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'Catching a ride'

All shot using real figures a borrowed coaster in the shape of a button and a bit of knitting (not mine)

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My favorite part about GIF making is taking apart the interactions. Really getting to see moments that are over in the blink of an eye and overthinking them in my head.

I adore the parking garage scene, like probably every Steter shipper. There are so many good moments here, some big ones that have been rotating in my brain on repeat but also smaller ones that I had missed because they were over so quickly.

The following is a mix of both. Just everything about the parking garage that brings me joy, with running commentary that would be too much in the finished GIF set.

Why are you leaning against him, Stiles? Why is your arm on Peter? He just kidnapped you and is currently showing you the dead body of his nurse, why are you leaning against his shoulder?

Did you have to lean real close to whisper into his ear, Peter? Was that necessary? While you already had him bend over a car?

I'll never get over the sassy eyebrow and the exasperated eyeroll. What kind of exchange is this, in a hostage situation.

Yes, Peter, we know this and we love your for this.

The fact that Peter not only offers the bite, instead of forcing it, but that he goes out of his way to explain to Stiles that it could indeed kill him is something that has me in a vice grip.

Just the visual of them holding hands <3 Very important, needs to be included here <3

THREE TIMES. He asks for consent three times. He asks if Stiles wants the bite, when Stiles is too baffled to react, he asks again, and then when he has Stiles' wrist so close to his teeth, he asks a third time.

And when Stiles doesn't verbally reply, he keeps staring at him for multiple moments, making eye-contact with Stiles to check if he is declining, before he even just drops his fangs.

I just can't stress enough that this happens directly after we find his dead nurse in the trunk of his car, right after he had mauled Lydia and left her on the lacrosse field. He kills and maims and hurts uncaring, but he asks for consent, repeatedly, and when he is rejected, he allows it. Because he's a werewolf, he just bent Stiles' metal keys like they were made of paper; if he didn't allow it then Stiles wouldn't have been able to pull free from his grip.

And the face of disappointment and rejection after. Absolutely kills me.

But he accepts it and just... leaves Stiles, completely unharmed.

And this is Stiles' reaction to him leaving and it also kills me. Because Stiles audibly gasps, and he jerks forward, like he wants to stop Peter, opening his mouth to speak but closing it before saying a word.

How was I ever supposed to be normal about this ship...?

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You know i totally believe if Stiles was a shifter, he'd be a werefox. I mean look at this face. I can see this foxness, he is a vixen

BUT IN THE SAME TIME in one episode of his life he looked like this. And this, he is freaking Bambi. He is not even a stag in firsts seasons, he is like a fawn

I can see some foxness here and some Bambiness there. So today i choose to live in a reality where Stiles is a fox in deer's clothes (who runs with wolves in sheep's clothes)(btw i don't believe in fics where Stiles turns into a wolf, HE DOESN'T STRIKE ME LIKE WOLF)

(full moon running with full shifted weres. wolves and fox. Stiles would chase their tails and bite their paws)

(one day I'm going to sit down and draw whole pack full shifted and this will be the day I die in peace)

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once again I am thinking of the fact that Stiles Stilinski both

knew that there was a pretty decent chance that he could develop the same thing that killed his mother, dementia that caused her months of confusion and pain, caused her to forget him and become convinced he wanted to kill her, that caused hospital bills that he and his father are still paying off over six years after she died

turned down the bite anyway

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More Steter prompts: Stiles, doing something extremely competently. Peter, who discovers he has a competency kink.

Once, Peter would have scoffed at the idea that any of Derek’s collection of teenage outcasts could do anything better than the born wolves and sworn druids he’d grown up with. Not even Stiles, who may be the best of the bunch, but who is, theoretically, handicapped by having come to the supernatural world sixteen years later than even the most ordinary human born into a pack.

Once he would have, but not anymore, because Stiles’ spellcrafting is remarkable.

No one ever taught Stiles the ‘laws’ of magic, so he’s had to work them out from first principles. He has no idea that along the way he’s proven several of those ‘laws’ to be bullshit. His wards are the strongest Peter has ever seen, his combat spells would make most mages blanch at the focus necessary to control that much power, and he’s never satisfied with his first attempt, even when it works. 

It’s almost unbearably attractive. 

Stiles applies the last curlicue of silver paint to a stone dagger and blows a careful breath over it, the runes lighting up with power. “There,” he says, satisfied, and looks up at Scott. “One definitely disabling instead of lethal stone dagger.”

Does no one have any idea how much more difficult it was to design a non-lethal spell compared to a lethal one? Peter feels a rush of heat and casually pulls one of the couch cushions into his lap. He’s going to have to make a move soon, or this is going to become embarrassing. 

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Peter and Stiles would be like THE power couple of the supernatural world. Like come on, an extremely smart (possibly magic) researcher who isn't afraid to get their hands dirty + ruthless enforcer who will do anything to protect pack.... like yall see the vision right???

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A - Fucking - Woo

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I think the difference in stiles' characterization between Sterek and Steter fics is so interesting.

If you're looking for fluffier, pack mom Stiles fics where the pack is together and bonding and thriving then there is a high likelihood that the main ship will be Sterek. But if you're looking for morally grey or dark stiles, a version of stiles that realizes some of these big bads have to be dealt with permanently and takes it upon himself to do so, then chances are the main ship will be Steter.

Not saying you won't see these tropes or characterization outside of the ships I've attached them to, and I understand why the differences are there, but I just think its so interesting how that worked out

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Steter AU - Deputy Hale doesn’t care that Stiles is a Sheriff’s kid. Brat’s been acting inappropriate since his 18th birthday and needs a lesson.

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Uno reverse on my last prompt request : Steter, but Peter breaks Stiles out of Eichen house

Stiles sits on the hard, narrow bunk, head in his hands. Tomorrow he’ll work on surviving, on finding a way out of this place, but for right now he needs a minute to process the fact that this has somehow happened again. 

After everything that the pack has been through with Eichen House, Stiles never imagined they’d let anyone be admitted there again, nevermind one of their own. He’d thought the worst thing that could come of studying magic behind Deaton’s back was a stern lecture. 

Instead, Stiles is “a threat to himself and others.” According to Deaton, Eichen is the only place that has a chance of containing him.

Stiles will never forget how quickly Scott allowed himself to be convinced.

So yeah. He’s got some friendships to mourn. He can only hope they didn’t consult his dad on locking him up; Stiles hasn’t seen him since the pack turned on him.

“Stiles.” Stiles’s head jerks up; he stares in shock at Peter Hale standing outside his cell. He’s shifted, and his hands are bloody from claws to elbows. He opens Stiles’s cell with a blood spattered key. “Time to go,” Peter says, holding the door open.

Stiles hurries out, following after Peter when he starts down the hall. “My dad—?”

“He’s doing what he can to cover our tracks,” Peter says, and relief sweeps through Stiles. “Your admission here was far from official, which helps, but I had to kill a few more people than I hoped, which might complicate things.”

“We might be able to clean up some of that after the fact,” Stiles says, already thinking of spells to dissolve bodies and Eichen House’s less than pristine record keeping. 

Peter flashes him a grin, and Stiles finds himself smiling back. At least he hasn’t lost everything.

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Please no hate it's just supposed to be fun

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something something not acting right during a holiday with your in laws

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I don’t go down easy.