#My genius child

[angesaurus]

I talked to Gavin’s band/music teacher when I was picking up him and his giant bass. She said “has he told you his plans for middle school” (which is not next year, but in 2 years) and I was like hmmmm maybe????? (He did mention playing the tuba & I was like ummm can we just get through THIS YEAR first). And she said “he told me he wants to add on the tuba” and I was like ADD?!? I THOUGHT YOU MEANT IN PLACE OF and she laughed and laughed and Gavin laughed and laughed and now I guess my musically inclined child will probably also play the tuba 😂😂😂

She said he is “very musical” and “doing fabulously” and I KNOW music is something I need to encourage because he is so smart and just academically doing super well and needs to be challenged. He is definitely one of her favorite students, she freaking raves about him everytime I see her.

LUCKILY 4th grade can’t play the tuba (he can’t until 5th grade, which is middle school) and it would be the baritone in 4th WHATEVER THAT IS but she assured me ITS SMALL!!!!!!!!!! Great!!!!!!!!

[fragmentedblade]

Lately I've been fantasising with a Blade alt that's 5* Yingxing following the Erudition path

[otaku553]

Haha

[alligaytorswamp]

extremely fair fight against the eleventh of the fatui harbingers

extra versionssss

[merrysithmas]

how john and paul referred to their music as "their children" - last night i was watching some old interviews on youtube and john referred to eleanor rigby as "paul's baby but i provided the education"

like the way they cleverly rigged the legal system into marrying them as Lennon/McCartney via business & the way they referred to their music as their children (and the breakup of their legal musical partnership as a literal Divorce) ~~

it's just so big 1960s vindictive queer galaxy brain and deserves an award

[explodingstarlight]

homeboy might be cracking under the stress a little bit

i heard we were doing angst (i was up at 3 am and i hadn't slept oopsie)

more fanart for @snailsnaps fic because i cannot be stopped whoopsie doopsie

[leletha-jann]

Apropos of nothing... (not a hint or a spoiler, just a thought)

Eventually Seffie's going to realize that Tarvek snookered her entire "marry Gil, rule the Empire" plan out from under her, and god I hope I'm there to watch the dawning realization cross her face.

Like, I like Seffie for who she is. But I don't like her so much that I'm not going to enjoy the hell out of the facial expressions.

[transxiao]

Genshin Impact 3.3 TCG Card Artwork - Event cards (2/2)

[wangxianficrecs]

I'll grow you a garden (in my fortress of stone) by Lyna_Mei

I’ll grow you a garden (in my fortress of stone)

by Lyna_Mei

M, WIP, 16k, Nie Mingjue/Wei Wuxian

Summary: Wei Wuxian finds himself in the Unclean Realm. Nie Mingjue finds himself wanting to keep him. The world around them finds the situation strange but it doesn't really matter. Or Everything could be completely different if Wei Wuxian's intelligence and skills were recognised and valued. Well, not absolutely everything, but most things certainly could. Kay's comments: I am currently so blessed because all my favourite writers are updating multiple WIPs and keeping me well-fed. Lyna_Mei is offering another little treat for me, a little guilty pleasure, a Nie Mingjue/Wei Wuxian story where, when Wei Wuxian gets whipped and kicked out of Lotus Pier by Madam Yu, Nie Mingjue is the one who finds him and decides to keep him, especially after it becomes evident, just what a treasure Wei Wuxian and his genius intellect are. Not for fans of the Jiang Family and also not for people who can't stomach Wangxian not being together, but for everyone else, this is a great story and you should check it out! It's also The Untamed canon, which of course makes Nie Mingjue a lot more softer/flexible than he was in the novel. Excerpt: "I am certain there were eyewitnesses," Nie Mingjue said, stopping Wei Wuxian's thoughts. There were, but two Jin disciples that were there would never go against their sect leader's nephew and Yu-furen wouldn't even want to hear about village boys. Who were a pair of commoners compared to disciples of a great sect? His head started to hurt at some point. He wanted this conversation to end and Nie Mingjue to leave or make him leave or something. Whatever. Just some quiet and peace would be nice. "Nie-zongzhu," he started firmly, "respectfully, I am a disciple that was thrown out of my sect for a serious transgression against a fellow disciple from another sect. There is no one who would tell you otherwise. Please, let this matter be." Nie Mingjue clearly didn't appreciate his advice. His anger became palpable in the room, though he tried to control himself while speaking. "What are you trying to achieve, you foolish boy? I know you haven't lied to me!"

pov wei wuxian, pov nie mingjue, canon divergence, the untamed compliant, cultivation sect politics, nie mingjue/wei wuxian, mingxian, past child abuse, hurt wei wuxian, injury recovery, inventor wei wuxian, genius wei wuxian, not jiang family friendly, somebody lives/not everybody dies, slow burn, age difference

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[reinedeslys-central]

more!! again!! for the nico after blood of olympus fic!! actually I thought of this while writing the last one but I just finished it.

His elbows buckle and he lets himself fall into Will, snorting at his theatrical groan under the weight. They lay there for a second until Will shoves him gently, and Nico lets him manoeuvre them into a more comfortable position.

"Hi," he whispers, moving a curl away from his cheek. The greenish tint of the loft window casts a weird shadow over Will's face.

"Hey yourself," Will murmurs back, winking.

Nico rolls his eyes. "You look like Apollo when you do that. Please stop." Will squawks in protest.

"I do not! Also, since when do you remember what Apollo looks like? Actually, no, don't answer that, you can't bring up my dad while we're in bed, Nico, why would you do this to me?"

Now it's Nico's turn to sputter and whack Will in the chest - getting another dramatic oof and a laugh in return - before turning around to face Hazel's bed. He's not sure when he'll ever be able to sleep facing the wall. Will can't do it either.

As Will's arms curl around his waist and draw him back against him, just like they did back in the infirmary that one day, he thinks maybe he'd be okay trying that with him sometime. One day, in a house with gates, no longer wary of monsters.

Will noses the back of his neck, causing him to twitch. "What is it?"

Will's answering smile presses through the rough cotton of his t-shirt. "Nothing, sunshine."

Nico frowns under the covers. "Hey, what do you think of houses with gates?" He whispers.

"Gates? Well, it'd be safer, I guess, but we'd lose the neighbours coming over -"

"As if you want to see random people at the door anyway. What if they're monsters?"

"Oh, come on, darlin', I'm from Austin. Of course I gotta keep space for the neighbours to come knocking."

"…Fences? Actually, hey, why'd you assume I was talking about us? Obviously - Obviously I was talking about random. Random houses. For architecture reasons."

Will muffles his laugh into the back of his neck, again. "Oh, my bad. And I'm only here because you ripped a stitch on the lava wall yesterday."

Nico feels his ears warm.

"Shut up."

"I didn't say anything."

"..Still."

Will reels him in closer until his back hits his chest and he can press a soft peck to Nico's still-red ears. "I think a fence is a great idea, by the way. We could ask Hazel for help with some ward stones too, like you have in the cabin. Gotta make sure we've got at least one window and standing space in every direction, though, or at least in the east, because you know my dad would sulk if he didn't get to scream me awake in the morning."

Nico's blush gets worse.

"Now who's talking about your dad in bed?" He gives up on pretending. Will sees him through every time, anyway. "Also, shrines, obviously, and we need a spot to stargaze."

"Yeah, shrines, obviously. Maybe just yours, mine, and Lady Hestia's though, or else everyone else is gonna get pissy."

Nico barks out a laugh like it's shocked out of him. "Pissy? Don't let them hear you say that."

Will holds him tighter and settles against the pillows. "Sure thing, sunshine. Now can we sleep?"

"Yeah, yeah."

It's not long after that that Will's breath evens out behind him, his muscles untensing. Nico knows he's got a few minutes yet, so he thinks.

Today was…. good.

Today was nice. Normal, even. Just a day of camp schedules, working in the infirmary, an admittedly short campfire, and this. No monsters, and no mistakes. No deaths, but..

Unbidden, the moments in the infirmary come to mind. He thinks of helping Will scrub in for his one surgery of the day, a kid that had gotten parts of an arrow stuck in their leg a week ago and hadn't noticed til yesterday. He thinks of yesterday during capture-the-flag, stepping in and desperately trying to copy what he'd watched Will do, because Lydia was hanging crooked from a tree and there was no one else around but him-

He thinks of Patroclus tying the straps of Achilles' armour, watching his lover sleep peacefully. He thinks of what Connor had told him about at the campfire weeks ago, of Silena Beauregard taking on a drakon when Clarisse declared the Ares Cabin wouldn't be fighting.

He thinks he might understand.

Lydia wasn't the same (thank the gods), but if there was something to be done that only Will could do right, yet couldn't, and the only way Nico could take up his mantle would be to die trying - then, yeah. He'd do whatever it would take for these kids. To do what Will would do. He's gone to Tartarus already, hasn't he? At worst, he'd try his best and greet his father early if he failed to survive. Nico could even give Charon a tip on the way in for the hell of it, why not?

If there is a luxury that comes from being a child of Hades, after all, it is that dying is not the thing that scares him.

There's a brazier still lit outside the window. Its glow falls in slits across their bed.

Will grumbles, pushing his feet forward until their ankles are wound together. The sheets shift.

Nico smiles into the dark, into the chirping of crickets and the soft glow of the fireflies out the window, and falls asleep.

more for this fic:

scene 0 - prologue-ish scene 1 - the library of social awkwardness or here (or in my heart, 'kidney function is not a right, it's a privilege' lol)

general writing directory

also lmk if you want more lore. I am so down to talk about this fic + the worldbuilding ideas I have for it in the notes it is unreal

[twottie-m8]

@ibrithir-was-here I live for comedic ridiculousness

[astralpenguin]

so according to unit 16 year old rose and 13 year old morris are ‘essential staff’ and therefore have to stay put in the room where a great big unknowable Thing that has already killed someone is manifesting while most other people are evacuating COOL THANKS UNIT

[x-heesy]

Stay wild Moon Child 🤘🏾🎧

You let me violate you

You let me desecrate you

You let me penetrate you

You let me complicate you

Help me; I broke apart my insides

Help me; i've got no soul to sell

Help me; the only thing that works for me

Help me get away from myself

I wanna fuck you like an animal

I wanna feel you from the inside

I wanna fuck you like an animal

My whole existence is flawed

You get me closer to God

You can have my isolation; you can have the hate that it brings

You can have my absence of faith; you can have my everything

Help me tear down my reason

Help me; it's your sex I can smell

Help me; you make me perfect

Help me become somebody else

I wanna fuck you like an animal

I wanna feel you from the inside

I wanna fuck you like an animal

My whole existence is flawed

You get me closer to God

Through every forest, above the trees

Within my stomach, scraped off my knees

I drink the honey inside your hive

You are the reason I stay alive

Closer by Nine Inch Nails 🎧

[someoneintheshadow456]

I REALLY hate how people are trying to portray Martha as this poor mentally ill uwu while Darien is the actual villain… as though being mentally ill absolves someone of predatory behaviour…

Both can be abusive at the same time. Being mentally ill does not absolve you of consequences. Y’all really do think evil has a penis.

[explodingstarlight]

all thoughts, head full

(psst you should check out this de!aged Donnie au by @snailsnaps 👉👈)

[faafi]

Rev: I love you. Do you feel the same? Tech: *pauses* Tech: Give me three to five business days for me to give you an answer. [3 days later] Tech: Yes. *makes a heart shape with his hands*