I‘ll publish what I have written for today‘s prompt later today, but in the meantime: have another picture of my Glimbow baby Arrow! This is actually kind of fitting because she is in today’s oneshot😁
@grinux is amazing and deserves so much attention, this is WONDERFUL, I love her so much, thank you thank you thank you 🥺
Here‘s all of my Glimbow kids for Glimbow week! (Check out @glimbow-week-2020 for more content!)
This is also for my 1k commission, @sailorglimmer wanted my Catradora kids to interact with my Glimbow kids, so here they are!
From left to right: Angie, Sagi, Leo, Arrow and baby Finn! And no matter what you headcanon as Finn‘s agab/if you think they were raised as nonbinary from birth, they‘re allowed to wear pink! If Bow can wear pink so can baby Finn! Adora went nuts over the bunny socks and nobody could stop her from buying the outfit.
Commission done by the amazing @grinux who makes me love my kids more every single time she draws them, they’re so adorable I’m crying, you‘re so incredible 🥺
Leo is goofing around to keep Sagi‘s mind off the nightmare he had (Sagi‘s not having it lmao), and Finn can’t sleep without Catra and Adora in the room. Arrow is very tired but also a very good cousin.
Once upon a time, on an especially lonely night, [Glimmer had] looked up at where the stars should have been – where her mom always said her dad was – and had wished for a friend.
Two days later, she had met Bow in the Whispering Woods.
Commission done by @grinux for my Glimbow-story “...and then I found you”.
The scene is adult Glimmer remembering a wish she made shortly before she met Bow after she had her baby.
I’m completely blown away by how amazing this is. I don’t think I will ever, ever, ever be able to stop staring at it, because it’s just so gorgeous. Thank you so, so much, you’re incredible😭
The version with the slightly less lighting is more accurate, but both are really, really pretty, so have both.
These outfits are so gorgeous and I cannot and will never get over how great Glimmer just looks, and also, look at Bow and Arrow in the background, gaaaah, I’m dying😭
Especially Arrow because she’s SO TINY and I just can’t get over it.
Thank you so much @grinux this is SO GOOD and you are amazing and I’m completely at loss for words honestly.
If you aren’t following grinux already I can’t say enough how much you should be because just... look at this. Look at how good this is. Look at the beautiful art style. Grinux deserves SO MUCH MORE ATTENTION.
And I can also only recommend commissioning art, this is probably the best experience I’ve had with commissioning ever.
Reblogging would be appreciated a lot because people need to see this.
Catra and Adora babysit Arrow for the first time when she’s about eleven months old – they’re allowed to hold her and play with her way before that, but Bow and Glimmer are both extremely frantic, nervous first-time-parents (Glimmer especially) and don’t leave their daughter alone with anyone, not even people they would trust with their lives, unless they absolutely have to. This only gets better when Arrow gets a little older.
Eventually, Catra leaves her wife alone with the baby for a moment to make dinner, which... doesn’t end well. One second, Adora is peacefully feeding the smiling baby, the next, she’s grabbed a tracker pad and contacted Glimmer, who’s in the middle of a meeting, with the words “I think I broke the baby”.
Glimmer of course immediately teleports over, panicking, and Adora says she swears she didn’t do anything but feed her the milk Catra had warmed up and then the baby randomly decided to start glowing and while Adora doesn’t know that much about kids, she’s pretty certain they’re not supposed to do that.
Turns out out of all the days this could have happened on, this was the day Arrow chose to connect to the Moonstone for the first time.
Arrow: *annoyed* Look at Sirena, walking around in that stupid gorgeous dress like she owns the place.
Leo: I mean, technically, she does? This is her parents‘ kingdom, after all.
Arrow: She looks so good with her hair tied up into a stupid perfect braid and that bright, gorgeous smirk on her face. She’s so annoyingly pretty in everything she wears, it’s not fair!
Thorn: Aww, Arrow, don’t be upset. You’re pretty, too!
Leo: Thorn, she’s not jealous, she’s gay.
Arrow: I’m actually both. These aren’t mutually exclusive.
Of babysitting and (potential) kitchen fires [Chapter one]
Chapter two
Arrow loves auntie Catra and the bedtime stories she always tells about her adventures with auntie Adora and Arrow’s parents.
Catra might be enjoying babysitting a little too much.
Meanwhile, Adora is unsure whether or not she would be a good mother.
And Glimmer just really, really needs some sleep.
[Shameless post season five Adora and Catra both want kids but haven’t talked about it yet-fic that was supposed to be a one shot but isn’t anymore. Starring: the best friend squad, two Glow/Glimbow children, Melog, cuddling, a bit of angst and, of course, the best friend squad teasing each other.]
Disclaimer: This was originally posted on my Ao3, EleenaDume, which I would love to source, but tumblr is driving me insane and apparently one of the reasons why my posts might not show up in the tags could be external links, so I’m trying it again without the link. If you want to check if I’m really the same person, I’ve added this account to my list of other accounts on my Ao3-profile.
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“That day, the most selfless girl in the galaxy learned that it was alright to choose herself for once – that it was the right choice to be selfish sometimes. And that’s how she saved the galaxy. The end.”
Catra clapped her hands together to empathize the ending of the story.
The little girl with the violet hair looked up at her. There was an excited glint in her eyes.
“Start over, I want to hear the story again! Please!”
Catra laughed as she ruffled the girl’s hair.
“Nice try, sweetie, but the time has come for little Arrow to go to sleep, because Queen Sparkles will show up soon and throw me out of your room if you don’t.”
Arrow pouted.
“Come on, auntie Catra. Just one more time. Auntie Adora can keep mom distracted in the meantime.”
The adult woman stroked the child’s head again and giggled softly. Damn, she really liked this kid.
“As much as I like the way you think, Glitter, your mom will end me if I keep you awake any longer. And I think she’s pert near issuing a decree about how much I get to talk about Adora here before I must be forcefully removed from the building at all costs,” She joked.
The child laughed.
“But mommy and dad are just as bad!”
“You’re the cheekiest girl in the entire universe. I’m so proud of you.” Catra hugged her gently. “Come on, little one. Time to sleep. I’ll tell you more stories tomorrow.”
Arrow squeaked happily, snuggled up to her aunt and caved.
“Okay, fine. But only if you promise.”
The adult smiled softly. Arrow was just about her favorite person in the entire universe – except for Adora, of course.
The remaining members of the best friend squad were pretty close behind, though.
“Of course. I promise, Glitter.”
She gently tucked the girl in the cupcake pajamas into bed.
“Wanna sleep lights on or lights off today?”
Glimmer and Adora watched Catra from the doorframe as she tugged Arrow in and then started singing her to sleep.
Adora was pretty close to melting into a puddle right then and there. Instead, she almost started crying and rubbed her wedding band nervously, all the universe’s love in her eyes in that very moment.
The scene alone was enough to turn her head all over again, and that wasn’t even including the fact that Catra’s singing was down right enchanting, and she would have happily listened to nothing but that for the rest of her life.
“Adora? ... Adora?” Her best friend gave her a gentle nudge. “Hey, Brightmoon to She-Ra, you in there?”
The blonde jerked extremely startled.
She’d been in a completely different world for the last couple of minutes.
“Yeah, uh, I was just-”
“Zoning out at Catra again. I know.” Adora went beet red. Glimmer winked at her and laughed softly. Despite her visible exhaustion, she still insisted on teasing her best friend. “I’m still surprised how good she is with kids. Arrow loves her to the stars and back.”
“Yeah, I know...”
She-Ra was still way too mesmerized by the scene to take her eyes off her wife and her niece.
“Have you two thought about it yet? You know, the... adoption thing we talked about?”
Well, that jerked the warrior princess back into reality, alright.
She turned away from Catra and Arrow, instead facing the wall across from the child’s room.
“I- we- uh-” she stammered. “I... don’t know. I think I’d be a terrible mom.”
Glimmer shook her head and looked at her best friend sternly.
“Why would you think that? That’s complete nonsense.”
“Well, I’m kind of a complete mess, and extremely chaotic and clumsy and- I tried cooking something recently, and then Catra hugged me from behind while I was doing it, and then my brain short-circuited and I almost burnt down the kitchen because I still can’t believe I’m married to Catra and it’s been ten years-” She was once again talking in that very Adora way where Glimmer wasn’t sure if she even took a single breath while sentence after sentence came out of her mouth in such a speed that it was hard to understand everything. “-and, I mean, I can’t take care of a child! I can barely take care of myself, and-”
Her best friend put her hands on the shoulders of the blonde.
“Adora. Breathe.”
“...right. That... That’s a... thing I should be doing.” She listened, took a couple of long-drawn-out breaths... and slowly, she started calming down again. “I’m sorry. It’s just... I don’t know if I would be a good mother.”
Glimmer smiled at her and pinched her cheek.
“Of course you would be a good mom. I mean, you’re not Catra, but you have watched Arrow before, and you were pretty good at it. And kids love you.”
Adora let out a long sigh.
“Yeah, maybe, but... I don’t know.”
“Hey, nobody’s forcing you to do anything, alright?” Glimmer hugged her. “If that’s not something you want, that’s perfectly fine. Kids aren’t for everyone, and you two are great together on your own. You don’t need kids to be happy.”
Adora shook her head.
“Yeah, no, I know, that... that’s not it. I... I actually think we would both like to have one, but.., the only mother figure we had back at the horde was Shadow Weaver, and I think we’re both afraid we could end up being the kind of parent she was. Catra more so than me.”
Glimmer stopped short.
That though alone seemed completely insane to her.
Adora was just about the nicest, kindest person she had ever met – except for maybe Bow –, while Shadow Weaver was most definitely cruelest, most manipulative asshole she could think of.
And while Catra’s story was... more complicated on that behalf, she still couldn’t imagine her being the kind of mother Shadow Weaver had been. Catra had learned from her mistakes, had overcome her fears and weaknesses and had become a better person along the way.
Shadow Weaver had never learned, never changed, and while her last moments had been a sacrifice, it had been one of cowardice more than one of courage.
A dead person didn’t have to face the mistakes she made. Didn’t have to deal with the people they hurt – the hate in their eyes and the words of anger, sadness and spite that would get thrown at them otherwise.
Catra had faced all that. She’d worked to complete exhaustion to rebuild the cities she’d helped destroy, and she’d went to the end of the galaxy and back to prove that she’d truly changed.
Despite that, some people hadn’t forgiven her, and they never would.
Some people still thought Adora deserved better, and that Catra was treating her badly and should be banished from the planet for good for everything she’d done.
That wasn’t happening... and Catra had learned to live with and accept what people thought of her. She knew she’d hurt others. And as much as she would have liked to turn back time to right her wrongs... she couldn’t.
What others thought of her wasn’t her choice to make. If she had hurt people too much for them to ever give her another chance, that was valid, and she accepted it.
It wasn’t her choice to make.
That made her a much bigger person than Shadow Weaver had ever been.
“Are you serious? Neither of you is anything like her, and you never will be. The way Catra treats Arrow, how she tucks her into bed and sings her to sleep... that’s something my mom used to do when I was little.” For a moment, there was a glint of sad melancholy in her eyes. “Mom would have loved Arrow. And Catra would have driven her absolutely bonkers... but if things hadn’t happened the way they did... I think she would have liked her too.”
Adora pulled her best friend into a hug.
“I...” She started, but Glimmer shook her head and interrupted he.
“Shadow Weaver wasn’t like this at all, was she?”
That was a pretty clear signal.
She didn’t want to talk or think about this any longer. At least not right now.
Adora could accept that and just continued on with the conversation as if nothing had happened.
That was part of their silent agreement when it came to talking about Angella.
“No, she wouldn’t have. Shadow Weaver was never the singing type.” She raised her hands and wagged her fingers in a silly imitation of a spell caster, hoping that would lift the mood again – at least a little. “She was more like ‘uuuuuh, I’m so evil and mean, and if you don’t go to sleep then the weeping princess will show up and murder you, or maybe I will, if you annoy me too much!’...”
She stuck out her tongue.
Glimmer giggled, and Adora joined in.
She could laugh about it today... at least a little.
That had been different for a long time.
“Hey Adora.” The two of them spun around. Apparently Arrow had fallen asleep by now, because Catra was now standing right next to them, the door closed behind her so they could speak loudly without waking the child up again. She looked at her wife all lovey-dovey for a moments then turned to Glimmer, grinned and bowed playfully. “Queen Sparkles, I humbly report your daughter has been put to bed and is asleep now.”
That earned her a gentle nudge against the shoulder from said queen, who rolled her eyes as she laughed.
“Why are you like this?”
Catra gave her a cheeky grin and winked at her.
“What can I say, it’s part of my charm.”
She then put an arm around her wife gently, who had finally stopped zoning out enough to properly greet her.
“Hey Kitty.”
Catra rolled her eyes.
“I told you to stop calling me that.”
Adora pulled her close and looked at her smugly.
“You love it when I call you that.”
“I do not.”
Their faces were now merely inches away from each other.
Truth be told, Catra had given up on ever getting rid of the nickname when Adora had used it for the first time several years ago.
By now, she was sure just about all of Etheria knew about the dumb nickname – that maybe, just maybe, did send a nice feeling of comfortable warmth through her body when Adora said it.
The annoyed facade she put up was nothing more than that – just part of their playful flirting.
Their kiss was unsatisfyingly short.
Adora broke away almost immediately, grimacing. She wiped her mouth.
“...why do you taste like glitter?”
Catra, who had been kind of irritated and hurt until now, started cackling.
“So I might have given the kid a goodnight kiss to the forehead when I tucked her in, sue me.” She turned to Glimmer. “Sparkles’ husband kisses her all the time – I wonder how he does it.”
Her friend and her wife joined in the laughing really soon.
“I’ll have to thank my daughter for finding the absolutely only method I can think of that can keep you two from constantly making out in front of me,” Glimmer chuckled, smiling to herself.
Those two were almost disgustingly cute.
Almost.
“Sorry to disappoint you, but there’s nothing in the entire universe powerful enough to keep our hands off each other for long,” Adora commented truthfully.
The Horde, a war, a collapsing reality and an army consisting of robots and the clones of an insane maniac hadn’t stopped them. Keeping them away from each other for long was a task that would have required something a lot more complicated than a little glitter.
She put her arm around her wife’s waist and kissed her cheek.
Glimmer had a hard time keeping herself from commenting the purring that ensued as the smile on her lips grew wider.
She just looked at the two of them silently for a while until she spoke up again.
“Oh, and Catra... thanks for babysitting. I really appreciate it a lot.”
Spending time with them was nice... but she also started to feel her exhaustion more with every passing minute and wanted nothing more than to just collapse into her bed and sleep for a small eternity... or at least for approximately an hour before she would be woken up again.
The thought alone made her head spin.
But she was really, really thankful.
Catra had been immensely helpful when it came to watching Arrow, especially during these past few weeks.
“Hey, you know I love the kid. Anytime.” The brunette smiled. “I forgot to ask... how was your meeting?”
“Please don’t ask.” The Queen of Brightmoon grimaced and shuddered slightly. “It dragged on forever, and I was so tired that I feel like I missed out on half of what was being said.”
Adora shrugged.
“She fell asleep halfway through the meeting. We voted on whether or not we should let her sleep. It was the only unanimous decision of the day.”
Catra chuckled.
“Seems like you might have to be put to bed just like your daughter, huh, your majesty?” She joked.
Glimmer rolled her eyes and sighed.
“Believe me, I wish it was that easy. Angie is an absolute nightmare. I mean, I love her, and I would do anything for her... but I swear, neither me nor Bow has slept more than two hours at a time in the last three weeks. The kid has incredible lungs. And Adora‘s sleep-wake rhythm.”
The pink-haired woman groaned.
Catra nudged her wife gently.
“We’re really missing out, huh?”
At least for the first few seconds, Adora was certain her wife was kidding... but there was something in her voice...
„Speaking of missing out... what would you say if we took the little one for tonight?“ Adora said as if out of the blue. You two really need sleep and some time to yourselves, and...” She looked at her best friend sincerely, then glanced towards Catra in a meaningful way. “What do you think, Glimmer?”
“...Adora, are you sure?”
She-Ra nodded energetically.
“Of course. And even know how to warm up milk without burning the kitchen down by now... I think.”
She gave them a pretty unconvincing smile and an even less convincing thumbs up.
Catra looked at her wife, eyebrow raised.
“Sweetheart, do all of us a favor and just wake me up, alright? I’m not in the mood for another three o’clock-shower by Mermista.”
“...Or I’ll just wake Catra,” Adora assured her, giving an affirmative nod and smiling at Glimmer. “Come on...”
“Okay. Alright. But if something goes wrong or you need anything or-”
Adora put a hand on her shoulder and raised an eyebrow.
“Now you’re the one who needs to remember how to breathe.”
Glimmer closed her eyes and nodded as she calmed down. Sometimes she really worried too much – especially when it came to her children.
She understood her mother much better these days.
“We’ll manage, Sparkles. Don’t overthink it so much. You really need sleep, damn it.”
Catra nudged her gently.
Glimmer smiled softly as she flung her arms around her two best friends.
“You two are such disasters. I love you so much...”
“Awwww. We love you, too.”
Adora was her usual, hug-loving self.
Catra was still a little tense when being touched by anyone but Adora, but it had been a long time since she’d last flinched back, and she was able to enjoy the gentle gesture of affection much more nowadays.
“Come on, Sparkles. We can go save your husband, and you two can get a good night’s sleep for once, how does that sound?”
“Alright. I’m in.” The Queen of Brightmoon smiled softly at her two best friends. “And – potential kitchen fires aside –, I’m sure you’ll do great.”
A/N: Thank you for reading, feedback would be appreciated a lot!
The second chapter will be much more heavy on Glimbow content.
