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Idk if I'm brave enough to write the first endeavour agere fic but i do want it to exist very badly

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It's uhm. This guy btw

I have a new man to baby but unfortunately I appear to be the first person in the world to do so

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I have a new man to baby but unfortunately I appear to be the first person in the world to do so

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Image in my head of neil having a ScreamTM bcs he's too tired/frustrated/wants a snack and got too worked up but this is such a common occurance that Macca just gives him a dummy to suck on until he calms down (does continue to scream with his mouth closed for a while tho)

Anon your mind 💖💖🔥🔥🔥

"Neil," he said over the screaming, not willing to raise his voice to encourage him further. "Neil, please stop, you'll hurt your throat."

The little one didn't seem to notice him speaking at all. He kept on screaming at the top of his lungs, only taking short stops to breathe. His face had gone red and his fists shook with how tired he was and yet he kept going.

McDonald couldn't watch it anymore.

It's hard but they make it work 🫶

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My inbox is saying I have an ask but there's nothing there.... not sure if the glitch is the notification or someone's message being eaten

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YOUR FOSTER PARENT STEDE, SICK BABY IZZY, AND RELUCTANT LITTLE ED IDEA IS INCREDIBLE!! I’m obsessed I’m entranced I’m enthralled!

Thank you!! It's one that is very much circling in my head, when I have full writing energy I'm trying to put it into isekai'd little izzy (and sometimes hickey bcs bbyned infected me) but it's definitely an au I could talk a lot about - my general idea outline is ed and izzy have been getting along as littles by themselves, but it's not great and Izzy does get sick often, it gets so bad one time Ed takes him to A&E but that means Izzy is gonna be found out as a small little without a carer, he does it bcs he's very scared, but he doesn't want to be split up so he owns up as a little aswell so the staff let him stay with Izzy, the hospital social worker is like. Yeah wow that's really concerning and gets them into a foster home, once Izzy is ready to go home with an experienced carer (Steeeede) Ed is super reluctant, Stede makes it clear he's not gonna push Ed to regress, but he must see that he can't take care of Izzy like this so running away together isn't an option, and if he runs he won't be able to see Izzy, so why doesn't he stay, and if Stede is very soft and gentle and makes Ed feel kinda tiny when he watches him look after Izzy and asks Ed if he wants to help the baby play and give him a cuddle before bed then Ed is simply not going to examine that okay

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Little Neil has for sure pulled a knife and scared everyone because Macca changed him into play clothes so where’s the hell did that come from

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He's somehow capable of locating knives within every household. Nobody knows how but leave him unattended for one minute and he's guaranteed to have found a box cutter at minumum

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Little hickey fic idea but I might just like, bullet point it out as a post

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In my determination to finish the isekai'd izzy fic I have been side tracked by thinking of an au where stede is a foster parent and Ed has reluctantly brought very sick very regressed Izzy to a&e and had to admit he's also little and be put into care to stay together

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My mental image of little hickey is like, his knees are all scraped up, his t-shirt is on backwards (insisted he could dress himself), there's food dried in his hair, he's wearing sandals even though it's the middle of winter (screamed when someone tried to get him to wear anything else), he has the general aura of a small wet dog

The "I can dress myself" fit:

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OBSESSED with your and anons lost baby Jirving thoughts ❤️ Poor little guy and stressed Hodgmom panicking in the park!

Ned is definitely the kid who’s been forgotten at the park by Crozier, although unlike Sol being left purposefully at the store by his terrible caregivers, Crozier isn’t trying to lose his eldest child he just forgets he has to keep track of him until someone says “where’s Ned?” and he realizes he’s probably crying in the sandpit where Crozier left him.

Imagine if Ned wet through his diaper or fell and got hurt while Crozier was distracted? The guilt would be so intense and Fitzjames would be Ned’s favorite parent for a while.

Oh Fitzmommy canNOT learn about this (@_@)

One moment daddy was there, on the bench. Then he dissappeared.

"Dada?" Ned looked around the playground, but still couldn't see him. He couldn't see anyone at all.

But daddy will be back. He always comes back for him, even if it takes very long. He told Ned to stay where he is when he gets lost. So he will do that and make daddy proud.

He knelt down in front of his sand castle. Daddy helped him build the bottom and he did the rest on his very own. But it's not done yet.

He grabbed a cup and filled it up with sand. His castle needs a new tower - to be the best castle ever.

He patted the sand down into the cup, then flipped it into place.

A shovel! He needs a shovel...

There it is. He tapped the cup with it, like you're supposed to do. And now the big reveal... He slowly lifted the cup. Slowly, slowly...

And the tower is standing! "Ta-dah!" he said and threw the cup away. He won't need that anymore. He needs to make a trench now, so nobody at all can get to his castle.

He began digging with his shovel. A wide deep trench! This will keep all the bad guys away.

Ah-

His tummy felt funny suddenly.

Probably needs to go potty, but he can't really tell... Maybe.

He shifted in the sand. He'd already used his nappy a lot. Daddy said he'd help him if he needed to go again. Said not to use the nappy because it can't take much. That it was really full. It felt very heavy, too.

"Daddy?" he looked around. Still not here. He can't go potty on his own... "Daddy," he called again.

But he really needs to go. Really, really, really needs to go... "Dada...! Dada, potty! Dada?" He sat back on his bum.

His nappy felt warm. "Oh no..." That won't make daddy happy at all. Not at all.

Where is dada? He said he would help, but he's not here! And his nappy feels yucky now.

He looked down. There were dark spots on his pants that weren't there before. "Noo... Oh noo..."

Yucky. It feels so yucky. "Dadaaaaa!" he called again, the loudest he could.

"COMING!" he heard in the distance. Dada? Where?

Then he saw daddy - on the trail. He was running and his cheeks were very red and he had wet spots on his shirt. "I'm here, Ned, I'm coming!"

"Dada!" He reached out for uppies, but dada knelt down and hugged him very tight. "Dada... I... Um..."

"Did something happen, are you hurt?"

"N- no..." he looked down at his pants. "Accident."

"Oh... I can see that. You couldn't hold it anymore?"

Ned shook his head. Dada was gone for so long, he couldn't hold it! Not a chance.

"Ah, sh- ... I should've been here, I'm sorry. I told you I'd help you, I'm sorry, little one."

"Nappy feels yucky now."

"I know, I... Shit. Um... We need to get you changed, you can't stay in that a minute longer."

"You said we don't have any nappies anymore."

"We don't - we need to go home to change you."

"Noooo..." He leaned back. He doesn't wanna go home yet! Not yet...

"I'm sorry, Ned, you can't stay in that thing." Daddy pat his hair and his cheek. His hand was very warm. "We can get some ice cream after we're done changing you, okay?"

Ice cream sounds good. "Okay... But blueberry."

"Yeah, yeah. Just don't tell mommy or your brother, okay? We can sort it out on our own, can't we?"

"Yeah..."

"Good boy." Then daddy sighed. "Come on."

When Ned stood up, dada patted sand off his bum and legs, then his shirt and his hands too.

"Sit here." Daddy guided him to a bench by the playground and took his shoes off. He turned one over and a lot of sand poured out. "You're hiding a desert in there!"

He giggled. "Nooo."

Then daddy flipped over his other shoe and gasped. "The Sahara desert! How did you fit it in your shoe?"

"It's not a desert, dada."

"I know, I know." Daddy laughed. He loves when daddy laughs...

"Give me your feet." He brushed sand off Ned's socks from all sides and it tickled a lot. But he stayed still for daddy and didn't kick at all, even though his legs wanted to.

Then daddy put the shoes on his feet again. "There, all done. Now get up, we need to go before you get a rash."

"We have to walk...?"

"Well, how did you think we would get home? We didn't bring anything, you said you could walk on your own. It's only a few minutes, come on. Ice cream, remember?"

"Okay..."

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Submitted by @manycatsao3 as a harness for a puppy boy and it is Perfect. Thank you!

I chose to put Tozer in it🥰🥰🙏 he's a nervous pup

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I love ❤️ you to the moon 🌙 and stars ⭐️

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Baby & toddler sibling dynamic is so funny to me

They'll be playing so sweetly together, and toddlers can be such caring big siblings, until they suddenly get over taken by a level of malice adults aren't capable of manifesting and push the baby off the sofa

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I definitely HC Izzy as teeny-tiny babie boy and looking back after Stede and his crew of little ones become part of Ed’s life Ed can recognize times where Izzy was clearly small and he didn’t treat him well and spends lots of time trying to make it up to Little Iz and trying to rebuild his big and little confidence. Every time Izzy shows emotion or lets himself be small without a fight it’s a victory for Mama and Baba and then one day Izzy is small and Mama has to go read bedtime story to the crew but Izzy just follows and curls up in Stede’s lap sucking his thumb and stays for group story and Ed finally feels like things are right.

I think that living on the Anne would have been entirely different to the Revenge, mostly because Ed and Izzy wouldn't have had the words to name a lot of their thoughts and feelings and wants and needs, let alone the skill to recognise them and do something about it, so Izzy 'regressing' wouldn't really have been a thing.

I think to Ed it would just be that weird way Izzy gets sometimes and to Izzy it would just be the weird times he wants to curl up as small as possible and curl up somewhere warm and safe (definitely not in someone's lap and definitely not with Edward or anywhere near him) and that would just be that.

He definitely did regress, though neither he or Ed really new what it was and didn't really know how to indulge it. Being unable to recognise or understand what was happening, one hundred percent baby izzy went through some messed up stuff. having to deal some serious damage on a raid and not understanding why his eyes are blurring and why his chest his hurting and why he feels so panicked and scared, or even worse, having Ed drunk and yelling at him, not realising he was effectively scaring the shit out of a very little boy.

Once they've been on the Revenge a while, Ed starts hanging around some of the little ones with Stede and starts to click together in his head that Izzy.... also gets like that, and it's not just some weird way Izzy gets sometimes.

Then he realises all the times Izzy was acting weird, all the times Izzy came to sit in his cabin at some point in the night, when Izzy would find him in the belly of a ship they were raiding with his knees all wobbly and his breath coming fast, when he would find Izzy tucked up in the Captain's cabin and would yell at him to get out until he stopped showing up all together (a development during one of his worst benders, where even Jack look worried for him during his visit).

He feels awful, of course he does, and tries desperately to make up with Izzy, who had just assumed that he was just weird and abnormal and that Ed's previous reactions to him were perfectly justified.

Izzy's hesitant to even try regressing, let alone admitting that he likes it and he wants to do it far more than he lets on, but anything Ed wants to do, Izzy will do it - which works wonders for actually getting him to regress, once he realises that Ed is itching to look after him.

slowly, he starts to enjoy it.

he drops younger and younger and then older and older, content to be vulnerable as a young infant or to play complex games invented by Ed when he's feeling a bit older.

He gets used to help, to having his food cut up and his face wiped and being helped washing in the bath and being dressed and helped with toileting and walking until he doesn't feel embarrassed or worried when he needs help or even if he just wants it.

Getting him comfortable being with the other little ones takes little more work, and a lot of patience, but they get there. The odd weekend where both Ed and Stede come down with a terribly contagious cold, Izzy is just fine hanging out on the deck with the little ones and their grown ups, forgetting to be upset in all of five minutes.

Each time Izzy manages to go down without a fight Ed and Stede are beyond elated, and once they get Izzy used to physical affection, every bath without a tantrum and change without kicking whoever's cleaning ends with kisses, from Mama and Baba, all over his cheeks and hair and arms and hands until he's wriggling and laughing so much that they have to help him wind down.

finding things that Izzy enjoys is something Ed prides himself on - finding out that yawning on command makes Izzy giggle like crazy gives Ed a hundred ideas for how to make his little one happy - is something Ed enjoys greatly.

It's pretty early on, in Izzy time, when Izzy takes the initiative to be tiny on deck, tucked up in bed beside Baba and already drowsy when Mama explains he has to go and read a bedtime story on deck. He whines and grumbles as Stede extricates himself from Izzy's tangled arms and legs, and then tugs himself out of Ed's embrace to climb shakily out of bed and latch onto Stede's arm as he leaves the cabin.

Some people look, which Stede had initially been worried about, but the idea of Izzy being a regressor had floated around the ship for a while now and had generally been well accepted, and most of the crew let it be.

Izzy insists on sitting in Stede's lap, meaning Stede has to sit on the floor instead of on his preferred barrel, but Izzy seats himself on Stede's lap and curls against his chest fast enough that Stede doesn't even get a chance to reconsider.

The sight of Izzy - regressed, snuggled into Stede's chest, clinging to a raggedy soft toy, dressed in a flowing oversized nightgown, and suckling on his thumb - is enough to almost bring tears to Ed's eyes as he sits beside them, resting his hand on Izzy's back.

Izzy falls asleep, as he usually does when he's in a position that inconveniences someone else, but Ed doesn't feel the slightest bit put out as he slings Izzy into his arms and carries him to the cabin.

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All it takes is one post/reblog from you and I am instantly back in "LITTLE IZZY IS EVERYTHING" space

(thank you)

Little baby Izzy IS everything and he's always on my mind but sometimes I don't have new thoughts its just 'baby ooooooh a baby'

I am determined to get this isekai'd into littleverse fic finished tho.....