#FIRST SLIMES OF SLIME WEEK !!!! THEYRE SO GOOD !!!!!

[myxomycota]

Here's a couple slimes for you on this slime week (also my birthday week!)

SO GORGEOUS !!! Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa and Fuligo septica 🤍💛

[kcrossvine-art]

Hi fellow adventurers!! A few weeks ago i caught wind of "Delicious in Dungeon". I'm not really an anime person, but I am a TTRPG, CRPG, and cooking person- . And holy shit. It is so good i  convinced my partner to binge read the whole thing. I'm caught up on dungeon meshi, the anime, and just yesterday i also finished dungeon meshi, the manga.

Its rare to come across a serialized story that is so thematically cohesive and knows its characters so well. All of the bonus content like the artbooks and monster tidbits are just the icing on top.

So, inspired by Ryōko Kui's writing and illustration I'm going to attempt to create a recipe for every single Delicious in Dungeon recipe!-

Today that means Huge Scorpion and Walking Mushroom hotpot is on the menu!

(As always you can find the cooking instructions and full ingredient list under the break-)

MY NAMES CROSS NOW LETS COOK LIKE ANIMALS

SO, “what goes in to a Huge Scorpion and Walking Mushroom hotpot?” YOU MIGHT ASKThis is one of the pricier dishes until we get to the kelpies and dragons of the menu-

Rock lobster tail

Porcini mushrooms

Shiitake mushrooms

Snow fungus

Small potatos

Fensi (glass noodles)

Water

OPTIONAL: your choice of dipping sauces

There was a crossover/promotional event in Shibuya which featured various realworld dishes from the series. They had one for Huge Scorpion and Walking Mushroom, but they used prawns.  while those cook better in a hotpot, they also didn't look enough like the scorpion for me, they also used udon noodles for the slime and a seaweed/kale(?) mixture for the algae. If you're looking for substitutes due to price or availability i would start with those ingredients.

AND, “what does a Huge Scorpion and Walking Mushroom hotpot taste like?” YOU MIGHT ASKI hope Senshi would forgive me for technically cooking the lobster outside the pot, once he tastes it.

Okay im always partial to veggies but wowowowowowowoowowowow the snow fungus and the mushrooms tasted soooooooooooo good in the lobster stock

A nice delicate layering of different flavors

Try to get a bite with the lobster meat and shiitake together, dip in butter then chili- trust me

Its up to you what texture you prefer if you want to put the noodles in at the end or put them in halfway through the meal. Either way dont go for eating those first as theyre very filling

I think this would pair well with a citrus drink, something light and clarifying

This would also pair well with being extremely high and hungry (if you feel safe cooking while inebriated lol) very calorically dense

For the trial run I did one lobster tail in the pot with everything else, and one lobster tail off to the side to be picked apart. The former is more in spirit with a hotpot, but it got rubbery as the meal went on and lost its nice taste. The latter may be a bit more work but all you have to do still is boil it and set it aside. I found it held up much better. It was also easier to get inside the shell.

. If you have hardshell maine lobster available, i think it would be superior to rock lobster (keep in mind crustaceans will get rubbery if cooked too long in the pot) . Green onions and/or lotus root would make excellent additions

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From getting the ingredients out to sitting down and eating, id say it took maybe 30 minutes max? It'd vary on how fast you can prep vegetables and get the various implements heated.

Hotpots are not something i do very often as i'm usually just feeding myself. I think thats why a hotpot makes perfect sense to start the series off. If you want to set the tone of "take care of yourself, eat food with others, and use what you have" (generally speaking) there is nothing more simplistic, flexible, and defeats-the-purpose-if-you-eat-it-alone than a hotpot. Gather around and let your friends bring ingredients to the pot if you want to fill your heart up extra full <3

I'm doing something different here because unlike previous recipes where i used a bunch of different sources and made my own recipe out of hodge-podging it, or just used another persons recipe entirely if they did it really well, i made this more whole-cloth based off of what i had available, what I could discover through research, and my existing knowledge. Instead of the recipe being 50/50 original, this one is more 20/80. So. I'll pass the final verdict off to you guys :D 

What would you rate this recipe out of 10? (with 1 being food that makes one physically sick and 10 being food that gives one a lust for life again.) Did you love it, did you hate it? What're your thoughts on what I could do different, and what would you have done instead?

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Ingredients:

2 Rock lobster tails

3 Porcini mushrooms

2 Shiitake mushrooms

Snow fungus (a good handful, should rehydrate in the hotpot)

2 Small waxy potatos

Fensi (glass noodles)

Water/lobster stock

Method:

Lightly rinse all of your vegetables beforehand and let them dry.

Vertically slice the porcini mushrooms. Cut off and dice the stems of the shiitake mushrooms. You can slice the tops if youd like.

Peel and cube the potatoes, roughly an inch each.

For the lobster tails; Boil a pot of salted water. Keep the shell on. Weigh the largest tail and add 1 minute of cooking time for every ounce of weight.

When done, strain the lobster from the water. Pour the water into your hotpot as the base. Serve the lobster on the side so people can pick the meat out to dip into the hotpot.

Bring the hotpot to a simmer. Add the potato cubes, snow fungus, mushrooms, and noodles.

OPTIONAL: this wasnt in the show, but its fun having sauces on the side :) i had oyster sauce, dry seasoned chili dip, melted butter, and soy sauce available

[limpfisted]

some disability wyll stuff regarding occular prosthesis. eye trauma tw, obviously. i do not have any eye prothesis and am not a doctor or historian, but i wanna talk about wyll seriously as disabled and fantasy disabled rep

medieval “glass eyes” were UNCOMFORTABLE.

modern day prothesis need to be removed and cleaned every three weeks or so. every six months or so, they need to be polished. debris/grit/slime can get on the outside of the eye. the eye can be scratched and grow cloudy.

the modern prosthesis needs to be replaced every so often. you’ll notice it because your eye socket will shift and change, and so it needs to be refitted to be more comfortable. your socket/eyelid will eventually start to sag, your tear ducts will leak discharge, and you might start to get infections and further dryness when it needs to be replaced.

bc wyll’s eye is a sending stone—we can assume that mizora is the only one who is allowed to replace it. we dont know if wyll is allowed to take out his eye and clean it himself—but tbh. we can make some assumptions considering the eye itself is a method of controlling him

she uses the maintenance/upkeep/replacements of the eye as a further way to control him, and probably further humiliate him lbr

we can also probably extrapolate that while his eye was damaged in the fight with mizora, mizora was the one who removed it and thats how he got the scars on his face. we don’t know if she used anaesthesia. considring the scars on the face make it seem like he at least tried to struggle, probably not

a big reason wyll is really good disabled rep to me personally, is a lot of disabled people rely on abusers as “caretakers” and then cant leave them. even when theyre not particularly good caretakers

its also worth noting again it can take people who lose an eye months to recover, WITH physical therapy. judging distances, holding things, cutting food, driving, are all things that can be hard at first. plus depression, ptsd, feeling dysphoric and a sense of loss

wyll has to relearn how to fight p much, and do it all on his own. we dont know when he got his first contract from mizora. we dont know the first time he was sent to avernus

but u can imagine mizora wasnt altogether kind about it.

in general i think wyll deserves a soft eyepatch and to never have to wear a prothesis again, that would be so traumatic tbh

[doomsdaydicecascader]

What would you say was the thing that really shifted your opinion on postcanon stuff? I remember reading your long form posts about it and finding them pretty eloquent and interesting given the information I had (and I admit they did nudge me to me to end up not reading the epilogues along with the sheer length and my own squeamishness, though of course you also gave them their due when you felt it was fair)

if i'm being real, it's primarily interaction with other homestuck fans - my social media spaces tend to be pretty heavily curated, i basically only follow people i trust to be intelligent, since like. there is a level of comfort and complacency with social media? i don't like following new people, i don't like unfollowing old people. so i just dont branch out that much.

but i joined the mspfa discord in........ may of last year? while i really enjoy playing the role of like, i compared myself to solaire of astora once. guy who is there to help. i enjoy doing that, there is fun in that. i have spent many hours over the past months explaining homestuck plot points in ways that basically only i would and it is largely, pearls before swine, because the fact is that people dont want to understand post-canon, they don't want to like, pick at it critically, to understand why the decisions were made, they want to hate post-canon. and this is a very critical difference between me not liking post-canon and the majority of people hating post-canon.

and there is something to be said about experiencing homestuck as it is perceived by other people, to really solidify what i liked about homestuck post-canon, because there was stuff i liked to begin with. and seeing people who hate it without good reason frustrate me! genuinely, if you had to see the same "i heard jade has a dog penis" discussions every 2 weeks from some sprout who showed up only to be mad, you would start to defend it too.

like, i actually delayed that second blog post at the time because hatred for the team was flaring up again, for whatever reason, i don't even remember. but i remember putting it off because i didn't want to contribute to people who were blindly angry about homestuck^2

there are reasons to not like post-canon, lord knows there are plenty. i actually stand by basically everything i said about it not actually working and the times where it goes too far. in the second blog post, not the first one. but like, there is a total and all-encompassing difference in what the conversation is, "yeah, the meat and candy thing doesnt really work and dirks graphic suicide is ill-considered at best" doesnt matter at all when the level people are operating on is "say a plot point as a joke, make people mad, have fun circlejerking over how bad it is"

part of it is also that in the process of writing my own comic, it kind of comes with the territory to be less precious about the characters. like, team slime, my home discord server, watches movies every saturday. for a while, our theme was musicals, and eventually, we watched hamilton. and i realized that lin manuel miranda writes alexander hamilton in the exact way i am always afraid i am writing jane and vriska, like. just. truly relentlessly protective of them. and so being less precious about these characters means recognizing the flaws therein, not being afraid to write them just being kind of disasters. i still am pretty precious about them, but its a work in progress. you gotta get your hands dirty with them, and that puts it in context of respecting when others do the same

like, there are still a lot of really glaring flaws in post-canon, dont get me wrong, but theyre not insurmountable, and it helps to have spaces like burning down the house for me to express directly like. what i wanted out of homestuck. post-canon is not what i want it to be, but when has homestuck ever given anyone what they wanted without any complications whatsoever

and i think it is genuinely capable of being extremely good - this recent update (yiffy overlooking the rosemary drama) is extremely choice! i genuinely love how everyone involved is characterized, the panels are flashy, it puts to bed really stupid shit, like. its unbelievably fucking good how the problem kanaya has isnt "rose had another kid with jade in secret, our marriage is in shambles" but "jane knows about this kid", like. the absence of infidelity conflict is refreshing and says so much about everyone involved. and i have been thinking nonstop about how rose and jades daughters takes after caliborn of all characters. like. "you hope they eat each other alive" with the perspective of like, a caliborn grin is such an INSANE direction to take yiffy! holy shit! its awesome!!!!!!!!

[a-whispering-echo]

Heya!! Feel free to not answer or not consent to it, but I was wondering if I could use your Heathers!Dust AU for a big ol' story I'm working on? (The Dustverse)

And if yes, may I know about your Heathers!Dust AU? ( In the form of links or just random little tidbits of info )

. . . and also Pestilence!Dust if that's all goods

Obviously feel free to say no! Hope you have a wonderful week regardless :]

of course you can use them! i'd be flattered!

My heathers au is based on the musical - Heathers, where the mtt play the heathers, and Cross is Veronica; Dust plays Heather Chandler's role here.

basically, theyre just the mucical cast but they the utmv guys

In my head, its also an actor au, but you can totally ignore that for plot purposes ;)

Heather Chandler actually dies about halfway through the musical, murdered accidentally by Veronica and JD - or Cross and Nightmare here - so if you wanted Dust to be a ghost or alive, totally up to you!

Chandler's bossy, the leader of the Heathers, manipulative and unappolagetic - mean for the sake of being mean, really

His scarf takes the place of heathers scrunchie here, and when he died, Killer (H.Duke) takes it and wears it in to ‘take control’ if you will. Dust does Not Like That (™) 

This makes Horror (H.Mcnamara) really sad 

i have a *cough* Slime tutorial here if you were interested hehe

Im gonna go through and tag all my heathers au now with 'Rues Heathers AU' so you should be able to find stuff ive done in the past from them, and stuff i will continue to make ;)

He or she pronouns are fine for Dust here, cus i couldnt really decide if i wanted to genderbend everyone to match the genders of the characters or not, so up to you really, both, one or the other, whatever lol

Pestilence is a bit more complicated; from my Four Horsemen Au - where Nightmare, Dust, Killer and Horror take the roles of the four horsemen, who are said to appear at the end of the humanity, and bring about the apocalypse and all that, from christian texts

Pestilance actually has a redesign since i made him, because hes one of my older things, so:

The first horseman, with a bow and crown, rides a white horse - Dust - Pestilence/Conquest

His crown is made of thorns and branches, jesus style, with melting candles dripping wax slowly; its said when the candles fully melt and the flames burn out, humanity is no more.

The actual 'crown' part of his crown are pitch black metal, and are shaped like arrows

The white sheet covers his face, the way you do to dead people - you do not want to end up seeing his face, because you wont see anything after it if you do ;)

he is constantly in a state of dusting - never fully committing to it,

His hands and body are covered and stained in monster dust and human blood, stains that can never be washed out

he is in a perpetual state of dusting, never really committing either way, just..constantly decaying

He constantly has this green illness liquid dripping from his eyes and mouth - its poison.

His arrows are all poison tipped as well

His bow and fletch are summonable, and attach to his belt easily - he can summon and de-summon them at will.

His horse - which i didnt draw because fuck that - is activly rotting and decaying, bones and rotting flesh making up its body. its a white horse, obviously, with voidless black eyes

both he and the horse trail dust everywhere, disease laying in the powder

the illness that he causes can be physical sickness, and it can be mental sickness, basically anything you count as ' being unwell' he can cause

hes a bit kooky really, he screams and cries and laughs a lot more than he actually talks but he is capable of it, hes just quiet and ominous really, and theres this lingering presence of illness and threat around him. like his space, which is ironic, because illness festers in crowded spaces, its where he thrives.

"i will cough on you if you do not leave me alone."

[sannylity]

hi im here to be silly about the coffeeshop au/oneshot idea that you made up :D

i see mariana as an exhausted university graduate who still lives with her parents and yeah he has a job but like. rent is expensive you know? meanwhile charlie is a silly guy who has a loyal but small online following because of his videos that he makes which are so goofy like him.

the first time charlie went into the coffee shop it was because his friend quackity recommended he go there. to order whatever drink and he was like "ok sounds good :3" and then he goes and the hottest person ever is behind the counter.

he steps back outside with pink cheeks, taking a deep breath. holy shit. he's fine, he's fine. he'll just order a drink.

the first time it was just because he kept on stumbling over his words. he just nodded along with whatever the sparkling barista (who he learned is named mariana!! pretty name for a pretty guy) said, so he wound up with a very expensive and complex drink. he felt very bad, so he tipped generously and took his drink, leaving all flustered.

so he comes by at the same time every weekday, constantly making super complex orders as he tries to work up the courage to ask for this guy's number, but he never can. out of pure embarrassment, he stops going. it sucks because he doesnt see mariana for a week and he winds up groaning to his roommate wilbur about it.

then wilbur drags him to that coffeeshop the next day. they sit in the corner with their drinks talking in hushed tones, charlies hands shaking as wilbur tries to reassure him. they wind up standing together and charlie wants to just fucking run but wil grabs his wrist and drags him to the register.

im also imagining them talking over text and calling and marianas like "we should go hang out" and charlies like "okay :3" so they hang out at the mall. they get boba drinks, a couple silly clothing items, super fucking good tacos, and hang out in the arcade for a bit. its raining by the late afternoon and charlie sighs, knowing he needs to walk home.

but mariana just walks him to her car, charlie a couple steps behind him. she couldnt help but be thankful for the fact he couldnt see his face.

mariana drove charlie home, playing his playlist. it was mostly songs in spanish, but charlie hummed along, and mariana couldn't help but do so as well. they get back to charlies apartment complex and theyre standing outside the doorway under the overhang.

"thanks for, uh, taking me out on the d- i mean, hanging out with me! and then driving me home!" charlie exclaims, a nervous smile on his face as mariana looks down at him.

"ah, es no problema. i had fun." her ears and nose are a bit pink. charlie blinks at him.

"are you feeling okay? you're a bit pink. oh gosh, what if you're catching a cold! you should come in!" he says with an anxious expression, putting a hand on mariana's forehead. he tries to take it back down, but she gently holds it there, leaning down a little to be face to face with him.

"¿puedo darte un beso?" charlies face goes beet red. he knows what beso means.

"uh, sure-" hes cut off by mariana placing a kiss onto his lips, lingering there for a moment. he released charlies hand, who instead cupped her jaw, not wanting to break apart.

was it only 3 seconds? was it eternity? they'll never know. they pulled apart, both flustered and a bit embarrassed.

"i should go home"

"yeah no no i should head in as well see you mariana!!!"

"see you slime!"

charlie lays facedown on his bed, kicking his feet excitedly. mariana sits in his car, parked down a few blocks, hands over her face.

what were they now? they werent sure. but they both knew that was the sweetest kiss theyve ever had.

-💫 (wow this was longer than i expected)

YES YES YES!!

This is exactly the AU’s tone and setting. It’s this level of fluff and lightheartedness and you understood the assignment😂👍🏻

I also just really like how shy and innocent things are between them despite being in their 20’s. Mariana even more so because he didn’t think he was capable of being sweet and romantic, but Charlie just brings out that side of him🥺

[my-lunaberg]

I got sick and didnt feel like watching dsmp so I just watched a bunch of random movies I found on my german piracy site of choice for almost a week but now Im better and Im about to watch Eryns origin story and idk man, I just felt like sharing my thoughts about that guy so far

First of all, Im so curious about this concept of any dsmp character having an origin story bc its like. their origin story is that they showed up. thats it. Like yeah, a lot of people very obviously have histories going back to before they showed up on the smp but theyre never really elaborated upon. Niki and Wilbur would kill for eachother with no hesitation, no explaination needed, stuff like that

Also, Im curious about some of the demon lore we'll potentially get bc like, demons arent a thing in minecraft the way slimes or endermen are but Eryn said he is one and also actually confirmed that BBH is one as well (I think he did anyway, I know its been popular fanon for a while but I dont remember it being brought up in canon before he said it), so Im curious how theyre gonna be integrated. My prediction is that theyre basically just gonna be like, the nether-equivalent of humans. Like, in the overworld the humans (or player characters ig) are the only sapient creatures and in the nether its demons.

But thats general lore stuff, now I wanna talk about my guy Eryn !!!! :D

I like him so much and idek why. Hes just a fun guy a fun lil guy I love him :D

I guess the best way to describe it would be like, Im very charmed by him. I love that hes like, this edgy-lookin ninja guy who likes to cause trouble, hes really the chaotic teenage boy this server has been missing ever since every other teenage boy has either been horrifically traumatized or is Purpled. I also like that, despite him being this chaotic teen boy who does what he wants, he seems to very sincerely admire Eret and listens to them for some reason ?? I say 'for some reason' because Eret has kinda been old news for a long time, like the fact that theyre a king doesnt mean anything because actual governments just kinda stopped mattering to everyone except for Wilbur and Quackity, but that honestly just makes it more charming. Eryn and Erets entire dynamic is just so good idk why, but its so comfy and chill in a way where you can tell theyre still just aquaintances but its still so nice yknow. This kinda ties into my previous point as well, I really like how he put a shit ton of effort into getting good knight armor and honestly really wants to be a knight while also demonstrating that hes willing and able to like, steal shit from the prison

Another thing that I find really interesting is his complete and utter lack of connection or interaction with Dream. Like, he arrived after Dream had long been in prison and while he left an undeniable impact on literally everything in the server, no one really. talked about it? Eryn seemingly had to go out of his way to get any kind of information because when Dream was still locked up everyone was all like "welp, the big badscary villain man is gone, and we're all safe so we dont have to worry about him anymore and we'd rather not talk or think about him lest we spoil everyones good mood" and then when he escaped they were all like "oh no, we're already feeling so anxious and bad bc we dont know where he is so we'd rather not talk about him lest we make everyone feel even worse when everything is already so terrible". His mindset is that Dream hasnt harmed him personally and hes never really interacted with him so he doesnt really have an opinion on him, which is very interesting as well. On one hand, it seems a bit naive to think that way when literally everyone keeps telling him how horrible that guy is, but also, while none of the conflicts on the dream smp have ever been caused by mob mentality, they have certainly been exercabated by it, so i guess its better to have less of it

I do have mixed feelings about that though. I feel like I'd need to see Eryn interact with Dream in order to really form an opinion on that and I feel like they might actually do that. Like, Eryn is Tommys friend and I think if Dream somehow found out that he doesnt have any negative feelings towards him on the basis of "he hasnt harmed me personally", he would definitely try to exploit that and I think that could be really interesting. If that doesnt happen in canon I might write an AU about it, probably not straight up villain!Eryn but maybe leaning more towards chaotic neutral idk

[bansheeoftheforest]

Ok so its 2:30 am and im going feral over syndicate au

After they “officially” (or as official as they can be at least) hire jekyll as their chemist things are somewhat awkward between henry and jacob for a bit. With the other people henry can be professional and friendly towards but jacob was literally the one introducing him to all of this. Via a one-night-stand

Except that attraction between them is obviously there?? Like they (probably) wouldnt have done the wahoo with eachother if it wasnt there, so all theres left is for them to get to know eachother. And they do slowly get to know eachother through meetings, and business exchanges where jacob tries to flirt and henry is flustered but not too flustered to laugh, and then they start talking outside work and then before they know it theyre back to making out except this time theyre SOBER and they decide it means something. And then BOOM, boyfriends

And then jacob thinks hes funny, and the kidnappings start happening

Also i would to know how jacob would react to the big reveal that jekyll = hyde. Personally im a big fan of “oh wow my beloved youre genuinely an insane person :) thats cool tho. Love you lots xoxo”

Hey dude. You know what I was... Is it called daydreaming if I did it to go to sleep? Either way you know what I was imagining over and over and over when trying to go to sleep?

Exactly this.

I can imagine Henry being so incredibly awkward around the other assassins and especially Jacob at first. After all, Jacob was a one-night-stand and all other assassins wanted him dead (he assumes) but he quickly befriends Evie and Greenie because he is as social as a puppy and is just as likable as one. But he keeps a distance from Jacob because he finds the entire situation incredibly uncomfortable and especially after what happened with Robert. He doesn't want to get hurt like that again and even if his heart slowly, slowly is letting go of Robert and willingly opens itself up again, he desperately tries to lock it away and make sure he isn't too close to Jacob. Jacob, who probably is a person to fall head-over-heels with persons he just met and especially if they have even shagged (he literally fell in love with two of his enemies after 1-2 meetings, canonically, one being a gal and one being a lad) is probably quite hurt by Jekyll taking a distance but he still tries. Hence the flirting, hence still trying to get to know Henry.

A few months pass, maybe. Henry gets used to working for the assassins, he spends most of his free time on the train because he can escape both Lodgers and friends alike and just... Relax. Even if he spends most of his time there, and even if he tries to get away from Jacob to not end up more hurt, he just can't. He keeps getting pulled into those handsome eyes and those flirty jokes and he just can't deny that he is feeling something for Jacob, and Jacob notices. Suddenly Greenie and Evie are gone on an emergency mission and Jacob and Henry are alone on the train. Perhaps Jacob would offer Henry some whiskey, perhaps they would just sit around and talk on one of the couches. Perhaps Jacob would slowly inch his way closer and Henry would pretend not to notice. Suddenly Jacob's hand is on his thigh and Henry's breath hitches, his face shots up to meet Jacob's gaze and their noses brush together. They are alone, Jacob takes his chance, and so softly he presses their lips together. Nowhere near as hungrily as their first meeting and nowhere near as possessively as during their shag. It's soft, it's adoring, and Henry can't help but melt into it. He doesn't want to but something in him feels safe with Jacob, much safer than he had ever felt with Robert, much more loved than he had ever felt by Robert, yet he quickly falls back to reality when Jacob's hand moves-- maybe not even up his thigh, maybe he just accidentally nudged it-- and Henry places his hands on Jacob's chest and breaks off. So many thoughts and feelings swirling around in his head, yet all he can feel is how his heart clenches so violently and everything in him is screaming stop, stop, go back, you are ruining it, all while it's also screaming run, run, don't look back, don't let yourself get hurt again.

Henry stands up, Jacob follows as Henry begins to panic so slightly. He is apologizing profusely, he is saying that Jacob please shouldn't take this personally, it's just... He can't handle this right now, he's sorry, Jacob did nothing wrong but Henry just isn't ready for it. Right as Henry is about to leave the train, Jacob stops him. He asks what he did wrong, or what's making Henry panic so. Henry stops, for a moment, takes a deep breath, and tells him that he just... Does not know what Jacob wants from him, and he has been hurt by pretend-relationships enough that he doesn't want to experience that again. Jacob tells him that he actually likes him, he would like to have an actual relationship with him sometime, if that would be something Henry would want and would be comfortable with. Henry pauses, another deep breath, and finally, he just says that... He needs to think about it. Please give him some space, he will give him a letter once he has gotten to think things through, he is sorry for being difficult but it's just... So, so much for him and after what he has been through. It's nothing personal, he assures Jacob, yet both of them just feel so, so hurt as Henry waits for the nearest train station and leaves. It's in the middle of the night, yet he is trudging his way back to the Society alone. Jacob debates following him, just to make sure he gets home safely, but doesn't.

Maybe it takes a few days, maybe some weeks, maybe even months, but soon, when Jacob enters the train after a particularly foul mission, Evie has a letter for him. "Jekyll came by and told me to give it to you", she says. Jacob could not grab it any faster, hastily tells her some weak excuse before excusing himself to his personal train compartment. He sits on his bed, he takes a deep breath, and he opens the wax seal of the letter-- so formal and official, he thinks. He wonders what Jekyll has told him, what news he is about to get. He can't deny that he likes him and that he likes him a lot. More than he liked Pearl. More than he ever liked Maxwell. What he feels for Henry feels good and real and he just feels miserable at the thought that Henry might not feel the same.

He opens the letter; the actual text and paper are just as "official" and formal as the actual wax seal and letter fold.

And then he reads it.

And the first thing Henry does, no surprise, is apologizing, and Jacob feels his blood run cold. But then he continues to read, and Henry is explaining why he was so scared. He has been hurt before, his last boyfriend treated him like a side piece that he just threw away and they had known each other for two years and it has affected Henry a lot. He apologized for being difficult, but he is willing to try out a relationship if Jacob is still up for it, and if he is just willing to take it slow and be patient with Henry.

And Jacob, of course, is willing to be patient. He is willing to wait for Henry because he likes him.

At the end of the letter, Henry asks Jacob to meet him in his office somewhere during the evening; he will keep the window open.

And Jacob does come.

And they get to talk it all out, they get to set some boundaries and actually talk about what they want out of all of this. Obviously ends with Jacob embracing Henry in a way only lovers can, and loads and loads of kisses.

Look, I'm just... So soft for this ship, ok? And now I have an excuse to ramble on about it bc more people actually ship them through this au and I love it.

ALso realized I completely forgot the last part heeh <3

So far, I have imagined the assassin crew (Jacob, Evie, Greenie) needing Henry for something but they see this... This blond gremlin breaking into his office. They immediately think of cornering him and questioning him about why he is breaking into Henry's office, except they enter at exactly the wrong time and manages to catch the transformation as Hyde turns back into Jekyll. They all stare in horror and yet Jacob doesn't hesitate to immediately run forward and cradle Henry; spitting and trying to keep himself from vomiting as all that slime and goop comes out of his mouth and eyes. Henry coughs, he manages to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is the assassins and Jacob's face. He coughs again, he presses out a panicked smile, and the only thing he says is "oh fuck."

Jacob, without even thinking about it, immediately helps Henry to gather himself and clean himself off of the slime, Evie and Greenie are just standing on the sidelines unsure of what to do. Finally, Henry is rested against a cabinet and his breathing is calmer, and he manages to explain everything. Yeah, he was really depressed a few years ago and he thought there were things that were horribly wrong with him so he wanted to get rid of that. Except he accidentally personified all of that "bad" stuff and now that person is Edward Hyde. Jacob would definitely be... Slightly concerned, but would very much be like "oh so you are slightly insane and also halfly schizophrenic? Ahaha is no big deal I still love u darling xoxo"

...Y'all think Jacob would start flirting with Hyde too after that?

Honestly! I very much like all kinds of confessions when it comes to the Jekyll/Hyde reveal, so? Gimme all your thoughts, I crave them all. I just love the angsty routes <3

[knife-enby]

autistic!caleb, jester, + fjord, part 2

(original post can be found here!)

since people seemed to like the original one so much, i figured i’d make another with more headcanons!!

caleb:

literally never understands what his body needs. is he hungry? is he tired? is he depressed? does he just need to pee? hell if he knows

wriggle fingers for the Stim

chewed on his clothing a lot as a kid but that was “unprofessional” at the academy and “really gross” with the mighty nein as his clothes have not been washed in minimum 3 weeks maximum 6 months

jester buys him stuff he can chew on safely

this poor disaster cannot function independently. if a conversation goes off-script (which, its the mighty nein; it always does) and hes not with a Friend who can help Redirect Him back into the New, Scary, Free form Conversation he will just up and leave

look. his fine & gross motor skills are TERRIBLE. his handwriting is chicken scratch, he can’t walk in a straight line while sober and focused, he chokes on his own saliva. he’s a disaster.

this has not stopped him from trying to do a cartwheel in the private of his own room after seeing beauregard do one.

he almost broke his wrist.

tone never matches emotion, ever

this was a big problem back when he first met the mighty nein and he was too uncomfortable to stim around them

now that theyre Family hes okay stimming and if anyones having trouble judging his emotions they can usually go off his stims

an extension of the prior point: caleb stims in very different ways depending on how he’s feeling

jester:

plays with stim toys so frequently & roughly that they break after Literally A Single Day

had a special interest in BUGS as a kid

not rlly big on this anymore but when she sees bugs her brain is like :O!!!!!!!!! still

her mom Really Does Not Like Bugs. but she bought jester booklets full of insect facts anyways b/c she Loves Her Daughter

yknow how sometimes things definitely are not edible but you go to put it in your mouth anyways? she does this with literally anything she can get her hands on. she did it all the time once did it with grass & dirt as a kid

one of her FAVE phrases to do echolalia of is “i love you”

she LOVES water, just like fjord

she LOATHES water slime, totally unlike fjord

idk what this is called but yknow when you’re doing things and you gotta Make A Comical Noise that matches what youre doing (like going “omnom” when eating or “woosh!” when you turn around a corner real fast)? yeah she does this

can, will, and MUST jump up & down when happy

makes bracelets and puts little beads & strings you can fidget with on them (she wears like 20 at any given moment)

fjord:

blankets: good 4 making cocoon then Sleep In It

v easily overwhelmed by touch unless its from specific ppl (jester, beau, & caduceus are the only ppl on the Good Touch list)

absolutely fascinated by the smallest of details in things. he could sit for hours running his fingers over the fabric of a quilt

hasn’t had a routine in 14 years and Does Not Intend To Start Now

its hard for him to follow a routine but not having routine makes him anxious so hes in the most awkward inbetween ever where most of the time by the time hes in bed he’s overwhelmed as all fuck

over time, caleb helps him sort out daily activities into a sort-of-routine, and he feels less overwhelmed afterwards!

bounced from obscure hyperfixation to obscure hyperfixation as a kid and now has really oddly specific information and knowledge

throughout his childhood & still now, he volunteers to do a lot of hands-on work & crafts as a form of stimming / moving his body

one of his fave things to do nowadays is help jester out with art projects

when he was a kid he loved to do carpentry stuff cause Wood Smell Is Amazing Stim

often trips over his words & will sometimes even say the completely wrong (but related) word

although he doesn’t really like being open about his autistic-ness to allistics or in public, catch him making jokes & openly speaking about it when he’s just with jester & caleb

[violetteviolence]

in the last week I have watched all of these in full and like. I really need to get out of the fucking house man.

in order to feel less like I've been decaying here for no reason heres a short list of my thoughts

The ancient magus bride - solid B. great concept, needed better execution. suffered from 1 season syndrome where it's really slow for 6 or 7 eps and then everything happens all at once in order to culminate in a "final battle showdown" with some big antagonist that comes out of nowhere

that time I got reincarnated as a slime - a++ easily my favorite isekai ever. pls watch the slime man and love him with me

dr. stone - I'm not even gonna bother. u know it's good, just watch it. u will not be disappointed.

no. 6 - GAY BEES. I love my idiot outlaw sons. theyre good boys with lots of feelings. I would die for nezumi

isekai cheat magician - mediocre, unoriginal, way too much white knighting

demon slayer: kimetsu no yaiba - I've been sobbing for days I sob more with every new episode someone just protect these children theyve done nothing to deserve this

gingitsune: messenger fox of the gods - cute, fun, exactly as advertised. I'm a sucker for shrine animes so this was right up my alley

given - THEYRE GAY AND THEYRE IN A BAND AND THEYRE NOT TAKING ANY OF YOUR HOMOPHOBIC SHIT KAREN

how to keep a mummy: the single most adorable thing I've ever watched I need 1000 miikuns IMMEDIATELY

is it wrong to try to pick up girls in a dungeon - surprisingly very good. found family of misfits is my. fucking. jam. and bell is fucking adorable I mean LOOK at that little face. lots of fan service but I can deal with titty shots and stupid low cut dresses so long as I dont have to watch a lady get raped. the bar seems so low and yet...

the rising of the shield hero: and yet here we fucking are!!! the bar is on the floor and yet this disaster still dug 7ft down in order to sink so low. incels first isekai. this anime hates women. do not watch if u view women as people or u WILL need to kill something the moment u realize shes REGETTING THE FUCKING SLAVE TATTOO

special mention for Food Wars which I attempted to watch and then immediately noped tf out when I had to watch a woman get tentacle raped as a metaphor for eating a gross piece of squid. because that's a thing that happened in ep 1

[kadywicker]

what's it like being a teacher?? i've always thought of being one but never knew if i was up for it, especially for pre-k

sorry i didnt get notified abt this thanks tumblr fasjdfadf

but tbh its super fun??? i love it. over the years ive wanted to do either nursing or an art teacher for middle school/high school. but i needed to make Money and my mom got a job at this holistic school and they offered me a job too as her aid. within like a week i absolutely fell in love with it and i knew that early childhood development was what i HAD to get my degree in. i’d helped out my mom working at daycares before or doing various nannying jobs, but this is the first time i’ve been like... in a classroom setting for hours 5 days a week.

but! it’s really fun. it’s not for everyone, though. basically to be a teacher u gotta a) have a ton of empathy b) have patience and c) think of kids, no matter how young, as completely your equal. they have the same emotional capacity as adults and they’re way smarter than you’d think. if those aren’t things you think are your strong suits then it might not be a good fit and thats okay!

but basically... as a teacher, u do things like... lesson planning, making sure kids are emotionally okay, calming yourself down and smiling anyway when a particularly tough kid starts acting up, willing to have Fun as far as you can physically. like... playing pretend, picking kids up and spinning them around, joining them if they’re playing w slime/play dough, just in general trying to get to their level to understand them more and not just seem like a stand offish adult who doesnt Understand them.

tbh to ME pre k is way easier than older kids. i’ve had to teach a couple classes at this school to elementary-hs kids and it’s a lot more difficult than pre k imo. with pre k like... most of the kids are potty trained, so that’s a plus. and they’re hyper as hell but you kinda get used to the noise and it’s worth it bc they’re incredibly cute and loving. like, today i had a little 3 year old sitting next to me while i was making flash cards and she wanted to color with me so she just kept coloring lil squiggles and then gluing them together and handing them to me saying they were cards for me. another kid (my favorite kid) was super excited bc i stayed passed lunch today (usually i go home before lunch) and he hugged my legs and kept walking around attached to my legs. u also get random high fives and hugs. 

really the only difficult part abt pre k is that sometimes the kids will like. melt down but bc theyre so young it’s hard to calm them down bc they don’t really... Understand how to get themselves to a calmer place. but even then like. theres usually a reason behind why theyre acting that way. like one girl in my class has parents who just... never see her. shes always in aftercare and then on weekends she goes to daycare. she only sees them at most like 4 hours a day. so whenever she starts crying over smth small or losing it out of nowhere, it’s p easy to go “okay, there’s a reason for this, let me just hold her until she starts to calm down”. like i said, you just rlly gotta be empathetic. try and understand where they’re coming from and the job is super easy.

but in summary: it’s a p easy job for me and it’s incredibly rewarding bc you get to see kids learn and grow and watch as concepts click for them, as well as getting a TON of affection and having an outlet for your affection as well. the hardest part is just really... being able to gain control/respect ig bc some kids if they’re losing it you can calm down p easy bc they respect you, where others might just flat out ignore you. w those ones u just gotta breathe and smile anyway lmao