#dusk to dawn

[hagarsays]

The Rose member's reaction and commentary are too funny

[rom-e-o]

Connie taking Bess lingerie shopping when Wolf and Bess finally start taking steps in their sexual relationship. Bess really only wants one other person with her because she's not comfortable with more people than that seeing her body up close yet and Connie is who she trusts most and knows she will understand best about... things.

Them getting a few sets and trying them on and Connie being a positive doll about everything but Bess just breaking down in tears when she finally tries on the last set. This is the first time she's actually looked at her body in reference to sensuality and sex since Oliver. Needless to say, over the handful of years, her body has definitely changed in some ways:

She's thickened up, with muscle and body fat; there's a little more pudge going on in some places than ever before--some indentations are happening and love handles are spilling over the waistband of the knickers or pooching out in openings. She has some cellulite going on. It looks like she has some stretchmarks and her old ones seem even bigger and more noticeable. She's kept the length of them trimmed down but has let the range of her pubes go a bit wild, which Oliver never would have gone for (he liked little, shaved designs at the very top, but nothing else). Oliver liked her tanner too, so she used to do spray-on tans, but she hasn't done that since leaving him either, so she's gone all "Snow White" and her scars and freckles stand out even more now.

"None of them look good! I look ugly in all of them--I make everything hideous! I'm too scarred! I'm too fat! I'm too hairy! I'm too big here and too small there! And I have too many freckles! I can't send pictures to Wolf looking like this--he'll be so disgusted and never want anything to do with me when he actually sees what I look like! No wonder Oliver wasn't aching to touch me--I'm a complete joke!"

NOOOO BESS, ANGELLLL.

I imagine Connie hears her crying and (after asking permission from Bess, of course) slips into the dressing room. Upon seeing her, she eyes soften. Not because she agrees with Bess; no, she thinks Bess is positively beautiful.

But she knows what Bess is going through. she's been through it.

She lets Bess cry it out, hugs her and makes sure to give her tissues from her purse. After a few minutes, she speaks up;

"You know, this experience of trying on lingerie or swimsuits in a dressing room is one so many people dread. The lights are too bright, the mirrors are weird. You have to stand awkwardly and straight up. It's unnatural, this place. You look beautiful to me, but when you're staring at you ... it's a different feeling. We never gaze upon ourselves with the love others have for us.

"Try this - imagine the lights are different, and not these dreadful LEDs. Imagine warmer light - maybe candlelight. Imagine you're not standing in this cramped room - you're laying down, or sitting, or sashaying toward him. Imagine he sees you dressed down for him, lounging in his desk chair with a cheeky grin on your face, your body adorned in the prettiest fabrics, offering him just little tempting peeks at what awaits. Imagine his gaze going molten, and his hands clenching just to stop himself from reaching out. That's the real you in lingerie. And I'm imagining her, and she looks like - excuse my British vernacular - a bloody FINE knockout.

"If you really don't like how these pieces look, then we'll keep looking until we find a set you love, okay? I promise."

I imagine she then JETS around the store, grabbing black lace pieces, different cuts of bras/bottoms, finding some cute rose-accented pieces. She finds colors that compliment her complexion, and grabs different materials - no cutting elastic, just soft and comfortable lace and cloth. She also grabs her accessories and shoes to try on with the lingerie!

"Let's take it slow. Even finding one piece is great!"

[mother-lee]

renato muccillo, feed & dawn

[quill-pen]

Just saying:

Modern!Bess has a mildly successful YouTube channel where she sings and covers songs, and her subscribers totally called out her love for Ebenezer before anybody else did.

Her cover of "Everytime We Touch"--which she did after she and Eb finally got together--is her most watched and liked video with like 75% of the comments being people just keyboard mashing because "THEY'RE FINALLY TOGETHER!!!". (Her subs are huge Ebeness shippers.)

Yes, her subscribers call them "the Wolves".

Her collective fan-name for her subscribers is "rockies" as her channel name/stage name is 'Bess Moonrock' because moon and because she covers lots of rock songs and sings lots of rock remixes of songs.

@rom-e-o I feel like in the combined world, she and Connie also have a YouTube channel/podcast where there's no real set theme and they just talk about whatever they feel like. Sometimes they talk about their lives and the crazy shenanigans or their past. Sometimes they read reddit stories. Lots of time they give life advice. That podcast is called "Dusk to Dawn with Strawberry Sunrise" and the YouTube channel is 'Moon and Sun'.

[sleekervae]

Some moments from The Rose's concert tonight 🌹

I'm trying to upload some videos but Tumblr hates me so...

[coolerdracula]

property owner ordered the outside of the place to be pressure washed. it makes us so upset we're bordering on passing out. and there's bleach water coming through the windows

[stellarstarryyy]

A half body I did of my oc Kepler bc they're really fun to draw lol

[navybrat817]

Navy's Nonsense: 5/1 - 5/7

It's gonna be May, lovelies. 😂 I really need to catch up on WIPs. Planned fic below will be posted this week! Anything else shared if there's time is extra. Please follow @navybrat817-sideblog so you don't miss out on any new fics, updates, or polls. 💙

Planned nonsense posted 5/3: Dusk to Dawn (Ranch Hand!Bucky Barnes x Reader)

Unplanned nonsense posted 5/5: Daddy? Sorry. (Roommate!Bucky Barnes x Reader)

Did you miss last week's Nonsense? No worries! Check it out here. Love and thanks for reading. 💙

[tumefaismal]

Where have you been? Where did you go?

Those summer nights seem long ago

[twancingyunhao]

Guys it was SOOOO amazing. Sorry for my crappy singing with sour, I was feeling myself

[hagarsays]

Best way to end my last concert of the year with THE ROSE amazing concert never forget this day 🖤🌹🖤🌹🖤🌹🖤🌹

[silkhy-john]

The new Lamp album… wow. Crying screaming having an epic emotional response

[oeverse-warriors]

so what i’m getting is, everyone wants brambleclaw to die

[quill-pen]

@rom-e-o

[coolerdracula]

frank went "aw I feel like [x] made you sad :(" and keeps walking into our room to talk about [x] even more. come on..