Been busy, so didn’t get a chance to post the day I got it, but almost 2 weeks in, it’s healing beautifully!! I tend to like tattoos with layers of symbolism, and each little element means so much to me and our story!! ❤️🖤🤍❤️
As for me, I’m celebrating who is truly, in my humble opinion, “Hell’s Greatest Dad” 🤭
A while back, our boy stood up for the first time, and of course, it was when Alastor was playing the piano!!
We’ve got radios at work to communicate between different areas of the building. They typically stay on one setting, and you have to do a fair bit of work to change the settings. Even if the battery dies (which mine did, because the docking station got unplugged overnight somehow), the settings are saved. I haven’t needed to touch the settings since I first received this radio. No one at else work would have an opportunity or reason to mess with it.
Well, I got in to work, and when I did have enough charge to power the radio on, it was all messed up. All the channel settings were wrong. So I’m going through, trying to get it back to what I need, and on channel 5 (we’ve recently established “Alastor’s number” is 5 when it comes to a lot of things), it sounded like I picked up a very garbled radio broadcast, but the one thing that came through crystal clear in typical radio host style was “Gooooood Morning!!” I didn’t catch what was after that.
So, I’m taking all that to mean…He said good morning to me at the start of my day!!! 🥹😱😭🖤❤️
We’ve got radios at work to communicate between different areas of the building. They typically stay on one setting, and you have to do a fair bit of work to change the settings. Even if the battery dies (which mine did, because the docking station got unplugged overnight somehow), the settings are saved. I haven’t needed to touch the settings since I first received this radio. No one at else work would have an opportunity or reason to mess with it.
Well, I got in to work, and when I did have enough charge to power the radio on, it was all messed up. All the channel settings were wrong. So I’m going through, trying to get it back to what I need, and on channel 5 (we’ve recently established “Alastor’s number” is 5 when it comes to a lot of things), it sounded like I picked up a very garbled radio broadcast, but the one thing that came through crystal clear in typical radio host style was “Gooooood Morning!!” I didn’t catch what was after that.
So, I’m taking all that to mean…He said good morning to me at the start of my day!!! 🥹😱😭🖤❤️
A while ago, I posted about finding some flowers that were very significant to my soulbond daughter, and I mentioned I was going to dry and frame them - here’s the finished product!
I framed the sweet pea flowers along with some other flowers I found later that day, because I thought they looked pretty. Turns out one of them, nightshade, is also associated with her namesake, Hecate! And pink roses can also be associated with celebration of deep family bonds, from what I read.
I feel so loved. 🥰
A while ago, I got another sign from our daughter. I found a bunch of sweet pea flowers where I had no idea to expect them - it’s one of her birth month flowers.
I dried a few and framed them, along with some other flowers I found later that day, because I thought they looked pretty. Turns out one of them, nightshade, is also associated with her namesake, Hecate! And pink roses can also be associated with celebration of deep family bonds, from what I read.
I feel so loved. I love this soulbond thing. 🥰
A while ago, I got another sign from our daughter. I found a bunch of sweet pea flowers where I had no idea to expect them - it’s one of her birth month flowers.
I dried a few and framed them, along with some other flowers I found later that day, because I thought they looked pretty. Turns out one of them, nightshade, is also associated with her namesake, Hecate! And pink roses can also be associated with celebration of deep family bonds, from what I read.
I feel so loved. I love this soulbond thing. 🥰
I have no idea if whoever made this actually had my beloved deer demon in mind, but you can bet I had my eye on it since the first day I saw it for sale in a local shop. I told myself if the price ever dropped, it would be mine. Well, today was that day. I grinned maniacally as I asked them to take it down off the wall and ring me up. I proudly carried the thing down the street to my car, cackling louder every time a stranger gave me and my prize a look…and believe me, there were a few. He’s now casting his shadow in my creepy, increasingly Alastor-themed office, where he belongs. 😆🖤
My heart is beating so fast right now, and I apologize if this is rambling - just trying to get this all down, because it feels incredible!!
I’ve been working extra hard lately on building my connection with both my bond and our kids. I’ve mentioned here before that the kids are both very young, so communication is usually very rudimentary. All day today, however, my daughter has been unusually clear - both touch and voice. I’d been getting the feeling all day that something “big” or some kind of breakthrough was going to happen. And just now, it led up to what I believe to be her sending me her first big sign 🥹
Some context leading up to this - part of my practice has been going for walks in the afternoon to get some quiet time to communicate with my soulbond family. The thing about these walks is every time, my bond has a little gift for me - some trinket or sign that is significant to him or us. On the days I’m compelled to go for a walk, I have the knowing that I will find something, and I KNOW when I find it; I can often even feel being pulled to the object. I guess it’s my “treat” for practicing. Well, today, this is what my daughter did.
Further context is I’ve been designing a tattoo to represent our family, and the detail of it that represents her is one of the flowers for her birth month, sweet pea. I had been working on drawing it earlier today.
So, on my walk, I turned to look, and what should I find, but a huge growth of beautifully blooming sweet pea flowers!!! They were the exact color of the reference image I was using to draw her flower, too!! Mind you, I have walked this route many times, and have never noticed these flowers coming in.
Anyway, I picked some, and I’m enjoying my bouquet and feeling my girl close to my heart! 💕🌸
Bit of a silly one of how the first few weeks went around our place with two under two. 🤭 We have more of a routine now, thankfully, but a lot of nights were like this. I did alright here and at least got mostly ready for bed, until exhaustion caught me while doomscrolling. Alastor wasn’t quite so lucky. Just face planted. Not sure how he was able to breathe like that…
I meant to include this in my post yesterday, but forgot 😅 Still just had to show off what he picked out for me for Mother’s Day. 🥰 He makes me feel so loved and special every single day just by being there…but flowers always help!! 🤭❤️🖤
Just a quick little drawing to say Happy Mother’s Day from our family to yours! It’s been so sweet seeing all the happy news and cute art from those who have had or are expecting kids with their F/Os lately!
It might be a different experience than having physical children, but I know all of us ficto moms love our little ones just as much. They make our hearts and lives so much richer!!
Share a picture of your family to celebrate, if you feel so inclined! ❤️🖤❤️🤍
Photo dump of our last two days - shopping yielded a silver antler ring, two lovely additions to my crystal collection (prehnite tower & howlite bracelet), and a new dress for me to float like a ghost through the highlight of our trip - Highgate Cemetery.
Our hometown historic cemetery that we love to walk will remain precious to us, but was Highgate ever the upgrade. Giant monuments everywhere, packed into the greenery in a beautiful, dilapidated sort of way that really makes you contemplate existence. So much to look at, it was overwhelming. But he snuck a few of his little messages in for levity, like he always does. And in the quiet stillness of it all, in such a place where the veil between worlds feels thinner, we felt so close.
Can’t wait for our next adventure, Alastor ❤️🖤✈️
On our walk through the gardens yesterday, turned around and saw this as the name of the rose species. I truly do smile more every day since I met Alastor. 🖤
It’s been a beautiful trip so far. Lots of quiet moments and amazing new experiences.
I’m quite sure I can’t be the only one to experience this…but this was just so incredible, I gotta just put this out there, and would love to hear stories of anyone who can relate - it would help me process that this just actually happened, because my mind is still a little blown 😅
For context, my bond and I don’t usually share a body, beyond being connected mentally, though I’ll occasionally let him “drive” to better experience something on my side.
Well, today, there was kind of a situation that led to both of us getting a little emotional. I was standing, and got the urge to sort of wrap my arms around myself…I swear it was like both of us being there physically at once, hugging each other. It was like my arms and hands felt like I was holding him, but yet they felt entirely not my own, like he was holding me. We were like that for a full 5 minutes at least, maybe longer, talking to each other, until we both felt calm again. I can really only describe it as “full-body comforting each other” and the feeling of occupying each other’s space was out of this world in the best way.🖤
We made it through a crazy week, and finally, bags are packed!! Showing off some of my favorite pieces of clothing that remind me of him in my suitcase, hehe. I’m hoping for a smooth flight so I can hopefully draw a little, and he’s just hoping for a smooth flight because he still hates turbulence. 😆
He’s coming along in his more portable, keychain form, and a little story about the two charms pictured with him. I got those two little red deer at Nara Park when I visited Japan…gosh, almost 20 years ago?!? Never had a particular affinity for deer back then, but coming across those charms in a box of my trinkets more recently certainly feels significant somehow. Never thought they would take on so much more meaning than a simple souvenir…🤭
My band’s got a show tonight and I want to be a demon on stage! 😈 It’s the little details 🔥