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[tvstarkuma]

[text] Help! I've fallen for you and can't get up!

[vuulpecula]

✖ @deficd ❤'d for a starter !

“I ain’t arguin’, I’m just waitin’ for you to be done being wrong.” Fox smiled in her crooked way, offering out her half smoked cigarette as a peace offering. "That thing is just as dangerous as a gun, if not more." She nodded toward the bike again. There'd been more than enough accidents, more than enough pieces left behind on the highway, to help her win her argument. Once you saw how fragile a human body was, you didn't soon forget.

[whereheartscollide]

@hxnkoflxve

"Ooooor you could just try it and see the reactions you get. Cause trust me when I say, you'd get stares. And not the bad kind either."

[woodblxssomcrowned]

Open

"So..." She idly let's her kunai swing back and forth, loop around her finger, her chin resting in her other hand.

"Would you love me if I were a worm?"

[nitronapalm]

"Touch those fuckin' cookies and your hand is fuckin' forfeit."

[chcsingdrecms]

" 'ow cute." it's a low chuckle he gives, those pin pricks of light shifting under his hood in what could be best described as a smile.

[wastheheart-arc]

let me get that for you. - from Celeste; @milleansxmort ( because I think our vampire girls would get along very well ).

@monsterxmade / @milleansxmort (hello & thank you!)

Groceries were seemingly a redundant thing for them. Luckily for her coven, Esme enjoyed cooking and the meals she made often found homes at local crisis or homeless centres. It helped Esme feel as if she had some sort of purpose in her present immortality. In some not so distant future, Esme hoped she wouldn't need to do it at all, but as long as it was needed, Esme would be there to help.

As she reached for various tinned goods, Esme was sure to keep up her appearance of a mortal woman. She tiptoed, fingertips barely brushing the tins she needed before the woman behind her spoke and caused Esme to slightly startle.

It was unusual not to hear someone approach; immediately there was intrigue.

"Oh, thank you!" Her smile was wide and genuine, stepping back to allow the woman some space between them. "Can't exactly do peach cobbler this time of year without canned peaches!"

[agntkennedy]

he's not one for small talk, almost ever. it's awkward, and uncomfortable. and usually it's just painful. this was no exception. when ahab speaks up, he glances up only to shake his head. he's got to stop talking to anyone who looks like this soon enough. he 'tsks' and shakes his head, not stopping as he continues to walk.

" a paycheck, usually, " it's a lie. his self sacrificing attitude to help the greater good and the fact that he's forced to be apart of his division says a lot. there's a pause on his heels as he pivots back to look up at her.

" why? what are you in this for ? " his arms cross, successfully now pulled into the conversation. he can't imagine it's good reasons.

Dangles her legs over a high brick wall, staring at his head from above. "What are you in this for. The job." @illuzijan

[impishsensei]

@songcurse asked: "whore."

weighing every possible response he could give to her accusation, he cycles between denial, completely disregarding the comment, flirtatious teasing, and of course he ends up landing on the most childish response of all.

❝ how rude! takes one to know one!! ❞ 

[tvstarkuma]

"All detectives need a cool hat! No-hat detectives are not allowed here!"

[bloodenkids]

closed starter for @helptheghosts

After another late night in the manic swell of inspiration, Lucy had fallen asleep at her desk–– or at least that's how she remembered it. Coming to her senses once more, she was not slumped over her journal but laying upon the floor as if she had fallen asleep standing up, tacky blood on her hands that she almost instinctively knew wasn't hers. Odd. She'd never blacked out before, but a lightheaded feeling directed the other signs toward that being the truth. Not to mention, she soon realized she was not alone. A witness to whatever she'd done that she couldn't remember. Loose ends to tie and a mess to clean up.

"How the hell did you get into my apartment? Make one wrong move, and I'll split you groin to sternum."

[whereheartscollide]

"Air conditioning is just domesticated wind."

[vuulpecula]

✖ @ensnchekov ❤'d for a small starter !

"Don't move."

[nitronapalm]

"I SWEAR TO FUCK IF PEOPLE KEEP LEAVING FUCKIN' MESSES IN THE DAMN KITCHEN I'M GONNA START CRACKIN' HEADS."

[woodblxssomcrowned]

Was infant mortality high during the WSE in your verse? What were the main causes for infant death, and did infant mortality vary by clan/region?

The Senju had their customs of not having a newborn be touched by anyone but the mother, father, siblings, and the midwife who helped birth it for the first month of its life. This was a way intended to try en prevent the child from catching both physical and metaphysical/spiritual impurities during such a delicate stage of their life. This did help a little bit, but it was still common for infants to die from various complications and catching illnesses they did not have the strength and immune system to fight.

However, after the years of the plague and the growing use of children as active fighting shinobi, the mortality rate of children under 5 became lower than that for children between five and fifteen. While infants would be very carefully tended to try and ensure it survived and was healthy, roughly 40% of children would not live past puberty, with dying in combat or from wounds and injuries sustained in combat quickly becoming the leading causes. Shinobi would on average have three to four children in their life, but usually only one or possibly two of those children were expected to live to the age of 25 and have children of their own.

I definitely do think that infant mortality would have varied depending on the clan and the region. The overall health and medical practices of the clan, as well as general customs and traditions around childbirth and children could affect it, as could the living and environmental conditions.

In my continued WS!AU the infant morality rate does technically become higher than the general child mortality rate, but that was because Hashirama was incredibly strict about not allowing anyone under 16 to be part of combat, so those kinds of deaths drastically decreased at least within the Senju. However, infants could still die from birth complications and illness that couldn't be treated even with advanced medical ninjutsu, so that didn't really change.

[qapsiel]

@crownedinsin ;; Brooklyn99 starters (still accepting) Lucifer said: "Your head is so small. It is so small. Where do you keep your brains?"

                           HE SHOOTS LUCIFER AN UNIMPRESSED LOOK. "You know very well that my true form doesn't have a brain," he says, voice clipped. He knows that the devil is trying to rile him up, though the reason for that is beyond him — sure, Lucifer loves to sow resentment and bad feelings, but why insult Castiel specifically like that? Is it true what Gabriel told him: that Lucifer is unhappy about his relationship with Lilith? Well, get over it. "And Jimmy Novak has had a perfectly average-sized head."