#They're just processing

[gaily-daily-musings]

(This is an extended epilogue of sorts to my reverse age obikin fic “As long As You Love Me” set like a year after the end. It can work as a stand-alone. You do not need to read the fic to understand this but I recommend it)

Luke wanders into the grocery store. His mother had sent his father and Obi-Wan to get some more things for Christmas dinner and had forgotten to add cranberry sauce to the list. She'd tried texting Anakin but he didn't respond or pick up. She then tried texting Obi-Wan but when she saw his razr phone left forgotten on the counter she gave up and asked Luke to go after them. What was the point of all these brand new cell phones if nobody answered them?

Padme didn't want Anakin to come all the way back to the house only to have to turn around and leave again. Lord knows he would be mad about it and make it everyone else's problem. And so off Luke went.

He heads inside looking for the cranberries. He passes by the aisles trying to figure out where they were. Would it be the canned food aisle or the fruit aisle? He hopes they aren't out of stock. He'll have to try the other Walmart across town if they are and he really didn't want to make that drive.

Luke passes by the snacks and stops dead. He blinks, recentering his reality. Then he takes a step back and peers into the aisle once more.

There he was. His best friend since high school. Obi-Wan was standing there facing the food and examining the products. A man was pressed against his back, hands wrapped around Obi-Wan's middle as he kissed his neck.

Luke swallows. He knew that man too.

Obi-Wan looks annoyed trying to flick Anakin off like a fly. Anakin chuckles and bites his shoulder. Obi-Wan sighs, clearly exasperated but fond nonetheless.

As if someone else were controlling him, Luke takes out his razr phone (a present for his 22nd birthday) and calls his father. He sees Anakin pause. Sees him take it out of his back pocket and look at the screen. Then he watches as Anakin shoves it back into his pocket and goes back to draping himself around Obi-Wan.

“Who was that?”

“Luke.”

“What if it's important?”

“He can wait,” he kisses Obi-Wan's neck again.

Luke leaves the store and forgets the cranberry sauce.

-

“I don't think dad likes me as much as Obi-Wan.”

Leia stares at her brother incredulously. Anyone with eyes could see their father adored Luke. He'd stopped trying with Leia after she'd made it clear she wanted nothing to do with him. Their mother may have made peace with the man but Leia refused to give him the time of day.

Second of all, she hadn't realized Obi-Wan and Anakin had remained close after all these years. They'd lived together only briefly after Obi-Wan's mother died, leaving him no other place else to go. It made sense in hindsight that they'd bond in such a short time. Obi-Wan had lost his mother around the same as Anakin had. But still, that was years ago. And Obi-Wan had only recently started showing up for the holidays again.

“And how would you know that?” She asks instead of all the other things she thinks of saying.

Luke shrugs. “Just a feeling. He never lets me visit him at the house anymore, you know? He only ever comes to us.”

Leia scrunches her nose. What did that even mean? “What and he lets Obi-Wan visit? Did he tell you that or something?”

Luke bites his lip. Should he say something? He doesn't talk to Obi-Wan very much. Not as often as they used to anyway. It had started in high school after they broke up and Obi-Wan's mother died. They'd remained friends, but something had changed after that. They would have the occasional phone call but it wasn't the same. He still liked to refer to Obi-Wan as his best friend, but the truth was that they weren't anymore. Friendly? Yes. But not inseparable in the way they used to be. Too many years apart. He felt more like a distant cousin at this point than anything else.

“Just…I don't know,” he sighs. He'd just wanted to vent was all.

Han, who had been quietly listening in this whole time, finally breaks. “You guys remember a couple years ago that vacation we took to the beach?”

“Yeah?”

“I may have, uh, seen something? I wasn't sure if I was maybe misinterpreting it or just seeing things.”

Leia grows weary. First Luke and now Han? “What did you see?” she asks slowly.

Han rubs his head. “Look, it was late and very dark alright? I woke up and was hungry so I decided to get a snack from the vending machine. When I came back down the hallway I thought I saw Obi-Wan knocking on your dad’s door.”

“Did he go in?” Luke asks, his voice quiet and small.

“He did.” Han looks troubled. “I mean, Obi-Wan always seemed like a really put together guy. He wouldn't go to your dad's room that late unless it was an emergency right?”

Luke frowns. He normally roomed with Obi-Wan on vacations. He remembers waking up that morning and finding Obi-Wan in the other bed sound asleep. Like he'd never left. What kind of emergency was it that he didn't tell anyone else and then went right back to bed?

Leia is chewing her lip. The air is tense with something unspoken.

“Luke…what exactly did you see at the store?”

Luke looks at her and then back down. He picks at the carpet on the floor. Her eyes narrow in suspicion.

“What. Happened?”

Luke feels like he's somehow betraying Obi-Wan. But if Han and Leia already suspected then what was the point of keeping quiet?

“I…”

How long had this been going on? Had the beach vacation been the first time? Because if not that would mean it would have had to be before Obi-Wan went off to college. Back when he was still living with their dad.

The front door opens.

“We're home!”

“Finally!” Padme calls from the kitchen. “You were gone a long time!”

The three of them pop out to eavesdrop.

“Traffic was bad,” Anakin replies with a shrug.

“Well Luke came back just fine!”

There's a horrible pause. Luke stiffens.

“What do you mean?”

“I sent Luke after you two! I forgot about the cranberry sauce and he offered to go. He said they were out. Did you not see him?”

“Guess not.”

Luke eases back inside the door. He looks at Leia's worried expression and Hans's concerned one. He sighs in defeat. Did it really need to be said?

-

“For the record I didn't actually say anything,” Luke says to Obi-Wan and Anakin currently sitting on the couch.

“You didn't have to,” Leia replies angrily, her steely gaze locked onto their father.

Obi-Wan looks cornered, wanting to run. Anakin looks guarded, ready to fight.

“We're not dating,” Anakin insists.

“Fuck buddies then! Whatever you call it!”

Luke winces. She could be relentless when she wanted to be.

Their mother and step-father were currently out enjoying a movie. Luke has never been so glad that Din couldn't come this year. Something about visiting Grogu’s mother and her family.

Anakin makes a face. “No.”

“Oh really?” Leia puts her hands on her hips. It was her battle stance, learnt from their mother.

Anakin folds his arms with an exaggerated movement. It's then she catches sight of the gold on Anakin's hand. She pales. Leia looks at Obi-Wan in shock.

Obi-Wan is completely red faced. The jig was up. He pulls out the ring he wears on a chain around his neck as Anakin switches his ring from his middle finger to his ring finger.

“We're not fuck buddies. We're married,” her father clarifies, in case it wasn't obvious.

Han looks at Luke. The younger man was very, very quiet. It was a weird enough situation for him and Leia, but he can't imagine what it must be like for Luke. To have your best friend, that you briefly dated once, become your other new step-dad. He grimaces.

No one knows how to respond to that. Not even to say a weak congratulations.

Well, at least that explained why their father never let them come over to the house anymore. It would have been hard to explain why Obi-Wan was living there.

Luke stands. “I think I'm gonna go to my room.”

They watch him leave. Leia stands as well. She does say anything she just follows. Han sits there across from the pair. He awkwardly clears his throat and waves a hand after the twins. “I'm, uh…yeah…” He leaves the room quickly.

Obi-Wan looks over at Anakin. “That could have gone better.”

[starlightshore]

you keep telling yourself that, buddy.

[mightytato]

look at this cutie patootie THONKIN, until he saw yoouuu~

frames and process under da cut

[canisalbus]

For your gay little dogs

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[johnnyshrine]

★ 082 // “YIPPEE!”

[alien-bluez]

Ref boards I made for my kiddad designs! Mainly for artfight but I might as well share here too ^_^

[thevoidstaredback]

Hey! So, it's been a while, but I finally remembered to come back to this! But, it's not gonna go the way you'd think.

If Danny had it his way, he'd be at his Aunt Alicia's house for the summer instead of New Jersey. This place is gloomy, grimy, and soaked through with so much crime that it's a Problem(TM). Like, seriously? New Jersey hasn't allowed the death penalty since he was seven, but can't they make, like, one exception? Get rid of The Joker and half of Gotham's problems are solved.

Unfortunately, he's only here as a guest, so he can't really do anything. Which, for the record, is a shit rule. Call a goose and goose, and that's exactly what Gotham City, New Jersey is.

It isn't all that bad, he supposes. Sure, the pollution blocks out the entire sky at all times, the buildings that aren't condemned are only feeding the rich while stealing from the poor, an entire twenty-four block are has been given up on by mostly everyone, the local vigilantes won't kill the recurring problems like the cockroaches they are- There was a good point to all this.

Oh! He has family here. That's it. That's the only silver lining, and it's bronze.

But, hey, it can't be that bad. From what he understands, his half-brother and company don't actually live in Gotham. Bristol, according to Talia is technically outside of Gotham City Limits, but is still considered as part of the city. Makes sense, aside from the fact that there's no bridge between Bristol and Gotham. Weird design, but he's not rich so he's not really inclined to care or understand.

Half brother, right.

Danny doesn't like Damian much, but that's because he's a clone...of Damian. Danny's a clone of Damian, not the other way around. Ra's makes that very clear

The only reason Talia wants him with Damian is because she's upset with Bruce Wayne. What is it with divorced parents and putting their kids on the middle of their fights? Or maybe that's just Talia?

Anyway.

Gotham, New Jersey is a dismal place. Danny's not germophobic by any means, he can't really afford to be, but even he's having a hard time being in the city.

It was so much easier hiding out with the Fentons.

Well, 'hiding' is a subjective term. Ra's and Talia knew where he was, so did Deathstroke, probably, but that was it.

Essentially, everyone he should be hiding from knows where he's been hiding, which means he's just been on some kind of twisted, extended vacation.

As far as Danny knew, Bruce Wayne had no idea he was coming. Damian knew because Talia had wanted him to pick Danny up from the airport. Weird because while Damian is technically older, Danny is still legally two years older.

Well, 'legally' is a stretch. He doesn't technically exist, outside of the LoA and Amity Park.

The point is that Damian is waiting for him at the end of the terminal, looking as much like an excited puppy as he can, with an older gentleman. Talia had given him nothing to work with, but Danny didn't really care who this guy was as long as he didn't try to make him do anything he didn't want to.

...living in the Midwest was doing wonders for his mental stability, but Ancients was it making him soft!

"'Danny', I presume?" the old man asked, his accent heavy.

Good, so Talia did give Damian his actual name. "Yep. You are?" He may not want to be here, but he still knows his manners. Even if he's only going to use the bare minimum of them. Malicious Compliance and all that.

"Alfred Pennyworth, the family butler." He didn't extend his hand to shake. Danny didn't mind. In fact, he actually preferred that.

Okay, so maybe he's a little bit haphephobic. Leave him alone!

"Danny," Damian greeted, a smile of excitement in his voice but not his face, "It's good to have you here. How did Mother convince you to come?"

"Bribery." Mostly.

Damian seemed to deflate a bit. "Father and the others don't know you're here."

"Do they even know about me at all?"

"No."

"Perfect! Then I can stay at a hotel-"

"For the entire summer?" Alfred raised his eyebrow, "I must insist that you stay at Wayne Manor while in Gotham. Master Bruce will most pleased to meet you."

"Why?" Danny scoffed, "I'm not his kid, nor do I want to be."

Damian slouched a little bit more. "Come, we must get back before the others send out a search party for us."

"Dramatic much?" Danny scoffed.

"Not at all," Alfred took both of Danny's bags before leading the way out to the car, "It' happened before in less time."

"I don't doubt it for a second. I'm calling Bruce a dramatic bitch."

Alfred smirked ever so slightly. "Quite right, Master Danny."

"Don't call me that."

"Alright then, what should I call you?"

"'Danny'. No honorifics, no add ons, no trying to fullname me, nothing else."

"And when you go out with the rest of the family?"

He scoffed again. "You really think they'd let me go out with them? I'm an assassin. In fact, the first thing I'll do the second I'm let out of the house is kill the clown bastard."

Damian rested his hand on Danny's arm. "They let me out with them and I tried to kill Drake. As long as you uphold a promise not to kill anyone, you'll be allowed to patrol with us."

They reached the car, Damian sat behind the driver while Danny sat behind the passenger. Alfred put the bags in the trunk. "So? What will you be called on patrol?"

Danny rolled his eyes, popping his headphones in and not looking away from the window. "Respawn."

Masterpost Part 2

[mobius-m-mobius]

#gay people can never just say "I love you" it always has to be some shit like - (insp)

[eydi-andrius]

I think it would be very hilarious to write Idia with a girlfriend for years and no one found out about it, not because he doesn't share, they just thought she was not real. Probably another 2D, anime girl he likes, and yapping about as always.

And it turns out to be the Prefect. The prefect that was admired by everybody, adored, and loved. They choose Idia out of all the bachelors they can have out there. And the most shocking thing about it is Idia not being negative about their relationship.

He seems confident, sure, and very soft towards you. He just raises his eyebrow when asked, how did it happen? And just shrugs it off and replies, "Obviously, because it's me."

[bogleech]

Dunno if you know but there is a Yo-kai watch event in ff14 right now.

Oh my god.......they're alive. And HE'S there.

Do final fantasy players know what his deal is. Do they know he's a desperately lonely and always slightly horny middle aged alcoholic trapped in the body of an off-putting dog. Do they know how happy he'd have to be to be isekai'd into Final Fantasy and captured by a bunnygirl adventurer.

Do they know he's so hilariously unpleasant that humans see him as possibly just a normal dog and he still got put in human jail for making women uncomfortable

These aren't complaints, this is the funniest fucking character a collectible monster franchise has ever had. if you play this final fantasy please give him as good a home as you feel he deserves

one time he bought booze for a child but really I think that one's on the bar for selling sake to what they thought was a dog

[ann-chovi]

Them♡

[haleigh-sloth]

The Isagi Effect:

Bachira:

Boy was in love within minutes of laying eyes on him.

Chigiri:

Made him want to actually play again.

Barou:

Made him an aggressive yet oddly supportive simp.

Nagi:

Made him go from lazy house cat to barely motivated house cat then back to lazy house cat.

Kaiser:

Reminded him of his horribly abusive father?????????

Rin:

Reminded him of his brother who shockingly and cruelly abandoned him??????

The range I'm telling you. It's impeccable.

[villainsandvictimsalliance]

Who's going to write that fic where Kurogiri secretly survived and timed himself to take Tomura somewhere else so everyone would think he was dead.

And then they went for Toga, because everyone would also believe she was dead.

And years later they went for Touya after a lot of planning on how to make his dead convincing.

So now they're all living in some mountain, trying to figure out how and when to take Compress and Spinner with them.

[somnimagus]

canary tree

[id in alt text]

[solaestial]

russell pixel portrait and some different expressions i drew a few weeks ago for discord emotes

[cherchezlafatfemme]

Looking cute af in my psychiatrist's office today 💅