shoutout to slow creators!
i know it can be disheartening to work so slowly when it seems like everyone around you works so fast and churns out great content left and right. i know it's easy to get frustrated with yourself for having to spend so much time on one thing and sometimes it's hard to stay motivated long enough to finish. but the things you make are so good, and taking lot of time on something isn't a bad thing. creation can be a very painstaking process, but the amount of love and care and effort and attention you pour into your work bleeds through. people can feel it. they appreciate it. they see how hard you try and they see how your thoughtful approach to creation affects the quality of the end product. speed is definitely a skill you can develop and chances are as you practice more and get more comfortable with things, you'll be able to work faster. but no matter what, the things you make are worth waiting for. keep creating! you are wonderful!
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ALTwe weathered many a storm together, seeing many strange, glittering shores
the jolly roger + white for anon
send me a favorite OUaT character and a color and I'll make you a moodboard
tying up loose ends
Emma and Killian attempt to celebrate surviving their first year of parenthood
A/N:
Me: this is it! my last idea! i’m done writing and posting!
Me: has an idea. writes. posts.
Happy Birthday to my best friend Kay @the-darkdragonfly! She’s been begging me for this since October 2021. One unhinged thought after almost 2 years of refusing and here we are. Thank you to @donteattheappleshook for being the best beta! And thank you for reading.
Rated T
3901 words
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Fatherhood wasn’t something he expected to come naturally to him. Growing up without a father didn’t exactly set him up to know what to do with his own child. It’s why he wasn’t ever really planning on having children. It’s why Alice was such a surprise. But it’s also what makes her such a blessing.
He isn’t exactly old, despite the way that Emma enjoys poking fun at him. Forty years is more than her twenty seven, surely, but he’s far from ancient. Still, he finds himself exhausted at the end of each day chasing around a child who learned how to walk startlingly early. When their nine month old stood up one day and nonchalantly took a few steps and then toppled back onto her bottom as if it wasn’t nearly a developmental anomaly, Emma and Killian stared at each other in some combination of excitement and horror, knowing that their world was about to get a hell of a lot more hectic.
So of course, now that she’s nearly a year old and has all but mastered her gross motor skills, he’s tired. But it’s not because he’s old.
“Papa!” she shouts, drawing an easy smile from him just as she does each time she says the first word she ever learned. Emma tried to deny it, told him it was just a fluke, but their baby is as stubborn as her mother and stared her in the eyes before saying it again.
“Yes, my love?”
“Too.”
She holds up the small plastic wrench, showing it off to him as he climbs out from under the engine he’s working on. He doesn’t grunt as he stands, at least not audibly.
