#Cynical Baby

[gattogrigiobjd]

Migidoll Faith/Baby (5-5.5 inch) wigs by Nadine Via Flickr: Cocoriang Sumi, Secretdoll MiniMong, Migidoll Cynical Baby Teddy, and Meadowdolls Chara Twinkle

[childotkw]

I am completely waiting for Riddle to become a sugar daddy to Hadrian.

I mean, he's definitely going to try.

[derelicthorror]

We’ve all seen ‘Drifter and Operator who act a bit like siblings, with the Drifter being the cool older one’. But consider, Drifter who is generally paranoid and is scared shitless by this sudden child who looks like them from several years ago, except now they have magic void powers

anon that is EXACTLY my favorite way to engage with the drifter-operator dynamic

[stabbingandorbeingstabbed]

started watching sex and the city with a sort of detached anthropological mindset but now i'm invested. which makes sense bc im pretty sure the target demo was fags and their hags and i'm a little of both

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

poems for Grac(i)e - (for @imissthembutitwasntadisaster on her birthday)

Maggie Smith, Good Bones // Gerard Way, How It's Going To Be // Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous // Griff, Vertigo // Elizabeth Bishop, One Art // Taylor Swift, You're On Your Own, Kid // Kim Stafford, At The Student Poetry Reading // Fall Out Boy, Baby Annihilation // @/daisies-on-a-cup // Stephen King, It

[quillandrapier]

So the red nose day thing is going to be a joke special right...non canonical.

I'm just saying, perfect place to show an old friend of ours.

[marciliedonato]

chilchuck being like 40 in halfling years but actually being 28 (almost 29 before any smart ass tries to quote this with 'erm actually' 🥸☝🏻) and looks even younger is perfect 'you look young for your age' representation he's just like me fr 💯 💯🫶🏻

[landlordevil]

I really do love characters like wyll, who truly do their best to commit to acts of kindness and be a source of safety for others even if it's hard, and don't do it born out of some ulterior motive or because he thinks he's expected anything. Idk I didn't realize until very recently that I was raised by my mother to view everything as a transaction and it's made me a deeply cynical person. I want to offer kindness where I can, and I want to be able to recieve it and not question the person giving it to me. As cheesy as it sounds I think wyll has helped with that haha

[rhaenella]

Random soft!psycho!Rhys moments that I love

“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[sunshinechay]

For the shipping ask, JeffAlan?

AlanJeff my beloveds!

I love them so much. All we get out crumbs but hopefully that will change with this episode!!

They are really cute and it really feels like both might be falling in love for the first time, despite that Alan is supposed to be in his thirties (according to the book he’s 38 but I believe they may have aged him down slightly for the show) while Jeff is supposed to be 20. The age difference doesn’t really bug me, since both are shown to be mature and self assured. They match each other really well, with Alan being much more open to Jeff’s more reserved nature. They’re slowly building trust in each other and it’s so much fun to watch and so satisfying. The fact that Jeff was willing to tell Alan about his ability says a lot about the state of their relationship and much it’s improved and developed and I can’t wait to see their romantic arc properly start!

I also don’t believe Jeff when he says he’s never used his gift on Alan. Maybe not intentionally but I definitely think he might have done it by accident the first time Alan touches Jeff arm in one of the earlier episodes (I can’t remember which one haha). The only question now is what exactly did he see? Part of me really wants to it to be sickeningly domestic, the other part of me wants to it to be them fucking nasty. The romantic vs the horny I guess haha.

Also I’m not sure if they’ll actually say the word in the show, but I really love that Alan doesn’t treat Jeff any different even though Jeff is supposed to be an omega. So often in omegaverse stories, everyone wants to treat omegas like they’ll break at the slightly hardship but Alan knows his boy’s strength and he knows that he can handle it, though he’ll also be there to back him up. I think Jeff is starting to see that as well and it’s only helping their relationship :)

[gattogrigiobjd]

Dante and Flip by Nadine Via Flickr: Aimerai Gino and Migidoll Cynical Baby Teddy

[boimgfrog]

men will be like "I'm so jaded I'm such an asshole...." and then see a little baby in a big puffer coat and melt so fast

[void-botanist]

19, 20, 21, 22 for the polycule of your choice? :0

whoops we're doing it for two of them :3 and I'll include Heith too

19 - Summarize your character's goals in one sentence.

Marcus: be okay and go home, but also never have to tell Heith about all of his lies by omission

Heith: figure out if she's actually for real serious about Marcus (she thinks she might be actually for real serious about Marcus) and one way or another move out of her hotel room on Aephar

Yera: be a mom and try to make peace with the fact that Marcus is not here to be a part of the family

Hossan: be a dad and help Umedes figure themself out

Gren: see Marcus again and hopefully find out that there was no need to be jealous about his girlfriend, and make sure everyone's okay, especially the baby

Pali: prevent Kiatcarmen from finding Marcus (though that isn't a very active job), make sure the shifter coalition in the court doesn't budge, and get somewhere with her studies of shifter magic

Umedes: figure out whether they want to have a kid or not help

Kiatcarmen: find Marcus, because Minaya must not ascend, and do whatever else she can to preserve her accomplishments in the kingdom

Pirianus: broaden Kiatcarmen's vision beyond legacy, or, failing that, as he has for some 30+ years, get her to open up to him

Caladea: see Marcus again, and for his polycule's sake believe with all her heart the lies they tell Kiatcarmen

Thade: continue completing the political project du jour and end up in a happily ever after with Pirianus, which might also make him more welcome in the palace

Orvi: complete the one thing he was installed in the palace to accomplish

20 - Who's in the way of those goals?

Marcus: his mother. Always his mother. And honestly a little bit himself

Heith: herself, mostly. This is so not like her - well, specifically the part where she's still here when there have been plenty of times to go home

Yera: realistically, Kiatcarmen. But she still sometimes feels like she's lost some of her verve

Hossan: Umedes is the big challenge here. They're just so indecisive

Gren: Kiatcarmen, but sometimes it's easier to focus on the fact that Marcus has an interstellar girlfriend that none of them have ever met and that's so frustrating

Pali: herself. There aren't enough hours in the day for everything, and she has to sleep ugh

Umedes: themself, because they were the one who said this would be a great idea for when Marcus comes back. Who 100% believed Pali and Minaya and her ferasca spouses that this would go great. And who also took one look at Yera & Hossan's baby and thought that maybe they were signing up for more than they realized

Kiatcarmen: Marcus. Always Marcus. But she also blames Minaya and Yera and Pali for his disappearance, and she needs Pirianus to just shut up. This would have been so much easier with Jimmy

Pirianus: Kiatcarmen because he put his eggs all in one basket. But he mostly blames himself

Caladea: Kiatcarmen, but she tries to focus on what she can do better, and how she's getting in her own way

Thade: he's beginning to suspect he's been in his own way this entire time but it can't be understated how much Pirianus is constantly hot and cold

Orvi: it changes frequently, but always some contingent of the court

21 - What is your character's relationship with their emotions?

Marcus: he can't control his bad emotions, so he suppresses them. This has never caused any problems

Heith: she's just as cynical about her emotions as she is about everything else, but sometimes she just can't not feel something completely unironically

Yera: she's gonna feel them whatever they are so [grits teeth] negative emotions are part of the fullness of experience (she will be screaming into this pillow later)

Hossan: left to his own devices, he would feel his emotions, and then let them cast away upon the wind. Being with Yera and Gren has made him learn how to interrogate them more

Gren: he feels everything. A lot. He also conceptualizes things in terms of feelings a lot

Pali: she would like to believe she doesn't have them, but then she lays awake at night deconstructing them

Umedes: they tend to put intense feelings away for later, but don't ever get to later unless later comes for them first

Kiatcarmen: her emotions are so rich and nuanced and nobody understands that, so all of her emotions collapse into some flavor of annoyance

Pirianus: don't like that feeling? Repress it! This will never result in it returning in continually more warped and incomprehensible forms

Caladea: being in the palace seems to have stunted her emotions - they're flatter, duller, and way more anxious no matter what they are

Thade: don't like that feeling? Deflect it! The more mirrors there are between you and your emotions the less you will ever know what they are and the less you can ever be responsible for them

Orvi: he has a mental Tupperware for emotions that allows him to keep control of himself. He is the only person on this list who will actually open that Tupperware on purpose later

22 - What regrets do they have, if any? (From any part of the story, not just exposition.)

Marcus: missing out on eight years of his "real" life, and especially not being there when Gren's grandmother died. If only he'd been stronger, he could have stayed

Heith: before finding out about Marcus, that she's kind of a flake to her band, but they don't seem to mind that much. After finding out about Marcus, that she ever thought there was some kind of "magic" between them and maybe she could feel naïve about love for two seconds

Yera: she regretted drifting away from her father and sister, so she's fixing that now

Hossan: most of his regrets are from the now-distant past and don't make much sense - even he will say so - but he always finds himself regretting that he can't seem to do more for people

Gren: not going home even more before his grandmother died, even though he was practically splitting his time between his home city and the palace. He also regrets letting Marcus leave, even though he had to, and there was no other real choice

Pali: after getting married, she got more distant from her professor mentor, and the regret hit her hard when they died

Umedes: most immediately, thinking that having a kid was a good idea (they are beginning to think that this is a pregnancy kink that got out of hand). But more than anything they regret not going with Marcus, even though they couldn't

Kiatcarmen: Ashmalo was a liability, but she still regrets that he died (despite her image she does not think that assassination is the right way to deal with most problems, including Ashmalo). Conversely, she regrets that she couldn't save Jimmy, even though medical science itself could not have saved Jimmy. She also regrets letting Minaya slip out from under her thumb, because if she hadn't, she wouldn't be stuck looking for her runaway son

Pirianus: that he can't seem to permanently extract himself from Thade. If he stops and thinks about it (read: gets drunk and sad) he regrets spending so many years of his life trying to get through to a woman who would just as soon throw him to the dogs

Caladea: that she couldn't do more for Marcus or Minaya or Ashmalo, and that she still can't. And that being stuck in the palace has left her struggling to try and pick up the pieces of her creativity and her passion even though it should have given her unlimited resources to pursue them

Thade: things he's said to people. Most of them used to be seared in his brain because he thought they were funny, and eventually he figured out that oh, maybe they weren't. But some of them seemed bad from the moment they came out of his mouth (not before that, unfortunately, because he wasn't thinking about it) and he wishes he could take them back for real, especially the things he's said to Pirianus

Orvi: that he's still here. He had one thing to accomplish, and even though it was complex, it's taking SO. LONG. He knew that marrying into the royal family meant that he probably wasn't going to permanently go home again, but the longer this drags on the less he even wants to show his face there, and he wonders if it was worth it at all

[obstinatecondolement]

Having a whale of a time sorting Hozier songs into "This is sung from Crowley's point of view about Aziraphale" and "This is sung from Beelzebub's point of view about Gabriel" with a third catch-all "I do not yet know how this relates to Good Omens, but I will continue to work hard and believe in myself" category.

[mechanicalinfection]

Are you kind baby or evil baby?

I'm a motherfucking evil baby. Watch yo backs bitches.

[tvrningout]

What kind of love are you?

Love as a Choice

You choose to love. Love does not come to you easily, but every day you wake up and choose it. It would be so easy, wouldn't it, to grow cold and callous and grim. But you rise to greet the world, making the conscious effort to find something, anything to love. When you fall for someone, you do not kid yourself of their flaws. Instead, you resolve to see them for who they are, mistakes and all and you love them all the same. Your love is work, and it does not come easy. Your love sweats and toils. It is calloused and sunburned; it bears scars and comes with stories. Your love is worn, but it is no less valuable for it. Being loved by you is like being loved by a gardener, a mother, a teacher. Your love may not always be the simplest, but it is worth the effort.

Love as a Threshold

Your love does not ask for much. Your love does not take. Your love is free, and unquestioned, and here for wherever needs it. When you fall in love, it is as gentle as a breath in the night. It is quiet, and it is effortless. It is tender. If your love was a house, it would readily welcome all who come through. If your love was a hearth, it would warm the hands of whoever stopped by, whether for a day, a month, a year, or forever. When you fall for someone, it is without strings, without conditions, without need. You love for the sake of loving, for the sake of caring for those who need it. You love with a giver’s heart and a giver’s hands and are made so much stronger for it. Being loved by you is to always feel at home. Your love may not always be well-received by those unprepared to linger, but it is unforgettable all the same.

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