#terry went 😋

[msfbgraves]

I know you mentioned somewhere that Terry doesn’t know where Daniel keeps his linens but…Is Mob!Terry really totally useless around the house lol? Like, can he help cook or clean? Does he know what curtains go with what bedspread, how to boil water for pasta if Daniel is under the weather? Can he bottle-feed a puppy, or make them lunch for school? Or is the whole sphere of domestic life completely foreign to him? Like, he would literally flop like a fish out of water if Daniel went on vacation for a week and left Terry to run the house? Is this a Terry thing, or is this an Alpha thing?

Daniel would go on vacation for a week and leave - sorry, what, haha?! ☺️😋 Both Daniel and Terry have bluescreened several times during that sentence alone. You'd have to forcibly remove Daniel to make that happen.

Terry can take care of the household stuff you can't buy easily even when you don't have servants. OK what does that mean? He can hang his clothes, polish his shoes, may remove a stain from his slacks. He can tidy, brew tea and what he thinks is coffee, can make sandwiches. He can wash out some socks and underwear and he can sweep things up. He had a housekeeper in his rooms when he was single, he left things presentable. But he can't do laundry, make beds, he has no idea what soap to use on what kind of floor, he can't iron, or polish and even if he could scrub he doesn't know how or what, he'd need a manual for any appliance, doesn't know plants. He can dress scrapes and cuts, but the sense of organisation you'd need to run a household smoothly, how to keep groceries fresh? When what is in season? He has no idea. Those little twirls and flourishes to make things not only practical but actually nice and welcoming? No. Clue. Many Alphas are so outside focused that if they live somewhere they wouldn't know why, when their living space has everything to functionally keep them alive, it doesn't nourish them... Because they don't own any plants or rugs, don't know what colour schemes they like, they don't have pets, they would never buy a blanket for in the living room, don't know how to place their photos... And an Alpha alone with pups, that is simply cataclysmic for them. Say an Alpha's beta mate dies in childbirth. The pups would of course miss their mother as a person like nothing else. But also, the home would lose all personality. Even if the Alpha, in despair, would hire a decorator or a nanny they would not know what little comfortable things their pups specifically need. I mean, juice is juice, right? They might even try to memorise which brand of juice but why their pup wants the brand (does it have pulp? Do they love the colour green? Is there a cartoon character on it?), they wouldn't even know how to ask. It's really distressing, because they love their pups and they want to care for them and they know their mother would know but they can't wrap their brains around it. It's part of the reason they would much rather die themself before they lose their mates. There's a reason why Daniel immediately called his mother to care for his elder pups while taking Gianni. Terry can make them breakfast and pour them drinks and play with them but no, he couldn't bottle feed Gianni, wouldn't know what to do with soiled diapers (that would make part of the house unlivable within two hours) he doesn't know where the special blankets are kept, it's all kinds of Not Good. Many Alphas meanwhile joke that they'll never see their married friends again.... not understanding the reason their now married friends hung out with them around the diners and pubs so much is that these places serve hot food! They don't consciously get that!

So Terry is not completely clueless and could keep an adult functioning but the first time an Alpha has a boyfriend or girlfriend over at theirs and they go out for an hour and suddenly there's coloured napkins on the table. And a little flower somewhere on the window sill. And they framed a picture of them together and wouldn't that look nice here? And they brought their snuggly blanket and would you like one too? They're thinking brown would be really nice, it would go with the dresser, they can buy them one? And a poster of their favourite sports team in that corner, wouldn't that be nice? They'll buy them a team scarf, it goes with their eyes - sweetheart? Why are you crying? Because something inside them would so physically relax at all that. O thank all the gods. But they still wouldn't exactly understand what it was that their lovers were bringing to their life, besides of course their presence.

[neon-lights-stardust-nights]

new and full for strange and 🚬! you can choose which is which 😋

bonus zer0 and third quarter!

Oooo, Zer0 gets their own tag now! (For future reference: my Zer0 kin timeline used a decent sized list of pronouns, and our Zer0 fictive uses he/they interchangeable, SO A LOT OF PRONOUNS MAY GET THROWN AROUND FOR ZER0 I'M SORRY!)

Let's get a move on!

[the meme]

New - Your life together has just started, and the possibilities are limitless. What do you do? + 🚬

Bone stared down the scope for a moment. Terry had his hands up, he'd dropped his gun. "I'm gonna make you and offer," Terry called. "Care to listen?"

Bone was already a super well trained assassin anyway, and with this whole operation Terry is running... Their working life started before their romantic life. Those possibilities were limitless!

I think their life together still started very casual too. Terry is just genuinely a nice dude when I'm not writing Abusive AU things of him, hehe. Smoke breaks together, sharing the kinds of moments only two men rejected by their societies can...

And Bone gets sent on all the jobs that are too dirty for Terry to do. Bone eliminates everything fae's told, the way computer's execute on commands to the letter. He makes faer into a guard dog. Bone is all too willing...

Full - Your life together is coming to a close. Looking back, are you happy with how it went? + Strange

Kronos stared out the window, still wearing that blank expression from when Riddler picked faer up. Edward would've loved to be able to tell faer that the future was bright and full of chances fae would've never had before. At the moment, it didn't look like fae would listen. When he opened his mouth to speak, Zacharie cut him off.

"What am I going to do now?"

I think if Strange ever discarded faer, died, or otherwise left... Kronos would miss it too much. Not only would fae be happy with the decision to stay with him and in his care, but fae wouldn't really properly mourn it now that it's gone. Strange carved out so much of faers everything at that point.

Where is fae gonna get those sedatives? There's so many triggers he implanted that fae knows might get triggered by accident too. Can Eddie really protect faer from Crane--is Crane even still looking for faer? Yes, yes he is.

There's too much confusion to look forward through. Kronos inevitably stares back, blind as though fae were looking at the sun.

Third Quarter - How do you deal with obstacles and diversity as a couple? What are problems you most often face? + Zer0

Fae groaned, loading the pistol. "I would've thought we'd bring more than just the two of us!"

"We had no option. / Continue to hold the line, / Backup will be here."

Most of their problems are Pandora problems. Though Zer0 can cover the front some with his sword, that means getting in there first. Current beta of my Borderlands s/i is a sniper as well, and fae is more suited to picking off from the back. Though Zer0 can go rushing in and out of the front lines (make distance, shoot, stealth, stab, repeat) fae is much less capable in anything up close and personal.

So, a lot of the obstacles they face are in regards to that. If they aren't traveling with anyone else, it's how to carry the load of combat together. Fae can be abrasive and stubborn, while Zer0 tends to forget to actually communicate with faer in the midst of shootouts and such.

Because of the actual heat and frenetic nature of combat, these arguments tend to crop up with a pouring heap of adrenaline on top. They always get settled, and everything else seems like child's play by comparison. It helps that fae isn't particular about how things like rewards are split up, so long as fae gets a piece at all. If anything, fae is oddly passive in a lot of areas outside observers would probably expect more bite out of faer over! It's combat and how to handle it--that's the sticking point.

[msfbgraves]

You once said that Daniel really struggled to get down to his tiny self after Anthony was born. Did he really worry that he was always going to be squishy lol? Poor boy, lmao. I can picture him fussing about the bit of extra weight. I don’t think Terry would’ve minded having more to love, considering he went insane for KK3 Daniel. Over here I bet he teased him, but also squished him at all opportunities, hahaha. And then of course, Daniel grows 2 inches and looks like an angel…

😈 They had so much sex, nonnie! The cheeks on that baby boy, both face and 🍑!

Terry was always squeezing him, and being like: "C'mon, love it's exercise!" 😍😆 And Daniel was like "Then why isn't it working 😢😔😭" and Terry is like "Maybe we should do a bit more, just to be on the safe side", and he loves it, though, his plump, rosy, healthy fella with his beautiful eyes and wet shiny lips and kissable face and dat ass, yeah, look at him with all those pups whose work is that hmmm? That's all Terry 😍😋 And Daniel is annoyed that he doesn't fit into his clothes anymore, and sure Terry is like "I'll buy you clothes" and he is like "tailoring visits take time, Terry 🤨" And Terry is like "Stay in and wear a nightie, I don't mind" and as ever he's useless here. And what no he can't diet, his family needs good food don't be ridiculous. It isn't like he lazes around all day - no Sammy, you can't have naphtha, I don't care if it is for science, Eli, you watch Gianni's head now, baby - and then, good, finally it's coming off, but does my nose look bigger, Terry? Terry, love, what are you looking at? Is it my hair?"

And Terry's like:

"Yes, darlin, love... love the hair...🤪😇😎"