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[perfect-suau-rejuvinated]

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[susoftjockau]

Has Connie yet considered that Steven can literally carry her like a feather anywhere she wants and how unfairly attractive that is?

Connie was a very strong woman. Tennis was a sport that benefited from weightlifting, and her parents had happily sent her to every self-defense class she could find, and those two things combined had made her confident in her physical abilities. She never really had to use that strength, or the self-defense moves she had learned, but nowadays Connie was quite confident that she was a force to be reckoned with. She was all dense, powerful muscles with a head for strategy. Sure, she hadn’t been in a lot of fights, but she was sure she would be able to handle it. She’d pinned all those boys in her self-defense classes, after all.

Which was why Steven carrying her around like an unruly toddler left her in an utterly wild state of emotions. From what she had seen with the gems, carrying around anyone shorter than you was standard operating procedure, and post-growth spurt Steven apparently took that to heart. She remembered the first time it happened, when she was talking to Ophelia after practice. Steven had tapped her on the shoulder and said, “We’ve gotta get going. I’m not gonna have time to finish making dinner before the movie.”

She looked back at him with a giggle. “Then you go make dinner and give me a call when it’s ready. I’m having a very important conversation about how Oceandale is a trash show with terrible writing.”

She had absolutely not expected for Steven to pluck her up like a blanket and toss her over his shoulder. She didn’t even know how to react, just a small gasp and a hot face as Ophelia burst into giggled and waved. “Guess Steven says no! Later, Connie!”

It took a minute, and Steven was halfway across the stadium before she sighed. “You made your point, dork. Let me down.”

“Nah,” he said cheerfully. “It’s kinda chilly. You’re a good scarf.”

She laughed and squirmed a little, only to find that her squirming didn’t budge him. She frowned, pushing a little harder, then shoving with all the strength in her arms and legs. Any humans would have stumbled. Even a bodybuilder would have flinched as her muscles flexed and strained, but all that got from Steven was a little chuckle as he readjusted her on his shoulder. The little bounce made her squeak as she lost purchase and flopped back down. “Are you really trying or just playing?”

He hadn’t even noticed. That should have been embarrassing (and it was, a little) but, instead, her stomach twisted up, her heart racing a little from the thought. He really was strong, wasn’t he? She was just kind of stuck here, thrown over his shoulder. His really broad shoulders. He was so soft it wasn’t even uncomfy, but there was all that firm muscle underneath that she could feel as he walked. He could just hold her forever, take her wherever. He could walk off behind a building, maybe, and she would just sort of be carried along for the ride. And if he swung her around and kissed her, strong arms locking her in place as his mouth was all strong and hot and irresistible over-

Uh oh, not this again. She yelped and shoved at him again. Another chuckle. “Do you want down?”

She squawked with outrage, giving his back a hard thump with her fist, since he was apparently impossible to hurt. “Don’t say it like that! I’m an adult!”

He laughed, her free hand (he was only using one hand, that wasn’t fair!) coming up to cover his mouth. “Sorry. Do you want me to put you down? I can’t tell if you’re actually trying.”

“Of course I’m not,” she mumbled. Her pride was a little wounded, but worse was the fact that every word out of his mouth only made this stupid situation hotter. This was why they only ever did friendly cuddles. She wouldn’t get worked up from friendly cuddles. Well, she did get worked up from friendly cuddles sometimes, but being reminded that Steven was strong enough that even her impressive athleticism was like a kitten against a tiger was much worse.

He slid her down, arms wrapped around her waist her he brought them face to face. She pointed her toes and wiggled her feet a little, trying to find the ground, but Steven was still effortlessly holding her up. Stupid growth spurt. Stupid tall boy. Maybe it was problematic to prefer tall boys. Obviously, if it was problematic, she could and should stop enjoying looking up at him immediately. Mmm, she definitely was not getting all tingly from looking slightly up at him, without her feet touching the ground, and admiring that he was nearly twice as broad as her. Of course she wasn’t. Dammit.

“You were trying your best, weren’t you?” She tried to hold back the pout, but it was too late. He saw, and a grin burst across his face. 

She put her hand over his stupid face. Smug grins were also not attractive and did not put butterflies in her stomach. “Shut up, Steven.”

He shook off her hand with a giggle. “Connie, I can lift buildings.”

“I’m very strong,” Connie mumbled, looking away as her pout deepened. “I’ve pinned lots of boys before.”

He laughed harder. “You’re not lift buildings strong! Connie, I’m magic. Even for a gem I’m really, really strong. I can literally pin you with a foot without getting up from the couch.”

It was absolutely not fair that he could say something like that and she wasn’t allowed to yell at him for it. He was not allowed to put an image in her head of him showing off his super strength, sitting lazily on her couch while his foot rested on her chest, with no leverage at all, and kept her absolutely pinned. There were biological reasons to enjoy a strong partner. Even someone who wasn’t hopelessly in love (which she wasn’t) would find that kind of thing attractive. Her thoughts were starting to drift towards other things on could do while being pinned by a strong partner, and she grumbled, “Stop bragging already.”

“Aw, hey.” He kissed her forehead, setting her down. He was even taller from this point of view. Oh, for the love of all that was good, could her brain and body tone down the pining for a minute? Steven ruffled her hair gently. “While dinner’s cooking, we can wrestle, and I’ll let you pin me. Wanna try that?”

“No,” she muttered. It was absolutely not exciting in a similar yet different way to imagine pinning superboy Steven to the ground and feeling like she was wielding power over one of the strongest beings in the universe, no sir. Platonic friends absolutely did not get all tingly and giddy from head to toe at an idea like that. Outside her head, Steven simply raised an expectant eyebrow andshe was forced to confess, “Okay, yeah! Yes. I’m cranky you have superpowers and I want to prove I’m strong.”

“You are strong,” he said sweetly.

Her heart fluttered, and she buried that feeling deep with churlishness instead. Connie ordered, “Let me give you a piggyback ride too.”

It turned out that carrying Steven around only made him more likely to carry her. This was mostly fine, because Connie was not attracted to Steven, and if she told herself that enough maybe someday it would be true.

- @universallywriting

[linguinis-mansion]

Idk if this would be appropriate to ask since I'm new to your blog and you seem like you don't much care for people bugging you about Pikmin stuff these days, so feel 100% free to ignore this if you don't want to answer this question. Overall, what are your thoughts on Pikmin 3 being ported to the Switch, and it no longer being stuck to exclusively the WiiU? Thank you very much, hope your day and year are going well!

Hi there and welcome!! I still LOVE Pikmin and love talking abt it, but I used to get a lot of messages asking when I would draw more Pikmin art so that was kinda annoying lol.

I’m personally super excited about the port to Switch and can’t wait to play it with all its added content. Glad to see they’re bringing back the Piklopedia and we get to see more abt what Olimar and Louie were doing while they were down there. I love absolutely everything about the WiiU version and think it’s just going to look so nice on the Switch. Plus you can’t beat having a completely PORTABLE version of a PIKMIN GAME!! (Hey Pikmin was kinda fun?? But it’s just not the same lol)

I think the only thing I’m worried about is playing it with Switch controllers. I love the feel of the original and I always played with the Wiimote and nunchuck so I think that will be the biggest thing going from WiiU to Switch. I hope that they are able to keep the controls feeling natural in the ported version.

Overall I think it looks great and I’m happy we are getting some new Pikmin content even if it’s just a port of a previous game (which happens to be my favorite Pikmin game!) with a few new bells and whistles. I have been feeling under the weather physically these days, but I look forward to the game’s release and hope I’m up to playing it when it comes out!!! Thanks for asking!!

[monzterzack]

Happy Birthday! Your art always brings me joy, hope something you love brings YOU joy today! :D

Thank you so much!!

[dearbellsprout]

hmm... they both seem like good names. i agree with the reasoning behind milkey, though. what do you say, baby? shall we call you milkey?

[the baby’s fingers light up in a seemingly random pattern.]

oh! is that your way of communicating, baby? how wonderful! i shall have to study this non-verbal language further, but until we can understand each other i think we’ll just settle on milkey for now.

please try not to be so intrusive with your research, olimar. they’re still just a baby, after all.

@weekly-lucius-and-lucina / @recoveryshit

[drawingswatson-holmes]

soft bois nap request by @recoveryshit

And it’s blurry, please tap it.

[protagonist-art]

Camp Camp's Gwen w/ "5. Stubbed their toe!"

How the hell are you supposed to portray thAT amount of pain (she’s holding her toe btw)

[utopianparadoxist]

This may be a bit weird, but have you ever noticed any particularly noteworthy Limeblood and Jadeblood connections before? Excluding obvious cases like Kanaya and (technically) Karkat being close, Dolarosa and Sufferer, etc. I ask only because I myself am a Virgo and feel drawn to and associate strongly with the qualities of Jades, yet as long as I've known about them, and especially recently, I find myself very compelled by the nature, lore & qualities of Limebloods. Hope this all made sense.

Not other than the ones you mentioned! But I’m interested in seeing what relationships Limebloods have in the next Hiveswap acts, so this is def something to look out for.