#letnotbe

[smithgod]

she   ...    scares him.

hephaestus does not know any other word to describe it :   it is not terror,   per se,    this fear that he has of her.   and it is not one born from any horrifying sensation,   either.    but he is   -    scared of her.   or perhaps he is scared of what their marriage means,   and what it must entail.   for how much can a marriage truly work if it is one born out of a demand,   and not   ...    not out of something they both truly wanted ?

yet,   hephaestus think,    she holds a mighty power over him anyways.   just as much as his mother had   -    is   -    even though hephaestus knows,   logically,   if he wills it,   whatever connection he has with them could be broken just like that.   he is not   ...    so heartless,   though.   and he is,   despite his ugliness and slowness,   desperate for any form of affection.

for any form that   ...   anyone could truly want him.

but the smith god thinks not of that.   he merely glances at her,   and then back to his laps.   his burly hands rest there on his knees   -    a steady thing,   it curls into fists.   

❝    this marriage   ...   ❞    he starts,   slow.

❝    if you do not  ...   wish so.   we do not have to   -   acknowledge it.   ❞  

 * starter call   /  @letnotbe​ + aphrodite !

[monogramic-archive]

@letnotbe did not ask but is getting a starter anyway 

one could practically hear the crickets going through mj’s head as they stare at their alternate. “i-i’m sorry powers?” well THAT wasn’t very fair. “i don’t have any of those...unless you count my ability to wear skirts in below freezing weather.”

[betterdcyz]

@letnotbe​ sent in:  ❝ will you relax? that’s the whole point of a vacation. ❞ from amy, for eleven  ( accepting! )

      “——i am relaxing,  this is me,”  pacing up and down the beach,  around the blanket she laid on.  “relaxing.”   and obviously being impatient.  “have you got your tan yet?  how long does this even take?” 

[weavingroses-a]

@letnotbe​

“now I know I’m running late.” something that azure rarely did...well, these days anyway. when she’d first come to the mortal realm it had been quite an adjustment, time ran so slowly here compared to the faerie realm. but that wasn’t important - what was important was the lilac box and coffee cup she set down on the only, very little, table space available in ambrosia’s living room. fabrics and patterns beat out the furniture, though. “but I saw these -” nods to the lilac box, which had fluffy pastries shaped like various animals inside “and had to get them for us.”

[unheald-archived]

starter for @letnotbe

While the spider bite may have given him enhanced strength, it certainly hadn’t given him a resistance to PAIN… Nor had it shielded him from getting hurt. It wasn’t the first time he’d gotten himself hurt while busy being the friendly neighbourhood spiderman, and it probably wouldn’t be the last. He’d managed to get away afterwards to be by himself, take a breather, carefully sitting himself down, propped up against a wall. He also needed to take not of the injuries he’d sustained, and hope that there was nothing too SERIOUS.

First thing he did notice was the tear in his mask at his cheekbone, which revealed a gash that was bleeding. Though it seemed his time to check himself over was cut short, and he was glad that his mask was intact enough to cover his face despite the tear — the sound of footsteps alerted him to a familiar face approaching. Even if he felt close with MJ, she still DIDN’T KNOW about his alter-ego, or at least, he hadn’t told her, and he wasn’t planning to right now. Still, even this wasn’t the first time she’d encountered Spiderman. “ Hey! Uh… — You shouldn’t be out here on your own. ” It was getting dark after all, and he didn’t want to see her get hurt somehow again.

[at-kuipher]

starter  call.    ( still  accepting! )   @letnotbe.

“   now  that’s  a  face  i’m  always  happy  to  see.     rose  tyler,     it’s  been  too  long  since  i’ve  gotten  to  say  that.   ”

[ofvanderlyle]

― @ letnotbe liked for a random starter !

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          ❛ i know what that’s like, ❜     aloy says softly, looking over link’s face.     ❛ i know what it’s like to have to try and piece together the puzzle of your entire life, and to have do it all on your own. ❜

          she remembers all too well the struggles of finding every secret, every little detail hidden within the code of her own dna. she remembers how lonely it was having no one but herself to rely on.

          ❛ i don’t envy you. ❜

[timewarn]

@letnotbe​ asked :  “ i know you’re not telling me the truth.” (from flesh!amy)

      𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐋  ,     𝐒𝐎   𝐌𝐔𝐂𝐇   𝐅𝐎𝐑   𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓   𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐓 .           he’s   very   good    at   lying .    he’s   notoriously   hard   to   catch   out .     but   she   has   the   advantage   of   knowing   him  --   better   than   he   knows   himself  ,    in   fact  ,    as   is   the   gift   of   being   from   his   own   personal   future .      𝐁𝐔𝐓   𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒   𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓   𝐓𝐇𝐄   𝐖𝐀𝐘   𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄   𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐒  :     finding   endless   amounts   of    ways   to   unfairly   challenge   him .     he   errs .    he   hesitates   a   moment   because   in   those   short   few   seconds   he’s   utterly   lost   for   words   in   the   sense   that   he   knows   there’s   absolutely   no   way   to   save   this   and   that   he’ll   just   have   to   tell   her   the   truth .     𝐀𝐍𝐘   𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑   𝐋𝐈𝐄   𝐈𝐒   𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆   𝐓𝐎   𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄   𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄   𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 .     she’ll   see   right   through   it .            so   with   a   small   sigh   of   defeat  ,     and   a   distracted   hand   lifting   to   push   a   loose   curl   from   his   face  ,      he   gives   in .

            ❝     okay  ,     fine .       ❞       he   lowers   his   voice  ,    then  ,      𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄   𝐈𝐓'𝐒   𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄   𝐁𝐈𝐆   𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐓 .      it’s   not  ,    but   he   hates   admitting   to   things   like   this .     not  that   it’s   unfamiliar .     he’s   used   to   it   now .        ❝     thing   is  ---    i   don’t   actually   remember .     i   thought   making   something   up   might   help .      ❞