#just dinner

[isacksteban]

i wonder what he's thinking about (probably dinner)

[honey-tongued-devil]

Rain ghoul design

A quick design of Rain with the muzzle, because I have a lot of little worms in my rotten brain, and muzzled ghouls cure my depression, take care of my dog when I'm not at home, and pay my taxes. So, I've decided that you all need them. I know each drawing has a different style, and I'm really trying to figure out which style to use, which is comfortable, and which I prefer.

[polinka22malinka]

The best hot-dogs in the city👌☺️

[mariamuses]

You know you're spanish when you come back home from dinner at 2:45am

[lajulie24]

Surprise

Happy HanLeia Appreciation Week! For day 1′s prompt (Hope), I chose to write the continuation of my recent ficlet Just Dinner, in which Leia learns some surprising news during a Han/Leia and Luke/Wedge double date.

In the restaurant, she’d been calm, witty, taking charge of the situation and making sure that all the effort she and Han had put into finally getting Luke and Wedge to talk to each other about their relationship had not been in vain. She’d smoothly paid the bill, bid the two blushing lovebirds goodbye, and traded flirtatious references with Han about “dessert.”

Now, at Han’s side in the speeder on their way home, Leia was quietly freaking out at what her brother—kriffing hells, Luke knew before I did!—had accidentally revealed to her during dinner.

I’m right, aren’t I? You were going to tell us about the baby.

There was a baby. Well, if she wanted there to be one, there was.

Oh Goddess, there’s a baby. There’s a baby. It didn’t feel real, even though her mind insisted on playing it on repeat: a baby a baby a baby a baby. Our baby. And each time her mind played it back, she felt an echo of sorts in the Force confirming it.

It’s not that they hadn’t talked about it. They had, at length. And they’d decided, yes, let’s do that, if we can. But they hadn’t been trying to make it happen just yet.

I guess some would say that being cavalier with one’s birth control counts as trying.

Then again, they’d also talked about what to do if it didn’t happen for them, if the effects of carbon freezing and Imperial torture drugs had rendered one or both of them infertile. Like everything else, Leia had expected it to be difficult. Not to just…happen.

“You’re awful quiet, Princess,” Han said, and Leia realized she hadn’t said much of anything since leaving the restaurant. “Everything okay?”

She smiled at him. “Fine. I’m—“ she’d almost said we—“just fine. Just…thinking about something.”

A worried thought flashed across her mind. Are we fine? Is it—they—she—he—okay?

She reached out with the Force, for the first time calling to what couldn’t be more than a little clump of cells at this point in time. A little flicker answered back.

Hello, baby.

“Hey, no fair distracting Luke just to get the inside scoop,” Han said. She must have had what Han liked to refer to as “Force face” just now.

“I was just thinking about—dessert,” she said.

“Oh yeah?” Han asked. “Got something in mind?”

She smiled. “Prepare to be surprised.”

That banter in the speeder was all well and good, and Leia certainly had the surprise part covered, but she had no idea how she was actually going to do this little reveal. 

Maybe the direct approach was best.

I’m pregnant, she mouthed to her reflection in the ‘fresher mirror.

Did she look pregnant at all? She looked down at her breasts, trying to figure out whether they looked bigger or not.

I hope you like this new lingerie, she thought, because I’m not going to fit into it for too much longer.

Sure. That’s it. She could just tell him during “dessert”: Don’t bother with that condom, Han, you’ve already knocked me up.

Of course, how was she going to respond when he asked her how she knew? Oh, guess what, my Jedi brother figured it out with the Force and told me at dinner. And his boyfriend might also have known before either of us did.

These were the times that Leia regretted the fact that all her closest friends were men. There was no emergency friend around to comm for advice about this sort of thing.

Do you really think I’m going to be much help with this? said a familiar voice in her head. “Surprise” and “pregnant” in the same sentence were not usually a good thing when we were hanging out.

Oh, Winter, I’ve missed you, Leia thought.

What do you need me for, anyway? You’re not really the unwrapping a tiny bootie to announce that you’re in trouble kind of woman.

In trouble?

Sorry, old habits die hard. Joyfully expecting, is that better? Just go fucking talk to him, already. He probably thinks you died in here.

No, he’d be breaking down the door if he actually thought that was a possibility.

Just go.

Winter had always given really good advice.

“Hey, Sweetheart,” Han greeted as Leia came out of the ‘fresher. He eyed the lingerie she was wearing with interest. “This is new.”

“Dessert,” Leia said, slipping into their familiar banter again.

Han looked at her for a long moment, and Leia realized that while he’d certainly admired the lingerie, that wasn’t what he was gazing at right now. That crooked grin on his face, that loving look, was for her.

For them. The little pulse inside her flickered, like they were waving hello.

There was nothing for Han to feel, not this early, but Leia pulled his hand down and put it to where her belly would be anyway. “We’re having a baby,” she said, matching his smile with her own. “Surprise.”

[lajulie24]

Gee, I wonder if anyone is curious about what happens after Just Dinner ends and Han and Leia go home for “dessert”?

When I said that sometime your own characters surprise you, that little reveal was the surprise. Was not expecting Luke to say that...until he did. And then I just had Leia react accordingly.

Never fear, friends, I’ll write a followup. Although I think it might involve Leia freaking out (because wouldn’t YOU?).

[trashyandtiredsol]

Job interview tomorrow let's gooooooooooo

[thirdspin]

The Most Wonderful Time...

My close coworker tested positive for covid, and I spent 45 minutes in a car with her the day before she got sick. So there’s my Christmas plans gone.