#this turned out wonky huhu

[melkyt]

I sometimes forget the dark urge is a shape shifter much like orin, but I had *a vision*.

(This is right after they find out Durge is a bhaalspawn. My durge is a tiefling)

So say Astarion is complaining about not being able to see himself. The entire party is chilling around the fire chatting.

Shadowheart gets a thoughtful look and mentions, "If you're a bhaalspawn, aren't you also shifter?"

Durge tenses, the camp falls silent. They spent a long time perfecting this look, and with how wonky their brain is, they have only changed shape once or twice when the itch got too much at being atatic. And even then, it was just in small ways that nobody but they would notice. They nod.

"Can you turn into one of us, soldier?" Karlach has that glow of excitement she gets when something new gets her attention.

Another nod. Halsin joins them with a quiet step.

Astarion leans in, his curiosity peaked. Durge only mentioned briefly that they are a bhaalspawn and that they will continue to resist so everyone they love is safe. The converstation ended at that. They would get nervous and squirmy anytime it was mentioned. The same can be said now. Their tail twitches back and forth. "I could. You won't like it. " They look at Astarion, who while hiding it well is the most interested.

"Aw, come on, let us see. Promise we won't judge. " Karlach nudges their tail with hers. "Unless you dont want to," she adds a little bit sheepish. "Nobody is forcing you, soldier."

Durge shakes their head "Thats not it, its well not for the faint of heart."

"We all saw Orin change, and we're fine." Shadowheart waves their concerns away.

"All right, who should I change into?" They dont need an answer, Astarion practically jumps to his feet at the idea.

"Astarion ofcourse, so he can shut ip about not seeing that oreatty little face of his" Karlach taps him on the shoulder with a chuckle.

Durge takes a swig from a bottle of booze, setting it back down on the ground, getting to their feet. "Stay back, I'm rusty and would rather not get goo on all of you." They stretch their entire body out. "Are you sure about this, Star?"

Astarion nods. "More then sure darling, always a pleasure to see your various talents." He grins.

Durge studies Astarion, not that they need to. They have spent countless nights memorizing every feature of the elf from every wrinkle, scar, and mark that makes the man beautiful in every way.

The power is slow to respond, far away. The more they resist the urge, the farther it gets, but with some concentration, they manage to reach for it. Their skin shimmers, taking on a sheen, their features becoming indisntict. There is a snap, and a wave washes over them as new features solidify. "Darling." They wave at Halsin in what they hope is a convincing enough *flirty Astarion gaze*

Everyone stares dumbfound at the transformation. After a moment Karlach laughs, a sound that is full fo joy. "Oh mah goodness, thats perfect!"

"I do not sound like that," Astarion scoffs. "Here, like this," he gestures, ready to teach the durge how to move the right way. "You have to exude sexiness if you look like me darling"

Karlach falls in laughter.

He approaches Halsin, who is trying to decide if he should be blushing or laughing. His face is red, so he is a bit of both. "This is, uuh..." He swallows as words fail him.

Durge smiles, some of the nervous energy they had about shifting in front of everyone dissipate.

(Later, when Astarion and Durge are alone, they have a heart to heart about it. Also, Halsin now has some energy to work off, huhu.)

[moonlightwinterdxxix]

Feeble attempt at a fake screenshot lmao

[smellycinnamonthundahfudge]

here we are, folks, mama's gonna write another one of these things so sit down and enjoy some post-hoco peter starts to fall for mj shits

sigh why do i even bother

Caught Stealing

Peter likes to think he's been doing pretty good at this whole superhero thing for quite a while now; saving people, giving directions, catching thieves. Things have been going pretty great.

But the one thief he didn't expect to show up on his radar was one that didn't even show up when he was in spidey-mode, oh no, this one showed up when he was regular ol' peter parker for crying out loud. Just one day at another one of these acadec meetings, Peter Parker saw MJ try to steal a glance at him while he was on a call with Happy, and his brain was left on buffer for the rest of the call, the meeting, and pretty much the entire week after.

"Hey, Ned, hav you ever seen MJ like... look at me?" Peter asks Ned in the cafeteria while MJ wasn't there yet (he's brave enough to go through flames with a broken leg to save Liz's supervillain dad but hell if he's brave enough to talk about a potential crush just mere feet near said crush).

"Yes," answered Ned without even looking, and just continued eating his tuna sandwich lunch.

"What!?" Peter exclaims slightly loudly making him take a look around him to see if anyone (MJ) might have noticed. To his relief, no one did what with all the conversations happening in the cafeteria and MJ still wasn't there. "When were you going to tell me?"

Ned swallows the bite he just took, "I thought you did know."

"Well, clearly I didn't. I've been pretty busy with ~something~ as you know."

"Pfftt yeah and you were also crushing pretty hard on Liz if I can also recall."

"Okay, okay fine whatever, we've already established I've been busy. I just- how long have you known? Or how long have you noticed it was going on?"

"You seriously haven't noticed?" Ned asks genuinely a bit shocked that Peter didn't know.

"Dude, I'm telling you I haven't-" Peter repeats for the nth time, frustrated he still doesn't know how long this has been going on. "How long?"

Ned lets out a chuckle of disbelief, "Pretty much since halfway through freshman year, bro. Wow, I can't believe you really haven't noticed. Some Peter-tingle you've got there."

Peter lets out a huff of frustration, "It doesn't work that way. And ugh can you please not call it the Peter-tingle? I already get enough of that from Aunt May."

Ned turns his hands up in defeat and just proceeds to continue eating his lunch again.

"I can't believe this, has it really been going on for that-"

"Hey, losers," MJ greets to their table, finally showing up to their usual spot.

"MJ!" Peter almost shouts from shock. Man, Ned might be right, his (ugh) Peter-tingle just wasn't working right now.

MJ snorts from Peter's reaction, "Yes, Peter, it is me, MJ, the girl who's been sitting next to you guys for the better part of a year now,' MJ mock explains. "You doing okay there, Pete?" MJ asks finally taking a seat.

"Yeah, yeah, just a bit jumpy, I guess..."

"Alright, whatever. What can't you believe has been going on for that long?"

"What?"

"When I got here, you were saying you can't believe it's been going on for that long. What has?"

Peter looks to Ned in a panic and he blurts out "Spiders!" in response, making Peter face palm himself on the table.

"Spiders?" MJ still asks, being what Ned said did nothing to explain anything.

"Yeah... Peter's had this really intense phobia of them ever since we went on that fieldtrip. He accidentally slipped in the bathroom this morning cause he saw a spider and he couldn't believe he still hasn't gotten over his phobia," Ned explains lies so casually, but by the end of it sighs and gives Peter a not really that subtle thumbs up.

Peter on the other hand is semi-frustrated over having to lie to MJ about TWO things in his life now and the fact that his best friend just made him seem like a scaredy cat that actually slips in the bathroom from seeing a spider. His frustration doesn't last though cause he's just waiting to see if MJ actually buys Ned's load of spider phobia bs.

"Oh, okay-" MJ thinks about how they were probably talking about spider-man things before she came but decides to just go along with their excuse and thinks about a possible cause of the phobia on the very highly unlikely (at least in her opinion) chance that Ned was actually telling the truth, remembering Peter's uncle dying just a few weeks after the fieldtrip and feeling bad for Pete so she offers up a solution or maybe just something to comfort him.

"You know, they say that to get rid of a phobia, exposure therapy works, so maybe it'll make you feel better to know that humans swallow up to like 10 spiders in an entire year," MJ jokes a bit awkwardly and pointedly that she just proceeded to eat her meal after finishing her sentence.

It makes Peter chuckle for a bit though so MJ releases that breath she didn't know she was holding and continues to avert her eyes to her meal and just continue eating.

"Wow, MJ yeah sure, nothing'll make me feel better like knowing there's probably like hundreds of tiny spiders inside me right now," Peter remarks sarcastically making MJ laugh as he fake shivers.

"Glad I could help," MJ winks and then averts her eyes again to get her book so she could read while eating, signalling she was ready for this convo to end (she wasn't going to be able to talk after what she can't believe she just did).

And Peter's kinda glad she does end it because holy sh- did, did MJ really just wink at him right now? Did that just happen?

Peter looks to Ned for confirmation who could only shrug in response being just as unsure about what to make of it as well.

Wondering what the hell just happened is the last thought circling inside Peter's brain while Ned just changes the subject to something else that didn't even register to Peter.

MJ may actually ACTUALLY like him, and Peter doesn't have a single clue what to do about it.

Nothing as it turns out, cause as the rest of the week passes without fanfare, it seems like Peter's finally regaining his sanity again as he thinks that maybe MJ looking at him was just MJ being MJ and he goes back to thinking of MJ as his friend and not the smart funny pretty girl who might have a crush on him, which she doesn't.

Until, yet again, Happy interrupts Peter at this week's acadec meeting and he steps outside to take the call.

"What, Happy? I told you I was busy during saturdays with acadec, what do you want?"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know I was talking to Mr. Bigshot here. You know, I started on Stark Industries as a dri-"

And with that, Peter just proceeded to wince and hit himself with his phone, knowing he just made this phone call twice as long as what it probably would have been. He starts to just block out what Happy is saying and takes a peek at what he's missing at acadec.

Flash is asleep at the sidelines, must have been that party Peter saw he was having posted and streamed all over social media, it was so annoying. Ned, Cindy, Sally, and Abe were all on a roll tossing out answers back to back, Eddie was blanking and swearing the answer was at the tip of his tongue, and MJ as usual, was running the drills.

Yet again, Peter was thinking about how wonky his brain must have been to actually think that MJ, don't give an f what anyone thinks acadec team cap MJ, actually liked him.

But it seemed Peter must have been staring for too long because MJ noticed and glanced at him too, making Peter panic and immediately avert his eyes to a different direction, any direction at that. God, why was he this awkward?

But god help Peter Parker who must just be an awkwardness masochist because he couldn't help but just sneak a peek once again, only to see MJ was still looking at him and he must have had some ridiculous shocked expression on his face because the slightest grin started to appear on MJ's face and she looked away with almost- was that- A BLUSH?? a blushing expression on her face??? did that? she just? whattttt????

But before Peter could even get himself together, MJ looked back at him again only to grin over the fact Peter was still looking at her and roll her eyes over how ridiculous this wordless convo they were having across the room was, that she just snickered and gave a silent hi and subtle wave hidden from their team mates just below the podium.

Peter found himself grinning like an idiot too and could only give one awestruck wave which made MJ snicker and avert her eyes back to their team mates with a barely noticable flush on her face and a blink and you'll miss it, moment where MJ had to think about what she was saying before she and Peter began this cutely wordless reparte across the room.

MJ had to think about what she was going to say. Cool, suave, witty retorts and comebacks MJ seemed to have a moment of speechlessness.

okay.

And so as Peter could only hear a faint "Peter? Peter, are you still listening to me?" from his phone, he knew that he was absolutely, one hundred percent without a single doubt in his mind, truly, and utterly, fucked.

Maybe MJ wasn't the only one who had a crush.

heeyy yooeesss i missed writing mah anxious boi's pov yallssss. i miss writing for them in general huhu. also im probs gonna write a bunch more of these how they fell for each other fics cus i think this version of em/phase of their relationship is pretty underrated hehe

plus i still cant get over ffh pj disapproval so fine i'll just write the middle man fics myself then. it's just so easy to see how pete could fall for mj, i just cant

toot toot and i hope yalls enjoyed dis folks. it's good to be back. rlly missed em, ya know?

[grateful-hopeful-dragonfly]

figures 🏃‍♀️

first time doing figure sketches, not really happy how most of the lines turn out wonky and proportions are off but will still continue to practice; motto in drawings and life in general, progress not perfection huhu a little bit hard to master when you were raised in a household that doesn't permit mistakes but don't really mind anymore; been afraid to make mistakes and used to apologize for everything but need to outgrow that bad habit, even if it's little by little, baby steps is the way ☺️