#I'm too tired and too shy for this

[persistent-wallflower]

Getting fucked by someone who genuinely likes me would fix me

[softquietsteadylove]

I know it’s probably so annoying of me to keep asking for more every time you fulfill one of my prompts, but once again you hit it out of the park with the memory loss au!!! Gil is so sweet and kind and such a good husband who loves his wife no matter what 🥹 i don’t have a specific prompt, but just would love to read more about that journey. Thank you as always for keeping this ship alive, you have a reader in many of us still!

Gil paused in front of the door to the apartment. He leaned his forehead against the door, letting the cool of the air temper his mediocre (at best) day.

He loved his job, he loved the bakery. But the questions about Thena were getting to him. They came from a good place, he knew, and of course they would have their curiosities. But it was hard to deny that he was annoyed with the questions about if it was weird for them.

No, it wasn't.

Of course it was.

He had to come home and gauge if his wife was feeling particularly nervous around him that day. He had to ask how she was feeling because she went out of her way to hide that from him. She was recovering well, but no memories had emerged as of yet.

In his worst moments he really had to wonder if they would at all.

But he couldn't stand outside and dwell forever on that grim thought. He pulled out his keys to unlock the door. Thena herself had said she would leave it unlocked but he told her he would feel a little better if she didn't.

"Hi."

Gil blinked. It wasn't necessarily a welcome home kiss or anything, but Thena was standing by the door, smiling at him as he dropped his backpack where he stood. "Hey."

Her smile wavered faintly, but it certainly wasn't fake. She was nervous. "H-How was work?"

"Uh," Gil tried not to flounder. She was trying something, and he didn't want to discourage her. He also smiled, kicking off his shoes and starting to take off his coat. "It was okay. Kind of long, but at least it's friday, right?"

Thena just nodded, stepping back to let him in. "Come and tell me about it."

Gil tilted his head, squinting at her so long as she wasn't looking at him. It wasn't that she never asked to hear about his day before. But even just last week she was still trying to figure out how to start a casual conversation with him, or ask where they kept the coffee filters (again).

Thena seated herself on the couch, waiting for him expectantly. He chuckled, ruffling the stress out of his hair. When he rounded the corner of the couch he looked at the coffee table. The beer can was visibly cold, on a coaster and everything. "I thought I was out of these."

Thena shifted her knees, tugging at her skirt. "I decided to go to the store, today."

Gil tried not to look freaked out about that. He was just being overprotective, and there was no reason Thena couldn't want to get out of the house for a little. She remembered where the store was...apparently.

"I noticed there weren't any in the fridge, but I picked some up while I was out," she added, tilting her head as he cracked it open. "It smells familiar."

He smiled at that. Smells could be very good for her memory, he had already discovered by way of their laundry detergent, and his cologne. "You want a sip?"

She shook her head, and that made him smile too. "Yeah, I guess you never really had a taste for beer. You don't mind a glass of wine with Kari, though."

"Hm," she sighed as she leaned against the back of the couch. Her eyes were still intent on him. "So?--work?"

He cleared his throat, setting the beer down on its coaster again. "Right, uh...it was okay. Things ran normally, it was kind of quiet, but I guess it's just that time of year. And the weekend guys will be fine."

He had worked the very early mornings for the weekend before, actually. But since Thena's episode he did what he could to be at home whenever she was up and around.

"What do you bake specifically?"

"Oh," he blinked. It was light enough conversation, but Thena asked it like she was going to be quizzed on it later. But then again, he could remember their first date having a similar intensity to it. That was just what Thena was like. "I guess I mostly do the croissants, some of the desserts-"

"I looked up the bakery online today."

"Really?" he tried to ask casually, but she was going somewhere with all this.

Thena looked down at the small but comfortable space between them on the couch, picking at one of the cushion seams. "I considered walking by, but... "

She usually wasn't one to trail off during a sentence, but obviously she had really thought about whether to go through with it or not. Gil scooted just a little closer to her (not enough to spook her). "Hey, that's okay. I probably wouldn't have been able to come out and see you for long, anyway. It's sweet, though."

She looked embarrassed, but didn't shy away from him, at least. "I was worried someone would recognise me and...and I would leave them wanting."

Gil nodded; Thena was quietly terrified of having to meet everyone in their lives all over again. He couldn't blame her. Meeting people was never her specialty, and the pressure on her was now worse than ever. "It's okay, hon. We can face that later."

She sighed faintly, but she allowed him to just sort of wiggle his finger in her direction. She mustered the courage to hook her finger with his. It was small, but it didn't escape him that it was big for her.

"Hey, on sunday we can go by together if you want. Pick up some stuff for brunch here at home?" he suggested it gently, testing the waters. If she truly never wanted to speak to anyone they knew ever again, he didn't really have any argument to stand on.

He was willing to do anything to keep her from considering leaving all together.

"That sounds lovely." She smiled to match his smile, although softer and gently. Her hand did move, from just their fingers linking to more of a tentative hand holding. Affection wasn't her specialty either.

"It's a date," he grinned, unable to contain himself. Thena blinked and he nearly flinched, "I-I mean, not-! It doesn't have to-"

She laughed, though. He had missed that sound like the air he breathed. "My second chance at our first date."

He knew she meant it as a light joke, or maybe even in a self-deprecating way. But he melted. He couldn't help it! His wife was going to go on a date with him!

Thena watched passively as he brought her hand up to his lips. He gave her the chance to pull away, but she didn't. He kissed her knuckle gently. holding on just so he could admire the wedding ring still on her finger.

She had once asked if he had taken his off, and it had horrified him. But he asked if she wanted to take hers off. She had every right, even if the thought made him want to shrivel up and sink into the sea. But Thena had looked at the foreign object on her finger and answered very plainly but honestly: no.

Thena tilted her head at him again, "Gil?"

He gave her hand another kiss before looking at her again. Her hand in his, a beer to his left, it felt a little more like old times. But it was also new, in an endearing way. "So, you looked up the bakery?"

"Yes," she smiled, indulging his much improved mood, even letting him run his finger against her wedding ring. "It's a lovely site, the products are photographed well."

They had an instagram that Sprite mostly ran herself, but Thena didn't actually know that a lot of the product photography on the website had been done by herself back when Gil first got the job.

He had bragged all about how his wife was an amazing artist with a great eye for beauty! Thena had come in and done the photos for the website and then scolded him for embarrassing her.

"They are," he agreed quietly. "And we have some seasonal stuff, too. We'll still have the usual--the croissants, the pain au chocolat, the mont blancs. But we also still have the petit fours right now, since we get so much extra in for valentine's day."

Thena's face betrayed a split second of horror.

"Hey, hey, it's okay," he reassured her, and also used it as a great excuse to kiss her again (this time her open palm). "You were still in the hospital then. And we were never really valentine's people anyway."

There was some clear doubt in her eyes at that statement, but she didn't choke out a positively miserable apology (again).

"Besides," Gil put on his most charming smile, which she always said made him look suspicious, "I think valentine's is a little much for our first date, isn't it?"

Thena laughed again, and god he could listen to that for hours. He would make it his ringtone if she would let him. "I suppose that is a little forward of me."

"I mean Thena, I don't know what you heard about me, but I like to take it slow," he continued to joke, relishing in her laughter. It was so light and cute for how stern she always tried to look. "I'll pick you up and everything."

"You'll 'pick me up'?" she repeated back to him with her sandy blonde eyebrows raised. She had plucked them recently; she really was bored sitting at home all day.

"Sure," he shrugged and nodded in the direction of the guest room--her room. "I'll pick you up at 10."

[liedownquisition]

Chapters: 3/10 Fandom: DCU (Comics) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Roy Harper/Jason Todd, Jade Nguyen & Jason Todd, Jason Todd & Damian Wayne, Talia al Ghul & Jason Todd & Damian Wayne, Roy Harper & Jade Nguyen Characters: Roy Harper, Jade Nguyen, Jason Todd, Damian Wayne, Other Character Tags to Be Added Additional Tags: Jason Todd and Damian Wayne Meet in the League of Assassins, League of Assassins Jason Todd, Good Parent Talia al Ghul, On the Run, Action & Romance, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Identity Porn Series: Part 1 of ReemBODYment Summary:

"Roy knew that helping Cheshire with anything was just begging for trouble. Helping Cheshire retrieve some runaways from the League of Assassin that were the reason for the organization's current internal civil war? Was just plain stupid. But when Cheshire informed him that they were Talia al Ghul's children? The kids don't deserve whatever life - or death - the League had in store for them.

He really should have known better and asked for more details, because he was expecting a pair of assassin babies, not one baby and a babe."

"Red is my color after all" | League of Assassins Jason | Only one bed | Fighting as foreplay

I WILL finish this if it’s the last thing I do. Anyways, the rest of the chapters are (thus far) aligning with my outline the way I want them to so I decided to “finalize” the chapter count.

You know, when I originally planned this, like, when the prompt list came out, it was three chapters?

Haha. Cute that I thought it would be that way. It’s almost like I don’t know myself.

[orcgirlcock]

i need to kiss someone right now. i need to hold their face as i lean in for the kiss. i need to feel their lips against mine and have our tongues slide across each other. i need to feel the slight hesitation before they finally give in and kiss me back with everything they've got. i need to feel the saliva stringing between our mouths. i need to feel their hands pulling me closer, desperate to feel all of me

[lucyvaleheart]

it's a crime that I'm at work and not being some girls plaything getting my mind absolutely melted and turned off. im so much prettier when I'm whimpering and melting

[witchkingfromthe1600s]

Oh yea I made an RP blog just for funsies lmao do with that information as you please >> @imisshorses

[iero]

Every time I'm pretty much reminded I'm my mom's disappointment child, it literally makes me want to pack up all my shit, move far away from her and just go no-contact with her for the rest of my life.

[car-pup]

work is stupid and stressful!!!! all i want is for daddy to overstimulate me to the point where i finish over and over and over again!!!

[anemoflower]

I was at a convention / book fair yesterday and got myself some nice T.homa merch and a fanmade Wrio pin ;v; <3 (the artist also gifted me a little sticker)

My brother and I also bought a G.enshin lucky bag with more acrylic stands and a H.ilichurl Funko figure (he looks so silly I love him)

More rambling in the tags

[astrxealis]

hi! i came out to my aunt an hour ago. it went well. i was really nervous but she was really nice and hugged me and lune and said "you know you can go to me for anything like this" so. <3

[shychick-52]

Damn, I didn't get as much writing done over the weekend as I wanted because my stomach was upset. At least I got some in, but I wanted my one-shot to be finished by today.

Well, I'll have a snippet to share for WIP Wednesday. 🤷

I have no business working on anything but my two other WIPs, which I am SUPER behind on as it is. WHY do I do this? I'm halfway done with chapter seven of 'Circumstances and Control' (last updated last May) and I haven't even started writing the third chapter of 'Astro B.O.Y.D. - Inside Out' (last updated last October)! 😫

[nebulouscoffee]

... I straight up have no memory of writing that Dax essay last night

[michinekot]

Hi, I'm the anon who drunkenly said "noodle u bread" years ago, I wanted to say I still follow your two blogs to this day, and I smile every time I see your art ! ... I just didn't get a good opportunity to say it 'till now.

I REMEMBER THAT!! How time flies... Thank u for sticking around all this time, I really appreciate it 💕💕💕 lately I've been feeling like 90% of people packed up and unfollowed after I stopped drawing fandom stuff so it's kinda reassuring that I'm not just yelling into the void :'D

[thievesway]

kinda maddening when people will be all "im sad i dont have friends no one ever dms me :'( " but then you do and they take days to give you the driest three word response ever before going MIA for another week before responding cause they're just "bad at dms"

[monty-glasses-roxy]

First of all, don't apologize for "taking so long", you're under no obligation to just sit there waiting to immediately answer things online.

Second, I think the idea of Chica being anxious about flying is funny (in a good way), because bird.

Third, I'm somehow picturing that Roxy seems standoffish in the group chat, and Chica is a bit disheartened, maybe she was a little too eager in all this, maybe they weren't actually as fast to become friends as she felt like they were. But then they all make plans and meet up (and Roxy still seems pretty indifferent, oh no this is going to be awful)...

And it turns out that in person, Roxy is like the most excited one there. Trying to play it cool, maybe, but you best believe the tail is *going* and giving her away. And it turns out that she was kind of still in that "testing the waters" stage in the group chat, not sure how much to be herself, maybe she was afraid of being Too Much, but she was all along just *so* hopeful and excited to be finding others she got along with.

Yeah Chica being afraid of flying is really funny, especially if she's scared of literally nothing else. Not a single other thing has ever phased her but this one singular mode of transport makes her nervous.

In terms of Roxy, she has no fucking clue what to do with this whole situation. Like, she was practically unconscious by the time she got home and now she's woken up to the sound of a group chat she doesn't remember existing before going crazy. She's just backreading this groupchat, so confused and doesn't say a word in it until they notice she's read the chat and ask if she's okay.

You're absolutely right, she's so standoffish in the groupchat. She's trying to be polite but she's not the most social savvy person in the group and it's really coming across as indifference. However, she does really appreciate their kindness when she really needed it and while she was quiet for the majority of the conversation, when it comes to organising a hangout she offers to take the both of them somewhere as a thanks because they really didn't have to do that. She's giving such mixed signals and both Chica and Monty assume she's doing it out of obligation but then they settle on meeting up at the local bowling alley that her brother (she calls Bonnie her brother) happens to run. Turns out, she's just a little shy with new people! And she was worried about overdoing it so much that she ended up giving the wrong signals entirely anyway! The more you know, right?

Seriously, their first official hangout is an absolute blast. They show up, Bonnie makes a joke that Roxy paid some random strangers to talk to her and then the three of them claim he rigged their bowling games because they each won one game and the deciding match miraculously ended with a three-way tie. It starts awkward, sure, but by the end, they've all well and truly clicked. You're absolutely right, Roxy's tail is wagging so hard as they start to really get to know each other and fuck around and find out. Maybe one of them gets yeeted halfway down the lane and Bonnie allows it just this once because in his opinion, rules should be allowed to be broken if they're funny. I dunno, it depends how quickly their brain cells merge into one and then how quickly they drop it getting a drinks refil.

Like, Monty and Chica clicked so fast and then all it takes is a little competition and almost getting kicked out of a bowling alley for bowling crimes for the pair of them to click with Roxy. They just get along like a house on fire!

And yeah, Roxy doesn't have a lot of friends so this was a shock to everyone that knew her lmao. "What do you mean you were dying on a plane and made two new friends??? What, did the Reaper and their wife take pity on you or what???"

Actually, it would be kinda funny if none of them had a particularly large amount of friends and due to this one layover flight, their friendship group suddenly tripled in size. Jurassic Bark: The Glue That Binds The Friend Group

[noxtivagus]

i shld sleep oh my god