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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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Secret Santa 2023

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN, FOLKS

In recent years, The Cat Returns fandom has hosted a Secret Santa event, and this year we're doing it again! I know it's been a while since I hosted this, but I'm back and more excited than ever to get this show on the road!

The Basics:

Anyone who wants to take part must contact me (through tumblr asks/message or discord) by Saturday 11th November with a wishlist of 3-5 prompts. (These can be an AU, a trope, a quote, character requests, etc.)

Then by Monday 13th November, I shall contact you with the name of the person you're Secret Santa-ing for, and on Monday 18th December (or thereabouts) you will post something you've created that matches one of the recipient's prompts from their wishlist.

This can be anything, as long as it’s something TCR-themed you’ve created that matches a prompt. Art, writing, gifs, etc. Surprise us. 

Post your creation to your tumblr page, tagging the recipient and also "the cat returns" and "tcr secret santa 2023". Everyone’s happy!

NOTE: If, for some reason, you join but find yourself unable to complete a Secret Santa gift, contact me and I will find a back-up. There's no shame in it (it's a busy time of year!) but if you let me know in time, I can make sure that everyone who participated gets something regardless.

The Dates:

Saturday 11th November: Cut-off deadline for applying with wishlists

Monday 13th November: Receive the name of who you're Secret Santa-ing for, and get creating!

Monday 18th December: Post your stuff!

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tcrmommabear asked:

Tags: hurt comfort, pinatas, the all-seeing eye in the back of the room

catsafarithewriter answered:

🐑 send me a fake set of fic tags, and I’ll try to come up with a summary for it!

The problem with being the lone human in the Bureau is that you bruise (and bleed and scar and break) a hell of a lot easier than someone who is made of, say, stone or wood or has a buffering layer of fur and possibly nine lives.

Overall, though, Haru feels she’s done a pretty good job of hiding all those nicks and scrapes from Baron and his delicate Creation sensibilities. At least until the cursed pinata enters the picture.

(Note to self: stop buying mysterious artefacts from the spirit market, no matter how much of a steal it is.)

lmao what are those tags shelby those tags are called brilliant and id appreciate the ability to recognize the hilarity i bring to your life XD also id read the fuck out of this
catsafarithewriter
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o’er-fraught heart

A/N: Okay, so confession time: I’ve never read any hanahaki fics (just not my type of thing for reasons) but @tcrmommabear threw an idea at me, and I couldn’t resist running with it. I’m taking this in a sideways direction, so the flowers bloom with any suppressed emotion, not just unconfessed love. 

(Also this hit 3k words?? heads up in advance, I guess. Also: don’t worry, this has a happy ending!) 

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Baron can’t remember the last time his lungs weren’t wood. 

It doesn’t really matter, not really; after all wood is what he was originally carved from, and it is better that the flowers should bloom within a lifeless chest, than one made lifeless by their blossoming. The flowers will not kill him, and so they have almost become like old friends; a constant through the years, even as everything else changes. 

The first petals to drop from his lips were white; tiny pale buds native to oak that caught on his tongue while he searched for his missing soulmate. The last time he’d seen blooms like that, they’d been carved into the brim of Louise’s hat, a tidy nod to the tree she’d originally been created from. They are laced with unspoken sorrow, salty with unshed tears. 

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the cat returns cat writes hanahaki listen i always love new ways to make baron emotionally constipated and hanahaki as just romantic love always felt stupid to me and people always use it for “oh i discovered i love them back too late” fuck that cat writes so much better than the rest of you!!! the queue returns