1967 Chevrolet Impala - Baby

I have fourteen microwaveable heating pads up for sale on my shop! They're soft flannel, and stay warm for quite a while! I know it's warming up here in the northern hemisphere, but they're great for achy joints or cramps too.

Aw yeah here we fuckin go

This is honestly one of my favorite things that I’ve ever written.  2020′s Halloween holiday special was a six-part novella in the SCP universe starring my Sarkist and Mekhanite OCs pulling off a heist together.

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The Big Job

1: Meat And Greet  

[Somewhere in Montana]

The nameless thing in the tank was hungry, and the priestess would feed her.

Well, that wasn’t entirely accurate; she did have a name—her name was Lavenia, and she was a sweetheart—but she didn’t have a species.  The priestess had grown Lavenia herself, starting from her own DNA but with permutations and alterations as the spirit moved her.  After about two years, Lavenia was now the size of a human heart, a tightly-wound clue of concentrated darkness with writhing tendrils, a beak like a cephalopod, and a single, luminous eye in the center of her shifting, tinkting form.

The priestess dropped a goldfish into the aquarium and watched with pride as Lavenia grasped it with one of her tendrils and drew it into her beak, radiating gratitude.  After the goldfish disappeared within her ineffable form, she floated back and forth in the water, her eye fluttering, and the priestess cooed, “Did you like that, sweetie?”

Lavenia hadn’t quite developed full sapience, but she gravitated towards the priestess’s warm tone and radiated psychic waves of affection.

“That’s my girl.  Do you know what day it is, Lavenia?”

Confusion.

“It’s your birthday!  You’re two years old!”

Lavenia didn’t yet understand time any more than she understood human speech, but she could sense that her mother was happy about something, and that made her happy.  The priestess cut open another bait bag and dropped a few more goldfish into the aquarium, and the abomination chased them through the water like a cat chasing mice, radiating glee as she did.

“Eat up, baby,” the priestess cooed.  “You’re a growing girl, just like Mommy.”

Satisfied, the priestess flopped back onto her bed, staring up at the ceiling and listening to the temple’s heartbeat through the walls, letting it sync with her own as she relaxed.  She closed her eyes and drifted off into a sort of half-slumber, letting her awareness sync with the temple’s as well, and felt a sublime sense of peace.  She’d never felt at home in her body, but she could always feel at home in, well, her home.

She was shocked out of her communion by the sound of a fist rapping against bone and a man’s voice calling out, “Katya?  Are you busy?”

“Oh my fucking God, dude,” she growled, “what now?”

“I have something I must speak with you about.  May I come in?”

“Not now.  Busy.”

“It’s important, Katya.  Busy with what?”

“I’m feeding my fish!”

There was an audible sigh from without, and the voice said, “Volutaar, open the door.”

“Aw, dude, don’t be like that.”

“Open the door, Volutaar.”

She rolled her eyes, “Yes, Karcist.  Right away, Karcist.  How high, Karcist?”

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Chapter 2: Old Business

Chapter 3:  The Job

Chapter 4:  Breaking Bad

Chapter 5:  Containment

Spock: The thing was the logical thing to do.

Starfleet: And you, why didn’t you stop him?

“Freedom always has a price.”

Paolo Pedrizzetti – Milan, May 14, 1977

“Remember this image, it will become exemplary of our century.” – Umberto Eco

Omega Tony : Everyone always thought he'd be an alpha but he turned out an omega and Howard nearly disowned him for it. He's grown into his status but it took him a really long time to be proud of being an omega. Morgen is his pride and joy, he was at high risk his entire pregnancy due to the everything about his health and he can't have any more pups after her but he would have gone through it a hundred times for her.

Alpha Peter : grew up surrounded by unconventional dynamics so he doesn't even register that he doesn't "act like an alpha" so it throws people off when they meet him. He was raised mostly by May and Ben (until it was just May) and they were both Beta 4 Beta, but even the small bits of his parents he remembers he always saw Mary as the more dominant and she was Richards omega so he tends to take after his more submissive alpha father.

Beta Natasha & Alpha Yalana : The red room likes to specifically target Betas, Omegas have heats and alphas have ruts to deal with but Betas have neither and are less effected by pheromones than both of them so they're the most convenient of the three to train, thus, all alphas & omegas in the red room are put under chemical subjugation. Nat is considered to be the perfect example of why widows are betas but Yelena ended up presenting as an alpha during her training so she got brainwashed.

Bonus * Natasha × Clint × Laura ; Nat settles down at the barn with them and ends up being the kids second mom, Nathaniel was named after her bc thats her first baby and Laura insisted she be involved in absolutely everything. (My sister started crying thinking about the family after the blip all grieving Nat, and Nat & clint both grieving the loss of their entire pack together)

Beta Alexi : He douses himself in alpha pheromone cologne. He tries so hard so come off all macha alpha but everyone can see through it and its kinda painful to watch.

Omega T'Challa × Alpha Nakia : Ok, ok listen, that "Don't get distracted" bit was some omega nonsense, he caught a whiff of his alphas scent and stopped functioning mid battle. He needed her there for his coronation ceremony. You cannot convince me he did not give birth Toussaint, he carried that little boy for nine months. End of story.

Omega Steve × Alpha Bucky : Look. At. Them. Steve has the biggest most roundest puppy dog eyes in the universe, I wanna watch him squirm and get all nervous about looking like an alpha after the serum and Bucky is so down bad for it its not even funny. (Also hydra had to brainwash Bucky so many times bc he was missing his mate and the separation sickness was worse than the torture, setting off his alpha even in the throws of amnesia)

Beta Bruce & Alpha Hulk : Hear me out tho- idk why but this one cracked me up, thinking about Hulk eternally pissed off that he has to share a body with this scrawny little beta had me on my bedroom floor cackling. (My hcs align a bit more with the comics where its usually implied/sometimes mentioned Bruce has DID and that just adds to my amusement.) Additionally, Professor Hull would be toeing the lines of a studded Alpha imo, my sister argued that he's just a buff beta.