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"It kills me that you think you have to be perfect for me to stay."

"I don't want to fuck this up. I've fucked up just about every other good thing in my life and I— I can't do it again."

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horny this thirsty that, you can keep it

give me a character who's so quietly and blatantly fond of another and it'll lay me out cold

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sawyer hair

a really cute longer wolf-cut style hair

bgc

hat compatible

all 24 ea swatches

dl

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i. love. characters that are so paranoid and distrustful of others pushing past that distrust because of a raw desire for connection and affection

knowing logically that they're safest if they isolate themselves, but on the inside, so badly wanting to just be with someone who cares

every touch for years has brought pain, but someone offers a hug and their heart is torn in two, half of them retreating to avoid it and half of them wanting desperately for it to be real

the human equivalent of an abused rescue animal finally letting their new person pet them

that crack in their defenses, that step off the edge of total shut-down safety, that last scrap of hope left saying one last try

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part of the reason I think it’s so sad that we collectively write so few stories about unrequited love is bc I feel like there’s very little public acknowledgment of how much it sucks to be the one somebody is in unrequited love with??? and not in a way of like, oh they’re crossing boundaries or putting expectations on me or whatever. becoming close friends with someone and then finding out they’re in love with you and you don’t love them back the same way is heartbreaking, bc a) someone you love is in pain and there is literally nothing you can do about it, and b) it usually means that whether you like it or not there’s going to be distance in your friendship that wasn’t there before as they try to get over you. idk man I just feel like we’ve all discussed the tragedy of loving someone who doesn’t love you back quite a lot and very rarely discuss the tragedy of finding out the way that you love someone just isn’t enough.

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I just love stories where nihilists realize that nihilism sucks and they actually just want to be loved.

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“May I please draw your OC?”

Reblog this message if you encourage anyone that wants to draw your OC to do so.  No need to ask for permission in advance.

Go for it.  Draw my OC.  If you want, I’ll even give you reference posts.  Go to town on it.

You are welcome to draw my OC and surprise me with the result.  Seriously.  In fact, I encourage it.  I will proudly display whatever it is you submit to me regarding my OC.  There is a chance that I will squeal about it for several days.

Even if you feel you aren’t good at whatever artistic adventure it is you do, please feel free to submit it to me.  I want to see what you have done.

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one important thing that Must be understood about interpersonal relationships is that you have to stop interacting with people who love you like they’re one slip-up away from leaving you. you have to trust that the ppl you love mean what they say. you have to believe that when they say “this hurt my feelings,” that they’re also saying, “can you please love me this other way next time?” and you have to wrap your head around the fact that even if you don’t understand Why someone loves you, you can accept that that they do. true, honest, & open love does not function like hp in a video game !!!!!!

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Fabian

Has an older sister and younger brother

Plus three female cousins

His family lives with his cousins and their grandmother lives with them

About 11 people under one house

which oc has a big family?

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LOVE YOUR OCS!!! YOU DID GREAT ON THEM!! EVEN IF THEYRE OVERPOWERED!! EVEN IF THEYRE EDGY!! EVEN IF THEYRE CLICHE!! YOU PUT SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT INTO THEM AND YOU SHOULD LOVE THEM AND LOVE YOURSELF FOR MAKING THEM!!! 

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The Meet Cute (Maddie's POV)

Finally, something written and original instead of fanwork. This is the hypothetical meet-cute of Maddie and Quinten from the former's perspective. Quinten's perspective will come soon enough.

2,231 words, written by HumanRadioJMP, 7/19/2025

Maddie likes boys, perhaps a little too much. She’s constantly crushing on or falling for every guy she meets. She tries – and fails – to flirt with those she thinks is especially handsome or cute. And she’d rather hang out with some of her guy friends than her female friends if given the chance.

Despite this though, she genuinely does want to marry and have a family. Perhaps she’s over the top with her efforts because hardly any guy she’s known actually wants to date her. Some of them had become good friends and she cares about them, but they never ask her out or get involved with someone else. Maybe there’s something wrong with her, despite no one saying anything, or she’s not trying hard enough, despite trying everything she can tell should work.

But hopefully, eventually, it’ll happen. Someday.

That someday may be sooner than later as she has a really good feeling about one guy she’s been eyeing. A regular that comes in at 7:52 on the dot, orders his food online so it’s ready, and picks it up with barely a word to anyone. A small black coffee and a plain jane sugar free scone. Not to mention the academia like clothes he wears and the thick rimmed glasses that make him look like a boring old office drone.

BUT! Looks aren’t everything; she knows because despite 80% of her wardrobe being pink, sparkly or overall colorful she has edgy tastes. Sometimes.

One time, when she was still fresh on the job, he took notice of the pin on her hat and complimented it. he could have walked off right after, but he stayed (rather awkwardly) and listened to her impromptu ramble about Superman and how and why he’s the best superhero comic character to date despite people being edgy and cynical about him and everything revolved around what he represents. Even made a comment on it. she doesn’t remember what it was, but the decently interested replay as he was leaving and her getting yelled at by the manager stuck with her, if only for a moment.

And now she’s determined to get his name and/or number.

Maybe today I can talk to him, if I have the time and figure out how. She thinks as she slots the last tray of pastries in place. She has one of the earlier shifts today, helping set up right as the manager flips the sign open. Customers already started pooling in and placing orders at the counter. Noise from people talking, machines beeping, coffee being poured and paper bags crinkling hit her all at once. She forces herself to take a step back long enough to breathe, mentally brace herself and shove the uncomfortable feeling down, and push her way through her shift.

“Still thinking about Boring Order guy?” Kenna asks when it gets marginally less busy.

“I guess.” Maddie replies, knowing she wasn’t immediately thinking of her crush (she was thinking about how the Rise TMNT movie is coming out in a month and she still hasn’t finished the piece she was working on in anticipation of it), but now that Kenna mentions it, yeah, he should be coming in any second now. It’s almost his regular pick-up time, and a quick glance back to the coffee machines show his drink is up next. She quickly finishes the order she was completing so she can get his scone as her coworker leans against the display case (which is completely unsanitary, stop that!).

“Have you succeeded in getting his number or socials?”

“No, not yet.” She frowns a little, mostly at Kenna leaning against the display (don’t do that, it’s unsanitary!). “I keep trying to come up with a way to go about it, but I don’t know how.”

“Next time you see him, go up to him and ask, ‘Hey, I think you’re cute’ - for some reason - ‘can I get your name and number’?”

“He is cute and I don’t know if going up without any preamble is ok.” She’s never been that great at initiating conversations with people, especially if she doesn’t know them. Small talk is a skill she’s never been able to master well, and what she knows she’s barely able to scrape by. As a result, people think she’s weird or annoying, and some even outright ignore her. So, no, she can’t just go up and ask for his number without likely ruining the whole thing.

Kenna moves on to help another customer, giving Maddie better access to some of the other pastries and snacks. As she’s getting the sugar-free scone for the (potential) man of her dreams, she gets an idea. An idea that might actually work. Glancing at the clock on the POS system tells her if she wants it to work, she’s gotta move fast.

The guy’s coffee is set on the pickup counter, out of the way of impatient grabby customers. Maddie dives for the napkins on the counter and pulls out her pen right as the guy walks in. Carefully, but quickly, she scribbles something on the napkin and stuffs it in the bag with the pastry. Right in that moment, he walks in and beelines to the pickup counter. Her eyes were on him the entire time as she handed the bag to him.

“Here you g-” he snatched both the coffee and bag and gave a jerk with his head and a muttered ‘thanks’.

Yeah… she didn’t know what she expected. It’s the same as always. She tries to keep her eyes on him longer, wondering if he’ll notice the napkin with the note. But in that moment a customer started yelling at Kenna about their order being wrong because it doesn’t taste right and has the wrong name on the cup. That drew everyone’s attention, if only briefly, and Maddie quickly got involved with her job once more.

Throughout the day, she tried to remain calm and not obsessively think about if he seen the note or not. There’s no telling if he did, and if he did find it, what his reaction would be.

Was that… actually weird? she thinks as she sticks a new tray of pastries in the display case. Did I step a line I wasn’t supposed to? Ugh, I probably seem really clingy and desperate. I barely know the guy! We talked once!

Eventually her shift ended and there was still no peep from the guy. It’s likely he’s at work and won’t be back by tomorrow. and depending on if he sees it or not, he might act different.

At this point she’s hoping he didn’t. in hindsight it was neither professional nor appropriate, or at least that’s what she’s guessing. This isn’t a freaking romcom, it’s life. And it has its own rules and expectations that might not go the way you want.

I hope I didn’t cross too much of a line; she thinks as she says goodbye to her coworkers. If he makes a complaint to Sabrina, then I know I did. Hopefully it won’t go too bad.

She reached the door right as someone got to it from outside. He held the door open for her as she exited, Maddie giving a quick glance and a thanks as she clipped off her name tag and reached in her bag for her sunglasses-

“Wait, hold on!” she flinched and nearly tripped on her feet. Was that directed at her or-

“Excuse me.” The voice is a lot closer, right behind her in fact. Confused and a little concerned (and making sure she was at least still in line of the café’s window) she turned to the person behind her. Standing there is the guy she gave the note to just a couple hours ago.

This is it. This is how she dies. Either from sheer embarrassment and humiliation, or potential harassment and physical harm. The latter seems a bit unlikely, but she’s already brushed with a couple of unsavory people in her short time here. She knew New York had a reputation but still.

“Um,” his eyes flick over her, taking her in. he seems hesitant, unsure maybe. Was she not who he was looking for? She turns a little, hoping it’s enough of a hint that she wants to leave.

“Are you,” he begins again. He digs into his pocket and pulls out the napkin she wrote the note on.

‘You’re cute! Wanna go out? -Maddie’

So, embarrassment and humiliation it seems, then.

“Are you… Maddie?” he asks, reading the name off the note. “Did you write this, and did you mean it for me?” he asks her. His voice seems genuinely curious, with just the tiniest bit of annoyance. But from the brief words they’ve exchanged before, he just has an annoyed voice that matches well with his resting b-word face.

She goes to deny it then thinks about his tone. Should she admit it? Or should she expect him to get mad about it once she does? “Maybe…?”

“It’s yes or no, either you did or didn’t.” he says, a bit more firm and annoyed.

Maddie draws in on herself just a hair, feeling prickles on her neck. He is mad, isn’t he? Denying it wouldn’t do any good; she has no choice but to own up to it and apologize. “Yeah, I’m sorry….” She says, her voice fading at the end

“So you didn’t mean it?” sounds disappointed.

She looks up, confused. “What do you mean?”

He shrugs, looking at the note. “I mean; I was confused when I saw it; this isn’t something that happens to me often. However, the more I thought about it, the more I felt… flattered. Flattered that you would want to go out with me despite barely speaking to each other.”

Maddie sighed in relief. “Thank goodness you’re not mad. I was really worried for a minute.”

“No, no, I’m not mad,” he assured her, attempting to give a reassuring smile. It looked more like a grimace than anything else. He seemed to sense this as it dropped and he added hesitantly, “If you were serious about the note, I wouldn’t mind going on a date.”

maddiemoore.exe has stopped working

He wants to go on a date, with her? Is she dreaming? No one’s ever wanted to go out with her, they always think she’s weird or too much or whatever. And it’s possible this won’t go far, but at least she’ll go on one date in her life.

“I was serious. And… you’re actually serious for wanting to go out with me? We don’t know each other.”

His brows pinch together. “Yeah, that’s why we would date, to know each other.”

“R-Right.” That’s the general consensus. It’s just a little surreal that this is happening. “Um, when and where we’re you thinking?”

“I don’t know if you ever had dim sum, but I know a good place to get some.” He says. He shifts and holds his hand out as though he’s going to lead her somewhere.

“Oh, now?” she quickly racks her brain of the day’s schedule and if she has anything super pressing to deal with. It’s also way too last minute and she’s trying to rewire her brain to accept this new information and adjust accordingly despite having never done this-

“Let me guess, too last minute?” he asks. He doesn’t sound upset, but he does sound like he expected it.

“Yeah, I’m sorry.”

“No, I should have figured. But I can give you my card…”

“Sure!” she reached for her phone as he reached into his inner jacket pocket (how can people wear a jacket in this heat? Some people are just immune apparently). He hands her a professional-looking card with the business he’s associated with and his name in smaller print.

“Quinten Tang,” she says, typing in his credentials in her phone.

“And you are…?”

“Oh, Maddie.” She taps at his number and selects messaging. “I don’t have a card per say, but I do have a linktree.”

“A… what?”

She glances up at him. “A linktree? You know, a page where it has your socials and any relevant websites linked in one place. I got my email and commissions page linked there, but I’m texting you now so you’ll have my number at least.”

“You do commissions?” he asks with slight intrigue.

“Yep, art commissions! If you want something drawn I can do it for you.” she glances down at her phone and quickly pulls up the linktree. She has a tab on the default browser with it in situations like these. Hopefully he didn’t mind the little shameless plug as well. She’s proud of her work and doing well enough thanks to a dedicated fan base, but a little extra wouldn’t hurt. There’s a reason she’s working at the café, especially after moving out here.

“Just sent it to you. oh!” She glances at the card. “That’s… to your cell, right?” Did she get the wrong number?

“It gets forwarded to my cell if it’s text so don’t worry.” He assures her. “I’ll respond with the correct number.”

“Ok, just say it’s you so I’m not like, who is this.” She gives a nervous laugh and gives a shy smile. “I’m looking forward to it. Nice to meet you, Quinten.”

“Nice to meet you as well, Maddie.”

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After working on it for some time, I finally got another written bit of my OCs. Specifically, Maddie and Quinten meeting for the first time, which will lead to them dating. Will likely post it here as well, but here's the A03 link if you prefer it there

Want to make more of these little guys, as they need a break from my mind. Plus, writing things out instead of thinking about it all the time helps get a better idea of how they act and react, and talk and such. Will likely do more art as well.

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Grumpy x Sunshine Writing dynamic

The Grumpy One will...

✧ sigh like it’s a full-time job ✧ complain about everything but still do it, perfectly, and say “whatever” when you compliment them ✧ give death glares to strangers who get too close to their Sunshine ✧ say “I don’t care” while caring deeply but with unnecessary rage ✧ pretend they hate affection and then melt when it’s given freely ✧ grunt instead of saying thank you ✧ roll their eyes at your chaos, but be ready to throw hands if someone else even thinks about insulting you ✧ act emotionally constipated but write your name with little stars in their notes app ✧ be a walking contradiction: "no I don’t like anyone" / "except this one very specific ray of light who makes my chest hurt"

The Sunshine One will...

✧ talk to a cashier for 30 seconds and suddenly know their star sign and life goals ✧ bring snacks for everyone. Every. Time. ✧ get excited over things like ladybugs, Halloween socks, or bubble tea ✧ touch the Grumpy One constantly like it’s their oxygen ✧ say “I love you” with their whole soul, three days into friendship ✧ make playlists labeled things like “vibes for when the world is too loud” and “songs to cry to but gently” ✧ force the Grumpy One to wear party hats and they let it happen ✧ see the best in people even when the evidence is… unconvincing ✧ cry during cute dog commercials ✧ take exactly zero hints and make everything personal in the best way

Together they will...

✧ argue about everything except the things that matter ✧ have conversations like:  Grumpy: “You’ll get kidnapped if you keep trusting people.”  Sunshine: “You’d murder anyone who tried.” ✧ have inside jokes that started with them almost fighting ✧ be the emotional equivalent of a thunderstorm hugging a sunflower ✧ melt into each other like puzzle pieces that should not work but somehow do ✧ accidentally learn how to be better people through sheer chaotic contrast ✧ be the “looks like they could kill you / is a cinnamon roll” meme IRL ✧ have late-night “I don’t know how to be soft” confessions ✧ become each other’s home, because no one else gets it the way they do ✧ change each other. Forever. Whether they mean to or not.

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Which OC is squeamish? What grosses them out most?

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Grumpy x Sunshine Prompts

⸺ “Why are you always frowning?” - “Why are you always... existing near me with joy?”

⸺ “Smile more.” - “You smile enough for the both of us.”

⸺ “You’re not actually mad at me.” - “I’m always mad at you.” - “You’re literally smiling right now.”

⸺ “Let me in. Stop pretending you don’t care.” - “I’m not pretending.” - “You brought me soup when I sneezed once.”

⸺ “You hate everyone but me.” - “Don’t test that.”

⸺ “I like when you laugh.” - “I don’t laugh.” - “You just did.”

⸺ “If you punch someone for being rude to me again, I swear—” - “—they deserved it.”

⸺ “You keep acting like you don’t like me.” - “Because when I do, I fall too hard. And I don’t know how to do soft.”

⸺ “You're like a grumpy little cactus.” - “And you’re like a hyper golden retriever. We shouldn’t work.”

⸺ “Then why do we?” - “…I don’t know. But I’m not letting go.”

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“Emotionally unavailable, deeply in love” prompts

☽ “I don’t do relationships.” - “Then what is this?” - “…I don’t know. But I’m not walking away.”

☽ they never say “I love you”, but they always show up. always bring food. always remember your schedule.

☽ “I’m not good at feelings.” - “That’s okay. I’ve got enough feelings for both of us.”

☽ you say “goodnight” and they reply “be safe.” every time. every single time.

☽ you touch their hand once and they look at you like you just took the ground out from under them.

☽ “I’m not what you deserve.” - “Maybe not. But you’re what I want.”

☽ they ghost you for three days, then show up at your door with your favorite snack and eyes full of unsaid apologies.

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Which OC loves to start drama?