#boat shaped tiny house

[diyahatnight]

Genshin men NSFW head canons

Warnings: This isn’t porn with a plot, it’s more of the sexual life of your relationship!

Minor’s dni

You can read the non nsfw version

Parings: Childe, Kazuha, Venti, Zhongli, Ayato, Wanderer, Xiao, Diluc, and Cyno X F! reader

Summary: These are head cannons and mini stories of your sex life with these characters, after your relationship started getting serious.

Notes: This is a modern au with phones and sending text messages. It also always seems so out of character for me when i write nsfw stuff. Please excuse my grammar mistakes <3

Childe

You haven’t seen your boyfriend for a while so you decided to go visit him at the golden house for a little. You did this often whenever you missed him so when he sees you enter he’s not surprised “Hey girlie.” You go over and give him a hug and he hugs you back. “Since you’re here how about we spar?” he asks you that every time you come and visit him. There is only one condition, if he wins, he gets to fuck you. But if you win he still gets to fuck you. There’s no escaping it. He loved when you came in and visited him because every time he had you pinned against the wall with your legs over his shoulders while he pounded into your cunt like there’s no tomorrow. This was his most favorite place to fuck. You never admitted it but you sometimes come and visit him when you’re horny and craved his fat cock.

Kazuha

Kazuha would be out at sea for a very long time, longer than usual. And you missed him sooooo much. For some reason you always found yourself on a tiny boat next to a large one which happens to be Beidou’s ship. They pull you in wondering what the hell you were doing in the middle of the ocean and you had no idea either. You told them how long you’ve been out there and they were shocked to hear that you’ve been at sea without food and water for a week, wondering how you’re still alive. After they fed you and gave you some water Beidou told Kazuha to take you to his personal cabin so you could shower and get some warm clothes, so he did. He had you laying on the bed in an instant. He had locked the door when y’all first came in the room. He had planned to fuck you before you the both of you went inside the cabin. He always slowly inserted himself until he bottomed out. To him, fucking you and making love with you was 2 different things. So he was going to make you feel good slow, and sensually. y’all are gonna be in there for a while as he had you cumming on his cock multiple times before he pulled out and came on your stomach, and beidou new that. As that wasn’t your first time in his cabin, that’s why you were so familiar with it.

Venti

Venti loved ovulation week so much, that sweet smell that came from you turned him on so much. As he was the anemo archon, he was able to smell basically everything. So when he came home drunk as hell you had to bathe him like a child. You were wearing a nightgown and no panties because you were in the middle of changing and when he came home he interrupted you. That sweet smell was so strong and was calling his name he pulled you inside the bathtub with your nightgown still on and stuck his hard cock inside you with no warning. He wanted to taste and see if you were as sweet as you smelled but he hadn’t brushed his teeth yet so fucking you on spot was his next best option.

Bonus: When your sex life with him started you didn’t expect much from him because he’s a little man and doesn’t seem like the type that carries something heavy in his pants, but you didn’t mind. You had completely forgot that he had the ability to shape shift, so you were shocked at the bulge a lone, but when he pulled it out your jaw was on the floor. Maybe that’s why he was so small and skinny but so heavy…

Zhongli

Zhongli’s cock is HUGE no questions asked. He’s about 9-10 inches, you think more about 11 but he doesn’t believe so. It’s more on the thick side so it’s quite heavy and the boners are outrageous. You decided to mess with him in public once and it was your worse decision of your life. When y’all got home that day he scolded you for being childish for grinding yourself on his cock. But he fucked you on the spot in public, in front of people. Secretly though, and nobody noticed, somehow. Nobody noticed how you arched your back on him and how your eyes rolled back when you had an orgasm on his cock. Luckily your skirt concealed the connection.

Ayato

Ayato had once done something that felt illegal. During a meeting he had you under the table giving him head. He told you to be careful and not make any noises while you sucked on his cock under the table. You felt like you were going to get in trouble if you got found out, but Ayato assured you that you wouldn’t he’s just doing it privately so the people don’t think down on him. It shocked you when he asked you to do this because he doesn’t seem like the type of person to be interested. The whole time he was talking he had a straight face not expressing pleasure at all, it wasn’t a struggle to hide it but he accidentally paused when he came inside your mouth. After the short pause he continued to talk like he didn’t just empty his balls down your throat. After the meeting is over he tells the last person out to lock the door after them so he could pull you out and bend you over the table.

Wanderer (Hat guy/ Kuni)

This man has absolutely no fears. You wanted to go and find Tighnari so he could teach you how to make some medicines and your boyfriend Kuni decided to accompany you. You and him kept messing around and he pushed you inside a pond, you came out soaking wet and your clothes see through, and that turned him on. You found a nice lady and she allowed you to go in and dry your clothes and change. Kuni followed in and sat on the toilet, the bathroom was quite small but it was fine. You got completely naked and he watched you as you undressed, with absolutely no shame and visibly getting hard. He pulled you onto his lap and just got to the point, fucked you cowgirl style but he was ramming into you hard and all you hear is skin slapping and concealed moans. The lady heard and was disgusted, you felt bad for having sex in a random lady’s home but Kuni didn’t care. When the both of you walked out she was gonna confront you but the glare your boyfriend gave her scared the hell out of her.

Xiao

He was inexperienced when you first met him all he new was what sex was. After being with him for a while he was open to anything so he did anything you pleased, anything that you asked for. He pleased your every sexual desire, when you told him what you think would feel really good. He’d look at porn videos to get visuals, you told him what porn was and ever since then he got all his moves from there. He randomly started being experienced and you were kinda scared when he had you cumming 3 times on his cock before he even came once.

Diluc

He’s such a calm lovable sweet partner, and he does whatever he can to please you. And whatever he can to have you screaming his name. If you come and visit him at the winery while nobody is around and it’s just the two of you, he’s having his own special serving. He doesn’t initiate the first move, but when you start he won’t stop until you have had at least 2 orgasms and him 1. He likes to make you take him over the counter or in the back, he’s a freak in hiding. He honestly doesn’t care if the two of you get caught because it’s his winery, he doesn’t care if he traumatizes some kids eyes, why would you let your kid wander inside of a winery that’s not his fault. They could probably hear you screaming his name too, that parent should have known what the slurred “Diluc” followed by a couple cuss words and skin slapping was, and not even let that child near the winery while there was another child in the process of being made. After he’s satisfied, he stops being super bold then apologizes to you, then pray to the archons after the fact that nobody saw or heard him and you.

Cyno

You have so much access to this man’s body anytime you please, he’s half naked all the time so your hands are everywhere. Once you, Cyno, Tighnari, and Collei were just exploring the desert and Cyno thought of a new joke and really wanted to tell you, even though he knew you didn’t like them. (idk bout y’all but i personally like his jokes) He was really excited to tell you this one but he had to do it in private. When Tighnari walked ahead and Collei followed him he took this as his time to tell you the most sexual joke known to man. He also told you how nice you looked, and you actually laughed but the joke kinda made you horny. You were all over touching his body and at one point your hand started to trail down a little too far, while standing behind the innocent. He had to pull you to a private cave with no monsters and fuck your brains straight. He said that you were just thinking with your little cunt and you said “Yeah and she craves your attention.” so he gave it to you.

I just KNOW Zhongli, Childe, and Diluc’s dicks are huge, have y’all seen that thing on tiktok of how you can see their pp animation? They all got third legs oml.

[dredgesnails]

I love to imagine the magic mountain bases all actually existing completely separately from each other in completely different time periods (almost), despite being physically in the same location.

In the ancient world, pyramids are constructed at the base of a huge volcano to honor the dead and worship old gods. A wide path leads to an entrance into the volcano, far enough in that the heat gets dangerous. Inside, sacrifices are made to the gods, to their king, offerings given up for the benefit of them all. The king is kind and forgiving, loyal to his people, asking for little and giving as much as he can. The gods however, are cruel, and all civilisations must fall eventually. For this one it's after a great eruption, one that shakes the earth with all the fury of the gods, that the pyramids become abandoned, left alone for centuries to erode. Over time new life grows, and thick jungles begin to hide the pyramids from view, until eventually, they’ve become a part of the natural landscape. Venture far enough in, however, and you might find remnants of the ancient civilisation: old writing in a language no one knows anymore, praises given to their old king; the remnants of ancient weapons and armour; the shapes of people who once lived forever preserved in ash and pumice.

~

It's the start of the industrial revolution, and rumours start spreading of an eclectic man and his steamrail full of exotic animals from across the globe. He’s a travelling zoo, of sorts, appearing in the strangest of places (as long as there's a railway line, he'll be there), areas it logically shouldn't be able to reach. He’s got all sorts of animals, from dolphins and turtles to strange, mysterious beasts. Where does he keep them all when they're not on the train? Some say he doesn't exist. others insist he does, that he lives underneath a mountain no one dares to visit. It's an active volcano, they say, dangerous to go near. If anyone dared to explore they might stumble upon the largest, most diverse collection of animals they've ever seen, and, most bizarrely, a large steam locomotive that runs on its own railway track, seemingly on a loop through the volcano itself. The tunnel is so dark the train disappears into it entirely. a young exploration group decide to find out for themselves, years later, and at first they think there's nothing there, until one of them stumbles upon the obvious remnants of a railway line, no longer in use but not so old that it's started to break down. Maybe he did exist after all...

~

In the late 1800s, a small fishing community establishes itself by the mountain. Electricity is new, and with the new machines and motors available to them the community quickly grows into a small village. Something is wrong, though. The rocks embedded in the mountain appear to resemble a skull more and more by the day, water streaming from one eye socket as though it’s crying. Underground passages and tunnels are found by the new residents, all leading to strange chambers. There's something in the water. A young man, one of the first in the village, disappears for a month, and when he returns, he's changed. He insists the ocean speaks to him, to everyone through him. He fishes for hours, days, weeks on end. When his madness begins infecting others, most gain the sense to stay away from him, but not everyone does. There's something in the water.

By the mid 1920s, the small fishing village is still standing, although most of the residents from four decades ago have since left. A young woman, traveling alone in her tiny fishing boat, docks at the village in need of repairs. What was meant to be a one night stay turns into days, then weeks, then months, as she begins to notice strange happenings in the village. A local artist has locked himself in his house, gone mad from something he found in the ocean. A scientist is experimenting with strange materials, and sometimes at night strange noises come from her house. There's something in the water. An older man speaks in tongues, driven mad by the sea. There's something in the water. The young fisher sees him occasionally, staring through her, unseeing. She's begun dreaming of ancient monsters in the depths of the water below her, reaching their long arms out and crushing her and everyone else. When she looks into the sea she can't see anything. It’s just inky blackness.

(No one knows how the village gets destroyed. One day it's here, and the next it's turned to rubble, razed to the ground by forces beyond human perception. It appears no one survived, but strangely, there's no trace of the small fishing boat the young woman had arrived in, nor of her body, and if anyone stopped for long enough in the wrecked city they might hear mumbling at night from underground, the mad ramblings of a man who has seen too much.)

~

Magic mountain row thrives in the early 2000s. They’ve beaten the Y2K bug (it really wasn't that much of a problem, anyway), business is booming at all the independent stores, and the local economy is better than ever. It doesn’t matter that not many people want to live here because new tech keeps Big Ron busy, and Willie Jr is old enough to start working at his father's shop, preparing himself to take over the business. The safe storage containers are always a little open, but nothing ever really goes missing, because no new people means everyone knows everyone. A young boy visits his neighbours for the last time before he leaves with his family; his dad's got a better job somewhere far away and they have to leave now, and besides it’s safer not to live by a barely-dormant volcano (it’s not as cool, though). His new neighbourhood has a lot more kids his age, but he can't help but miss the eccentric nature of his old neighbours. He returns to his childhood home twenty years later to find it empty. Most of magic mountain row is empty now, actually. There are a few places still open: Big Ron refuses to close up shop because Willie Jr, who has taken over the business now that his father's passed, still needs his help from time to time. Anyone still living here is merely clinging to a past they remember so fondly they can't adapt for the future. They're happy, though. They’re happy to remain here until it's their time to go.

~

In the not-so-distant future, a dense city is formed on the mountain. It started out as a smaller town, with traditional architecture and shrines dotted around the place, but as technology advanced and society progressed it grew and evolved into towering skyscrapers, holographic billboards, a rail system that winds through buildings and above streets. Elements of the past still remain - lush gardens lined with cherry blossom trees, the old shrines and temples still standing, a mark of the city's history and longevity. The city stands the longest, weathers the strongest storms, grows and evolves and changes, but all must come to an end, eventually. A rumbling in the earth, a once-dormant volcano waking from its slumber. They have the tech to know it's coming, now, so they all flee before it can hit. Only one man stays behind. This is his city. This is his home. He built this entire place from the ground up, and he’s not going to leave it behind. He makes his way to one of the shrines. Praying to his goddess, he leaves her one final offering, and when the ash settles all trace of him is gone.

~

The apocalypse happens in a future beyond our reckoning. A city lies, abandoned by most, on top of the ruins of civilisations that came before. Once a lively hub of activity and tech and innovation, the city has become a ghost town, occupied only by the artificial intelligences that had driven humanity out. They wander aimlessly, mimicking the behaviours of the humans they used to watch and help, protecting the inner core of their city that keeps everything, including themselves, alive. The humans reside elsewhere, in a bunker resembling the old world, with more vegetation and life than the city had despite being hidden underground. The city’s architects reassure everyone that they’ll be able to return someday soon. The one who designed the robots, a man more cyber than human by this point, just needs to fix a few issues with their programming. He doesn’t want to destroy them but he might have to. His partner, who designed most of the city, will need to commence repairs before anyone can live in the city again. So they leave, vowing to fix the city so that everyone can return to society. No one knows they will never return.

[akwolfgrl]

How sweet it is to be loved by them part 1

I've changed somethings it's now abo and going to be monster trio. Zoro and sanji are married alredy when they meet Luffy.

Luffy watch a blond head bob in the water as they drew closer to the shore. Luffy stood up in the boat and waved his arm excitedly. He was sure he'd have to wait till the grandline before meeting a mermaid! Yet thire they were clear as day.

“Hi!” Luffy called out to them.

“Luffy!” Koby whispered. “Stop, they could be dangerous!” Silly Koby, how was he supposed to become a marine if he was such a coward?

The mermaid stopped swimming and turned towards them before waving back and swimming towards them. He placed his arms against the top of their tiny boat, a net sling over one shoulder. His long blonde hair was the color of gold, yet far more precious, Luffy longed to run his fingers threw it. The shulder length hair was wet from the water curling at the ends, his blue eyes were the same color where the sky met the sea, he had curly eyebrows peeking out from his wet bangs. He had on two mismatched gold earrings, one was tear drop shaped and one had a blue heart dangling from its gold chain. His scent hit Luffy hard, spicy as Vaca atolada, yet salty and fresh like the crashing waves of the seas, a soft sugary drink hit the tip of his tongue allowing him to know they were an omega… no not AN omega but HIS omega

“Hello, what can I do for you?” The pretty mermaid omega asked.

“Are you a mermaid?” Luffy asked him, he was far too pretty not to be.

“Oh my Luffy! You can't ask people if they're mermaids!” Koby hissed at him as the mermaid laughed.

“No unfortunately I'm not,” He kicked his legs up willing his toes. “See no tail,”

“Hmm,” Luffy wasn't convinced but then again he could be hiding. After all, if he didn't want anyone to know he'd never say and deny the truth. “Then if you're not a mermaid what are you?”

“I'm a chef, I suppose a traveling chef now. I pick up work where I can,” He replied. “Sanji by the way, Luffy and who's your friend?”

“I'm Koby,”

“A chef!?” Luffy stomach growled causing the mermaid Sanji to laugh again.

“Come on you sound hungry, join me for breakfast. My house boat is just over there,” Sanji pointed towards the shore and a larger boat parked by the dock.

Luffy and Koby paddled their way over to Sanji's house boat. The blonde omega was climbing up into his home when they arrived. His long muscular legs and thighs were warped in a brightly colored swim trunks with fishes on them. He was slim with a tiny waist, his shoulders were broader than his own but he looked as if he was still growing into his body. He hung the net of crabs up to dry.

“Let me get dressed and I'll start breakfast. The galley is right through this door and to the left,” Sanji spoke, opening said door before turning right.

Luffy dragged Koby with him to the door and to the left. He took a seat at the small table egar to eat. Luffy could smell hints of anthoer alpha, but it was faded. The galley was warm and cozy, the cabinets painted a soft blue, the cupushioens on the chairs and benches, and darker blue. On the wall above his head was an empty sword rack. Thire were photos that littered the walls before Luffy could proprly look. Sanji returned wearing black slacks and a blue long sleve button-up, his long hair pulled back.

“Whata ya makein!” Luffy asked, sniffing the air. Whatever it was, it smelled like meat and bread.

“Cachorro com Ovo,” Sanji replied, rolling his sleeves up. Luffy watched as more skin was once more reviled.

“Mmmm I haven't had that in forever!” Luffy was excited. He loved food more than almost anything else. He was so happy his mate was a cook.

“What is it?” Koby asked.

“Dog with egg,” Luffy exspined. “Thire no dog, it's just bread with a meat stew with fried egg and tomatoes! It's like one of the few things Gramps knows how to make,” Sometimes after training, if Luffy did well, Gramps would make food as a reward.

[prettyboysinmyheart]

Introducing Ella Hughes | Maveric Lamoureux x Hughes sister AU

A/n: All credits to go 🐧anon. Thank you so much lovey for helping me come up with ideas for this Au. Couldn’t have done without you. I appreciate you so much<3 ( feel free to correct me if anyone is wrong. Don’t much about tennis but did my best)

❁ born September 9th, 2003 (Luke’s older by 5 minutes)

❁ height 5’5

❁ favorite music artist are Taylor Swift, Luke combs, Harry Styles and Gracie Abrams.

❁ loves to read books

❁ always brings them out on the boat to help her relax

❁ her family nickname is daisy because ever since she was little she had became obsessed with collecting anything that has daisies on them

❁ every year for her birthday the theme is always daisies

❁ doesn’t like hockey but still supports her brothers

❁ Quinn is her favorite

❁ out of all her brother’s friends she’s very close to Cole

❁ she’s introverted, a sunny person. always happy and carefree, very soft in general

❁ she loves the spring/ summer, because that's when everyone's together and her brothers are at the lake house to enjoy the summer with her.

❁ instead of going to the University of Michigan, she signed with the Sun Devil Women’s Tennis team.

❁ Luke cried the night she told him. He would not leave her side and made sure to spend all summer with her before she left. Jack cried happy tears and told her he was very proud of her.

❁ Quinn wanted to hold his little sister in his arms forever. He couldn’t believe how grown up she was. It didn’t feel real to him until the last box was in your dorm room.

❁ He kept a smile on for her but on the plane back to Vancouver, he couldn’t hold it in anymore

❁ all three brother promised to call her at least 3 times a week

❁ when she is on the court she’s a different person. Shows no mercy, is very competitive and likes to trash talk.

❁ Ranked as high as #18 in the women’s world rankings

❁ also ranked as #1113 WTA singles ranking and #850 WTA Double ranking

❁ started playing at the age of 5

❁ also played soccer for a few months before she was kicked of the team for scoring on the wrong side

❁ is very into scrapbooking

❁ in high school she took photography classes and fell in love with it

❁ had a tiny crush on Tyler Duke in high school

❁ dated for about 5 months until she lost feelings

❁ met Maveric at a coffee shop when he came to train in Arizona for development camp.

❁ talked for about 6 months before he asked her out on a date

❁ January 3rd, 2023 he asked her to be his girlfriend by setting up a picnic, having a heart shaped daisy with a sign in the middle that said “can I be your boyfriend?”

[fizzigigsimmer]

To B With Love: The One With The Honey Moon

I had a lot of fun learning about 19th century San Francisco and thought folks might like to see where Steve & Billy spend their bonding retreat.

If that interests you at all, more beneath the cut.

(Cow Hollow 1870)

Bordering the marina district on the bay, Cow Hollow is still a neighborhood that exists in the city today, and parts of it can be seen in The Princess Diaries, which is irrelevant but dear to me.

When the first settlers arrived with the gold rush it was called Spring Valley, known for the numerous freshwater springs that fed into the fertile lagoon, as well as for grassy meadows and sand hills inhabited by wildlife. All those grassy meadows were great for farming, and the area came to be known as Cow Hollow after its many immigrants took to lucrative dairy farming. The price of milk was high in the city at that time and a local farmer could easily support a family on dairy production.

Cow Hollow (Chinese vegetable farm 1883)

Its main thoroughfare, was until the early 20th century an unpaved road which linked the developing city with the Presidio. As San Francisco rapidly expanded the area prospered and became a fashionable district for Prominent San Franciscans. They came and built their fancy houses and shops and businesses followed them. From about the 1860s to the late 1870s there were your standard gentrification tensions between the farmers and the fashionable set, which ended when the city banned cows in the area in the 1880s, effectively ending farming in the area for good.

Cow Hollow (The Attorney General's private estate ensconced by trees)

Perhaps in defiance people continued to call it Cow Hollow, and good on them for that.

This neighborhood makes a lot of sense to me as a place Steve's cousin would have picked to hide him, as it is "comfortable", but not as congested as the city proper as well as close to the bay if a quick retreat is needed by boat.

*Bonus view of the Golden Gate strait from the Crissy field shoreline 1870

The same view in 2015

The house Billy & Steve stay in is described as an octagon shaped cottage, with a cross gabled roof and wrap around porch. Octagon shaped houses were a hot fad for "forward thinking individuals" in the 19th century that started with this doctor who published a bunch of papers, detailing his research into the human body and how the enlightened individual could use their environment to live their best life. Apparently, the flow and function of the octagon shape was superior in his book. Anyway, thanks to him and the trend setters we now have a nice collection of historical houses with this quirky, not all that functional shape. There's a full list online but I'll just include a few that were built around the 1860s

(McElroy House - San Francisco)

(New Jersey: super cute but I can imagine the tiny, weirdly cornered rooms just by looking at it)

(San Francisco: some modern updates obviously but I love the roof work)

(Not sure where these are)

And the one I used a direct reference for Steve & Billy's little retreat.

I love the gables, the porch, just everything. I can picture it on a hill with a view down to the bay, and I loved the idea of them being able to just follow a road to the sea.

That was the first image that came to my mind when I was outlining - the boys hand in hand on their way to the beach. Disheveled, not quite 'done up' all the way but no one to see them if they did. Just being young and starry eyed for each other. Frankly they deserve it after all I put them through lol.

[bogkeep]

im having more ISAT related feelings, spoilers under the cut

the island reminds me of northern norway. like, of course it does, that's my very first home that my family moved away from when i was a toddler. it's a place i will yearn for wildly and suddenly. of course, of course.

it's not a perfect match and that isn't the point, but. i think of fishing boats and fjords and dressing warm for the weather. i think of all the times i've joked with my friends about how northern norway isn't a real place. it's a very strange place - a vast wilderness where the sun doesn't set, or maybe doesn't rise at all. there's also the auroras, naturally, although i've never caught them at their brightest. someday, i hope.

it does get forgotten - or maybe neglected is a better word. so few people live up there it's hard for the big decision makers in the capital, snuggled up in the south, to understand what life is like up there. oh, and that one time it got burnt down - under ww2, when norway was under nazi occupation and they wanted to prevent russia from invading, they forced people to evacuate and set fire to all the houses. you can still find charred stumps of telephone poles scattered throughout.

my tiny hometown has shrunk, i think. the school closed long ago, as did the kindergarten. you gotta travel to the next towns over to do anything.

i can return if i want. it's not lost to me forever. i do visit, when i can. but i always wonder, if we had stayed, would i have been able to connect more with my sami and kvenish heritage? would i have learnt any of the northern sami language? i would at the very least have kept my dialect, i'm sure. these things aren't unattainable! but i don't know... how.

sorry i said i was going to talk about ISAT but just talked about my own first home instead. i can't claim to fully relate to siffrin and his situation, if anything i'm much closer to odile's... but the way siffrin's home feels to me in my heart is always going to be the way i feel about northern norway. something magical and far away that brought me into the world, something that shaped my marrow, something i left behind. i've had so many places to call home i'm always going to yearn for somewhere, it's not a game i can win, and i think that wistfulness is what siffrin and i can shake hands about.

[moodmother]

Expansion Phase

The devil appears as Jerm turns to leave the wine cellar. He gasps and nearly drops the bottle of Dom, but his look of surprise quickly gives way to a grin.

"I'm ready," he says, gesturing to his clothes: an oversized hoodie and matching, generously-cut joggers, all in charcoal with tasteful neon yellow piping.

The devil only looks confused. "Does it matter what you're wearing?"

"Wouldn't it?" Now Jerm is confused. Why shouldn't it matter?

"Well the house isn't going to fit anymore, nevermind your clothes."

Jerm blinks, uncomprehending. "What?"

"I suppose I thought that I'd find you outside somewhere, but this will certainly be a bit more fun."

The fabric of his clothes is already starting to pull tighter across his skin, but Jerm has not yet noticed that he has begun to grow. He is still trying to grasp what the devil could mean. "The house…?" A knot of dread settles into the pit of his stomach.

"Well, you remember the deal."

"I…" Jerm looks down at his belly, slowly swelling out like an inflating balloon, and registers his predicament. The bottle of champagne smashes to the floor.

"No," is all he can say as he staggers out, through the bright light and crisp whiteness of the kitchen. "No, no, no--"

Out in the foyer, between the two symmetrical staircases that lead up to the second floor, hangs a portrait of Jerm looking just as he did moments ago: slim in a very specific, fastidious way. Not scrawny or wiry. Just full and toned enough to suggest a breezy fitness routine, yet without any muscular bulk that might belie vulgar, meat-headed vanity.

Now, tottering beneath that portrait, Jerm is already unrecognizable. He is expanding all over, swelling outward in all directions, his flesh sitting taut instead of sagging down. The waistband of the joggers is digging into his midsection. But he continues to steadily grow.

"Why?" he gasps.

"Our deal! Today's the day!"

The seams of his clothes are pulling tight.

"I thought…" he gasps, "Only…a couple hundred…pounds…."

The stitches running down his pant legs begin to pull apart.

"A couple hundred?" The devil gapes, incredulous. "Didn't you do the math?"

With a POP the waistband of Jerm's pants snaps. He groans against the oppressive tightness of the hoodie wrapped around his chest and arms. "Just a…tiny…fraction…."

The devil conjures up a brimstone-pocked scroll and consults it. "Right here," it goes on, tapping the scroll, "one thousandth of a pound per dollar. You didn't specify 'profit,' so we settled upon total sale price. That was the deal, Jeremy. You must have known what that meant."

Jerm only moans. The hoodie finally shreds, defeated at last by his relentless growth. He has started to take on a domed shape. His feet are buried beneath the bulk that used to be his legs. His barrel-like arms lie straight out, resting atop his impossibly huge sides. His entire midsection is all of a piece, still firm and rounded like the hull of a boat.

"Make it…stop…."

"Jeremy," the devil leans in close to Jerm's great broad face, "a deal's a deal. You just sold the company for three billion dollars. You know what that means."

"Nooo," Jerm sobs. Tears collect atop his cantaloupe sized cheeks.

"Three million pounds. That's what you agreed to."

Jerm wails. His growth continues unabated. The floorboards underneath him groan as if in sympathy.

The devil pokes pensively at his chest. "This will be very interesting to see."

"You…really are…the Devil…."

"No. I am only a devil."

+++

Breaking news:

"Emergency personnel are on the scene at the home of Jeremy 'Jerm' Scallon, creator and former owner of Skdli.do. Scallon recently made headlines thanks to the high-profile sale of Skdli.do to Meta, a move that turned him into an overnight billionaire. It seems that a neighbor called 911 following some sort of disturbance at the property. It is not clear at this time whether Mr. Scallon or anyone else is at home."

+++

Jerm can hear vehicles pulling up outside but he has gotten stuck here in the foyer with his back to the front door and windows. All that he can see is his portrait up on the wall, taunting him above the burgeoning horizon of his belly. Himself as he was. When he stepped on the bathroom scale this morning, it read 175 pounds. Now….

With a soft pap the underside of his belly reaches the floor and the whole thing continues to swell. Behind him, his titanic ass cheeks are already spreading across the floorboards.

"No…more…."

"Much more," comes the devil's voice in his ear. "You've gained, what, a thousand pounds, give or take? You're going to pack on three thousand times that much before it stops. That was the deal! I did warn you." With that it disappears in a puff of sulfurous smoke.

Someone is knocking at the front door. Of course Jerm cannot turn to look. His head is completely smothered, his face pinned between cheeks the size of sofa cushions. His hands have disappeared into the burgeoning barrel-like appendages that used to be his forearms, and those will soon be swallowed up by his now mattress-sized upper arms. Overall, he has taken on the rough shape of an enormous dome. And every part of him continues to grow steadily. Bigger, and bigger, and bigger. Heavier and heavier.

"Mr. Scallon? A neighbor ca--"

The cops entering through the front door cannot parse what they have walked into. An advancing wall of flesh, nearly as tall as a man, cleft vertically. Two impossibly huge ass cheeks, surging inexorably toward them and toward the door.

"Gnnhh…." Jerm moans. His belly is now touching the wall beneath the portrait, and pressing ever harder against it as he grows.

"M-Mr. Scallon…?"

"Helllp…me…."

+++

"Some kind of scene continues to unfold at the home of Skdli.do founder Jeremy Scallon. Law enforcement have not released any details except to report that Mr. Scallon is alive. Multiple ambulances are on the scene now but no one appears to have been taken out of the home."

+++

Jerm has grown flush with the walls but his expansion continues unabated. All that he can see is his own belly forced upward against the wall in front of him. Before his eyes it swallows up the portrait of his former self. Except for an upturned face floating in a sea of flesh, all vestiges of his humanity are gone. And still he continues to grow, filling up endlessly like a monstrous water balloon.

The walls are so, so tight, and getting tighter. He moans in discomfort, and even begins to weep. Alarmed voices chirp around him; he can feel tentative hands against the skin of his impossibly huge buttocks. But no one can help him.

+++

"At this time we have secured the scene, and have taken every precaution," says an FBI spokesman during the press conference. "We cannot rule out the possibility of some kind of pathogen."

+++

Jerm has completely filled up the foyer. With no more room to grow, his obscene bulk has been swelling upward, such that the buried core of his skeleton and musculature is buoyed within it like a morsel of fruit suspended within a gigantic jelly. His flesh begins to squeeze out into other areas of the house: into the kitchen on one side, into the library on the other. Up the staircases, which groan in protest. Pressing against the front door and windows….

+++

In the news footage of the Scallon mansion, there is a sudden flurry of panic among the assembled firefighters and paramedics. The first storey windows break and…something oozes out of them. The front door bulges outward ominously. It buckles, the hinges break, and the same fleshy substance fills the frame.

+++

Jerm is utterly alone. His flesh blots out the light from the windows, and muffles the sound of sirens and screams. His immense weight has splintered the floorboards and collapsed the staircases. Still he grows and grows. He is starting to forget who he is. All he knows is that he is horribly confined, squeezed. Outgrowing the house, just as the devil had said.

+++

"Authorities believe that the object is human, or human in origin, and that it is still alive. It is not clear what has caused the extreme growth, or whether the effect may be contagious. Residents of the surrounding neighborhood have been evacuated for their safety."

In the live footage, personnel in hazmat suits mill around the perimeter of the mansion. The fleshy mass continues to swell and ooze out of the windows and doors. The figures start and flee as, all at once, the house seems to come apart at the seams. The walls burst, forced outward by a relentless tide of flesh.

+++

Unheard by anyone else, the thing that once was Jerm moans in relief as he finally bursts free of the house. Everything is too small. He needs room. Unfettered by walls, he can continue to expand unabated. He has forgotten everything: his money, his name, how his face used to look. Everything except the sensation of growth. The feeling of his own unfathomable weight.

+++

Using a crane, they are able to remove the roof--the only thing that remains of the house--from atop the mountain of flesh. With a drone-mounted camera, they confirm that there is the vestige of a human face sunken into the top of the thing.

"Authorities believe, but are unable to confirm, that what we are looking at is Jeremy Scallon himself."

The thing resembles a massive organic dome, cleft fore and aft where it apparently has monstrous ass cheeks and the hemispheres of an obscenely vast belly. It is still growing, spreading upward and outward in all directions, threatening the neighboring mansions.

"While he appears to be alive, it remains unclear when or if Mr. Scallon will stop growing. No plans have yet been announced as to how the situation will be addressed if this…mass cannot be contained."

Jerm made his infernal pact in secret: in exchange for the successful sale of his company, he would gain one thousandth of a pound per dollar of the final price. When Jerm weighed himself this morning, the scale read 175 pounds. And so the thing will only stop growing when it finally weighs just about 3,000,175 pounds.

Of course no one has any idea, they cannot possibly know, exactly how big the thing will get. It cannot speak, and will never speak again. Viewers and bystanders, Jerm's buyers and colleagues and family, can only watch helplessly as it swells bigger, and bigger, and bigger.... +++

Down in the offices of Hell, the devil sighs as it adds the last bit of data to its quarterly report. "You'd think a computer guy would have been better at math."

[law-d-water-trafalgar]

Childhood Friends with Law

You have a genetic mutation that you cannot get Amber Lead Syndrome.

Includes: flashback to childhood, after two year skip, punk hazard, become girlfriend after they realize who the other is.

Warnings: mentions of dead bodies, killing.

Some mistakes sorry <3

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(N) POV

Flashback To Childhood

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"Come on Trafalgar let's play!" I say as he responds

"I have homework to do maybe later okay (n)?" Trafalgar says as he walks inside his house.

'Hes always studying to become a doctor like his dad and mom I guess it's okay, hell come play when hes ready.' I think as I bounce the ball up and down. But one day none of his family came to the door as I knocked.

That was six months ago. Sighing I go back to my house only to see my mother and father dead on the couch. Screaming I ran away, passing by bodies upon bodies.

"Kill them all!" I hear someone yell as I hide in the dead bodies slowly moving toward the shore as I move slowly stopping when someone was close by. Once past all the people who were killing everyone I ran towards the shore only to see a tiny boat and a gaint ship. I quickly untie the tiny boat and sail off into the sea praying not to be seen. After three days I finally reached a lush island in the north blue and set an anchor for my boat. Starving and being dehydrated for three days I found a river and drank as if I've never drank before. Then looking for fruits all I saw was one weirdly shaped curly fruit the taste was unbearable but I gulped it down.

"Theres nothing else here so sad..." I spoke outloud but I felt the words bounce back at me. A purple sphere was around me as I discovered I now had powers.

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After Two Year Time Skip At Punk Hazard

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I'm guarding the Sunny as the other Strawhats decide to go on the island.

"No I'll watch the ship go on ahead you guys" my long (c) hair flowing in the wind as everyone says there goodbyes.

"We shouldn't be that long stay safe (n)-swan" Sanji coos as Nami punches his head.

"Theyll be fine right (n)" Nami yells over to you as you respond.

"Yup all good here" I state as I walk into the bedroom and plop on the bed as they all leave.

"Time to catch up on my reading finally" I state in a humble tone.

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After almost all day

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"Shouldnt they be back by now just how big is this island?" I state worriedly. But before I knew it Franky comes farting down and lands on the Sunny.

"Franky what's going on? Where is everyone?" I ask worriedly.

"Oh there was a bit of trouble and some poison gas so I'm moving the Sunny on the other side of the island" I nod as I unfurl the sails and were on our way.

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On The Other Side Of The Island

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"(N) go inside the Sunny I sense others nearby" Franky say to me as I spot two figures in the sky.

"Rogar Commander Franky" I say then run away as my devil fruit isnt the best for combat. I'm the crews well, life coach basically and help Chopper mainly with doctor things as his assistant.

Suddenly I hear a loud screech of wheels as I peek out from the bedroom the smokes been cleared from the area below. Seeing all your crewmates you jump down from the Sunny.

"Baby five?! Buffalo?! Why are you here?!" You see a strangely familiar hat then look at the man more closely hes wearing a cloak which is black and yellow and spotted jeans. But the hat looked so familiar. I run up to my crewmates and ask

"Is everyone allright?"

"Yes were all here we picked up these children also we must protect them at all costs" Nami says to me as I scan the area. The apparent Baby Five and Buffalo had been defeated quickly and captured along with Ceasar. I see Sanji preparing a food pit, and everyone else talking. I go sit next to familiar hat and general Smoker. After being handed a bowl of soup I over hear there having a serious conversation so I silence them in a bubble so I can't hear them anymore. Turned around I just drank my soup as I felt eyes on my suddenly I turned back round only to see familiar hat guy staring at me talking. So I unsilenced them.

"What was that again?" I ask familiar hat guy.

"Where did you find that fruit? How did you get your hands on it?" He asks me. So I explain

"Well I used to live in the town of Flevance but when they started killing people because of the Amber Lead Syndrome I pretended to be dead among the bodies then made my way to shore-" I hear everyone partying hard and fast so I try to hurry the story up

"After finding a boat I sailed to a deserted lush island where the only fruit that was there was, the one I ate, it was swirly and pretty but tasted horrible and that's how I got these powers." I say softly as familiar guys eyes widen.

"Theres no way you survived the Amber Lead Syndrome too" he says as I ponder what he says I realize he said too.

"Wait do you know someone who survived it too? I have a genetic mutation so I cant actually get Amber Lead Syndrome" shock just shown on his face as he asks

"What's your name?" I retort

"Well what's your name mr. Mysterious?" Playing with him. With a sigh he says

"Trafalgar D. Water Law and you now? Do you have a heart birthmark on your waist?" He asks impatiently. Shocked I've never told or even shown anyone my birthmark before besides my old bestfriend.

"My names (n) D. (LN) and yes I do" revealing your birthmark hes in even more shock as it Dawn's on you

"You were my childhood best friend!" You both state outloud at the same time.

"Trafalgar?" I say blankly as shock shown on my face.

"(N)?" He says more like a statement.

"I thought you died from the Syndrome like everyone else?" You question.

"There is a time and place for us to talk (n) now isnt the time" he says coldly.

"Well make time silence" I use my powers on us now.

"You were always so pushy but yet understanding too, still are."he says.

"Tell me how you survived you were pale and had the disease how did you survive Trafalgar?" I ask worriedly about my best friend.

"After my parents died I tried to join Don Quixote Doflamingos group but being kicked out so many times by Cora his brother. I took the hint only after Cora told me something about the D. After that he blew his under cover and took me to every hospital in the world but noone was willing to help. So he resorted to the Ope Ope No Mi and stole it and made me eat it. Which in turn cured me as I hide among dead bodies. Though he was shot by his own brother right after I ate it and as I got away he used that silence on me since I was crying. He gave his life for me. He was so compassionate just like you (n)." Trafalgar states as he stands up and walks over to you.

"This stays between us" I raise my pinky finger as he blushes and raises his as we link pinkies and shake.

"Our old handshake you remembered!" I say happily.

"But this Cora did he have the same powers I do now? All I remember is you were gone then after six months my parents died so I left as they were killing everyone off" I say softly.

"He had the exact same devil fruit as you do, it must be fate" he says quietly. I stand and hug him tight in a bear hug but hes grown so tall over the years he towers over me now, me being (height) tall. Hes taken aback but hugs me back for a short period as if hes forgotten the outside world. After a minute we both part.

"I have to tend to the children now (n)" he says softly as if he doesnt want to go.

"Okay do your thing Trafalgar" I say sweetly as I unsilence the bubble. He goes off onto the gaint SAD ship. Soon Chopper comes running off the SAD ship screaming

"Hes a murderer, hes murdering them do something!"

"Now I'm a murderer!" I hear Brook say as he breaks Kinemon and Kinemon pops out of the mold Momo cries out

"Father! Your alive!" As their touching reunion happens Kinemon tells Momo the food is safe to eat and he starts to eat . As everyone finishes then the marines make a wall and start chanting pirates are horrible trust the marines! After that fiasco happens the children and marines set sail off into the distance.

Everyone boards the Sunny except Vice Admiral Smoker and his marines and we set sail. Trafalgar has a chat on his transponder snail with someone, once done you and Robin go up to him.

"Dont mean to bother you, but who were you on the snail with?" Robin asks him.

"His black market name is Joker but others know him as Don Quixote Doflamingo. I set up a trade, his resignation as a warlord for Ceaser." Trafalgar says.

"Ahh!!! So were taking down a warlord I'm down-" I say but was cut off

"You are not going (n) this is personal" he says looking serious pointing at me. I nod and put my hand to my face thinking.

"Hey Luffy is it okay if I leave the crew to join Trafalgars crew?" As the words leave my mouth I hear everyone gasp.

"What? Hes my childhood bestfriend I cant just leave him now, again." I say as Nami says

"But well miss you (n) what about our girl time?"

"I never asked you to join either" Trafalgar says looking up at you while he sits on the floor.

"So you dont want me to join?" I ask acting hurt. He rubs the back of his head and says

"Well I wouldnt be opposed to it, just what does Luffy think though? I mean he is YOUR Captain...."

"If you want to leave then go live your life (n)" Luffy yells from the head of the Sunny. I look at everyone and say

"So its decided?" As everyone nods.

"Thank you for always being there for me everyone, you all mean so much too me. I'll never forget you all and it's not like I'm going anywhere, right now, Trafalgar formed an alliance with the Strawhats remember?" Nami nods as I look around at everyone looking back at me. Making me uncomfortable.

"Okay your stares of judgement are enough I get it!" I yell as everyone resumes what they were previously doing. Each one of them eventually comes up to talk to me about leaving but my hearts dead set on it and I tell them that. After awhile you see a sub emerge from the water beside the Sunny.

"Since your apart of my crew now your staying in the Polar Tang while we all go to Dressrosa." Trafalgar says.

"Room Shambles" as we both poof into the submarine after packing my stuff.

"Heres my room just put your stuff in the closet you can stay with me since all the other rooms are full." Trafalgar says to me softly with a slight blush on his face as he pulls his hat down slightly. I definitely notice as he was my childhood crush as well but he could never feel the same about me could he?

"Awe your blushing like back then" I squeal as I hug him embracing him now that were alone. He reciprocates and pulls me in for a hug tightly against his chest, him blushing even more now but look away.

"Oh how I've missed you Trafalgar" I coo to him as he retorts

"I've missed you as well (n)" picking me up and laying me gently on the bed as he undresses into a shirt and pants and lays Kikoku to rest. I snuggle under the covers that smell like him. As he slides into bed as well turning off the nightstand light. He eventually falls asleep since it was close to dark and we all have days till we reach Dressrosa.

I awoke in the morning, early with Laws arm behind my head and him cuddling me spooning/cuddling breathing in my neck making me have goosebumps. I hurry and close my eyes while blushing and wrap my arm around his waist. He moves and lays on his back while I'm lieing on my side his arm wrapped around me, holding me close. I just tried to keep my eyes closed and not move. Soon Trafalgar awakens opening his steel eyes I feel him recoil slightly.

'He must have realized our position hehe hes so cute' I think as he sighs I flutter my eyes and pretend to wake up. I look over to Trafalgar, realize I'm laying on his arm and sit up blushing.

"Did you um sleep well Trafalgar?" I ask while still lightly blushing.

"Yea I slept good for once." He says slightly blushing as well as he gets up and changes in the bathroom. He then comes out in his cloak and hat with Kikoku then puts on his socks and shoes. "Where are you going?" I ask curiously.

"I need to prepare the crew." He says blankly but I see a little pink on his face and I smile.

"Okay Captain!" I say cutely as he pulls down his hat slightly and looks away.

"Be back soon" he says quietly as he walks down the hall. Laying on the bed I suddenly hear an announcement.

"We have a new crew member say hello to (N) D. (LN) my childhood friend, sometime" I hear Trafalgar say on the intercom probably from the control room. Suddenly I hear steps and a slide and crash into our door. I look at three figures standing in front of the door all in boiler suits.

"Heya I'm Penguin and this is Sachi" Penguin helps Sachi up.

"And I'm Bepo" a big polar bear who was stand on the paws said.

"Aweeee!! So cute!" I run and latch onto Bepo and he hugs me back.

"Captain never has brought back a girl-" Sachi was cut off by Penguin

"Their his childhood friend"

"Oh my gosh I'm right here" I say outloud then look down.

"So what was Captain like as a kid?" Penguin asks as they all look curiously at me.

"Well he always studied to become a doctor. He rarely got to play with me but I went every day to his house to see if he wanted to play." I say as I sit on the bed Indian style in my shorts and crop top. They all come closer to me and sit down.

"He was soo cute and still is" I say as I cover my mouth. Embarrassed I hid my cheeks.

"Shambles" Law looks around and asks them

"What are you three doing get to work" as they all scrambled up and out the door. This gave me an opportunity to calm down.

"Yes Captain!" They as say snickering as they ran away.

"So what's up Trafalgar?"

"Theres something I must confess..." he says while closing the door.

"What's that Trafalgar?" Putting Kikoku to rest. He sits on the bed.

"I was planning on telling you the day I left but I couldn't..." he says quietly.

"What is it? I ask curiously.

"Remember I told you before I had something to say, back before?" He says.

"Ohhh yea what was it?" I perk up. He looks me in the eyes with his gorgeous grey eyes.

"Well.... I had a... crush on you ..." he blushes fully and looked down.

"Oh had a crush?" I say looking down slightly.

"Have...." him blushing more looking away with his hat turned down. I get off the bed and go up and hug him close.

"I ... have a crush on you too Trafalgar I have for many years, I never thought you of all people would just up and die. I still had hope." I say boldly as he hugs me back.

"I never thought youd like me back." He says as he brushes my arm, with his arm as he placed his hands behind him on the bed.

"Are you kidding? I never thought you ever liked me." I say shocked. As he wraps an arm around me pulling me inward.

"Well I'm sorry to hear that (n) I thought I was being very direct, guess not." He says.

"Well if you wanna do this right you have to ask me properly." I say as I wait sitting on the bed staring at him now.

*sigh*

"Will you (n) be my girlfriend?" He asks gently as I'm frozened but eventually thaw out. I shake my head up and down.

"Yes I'll be with you Trafalgar, even though things are different now."I say hugging him close.

Trafalgar told you not to tell anyone because they could use it against me or him but you ended up telling Nami and Robin. But so far they haven't told anyone else. Bepo, Sachi and Penguin have a new friend now. And I have a new boyfriend.

<3<3<3

[amphiptere-art]

I've been thinking about my cryptid Hunter AU. It's based on standard security breach. With the DCA of course. To play it out short as possible.

It is a world where Sun and Moon are cryptid hunters. Specifically for vampires and werewolves. Y/N is another hunter. They're a bit unique though. They are a cryptid eater. A bear, smilodon, wolf, monster thing that has to eat other cryptids for food. Despite being a cryptid yourself you're hanging around hunters because you share the same goals. Kill cryptids. Then of course there's a bunch of shenanigree. But this is the main concept.

I'm going to go into more detail now. A lot of it is just going to be repeating with a lot more words. Plus a tiny bit of story? It was a very wild story.

So to start. Where and why do cryptid eaters exist? We were basically made by the Faye gods so they could balance out the other cryptids. Cryptid eaters were basically made to help hunters. Unfortunately the hunter's misunderstood. Since they are cryptid, they thought they would be like any other evil cryptid. So they hunted the cryptid eaters into persecution. Only a few select villages realize the cryptid eaters true meaning. Cryptid eaters are almost extinct.

Onto the description of a cryptid eater. Cryptid eaters are interesting? In order to stop the prosecution of their species faye gods allowed them the ability to shape-shift to a human form. But their main form is out of a beast. You're going to take a smilodon, give it bear paws. Fangs like a cobras. A long a wolf like tail. And make it huge. Through those fangs the cryptid eater drinks the blood of cryptids they usually have a long stripe on the side of the body that basically shows how full they are. Appearing full-blown red when full, and fully blue when starving. Their eyes share this color change. Although it usually comes out as purple. Cryptid eater can also manifest wings. These are bat-like in composition.

Now of course they are a cryptid. Which means they get an adversion to something. No it is not metal, garlic, or holy symbols. What hurts them is water. Of any kind. Whether that be rainwater, holy water, or even the water contained in ale. They also cannot pass bodies of water. They bridge can somewhat suffice. Although it makes them queasy. A boat does not though. It has to be a land bridge. This adversion of water can be somewhat nullified in their human form. Given that they're fur transforms into a coat. It still feels them with an overwhelming sense of unused and a general weakness.

Now that we've gone over what a cryptid eater is. We can go over What the lovely DCAs are doing.

First of all there is eclipse. Eclipse is basically the father of Sun and Moon. Splitting up his training and code into them. Eclipse was a fairly good hunter of both werewolves and vampires. Plus whatever other creatures he came across. Sun and Moon are split between this. Sun is fantastic at hunting vampires. Moon is good at hunting werewolves. Both of them are somewhat good at fighting other creatures. At the beginning of Y/N knows Eclipse is retiring. Leaving his hunting job to his new sons.

Now of course being a cryptid eater means that Y/N has quite a hefty amount of heads behind them. They are considered the best hunter next to Eclipse. So when eclipse retires Sun and Moon are ready to take his place. But they got to be Y/N first. Which isn't exactly easy. Given that they are a cryptid eater, and in all terminology, their livelihood. So the two boys are quick to pick up the highest bounty and go hunting. Which gets them into a spic of trouble. Some trouble Y/N has to help them from.

This basically repeats a couple times. Enough times that Y/N knows to just accompany the boys. Whether that be in their cryptid eater form or they're human one. Even if they don't want help.

It's not on unfortunate situation happens where Y/N gets caught up in the rain. Seeking the closest shelter they go to Sun and Moon's house. They take them in although they are really confused why they won't just walk out in the rain. Y/N of course gives no answers. Although the two demand that they get to have a peek at Y/Ns house. Which they agree to do to encroaching upon there home.

Y/Ns house is a hunter's paradise. There are human weaponry everywhere. Plus there are a bunch of trophies. Teeth, meat, pelts, horns, wings, and any other body part you can think of. Y/N of course keeps them out of the place where they keep the living cryptids. The ones they use for a quick snack or food if necessary. The boys are thoroughly intrigued. And basically decide to ask Y/N to join their group. Which Y/N would take if it wasn't for the fact they were a cryptid eater. So they unfortunately decline. Playing it out as a competition.

Then of course we get to another random plot driven part. The werewolf invasion. Basically a bunch of werewolf packs go together underneath one pack to snuff out the cryptid eater. Which is when the city learns that they have a cryptid eater. Which again humans believe are just as evil. This causes a lot of problems. Mostly in the fact that Y/N has to defend their village from the constant werewolf attacks. Which usually means shifting due to the fact that werewolves are stronger.

With YN suddenly becoming more tired randomly Moon starts to get suspicious. Although those suspicions are answered fairly quickly when the hunters guild is basically attacked. Y/N was there and the werewolves sniff them out. Basically desecrating the entire village just to do so. Y/N shifts into their cryptid eater form to protect their hunter friends. There is of course a lot of confusion due to the fact that one of their friends turned out to be a cryptid. The cryptid that is killing the other cryptids nonetheless. But sun and moon decide to put the bias aside to help Wayne draw the werewolves away from the village.

They succeed to basically draw the werewolves away. Enough that the village can actually do a proper evacuation. Unfortunately they meet up at a river. There is no near nearby bridge. So Y/N is stuck on one side and sun and moon can cross to the other. Sun and Moon safely on the other side while Y/N fights to death with the werewolves. Of course there is a cinematic draw where they don't actually die. Sun and Moon are basically able to help Y/N to the point that they don't perish due to werewolves. Unfortunately their secret is out. And Y/N has to seek shelter elsewhere.

Sun and Moon decide to travel with them to find a new home. Which leads into a lot of where the story went way off track. I don't dislike this part of the story. It's just a little crazy? Really fictitious? Doesn't follow the original storyline at all? Either way.

Basically after living on the range for a couple days they find this town. This is one of the only towns where crypted eaters are actually treated correctly. Unfortunately they're overly treated correctly. They are treated as gods and the entire village treats Y/N the same. This is very radically different and makes Y/N very nervous and unsettled. The only Good thing is that this village also has other cryptid eaters. So at least they can make friends with their own kind.

And then I kind of had the story stop, because the werewolf army joined with a vampire army and started hunting the town. It basically was a repeat of the first scenario, except with a village that actually enjoyed the crypto eaters. So it came out irrelevant because there was no fighting. They just work together to get the werewolf vampire army off their backs.

And that's where the basic storyline and idea died. If you guys want to add or just play around with it you can.

[demon-princess13]

wrote a draft for session 0 of my next campaign. I always write a little hook/monologue before I have to answer 194747393 questions about the setting, wanted to share it here!!

(edits/criticisms welcome, I only spent like 20 mins on this and there’s bound to be mistakes)

here’s to more of my obsession with Tiamat & Dragons

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You step off your boat, onto a coastline decorated with fishermen, the early morning sun enhancing their sunburnt faces. You watch them; fly fishing the coast or preparing their own boats for castoff, enjoying the peace for the moment you allow yourself.

Leaving the captain of the for-hire ship to handle the rest of docking, you step to the sandy shoreline and onto a dirt path cut into the thick woods. A few feet through and a warm scent wafts up to your nostrils; reminding you of street fairs with their roasting meat & endless jugs of brew. Following the smell, you come upon a quaint town with houses of emerald green and gold, seeming to glisten in the sunlight. In one window a pair of large, glowing yellow eyes looks at you curiously before disappearing back into the shadows of the unlit home.

Taking your first glance upwards, you find yourself taken aback by the sight of hundreds of winged creatures in flight above you. So many different colours, sizes, and shapes it’s impossible to focus clearly on any one of them.

In the distance looms a castle, the red of its walls visible even from its resting place atop a mountain. The top of the castle is lost in the clouds, but a weak amber glow shines through them. How tall is it? You can’t be certain.

As you stare, enjoying a sight some only ever dream of- a glob of flaming goo lands just feet in front of you. Your thoughts are interrupted by the burp of a 20ft tall dragon who’s sat, contentedly licking up his flaming sick.

“Sorry about that! This one’s on a new die- oh. I’ve never seen ye before. New to town? No wonder you’re standing there with that stupid look on your face. Follow me, I’ll help ye find some lodgings.” A nearly toothless man grins, jumping off his mount and patting the disgusting creature on the head. “Seems you’ll be needing all the help we can offer” he chuckles, handing you a ration and linking his arm in yours. “Let’s be off then!! To a bed! My names Timny, by the way! Nice to meetcha!”

And so it begins. A new adventure

(( “invitation” story: One day, while sitting at home eating breakfast, a small bird sized lizard flies into your window and perches upon your table; where it drops you a small scroll held together by a golden ribbon. As you grasp the scroll, the tiny dragon puffs into smoke and disappears. The scroll reads as follows: “Tiamats whispers grow louder, and she has been whispering your name. Make your way to the point on the map below, if you hope to change your fate from one of fire.” As you finish reading each word, they disappear into thin plumes of smoke; revealing pieces of a map laid behind the enchantment. A small X marks an island a few days journey away. ))

((If a character chooses not to take part in the trip to the island right away, they find themselves plagued with nightmares of a five headed dragon during their sleeping hours, and nearly silent whispers in their mind during their waking ones. The map will reappear in any bag, closet or cupboard opened until the journey is taken.))

[corvarrow]

NE Vacation lets gooo

So I'm still really worn out but less than I ended up being yesterday so HERE is a post about the trip I just went on! It's gonna get real big and have a couple photos so I'll just go ahead and cut it here lol

-We went to visit family in Rhode Island...I have been to NYC a couple times but not any further north than that so anything in New England was a brand new experience. I was not a fan of the humidity (pretty arid here at home lol) but I like ocean and forest so I thought it was super pretty! I could not believe all the flowers and blue/purple hydrangeas EVERYWHERE

-We did fly in and out of Providence airport...but since it is super tiny we had to do connecting flights both ways. Wednesday last week we had to get up at 3 AM (after I had a full work day the day before) to get to the first plane, and on this Tuesday the layover between flights was REAL tight so both travel days were kind of brutal.

-ANYway, we ended up going to the Brimfield Antique Show in Massachussetts for two days. I don't think we covered a quarter of the show, we didn't expect it to be as enormous as it was. I ended up getting an antique inkwell shaped like a shell (it rotates on its stand), a metal dog, some vintage postcards (I love old landscape photos and interesting buildings), an old fan with a beautiful mountain painting on the front and a funeral home ad on the back (wtf lol), and a vintage travel guide to Rome with a lot of pictures but everything in Italian.

-Some other family from New York ended up coming with us to the antique show, as my aunt had rented a Vrbo (first time I've been in one) and there was plenty of room. One of those days we got takeout from a local restaurant and there was a machine in there dispensing pokemon cards for 50 cents...I thought "Sure why not" and got one - it ended up being a Dark Energy card instead of actually anything so I thought that was extremely funny

-We also went to Boston for a day - very pretty as well! I liked it way more than NYC to be honest. I had NO IDEA there were so many tunnels! Rained on us a ton though it cleared up by the time we did a bus tour. I am a big fan of brutalist architecture so I thought the one government building (the bus tour guide called it the Hurley building, I think) was REALLY cool. Wish I had gotten a picture of it but I was on the wrong side of the bus. Also: Bostonians, I am very sorry but your green line subway train makes possibly one of the worst sounds I've ever heard.

I thought the top of this building, whatever it was, looked very neat. Very art deco.

And this one with the dark windows forming triangle shapes. Not super exciting but I like this kind of thing

Can't forget about the gothic cathedral

Also spotted this cool unicorn at one point

-Uhh, what else did we do....after that we did actually do stuff in RI. Went to Ft Adams, went to Blithewold Manor, did a scenic ocean drive...I love how none of those Beachfront Home buying shows actually show the wild amount of traffic caused by people trying to get to the beach - parking whereever and blocking lanes constantly. I'd never live that close to the water to begin with as I'd be too afraid of flooding or my house falling in, but I had no idea how bad the traffic situation actually was. 8'D

-We did get a milkshake from Newport Creamery! I'm not normally a milkshake person but we tried them anyway and it was soooo good. Really enjoyed all the local chains in general.

-On the last day we did a lighthouse tour on a large catamaran and that was super awesome, I think it was one of my favorite parts of the trip. There was a Karen on our boat throwing multiple tantrums as the tour did not start fast enough for her liking but that just ended up being also extremely funny. The guy actually doing the tour was great and I'm actually quite curious about the history of the area, as I had no idea there were so many pirates o_o

This one boat moored near Ft Adams was rad af

[schmem14]

Kinkuary 2023 Masterlist

This collection is now COMPLETE. Read the whole thing HERE on AO3

Day 1: Accidental stimulation/Arousal

Summary: Ginny cuts wood to keep in shape. Hermione watches, only to find she's unexpectedly aroused.

Pairing: Hermione Granger/Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley

CW: Infidelity

Day 2: Gloryhole/ Anonymous

Summary: Harry and Ron have an unspoken arrangement. What will it take for them to break free?

Pairing: Harry Potter/Ron Weasley

CW: None

Day 3: Medical Play

Summary: As captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, Minerva has many excuses to visit the hospital wing…

Pairing: Minerva McGonagall/Poppy Pomfrey

CW: Student/Staff relationship (everyone is of age)

Day 4: Genderbend

Summary: Severine Snape hates her face, her job, and her hideous body. Most of all, she hates the way bimbo dream boat Professor Lockhart makes her weak at the knees.

Pairing: Severus Snape/Gilderoy Lockhart (Fem Severine/Gilda)

CW: see end notes

Day 5: Consensual non-consent

Summary: Minerva wakes to find an unwelcome visitor in her room…

Pairing: Minerva McGonagall/Dolores Umbridge

CW: triggering non-con role-play, unethical behavior

Day 6: Begging

Summary: Neville is as pleasant a man as people assume… until he demands more than Pansy can give in the bedroom.

Pairing: Pansy/Neville

CW: Mild Dom/Sub vibes

Day 7: Somnophilia

Summary: Rita Skeeter has her revenge

Pairing: Hermione Granger/Rita Skeeter

CW:DD/DNE, Non-con/Rape, underage

Day 8: Intercrural

Summary: Lucius has a half-giant to save—The only problem is, he's already sold his soul.

Pairing: Lucius Malfoy/Rubeus Hagrid

CW: Student/Staff relationship, Age gap romance, ethically questionable, UHEA

Day 9: Hair/Hair-Pulling

Summary: A hair growth chew, a maiden atop a tall tower, and a Prince Charming who is willing to make the climb… Et voila, a Rapunzel tale to curl your toes (and hair!)

Pairing: Luna Lovegood/Ginny Weasley

CW: None

Day 10: Fisting

Summary: Hermione has a secret… will discovering it spur Ron into action, or make him wish he’d never found out?

Pairing: Hermione Granger/Lavender Brown, (Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley)

CW: Accidental Voyeurism

Day 11: Roleplay

Summary: Remus sees the ghost of the man he used to love, and he’s so far gone that he would do anything for another night of passion…

Pairing: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black

CW: Dubcon, Brief suicidal thoughts, Manipulation, HBP compliant, Knotting

Day 12: First Time

Summary: On the eve of her wedding, Narcissa has a few things left to learn…

Pairing: Bellatrix Lestrange/Narcissa Black, (Narcissa Black/Lucius Malfoy)

CW: Incest, Infidelity, references past sexual assault

Day 13: Dacryphilia

Summary: Cho cries all the time. Luna doesn’t mind in the least…

Pairing: Luna Lovegood/Cho Chang

CW: Brief mention of canon-compliant minor character death

Day 14: Fabric Play

Summary: Princess Pansy decides to pamper her lady’s maid Hermione for the day… (Royalty AU)

Pairing: Pansy Parkinson/Hermione Granger

CW: None

Day 15: Possessiveness

Summary: Pansy stays out late for drinks even though she knows how jealous her girlfriend will be…

Pairing: Pansy Parkinson/Millicent Bulstrode

CW: Rough Play/Discipline, Dom/Sub vibes, Vampire, biting/blood

Day 16: Size kink

Summary: Harry and Draco are on the hunt for the perfect tiny snack…

Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter/Dennis Creevy, Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

CW: Anal DP

Day 17: Wax Play

Summary: Werewolf Lavender has long ago given up hopes of being with the one she loves, but might be willing to let the spirits decide…

Pairing: Lavender Brown/Parvati Patil

CW: Previous reference of war trauma, brief mention of werewolf savagery

Day 18: Exhibitionism

Summary: Hermione and Fleur go on a picnic… they hope they’ll have an audience.

Pairing: Hermione Granger/Fleur Delacour and a secret watcher from the house...

CW: pseudo-incest, infidelity, voyeurism, age-difference romance if you squint

Day 19: Hate Sex

Summary: Draco and Harry are getting married… but Ginny and Pansy are not happy about it.

Pairing: Ginny Weasley/Pansy Parkinson, Background Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

CW: Rough Play, Profanity

Day 20: Overstimulation

Summary: Luna will stop at nothing to get Hermione to see things her way.

Pairing: Luna Lovegood/Hermione Granger

CW: DD:DNE, sex as torture, non-con/rape, drugging, Horror

Day 21: Chastity

Summary: Father Harry must take all the confessionals upon himself—even the ones that threaten his resolve

Pairing: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy

CW: Priest AU, hints of homophobia and racism/colorism

Day 22: Piercings

Summary: Pansy can’t stop staring at what Hermione’s wearing… or rather, what she isn’t wearing…

Pairing: Pansy Parkinson/Hermione Granger

CW: public indecency

Day 23: Praise Kink

Summary: Pansy has been starved for love her whole life. All she needs is someone who will give her the approval she craves.

Pairing: Pansy Parkinson/Narcissa Black Malfoy

CW: referenced violence/emotional abuse, child neglect, age-gap romance

Day 24: Feet

Summary: After years of writing off Eloise Midgen as unremarkable, Ron finds something of hers to love. Too bad she’s not making it easy…

Pairing: Ron Weasley/Eloise Midgen, background Draco/Harry

CW: None

Day 25: Comeplay

Summary: Cormac won’t leave Hermione alone. She and Ron hatch a devious plan…

Pairing: Ron Weasley/Hermione Granger/Cormac McLaggen

CW: dubcon, workplace harassment, workplace sexism, revenge

Day 26: Humiliation

Summary: Oliver Wood loses a bet with Marcus Flint and now he has to pay up.

Pairing: Oliver Wood/Marcus Flint

CW: Semi-public, rough sex/spanking

Day 27: Cockwarming

Summary: Molly is determined to get Arthur something different for Christmas this year... she hopes he'll like what she came up with

Pairing: Molly Weasley/Arthur Weasley

CW: None

Day 28: Wildcard- Cunnilingus

Summary: Andromeda might be ready to fall in love again.

Pairing: Andromeda Black Tonks/Ronald Weasley

CW: Age-gap romance, death/grief

[ticklishbeans4]

Cold Days Are Made Warm With Love And Laughter

Well! With that last ask I was able to finish this fic! Hope y’all enjoy!

Hunter stepped into the house, shivering, wet, cold, and frowning grumpilly. He shucked off his coat and boats, shaking the snow from his everywhere. “Darius! I’m home!” “In the kitchen! Did you have a good time with your friends?” his guardian's voice called from inside the house. “If you consider getting partially buried under a huge pile of snow a “good time” then yeah, I had the time of my life.” the teen grumped, stomping his way to his room so he could at least change into something dry and warm.

He had just finished changing when he heard a knock on his door, “Little Prince? Are you alright?” “Just peachy!” he snarked back.

“...I made hot cocoa, do you want some?”

…”Yeah.”

He opened his door to a smiling Darius, two mugs of steaming cocoa in his hands. He stepped to the side to let him in and shut the door behind him as he flopped onto his bed. “I’m cold…” Dairus tutted rubbing his back, “Poor thing. Let me guess, you lost the snow war?” “I WAS BETRAYED BY MY COMRADES! WILLOW AND GUS TURNED ON ME!” he cried, “I SHALL NEVER FORGIVE THIS!” “Till you see them tomorrow for Flyer Derby Practice.” Darius chuckled.

“Till I see them tomorrow for Flyer Derby Practice.” he grumbled back, looking at Darius with a pout. “We were supposed to take down Luz, Amity, and Vee together! But they betrayed me and now I’m cold and sad! They made a cold and sad boy!” Darius snorted, “And here I thought I was supposed to be the drama queen.” Hunter huffed, but there was a bit of a smile on his lips.

Darius smirked and ruffled his still cold and damp hair, “Come on, the fire’s going, we have cocoa, I can put on that weird movie you like, and we can warm up. Sound good?” 

“I guess. Depends on what “weird movie” you mean.” “The one about the girl who goes through a tiny door into some other world? It’s all nice at first but it goes bad after a while?” “Oh! Then yes! Absolutely! Let’s go!” Hunter quickly stood, careful not to toss the cocoa as he dashed to the living room, Darius meandering along behind him. The pair settled on the couch, the movie playing as they sipped on their drinks. Darius glanced at his charge, the boy was smiling, happily curled against his side, eyes glued on the screen, the picture of contentment. Oh… he couldn’t help it, he just looked so cute! He casually put his arm around Hunter, nearly cooing when he snuggled more into him. Hunter was none the wiser when he felt the light wiggly poking on his side. His grin grew and he wiggled slightly. “Hehe, D-Darius! I’m tryhihing to watch the mohovie!” “So am I! But you’re giggling is making it rather difficult.” he smirked back, his hand coming down and poking at his belly, making the teen curl up around his arm, giggling louder. “Dahahahrius! Nohohohoho! Sthahahap tiihihihickling!” “Mmmm, let me think… No.” he jiggled his tummy lightly, making the boy squeal.

“Eehehehehehehe! Dahahahahrius! Ahahahahaha!” He giggled adorably, batting at the older witches hand, “S-sthahahahahap! Thahahahat tihihihickles!” “Does it? I had no idea! That’s so fascinating, tell me more.” Darius teased, putting his coco down to squeeze the boys sides. “Aaahahahahahahaha! Noooooohhohooho!” Hunter squealed, snorting a bit as he wiggled. Darius chuckled, glancing at the movie when he heard laughter from the screen. The scene gave him an idea… he grinned and summoned several abomination tendrils, shaping them to match the tickly flowers on the screen. “Time for a grand finale!”

Hunter gasped in horror and tried to wiggle away, grinning wide. “No no no no no! Dohohohon’t!” “Too late! Doing it!” Darius grinned, setting the abomination flowers at the boy, they nipped and nudged and nuzzled at his ribs, hsi belly, and his feet. Darius grinned evilly as he lifted Hunter's arms a bit, letting the flowers get to his worst spot.

And oh…. Oh how this poor boy scrumpt. “AAAAAAAAAAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! NOOOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHHOHOHOHOHO! OH TITAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAN! DAHAHAHAHHHAARIUS! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH!” he cackled, kicking and jumping about as he was tickled silly. “My! Such tickly little things! I’ll have to use this move more often!” he laughed, dispelling the abominations after a moment.

Hunter flopped on his chest, giggling and squeaking still. “Yohohohou… are the wohohohorst… ever…”

The former coven head rolled his eyes, hugging his charge close. “Well it cheered you up didn’t it? And don’t you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?

The teen pouted, “...maybe. Shut up! Watch the dumb movie!” He laughed, ruffling Hunter’s hair as he turned back to the movie. “Whatever you want, little prince. Whatever you want.”

[queenofbaws]

Like Wringing Blood From a Stone an Until Dawn/The Quarry fic by TheIcyQueen

Her and Caleb had grown up beside Lake Septimus—Dad and Uncle Bobby and Uncle Travis and Papa too—which meant, even swimming blind like that, she knew exactly where she was. She knew where the lakebed bottomed out, knew where it gave way to the craggy mouths of the flooded section of quarry beneath them, knew where the herons would come to gulp down the eggs frogs tended to lay in slimy clutches, knew it all in the same way she knew the woods and the campgrounds and the house. So when something brushed against her foot, she didn’t even flinch. She gave it a little kick, pushing it away, and didn’t bother looking down to try and squint through the murk to make its shape out. It felt a good enough sign, though, and so, letting out a tiny stream of bubbles from her mouth to announce her arrival, Kaylee kicked her way up out of the water and into the sunlight. “You’re a moron, you know that?” Caleb asked her as she swam over to them, propping her arms on the side of the boat while lazily scissor-kicking her legs. “An actual moron. Can you imagine the gasket Dad’d blow if he saw you take your pants off in front of—” That was as far as he got before Ryan leaned forward. “Hey, uh…is that…” Frowning, he pointed down at the water. “…blood?”

Chapter 19 now on AO3

[bzedan]

Storytelling Collective does a yearly challenge for flash fic, with prompts and a nice community format. After completing 2022's run, I picked my ten favourites and collected them in a nice little volume you can pick up at Itch.io. As I'm (finally) editing the collection of my Flash Fiction February faves for 2023 I figured that I should share one or two from last year's bunch.

Storm

“I’m home!” Luz kicked off her shoes, arms akimbo to balance, a gallon of milk in a string bag in one hand and a dangerously worn cloth carrier bag in the other. Stepping up out of the entry she shuffled into her house slippers and as she walked to the kitchen. Her wife watched her with a raised eyebrow from the pass-through.

“You could have set those down.”

Luz kissed them on the temple as she thumped the bags onto the counter. “And you could have come taken them.”

“Fair.” Birch tilted their head in acknowledgement and returned to chopping shallots.

Luz put away the milk, then pulled each item out of the cloth bag with the flourish of a magician. “They had those weird cookies you like.” Birch grunted approval. “Ground goat.” Pointing with their chin at the sink, Birch stopped Luz from adding the meat to the icebox. “You’re right, I do want that now. Hmm. What else.” Luz dug into the bag, her hands emerging with fistfuls of carrots and scapes. “Soup tomorrow!” More rummaging, then, “a bag of tiny potatoes.” She stood on her tiptoes to put them away in the hanging baskets above the counter.

Feeling her eyes on their back, Birch sighed, smiling. “And it looks as though there is one more in the bag.”

“Why yes.” Luz leaned in a way that she felt was rakish, elbow on the counter. She fished in the collapsed bag with one hand and pulled out a tiny cardboard box covered in a pretty design and closed with a wax seal. “This week’s indulgence.”

Birch scraped the shallots from the cutting board into the hot pan, then took one of the carrots.

“Thief!”

“You do not need that many carrots for soup.” They gave it a thorough brush under water, then brought it back to the cutting board. They could still feel Luz looking at them as they chopped. “So, what is it?”

“Tea!”

“Tea?” The carrots joined the shallots in the pan, in a pool of fat.

Luz huffed and put away the bags. “Very exciting tea. From Javier’s shop.”

“Luz, did you buy drugs?” Birch turned to look at their wife. “Or, whatever it is he calls them.”

“Enhancements. And no this is not one of those. He does other things too.”

“Like the candles that put on a shadow play, but smelled like pepper so much we couldn’t stop sneezing.” Luz opened her mouth but Birch continued. “Or the bath bomb for sleep that dyed you green.”

“It did help with my insomnia.”

“So, you bought a food from him.”

Luz stuck her chin out. “A drink, technically.”

“What does it do?”

“It’s a surprise.” And Luz remained close-mouthed on the subject through the rest of dinner preparation, managing to steer the conversation well enough that Birch had nearly forgotten the tea by the time their bowls were empty.

As they were putting away the leftovers, Birch heard Luz turn the kettle on. They were surprised to see the tea wasn’t in bags, nor was it loose leaf. Little almond-shaped bricks sat at the bottom of their mugs. There was a tiny depression in the centre of each.

“They’re supposed to look like boats.” Luz sounded disappointed.

“They look a little like boats.” Birch squinted down at them. “Not good boats, but boat-like.”

The boats didn’t hold their shape well under boiling water and were quickly obscured by a swirl of deep indigo leaching out. Luz grabbed Birch’s arm in excitement.

“Okay!!” She was peering into her mug.

Eyebrows raised, Birch joined her, looking into their own.

The indigo was joined by a teal, then an unsettling off-white. The colours kept swirling, separate from each other but gaining momentum. Birch realized that Luz had only filled the mugs halfway, a precaution that made sense as the colours began to move fast enough to spin the water, creating a tiny whirlpool.

“It’s very pretty.” Birch was being honest, although they were also wondering about how safe it was to drink colours that saturated.

Luz was pouting. “It’s not impressive though.” The movement was already dying out, the colours finally blending to a sickly berry-purple.

“It actually kind of is.”

“But it wasn’t a tempest.” Luz held up the box, where a very fanciful illustration of a waterspout spun up out of a teacup. “I mean I know it isn’t going to match the picture but—”

“But you’d hoped it would.” Birch kissed their pouting wife, and picked up their mug, feeling brave. They took a cautious sip to test the temperature, then a larger drink.

“Oh, this is really delicious.”

Luz grabbed up her cup. “What does it taste like?”

“The sea?” Birch licked their lips, trying to pin it down. “Salt and ozone and—deepness?”

Luz was staring at them, a grin twitching at her lips.

“What?”

Luz grabbed a spoon and held it up to Birch. “He still hasn’t figured out colours.”

Birch stuck out their tongue and looked in the poor mirror of the spoon’s back. Their tongue was, vividly and inexplicably, orange.

Crossposted from my blog

[jencsi]

Holiday Finn! Rambles.

As a child- decorating every room in the house with her parents, vintage figurines of Santas, snowmen, reindeer, paper cut outs of similar shapes that get tapped to the walls, hanging signs with intricate drawings of winter scenes, musical whimsical decorations, holiday shows on television, Frosty, Rudolph, window lights, lights on the perimeter of her home, soft jazzy music playing, fresh cookies and other baked goods from her mother, tinsel, ornaments of all varieties, glass, ceramic, animals, handmade in her elementary school classes over the years, frilly dresses with lace and poofy hems, shiny shoes that clasp together with buttons, watching snow fall, hot chocolate, marshmallows, bowls of candy wrapped in foil on various tables in the living room and kitchen, towels with decorative patterns knitted in, red and green stripes, tiny animals, snowflakes, Christmas cards from various friends and associates of her parents strung up on the wall as part of the decors charm. The holiday party at the hospital where her father worked, helping with collecting toys and food for underprivileged families, the donations her parents could make to help those less fortunate as well as the local animal shelters. 

As an adult- Pleated skirt, knit sweater, black tights, extra extra curls in her hair, strands of silver tinsel caught in her hair at random times. Slow dancing on a hardwood floor, dimmed lights, only decorative lights illuminating the room. Bubbly drinks like champagne in a fancy glass that gets lost amongst a crowd. Sugar cookies, frosting, cinnamon rolls, more frosting, melted chocolate. Curling up on a couch or comfy chair, blankets, fuzzy socks, a fire going in the fireplace. Falling asleep on that couch or chair, silver necklaces, sparkles on her cheeks from some unknown source. Walking around the harbor hand in hand with him, attending multiple holiday parties over the course of the month of December, a little black dress, mistletoe, stealing kisses in empty hallways and the parking lot while snow falls, sticking to their coats and hair, people decorate their boats for a competition, boxes wrapped neatly with multicolored ribbons and bows, red and green nail polish, staying in bed all day on the 26th, recovery mode, hiding away under the warm covers, making a gingerbread house that barely stands up, popcorn, holiday movies on the TV in the living room, candles that smell like vanilla and pine and berries. Being able to make similar donations to charity the way her parents taught her. The one day of the year she wants to wake up early, being spoiled with presents at every stage of her life, sitting cross legged on the floor to open them, colorful paper flying everywhere, pure joy always.