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Just made some updates to the story. Enjoy!

New fanfic up

It’s an angst filled character study.

@lesspopped @tinderbox210 @aamon47 thought you guys might enjoy this fanfic.

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I posted the first chapter. Please feel free to read, comment and leave remarks.

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This is very funny

currently obsessed with british murder mystery tv shows where all the murders happen in the same town in every episode and everyone's just like oh yep there goes another one, just another day in shirefordtonstead

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I agree with this

there are some ships out there that do not speak to me personally but i am an understander for. like i see what you are seeing. it just doesn't personally intrigue me. but i support you. you're right. we don't need to fight, let us hold hands.

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Ugh this couple is just so much fun

Captain Michael Burnham and Commander Rayner + being too much alike

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The Merchant (#21)

You Had One Order - Prince and Knight (#71)

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The Handmaiden in the Maze (#102)

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No-Longer Human Character Reuniting with Friends and Family Part 1 (list)

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Betrayed Your Kind (#123)

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Fangs (#47)

The Vampire and the Girl on Floor 3 (#110)

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Get in the Water (#151)

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Nothing to Do with Fate (#9)

Fallen Angel Dialogue (list)

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Apotheosis (#112)

Asking for Favors (#137)

Favor From an Old God (#157)

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Anything You Want Me to Be (#91)

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How to Describe a Character with Wings

How to Describe a Character with Bug Wings

The Dream Walker (#140)

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The Bartender (#23)

Turning to Stone (#105)

Mind Reader on Campus (#134)

Pockets Filled with Shadows (#141)

The Brain Implant (#148)

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Blank Pages (#85)

The Door to Other Places (#139)

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The Town Engulfed by Flames (#67)

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Music in The Dark Wood (#138)

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HOW TO WRITE ROMANTIC ATTRACTION FOR DUMMIES

For anyone who wants to learn, (especially aro/ACE, aspec, ect.)

Requested by the lovely @darkandstormydolls

Alrighty! Welcome back or welcome to my blog! I'm dipping my toes back into the category of posts that gained me my exposure!

So if you're here, you want to know how to write romantic attraction/romance!

Strap in and let's begin!

(Pls spread this to people you think would benefit from seeing it, or anyone who requested it bc I forgot, ANY ASPECS)

Step one -

Your characters must admire one another at the beginning, Romantic feelings usually do not present themselves as obvious until you really think them through, meaning your characters may not notice they have a crush until it's too late

These are general statistics and light stereotypes. So feel free to not use this tip:

Male characters usually tend to notice physical things first, like body shape, hair, skin, clothing, the way their lover moves, ect

And Female Characters Generally tend to notice more small things and personality-based traits first, like their lover's humor, speaking mannerisms, shifts in expression, ways they fidget, emotion in their voice, ect.

And someone who is in love will generally show more interest in this particular person's movements, actions, words, and anything in general.

Step 2 -

The character will show more interest in sharing their love language with their lover/crush

Physical touch - People with physical touch love languages may want to hold hands, cuddle, hug, or just lean on their crush whenever they are close to them moreso than they want to with others

Gift giving - Gift givers will want to get more gifts more often for their crush, probably thinking of them whenever they see little trinkets or wanting to get them big gifts for special occasions or signs of appreciation

Acts of Service - Acts of service people will offer to do extra favors and a bunch of extra stuff they don't have to do twice as much as normal

Words of Affirmation - Flattery, they will generally flood their crush with kind words and compliments

Quality time - Quality time people will want to spend time with their crush at almost every turn, and when they want company, will turn to their crush first

Step 3 -

After a while, these urges while become very prominent and more noticeable to the person having them

They may find themselves fantasizing about their crush or having them show up in their thoughts more and more, feeling nicer and happier when they're around, or when they're thinking about them

Smiling when they think about them, cutsey little fluff thingies like that

A crush is essentially: I want to date that, I want to be near that always, I want to marry that, I want that to snuggle me (or other love languages)

Or in simpler terms: if that asked me out, I would say yes (or at least want to say yes if your character is in denial)

Step 4 -

The character's urges to be close to this person grows strong enough that they do smth about it, whether prompted by another character. Or they just don't know I how to not anymore (like when you wanna eat candy and you don't want to, but you do anyway bc I JUST NEED THE CHOCOLATE OKAY?)

(Or for Aro/Ace, garlic bread)

People who are in love are generally very prone to be all dreamy and poetic and VERY EXTREMELY BIASED towards their crush

Then Yada Yada they kiss & shit

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Happy writing!

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Listen, if you want to ship Elain with Tamlin you can do that. You have bad taste, but that's okay. Not everyone has good taste.

However, why don't you just make up your own Tamlain week, or Tamlain Month, or anything else your little heart desires, and you commission arts and write fics for your ship. It's cool. No one is going to stop you.

But if it's a universal Elain Week, then perhaps don't get defensive and offended over the fact that many women don't want to see a heroine whose week they are celebrating with her sister's ex, and a male who was unequivocally stated to be abusive by its creator.

Either play by the rules, or play in a different sandbox.

And NO, the world is not required to cater to your specific preferences. Life is not Burger King. You can't have it your way.

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Ok... so I am having my little Rayner head cannons and I went to learn more about Kelleruns and there is so little. Even in Memory Beta has next to nothing.

We need some Kellerun culture, biology, personalities, and etc.

What do you think the Kelleruns are like?

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Talking about the Kellerun today made me remember their weird hairstyle in DS9 and I couldn't get the thought of Rayner with that hair out of my head, so I give you this cursed image:

(he looks like the grumpy mix between smurf and oompa loompa 😂)

Crackstory idea:

While researching Kellerun culture, Michael learns about those old hairstyles (they're considered old fashioned and aren't common to wear anymore except at traditional celebrations or smth) and she stumbles upon an old picture of young Rayner with that hair.

Feeling Rayner could use some cheerish up after encountering the Breen, she enlists Tilly's help to reprogram his personal transporter so that whenever he beams, he ends up with his hair in that freaky hairdo.

Oh, Rayner would kill them for that prank. I mean he would kill Tilly, Michael’s good because he would do anything for her, especially after she tells him she actually likes the hair. Like of course she does, s1 Michael would have fitted right in with the Kellerun/T'Lani crowd:

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Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

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Awwwwwww

Captain Michael Burnham and Commander Rayner + smiling at each other (2/2)

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These two are so cute, heart eyes and everything 🥰

Captain Michael Burnham and Commander Rayner + smiling at each other (1/2)

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So many fun fanfic Ideas!

More Michael x Rayner AU/story ideas I just had, so throwing them out there:

Meeting Tahal The Discovery visits Kellerun and Rayner has to face the demons of his past when Tahal shows up. Still having a special interest in Rayner, she demands the commander to be handed over or she'll destroy Discovery and attack Kellerun. Rayner is willing to sacrifice himself, but Michael isn't having it.

I actually think it would be interesting to meet Tahal after learning what she did to Kellerun and to Rayner specifically. I've read somewhere that if we would have got season 6, Rayner would have been in it, so I feel like that could have been an interesting storyline for him.

Meeting the ex The Discovery meets an old flame/ex partner of Rayner which triggers Michael's jealousy and makes her finally face her feelings for the commander that are no longer simply platonic.

Jealousy is just a great trope and every ship deserves a meeting the ex kind of story.

Fake Relationship Trope Inspired by the Orville episode "From Unknown Graves", the Discovery is send to negotiate with an aggressively matriarchal species. To not antagonize the diplomats and jeopardize the negotiations, Rayner has to pretend to be Michael's (subordinate) husband. The crew is not suprised how easy it's for both Michael and Rayner to pretend to be married…

Fake marriage... do I have to say more?

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@aamon47 I would love to read it when you are done!

For the last photo, I can GUARANTEE you I know who is looking at, who is making him have that soft face. It would be her:

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For the last photo, I can GUARANTEE you I know who is looking at, who is making him have that soft face. It would be her:

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@salrevientad it would be fun to explore in another fic and I can’t wait to see what comes next for this one 😁💃🏻🕺🏻

Burnham x Rayner Starfleet Academy AU: Part 2

Link to part 1

Ok. So for slightly more context, Michael is younger than her canon age. Say a few years younger than Spock. She's older than the average first year cadet by about 3 years.

Might keep going on this one. It really hits different.

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Michael looked at her instructor intently before turning and walking back towards the front of the lecture hall where he stood, arms crossed. Heart racing, Michael took several deep breaths to calm herself.

She wondered if she was in trouble already. She looked up all of her instructors and Captain Rayner was definitely the black sheep. He had the longest time on a starship and was so heavily decorated with awards for valor, bravery, strategy, and so on, Michael was surprised they hadn't already made an award named after him. With a track record such as his, Michael couldn't understand why he was stuck in a classroom teaching first years about ship protocol.

As she reached him, Rayner leaned backwards onto his desk, lowering himself by a couple of inches so he was closer to Michael's height, but she was still dwarfed by his sheer presence. Michael was intimidated by the man at least 20 years her senior, but she had yet to understand the strange interest she had in him.

"Yes, Captain." Michael said, standing up straight and meeting Rayners gaze. He looked her over as any captain would to his officer to ensure they were dressed in code, but Rayners perusal tool longer, his stare burned Michael's skin as he roved over her. Michael held her breath feeling so exposed but not willing to back down. After what felt like forever, Rayners eyes finallt met back with hers.

"Quite the advanced question you're asking for this class. Such a question is usually saved for the command classes." Rayner explained, looking at Michael with his icy blue gaze.

Michael slowly inhaled to relieve her aching lungs before responding. "I apologize sir."

"No. Don't apologize. It's a good question. It just made me curious."

"Curious about what sir?" Michael tilted her head slightly and she saw Rayner narrow his eyes slightly at the move as if calculating something before he looked to the ground.

"You say you're a science division candidate, yet the question you asked is the kind of question captain's should be considering."

Michael's eyes widened and her grip on her PADDs tightened. "But I'm not a command---"

"I read your file." Rayner started. Michael froze. "You have quite the background. Born to human parents. Raised on Vulcan after they were killed by the Klingons...it must have been tragic."

Michael swallowed and nodded, not quite trusting her voice. Rayner looked up to see her and smirked. "Did your education on Vulcan, rejected from the Vulcan Science Council though I looked at the work you submitted. That kind of research in the 23rd century should have secured you a spot in the Council, so it begs the question why you were denied. But that's besides the point."

"Sir, I don't understand why---"

"You were aboard the Discovery when it jumped into the future." Rayner continued cutting Michael off. "Says you worked aboard it under Captain Saru for three years before you applied to the academy. You worked as a science specialist and did research for the spore drive on finding a new navigator. You did extensive research on other potential means of travel if the spore drive wasn't viable, some of which were found as potential upgrades to our current propulsion systems."

Rayner slowly stood up and took a step closer to Michael until they were only inches apart. She looked back up at him, lips slightly parted and breathing shallow as she drowned in his blue eyes.

"So with all this experience, especially with your serving aboard a starship, I find this class, and frankly the science division beneath you."

Michael balked at his statement. "Sir...I am a scientist."

Rayner and Michael stared into each others eyes for several seconds and each heartbeat that passed, Michael felt herself falling deeper and deeper into his gaze until he inhaled sharply and tore himself away, walking towards the windows displaying the ships. "You can be a scientist and a captain. They are not mutually exclusive."

Michael followed his every move as if tethered to him. The feelings stirring inside her scared her because they were so wrong. She shouldn't be having such a reaction to her instructor. And certainly not the instructor of ship protocol, but her body had other plans.

Rainer whirled back around and sauntered towards Michael, and she suddenly felt like a preag caught in a trap. "You have a lot of potential, Cadet Burnham." Rayners voice had dropped several steps to a low grumble, just loud enough for Michael to hear. "I would hate to see it get wasted."

"Thank you, sir." Michael whispered, relaxing the closer Rayner got.

He reclaimed his spot right in front of her, bringing his hands behind his back. "How about I work with you one on one to build your command skills. I would love to see you in a captains chair one day. "

The offer sounded so erotic and forbidden coming from his lips. Michael knew this was wrong. So very wrong. Growing up on Vulcan, Michael struggled to take some social cues or read into deeper emotional gives. The way Rayner looked at her felt like the way you would look at someone behind close doors just before you stripped them naked. His gaze was raw and hungry, desire filling the azure pools. She couldn't find another explanation for his heated stare or the way his eyes flicked between her eyes and her lips.

Something stirred in Michael's core, something desperate and needy, something needing attention, something she knew she shouldn't feel for her instructor, but when he looked at her like that, she was helpless.

"I would like that."

Michael took another step closer unconsciously until they were almost chest to chest. Hewas the forbidden fruit and she so desperately wanted a taste. What would it be like to have an older man, one experienced and commanding? Michael wanted so badly to know the answer.

The sound of voices in the hallway tore them both from their hypnosis. Rayner inhaled then whipped around, sitting behind his desk. "We can discuss more during my office hours tomorrow. Thank you Cadet Burnham. Dismissed."

Michael felt the cold distance grow between them, but she couldn't complain. "Thank you, sir."

She rushed out of the classroom just as a new wave of students entered and took their seats. Michael took one last look back to Rayner only to see him looking right back as if he was watching her the whole time.

When the day finally ended, Michael rushed to her dorm room and tore off her clothes. She set the shower to the coldest possible setting and stood under the spray. Visions of Rayner plagued her mind during all of her classes. Their exchange from earlier that day played on a loop. She kept remembering how it felt to be under his gaze, to have him inches away from her, so close to something forbidden. She couldn't stop her hand from wandering between her legs and imagining what it would have been like for him to press her over his desk and have from from behind, or sit her on it and kneel to taste between her legs, or even wrap her legs around his waist and push into her, all right there in the middle of the lecture hall.

The release was enough to take the edge off, but it didn't stop the fantasies, fantasies Michael knew she needed to push down. No matter how much she wanted Rayner, she could never be with him in such a way. I would compromise not only his position, but her own. Still, she didn't know if she was strong enough to stay away. So she checked his schedule for his office hours and made her plans to attend.

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Rayner paced his quarters like a lion in captivity. He was fucked. Utterly fucked.

He didn't know what possessed him to address Michael the way that he did, but he was convinced she would report him for improper conduct. He was just waiting on the call to the Admirals office where not only would he lose his position, but his rank and any hopes of serving on a ship again.

He didn't know when his fascination twisted into obsession. When she introduced herself in class, all his hope for any sense of self control began to dwindle. He fought to not look at her and it pained him every second he couldn't. He didn't know why he was surprised. Kelleruns were known for their single mindedness and focus, hence why they often made good officers. Right now, his nature was getting in the way of better judgement.

When she said she was a part of the science division, he wanted to torch the entire division to the ground so she would have to take more of his classes. He cursed his Kellerun genes, as much pride as he had in his people and everything they suffered, right now, it was proving to be more harmful that positive.

He was close enough for her to touch and he almost did more than once. He had to force his hands to himself, but of course, his nature got the better of him in the end and he offered to get her onto the command track. It was selfish and uncalled for, but he wasn't lying about her potential. Cadets would kill for the kind of experience Michael had, especially that serving aboard a ship. Her talents would be severely wasted only running experiments, reading data and conducting research. He hoped for both their sakes that she didn't show up to his office hours and rejected his offer. His obsession would only grow if she came. He wouldn't be able to think of anything but her. He would want to be around her all the time.

His conduct was unbecoming of a far senior officer. He wondered if he could switch courses to avoid her altogether and spare himself the temptation. He remembered the way her lips parted ever so slightly as he spoke as if she were entranced and how her head tilted to the side when she was curious. She was so un-Vulcan like yet so very Vulcan. He found it compelling and that only made him more frustrated.

Rayner groaned as the arousal that had been pressing between his legs for the past half an hour became more insistent. He had been ignoring it, feeling filthy for having such desires for his student, but fuck if Michael wasn't both beautiful and intelligent. She easily had enough experience to be a fourth year cadet, maybe even an ensign, yet here she was in his first year class where he couldn't stop thinking about her. He wasn't sure if it was a blessing or a curse.

His arousal pressed harder against his pants and Rayner groaned in frustration. He promised himself he would relieve the ache she brought him only this once. He would only think of her in this way this one time ad never again, just to get her out of his system because he couldn't have her in the way he wanted her.

Even so, once he found his release and he collapsed into bed, he knew he wouldn't be rid of her so easily.