#the bread emojis are icing on the cake

[robouiop]

god how about you stop claiming you have "celiacs" and pretend to have a REAL disorder you woke leftist cuck 🍞🥐🥨🥯🥖 ohh are you scared now you gluten-free little BITCH

do you want to go out with me

[it-is-only-a-novel]

Aspec symbols

So I've been trying to gather a list of aspec symbols! Old and new, widely accepted, but also more obscure. Here's my list so far, including links and explanations (in italics) where possible. I've tried also to add in the specific labels that the symbols "belong to" where relevant/possible.

Arospec:

the color green (and anything green)

white aro ring which is worn on the middle finger of the left hand link

aro flag

archery (bow & arrow)

arrows of any type

frogs they are green (this is a more general queer symbol as well) link & link

yellow roses (& yellow flowers in general, seems to be more for alloplatonic aros, since yellow represents platonic love) link

sunflowers (aroallos) aroallo flag colors link

aardvarks link

anglerfish link

manticores link

rats link

nandays and caiques link

griffins link

phoenixs link

anatomical hearts distancing ourselves from the regular outlook on love, and/or love in general may be more for loveless and/or heartless aros

<2 link

succulents green

cacti green & many do not want romantic partners and can be seen as prickly, or want to be prickly

plants in general green!!

"no romo"

hummingbirds (aroallos) link

pineapples (aroallos) link

pizza & ice cream link

kiwis link

the emojis:🫀, 🏹, ↖️, ↗️, 🌻, 💚,🍍, 🍏, 💘 explanations: link

paper crowns references jughead jones from the archie comics link

Acespec:

dragons link

cake cake is better than sex link

garlic bread

the color purple

black ace ring which is worn on the middle finger of the right hand link

ace flag

space

pirates "Ace pirates aren’t interested in your booty" link

wolves

ghosts (demisexuals) link

axolotls

denim vests

cryptids

AVEN triangle

ace cards suits: spades-aroaces, Hearts-Alloromantics, Diamonds-deamisexuals, Clubs-grey-asexuls link

the emojis: 💜, ♠️

some of these are based off this post, and this master post

Aplspec:

the colors blue & yellow in the apl flag

apples (green apples can be geared toward apls that are also aros)

blue heart 💙

bees

iridescence

apl flag

blue roses link

Blue apl ring on the thumb link

based off of this post, explanations are there.

Aspec:

aliens & robots reclaiming stereotypes about dehumanization link

Artemis goddess in Greek mythology focused on her passion for hunting. Represents finding fulfilment in other aspects of life not only sex, romance, friendship, love, and so on. Also used a bow & arrow link and also my own interpretation from reading about her

Many thanks to @merely-a-caricature, @the-big-gayheart, @heartless-aro, @arosunflower, @saffigon, @crab-in-progress, @aroace-thoughts, @apl-aro-narc, @entropy-sea-system, @dateademisexualpersonwho, @legally-x, @askanaroace, @aroace-people-are-lgtbq, @the-amber-droid-dreams, @foolishfynnesse and @itsnotasecret20 I used their posts/reblogs/comments to compile many of these symbols (and I've linked the posts). If I've missed someone, I apologize, it isn't intentional!

Last edit: 23/2/2024

I also want to add, that this post doesn't include all aspec identities, such as agender, afamilial, asensual, and more. They are important parts of the community, but I'm only informed on some, so couldn't include them.

[appalamutte]

Eric turns into the baking supplies aisle, tapping his thumb against the cart in rhythm with the Christmas music playing overhead.

He hadn’t intended to stop at the grocery store on his way home; after slipping on a patch of ice in front of a school field trip on his way to work, dropping and shattering his favorite work mug in the break room between meetings, and being told for the umpteenth time that another client has gone with another publisher, Eric, if you don’t start showing improvement then we’re going to have to look at other alternatives, all Eric wanted to do was go home and take a long, warm bath. Start that food critic’s memoir he picked up at a flea market a few weeks ago. Maybe—finally—clean out and reorganize his disaster of a spice cabinet, something to take his mind off things.

Just forget this day ever happened.

But then his editorial assistant accidentally deleted one of their client’s manuscripts while performing a mass exodus of unused files, and just like that, Eric went and cried in the bathroom because the day officially got worse than he ever thought it could get.

By some miracle, Dex down in IT had been able to find an old save of the file on the system’s hard drive. It didn’t have most of the notes Eric added for corrections or changes, nor did it have any of his assistant’s annotations. Really, it was the most bare-bones copy, but it was the entire manuscript in it’s most recent glory.

For that, Eric would’ve kissed Dex right then and there.

He loves Nursey too much to do that, though, so instead he did what he always does: he hugged Dex tightly, asked him what his favorite dessert was (snickerdoodle cookies), and at five o’clock he took the Green Line to West End and walked a few blocks to the best Whole Foods in Boston.

“Now you’ve gotta be kidding me,” Eric murmurs, standing in front of the rather unfortunate-looking flour selection. Usually, there’s a complete inventory of all types—bread, whole wheat, all-purpose, self-rising, pastry—and that’s half of the reason Eric goes twenty minutes out of his way to shop here. Yet all that’s before him now is a couple of bags of all-purpose and a full row of cake flour.

Great. As if this day couldn’t get any better.

He pulls the shopping cart close as a family enters the aisle and considers his options. Normally, he prefers using a half-and-half combination of whole wheat and all-purpose, but after last week’s batch of pancakes, he’s out of whole wheat. He could get the cream of tartar and ground cinnamon now and stop at the Stop & Shop near his apartment for the flour, but that place is hit-or-miss at best, and with how his day’s going he doubts they’ll have any in stock either. 

Maybe he could forgo whole wheat flour this one time and just go with the all-purpose, but he really does love the taste it gives, not to mention it adds a bit more nutritional value. Nursey has been going on and on about how Dex is trying to eat healthier after losing his college-athlete physique, and—damn, maybe Eric should’ve offered to make something other than a dessert. Is it too late to call and ask if Dex would rather have some homemade protein bars? But then Nursey messaged Eric right before he left work with a bunch of crying emojis, thanking him and saying he was definitely going to steal some of the cookies from Dex, even though Eric’s pretty sure Dex would give Nursey most of them anyway, and—

“Bittle?”

Eric startles.

Looking up, he stares at the man before him for a moment before his heart skips a beat.

“Jack?” He asks dumbly, because it is Jack, standing there in an old, threadbare Samwell hoodie with a ball cap pulled low on his head. 

He’s a little soft around the edges and worn down in that way all professional athletes are after retirement, but he’s still unmistakably Jack Zimmermann with that small little quirk of a smile and the way his eyes are piercingly blue in the fluorescent lighting of the store. His hair still curls around the ear like it did whenever he used to let it grow out but there are flecks of gray in his temple now. His jaw, even after all these years, is still so pronounced but it’s not as sharp as it was back at Samwell, hidden under a layer of scruff. He’s still wearing god-awful yellow sneakers, except they’re a newer pair from a different brand, bright and spotless.

“Hey, Bittle,” Jack says, warmer and surer.

Eric uncrosses his arms. “Jack,” he says again, feeling himself smile, “gosh, I can’t believe it’s—it’s been so long! Jack! How are you?”

On a reflex, Eric steps forward to hug Jack, and there’s this absolutely mortifying moment where he realizes he’s going to hug Jack Zimmermann, the Jack Zimmermann he hasn't spoken to in seven years, the Jack Zimmermann he hasn't seen outside of the NHL Network in ten.

But then Jack meets him halfway, pulling him into a hug with both arms wrapped around Eric’s shoulders, and it’s like the last decade never happened, the weight rolling off his shoulders as easily as could be. It’s like Eric’s back in Providence, back in Samwell. It’s Jack’s apartment and the front porch of the Haus and the bed of Coach’s truck in the thick Georgia humidity.

(It’s being in love with your best friend.)

“I’m good,” Jack says, his chest rumbling. “Great, actually.”

He pats Eric’s shoulder once and with that, they pull away from one another. “That’s good,” Eric says, pulling his shopping cart closer so he can lean an elbow against the handle. “How’s retirement been? It’s been, gosh, almost a year now?”

“Just about. It'll be a year this February."

“You miss it?”

Jack tilts his head. “Eh,” he drawls out, “honestly yeah, I do. But, well…”

He gestures down toward his knee, and it takes Eric a few seconds to remember that Jack's retirement had more to do with an unfortunate check and less to do with the fact he was thirty-seven. Eric immediately backtracks. “Oh, shit—lord, excuse my language, I didn’t mean—”

“No, no, it’s fine,” Jack chuckles, shoving his hands into his pockets. “The knee has its days, but besides that, it's good as new.” He pauses. “Sort of.”

Eric’s blushing ‘till high noon, he’s sure of it. "Well that's good, then," he says.

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas starts playing overheard and they stare at each other for another awkward beat. Finally, Jack clears his throat. “But, uh, how have you been? I think Shitty said you were at…Morris…”

“Morris Press,” Eric says, pulling at the skin between his thumb and forefinger, mentally slapping his cheeks. He’s usually never this bad with talking. “But yeah! I’ve been there for six years or so now, it’s a really great job. Helping others do what I always dreamed of is just, you know, a really fulfilling feeling.”

“I bet,” Jack says, and he’s got the little smile on his face again.

Another, not-as-awkward beat.

“I mean, I never thought I’d go into publishing, but…,” Eric starts, and he doesn’t mean to ramble, really; it’s an accidental slip that he starts going on about his job and his coworkers, the projects he’s helped publish, how publishing his own cookbook right out of Samwell led to now, just talking Jack’s poor ear off in the middle of the store. Jack gives his little comments here and there, like he used to, and doesn’t once make Eric feel like he’s holding him, and that—that’s exactly why Eric finds he can’t stop himself. The easiness of it, how natural and comfortable it is. How the warmth of a dormant love flares somewhere in Eric’s chest because it’s different but it’s not. 

He doesn’t stop until an older woman cuts in asking to get to the flour, and Eric takes a breath. “Goodness, I rambled there,” he laughs. “I suppose things haven’t changed all that much.”

Jack hums, looking at Eric with this unreadable, nearly intense expression that Eric would describe as soft, probably. If he looked into it too much. He’s nearly about to let Jack go so he can go home and panic-bake a pie and call Lardo about this entire day when Jack suddenly says: “Would you want to get coffee or lunch or—or something, sometime?”

Eric falters.

Then he decides that, maybe, this day isn’t a total bust.

[patriciavetinari]

they don't have any of the right emojis; life is not fair. Anyway more of a lazy picnic than a packed lunch, but then it's Sunday afternoon:

🥗🥑🍅🥒herby potato salad, tomatoes and avocados and good mozzarella and basil and olive oil, quick-pickled cucumber with garlic;

🐟 hot-smoked salmon, to go with the potatoes and the cucumber;

🍞🧈good bread and butter, always needed;

🍑🍯🥛peaches grilled with honey and vanilla and some clotted cream; 🍰 lemon, rose and pistachio cake, or madeleines to go with the peaches;

🧀 epoisses, creamy gorgonzola, mimolette, Isle of Mull cheddar, quince paste and 🍇;

🍹Pimms and lemonade or iced Earl Grey with honey, to drink with;

☕️tea of choice, to drink after

Bestie that's not lunch, that's a feast worthy of bacchus himself!! Thank you so much this is the best kind of ask!!

[stormbeyondreality]

I know this is kind of late but I just saw you reblogged the emoji ask meme so: lolly/candy, red apple, watermelon, mango, banana, croissant, cake slice, kiwi, and shaved ice pls? :3

Ask Game

I think this is the most questions I've gotten in one go ever, so thank ye! This was fun to answer.

🍬 [LOLLY/CANDY] What would your OC like to receive for Valentine's Day/as a token of love?

Probably Erlind would want a quiet evening with a nice dinner moreso than any physical thing; they'd appreciate gifts, but experiences and quality time are more important to them.

🍎 [RED APPLE] Who does your OC value above all else?

Lydia and Farkas, without a doubt. They're the closest friends Erlind has ever had and for the longest time.

🍉 [WATERMELON] What will your OC take to the grave?

I have absolutely no idea. Erlind doesn't like keeping secrets, so I really don't know. The closest thing I could think of would be what went down in Markarth, but I already know they'll tell certain people about that, so...

🥭 [MANGO] What colours best represent them and why? Does this differ from their favourites?

Gold, rosy pink, and soft purplish blue. Hearthfires and sunsets. Colours that comfort, in essence. They're similar to their favourite colours, though Erlind prefers to wear darker shades when they can afford it.

🍌 [BANANA] Have parts of your OC been lost to time (in-universe)? What do they wish they could lose from themselves?

There's elements of Erlind's childhood that they wish to forget, though they don't want to do so enough to do anything about it. As for things that have been lost to time, it depends on the day. Erlind's memory tends to vary, especially regarding things that happened years ago.

🥐 [CROISSANT] Where is your OC from? How do they feel about their homeland? Where are they now?

Erlind's from Camlorn in High Rock; they're indifferent about their childhood home, ultimately. They miss the good, don't miss the bad, and overall are glad that they're now in Skyrim with the friends that they have.

🍰 [CAKE SLICE] How does your OC change as you get to know them?

At first interaction, Erlind is polite but withdrawn and seemingly a little aloof, seemingly ignoring subtle social cues. When you get to know them better, you learn that they don't notice the subtle cues, they're much more enthusiastic, and if you get to know them well enough, they're extremely affectionate.

🥝 [KIWI FRUIT] How does their outside appearance differ from who they are?

So. Erlind has resting angry face and while they're not the most intimidating in stature - they may be sturdily built but they're still an afab Breton, after all - they're also still a heavily-armoured warrior in dark colours and a shadowy hood.

Personality-wise, however? Beyond the polite professionalism they're quite chipper and make a particular point to be kind to everyone they can. And they will laugh until they can't breathe if they think something's funny enough.

🍧 [SHAVED ICE] What's your OC's favourite flavour of edible thing (e.g., strawberry)?

At first thought? Chocolate. Other things are a little more complex, I'd say, than just one flavour. For example, Erlind really really likes clam chowder, sourdough bread, and roast venison with a variety of different herbs.

[podcasts-8-my-heart]

8 15 16 21 and 42 !

Gonna do both Teddyjars 🧸 and ☕️ au TJE because why not! I will use those emojis to clarify.

It's gonna get long so I'mma throw it under a cut.

8. What do they love most about the other? Why?

🧸 Teddy loves Tristan's smile, how his dimples show when he's mid-laugh, his little gasp when Teddy kisses him after a win, in the back of Tristan's truck in the PPG parking lot, and how Tristan curls his hand in Teddy's curls to deepen the kiss. Tristan loves how Teddy's eyes fill with wonder when Teddy sees another player's kids, especially the babies, and how he will coo at them, play peekaboo, and even do little hand puppets for some of them.

☕️Tristan loves how Teddy holds Mocha when he's asleep on the couch; and he loves how Elvis knows to make his favorite banana bread when he's stressed. Elvis loves how Teddy's fangs pop over his lip when he's focused on a task (puzzle, icing a cake, etc.), and he loves when Tristan makes his favorite coffee with a dash of cream when he gets up first in the morning and how Tristan looks when Elvis bites him, blissed out on the euphoria from the bite. Teddy loves how Tristan laughs--shoulders shaking, dimples drawn--at the smallest of jokes and it makes him feel so good; Teddy loves when Elvis holds him in his sleep and Teddy can

15. What songs remind you of their relationship?

🧸 Flower- Johnny Stimson This is Tristan to Teddy in particular.

☕️ actually has a playlist, pardon me, brewing right now so I will come back and add that once it's settled.

16. Would they ever get matching tattoos? If yes, what would these look like?

🧸 If we are going for the Teddy Trade verse, particularly the post-wedding bit, then they've probs got matching little hearts on their inner thighs, hidden from their coworkers eyes, etc.

☕️ Okay, Tristan has a Sun for Elvis and Moon for Teddy (though my notes keeps rotating who actually gets which one so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I know that's not matching but... it's close isn't it?

21. Do they enjoy domestic life?

🧸 it's complicated, but yes.

☕️ yes. Teddy loves helping with things around the shop when he is in town and doesn't have a practice that day. He loves going to the farmer's market on Sundays with Tristan and Elvis to sell their sweets and looking at trading with the local beekeeper for fresh honey and other treats. Teddy found out he likes raw honey comb from the first time the boys took him to the market, and he didn't really get approached when he was with his boyfriends.

42. What’s their relationship like with each other’s friends/families?

🧸 Well friend-wise they share a lot of them (work wise), but they haven't really gotten to meet each others families properly. It's kinda complicated when you're dealing with Teddy's family who's an entire continent away except for his Aunt in Minnesota so...

☕️Elvis and Tristan got folded in pretty quickly with Teddy's friends and Teddy knows a couple of Elvis and Tristan's friends. Family wise it's a little complicated with vampires... but Teddy is hoping to meet Tristan's family up at the farm in BC this summer, and not just the FaceTime calls he's gotten to have with Tristan and Elvis present.

[belmottetower]

🛠🌞🤲🤯

🛠What tools/programs/apps do you use to write? Googledoc! I love it, the phone app is fine for when I'm feeling deranged enough to write on my phone (not something I do often), but the main browser version is great. 🌞 Do you have a preferred time of day to write? I don't have a preferred time, I just can't really write during the day when I'm working, or in the evenings after work unless I'm really feeling it, because my brain is too tired or full of work stress. So I tend to wait to the weekend to write and then will do it at any time of day. 🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip? This snippet is from a first-draft longer sequel to "and i'm known for giving love away" and its current sequels. Some wording may change, but I'm looking forward to sharing this one! Yes, it is exactly what you think it is. - - - A few nights after they go ice skating, Roy finally gives in.

Roy is unloading the dishwasher when Jamie wanders into the kitchen, phone in hand and looking distinctly sheepish. He hovers around for few minutes until Roy stops what he's doing and gives him his full attention.

“Okay, so,” he starts, rubbing at his eyebrow with his finger. Never a good sign, that. It means Jamie's got nerves, and it almost always precedes a confession or an apology, whether it's a warranted one or not. “I did a thing. And you can totally say no, or like, if you say yes it doesn’t mean you have to then say yes to the show. It could just be a thing on its own."

Roy doesn’t groan, not when Jamie looks so anxious, but it’s a close thing. Not the fucking show again. 

“So I booked us onto this baking course? Thought it could be a thing we did together. You know, a you-and-me-only thing that isn’t football. And it happens to finish right before the week you'd be filming, if you did it, so it means you wouldn’t fuck up! You’d be like the sexy Bake Off James, not the disaster one!” He shoves his phone into Roy’s hands and waits while Roy reads through the confirmation email.

Huh, he thinks. According to the booking details, the course goes for eight weeks on Monday nights and the address of the cooking school is right in the middle of London, just off of Regent Street. No parking, so they'd have to take a taxi or the Tube, after training.

He clicks the link to the site itself and scrolls through the description of the course. It does look good. He likes cooking, and expanding to baking could be interesting, he supposes. Plus, now he doesn’t have to watch what he eats so much, he really does fucking love cake. And bread. It could be cool to know how to make them for himself. It’s not the act of baking itself that he’s against. He just doesn’t wanting to make a complete fucking twat of himself.

🤯 What's a genre you struggle with as a writer (ex. romance, action, etc.)? Hmmm, so I don't think I could ever write proper horror stuff. My AUgust horror fill was a bit of a cop out on that front as it was just Jan refusing to play ball, but I hate being scared and am very very good at creeping myself out and as such don't think I'd be able to sit down and write a sustained fic in that genre. Emoji Fanfic Ask - drop me an emoji and I’ll answer the question

[pinespittinink]

👁 🥞 🍩 ☕️ 🍰 for Sabine and Titus please

👁️ EYE - what colour are their eyes? do people notice their eyes? is there anything special about them (shows emotion easily, literally magical...)?

SABINE 🌿  —  Sabine’s eyes are dark green, specifically a deep emerald. She has very round eyes, doe eyes, downturned a little at the outer corners, her most notably facial feature. They are very expressive, and deceptively piercing. Her gaze can be uncanny to some; not many can hold it comfortably. 

TITUS 🗡 — Titus’s eyes are amber-green, so a sort of hazel, like the golden hour striking through a dark summer forest. His gaze is as intense as the rest of him, so people don’t tend to focus on his eyes much until they’re led to meet his gaze directly or observe him from very close. He hides his intents well through his gaze, utilizing that high charisma stat, though it can easily turn from pleasant to cruel and iron in the drop of a hat.

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🥞 PANCAKE - what is their comfort breakfast?

SABINE 🌿 — a bowl of assorted berries for her to pick through, unpeeled lychee fruit (she likes to do it herself), chocolate bread (very rare in Palatruza-- chocolate is scarce, and baked goods such as breads and pastries are uncommon due to the lack of cereal grains) 

TITUS 🗡 — fern pheasant baked in grape leaves and left to cool (either prepared the night before or early in the morning), three boiled quail eggs, cold elderberry tea. He likes having room temperature and cold foods in the mornings when Palatruza is waking up.

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🍩 DONUT - favourite sweet treat?

SABINE 🌿  — dark chocolate covered crystallized ginger, and chocolate dipped orange slices.

TITUS 🗡 — he’s not very keen on overly sweet things in general (Sabine has the sweet tooth between them, and her tastes run from rich to bitter), but he does savor veldt finch livers, soaked in lychee jelly and bitter honey and heavily smoked.

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☕️ HOT BEVERAGE - do they prefer hot or cold drinks? what is their favourite drink?

SABINE 🌿  — cold drinks almost always. Sabine drinks water more than any other beverage, infused with a variety of things; berries, melon, herbs. Her favorite is mint and lemon. 

TITUS 🗡  — cold drinks, generally. Elderberry tea every morning, ever since he was a boy. He’ll indulge in lukewarm honey-wine in court, and black currant juice.

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🍰 CAKE SLICE - favourite cake flavour? are they specific about types of cakes?

SABINE 🌿  — answered already here but i’ll go into some more detail~ Sabine loves a rich dark chocolate cake, and favors a simple glaze or lack thereof rather than frosting or icing. Cake as a whole is uncommon, as Palatruza cannot grow grains; their flour substitutes are root and tuber based. Sabine does enjoy lotus cakes too, when they are made to celebrate the Lotus Keeper’s garden.

TITUS 🗡 — Titus isn’t really interested in cakes or sweets; he’ll partake in a lotus cake every year or so, indulge in something else for Sabine’s sake and entertainment, but other than that he doesn’t care.

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{🌿 oc emoji asks 🌿 }

[caelcstis]

emoji headcanons. // @r3dblccd all the food & drinks questions +💐 BOUQUET, ✏️ PENCIL &💓 BEATING HEART (for Jupiter)

🥞 PANCAKE - what is their comfort breakfast?

being raised with western culture, his comfort food is easily something like crepes stuffed with whipped cream and macerated strawberries, and topped with a light dusting of powdered sugar

🎂 BIRTHDAY CAKE - when is their birthday? do they like celebrating it?

Jupe's another cancer muse of mine bc I just have the most emotionally invested sort of muses lmao. but his birthday's July 2nd, and as for celebrating - I feel like as a child he did because it was the few days he could see his brother and just having a slice of his favorite cake that his brother managed to get from a local bakery made him happy. Nowadays, it's just kind of a day for him. He's usually busy - especially because summer's such a popular time of travel for him with meteor showers. He doesn't like it nor dislike it, but won't say no if people are that obligated to celebrate his birthday.

🍩 DONUT - favourite sweet treat?

gods, jupe is one of my muses with such a big sweet tooth it's hard to really narrow it down. he likes a lot of fruity and sometimes refreshing sweets? probably has to do with him being a summer baby tbh and a good chunk of his mother's pregnancy was it getting into the warmer months, so she was often eating things like frozen yogurt, ice-cold lemonades to the point it was basically just a slushie. so he likes things like hwachae, ice cream mochi is also nice to him. ice cream and frozen yogurt are probably his favorite things to get just because it's refreshing and doesn't entirely fill you - it's just a perfect thing to him after a meal.

🍟 FRIES - do they order food often? or they prefer to cook their own food?

it's a love-hate relationship with takeout/fast food with jupe. they grew up on it for the most part, to the point where they often got sick of it. they weren't a picky eater growing up shockingly, but it was just the easiest thing for his brother to get if he was going to be home late. or not at all, and someone could drop it off for him and his siblings at the time. he eventually learned to cook - but i think due to his sweet tooth he became more of a baker lol. he can cook and he cooks very well, but he prefers to bake when he has the time. he also travels a lot so it can be really convenient to him to just get food fast. but sometimes he really just wants to sit at the table, not at the counter of his kitchen, with a nice warm meal that was made home and just eat.

☕️ HOT BEVERAGE - do they prefer hot or cold drinks? what is their favourite drink?

cold drinks, you'll see him drinking ice coffee in the dead of winter even if he's freezing to his core. he prefers fruity drinks tho tbh, he isn't the heaviest of coffee drinkers unless he's running on jet lag. sometimes when he's home he'll have a cup of tea with his brother and brother-in-law to just kind of wind down from traveling (he often spends his first night or two at his brother's place bc that's where his animals are anyways if he's been gone for a while).

🍓 STRAWBERRY - do they eat their fruit & veg? what is their favourite fruit or vegetable?

definitely loves his fruits and veggies, probably more fruit than veggies if you had to make him choose - but isn't very picky to them. he's obsessed with strawberries and raspberries, and his favorite veggies would probably have to be tomatoes. you'll see him make a toasted piece of bread with tomato-roasted or not, and crack some pepper on it if he's got some fresh veg on hand.

🍰 CAKE SLICE - favourite cake flavour? are they specific about types of cakes?

a good strawberry shortcake is nice to him, again just that love for strawberries. the whipped cream has to be fresh too - he loves fresh whipped cream. layers gotta have the whipped cream, strawberries and maybe even some macerated berries or jam between it all. he's not very specific, but like i said - he won't gravitate towards anything too heavy. chocolate on chocolate isn't his favorite.

🍧 SHAVED ICE - do they still have any objects from their childhood? what significance does it have to them? what would their reaction be if they lost it?

he still has his baby blanket because it was the one thing his mother made for him when she was still around. sure it was soft and feminine because she was expecting a little girl that she got - but jupe still keeps it. he would be heartbroken if he ever lost it, because it's just that one piece he has of his mother - not that he even remembers her because she died not too long after his birth. it's often tucked nice and neat at the foot of his bed. you'll often times see callisto nesting on it and keeping it warm and safe - and spreading all her fur on it.

💐 BOUQUET - create a bouqet for them! what do those flowers mean? are any of the flowers their particular favourite?

if you want a bouquet, look at the one on his arm that's an entire sleeve. marigolds are his favorite, but there's dahlias that are his mother's favorite, sunflowers for his brother-in-law, and lilies for his brother. lilies, depending on what color you get, are often represent with purity and joy. sunflowers are similar; happiness, joy, if a person gifts them to you it often means they find you being a bright and happy person. dahlias are creativity and growth, they're also part of the daisy family which often shows resilience. marigolds can mean both good and bad things depending on your intentions, but again harken back to purity the way lilies do and represent divinity. he also loves the warmth of marigolds, the color of them is beautiful to him with how vivid they are. they're also said to ward off negativity and bad spirits.

✏️ PENCIL - is there a particular quote / lyric that you associate with them?

honestly rather than either of them?? when i was in the process of revamping and recreating jupe and reggy all the way back in 2017/2018, Light's Skin & Earth album came out and eventually came later with the acoustic and new songs along with it. those albums entirely really capture a lot of their stories and personalities. if there's one song or quote from that album that gets me thinking of jupe a lot it's skydiving:

Free fall with me Get a little unruly No guts no glory You said to me Get a little unruly No guts no glory

and bookwise? i think when i always think of the two brothers it'll always bring me back to acomaf where rhys and feyre repeat to each other "to the stars that listen, and to the dreams that are answered." because they are my star/night/galaxy related muses. those kind of things will always be a little tender to my heart.

💓 BEATING HEART - what gets their heart racing?

as stubborn as jupe is, it really doesn't take a lot for this kid to get his heart going. make him food and drag him away from his studio, his craft rooms - just get him away from work. he works himself to death. if you get him paints, he will cherish them and use them to their last drops. bake with him, it's a fun and relaxing hobby for him. even if it's just getting measuring spoons or supplies, just be in the kitchen with him and talk with him. draw dumb little things on a cake or bread together, help clean the flour off his glasses - just be with him in the quiet of his too-big-for-one-person apartment.

[thiccer-than-sniccer]

Safe Food

-Bananas!

-Like every fruit (except cantaloupe fuck cantaloupe, same with tomatoes and cucumbers *vomit emoji*)

-Plain/lightly salted popcorn

-Broccoli/Cauliflower/Carrots

-Brussels sprouts

-Any salad as long as it's not swimming in dressing

-Rice, especially seasoned rice

-Monster zeros

-Coffee

-Egg whites

-Ham/turkey

-Grilled chicken

-Grilled fish

-Rice cakes (flavored kind!)

-Pepper jack cheese??? Idk

-Light mayo

-Vegan meat (Morning Star, Beyond Beef, etc)

-Almond milk

-Mushrooms

Fear Food

Food that literally scares me

-Any nuts at all ever hell no

-Any other kind of cheese

-Fried anything

-French fries/tater tots

-Hot dogs

-Cheese/Garlic bread

-Steak

-Mashed potatoes

-PASTA

-Ice cream

-Every kind of chips

-Any kind of soda, reg and diet (sorry I just can't do diet coke)

-Dairy milk

-Chocolate (even though I crave it something ferocious sometimes)

-Cream cheese

-Greek yogurt (so filling but I'm convinced it makes me gain)

-Cottage cheese??? (see Greek yogurt)

-Fruit juice (the sugar *crying*)

-Butter

-Any cooking oils

-Caramel. Just caramel.

Gray Food

I can eat these foods, but only occasionally in small portions

-Pork rinds

-Coffee creamer

-Peanut butter

-Granola bars

-Candy, such as Skittles or blue Tootsie Rolls (I can eat these but not drink fruit juice ok go off bestie)

-Light cream cheese

-Salsa

-Coconut product

-Fake butter

-Coffee flavored ice cream (it's just different okay?!!)

-Light ice cream

-Beer/alcohol

-Ritz crackers

-White bread

-Pizza

Just a peek into how little anoreסa makes sense. Our brains are all about association, and this €d thrives off of negative association. Gained 0.2 oz?? Must've been the 4 cashews I ate yesterday.

[veenxys]

「Coffee date with BNHA Boys」

⤷ Bakugou

even if Bakugou doesn't drink much coffee, meetings in coffee shops happen quite often. your favorite place is not very frequented, but it is cozy, which makes it even more special for the two of you. you curl up at a corner table and just sit next to each other while you talk about whatever comes to your mind. and he always buys you your favorite cake or bread (and also gets mad at you if you try to pay your coffee)

⤷ Deku

whenever possible, you and Deku enjoy going to a local cafe to do homework and chat about episodes of your new favorite series. Deku literally gets so anxious whenever you guys plan a date like this, he thinks it's the cutest thing ever (but he doesn't say anything). he also likes to surprise you with small gifts over coffee! nothing too big, but he loves that beautiful beaming smile you get whenever you open them. <3

⤷ Kirishima

Kirishima likes to go on more lively dates, where you always cry with laughter at the end of the day. so the two of you rarely have coffee together. to be honest, dates at your favorite coffee shop are special because they mean that one of you has important news: good or bad. good means you can celebrate with macchiatos and chocolate croissants, and bad means you start crying along with cold drinks and slices of banana bread. either way, you get coffee, food and hugs, so these dates are almost always a win!

⤷ Todoroki

Todoroki likes to take you out for coffee on rainy days when there's not much else to do (but he also loves lying down with you and watching something on netflix) one of his favorite places is a coffee bookstore near the dorms. it's honestly so cute! you two like to curl up together in an armchair while sharing a chocolate-covered carrot cake. then you like to talk about random things (or read some book that caught your attention), creating your own little world.

⤷ Denki

Denki likes going to coffee shops especially in winter. for him, summers are for ice cream or lying on the cold floor while watching the office on his laptop. but winters? winters are for hot chocolates as you watch the snowflakes fall outside. Denki teases you about how your face has turned red from the cold, he likes to kiss the tip of your nose just to make you blush even more.

⤷ Tamaki

in your relationship, coffee shop dates are actually a nocturnal thing. close to your house, there's a very cute and cozy cafe, there's live music and a cafe inside, but you can also sit on the deck and watch the stars if you want (and honestly that's where Tamaki loves to be) you just snuggle into each other, arm in arm, and with your free hand you drink cappucino under the stars.

⤷ Shinsou

he loves any kind of date with you, but those are his favorites. they are really calming for both of you and he enjoys every second of it. whenever one of you is feeling a little overwhelmed, all you need to do is text the coffee cup emoji and the other person will immediately know what to do. he likes to go to different places to see which is the best, but there's one in particular he loves: it's close to both houses, and it also has super comfy chairs, natural light and beautiful plants!

⤷ Hawks

if you haven't seen each other in a while or if he’s just returned from a long mission, you'll both spend an entire morning sitting at your favorite cafe: losing count of how many cups of espresso and strawberry cake you two had while talking about anything that comes into your mind. Hawks talks about how his mission was and how he missed you and you tell him about your new project at school or work and also about the story of the last book you read. and in those moments everything is fine, you don't care about the hot sun, you only care about how comforting and warm Keigo's hand is in yours.

🏷 tags! @1nterbad, @togasbloodbag, @anarchythedork, @blossominglark, @mhasimp666, @sweetlilhoneybunny, @gluchie, @pasteldaze, @call-an-ambulance-but-not-for-me , @insomniacwreck, @kleeixe, @yesuraloser, @glamuxxbabe, @luluwiie, @drownedbytears, @kitkozume, @onewsblue, @mikaelatp, @crustycashmeresweater, @viper-mxxn,@goldenbby7, @racistareversa, @kitsuji, @deadmansdoctor, @uxavity, @dukina, @artof-apollo

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[clarawatson]

It Only Takes A Taste (3)

Pairing: Aaron Hotchner x [Fem]!Reader (GN pronouns, fem coded stuff, but I’m not sure where this is going as a larger work so we’ll say Fem!reader to be safe) Summary: Jack comes for dinner, I guess. W/C: 2345 Warnings: none yet! A/N: this one got a little long, oopsies. AO3 Where am I in this series? 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 |

The bed had been so warm and comfortable you hadn't wanted to get out, but the thought of seeing Aaron again made your heart grow three sizes. You'd been texting back and forth for the last couple of days, just small awkward stuff. He likes to text emojis. He's precious. Of course he's precious. 

He comes in as you're serving your first customer of the night—a sobbing thirty-year-old man who can't even order his pie without spluttering in tears. Is it favouritism to get excited by Aaron turning up? Yes. Is it worth it? Yes. 

"Hello," you smile. There's a hundred things you could have called him, but he's too cute and your brain doesn't want to work. 

"Hi," he grins back. "Can I have a coffee, please. Here."

"Yes you can." Aaron splits his bill between the counter and the tip jar. "How was your day,  Aaron?" 

"Boring paperwork. Couldn't concentrate."

Concern furrows your eyebrow. "Is something wrong?"

"Huh? No! I kept thinking about seeing you." There's that sunshine smile again. You might even match it yourself. He points to the cake that's still in the display tin. He's in earlier in the night than usual, so there's a lot more range to choose from. "Is that carrot cake?" 

"Sure is. Do you want some?" 

"Please." 

You serve him a slice and let the coffee machine splutter and fight with you. He stabs his cake with his fork and looks like he has an out of body experience the moment the cream cheese icing hits his tongue. That's a face you want to see again under different circumstances.

"Joe?"

"Me! And Joe's recipe. I sort of mixed it together and prayed."

"Then mark me a religious man." Aaron smiles. You can't held but smile back at him.

"It's a bit early for you to be in," you say. It's not an issue, just means you got the earlier shift. Finishing at 1am instead of 7am. Plus, Aaron looks nice in the daytime. Very nice. The afternoon light suits him.

"Didn't have a case," he shrugs. 

You've googled him since getting his business card. “Supervisory Agent Aaron Hotchner, Section Chief of the BAU”. The fuck did that even mean? BAU was the Behavioural Analysis Unit, which was still mainly a mystery, but you think it’s maybe just an over-glorified way of saying ‘they look inside people’s heads and hope for the best’. He’s got a handful of news reports that you’ve practically memorised. 

Okay, that’s a little obsessive. Don’t admit that to him. 

He wasn’t the ‘untouched by darkness’ that you’d thought of him before, his work face held all the darkness his smile did not. You hoped you never had to see the serious man who stood before the cameras. 

“How’s Rita?” Aaron asks. He’s cut the top off his carrot cake, saving it for later. He looks at it longingly every now and then, then he scoops just a little bit of the cream cheese and lets it rest on his tongue.

“She’s good. Restless. She’s happy for the due date to arrive.” She’d also asked you to be the baby’s godparent. Rather forcefully, actually, it had felt a bit strange. That was the only reason you hadn’t jumped at the opportunity. You’d do anything for Rita, but saying yes in that instant would had felt strange. Almost… wrong, maybe.

Aaron knows you’re thinking about it. He puts his fork down and shifts in his chair, waiting for you to continue. He doesn’t fill the silence between the two of you. You think about telling him, but then Lola’s bustling through the door and grabbing her apron.

“Hot stuff, when can I go for a smoke break?” is the first thing Lola says to you. She pulls chewing gum out of her mouth (yes, pulls. She sticks her fingers in her mouth and pulls it out as far as it will go without snapping) and Aaron moves his cake around his plate a bit. Does he not like it? Don’t be silly, he asked for it. Requested it. Whatever. You put his three cookies into a plastic bag and slide it across the counter to him.

“Lola you only just came in.”

“But I want to know,” she whines like she’s a teenager with an after school job, not a thirty-five-year-old woman who works at the diner full time. “Hey, Rita’s been acting weird, right? Is that a pregnancy thing, or?” Lola rubbed her nose on the back of her wrist and sniffs. An action you’re all too familiar with by now, and of course she was doing illegal substances in the bathroom before she started her shift when there’s a legitimate federal agent in the diner.

 “Oh,” Lola says as she looks at Aaron. She looks at you, raises her eyebrows, and nods like she’s impressed. “I take back telling Rita she was a liar." Even without knowing the context of Rita and Lola's conversation, you know Rita had told Lola how pretty/handsome/gorgeous Aaron is. "I’m going to go clean some tables.”

She grabs the cleaning supplies and heads out into the dining area. The door swings open, banging against one of the booths, and you’re immensely glad Lola doesn’t scream 'watch it’ at them. A curly haired blonde woman (gorgeous, mind you) touches Aaron’s shoulder and he sits up straight, smiling, and your heart plummets a little bit. Just the tiniest amount. 

“Jack insisted we switch over here before I go to parent/teacher interviews.” As if on queue, a well mannered, sandy-haired boy sits next to Aaron and grins too much like Aaron. Aaron’s son. You can put two and two together. Profiler or not.

“How was school?” Aaron asks. Jack shrugs.

“It was school.” He learnt that from his dad, there’s no question. 

“Well, in that case. Jack, this is my friend Y/n. Y/n, this is Jack.” Jack extends a hand to shake in greeting and looks really shy about it. You shake it quickly so he doesn’t feel like a kid who’s been roped into doing adult things. There’s a pile of colouring-in pages Joe’s printed off at the local library beneath a cup of crayons that Jack’s eyeing off. 

You grab a sheet and a crayon, raising an eyebrow in invitation as you turn around to Jack. 

“Yes please,” he says, grin growing across his face. “Thank-you.”

“You’re welcome. Wonderful manners.” Jack grins even bigger and you think he, too, might combust just like his dad. Stardust! That’s the movie you were thinking of. When Yvaine sees Tristan she shines, literally, the star inside of her just can’t be contained. That’s Aaron and Jack, and the way they look when they smile. 

Aaron’s sister-in-law looks at you with a cocked head, like a curious cat. Like she’s waiting to pounce. But… curiously pounce. Like she's sussing you out. She extends a hand in greeting.

“Jess. Aaron’s talked about you.”

There’s no response but to look sheepish. This seems to greatly please Jess, who smiles softly and rubs the back of Aaron’s head affectionately. They have a long history together, it’s too familial to be just a relationship born through marriage. 

“I’ll see you later then, Rockstar,” Jess says.

“Bye,” Aaron and Jack say together. Aaron rests his cheek on his hand, watching you as Lola hands you three orders she’s taken while you’ve been talking to Aaron. Jack leans over and whispers to Aaron about his homework (it’s a whisper that belongs on a stage) as you wrestle with the coffee machine. 

It’s been grinding it’s way down to not working for a while now. Ever since you met Aaron, actually. Joe’s said he’s going to fix it, or get a new one, but everyone’s in a state of non-commital until Rita has her baby.You’ve got no idea why, it’s just the way things are. Good luck, maybe? Or luck in general? 

Somehow you get Aaron talking about Shakespeare. It might have been Jack’s doing, to be completely honest, but one moment you’re trying to make the froth… well, froth… and the next you're listening to Aaron talk animatedly about Othello. Jack's young enough to not think his Dad's passion is embarrassing. 

"Have you watched Othello?" Jack asks, a question that Aaron's neglected to ask you. "I'm not old enough to yet." 

"I haven't seen that one yet, but I've seen Much Ado About Nothing."

"Is that the one with the olive gardens?" Jack asks. Aaron frowns, eyes searching for the answer in that big beautiful minds tonight.

"Yes," he says finally. "That was the one with the olive trees."

Jack giggles. "There was kissing in that movie." 

"Lots of it," Aaron agrees. You're not sure you're talking about the same film, but it's cute to see the two of them interact. 

"With the guy who plays Lockhart in the second Harry Potter movie?" You ask. Jack laughs just like his father. It's all light and mirth. He nods in confirmation. 

"His name is Kenneth," Jack says like he's familiar with him. When Aaron smiles, you know Jack's his whole world.

It’s not long before Aaron realised he’d brought Jack in without asking if he wanted anything. The afternoon rush had died down, leaving you in the space between out-of-work and dinner. You make the most chocolate-y hot chocolate you can for Jack when Aaron says he can have one. Well, Jack says the best bit is the froth, so it’s more child-size-hot-chocolate-in-an-adult-mug-full-of-froth. Jack loves it. He slurps at the chocolate, which leaves a giant frothy mustache over his top lip that won’t go away no matter how much he licks at it.

When he’s done you let him come around to the kitchen to wash his face, because no amount of wet napkins is going to fix that mess. Jack can’t reach the sink, so you fashion a step out of old milk and bread crates. Joe gives him cake batter to taste before realising that he actually has no idea who Jack is. Aaron watches from the kitchen door with a smile on his face. You don’t catch it until Jack jumps off the crates and takes your hand, leading you back out. Aaron’s fingers brush your hand as you pass him. Electricity sparks between the two of you that's completely unavoidable. The two of you recoil involuntarily.

Aaron gives you a small smile of apology. You give exactly the same one back. Lola legitimately gasps like she too felt the electricity between the two of you. Surely that was just something that happened in movies? Or in books? That’s not a real thing, right? But Aaron brushes past you again, as if he’s making sure as well, and it’s there again. Only it’s like your whole arm becomes pins and needles, not just a quick lightning spark.

If it’s like that every time you’re with him, your not sure you could even go beyond lusting after him and giving him coffee and meals every now and then. Aaron drops his gaze, then follows Jack to the front of the counter. 

They stay for dinner (because Jack insists, he wants the nachos) but the rush comes early and there’s really not much time to talk to them, so you almost miss them leaving. Almost. You’re serving the angry couple at table three (are they angry at you, or each other? Who knows, you don’t, but they’re taking it out on you) when Jack taps your hip. 

He’s very patient as you finish the order (somehow you figure out what they want between the curse words) and bend down to him. He hands you a folded piece of paper.

“This is for you,” he says. “I did it.” You’re about to unfold it, but he insists that it belongs in your apron pocket until you can look at it with no rush. That’s a kid who knows what it’s like to have a very busy parent. So you tuck it away safely and mess with his hair, which makes him grin from ear to ear.

“See you later!” Jack yells as he runs to Aaron, who’s waving goodbye with a doggy bag full of Jack’s unfinished dinner.and his keys between his fingers. 

“I’ll see you later,” he mouths as the noise in the diner starts to rise. Without thinking you blow him a kiss, which he catches effortlessly and kisses the fist closed around it before slipping out. 

When you get to the kitchen Lola’s already in the midst of teasing you. 

“You like him,” she says with all the confidence in the world. There’s not point denying her, so you just nod. It’s met by a chorus of ‘ooo’s which, to be honest, you really didn’t need. It made the diner feel far too small.

When everything dies down you remember the paper Jack had given you. You wipe the milk and spaghetti sauce off the counter, then make sure it’s dry, and unfold Jack’s page. It’s the generic colouring page Joe’s printed out, but Jack’s tried to make the generic waitress look like you. Well, you if you had purple hair and green skin. It’s a start, you guess, there’s an apology from Aaron on the back. Makes it worth it.

You move a couple of postcards on the corkboard aside and put Jack’s picture there instead. Joe pretends not to notice, but when Lola goes out the back with one of her customers, Joe comes round the front and presses a finger to the page.

“Good kid,” Joe says. He nods a couple of times then turns to you. “You know he and his dad come as a package, right? You fuck up one, you fuck up both.” Joe’s first wife had three kids that weren’t biologically his. He’s still mad at himself for not taking the kids seriously and only turning up for their mom.

“I know,” you say. 

Joe strokes your cheek as he passes and kisses your forehead. It’s all the praise you need. 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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[siberat]

Round 3

Oh No!!!  Looks like our dear Doctor is a bit gassy!  I wonder why?  Could it have been something he ate?  He sure looks embarrassed to let a loud, obnoxious belch rip through the air!  What’s that? The emoji looks as if… he’s drunk?!?!?!? Well, his belly is looking much more full- but I bet we can do better!

Let’s take a peek at what he ate:

 Energon Flan: this creative dish was based on the Spanish cuisine: it’s pretty much in the custard family of treats. This dish is very rich in flavor and has a sweet taste of caramel.  The custard is made from ground aragonite, chromite, and an assortment of ores mixed with some creamy energon stock, baked in an energon bath for that creamy texture, then chilled.   Can be topped with varies items- shown here is the ever so tasty (that it makes your teeth hurt) geode bits.  The crunchiness of the geodes contrasts the softness of the flan. Did Ratchet like it?  Oh yeah!

Grapefruit beer: this beverage is most likely the cause of Ratchet’s loud belches! I bet he chugged it all on one go!  This drink was created based from Earth foods.  The engex is made by fermentation as well as extracting raw energon materials such as phosphates, potash, and Tungsten by boiling.  This booze was made with crystal fruit selected for its tartness to replicate the Earthian grapefruit.  Has a nice taste, very smooth, and goes down easy! In Ratchet’s case- a little too easy!  Did Ratchet like it?  Taste- very good.  However, he shouldn’t have been given a six pack… but seeing as he drank it all: he did like it!

 Curry: Here is a spicey dish that has coal meat, energon veggies, as well as one’s desired minerals and ores.  The dish provides a sweet and savory spiced taste and has a rather ‘earthian’ taste due to the use of powdered gemstones and silica.  This dish has chunks of vanadium, uranium, and barium to bring in different flavors as well as color.  This almost stew-looking dish is served with energon rice and freshly baked flat lithium bread, sprinkled with decorative- and tasty iron seeds.  Almost forgot one of the ingredients: spice.  The heat is achieved by grinding up cinnabar, halite, copper, and niobium as well as ground leaves of various cyber plants-all of which are known to give a dish a good kick.  Did Ratchet like it:  yes and no. While he loved the food- he is such a baby when it comes to spice!  He shoulda ordered the extremely mild spice level!  I guess this could be the cause of chugging that energon beer so quick- in hopes to douse the fire in his mouth!

Lava cake:  Here is a real treat for anyone who has a sweet tooth. Who could resist the fresh, warm and moist cake with a sweet, gooey filling?  This chocolate souffle is rich with the flavoring of cobalt while the drippy insides are melted, sweetened feldspar.  This dessert on its own is a delicacy, however, being topped with a scoop of ice-cream energon is an added delight.  The frozen dessert is made by whisking energon cream with liquid nitrogen and stirred, resulting in a smooth and tasty snack.  But this cold snack will quickly melt on top of that warm lava cake!  Did Ratchet like it?  He loved it! His only complaint was there wasn’t more of it!

 Energon Pizza: This pie isn’t the sweet dessert one but tastes great none-the-less.  The crust is a lithium based mixture and rolled out, slathered in an a thick energon based sauce, then slathered with melted glycerol and petroleum-like cheese. The toppings can range from a wide assortment- and Ratchet likes his loaded.  Chunks of peat and sliced thin coal sausage litter this pizza.  The sweet taste of iron slices and barite bits are a complementary touch.  You just have to be careful that all the toppings don’t fall off as you try to take a slice with how stringy that melted petroleum and glycerol is! One slice of this meal is simply not enough!  Did Ratchet like it?  Yes- the greasy slices of energon pizza went great with that adult beverage.

 Well, I don’t know about you guys- but looks like there is still room in our dear medic’s tummy for some more foods.  What meals would fill up that belly nicely?  Got an idea?  Let’s feed it to the Doctor! Let’s get cooking!

*If you suggested a dish and haven’t seen it- there’s still more coming. I am getting some very interesting foods- some can be more challenging to draw- so I try to pair up some harder dishes with some easier ones.  There’s several more rounds to go- and keep the selections coming!

((reblogs appreciated))

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[wjbsart]

A complete, very long list of all GBoard-combinable emojis because I can't find one anywhere.

Ok so for those who haven't seen my stuff (or have only seen my Bionicle posts), I sometimes emoji mashup redraws, with the recent fourth one using GBoard-based fusions. Frustratingly, there's no actual list of fusion-compatible emojis, so I'll attempt to compile them, in a list below the "Read More" thing:

Green/▢ = compatible with fusion Blue/△ = only works with certain emojis Red/◯ = not compatible with fusion

Also, since other people's terms for specific emojis might not match up with mine, I recommend using CTRL+F and then doing this to find the specific emoji you're looking for. This list is in the order presented in GBoard's Emoji menu. Some of them will be generic unicode symbols, I don't know how to change that, sorry for the inconvenience. Also, I won't aknowledge multi-category Emoji.

Smileys and Emoticons

😀Open-mouthed smile▢

😃Wide-eyed smile▢

😄Closed-eyed smile▢

😁Closed-eyed grin▢

😆Laughing▢

😅Sweating smile▢

😂Cry-laughing▢

🤣Cry-ROFLing▢

😭Crying▢

😗Kissing▢

😙Kissing, closed eyes▢

😚Kissing, blushing▢

😘Kissing, winking w/ heart▢

🥰Surrounded by hearts▢

😍Heart-eyes▢

🤩Star-eyes▢

🥳Noisemaker and party-hat▢

🤗Hugging▢

🙃Upside-down▢

🙂Smile▢

☺Blushing, smiling▢

😊Blushing▢

😏Looking off to the side▢

😌Relieved▢

😉Winking▢

🤭Hand over mouth▢

😶Nightmare fuel Mouthless▢

😐Neutral▢

😑-_-▢

😔Pensive▢

😋Licking lips▢

😛Tongue out▢

😝Tongue out, eyes closed▢

😜Tongue out, winking▢

🤪Tongue out, wide-eyed▢

🤔Hmmm▢

🤨Suspicious▢

🧐Monocle▢

🙄Rolling eyes▢

😒Unamused▢

😤Snorting▢

😠Angry▢

😡Angry, red▢

🤬Swearing▢

☹Frown▢

🙁Frown but less▢

😕Confused▢

😟Distraught▢

🥺Pleading▢

😳AWOOGA Flushed▢

😬Yikes▢

🤐Zip▢

🤫Shushing▢

😰Distraught, sweating▢

😧Distraught, shocked▢

😦Distraught, neutral▢

😮Open mouth▢

😯Open mouth, surprised▢

😲Shocked▢

😱Horrified▢

🤯Your head asplode Mind blown▢

😢Crying, single tear▢

😥Crying, less sad▢

😓Sweating▢

😞Dissapointed▢

😖Pained▢

😣Persevering▢

😩Weary▢

😫Tired▢

🤤Drooling▢

😴Sleeping▢

😪Sleeping but different?▢

🌛Left-facing moon▢

🌜Right-facing moon▢

🌚New moon face◯

🌝Full moon face◯

🌞The sun▢

🤢Queasy▢

🤮Vomiting▢

🤧Sneezing▢

🤒Unwell▢

🤕Bandaged▢

🥴Drunk▢

😵Dizzy▢

🥵Hot▢

🥶Cold▢

😷Masked up▢

😇Angel▢

🤠yee haw▢

🤑Money-tongue▢

😎Cool▢

🤓Nerd▢

🤥Lying▢

🤡Clown▢

👻Ghost▢

💩Poop▢

👽Ayy lmao Alien▢

🤖Robot▢

🎃Jack-o-Lantern▢

😈Demon 1▢

👿Demon 2▢

👹Oni◯

👺Tengu◯

☠Skull and crossbones▢

🔥Fire▢

💫Star with trail▢

⭐Star▢

🌟Star with bits▢

✨Stars▢

⚡Lightning◯

💥Explosion◯

💯100△

💢Anime anger symbol◯

💨Steam▢

💦Sweat Droplets▢

💤Zzz▢

🕳Hole▢

🎉Party popper▢

🎊Confetti ball▢

😺😸😹😻😼😽🙀😿😾Literally all the "cat in different emotions" emojis▢

❤🧡💛💚💙💜🖤Literally all the coloured hearts△

♥Heart suit▢

💘Heart with arrow▢

💝Heart with ribbon▢

💖Shiny heart▢

💗Growing heart▢

💓Beating heart▢

💞Swirling hearts▢

💕Two hearts▢

💌Love letter▢

💟Heart in square▢

❣Heart exclamation mark▢

💔Broken heart▢

💋Kiss▢

👥Two silhouettes◯

👤Silhouette◯

🗣Talking silhouette◯

👣Footprints◯

🧠Brain◯

🦠Microbe▢

🦷Tooth◯

🦴Bone◯

💀Skull▢

👀Eyes◯

👁Eye▢

👄Lips◯

👅Tongue◯

👃👂🦶🦵💪👍👎👏🙌👐Every other body part and hand gesture, seriously this isn't even all of them◯

People

Seriously, I don't know why none of the people-category emojis are Fusion-compatible. Let's just move on.◯

Animals and Nature

💐Bunch of flowers▢

🌹Rose▢

🥀Wilted rose◯

🌷Tulip▢

🌺Hibiscus flower◯

🌸Cherry blossom▢

🏵Rosette◯

🌻Sunflower◯

🌼Daisy▢

💮White flower◯

🍂Falling leaves◯

🍁Maple leaf◯

🌾Rice plants◯

🌱Seedling◯

🌿Herb◯

🍃Falling leaves again◯

☘3-leaf clover◯

🍀4-leaf clover◯

🌵Cactus▢

🌴Palm tree◯

🌳Deciduous tree◯

🌲Coniferous tree▢

🏞National park◯

⛰Mountain◯

🌊Wave◯

🌬Wind◯

🌀Tornado symbol◯

🌁Foggy scene◯

🌫Fog▢

🌪Tornado▢

☃Snowman (with snow)▢

⛄Snowman (without snow)▢

❄Snowflake

🏔Mountain with snow◯

🌡Thermometer◯

🌋Volcano◯

🏜Desert◯

🏝Desert island◯

🏖Beach◯

🌅Sunrise/set (water)◯

🌄Sunrise/set (mountains)◯

☀Sun▢

🌤Sun with cloud◯

⛅Sun and cloud◯

🌥Cloud with sun◯

🌦Sun and cloud with rain◯

☁Cloud▢

🌨Snowcloud◯

⛈Stormcloud◯

🌩Thundercloud◯

🌧Raincloud◯

💧Drop◯

☔Umbrella with rain◯

🌈Rainbow▢

✨Sparkles▢

🌙Crescent Moon◯

☄Comet◯

🌠Shooting star▢

🌌Milky Way◯

🌉Bridge◯

🌆City in the evening▢

🌃City at night▢

🌍🌏🌎Earth▢

🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘The moon◯

🙈🙉🙊🐵Monkeys, wise or not▢

🦁Lion face▢

🐯Tiger face◯

🐱Cat face▢

🐶Dog face◯

🐺Wolf face◯

🐻Bear face▢

🐨Koala face▢

🐼Panda face▢

🐹Hamster face◯

🐭Mouse face◯

🐰Rabbit face▢

🦊Fox face◯

🦝Raccoon face◯

🐮Cow face◯

🐷Pig face▢

🐽Pig nose▢

🐗Boar head◯

🦓Zebra head◯

🦄Unicorn head▢

🐴Horse head◯

🐸Frog face◯

🐲Dragon head◯

🦎Lizard◯

🐉Dragon◯

🦖T-Rex◯

🦕Diplodocus◯

🐢Turtle▢

🐊Crocodile◯

🐍Snake◯

🐁Mouse▢

🐀Rat◯

🐇Rabbit▢

🐈Cat▢

🐩Poodle◯

🐕Dog◯

🐅Tiger◯

🐆Leopard◯

🐎Horse◯

🐖Pig▢

🐄Cow◯

🐂Bull◯

🐃Water buffalo◯

🐏Ram◯

🐑Sheep◯

🐐Goat▢

🦌Deer▢

🦙Llama▢

🦘Kangaroo◯

🐘Elephant◯

🦏Rhinoceros◯

🦛Hippopotamus◯

🦒Giraffe◯

🐒Monkey▢

🦍Gorilla◯

🐪🐫Camels◯

🐿Squirrel (why does the squirrel of all things have a Unicode symbol?)◯

🦡Badger◯

🦔Hedgehog▢

🦇Bat▢

🐓Cockerel/rooster◯

🐔Chicken◯

🐣🐥🐤Chicks◯

🐦Bird▢

🦉Owl▢

🦅Eagle◯

🦜Parrot◯

🕊Dove◯

🦢Swan◯

🦚Peacock◯

🦃Turkey◯

🦆Duck◯

🐧Penguin◯

🦈Shark◯

🐬Dolphin◯

🐋🐳Whales◯

🐟Fish▢

🐠Tropical fish◯

🐡Pufferfish◯

🦐Prawn◯

🦞Lobster◯

🦀Crab◯

🦑Squid◯

🐙Octopus▢

🦂Scorpion▢

🕷Spider▢

🕸Spiderweb◯

🐚Shell◯

🐌Snail▢

🐜Ant◯

🦗Grasshopper◯

🦟Mosquito◯

🐝Bee▢

🐞Ladybird◯

🦋Butterfly◯

🐛"Bug" yeah sure ok◯

🐾Pawprints◯

Food and Drink

🍓Strawberry▢

🍒Cherry◯

🍎Red apple◯

🍉Watermelon◯

🍑Peach◯

🍊Orange◯

🥭Mango◯

🍍Pineapple▢

🍌Banana◯

🍋Lemon▢

🍈Melon◯

🍏Green apple◯

🍐Pear◯

🥝Kiwi◯

🍇Grapes◯

🥥Coconut◯

🍅Tomato◯

🌶Chili▢

🍄Mushroom◯

🥕Carrot◯

🍠Sweet potato◯

🌽Corn◯

🥦Broccoli◯

🥒Cucumber◯

🥬Lettuce◯

🥑Avocado▢

🍆Aubergine◯

🥔Potato◯

🌰Nut◯

🥜Peanuts◯

🍞Bread▢

🥐Croissant◯

🥖Baguette▢

🥯Bagel◯

🥞Pancakes◯

🍳Frying pan◯

🥚Egg (somehow)◯

🧀Cheese▢

🥓Bacon◯

🥩Meat◯

🍗Chicken leg◯

🍖Anime meat◯

🍔Burger◯

🌭Hotdog▢

🥪Sandwich◯

🥨Pretzel◯

🍟Chips◯

🍕Pizza◯

🌮Taco◯

🌯Wrap◯

🥙Stuffed flatbread◯

🥘Paella◯

🍝Spaghetti◯

🥫Can◯

🥣Bowl◯

🥗Salad◯

🍲Pot of food◯

🍛Curry◯

🍜Noodles◯

🍣Sushi◯

🍤Fried prawn◯

🥡Takeaway container◯

🍚Cooked rice◯

🍱Bento◯

🥟Dumpling◯

🍢Oden◯

🍙Jelly Donut Rice ball◯

🍘Rice cracker◯

🍥Fishcake◯

🍡Dango◯

🥠Fortune cookie◯

🥮Moon cake◯

🍧Shave ice◯

🍨Ice cream◯

🍦See above◯

🥧Pie◯

🍰Cake slice◯

🍮Custard mate what kinda custard have you been eating, this is clearly a créme caramel◯

🎂Birthday cake▢

🧁Cupcake▢

🍭Lollipop◯

🍬Boiled sweet◯

🍫Chocolate◯

🍩Donut◯

🍪Cookie◯

🍯Honey◯

🧂Salt◯

🍿Popcorn◯

🥤Soft drink◯

🥛Milk◯

🍼Baby bottle◯

🍵Green tea◯

☕Coffee▢

🍺Beer◯

🍻Beers, plural◯

🥂Champagne glasses◯

🍾Champagne◯

🍷Red red wine◯

🥃Whiskey◯

🍸Martini◯

🍹Cocktail◯

🍶Sake◯

🥢Chopsticks◯

🍴Knife and fork▢

🥄Spoon◯

🔪Kitchen knife◯

🍽Plate▢

Travel and Places

🛑🎡Everything from the stop sign to Ferris wheel◯

🎠Merry-go-round horse▢

🎪🏕Everything from circus tent to campsite◯

🌇City at sunset yes I'm surprised as you are▢

🛤Train tracks◯

🛣Road◯

🗺Map◯

🗾Japan is an island by the sea filled with volcanoes and it's beautifuul!◯

🌐Globe with meridian lines▢

💺Plane seat◯

🧳Luggage◯

Activities and Events

🎈Balloon▢

🎀Bow◯

🎁Present◯

🎇Sparkler◯

🎆Fireworks◯

🧨Dynamite Firecracker◯

🧧Red envelope◯

🎐Wind chime◯

🎏Fish streamers◯

🎎Japanese dolls (that's what the emoji's called, don't @ me with the actual name for them)◯

🎑Moon viewing ceremony◯

🎍Pine decoration◯

🎋Tanabata◯

🎄Christmas tree▢

🎗Ribbon△

🥇🥈🥉🏅🎖Medals◯

🏆Trophy◯

📣Megaphone◯

🥅Goal◯

⚽⚾🥎🏀🏐🏈🏉🎾🏸🥍🏏🏑🏒SPORTS◯

🥌Curling stone◯

🛷Rosebud Sled◯

🎿Ski◯

⛸Skate◯

⛳Golf-hole◯

🎯Target◯

🏹Bow◯

🥏Frisbee◯

🎣Fishing rod▢

🎽Running shirt◯

🥋Martial arts uniform◯

🥊Boxing glove◯

🎱8-ball◯

🏓Ping-pong◯

🎳Bowling◯

♟Chess◯

🧩Puzzle piece◯

🎮Controller◯

🕹Joystick◯

👾Videogame alien◯

🔫Gun◯

🎲Dice◯

🎰Slot machine◯

🎴Flower playing card◯

🀄Mahjong tile◯

🃏Joker◯

🎩Top hat◯

📷📸Camera◯

🖼Painting◯

🖌Paintbrush◯

🖍Crayon◯

🧵String◯

🧶Wool◯

🎼🎵🎶Music▢

🎷🎺🎸🎻🥁Instruments◯

🎤Mic◯

🎧Headphones▢

🎚🎛🎙📻Assorted audio stuff◯

📺TV◯

📼VHS◯

📹Camcorder◯

📽Projector◯

🎥Film camera◯

🎞Film◯

🎬Clapperboard◯

🎭Comedy and tragedy masks◯

🎫🎟Tickets◯

Objects

📱🧻Everything from smartphone to toilet roll◯

🧸Teddy bear▢

🧷🧢Everything from safety pin to baseball cap◯

👑Crown▢

🎒💍Everything from backpack to ring◯

💎Diamond▢

💄👓Everything from lipstick to glasses◯

🕶Sunglasses▢

🥽📁Everything from goggles to folder◯

🕶Newspaper▢

🗞🔎Everything from rolled-up newspaper to right-pointing magnifying glass◯

🔮Crystal ball▢

🧿🔓Everything from Nazar amulet to open lock◯

Symbols

There are no compatible non-repeated Emoji here.◯

Flags

Aaaaand none here either.◯

Feel free to let me know if I got anything wrong.

[fanartsarahtregay]

The Boys in Quarentine

Jamie on his own:

He probably wouldn't do well

He's a people person and isn't used to not seeing and talking to people every day

To fill the quiet, he plays music at all times- from his phone, laptop, on Spotify, iTunes, you name it

He also send Mason sooo many texts and he calls him a lot as well

That, or they Facetime for the entire day

No, that's not an exaggeration

If he were going for his graduate degree, he'd hate having online Zoom classes and there'd be a 50/50 chance he'd either get distracted by things in the room around him or get so absorbed in the class that it would be over in a second

If he got a job as a graphic designer, he'd adapt to working from home fairly quickly

With all his free-trapped-at-home time, he experiments with different art mediums to see what else he likes, what other techniques could help him achieve what he wants for projects, etc

The only problem

He sometimes gets hyper-focused on the new projects and will spend hours on it, completely forgetting about everything else

Yes, even food

Mason has learned the signs of days like this and is the only one who's able to snap Jamie out of it

It takes two phone calls going to voicemail before Jamie even hears it, and he answers on the third

When Mason doesn't get a text from Jamie in over 3 hours, he knows he's focused on his art, and he calls to make sure Jamie stops for water and food

Sometimes these calls take place at 11 or 12 at night when Jamie last ate at 1 or 2

With those calls, Mason's sad and worried expression always has Jamie stopping to eat, no matter how invested he was on the project

Overall, Jamie misses Mason like crazy and always says he can't wait to see him in person again

As soon as they're back together, Jamie bear hugs Mason and doesn't let go for at least five minutes

Mason on his own:

He would be fine

He's not big on interacting with people face to face, so being home all the time wouldn't affect him as much as it would Jamie

What gets to him most is not being able to go outside where he can walk around in the sun and fresh air

Unless he has a balcony, in which case he would spend most of his time on it

If he were in school for his graduate degree, he'd occupy himself with schoolwork and personal reading

His carefully organized layout slowly spreads to take up more and more of his apartment until work can be found in every single room

If he wasn't in school, the job he has wouldn't be able to be done at home, leaving him with hours of nothing to do for once in his life

Jamie's non-stop texts do help him fill his uneventful days

The biggest difference between before and after quarantine is his books

His shelves would fill quickly as he orders in new books to read

It's when he gets into the book he's reading that time passes quickly, and it's usually on those days that Jamie doesn't eat without Mason's attention to keep him tethered

Mason also orders puzzles online for him to stimulate his brain to keep himself from turning into a couch potato, but also because he likes the challenge

While he doesn't become a couch potato, Mason does beat every game he has, maxing out his high scores to unreasonable heights

With his time not sitting for games or reading, he tries to stay as active as possible

He can't go to the gym when it's closed, so he sets up a workout station in his living room

It has a lot of natural light from the windows and he likes the breeze when they're open

One thing he likes about working out from home is being close to his kitchen, where he can make smoothies and protein shakes

He also cooks more and starts baking

With every dish, he sends a picture to Jamie to comment on, most of which are drooling emojis and 'I WANT' texts

Not to brag, but he becomes a pretty good chef and once he and Jamie can hang out again, Jamie has him cook for him most days

The boys together:

Non. Stop. Cuddling.

Jamie's constantly draping himself over Mason, wallowing about not being allowed outside while Mason hugs him and kisses his cheeks

Jamie works on his art projects- either on his own or for his job- and shows them all to Mason for his appreciation and validation

Other mini projects that he does just 'for fun' he gives to Mason

Those conversations are usually just Jamie saying, "Here, I made this. It's yours now."

Jamie also talks Mason's ear off when they're in the same room

He can't help it

With no one else to see or talk to, Mason receives the brunt of Jamie's thoughts and ideas

That's okay because Jamie also gets talked at by Mason

Also because they love each other and love listening to the other talk about anything

They've gotten into the habit of stopping any and everything as soon as the other says, "Kiss?"

From there it ranges from quick kisses to full on make-out sessions

They rarely fight, but when they do, it's about something petty and small and they've made up before an hour is up

Usually it's about what to get from the designated weekly grocery runs

They take turns leaving the apartment and typically have a different set of lists

Jamie likes more snacks and treats to have throughout the day and wants cookies, cakes, ice cream, etc from the store while Mason insists they need full, flavoured meals like enchiladas and lasagne

They always compromise and get the other what he wants even after saying he won't

The way Jamie perks up when Mason pulls a box of Drumsticks from the grocery bag makes up for the argument they had before he left

And even though Jamie doesn't understand why Mason likes making different types of bread- a process he considers to be too long and boring- he still loves watching the little, satisfied smile Mason gets whenever he pulls his newest creation from the oven

[nerdzzone]

Light After Dark: Chapter Four

Summary: Brooke Harris was trying her best to be grateful. As the world tackled the COVID-19 pandemic, she was healthy and safe and so was the rest of her family, but her dreams had very quickly been crushed by the economic fallout. Trapped on the quaint island of Jersey with nothing, but free time to wallow in her mistakes, Brooke’s mental health was taking a hit, but when she collides with a handsome stranger she starts to realize that the future might not be so bleak and there might still be a light at the end of the tunnel.

Pairing: Henry Cavill x OFC

______________

Once the ice was broken, the floodgates opened. Despite the fact that neither of us had much going on in our lives of quarantine, we spoke almost every day. Sometimes on the phone, but mostly by text. It felt so natural with him. I wasn't sitting around for hours trying to compose the perfect message, I didn't stress about whether or not a certain text was worth sending. He put me at ease and it was making the whole lockdown experience much more interesting.

April. 20. 2020

Me: I've started watching your show

Henry: And what do you think?

Me: I'm only about three minutes in. Is it going to scare me? That was a very intense start...

Henry: It has some unsettling moments, but I wouldn't say it's scary

Me: If it gives me nightmare then you better be prepared to talk to me in the middle of the night when I'm afraid

Henry: Ha ha I promise I will, but it's not that bad. There's some gore, but not much that will haunt your dreams

Me: Alright, I'll keep going then

Henry replied with a thumbs up emoji and I returned my attention back to the show, but I was messaging him again before much longer.

Me: You look so different with that hair

Henry: Different in a good way?

Me: Well it's not a bad look, the whole rugged thing is quite sexy

Henry: I'm glad you like it 😉

Me: Not a huge fan of those eyes though

Henry: The contacts were awful to wear, but it did make it easy to get into the role with how different I looked by the time I was done hair and make-up

Me: I can imagine. Were those pants as uncomfortably tight as they look?

Henry: Well...We did go through several pairs...because they kept ripping...

Me:

Me: Careful Henry, I'm trying really hard to rein in my thoughts before I start objectifying you...

Henry: 😂

Henry: I won't tell anyone if you do 😉

Me: Stop distracting me, I'm trying to watch a very serious show

Henry: Alright, but just wait until you get to episode five

Me: Why?

...

Me: Henry? Why?

...

Me: What happens in episode five?!

****

April. 25.2020

Henry: My mother would like to know if you do savoury baking as well as sweet

Me: You told your mother about me? How cute

Henry: I wanted to get ahead of any rumours of assault that may have come out after our first meeting

Me: Are you sure you weren't gushing about the amazing woman who knocked you off your feet?

Henry: I believe it was me who knocked you off your feet

Me: Physically, yes. But emotionally, it was definitely the other way around

Henry: And what makes you think that?

Me: Whisking me up into those big strong arms trying to impress me, wanting to check over my ankle as an excuse to get your hands on me. Clearly, you were enamoured

Henry: Ah, yes, you've caught me. When I meet a woman I'm attracted to, the first thing I want to do is touch her ankles

Me: Back in the Victorian times that was quite a treat

Henry: Men tend to aspire to a bit more than that these days 😉

Henry: But I will admit you captured my attention as soon as you stopped hyperventilating

Me: Not my best first impression...Perhaps you should raise your standards

Henry: Well, it's quite flattering when a woman literally forgets how to breathe at the sight of you

Me: Ha ha very funny 🙄

Henry: Are you ever going to answer my question?

Me: Yes, I do savoury baking as well from time to time

Me: I actually made calzones tonight

Me:

Henry: I like your dinosaur apron

Me: Ha I forgot I was wearing that

Me: It would seem the best gift for a baker is novelty aprons, I have a whole variety of them

Henry: Very cute. You and the aprons 😉

Me: Awe, shucks. You're sweet. Anyway, why did your mum want to know about what I bake?

Henry: She was trying to make focaccia bread and had some difficulties

Me: I told you bread was hard

Me: Best tip for focaccia is to not over handle it. Don't knead it too much because you want to keep the air in. Letting it rise in the pan you're going to bake it in helps so you don't have to move it

Henry: Great, I'll pass that on. Thank you

Me: You're welcome. I'm here for all your baking kneads 😂

Henry: Very funny 🙄

****

April. 30. 2020

Me: I finished your show

Henry: And what did you think?

Me: Let's just say I'll be sneaking into your house to steal that script

Henry: 😂

Henry: I'll make sure I hide it somewhere safe then

Henry: But I'm glad you liked it!

Me: I did! Honestly, I don't watch or read much fantasy stuff, but it was really intriguing

Me: And I did enjoy episode five 😉

Henry: I thought you might 😉

Henry: I had to dehydrate for three days to look like that

Me: ...what? are you serious?

Henry: Yes, it makes your skin super thin so it just sits on your muscles and they look extra toned

Me: Okay, I don't like it now! That sounds super dangerous

Henry: Ha ha well, it's not absolutely no water for the whole three days, you taper it off

Henry: But it does get quite miserable by the time you're ready to shoot on the fourth day. You can practically smell any water nearby 😂

Me: 😒

Me: I still don't like that

Me: I've seen you in person and I very much doubt that those muscles don't look sufficiently massive on camera without silly tricks like that

Henry: It was a small price to pay for such an iconic scene

Henry: It's right out of the video game. I should have had my feet up on the front, but the bath was the wrong shape and that would have gotten a bit too graphic for our rating

Me: Ha! Not a fan of full-frontal?

Henry: I'll admit I've come quite close, but no, no full-frontal

Me: When did you come quite close?

Henry: During the Tudors there were quite a few racy scenes

Me: Hm, which episodes exactly?

Henry: Ha ha you'll have to figure that out for yourself I'm afraid

Me: Darn, well it was worth a try 😉

Henry: It would hardly be fair for you to see that much of me without returning the favour

Me: There might be a few videos floating around the internet that you could track down

Me: Kidding, by the way. Just realized that we probably don't know each other well enough for you to know I'm not that kind of girl

Henry: Would it be wrong if I was a little disappointed?

Me: Yes, don't be a dirty old man

Henry: Old?!

Me: I did some research, you're going to be 37 in five days 😲

Henry: That's hardly old and, not to be rude, but you can't be too far behind

Me: Never try to guess a woman's age, Mr. Cavill, it gets you into trouble

Henry: I said I wasn't trying to be rude!

Me: I'm 30, I'll be 31 in August

Me: Practically a baby still compared to you

Henry: You keep telling yourself that

Me: Careful what you say or you won't get the amazing birthday cake I have planned for you

Henry: Sorry, sorry, I'm old and you are far more youthful

Me: 😚