know how Susie does it.
Maybe they just had to be warm?
They breathed on their hands and held them out expectantly.
Nothing happened.
They would have sobbed, but they're not one to make noise, so they just inhaled sharply.
Just one thing. Just, just one spark, just so they know they can. So they're not useless, so they're not just the human living with the boss monsters.
They just needed a flame.
And yet, their magic stat remained stagnant.
They curled up closer to themself, bare fingers making their way up to their hair. They went to hold onto their horns for reassurance, but their headband is gone. Instead, they redirected themself to their shawl, rubbing it repetitively. They wished it was big enough to cover them.
"Kris?"
They looked up at the crude facsimile of Azzy and hissed, except they didn't, because they're human. "Don't talk to me right now."
Ralsei glanced up at nothing, like he always did, before putting on a smile and kneeling in front of them. "Would you l-"
"I said don't TALK TO ME," They burst, and Ralsei flinched away. They didn't even feel guilty as he sped back into his castle.
They pressed their palms together, and nothing happened.
Not even in a world made of magic can they manage to conjure up an ember.
They're only a human, after all.
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good luck - mv1
max verstappen x fem!reader smau
summary when max and y/n adopt a black cat and everyone thinks it’s bringing him bad luck, they are determined to prove them wrong
warnings none i think
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notes requested!💘 loved this so muchhajska (excuse my poor editing skills on this one lol)
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