cuppa mossy tea

And no one is ever ready for the switch, and even after it happens they can never fully prepare themselves for what they’re going to get. Shane has learned that when he’s going to do that he should take them aside to give them the card rather than in front of people

Once Shane feels comfortable with Hayden as a genuinely good friend in his birthday card that year he writes out a whole thing about how he’s always wanted a best friend like other kids had but never had one and had accepted he never would, and then Hayden came into his life and gave him a level of love and friendship he never thought he would get and he loves everything about Hayden and can’t wait to be by his side as friends and brothers for the rest of their lives. Hayden fully breaks down and loses it, Jackie notices they’ve been gone a while and walks into the kitchen to see Hayden hugging Shane and sobbing into his shoulder. She raises her eyebrows at Shane and Shane just gives her the OK sign and goes back to rubbing Hayden’s back

Ilya learns about the card thing when it’s yunas birthday and he notices her opening Shane’s card like she’s deactivating a bomb. She stares silently as she reads it and Ilya starts freaking out a little when she starts to tear up and then pulls Shane in for a long silent hug. He looks at it later and sees that Shane wrote about how the last year made him realize over again how lucky he is to have someone as strong and supportive as her as a mother and he hopes to one day be half the parent to his own kids as she was to him

When it’s their first time having Ilya’s birthday together he’s legitimately nervous because this is his first Shane Card and he doesn’t know what to expect and part of him is afraid he’s built it up too much in his head and Shane won’t have as nice things to say as he did with other people. And then he opens the envelope and there’s no card but instead multiple pieces of paper because Shane couldn’t fit it all into a limited space. Ilya spends the better part of the next hour walking around the house reading it, taking breaks occasionally to cry or hyperventilate before going back to reading it because holy shit does Shane Hollander love him. Like he knew logically that Shane did but now he’s got pages and pages of Shane walking him through his feelings over the last decade of their life and every moment he remembered and cherished. Shane finally catches up to him and he’s on the floor of the kitchen, face a splotchy red mess, chugging Gatorade because he’s dehydrated from crying

this ask is from January of last year, and January of last year I drew this and never posted it :’)

Every time I see it in my camera role I smile though so here it is

i’m still figuring out my artstyle so expect inconsistency in my attacks lol

ALSO FROGGY ATTACKED HER ALREADY WHICH IS SO AWESOME

her hair is so pretty omgggg

Todd used to have a plushie that he absolutely adored. It was a simple teddy bear, stuffed with cotton, though it's fur was a bit worn from the passing of time. His parents honestly thought they had thrown it out, they didn't know that Todd had managed to get his hands on it again, nor that he had brought it with him at Welton Academy.

He kept it tucked at the bottom of his suitcase. He wasn't planning on bringing it out at any point. It was only that he didn't have the heart to let go of it yet. It was familiar to him, like the scent of your mother's favourite perfume and the sheets of your childhood bed. It felt like home, in a way, as funny as it sounded to admit.

But one day, Neil found out about the teddy bear. Todd didn't know how, or why, but Neil did. Todd thought he was actually going to die from the embarrassment. Though, instead of laughing, Neil sat on the bed next to Todd and, looking at the bear, asked his name.

Todd, still red-faced and mortified, stammered out that it was Cooper but Neil cut him off and told him “Todd, I'm asking him a question. Please, don't be rude!”. Then, Neil brought the teddy bear close to his ear and pretend Cooper had introduced himself. It made Todd laugh, not feeling quite so bad about it anymore.

got tagged by @elegantdeerbaran some time ago but i thought i was too basic for it, got tagged again yesterday by @darthdisasterous and now i feel i've got no choice lol

*: when i was a baby the doctors told me i had a hole in my heart and 1-2 years ago i had a surgery for it but halfway through they realized i didn't actually have it because they just assumed i had a heart problem except the only real proof pointing to that was how my ecg looks a bit weird for no reason so then i had to come to terms with the fact that i never had anything wrong with me at all

...i see now that i had a lot of interesting character development as a tween

anyways

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