#Moonflower

[starsarefire824]

moonflower ch. 6

Chapter 6: Blameworthy

A few weeks after that night on the porch, in the middle of the hottest month of summer you and El broke up. I never really got the full story from either one of you, but it wasn’t loud or tumultuous. If anything you both seemed lighter, as if your romance had puttered out instead of erupting in a firestorm like so many do. 

Even still, I knew she was sad. If not sad, severely disappointed. She spent every waking hour with Max that week and slept in my bed every night, hugging the plush giraffe you won at the county fair the year before and my arm tucked protectively around her belly. 

But you…You moped around most of all, seemingly lost and avoiding being alone with me for any extended period of time. It hurt my feelings, but I understood. I still understand. You two were so entangled in each other’s lives it was bound to take some getting used to. To figure out how to just be Mike and El, untethered from each other and individuals. 

I never brought up that night that you touched me, never asked what it meant or why you had done it. But I thought about it constantly, couldn’t stop staring at you and your hands, and the way your mouth was red and full and the truth that was: Your lips had been on mine. 

You’ve always been my torment. 

But after a few weeks, the both of you came around, and that’s when Max and Lucas started planning his 18th birthday party. 

It was the middle of August, just before everyone was about to slowly pack and leave for the school they had chosen. Or for those who chose Hawkins, whether by choice or by circumstance, made ready for the jobs they had lined up. 

You were less evasive, and we danced silently around each other for weeks, still nothing was said. But you sat too close when we played video games, and didn’t look away when our eyes met. 

There was one night we were caught alone under the streetlamp in front of your house, bugs tapping against the light and their shadows blacking out little dots on the pavement. I remember the cicadas were so loud in the trees as we set our bikes down to catch our breath after climbing the hill from Dustin’s house. 

I jumped off, leaning my bike against my hip as you threw yours down in your yard and turned back to face me, chest heaving. You looked down at me, skin flush with the heat and your eyes black as the night around you. I remember you licked your bottom lip because I couldn’t stop staring at how it shined in the light. 

You were so close and you reached out to me, your fingers sure, but your face suddenly terrified. My breath hitched in my throat and my heart pounded when you slid your fingers softly across my temple and tucked a wild flyaway behind my ear. I didn’t know how to be or how to act, still so completely unused to being on the other side of the line we had crossed weeks before. 

I thought you might kiss me then, and Christ I wanted you too. I ached for it. My heart raced in my chest when you leaned in slightly, your eyelids growing heavy and your breath on my cheek. But then there were headlights in my eyes and I flinched. The sound of the engine made you fright, and you stepped back from me, chest heaving and scrubbing the back of your neck with anxiety. When you looked at me I knew the moment was over, but you smiled out of one side of your mouth and regarded me fondly. 

[yuumei-art]

☀️Sunflower🌟Starflower 🌘Moonflower

  I started out painting the sunflower kind of realistically and then the rest just ran away from me

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A sphinx moth enjoying moonflowers in the garden.

Cochise County, Arizona, September 2023.

[plantsonplutoart]

Moonflower study dates! Because it’s possible to be both academic rivals and the best of friends 🌙🪷😌

James and Sirius are definitely sitting across the table drooling over them

[jorenilee]

warrior cat designs based on those fuckass ultimate guide color palettes

Swatch diagrams made by @/Sunnyfall , please look at them because what was happening behind the curtains that lead to cinderheart being blonde and ivypool brown

[moondustinfj]

Remus lupin my one and only forever and always

[tarsaqus]

warrior cats fanart bc why not...

[peachyubey]

meow fuck out the way

[prinsomnia]

in her head ✷ wishing everyone a graceful 2023!

[little-mary-marauders]

Remus: Fuck the French. James: Preach, amen to that. Remus: Both physically and metaphorically. James:.......Amen. Remus: *slams his book shut* Regulus. James: WHA- Remus: HAH CALLED IT, pay up lil's.

[radiohead-spiderman]

Marauders fandom let Lily be her own character without making her whole personality be the person she’s dating or not dating challenge GO!!!

[morningwitchy]

next up in the screenprint tee collection is the nocturne ✨

[lovefromremus]

my one pet peeve about this fandom is when some mf pipes up with " *insert ship* doesn't make sense to me " and i just saw a rosekiller shipper say this about bartylus? HOW ON GODS GREEN EARTH DOES BARTYLUS NOT MAKE SENSE BUT ROSEKILLER DOES? you do realise the marauders era characters today are simply..not real? and not associated with canon at all? and even then in the parts they are it's VERY SLIM because they basically have no characterization at all. nothing is ooc, nothing is unrealistic because THE CHARACTERS WERE NOT FLESHED OUT AT ALL thats the beauty of the fandom!! like FFS let people ship what they like.

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[cazzythefrogking]

marauders incorrect quotes pt 219

Lily: I haven't slept in seventy-three hours. Regulus: Eighty. Democratically elected leader of insomnia. Remus: It's been ninety for me. I'm going for an even one hundred. James: You guys are fucking terrifying.

[nothingtoseeherebyeexx]

L: he’s looking at us.

R: no he isn’t-

L: he totally thinks i’m hitting on you.

R: no he doesnttt…

L: please, everyone does.

i want-no, not want, I need a friendship like theirs. although they surely suffered a ridiculous amount of “omg are you two together?? 😏😏”

tried a diff style that for some reason i can do only on paper??