#himbotaako

[mothhbug-art]

Happy candlenights to @himbotaako, who was my recipient for the TAZ candlenights 2020 gift exchange! ( @thecandlenightszone ) It was such a pleasure to work with your designs for Taako and Kravitz... I hope you have a lovely candlenights season! <3

#taz #taakitz #candlenights #taz candlenights exchange #dnd #himbotaako #seriously they’re my otp too I love them so much...

[acadieum]

ko-fi commission of taakitz snuggling for @himbotaako! 

#adrien rambles #adrien doodles #ko-fi commissions #the adventure zone #taz balance #taako #kravitz #taakitz #himbotaako

[charmandhex]

32- “Your eyes are red… Were you crying?” with magnus and another character of your choice? :3

It took me a while, buuuuuuuut I’m gonna blame the election!

CW for death mention, food mention.

~

Magnus doesn’t know what day it is when he wakes up. Well, really, that knowledge is long gone since they’re 33 planar systems deep into a seemingly endless journey, and you can bet Barry’s blue jeans that each and every one of ‘em had had a different calendar. And there’s been a lot going on so far in Cycle 33, so you can’t exactly blame Magnus for not figuring out how the local lunar calendar works when there are 17 moons orbiting this planet.

So Magnus, being Magnus, sits up and jabs a finger right at his eye. Ow. Shit. Yep, still bruised. So, two weeks, give or take. Magnus may not be the smartest boy on the ship, but he’s become pretty familiar with how long black eyes take to heal.

Two weeks. That’s not a lot of time to already be down two crew members.

Of course Merle’s gone already, having blustered and protested that he wasn’t needed now and that he needed to go into his next meeting with John with his memories of the last one fresh and sharp. Which, in Magnus’s not-so-humble opinion, is stupid. And he misses their shitty cleric. But at least Merle had been… somewhat expected.

Taako though.

It had looked safe. And they’d all been on their guard anyway. And Cap’n’port is a good leader. And Taako is a good wizard. Magnus is head of security. What good is he?

Magnus gets up and starts to pace. He’s learned a lot, and he’s learned that yeah, sometimes action is better than sticking around and thinking. Or at least sticking around and stewing in those thoughts.

Magnus’s room is too small for good pacing, but there’s a solution for that: Magnus rushes out. Down the hallway, past Lucretia’s room, past Barry’s room, up the stairs, past Cap’n’port’s quarters, onto the bridge, wide loop around the bond engine, around to the kitchen, down the hall, down the stairs again, past the med bay and Merle’s sad plants and empty room, quick right turn, around the boxes in storage, into the hallway once more, past Lup’s room… Magnus slows down and comes to a stop in front of the door to Taako’s room.

The twins had each been given their own room per some protocol Magnus can’t remember but Barry could probably recite in a heartbeat, but more often than not you’d find both in one room, switching back and forth between the two depending on whoever’s room had better lighting or fewer shoes in it at the time. On impulse, Magnus knocks at the door one-two-three, before reaching for the door handle.

Lup jolts up from where she’s been sitting hunched over on Taako’s unmade bed. At once, Magnus draws back, flustered.

“Oh, uh… h-hey, Lup.”

“Hey, Mango,” Lup says, her voice a little scratchier than normal. “Good thing T to the double A-K-O didn’t have any booby traps up and running when he… Anyway, uh, yeah, what- what’s up?”

Magnus lingers, debating, before stepping further in. “Just, uh, you know… thinking.”

Lup’s mouth quirks into a smile. “Doesn’t sound much like your style, Mags.”

“Now hold on!” The disquiet sitting heavy in Magnus’s chest is, for the moment, pushed to the side in favor of indignation. “I do plenty of thinking!”

“Yeah, about how to sneak dogs on the ship.” Lup gestures at the bed beside her, an invitation.

“That counts!” Magnus retorts before sitting next to Lup with a huff, turning to stick his tongue out at her. She looks away, and Magnus frowns, looking closer. “Your eyes are red… were you crying?”

“H-huh?” Lup stammers, still determinedly not looking at Magnus. “Nope! No way! No crying over here, just you know, 420 blaze it, let’s gooooooooo.”

Magnus blows out a long breath. “Yeah. I miss him too.”

Lup groans, before looking back over. “Magnus, you asshole, couldn’t you have just pretended and asked why I 420 blazed it without you?”

Magnus doesn’t respond, but he opens his arms. Lup moves so fast Magnus could have sworn she cast Blink, and then her arms are tight around him, as though afraid he too might disappear. Lup mumbles something into his shoulder as Magnus hugs her back.

“Sorry, didn’t quite get that.”

Lup turns her head, and an ear whaps across Magnus’s face. “I said¸ you and Barry are tied for best hugs.”

“Now that’s a compliment. Think I can stick it under proficiencies?”

“Yeah, with the other 500.” Lup lets out a shaky sigh and hugs tighter onto Magnus. “Taako gives shitty hugs.”

“He does not!”

“Magnus, he’s my brother, and he is my heart, but he manages to get like eight elbows in despite only having two of them. Half of the melee attacks he’s ever made have been accidentally headbutting people hugging them.” Another breath. “And most importantly. He’s not even here for his stupid, shitty hugs.”

Magnus waits even as Lup’s stifled shuddering sobs manage to shake him too, and he waits longer still, the heavy silence in the room finally stretching into something resembling peace.

“I’m sorry.”

“Me too. S’not your fault though.”

“Is too.”

“Is not.”

“Is too.”

“Is not!” Lup says, pushing back, fiery and indignant once more even with grief and pain still carved into her face. “Magnus Burnsides, you listen right now. That- what happened, was not your fault, and no one thinks that. I don’t think that. And when Taako gets back, he’s not gonna think that either. Now come on.” Lup lets go of Magnus long enough to scramble off Taako’s bed and up to standing before she grabs his hand.

“Come on… where?”

“I’m making some fuckin’ pancakes, and I need a sous chef,” Lup says, the kind of determination in her tone that regularly keeps them from doing stupid shit.

But what she’s saying is still surprising. Surprising because… “Really? Uh, Lup, you do remember what happened last time-” Last time he’d been banned from the kitchen for two cycles.

“We got it off the ceiling eventually, didn’t we?” Lup waves his protests off. “So, come on. I’ll let you put in as many chocolate chips as you want. And this way, by the time we get my dumb brother back, you’re better at cooking, so he has to get better at hugging.”

Magnus laughs. “Guess I can’t argue with that logic.”

The door swings closed with a quiet click behind them as they go. Less quiet is the Starblaster’s kitchen half an hour or so later, when Magnus and Lup and the rest of the crew are sitting around the table, plates stacked high with mostly unburnt and reasonably uniform pancakes.

And less quiet still than that, is the Starblaster some months and many pancakes later, when, elbows and headbutts aside, Magnus finds himself in a massive hug pile with Taako at the center. Somewhere in the middle of it all, Magnus hears Taako say:

“Hey, uh, quick, quick question: why is there a pancake on the ceiling?”

#taz #taz balance #taz fic #taz fanfic #magnus burnsides #lup #asks #i was thinking about who to write magnus with and lup's joke came to mind #and the end result was i temporarily killed taako #oops time for angst and hurt/comfort #himbotaako

[luobingmeis]

68 for the prompts list w >:3 argo and fitz??

A/N: on god matt ur getting angst

this is like. maplekeene. but they’re not together. argo is just falling hard but fitzroy already adds enough complications to his life when his romantic feelings aren’t concerned.

(i’m also taking some personal liberties with what i think will be happening in canon vis a vis the unbroken chain + the thundermen)

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68) “Were you ever going to tell me?”

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Falling for Fitzroy Maplecourt made Argo feel like he was plummeting into the sea.

Which he has done before. Once. Unintentionally, that is. 

(Unintentional is how he wanted to describe everything about Fitzroy Maplecourt). 

It was a nasty storm, really. Unexpected, too. One of the worst he had seen since the... passing of his mother. When he watched the wave crest up over the bow of the ship, he knew it was going to hurt like hell when it crashed back down on him.

The true shock came when it washed him overboard and, for just a second, the world slowed to a halt as he watched the toiling, white-capped water approaching faster and faster as he descended.

And then, with a burning gush of salt water forcing it’s way down his throat as he crashed, the world began to turn again.

If falling for Fitzroy felt like hurdling towards the ocean, hearing Fitzroy’s first words to him as he walked into their common room felt like sea water filling his lungs.

“W-What?” he sputtered out, hoping that it would clear the burning from his throat (and that he misheard).

Fitzroy, instead, repeated himself word for word. “Were you ever going to tell me?” 

His tone was blank, his voice quiet, his face unreadable, but the letter in his hands said enough.

Fitzroy was silent after that, and Argo realized that the question wasn’t rhetorical.

“Listen, Fitz,” Argo began with no clue where he was going. “Just- listen, okay? It was for- a job, you know? For-”

“The Unbroken Chain.” Fitzroy’s voice wasn’t cold or hard, but lifeless. Perhaps that made it all worse. “I figured that.”

“Yeah!” Argo knew he was trying to overcompensate for Fitzroy with his own excitement, however fake it was, but he couldn’t just stand there while Fitzroy looked so- “That’s exactly it! They just- wanted to... to know some stuff and- and I was never going to let it go too far! I just needed-”

“Go too far?” Fitzroy repeated and he finally looked at Argo, finally sounded like more than just a husk. The pain on his face and the incredulity in his voice, though... Argo didn’t think he could handle- “You... you sent a letter to my family!”

“I wasn’t- I wasn’t going to do anything with it!” Argo defended, fumbled, lied.

The Unbroken Chain already knew everything.

The way Fitzroy’s eyes never left his own made it clear that he knew Argo was lying, too.

Thus, Argo sighed and shook his head, pushing back the loose hairs of his ponytail. “Or we’re- we’re not going to do anything more with it.”

Fitzroy’s bottom lip trembled as he crumpled the letter in his hand. “You betrayed me.”

“Fitz, please!” Argo pleaded, putting his hands up as he walked closer to Fitzroy. Fitzroy took a step back. “It was just- it was a job! I needed to do it! I pledged myself loyal to them, and-”

“What do you know about loyalty?” Fitzroy snapped. Argo flinched, but he couldn’t tell if it was from his words or the anguish that coated them. “We- we were supposed to be... be friends! We were supposed to trust each other!”

“Well you haven’t always shown me trust!” Argo snapped back, and he knew he was getting unfairly angry, unfairly defensive, but he didn’t want to go down in this ship without Fitzroy.

Didn’t want to go anywhere without Fitzroy.

“And this is exactly why!” Fitzroy kicked the crumpled up letter towards him. “You- you went behind my back! This is from weeks ago! And- And I don’t even want to know how you found my home address!”

Argo shook his head and kept trying to swim to the surface. “Fitzroy, it- it doesn’t matter now! The Unbroken Chain... they were never going to harm you! They just- just wanted to make sure that you were okay! And we’re on your side now and-”

“Now?” Argo felt like he was going to choke on the despair in Fitzroy’s voice. “Now you’re on my side? Now, after we’ve been- roommates for months? Now, after we’ve been working together? Now, after I almost died with you at my side? Now you’re on Team Maplecourt?”

Argo shook his head. “That- That isn’t what I meant! The Unbroken Chain- we can all trust each other! No more sneaking around! Just- just trust now!”

“That isn’t possible anymore, Argo!” Fitzroy shouted. “You lied, Argo! Every time you saw me, you knew the truth! You knew that you went behind my back, that you lied to my mother, and you let it happen! You continued facing me every- every fucking day like you hadn’t found out everything! Where’s the trust in that, Argo? Where’s the good, fun comraderie you always preach?”

Argo winced with every word out of his mouth until he believed his heart couldn’t handle it anymore. “Fitzroy, I- if you believe anything I say, believe it when I say that I didn’t want it to come to this!”

Fitzroy threw his hands up. “But you let it! You did the research! You sent the letter! You- you found out everything that I have deliberately chosen to keep hidden!” 

“But you could’ve always been honest with us! You could’ve told us that and- and we would’ve been fine with you! You don’t need to be some fancy guy, you can be you! You can be the Fitzroy Maplecourt, and-”

“This is Fitzroy Maplecourt!” Fitzroy shouted, stomping his foot. “This is Fitzroy Maplecourt after he learned what would get him liked! This is Fitzroy Maplecourt who people accept! This is Fitzroy Maplecourt who survived! This is Fitzroy Maplecourt, Knight in Absentia to the Realm of Goodcastle, and you don’t get to decide when I can finally be the man who doesn’t exist anymore!”

The silence that filled the room made Argo feel like he already drowned.

He didn’t know what to say.

“You never answered my question,” Fitzroy, exhausted, whispered. “Were you ever going to tell me?”

He didn’t know what to say.

“I- I-” Argo, faltering, sighed and shrugged. “I don’t know. I... knew I was gonna have to some day. That it would... come up.” He weakly motioned to the letter. “But I didn’t... want to. At first, I was terrified. That you would find out. But...” He swallowed thickly, looking down. “Time passed and I... we were getting close, so I thought it would go away. Wouldn’t... matter anymore. I thought maybe, just maybe, we could of... had something, so I hoped this whole situation would just... go away.”

“I thought we could have, too.”

Argo looked up, his eyes wide.

The cold, hard look Fitzroy was giving him was the last thing he wanted in this situation. Was the last thing he wanted in all the times he dreamed of finally seeing what this “something” could have been.

“Fitzroy,” Argo tried again, and couldn’t even think of something to follow up with.

“I don’t feel things for people easily, Argo,” Fitzroy said, walking closer to him. “Years of keeping people at bay so they don’t look too closely could do that to a guy. But, for once, I finally thought: here’s my chance. We’ve had our ups and downs, and yet we’re still here, ‘coming back to each other,’ you could say. We’ve even had our fair shares of brushes with death and have still come back, and that felt like a big enough sign. So, I finally thought: here is my opportunity to be comfortable at a pace that I’ve never been given before, in a skin that maybe I can learn to live with.”

And then Fitzroy was right on top of him, looking down at him over the bridge of his nose.

“Leave it to a rogue to steal that opportunity away from me.”

And then Fitzroy kept walking.

Argo was still standing motionless, floating in a sea that raged around him, when Fitzroy slammed the door behind him.

#taz graduation #maplekeene #sir fitzroy maplecourt #argo keene #i paralleled amnesty at some point #and there is also a very deep personal self-projection #kudos to u if u find them ajkdsjksdjk #stuff i write #answered #himbotaako

[fioblah]

:O !!!!! it’s your birth!!!!! happy birthday fi, i hope your day treats you well ily !! >:3

ur so lovely !! thank u!

#himbotaako #faxed to me

[mspainttaz]

fuck marry kill: fucked up nureyev, piss king nureyev, and regular peter nureyev

i thought way too hard about this and hated every second i hope you enjoy this content just for you and our awful nureyev extended universe. ugh

kill fucked up nureyev because its either his kink or hes impervious to death and i want to find out

fuck piss king nureyev ighgghghggfidghifhgffdghh fuck u matt im just using him for his multi level marketing scheme ughghhgh look i just dont want to marry him okay

marry regular peter so i can steal his fancy self care products and not have to buy my own. i also think this would be funny. also i have the first episode in the background and juno just said “ive never tried eating cologne” and wow drink gate disaster. this post is a mess 

#i feel bad everytime i use grown up words on this blog because i try to be wholesome but then say things like death kink #himbotaako

[loving-jack-kelly]

i would like u to know that i’m relistening to taz balance and at one point in crystal kingdom, taako says “oh yeah just like in “the martian”! love that book!” and i thought immediately about u

🥺🥺🥺 James that means so much to me

#to be associated with something u love so much....Friendship #also. i need to relisten to balance #at least story and song i think it would b healing #himbotaako #i missed ur name change sorry congrats on the new name!! it slaps

[comradelup]

okay, lup, barry, and lucretia for the three characters thing :0

anon said: the ask game with barry, lup, and lucretia :O? -ise

AKDJAJDJ you both know me SO well

lab partner for a whole semester: barry! he’s Smart and would be patient enough to explain everything to me when i inevitably am not paying attention to the teacher. also i feel like he’d let me copy off his homework

trapped with on an elevator for ten hours: lup! she’s the only one of these three who’s capable of starting a conversation, and i know i’m sure as hell not spending ten hours in awkward silence. it’d be really fucking entertaining too akfjnajf

employee trainer at McDonalds: lucretia! she’s good at being In Charge and also isn’t an asshole. not that lup or barry are, but i don’t want my trainer/boss to be an asshole dkajdjsjfjs

send me three characters!

#could. could lucretia pull off the mcdonald’s employee uniform? #what am i saying ofc she could #ask #himbotaako #matt tag #issac tag #akdjajdj same emoticon and everything! :0!! #i love how predictable i am fkakfnakfnsjf

[littleblondesoprano]

himbotaako: i was trying to remember my oldest url and oh boy i forgot my username for So Long was "erikandidefyinggravity" ajshfjdshk if that doesn't say "i'm a theater kid in the early/mid 2010s and especially love phantom of the opera" idk what does

😂😂 I feel that!! I still haven't changed urls!! This has been it, the entire time!! We really were out here being obsessed with poto and musicals, huh? But it was fun!! You should look it up and see if it got archived! It's a fuckin TRIP.

Left is the first archive from 2014 and the next one is from 2015 and I felt my neck crack from the whiplash I just got

#himbotaako #friends #<3 #I still can't believe that for YEARS I was a poto rp blog #littleblondesoprano

[badcountryofficial]

for spotify wrapped, 8, 37, and 69 >:3

8. money machine, 100 gecs >:3

37. White Knuckle Jerk (Where Do You Get Off?), Will Wood and The Tapeworms

69. omg...Matt...this is fucking perfection: Buddy, Willie Nelson..eye..🥺

#I'M LITERALLY TEARING UP... #the fact that of anyone YOU would ask and it'd be the buddies theme i... #i'm literally tearing up oh my FUCKING GODDDDDDDDDD #hugs you. #you made buddies WHAT IT ISSSSSSSSS #himbotaako #ask

[acadieum]

as someone who's Too Into Musicals, i RLLY love princess and the pauper, but i think nutcracker is my fave?? it just Hits Different and i love the ballet and tchaikovsky soundtrack and fills me w Nostalgia

NUTCRACKER...............!! im glad we all got taste tonight

that one specifically holds a very sweet spot in my heart.. truly felt magical

#adrien replies #the way that my bro tells me i do a good impression of that bat henchman sends me #barbie hours #mutual tag #himbotaako

[melto]

HAP BIRTH ISAAC I LOVE U AND I HOPE UR DAY KICKS ASS, KING 🥺💕💛

AW THANKS MATT I LOVE YOU KING<3

#himbotaako #asks

[ecothroat]

🌠 :D !!

musicals, spectacular art, and ur taz/botw crossover mainly cuz your icon akfnwkfnejrb

mutuals send me a 🌠 and i’ll tell you 3 things i associate with you!

#bonus: that he/him lesbian solidarity 😤💯💪 #ask #himbotaako

[luobingmeis]

honestly my botw cringe comp would be all the times i've paraglided off a tall cliff into water and immediately drowned bc i didn't have enough stamina to swim OR it'd be all of the times an enemy has just fuckin THROWN me off a cliff or bridge bc it happens with embarrassing frequency aksjfkdsjk

god the paraglider one is so relatable

#and yeet! #answered #botw #himbotaako #botw cringe comp

[fioblah]

how abt 8, 14, 57, and 96 for spotify wrapped?? :D

8. saint bernard by lincoln

14. home again by first aid kit

this ones from the moominvalley soundtrack

57. last words of a shooting star by mitski

96. humpty by mitski

send me a number 1-100 and I’ll tell you the song it corresponds with on my top 100 playlist

#himbotaako #faxed to me

[mspainttaz]

cant believe i just got stick bugged 😔😔

believe it or else<333

#himbotaako