#nosiness is universal

[rafent]

[ coffee ]　allured by the bitter aroma of a beverage often favored by the little ones over the centuries, she had gravitated in the direction of its source, helping herself to a steaming cup with a partial smile of rare enthusiasm. among those meant for humans, coffee had one a rare place with her as a seldom-found treat of which some varieties promised to be strong enough for even a dragon's palate. with one more gratified inhale to savor the rising steam, she brings the delicate mug to her lips, and sips.

. . .

and in the next moment, calmly locates a familiar white head enjoying his own alley of the ballroom, and, without notice or greeting, presses the cup wordlessly into his hands, then steps quietly aside to take familiarity in his company.

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( it's too sweet AKKLSSKGJ this is the wordless dinner table shuffling off of ur carrots onto ur siblings plate

The Ethereal Ball was once more at hand and unfailingly the same were the sore lack of culinary extremes. Dishes concocted by humans for humans could not remotely hope to satisfy Fell Dragons, particularly not one who preferred those made in a dozen times the usual quantity of sugar. His hunt through the confection table persisted until Nel's shadow fell upon him, the wordless transaction between sister and brother earning a spattering of red-eyed blinks and nothing more. Acclimation to such a sister meant knowing that she committed no act without reason. Said acclimation shifted seamlessly into trust as he sipped of the contents to reach his own answer.

"I see now why you have given this to me, sister." Now the abrupt exchange made sense, as if it were the product of a stinging disappointment. Taciturn disgruntlement certainly not at all to imagination where the Nel-worldly Rafal was concerned. Alternatively, it was precisely the imagination of it that whetted his amusement. "To you, what is inordinately sweet may as well be bitter. To be ambushed by such a burst of flavor, I would have liked to have seen the look on your face."

No matter his teasing the mug stayed its place in his hand. A taste too sweet for Nel was to Rafal just right; a welcome salvation that could be repurposed of sister's damnation; and as for what he had seen in the space at her side, perhaps yet to be discerned on the scale of those things. As the blanket of companionable silence settled over two halves with an old and homely weight, he sipped once more, spoke again only with the words tucked coyly behind a rim.

"Your entrance earlier did not go without notice. Or company." As thanks for the drink he did not mold his comment into a sharp question suitable for interrogations at knife point. But still a probe was a probe no matter how veiled in form. "Of all my centuries known to you, I was not aware that your fondness for the little ones extended in—" Sip. Side-eye. ". . .that way."

[moonsvillain]

hotwings au where hawks is a vampire, dabi is a human, and they meet through the vampire equivalent of doordash.

dabi shows up at his door, scruffy and woozy (guy who's been doing this as a full time job and is not coping with the blood loss very well)

hawks is (rightfully) concerned and is ready to cancel his order but dabi immediately disagrees because "that'll fuck up my ratings sooo bad dude don't be an asshole"

hawks: "???"

dabi: "i really need this job man"

hawks kinda shrugs and asks if dabi's up to anything for the next few hours and dabi doesn't have anything going on so hawks invites him in and immediately sits this guy down on his couch to feed him and let him rest for at least four hours so he's not indirectly accused of manslaughter

one must imagine the disposition of an alley cat encountering canned food for the first time: internal battle of mistrust versus yummy treats

dabi goes down kicking and screaming

(the day he goes over to hawks' place it's raining so hard you can barely see and all dabi has is a cheap plastic poncho. hawks' place has heating—he very 'reluctantly' curls up on the couch)

hawks is probably the worst cook on earth but when he tells dabi this, he refuses to let hawks order food for him; dabi would literally rather die than subject another minimum wage worker to the storm outside just to come to this rich asshole's home

which ends up with dabi in hawks' kitchen, making himself a meal

(which, he probably wouldn't usually do this, but the blood loss is kind of getting to him. dabi's decision making has slowly trickled down to the average level it is when he gets drunk)

when he's fed and warm and hawks has forced him to watch two animated movies dabi could not give less of a shit about he finally turns to dabi like

"ok i know we're having a great time but also i really need to eat something. like. you. preferably."

dabi shrugs and offers up his arm, getting progressively more sleepy while hawks finishes his meal before falling asleep pressed against hawks' side

wakes up the next morning with a blanket pulled over him, cheek pressed to a throw pillow with a littleee bit of drool staining the fabric under him

sits up and looks around, armed only with blurry memories of the night before

("did i... sleep with this guy...!?!??!?")

finds a note on the table and unfolds it, trying to figure out what the hell is going on

(lovedddd hanging w u yesterday :P off at work feel free 2 make urself breakfast before u go. U should know where everything is. tip on the counter 4 u. xoxo hawks)

dabi, slightly mortified at the implication he rooted around in this guy's kitchen when he was out of it yesterday finds the tip

it's literally, like, $500 dollars

dabi scribbles down his phone number and sticks it on the fridge with a magnet

(half because he really needed that money and is pleasantly surprised that he got rent money a week earlier than he was expecting)

(half because he might not remember yesterday entirely, but he remembers feeling safe and warm and being addicted to that rare sensation)

hawks is very happy when he gets home, even if dabi isn't there, when he finds his little gift on the fridge

[corujalesbica]

Hey dc batfam fandom PLEASE adopt me 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[danothan]

barry has broken timlines -> that means... there would be canon halbarry in some timelines (yes I'm not talking about hank and ray) i need angst fic about this...

hank and ray are alt versions of hal and barry, down to the comic nerdiness + parallax graying hair reference. it’s a win in my book as far as canon is concerned

and it does have great fic potential! but i’m not much of the angst type either, i actually think it would be rly fun and silly (<- guy who can only take things fun and sillfully)! barry goes around doing his multiverse checkups and finds the timeline where he and hal are happily married and goes “haha wow, good for them! surely this says nothing abt me !”

i can only imagine what they’d think abt him. god do you think alt timeline hal would start flirting with our barry too 😭 cue the sitcom laughtrack!

also thank you for this ask bc i’ve been dying to share this panel ever since i saw it:

gripping my knees he’s so fucking autistic. he’s autistic and he loves his friends so much.

[peliginspeaks]

is null like Aware that theyre only 2 and that thats not normal. i feel like they wouldnt realise xD

Null is not Aware. in general. However funny as that answer is this really did make me think so I'll try to answer it real style too shdhds

Null doesn't remember anything before the last 2 years or remember how they came about. Someone existed prior to that, now that person does not exist in living memory anymore, and Null is-not in her place. I don't think it has a concept of its age...? Since it only recently has developed a concept of being a thing that is alive, due to having been killed before. Null has very little internal dialogue that doesn't surround the feeling of hunger and emptiness and schemes to fill it, and no sense of identity to speak of outside of that, so the sense of being abnormal compared to most humans doesn't register with them much. However, by now they've probably realized that most people have a birthday and parents and a childhood, and from very early on they realized people like it when they appear to be like Most People.

So, if you asked Null about its background, you'd probably get a patched together mix of the information of others that it's heard and filed away. It wouldn't take an especially careful ear to realize that none of it adds up. References to moving from the Surface at age 18 clash with anecdotes of living in the Neath as a child, and if pressed for an age you'd swear you heard tell of a birthday party they hosted with a number that exceeded the one they just gave you. If you are positioned to be talking to Null, you are probably either too polite or too disinterested to pry. ...Or too confused. Most likely too confused.

(...or it will make you want to talk to them more to find out what's going on. Bad idea, overall.)

[dr-chibbers]

“Why do ads think I might be gay?….” (Looks around at the company I keep and issues I believe in) “oh right”

[officialromaniantranslatiuni]

after a couple of drinks with my old friends, i can confess that somehow this blog came to life because we developed an obsession with subcarpati in college

[prettyboykatsuki]

It’s prolly cause I’m an idiot but hsr is so hard to me LMAO like I’ve played many other games casually and never struggled this much to grasp team building/character building/certain mechanics of the game. There’s parts of it I enjoy like much of the quest lines and turn-based fighting and certain game modes… but like overall this game stresses me out LOL

- @yuutito

KJDSKJDS beloved aleks i have seen ur hsr woes... im curious about your acc and what characters u have. not that im an expert i kinda suck also LOOOL but i def don't think ur an idiot

its been a while since i've started the game so i can't say for sure but i also rmb it being pretty difficult at the start and even now some of the late game content completely dogwalks me LMAOO (moc my beloathed)

i think the main issue with hsr that can make it feel like an ass kick is that the game mechanics and teams require a lot more nuance than a game like genshin where u can have 8 rlly invested characters and get through overworld just fine. u need a lot more coverage for hsr in many ways i can see it being unfriendly.

like. you really have to have an extremely thorough understanding of how the meta is structured, how a characters kit works and what supports they need, and you especially need to think about speed and speed breakpoints but those r not super straight-forward mechanics. like break meta is crazy

i mostly play my jing yuan and dh il teams because i understand their kit mechanics the best of anyone else in my roster and that's after a lot of reading and testing so i think that might be what makes it difficult for some folks

[msommers]

i'm taking the in-game dialogue and i'm toying with it. i'm mucking it all up. i'm moving the howe bringing up thomas and waving off the age difference conversation to a prior dinner so meredith can purposefully sour his meal (and entire evening, if she's lucky) by being a lil bitchy. he can bring in the "as you get older, those years make less difference." retort, then she can hit him with the "indeed? perhaps i should be asking after the prospects of your eldest, then." just to push his buttons because she's tired of his weaseling ass

[teojira]

This is how my favs see me btw

[authenticcadence18]

sometimes I wish I could pull 12 yr old me aside and be like “hey. you should keep watching gravity falls. don’t give it up towards the end of season 1.”

bc I love the show so much but I knew most of the big twists when I picked it back up in 2022 I just wish I hadn’t it makes me sad sometimes bc I know I would’ve gone crazy over the plot twists😭

(and it’s my own dang fault I knew stuff I am too nosy for my own good snxbdnsns I am a spoiler magnet. I mean I had amphibia season 2 ending spoiled too if you know you know 😃)

ITS FINE THO spoilers do not ruin media

[spatio-rift]

the thing is that not only would aren and saiko have to pretend to be grossly in love with each other as their yaoi universe selves (which is already hilarious), i also think yaoi aren is a legit nice nerd and not just pretending to be one, and yaoi saiko is still rich, but not no-consequences-for-my-actions, everyone-bends-to-my-will rich, so they literally cannot function in this universe without each others support. they need each other to look passably normal. kusuo figured out how to get the three of them back to their own universe within the first 2 hours he spent there, but then he thought that was an interesting situation for saiko and aren, specifically, to be in, and he was kind of curious to see what would happen if he waited just a few days before sending them back home...

[youremyonlyhope]

why won't my brain shut up why won't my brain shut up why won't my brain shut up why won't my brain shut up

[majimemegoro]

@unhingedselfships mentioned feeling intimidated that @skygayzer is following so now im just thinking about KadokuraPrime (version of kadokura who is somehow simultaneously A Crow’s Rise Kadokura and Kimiverse 2.0 Kadokura) stuck in a room with BOTH his victim/adopted daughter and his [?????? relationship undetermined] and all of them having to. deal with that scenario.

[lailuhhh]

Dude you’ve gotta give me your thoughts on this because I’m going crazy thinking about it

Murdoc being an asset that Jack’s in charge of(I’m thinking of the show Blacklist type deal) and jack meets Mac because of Murdoc’s fixation on him.

Idk. Maybe Murdoc is alway talking about him and Jack feels the need to check up on the poor blond kid. Maybe Murdoc is always comparing Jack to Mac and Jack feels the need to stalk the kid to figure out what it is about this kid that Murdoc is obsessed with.

So like??? Jack almost being like his handler??

Murdoc cooperates with them because of his son, because that’s his one most precious thing in his life and because of the life he lives, he wants his son protected at all times

He’s still in custody but when people call him for a hit, he gets let out(?) to “deal” with it and find the people who put the hit out in the first place

Jack hates it of course. Murdoc is a very intelligent and crazy person, so of course he gets away with a lot more than he’s ever told Jack

But then there’s the hit on Mac; MIT grad/MIT dropout for the army/recruited for DXS/whatever, and the fact that Mac has really never done anything wrong in his life just strikes a cord with Murdoc because there has to be something that warranted someone wanting him dead

So Murdoc does his thing or whatever, but Mac’s such a puzzling person that he does just kinda start stalking him and regularly reports anything to Jack, and Jack knows that whenever he gets an obsession that it never tends to end well

And that’s when Jack starts checking up on Mac, after the he’s got a really fucked up life you know, daddy dearest doesn’t care for his well being at all and it’s surprising how many people actually want him dead and just pretty much all of Murdoc’s free time is spent talking about Mac and Jack needs to make sure nothing happens because it’ll be his ass if Murdoc does anything

And he hates to admit it but Murdoc was right about Mac’s life and how shit it is in comparison to how young he is, so maybe after a mission or something where something dramatic™️ happens, Jack just kinda starts talking to Mac and checking that he’s alright and goes ‘Ah shit I have a son now’

[analyticallymindedaa]

mauve is one of those colors that everyone says is different and every single one of them are Not what i expect it to be