#(I mean I realise maybe hes trying I'm sure it's not that simple)

[adhd-merlin]

colin... colin morgan... where are you

[rainydayathogwarts]

hi, this is the first time I'm writing a request on tumblr but I really like your writing (and unfortunately I'm very picky about writing styles🫣) I have tons of ideas for one shots in the back of my head so I'm coming to you with this rather simple one: reader x remus

Remus & reader are sth like friends, they have a secret crush on each other; remus is the casanova of gryffindor tower and all the girls (and probably boys) are crushing on him, Remus isn't quiet aware of the impact he has, reader reveals it to him in a convo (maybe while studying?) they're having that everyone finds him attractive and he asks if reader does aswell and so onnnn...

honestly, do with it what you want, I'm sure you will slay it! in case you hate the idea pls just ignore my request haha!⭐️

What about you? - Remus Lupin

summary: despite having a whole fanbase of girls who want him as their boyfriend, remus is only interested in your opinion wc: 1k

The giggles you heard as you walked past a group of girls with Remus had you rolling your eyes, cutting off the middle of your conversation. You couldn’t even have a single trip back from the library without a group of Remus’ fangirls making a big deal over him, but the boy didn’t notice them, only taking note of your unusual reaction.

Remus brushed a hand to the back of your arm, his soft touch stealing your attention from the group of insolent girls. “You alright?” Remus asked, carefully watching your expression change from one of annoyance to empathy. “They don’t bother you?” Remus’s eyebrows furrowed, a crease forming between them “Who?” You glanced around the hallway, looking for another group of Remus’s fans. Finally, at the sight of some third year girls huddled around in the corner of the hallway, nervously glancing towards you both, you nodded your head in their direction, softly elbowing Remus in his side. “You know, your little fanbase of girls?” Remus stopped in his tracks, making you look back at his when you realised his disappearance. 

“My little what?” You laughed at the shock in his voice, repeating “Fanbase. Honestly Rem, it shocks me every time that you don’t have a new girl in your bed every day. You could have the entire school lined up to have a turn with you.” Remus stammered, finally picking up his pace, hooking his arm with yours to drag you back to the common room with him. “You need to start over, you’ve lost me.” He said, coming to a stop in front of the fat lady’s portrait to mumble the password.

“I’m surprised you don’t know.” “Sweetheart, just give it to me straight.” He begged, slumping down on the couch in front of the fireplace and patting the spot next to him. You didn’t fail to take notice of the jealous eyes following your figure as you sat close to Remus. You felt your chest swell with pride, and almost wanted to call out ‘Yes, I’m closer to him than you’ll ever be. Cry about it.’ But there were pros and cons to being Remus’s best friend. Pro: you were Remus Lupin’s best friend. Con: you were only Remus Lupin’s best friend. And you feared that with the discovery of all the girls who wanted to have him as their boyfriend, all you’d ever be was his best friend.

“There’s nothing much to it. You know, apart from the fact that every girl in the castle wants you as their boyfriend.” Remus was silent as he processed the information, blinking slowly. “You know, it’s just always been this way. I think people started realising that you’re more than just a pretty face.” “Pretty face?” He mumbled. “Wait. Every girl in the castle?” You shrugged, replying “More or less. I mean, I can assure you that Lily isn’t one of them.” You both laughed at the comment, an image of the infatuated couple displaying in your head. Remus slid his hand into yours, squeezing it softly. “Well, what about you?” You felt your face immediately heat up at his question, trying your hardest to maintain eye contact with the boy, but you couldn’t help the way your gaze dipped down to look at the way Remus held your hand.

You gulped. This was not the first time you and Remus held hands, not at all. But you’d never held hands in this context, with the boy asking if you wanted him to be your boyfriend. “What about me?” You echoed, returning your gaze to Remus’s eyes. The boy seemed to suddenly get nervous, his face flushing as he began to stumble over his words, voice quieting down significantly. “You said every girl in the castle wants me as their boyfriend. Does that apply to you?”

You were very aware that Remus could probably hear the fast thumping of your heart, and you could too. You only wished you had a trick to know how he was feeling too. “It’s fine if not!” He announced at the same time you said “Only if you want it to!” A painful silence settled between you. You cleared your throat, watching as Remus opened and shut his mouth. He didn’t make a move to say anything, forcing you to speak up. “It’s fine if not…” You started, “Does that mean you want it to apply to me?” 

“I mean, it would be pretty nice if the girl I like wants me to be her boyfriend. But if she doesn’t, I guess it’s…” Remus’s words trailed off as he saw a wide grin on your face. He swallowed thickly, forcing his face to cool down, but that wasn’t possible. Not when you were cupping his cheeks and leaning forward to press a bold kiss on his lips. Remus’s hand curled around the nape of your neck to keep your lips pressed against his, only pulling away when he deemed himself ready. “Let’s go out!” He announced the second your lips parted, standing up abruptly. 

You blinked quickly, looking up at the tall boy and asking “Now?” Remus nodded, holding his hands out for you to take. “Yeah, let’s go out now. On a date.” You took Remus’s hands, letting him pull you off the couch. He let go of one of your hands, the other one sneakily intertwining his fingers with yours, leading you out of the common room. Remus led you onto the Hogwarts grounds to spend time together, but it was impossible to have a conversation when neither of you could take your eyes off the other’s lips. Instead, your first date was spent chasing each other for kisses by the black lake, where watchful eyes allowed the news of your relationship to be spread all around hogwarts by the time you got to the great hall for dinner.

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[dedfly]

Hii! I was wondering if I could request headcanons for Shadow milk cookie x reader? Just about how he would act when he realizes he loves you and how his actions and stuff changes when he starts to have a crush on you? <3

I can't believe i writing again. Requests are still closed(only writing related ones i still prefer drawing stuff.), I just couldn't help myself with this one. New trailer made me all nostalgic

Disclaimer:

This is about Shadow Milk, if we talking real people here rember if someone loves you they would not play mind games. They are not cookies of deciet, it's not their quirky trait. Your partner or friend should be clear with you from the start

Remember there always would be people who loves you. And you always deserve better

Cw: Mentiones of gaslighting

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Shadow Milk cookie x reader

♪ Can't say it would be long realisation. Maybe few days not the love from first sight but not the slow burn you know?

♪ But it surely would be "Oh yeah... This one" with creepy ass smile

♪ Alright, let's go and look past his thick hair right into his messed up head.

♪ We still would see the same pragmatic cookie just this time all his schemes about making...no, actually

♪ He would not try and get out of his way to make you fall in love with him.

♪ Why would he? It's inevitable.

♪ All his "little" courtship focused on one simple thing - leaving an impression

♪ You will rember him and what's is most important

♪ All your little partners didn't bring you as much effort as he did

♪ And by efforts I mean focusing all his attention on you

♪ Making you speak more than he usually let anyone

♪ Doing his sweet voice while he speaking to you

♪ Gifting you flowers some flashy gifts with ribbons, but nothing too resembling of him...yet

♪ But I don't think he would change drastically it's still him. He would be lying and deciving feeding you with half truths just like everyone

♪ It's in his nature, really

♪ His flirting is fleeting with you. Blink and you miss it

♪You can say but he's a total flirt with Wind Archer and Pure Vanilla why not me?

♪ Well it's me who writing this okay? I think he just being annoying to them on purpose. It's not actual flirt he would use in a serious courtship

♪ Just kidding, he would act differently just to look how far your boundaries stretches

♪ I mean he's also a performer which is making it way worse

♪ He so dramatic and his courtship, he's too reminiscent of a bird

♪ You will notice his act in no time. His attitude to you would be special that's for sure

♪ You might think uh aren't you just contradict yourself? No why would I? :)

♪ His actions still making you doubt his intentions

♪ WORSE of all he would not be reassuring in a traditional way so it not helping. He's still vague about his true intentions

♪ Not in a tsundere way more like a "Me? Flirting with you? Hm... How odd. You sure my gesture of gratitude isn't messing with your head?" "What? Do YOU want it to be something more?" And more of the "Are you sure? I don't recall that"

♪ Oh yeah and it's all in a lovey dovey period... Don't think he would be the one confessing first.

♪ His attitude would draw you insane that's for sure

"Ah? Asking me out on a date??? Hm... Tsk tsk tsk. Took you long enough."

♪ His mask would quickly fall off as soon as you get in a relationship tho.

♪ You will choke on his love in the best way possible

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Okay I'm not surprised thr only cookie who made me want to sit down and write this there Shadow Milk

[luveline]

i was thinking about roommate!spencer going home after a week off working on a case and finding reader sleeping on the couch waiting for him to get home

Spencer cringes as his nails scratch the paint around the doorknob. He’s a tepid mixture of tired and sad, demotivated from another bad case, the subway home, the too many steps to the apartment. He hopes the BAU has better pay after his probation is over. He’d get a new apartment, fix up his shitty old car, maybe even get a haircut. 

For now, it’s just him, his tired feet, the threadbare couch, and you. 

You’re snoring with your face crushed to the armrest, hand tucked under your chest. You’ve started sitting and ended twisted to one side. Your back will ache when you wake up, but you’re blissfully unaware of it while you sleep. Spencer has half a mind to let you sleep undisturbed. 

He steps over your book of crosswords on the floor and the pencil waiting beside it, bending over to pat your arm. When that doesn’t rouse you, he grabs your shoulder, about to shake you awake when you sigh in your sleep, a simple, sugary sound that sends heat to his cheeks instantaneously. You’re often innocuously lovely, at least in his eyes. 

Spencer frowns and goes to make you a glass of sweet tea to wake up to. He’s secretly hoping you’ll wake up before he returns, but you’re still snoring, your face crushed, pressure on your neck. 

He wonders if you sleep on the couch often. He’s never caught you sleeping in the living room when he’s home, but this is the third time now he’s texted you that he’s coming back and walked in to find you waiting…

Are you waiting for him? 

Spencer can profile you. It doesn’t feel right, he tries not to be invasive, but he can work this out. It’s his job. 

First, the text you sent that read, Can’t wait for you to come home, I’m making chicken noodle soup for us 

Neither indicative nor exclusionary of his theory. You could mean can’t wait as the metaphor it tends to be. 

Your crossword book. Upon further inspection, he realises the pages are bent on one side, and the tent of it has landed where your hand curls toward your chest. Alright, it fell. You stayed up until you were so tired you dropped your book. 

But… you could’ve been watching TV. He turns to analyse the TV set. The standby light turns orange when it’s been left on for eight hours at a time, and you and Spencer are kind of broke, so you don’t leave anything running on purpose. You’ve never fallen asleep watching TV while he was home— 

All these reasons. 

He could just ask. He turns back to you with lips already parted, prepared to try again to wake you and slip it in casually, Shit, you weren’t waiting for me, were you? 

You’re already awake. 

Tired, you smile at him like you’re not surprised he’s kneeling at the foot of your seat. Like you’re glad he’s home. “Spencer,” you say, voice etched with the last dregs of sleep as you turn onto your side completely, giving a little wince at the stretch. 

“Hey, you okay? Why are you sleeping on the couch again?” 

You roll your eyes for what he’s not sure and reach down blindly for the crossword book by his knee, your fingertips brushing his thigh and leaving lightness in their wake. “I'm glad you’re home. Need your help, m’stuck on my puzzle.” 

“That’s what you’re sleeping here for?” 

“What?” Your eyes slip closed and then flutter open. “Mm, no, was just waiting for you to get home. How was Santa Monica?” 

Spencer has to force himself to answer around the pretzel of nerves tied in his throat, because it’s what he’d wanted, but he wasn’t ready. “It was great! I mean– I mean, it was awful, and three people died and–” He breathes in wrong. “It was fine.” 

You curl your book on the right page, blinking heavily at an unsolved row. “Oh, good. Um. Okay, ‘to carry a torch for someone’. Eight letters, not obsessed. Doesn’t fit.” 

Spencer traces the soft shudder of your lashes where they’re desperate to kiss the skin below your eye. “Besotted,” he says quietly. 

You gasp happily. “Besotted. Perfect! I missed you, genius, you always know the answer.”

He hands you your fallen pencil. “I missed you, too.” 

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

(Perhaps controversial) theories on Harry Potter first drafts/story structure

I've been reading some more old Harry Potter meta (critique) (damn I miss those LiveJournal esque communities) and after some of the theories I've read I'm now 90% sure that Deathly Hallows was actually the third, or maybe even second book that Joanne started writing.

I love deconstruction and I am a writer, so this kind of thing interests me on a personal level as a high-profile reference that a lot of people might be familiar with, even as generally I have strong critiques for Joanne both as a person, and as what I consider to be something of an impostor in the fantasy genre, as a writer who both openly (at the start of her career) disavowed fantasy classics as beneath her, claimed not to be writing fantasy, and in my opinion, heavily plagiarised works of other authors within the genre and then played ignorant when called out on it by people who by that point had less power and industry clout than she did.

This is going to be critical of JKR, so for those not interested in that, maybe don't read on below the cut. It's not my intention to make anyone feel negative about something that's special or sacred to them.

Some members of the LJ community noted that Deathly Hallows (DH) has many, many recurring references and callbacks to the first book, Philosopher's Stone (PS), with certain characters even seeming to regress to those versions of them in terms of their behaviors, motivations, and what they centrally held as important.

After considering it again I've also come to the conclusion that that's one aspect that throws so many readers off DH as a conclusion to the series, a series that has 'grown up with' the reader and consciously shifted from children's lit to YA; and from a series of fantasy holiday movies helmed by Chris Columbus to a fantasy adventure series with gruesome monsters and wands becoming essentially the ranged weapon variant of lightsabers or the conduit for MCU-esque superhero abilities... that in terms of the writing, the morals, and the overarching themes, actually DH goes backward in that regard to the Roald Dahl-inspired simple morality of the first book where violence was cartoonish, monsters were existential rather than grounded, and Harry and friends were essentially young children trying their best to solve a mystery; rather than the adults the world has contextually by now established them to be.

Joanne has boasted that she had written the Epilogue very early on. What if she had in fact written out a lot of DH very early on?

She knew the books were going to cover (at least) seven school years. I think she decided after the first one, she would write (most of) the end of the series, and then if she needed to, she could write more than 5 other books in between.

DH takes place when Harry isn't in school. But nothing about the story means it has to take place when Harry should be in school.

Thematic and character-based parallels-wise, it might have actually made a lot of sense for Harry to be the same age that his parents were when they passed away, in Deathly Hallows, to make the walk through to the forest with his parents' ghosts, back the same age as they were when he first saw them in the Mirror of Erised more of an exact parallel tearjerker.

And a lot of the criticisms that DH faces - "why didn't we see inside Hogwarts during Snape's regime, and what happened to Neville, Luna and Ginny and the rest of the kids in Harry's year?" - would be nixed if this story was never meant to take place in Harry's final school year.

I suspect that what happened at some point during the height of her fame and blowup is that Joanne realised that a) she was so successful already she wouldn't have to write as many books as she had originally planned; especially because b) movies were now also in the works or being released, and the actors would only be believable as teenagers for a certain duration, but this led to c) now she had a smaller total possible number of books in which to fit all of her vague ideas of where the story would end up going and what the big setpieces were planned to be. (Hence the lengths started to balloon)

I might end up writing a part 2 to this because (ironically) I don't want to make this post so long, but as a starting point I would theorize her original outline may have gone something like the following:

Book 1, Harry Potter and the Philsopher's Stone. Establishes our characters and the main setpieces; Harry Potter, Ron-and-Hermione (who essentially function as a two-headed sidekick machine), Snape, Dumbledore, Voldemort, James-and-Lily-Potter

X number of books, as-yet undefined, at least one per school year, but potentially many more, like most contemporaries to her went in to their careers expecting to write, that expand on the young characters' relationships in small ways, with Draco Malfoy, his foil friends to HRH, and his family, as minor antagonists to drag out the series as long as possible - and never intended as more than that, while Dumbledore and Snape bubble away in the background

Harry's final year of school, in which Dumbledore is killed by Snape in front of Harry at the climax of the year, is buried in the school grounds, and Snape ascends to the Headmaster role

Only then at some point, Voldemort is resurrected and takes pride of place as the main villain, pushing Snape down into the secondary villain/antihero role

The final book in which Harry returns to Hogwarts a la Lord of the Rings/The Empire Strikes back, too late to have a confrontation with Snape (a classic tragic beat) and instead has his showdown with Voldemort, finishing his parents' legacy and completing what they themselves could not do.

I genuinely believe that all of the following were late additions to the story that ended up taking on a life of their own with the fandom, that Joanne never planned for, never really anticipated, and - because we know that she is both stubborn to change in general, and sees herself as a visionary above steer or critique - refused to meaningfully update or edit around in the final version of the last book:

Sirius Black existing at all

Remus Lupin existing at all

Peter Pettigrew existing at all

Fudge, Umbridge, and the Ministry-vs-Dumbledore/Harry sideplot - which, knowing that Joanne is a woman of faith, reeks of a 'skeptical nonbelievers vs true Christians of faith' plot

Luna

Everything about the Triwizard Tournament

Everything about the Yule Ball

Everything about the World Cup (I would go as far as proposing these were originally planned as three episodic books that she ended up blending together)

Spotlight Death Eaters like Barty Crouch and Bellatrix Lestrange

The Founders, the Basilisk, and the Sword of Gryffindor

The Horcruxes

Anything about magical creatures, aside from as episodic flavor to provide a one-off background character

International characters like Fleur, Krum and Madame Maxime

Most fight scenes, including everything with the Dept of Mysteries

Grimmauld Place and Kreacher

And perhaps controversially, most of the racist/blood war elements of the conflict in the books. Because, in DH, apart from flavor description of what the Death Eaters etc. are doing...

The conflict described seems, as it did in PS, to be primarily a personal one, with Voldemort's vendetta being against Harry specifically, and as a proxy, Dumbledore's followers, and people who believed in him and his ideals.

And maybe that's why Harry, the character, never seems to end up caring that much about the foundational principles of why they are fighting the war, and who it is actually there to protect, besides his personal connection with Voldemort as his personal nemesis...

Because Joanne never originally wrote it that way. Voldemort dies, and "all was well."

[wolfiesmoon]

hey, i wanted to say first that i love ur writing style. Also I wanted to ask (if is not a problem) jade, floyd and leona the prompt “cheek kisses that leave red lipstick stains”

awwww i'm so glad u think so!! i'm not sure if you mean the more silly one or the more serious one but either way i'm very happy 🩷

the reader is gender neutral in essence but they do wear lipstick because it's needed for this fic

jade's is suggestive i suppose????? so watch out for that????

⋆୨୧˚ Jade Leech

"Interesting choice of lipstick. Not in a bad way, of course." Jade commented upon seeing you.

"I bought it yesterday, but I still have something I have to test out." You tried your best to look innocent and nonchalant.

You've had this lipstick for a while actually, but you still haven't tested if it's transfer proof yet. Jade is the perfect candidate to test that out. Atleast in your humble opinion.

"Oh? And what might that be?" he smiled at you.

"You'll see. Like, literally right now." you mirrored his decievingly innocent smile. After you kiss him, his eyes will probably go wide like they always do when he isn't expecting something. Which just so happens to be one of your favourite expressions of his.

You reached your hands out to him and pulled his face close to yours, then pressed a nice, long kiss on his right cheek. You mirrored it on the left one too, of course. Symmetry always looks nice.

Just like you predicted, he made the exact face you envisioned, with slightly pink cheeks as a bonus.

"Oh. I was... certainly not expecting that." he sounded genuinely surprised, smiling happily at you and showcasing his sharp teeth in the process. Knowing Jade, you honestly don't want to know what he thought you were going to do with that lipstick.

"Aw man, it's not transfer proof." you acted slightly dissapointed, but in reality, you couldn't be more glad that it isn't. Hmmm, it kinda feels nice to catch Jade off guard like that. Maybe you should do it more often.

"You don't realise what you've just done, do you?" his smile quickly turns sinister in a way you can't quite put your finger on. It makes you feel all weird, like you're pray getting cornered.

"Done what?" you laughed nervously.

"I do hope that you are good at hiding bite marks." as he said that, he was already grabbing your wrist and dragging you to god knows where.

"Wait... Jade, where are you taking me? Jade?!"

You have a feeling the lipstick might get smudged by the time you're done.

⋆୨୧˚ Floyd Leech

"I don't wanna talk to you..." Floyd sulked, not looking at you.

"He's been like this for the whole day." Normally, Jade would deal with Floyd's bad mood, but he's been causing even more trouble for the Lounge than usual today and was not very willing to be put in a better mood by his brother, so Jade was forced to employ higher forces to help him out. The higher forces being you, of course.

"Right... Actually, I think I might have an idea on how to solve this." You thought of a certain thing you wanted to for a while now but never had the chance to.

"Is that so?" Jade noticed the mischevious smile on your face, amused at whatever you'll come up with.

.

"Floyd, come with me." You pulled on his collar, sounding confident and serious.

"I told you, I'm not going to talk to you..." he glared at you, trying to push your hand away.

"There's no talking involved." You pulled harder and he finally let up, silently letting you drag him to a quiet corner of the school.

Because he's still in a bad mood, he hasn't looked your way at all. This also means he hasn't noticed the lipstick.

Suddenly, you grab a hold of his face and press a kiss to his lips before he can protest.

"Oh... oooooooh!" His face brightened up and it seems his mood has instantly improved. Floyd's a surprsingly simple guy sometimes, isn't he?

But, you're not done yet.

You pepper kisses on each of his cheeks without letting him say anything at all. He lets out strange but not entirely unwelcome noises while you're busy decorating his cheeks with kiss marks.

"There. Are you in a better mood now? Because the Mostro Lounge needs you." you looked satisfied with your work and so did Floyd when he got a glance of himself in the mirror.

"Ehhhh, do I really have to? I feel like squeezing you, not going to work. Especially not now that I'm all decorated with your kisses." he looked annoyed at the mention of work, wanting nothing more than to smother you with love and bonecrushing hugs right now.

Seems your plan kinda backfired since he became a little too happy and doesn't seem fond of letting you go anytime soon.

⋆୨୧˚ Leona Kingscholar

It is a bit unusual for you to wear such a bright lipstick color. He brushes it off, thinking you were just in the mood for a bright color or something.

Why should he care what color your lips are, anyways? Does not matter at all.

"Leonaaaa.... come here, kitty kitty~" you called him over jokingly and he glared at you in annoyance which only made you snort harder. But he still came over anyways, so you call it a win.

He looked at you, waiting for you to clarify on what you called him over for. Better be worth his time.

You grabbed a hold of the two braids at the front of his hair and pulled him into a kiss. Though it was a short(er) one since your main targets are his cheeks.

You made sure to thoroughly decorate them with kisses, turning his head left and right to inspect your work and make sure the number was about equal.

"You done?" he tries to sound unbothered, but you immediately see through it. He's definitely really happy about it.

"Yeah. You can go back to napping now." you let him go, and he lingered for a moment, no doubt dissapointed that you actually said yes. But since he didn't want to show it, he returned to his napping spot under the tree and you went back to studying in the library.

.

"Leeeeeoooonaaaa! Are you here again? Professor Crewel is mad at y- What is that on your face?" Ruggie's scolding session was cut short when he noticed the lipstick marks on Leona's face.

"What are you.... Ugh..." turns out Leona kinda forgot about the fact that lipstick usually leaves marks and that his cheeks were full of 'em this whole time. He groans at the realisation.

Though... they might not be that bad if they were made by you.

"Oh my god, stay still. I gotta take a photo of this. I'm sure your family would be happy to know you're doing well in your love life." Ruggie was about to pull out his phone but was stopped by Leona who swiftly grabbed his wrist. Wait, since when was he standing, anyways?

"Jesus, you scare me sometimes..." Ruggie pushes his phone back in his pocket. "Well, do I go get something to clean your face or what?"

Leona hesitates.

"Yeah, yeah."

[mrsbluehands]

One letter at a time - Hazbin Hotel

Headcanons (x reader)

Hazbin Hotel

SFW Alphabet (A, E, G, M, P)

Hello! School has been killing me lately and i kind of forgot about writing for a while. Please forgive me T-T

Anyways enjoy this little piece of writing i did in class hehehe (i should try to pay attention sometimes) I didn’t write the letters in order. I went with the inspiration, so it might be a little chaotic, my bad.

Please forgive my mistakes…I’m still trying to improve.

Tw: Little suggestive themes

Characters: Lucifer, Alastor, Angel

Pronouns: Gn

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Argument

Lucifer

You two rarely get into arguments. Lucifer is absolutely not the type to let some heated conversation you have, turn into one.

He hates yelling and, getting yelled at by you, brings tears to his eyes Even if he'll never admit it out loud, his emotions are all over the place when it comes to you.

He might have the bad habit to let you win any kind of disagreements you two can get in. The fear of losing you like he lost his first love being too much to bear.

If, he can't do anything and you both end up having a real fight, he'll give you time to yourself if you need, but please don't give him the silent treatment, you'll just end up crushing him.

Once you finally make up, he’s all over you! Getting all sweet and affectionate and spending as much time as he can with you.

Alastor

Alastor never looses his cool, even if you throw insults his way, or at least, he'll never show you that it's making his ego falter. After all, you're the only one that can crack his cold heart.

He might even like seeing you so worked up. It gives him a sense of power, seeing that he can affect you so much with a few words.

But if you start to cry, it'll tug on his heartstrings. That's when he realises he went too far.

Still, he'll never admit making a mistake and will simply give you a hug if you let him, comforting you by brushing off his comments as "teasing".

But if you keep sulking, you might earn a kiss from him. A rare kiss he will only offer you on special occasions. So you might need to enjoy it while it lasts!

Angel

If it’s a real argument, the kind where you shoot insults you don’t really mean, he usually gets very emotional. I can imagine him tearing up when he’s angry. He hates it.

When you two fight, it’s never over some silly little thing. It’s about something that you or he deeply cares about.

After, he will quickly feel awfully guilty for whatever he told you without thinking. You can be sure he’ll reach out to you first.

Maybe by leaving you a sweet note or text to apologize, he knows you love each other too much for a simple disagreement to ruin what you built together.

He most likely will apologize even if it wasn’t his fault. He’ll shower you with affection until you can’t do anything but melt and apologize as well.

Embarrassment

Lucifer

With him there's no in between. He's either a blushing mess or so confident you won't be able to keep your cool around him.

If he's in a depressed mood, any kind of compliments, signs of affections or physical touches will brighten his mood. You just have that effect on him. If you keep going, he'll get all soft and mushy.

You have to remind him that he deserves your attention and your compliments. He thinks you're so perfect that he is wondering how he can deserve you.

If he’s more in a confident mood, you’ll have trouble keeping up with his flirtatious remarks. He’ll be all over you, always keeping a hand (or a tail on you).

He cannot get enough of your own blushing face. It feeds his ego and heals his broken heart a little more every time.

Alastor

He simply cannot get embarrassed. The best you'll get from him will be surprise, or confusion, but never shyness when you try to flirt with him.

I'm convinced this man cannot blush, or will never allow himself to.

As much as he loves you, his affection toward you is the only weakness he's allowing himself to have. He won’t show much of anything when you two are in public.

BUT, you can be sure that he will try to do anything possible to fluster you somehow when in a more private setting.

Like by suddenly throwing a compliment your way, or leaving a kiss on your cheek or forehead without any warning.

He much rather like to see you embarrassed you than to get embarrassed!

Angel

I feel like Angel is easier to fluster than we might think. At first, he looks like the kind of man whose confidence will falter at nothing.

But deep down, critiques and insults will always leave a mark on his heart.

It’s nothing that you can’t heal. With kisses, hugs and sweet words, Angel will become putty in your hands.

If you want to melt his heart and see his cheeks all red, you simply have to reassure him a little about how he’s special in your eyes.

No matter how many times he can hear these shallow words all day, of course, in his eyes, you’ll always be the only one whose words matters.

Gift

Lucifer

He isn’t the kind to give out gifts as often as Alastor, but will always make sure to give you a little something on special occasions.

He's more the type to give you small, but thoughtful gifts rather than anything luxurious. It’ll surely be something he made himself, or something that reminds him of you in some way.

He wants nothing more than to make you happy.

With this guy, looking at you with his wide, hopeful eyes once he's given you something, it's impossible for your heart not to melt. Even if it's the tenth rubber duck he's been giving you.

Alastor

You want gifts? With him, you'll get so many gifts you won't know what to do with them. It's part of his love language after all.

He wants to be sure he's the only one who can make you happy by offering you exacly what you want.

As opposed to Lucifer, he won’t gift you very emotional things. What really makes him happy is to see your eyes light up when he hands you something you wanted.

He probably wouldn't admit it out loud, but his dead heart swells with pride when he sees your smile. He knows you're smiling because of what he does and that him and only him, can make you smile this way.

Angel

I'd say giving gifts isn't necessarily part of Angel's love language. He loves making you happy and seeing you smile, but maybe not by giving you an object.

He's way more the type to spend time with you, to go out somewhere, just you and him.

When the thought of giving you a gift would occur, it would most likely be for your birthday or on special occasions.

I think he would just love to gift you clothes that you would never think to buy for yourself. Nothing makes him more happy than to see you happy too.

Missing you

Lucifer

Oh, this guy, with his soft and mushy heart misses you dearly every time you're not by his side. Sorry if you're independent, you'll have trouble keeping up with him.

He'll clearly always find excuses to leave his boring meetings just to spend a bit more time with you. Nobody in his life can compare to you or can be more important.

If you have to be gone for a day or more, you won't be able to breathe once you get back home.

He'll be all over you, glued to your side for at least a day. He might need extras kisses so he'll allow you to go to the bathroom.

You’re the new light in his life. Please don’t let him slip into the darkness again.

Alastor

Al won't miss you the same time way Lucifer does. Oh don't fool yourself, he does miss you whenever you need to go out or help Charlie with chores, but he won't openly say it to you.

He'll patiently wait until you're back to the hotel, greeting you with maybe a larger smile than usual.

If you were gone for the day, he might even get a little more touchy with you. Wrapping an arm around you, holding your hand in his or hooking your arm under his.

Again, he’ll never admit it, and will blame it on his stupid animal instincts, but he might rub his head on yours…just to be sure you smell like him.

He has to make the others understand that even if you were away from him for a while, you’re still completely his.

Angel

I can imagine Angel in an ambiguous relationship with you. Or a secret one he has to hide from Val…and his fans. But you're his favourite fan so of course you're worth it ;)

He’s good at hiding it, but always misses you. I mean, at this point, you’re the most important thing in his life for hell’s sake.

He’ll send you a few texts during the day if you’re away from the hotel. Nothing too overwhelming. Just to know how you’re doing and if your day is going fine.

But when he’s at work, where he might not be able to text or call you that often, he definitely finds himself longing for you.

At the end of the day, he can’t wait to feel your sweet words and affection he’s just beginning to feel like he deserves.

Prepare to get attacked by a wave of affection when he comes back home. He’ll be glued to your side for the rest of the day…or night.

PSA

Lucifer

He likes it, but definitely does not use it like Angel or Alastor. He has a classic view of it. Loving how he feels like you two belong to each other whenever he’s holding your hand while walking.

I mean, who would complain about having the king of hell on their side, insisting to hold their hand?

He sticks to the basics, unless someone is purposely trying to hit on you. That’s when he might show his true colors a little more.

Whether or not you’re smaller or taller than him doesn’t matter, he will sneak an arm around your waist and pulls you closer.

Sometimes, his tail will wrap itself around your thigh, especially when he’s feeling playful. After all, he needs to tease to at least a little, right?

Alastor

Not a big fan of it, obviously, but he will definitely use it to show everyone you two walk by that you're his. That means keeping a hand on you all. the. time.

For some reason, he won't let you initiate it. He likes control and it shows even in the slightest of things, including physical contact.

His favorite thing is to kiss you on the forehead or on the top of your head. He loves feeling so tall compared to you.

Those kisses are the only ones he will allow if there's someone else in the room. You'll have to wait in the comfort of your room at night to get more of his kisses…

Angel

Huge fan of it, but that's mostly because he doesn’t see anything wrong with showing the rest of the world his affection toward his partner.

Of course it’ll be different if you two have some kind of secret relationship, but in that case, he’ll show you more of his affection in private.

Would be the kind to kiss the hell out of you to say goodbye and then leave you all flustered for the rest of the day.

He takes a certain pride in flustering you as much as he can, whether it be soft touches or by whispering things in your ear without warning.

But unlike Al, he'll probably end up doing what he claims the moment you two are alone.

He knows how soft he is and will gladly use it to his advantage.

Leaning down to rub his nose on your nape, holding you by the shoulder or the waist, sometimes sneaking a hand under the fabric. That’s his favourite love language.

[lewanarta]

Andrzej Stękała for Onet: "I would like to ask what Damian and I did to the president that he denied us basic rights, such simple safety." In an interview with Dawid Dudko, the Polish ski jumping medallist talks about the grief over his partner: "There are images of Damian's death that are stuck in my mind. There was no chance to save him."

Translation of the interview under the cut.

Dawid Dudko: Damian would like this interview?

Andrzej Stękała: I'm sure he would be sitting here next to me right now and together we would tell you about the eight years of our relationship and our plans to spend the rest of our lives together. For me we are still together, only Damian is no longer here, as if someone took him away from me.

Do you still cry a lot?

I try not to cry and look forward, go to trainings, meet people. People in general make me able to pull myself together somehow. The worst thing is when I'm left alone, then it's hard to bear it all, it gets really hard, so unbearable.

I guess it's good to let yourself cry, but it's also good to remember that the other person would like to see you happy, however difficult it is right now.

My loved ones tell me that they would like to see such a happy Andrzej, smiling like before. But right now I can't honestly be happy about anything. I would like to finish our house that Damian and I built together, I know he would like that.

After you started a relationship, you wanted to quit sports.

Well yes, I thought: what do you mean, a gay professional athlete! I imagined that if people found out, I'd be cancelled. I decided that if I must choose between love and work, the choice is obvious for me. It was thanks to Damian that I realised that if I wanted there to be a place for gay people in sport, I should do something myself.

And that something shouldn't be running away.

I think everyone wants to share their happiness with others, not hide your phone from your teammates in the locker room while your boyfriend texts you. That's how I behaved in the beginning, hiding my phone, constantly glancing behind me to see if maybe someone was looking and about to ask me something and I'd have to lie. I would go to training camps and hide. Separation from Damian was one thing, but even worse was the whole thing of hiding him from the world, as if I was going to do something bad with this love of mine to someone.

Were there fictional girlfriends?

I had a lot of female friends, I always enjoyed the company of girls, I just somehow never was drawn to them in the sense that I was drawn to colleagues. One day, around the time of primary school, I asked my mum if I could bring a girl home. I tried something with the girls, but of course nothing came out of it, because it couldn't come out.

It is said that mothers generally feel all this.

Mine felt it too. It was her I told first. We had a long conversation, she explained that she supported me, but that she wouldn't want anyone to hurt me when there is still a lot of homophobia around. She's a strong woman, she's been through a lot, I admire her. You have no idea how much time I spent doing this kind of assessment in my head, who I could possibly tell at the beginning, who wouldn't reject me and think horrible things about me, or would not call me names at all…

I have a very good idea.

Oh yeah, you know what I'm talking about.

Who was the first person you told at work?

My coach. He hugged me, told me it didn't change anything and that I was a f***ing awesome person.

And you got a big weight off your back.

How much can you live like that, purposely getting up early so no one gets suspicious that you live with the other guy? Because I told people I was living at my family home, and I was already with Damian at the time and we were renting a flat together.

And then you made a public coming out.

With that support from people close to me, not only family but also the guys I train with, it's been easier. My mates know that just because I'm gay doesn't mean you have to bit your tongue in front of me or not tell any jokes because it's not appropriate.

Because you have support and acceptance from them.

Well, I am very grateful to them for such openness. They don't allow themselves to be manoeuvred into political games.

What do you mean by political games?

You watch the news with your family, that family loves you, supports you, accepts you, and from the TV they hear that you are an ideology and a threat to the family. Our president denied the humanity of me too and the love of my life. It is known that many politicians play with homophobia, but this is the president of our country. And yet it was also the ‘scary’ gay man who was his source of national pride, shaking his hand.

Today, would you also shake hands with a president who threatened the nation with LGBT+ people?

I think I would. But I don't know if I would accept an individual state decoration from him, since who I am goes against his views. Today I would certainly like to talk to him, like a human being to human being. Because those few years ago, when he congratulated us on the team World Cup in Zakopane, the conditions for such a conversation were not there. And I was still sitting in the closet.

So what would you like to say to the president today?

I would like to ask what Damian and I did to the president that he denied us our basic rights, such simple safety. I would ask where the problem lies. Why the hatred? Mr President, you have a wife, your loved one. I also had a loved one, but officially we were strangers to each other. That really hurts.

And how do you feel this formal strangeness on a daily basis? Strangeness, let's be more precise, enforced by the lack of civil unions in Poland, the possibility of formalising the shared lives of two, adult, loving people.

There are images from Damian's death that have stuck in my mind. Certainly that moment when I found him at home, lying on the floor, and I tried to save him. But also the situation with the rescue helicopter, which I was afraid they wouldn't let me into, because I didn't formally have any rights to Damian. The doctors with everything headed to his mum.

Did you finally get into that helicopter?

Of course Damian's mum gave her consent, but it was no longer needed. There was no chance to save him.

Will you tell us what happened?

He suffered a heart attack. A few hours earlier we were still talking to each other, as if nothing was going to happen. Only in the morning, when I left for training, he was still asleep, so I didn't wake him up. I knew that when he got up he would make breakfast for the people who were building our house… Sorry, Dawid, it's still difficult to talk about it.

For me, the challenge in this conversation is not to cry myself. Thank you, Andrzej, for talking about all this publicly despite the difficulties. Because grief in LGBT+ relationships is still an almost absent topic in our country.

After all, we really don't want special treatment. It's just about what is due to adult, tax-paying, honest people. My coming out is also a reminder of this.

With it you also break with stereotypes. In the general awareness, an LGBT+ person is associated with the artistic world rather than the sporting world.

It's not worth hiding. Nothing bad happened to me at work when people found out who I was, I didn't experience anything that I could call homophobia in sport. In everyday life there are some offensive messages or comments. But should I care about someone who insults me anonymously from a fictitious account? You know, I think our national openness is much better than, for example, some politicians claim.

According to surveys, Poles are ready for civil unions more than some politicians are convinced. 'The LGBT community cannot expect me to force it or deal with their issues'. - Law and Justice presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki recently stressed.

It makes me want to cry when I hear such words.

We are talking during the Easter season. Did you celebrate this time with Damian somehow?

Yes, we were believers. I believe in God, I'm a Catholic, although it's getting harder and harder when you look at the Church. I go to church sometimes, but much more rarely than I used to. I try not to listen to sermons, because from the altar they can say really nasty things. I go for prayer. Damian and I used to go together.

Did you want to get married?

Damian proposed to me. See, I'm wearing a ring on my finger. We were waiting that maybe something in our country would change one day, we hoped we would live to see better times. We didn't want to go abroad and get married there, when in Poland such a wedding doesn't matter. As for the holidays, I don't generally associate them with the best things. Last Christmas we cried, had Christmas dinner and cried with my mum that Damian was gone.

When you acknowledge how difficult it is to maintain a relationship with the Church today, I am reminded of the words of Paweł Dobrowolski, the current director of Olszyn Jaracz Theatre, also a gay believer, who said in our interview: a Catholic also has his limits.

You could say that today's Church is testing our patience.

Damian had a Catholic funeral?

Yes, as a man of faith he would have wanted such a funeral. He was bid farewell by a good priest, because there are still such priests, after all. I assume that the priest knew very well that Damian and I were more than just friends. He kept looking at me during the funeral.

You could have said goodbye to your loved one. Many LGBT+ people in the current legal situation are sometimes deprived of this opportunity at all, they cannot go to the funeral of their partners, they are forbidden to do so by their formal family.

After my coming out, I got words of support from world-class ski jumping stars like Karl Geiger and Martin Schmitt. They said it could be easier for many people in Poland thanks to me. That's what I think about it too and that's why I'm sharing my lifetime loss with people now.

What are your plans, Andrzej?

I simply have to learn to live again, I just don't know how yet.

[shellshocklove]

❀ 2023 fic recs

hi friends <3 like last year i wanted to make a list of some of my favorite fics i’ve read that was posted throughout 2023. please read the warnings on the fics before reading, and minors do not interact with smut!

* = smut

❀ peter parker

burnt face and second base by @waitimcomingtoo (one shot)

pairing: peter parker x reader summary: peter can’t seem to stop accidentally hurting his crush.

blurb by @hollandsangel (blurb)

pairing: peter parker x reader summary: “oh please, who’s gonna stop us?”, “the police.”

*angel unaware by @silkscream (one shot)

pairing: peter parker x silk!reader summary: you’ve known peter since you were fifteen, shortly after you were both bitten by the same spider. it was too obvious that you’d end up loving him. as you drift apart during your first year of college, you’re not sure how much longer you can keep dancing in circles with him.

*blurb by @/silkscream (blurb)

pairing: peter parker x female!reader summary: reader fucks peter in his suit, the other suit.

*delay by @sparklingsin (blurb)

pairing: peter parker x gn!reader summary: you stop peter from going on patrol.

blurb by @t-lostinworlds (blurb)

pairing: peter parker x avenger!female!reader summary: "this movie is really scary, but you're into it so i'm trying not to cover my face the whole time, but-what is that?" and "i mean… i-i'm cool with sharing the bed if you are."

i spy, no spy by @/t-lostinworlds (one shot)

pairing: peter parker x avenger/secret agent!female!reader summary: You’re a trained spy, Peter was not. But you two ended up on a mission together where he was needed to be less of the chatty superhero in red & blue tights and more of a debonair undercover agent in a suit & tie. It shouldn’t be too difficult, right? No mask, no web shooters. Just you and him pretending to be fiancés, hiding and making out in a closet to avoid getting caught—simple. Unless he included his overgrowing feelings for you, of course.

a strange(er's) comfort by @/t-lostinworlds (one shot)

pairing: peter parker x female!reader summary: peter found a strange comfort in the graveyard, no less. but hearing about your day-to-day had been the highlight of his. and when one night led to the both you showing vulnerability, suddenly, peter didn’t feel so alone anymore. maybe a stranger’s comfort wasn’t so bad.

*in lust we trust by @scorpiomother (one shot)

pairing: mcu!peter parker x silk!female!reader summary: they don’t know one thing about each other, but they do know that they want each other. bad. little do they know, they are at the mercy of an influx of hormones caused by a radioactive spider.

*blurb by @webslingingslasher (blurb)

pairing: peter parker x female!reader summary: you get a bad calf cramp midway through sex.

break my heart by @hollandweather (blurb)

pairing: frat!peter parker x female!reader summary: peter wants to spend time with you.

your kiss, my cheek by @/hollandweather (one shot)

pairing: frat!peter parker x female!reader summary: better late than never? bullshit. frat!peter realises he loves you a little too late.

you're always gonna be mine by @darling-im-wonderstruck (blurb)

pairing: peter parker x female!reader summary: late nights with peter never failed to put your heart at ease at the end of each long day. all your worries and doubts seem to disappear in his presence, including your fears about first loves (and first heartbreaks).

subway by @tnmdfhgkg (blurb)

pairing: peter parker x female!reader summary: you met a cute boy on the train.

blurb by @/luveline (blurb)

pairing: peter parker x reader summary: peter catch you wearing spider-man merch.

blurb by @parkerpeter24 (blurb)

pairing: peter parker x female!reader summary: peter's hand gets stuck to your shirt.

❀ joel miller

*soft!dom joel miller by @joelscruff (series)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: a collection of important moments between you and joel miller, your grumpy new patrol partner in jackson, wyoming.

*feelings on fire by @/joelscruff (series, ongoing)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: you're back from college for the summer, staying with your devout catholic parents in your childhood home while they order you around and try to keep authority over you. as an act of rebellion you ask your new neighbor mr. miller to teach you how to play guitar, but it turns out there's a lot more he wants to teach you.

*boyfriend's!dad!joel miller by @/joelscruff (series)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: moments between you and your boyfriend's father, joel miller, who you have a secret relationship with.

*to freeze or to thaw & *a kindness you can't afford by @/joelscruff (two part one shot)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: joel stole you away to be his special girl.

*truth or dare by @/joelscruff (one shot)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: a harmless game of truth or dare ends with you tied up in a certain mysterious neighbor's garage.

*this one thing you did by @/joelscruff (one shot)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: dancing with a stranger at your favorite club leads to something filthy.

*mad love by @swiftispunk (drabble)

pairing: joel miller x afab!fem!reader summary: reader gets turned on after joel goes feral on some guy who tried to touch her.

*holding back by @/swiftispunk (drabble)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: smut from joel's pov.

*your summer dream by @/swiftispunk (series, ongoing)

pairing: joel miller x fem!reader summary: fresh on the heels of the worst breakup of your life, you find an unexpected kindred spirit in joel miller, who's agreed to tag along for seven days to a tropical resort with you and your parents.

*good to me by @/swiftispunk (three part series)

pairing: gynecologist!joel miller x female!reader summary: with your usual doctor out, you're stuck having to get your routine pap smear done by the gorgeous dr. miller.

*say it with your hands & *put your lips close to mine by @/swiftispunk (one shots)

pairing: joel miller x afab!fem!masseuse!reader  summary: ellie convinces joel to see the town masseuse. it goes mostly okay.

*creep it real by @/swiftispunk (one shot)

pairing: dbf!joel miller x female!reader summary: a masked angel. a rugged cowboy. you're the answer to joel's prayers...until he realizes who you are.

*stay here, honey by @/swiftispunk (one shot)

pairing: joel miller x fem!reader summary: you sit on dbf!joel's lap at a party, it's a whole thing.

no strings attached by @dustydaddyyy (one shot)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: you can’t deny there’s always been something between you and joel miller. The question is, is either of you going to do something about it?

*sweetheart by @/dustydaddyyy (one shot)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: you're home from college for summer '99 to visit your parents, when your eye wanders upon their next-door neighbor, joel miller.

*flash point by @/dustydaddyyy (series, ongoing)

pairing: pre-TLOU! joel miller x female!reader summary: 18 years after the world ended, and you never thought you'd find yourself stranded and alone in the Boston QZ. you've got one friend, a tendency for violence and sticky fingers, so what happens when you run across two notoriously ruthless smugglers one night and they chose to save your life?

*look at me, *give me some & *can't help it aka tinder!joel miller by @pascalisbaby (mini series)

pairing: DILF!joel miller x female!reader summary: ellie and sarah set joel up on a tinder date.

*say yes to heaven & *no angel by @/pascalisbaby (one shots)

pairing: chiro!joel miller x female!patient!reader summary: dr. joel miller gives you a little more than an adjustment.

*saved too many times by @/pascalisbaby (one shot)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: joel doesn’t mind punishing you, so long as he gets to watch you cry.

*signs i don't read by @/pascalisbaby (one shot)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: joel likes things done his way, especially when he’s fucking you.

*rock me to sleep by @randofantfic

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: joel makes love to you in a rocking chair.

*dbf!joel miller by @notjustjavierpena (series)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: joel, your dad’s best friend, finds you in your room crying and wants to comfort you.

*grab the bull by the horns by @proxima-writes (one shot)

pairing: pre-outbreak!joel miller x female reader summary: joel agrees to go out to tommy’s favorite bar, where he watches you ride a mechanical bull and wishes you would ride him.

*joel is such a sap after sex by @inklore (drabble)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: joel is a sap after sex.

*kinktober – body worship by @palioom (blurb)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: you worship joel's body.

*only need ten by @pascalpvnk (blurb)

pairing: jackson era!joel miller x afab!reader summary: morning sex with joel.

*sweetened breath and tongue so mean by @moonlight-prose (one shot)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: joel couldn’t fathom what you saw in him. a man bloodied with the ravages of life. he’d taken life, killed to survive, and there were times he even fucking enjoyed it. but you were soft. you were the good that remained. the light he shouldn’t be allowed to tarnish.

unlikely friends by @sweetercalypso (one shot)

pairing: joel miller x reader summary: joel and your cat have never gotten along, but maybe they’re more alike than they realize.

*need that charles dickens by @janaispunk (one shot)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: “what do you say, have i been a good elf for santa?”, “am i santa in that scenario?”, “sure,” you grin mischievously, “if you come down my chimney.”

*in the next room by @atticrissfinch (one shot)

pairing: neighbor’s fuckbuddy!joel miller x female!reader summary: when the peace and quiet of your apartment is disturbed by the noisy escapades of the couple in the neighboring unit, you find yourself entranced by the mystery man on the other side of the wall. and when you stumble upon him on a dating app…well, it might just be fate.

*between blurred lines by @livingemkayde (one shot)

pairing: best friend's dad!/dad's best friend!joel miller x female!reader summary: joel miller has always been...there. never different, always sporting a brooding scowl etched into his handsome face. he's your best friend sarah miller's dad, arguably worse, your dad's long time buddy. things are never different. not until this summer. not until now.

*for you, i would by @javiscigarette (one shot)

pairing: joel miller x female!reader summary: Joel catches you doing something you definitely shouldn't be doing and teaches you you lesson.

*tricks of the trade by @mypoisonedvine (one shot)

pairing: dark-ish!joel miller x female!reader summary: when you don't have enough rations to get your fix, you have to find something else to trade.

❀ javier peña

*soaked by @/joelscruff (one shot)

pairing: javi peña x female!reader summary: it’s hard being an intern for a man who won’t even look at you, but maybe there’s something else to it that you don’t see.

*(re)union with elvis by @tieronecrush (one shot)

pairing: javi peña x female!reader summary: reader and javi haven't seen each other since after graduation, until one night they bump into each other in las vegas, while both are there for their friends’ birthday parties. the next morning they wake up in the same bed, hangover and married.

*late night text by @undercoverpena (series)

pairing: javi peña x female!reader summary: it’s the year 2000. javi is minding his own business on the porch of his pop’s ranch when a text from an unknown number vibrates his phone. the only problem is, no one knows he has a phone and no one has his number.

*keep me in your glow by @/atticrissfinch (one shot)

pairing: javi peña x female!reader summary: on a sleepy saturday morning, javi has one small request.

❀ jack daniels

*cupcake by @ezrasbirdie (one shot)

pairing: car salesman!jack daniels x female!reader summary: jack daniels, lead used car salesman at his dealership, has a crush on you, the pretty receptionist. it's too bad he can't get out of his own way. luckily for him, you have patience and a soft spot for shy cowboys.

❀ ezra (prospect)

*darkness by @/ezrasbirdie (one shot)

pairing: ezra x female!reader summary: ezra likes to watch you sleep.

❀ dieter bravo

*bouquet, *bloom & *blossom by @/mypoisonedvine (mini series)

pairing: dieter bravo x camgirl!reader summary: being quarantined in his hotel room has dieter getting a little stir crazy, and when the drugs run out, he has to find a new vice. that's how he found you.

❀ eddie munson

blurb by @luveline (blurb)

pairing: eddie munson x shy!female!reader summary: reader is into the same music as eddie & has a similar aesthetic but not the confidence that is associated with it. eddie takes the initiative to interact with her because she’s nervous too do so?

was that so hard? by @/luveline (one shot)

pairing: eddie munson x shy!female!reader summary: your best friend eddie tries to explain what a hickey feels like and finds he doesn't have the words. he could show you, though, if you want?

if it barks by @/luveline (series, ongoing)

pairing: rockstar!eddie munson x rockstar!female!reader summary: you don’t mean to make an enemy of eddie munson — he’s handsome and talented, but he’s the biggest jerk you’ve ever met. eddie thinks you’re infuriatingly pretty, emphasis on the infuriating.

*smut by @/luveline (blurb)

pairing: rockstar!eddie munson x afab!reader summary: rockstar eddie and his gf get a little rough before/after a show.

a quest for bed by @/luveline (one shot)

pairing: eddie munson x female!reader summary: eddie fights to get his usually shy and moderately intoxicated girlfriend to bed when you insist on clinging to him at every turn.

too much by @/luveline (one shot)

pairing: eddie munson x female!reader summary: you get upset when eddie's friends think you're clingy. he sets you straight with some unbridled affection.

our ghost by @/luveline (one shot)

pairing: eddie munson x female!reader summary: best friends since middle school, you tell eddie everything, which is why he's so surprised to find out you've been keeping a secret —you’re hearing a voice whenever you're home alone. he’s always had a thing for the fantastical but he can't believe in ghosts, and the longer you insist on it, the more worried he becomes. this would be bad enough if eddie didn’t have a secret too, and it threatens to change everything between you.

blurb by @/luveline (blurb)

pairing: eddie munson x shy!female!reader summary: eddie insists on taking care of you when you get overwhelmed in the middle of a concert.

one shot by @/luveline (one shot)

pairing: eddie munson x female!reader summary: eddie is a hockey player.

is it cool if i hold your hand? by @/luveline (one shot)

pairing: eddie munson x shy!female!reader summary: eddie asks you out on your very first date, indulging you in huge philly cheesesteaks, a vanilla milkshake (with two straws), a largely neglected bucket of popcorn, and a sugary first kiss.

a thread of time by @/luveline (one shot)

pairing: soulmate au, eddie munson x female!reader summary: eddie wakes up with a red string tied from his finger to yours, no idea where he got it, and no idea how to tell you that you're caught on the end of it.

❀ hobie brown

can i kiss you? by @spiderg0th (blurb)

pairing: hobie brown x spider person!reader summary: you visit his world for the first time.

❀ tom holland

*girls talk boys by @luciwritesstuff (series, ongoing)

pairing: actor!tom holland x female!reader summary: coming home for the holidays only to find your old, formerly pain-in-your-ass neighbour got. . . hot?

all the time in the world by @/luciwritesstuff (one shot)

pairing: tom holland x female!reader summary: tom thinks you're pregnant.

the end by @lauras-collection (one shot)

pairing: tom holland x reader summary: this is not how you thought your evening would end.

*little birdie by @youandtom2 (one shot, part. 2)

pairing: rich!dom!tom holland x inexperienced!rich!female!reader summary: you always thought you hated tom more. but after a wild night that has now led into a confusing situationship you start to question who you should be hating more: your nightmare brother andy, or his best friend tom?

*hunting ground by @/youandtom2 (one shot)

pairing: dom!tom holland x sub!bratty!reader summary: how else would you get adventure back into your life than to visit a speakeasy that’s definitly not a kinky-cult-sex-club?

❀ harry styles

*soft by @moonchildstyles (one shot)

pairing: harry styles x female!reader summary: harry is y/n’s best friend, so she thought she knew everything about him. but, it looks like they both had some secrets: harry thought about her a lot more than she realized and y/n has really soft hands.

feathery by @/moonchildstyles (one shot)

pairing: harry styles x cupid!female!reader summary: y/n is a cupid and harry might be her soulmate. if that’s even possible anyway.

*élan by @/moonchildstyles (series)

pairing: bodyguard!harry styles x rich socialite!female!reader summary: harry is a bodyguard by trade and y/n would do anything just to be left alone.

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[littlemissstel]

Confirmation- Shiu Kong

slight angst with happy ending, no use of (Y/n), use of 'Doll', not proofread

blush divider by @bernardsbendystraws

cyber divider @saradika-graphics

You and Shiu were growing apart. Were? You have grown apart, more than you had ever meant to in the first place. When you were younger you thought that was just a silly excuse people used because, "If you really loved someone then how could you grow apart? Why wouldn't you catch it sooner?". But now you've come to understand that it isn't as simple as that, you just wish it didn't have to be through experience.

Nothing happened to mark the start of this new period, no fights, suspicion, change in personality. The problem was that nothing happened at all. At some point the mid-day calls stopped coming, the texts that read, "This made me think of you", the spontaneous gifts and actions of love...The "I love you's".

But you did love him.

The two of you just got too comfortable in your own routines that there was no need for expressing admiration for the other because they would always be there, right?

You had only realised after an outing with your friend. The two of you had met for dinner, getting dressed up, with your hair in a style that took longer to do than it lasted- but it had been a while since you had any reason to and you felt special. The night was at it's peak and through the windows you could see the heard of party goers in practically transparent clothing, you and your friend sitting front and centre to watch as they went by.

"Uhhggg that should be us right now, you know! We used to go out all the time, what happened with that?"

"I'm not really sure, I think I've kind of slipped away from the club scene but we should go out again sometime soon"

"Good! Because you have no idea- how shitty these dating apps are. You know how i felt about them in the first place but I thought ,'you know what, why not give it ago'. The worst decision of my life-"

You cut her off with a burst of laughter, rubbing your fingers soothingly against your temples.

"Don't you think that's a little dramatic?"

"No, not at all! You don't understand, it's like they're rationing the good guys for us single people. I have no idea how you found Shiu but pleeaasee, if he has a brother, hook me up"

You couldn't keep up with her antics, your laughter gradually becoming gasps for air while she continued her passion filled rant. As the conversation went on you couldn't help but think about your own relationship, you didn't mean to ruin her view on it, but with the more examples she brought up, the more you realised that the romantic gestures you did were a thing of the past- heavily outdated.

From that day on, your awareness of the situation had grown and how you hated it. The apartment was often empty, rarely were the both of you home at the same time and when you were you felt like roommates rather than lovers. Shiu was constantly stressed, you had no idea what about - when you tried to ask him he quickly brushed you off - and any attempt at displays of affection seemed unnatural. You didn't know anything that was going on in his life and vice versa.

You were trying, but a conversation about it...maybe now wouldn't be the best time. You weren't quite sure how to bring it up in the first place. But you knew with every passing day, the hairline fracture between the two of you deepened and you felt the loss swallow you whole. Every rejection was a heartbreak. You were just too far away.

It took another month for you to gain the courage to address the problem. Truth be told, you could have done it before but you refused, not wanting to ruin the rare moments you two shared each others presence.

Which is why you hesitate to do it now. The both of you on the sofa, a noticeable distance apart, on your own devices.

"Shiu, can we talk for a minute?"

He looks up slowly.

"uh-huh...is something wrong?"

"No. Yeah a little bit but it's no ones fault." You start, taking a staggered breath in. Your chest starting to tighten and you became hyper aware of yourself as he gave you his attention. Your hands begin fidgeting with each other, trying to preserve any last sense of comfort.

"I don't know if you've noticed, but we've been so distant lately. We barely even talk anymore and when we do it's never past the bare minimum. I know that people go out of the honeymoon phase and it's normal, but I really don't want to be like this. Not with you, that was never us."

"This sounds like break up talk Doll."

"No! I didn't mean it like that! You have no idea how much I love you, I just have a problem with how we've been showing it."

There's silence for a minute as you both stare, intently waiting for a reaction as he drags a breath.

Shiu knows you're right. He's felt it too but the highs were just high enough to forget until he could repeat the cycle all over again. He never thought past it just being normal, after a while couples stopped needing to do 'couple-things'. His parents, as loving as they were, never went out on dates and he couldn't recall a time he'd seen them kiss or hug because they just didn't need to. They had been together for a long time, just like you and him, they had kids and were married so what other proof did they need? No one would've thought to question it. But seeing you now, in front of him, struggling to find the right words to say...It didn't feel right.

You had gone into your separate worlds, only to return to each other at night. But when? That wasn't him? The him that loved to buy you flowers to keep on the kitchen table, the one who savoured every embrace and rued getting up in the morning. The other kind of life, it wasn't for him.

He moves his spot closer to you before taking your hand and squeezing it.

"Then we'll fix it. We can go on dates, just how we used to when we first started out, okay? I won't take extra jobs and we can talk about our days over dinner or sit down to watch a movie." He says, watching as a smile makes its way onto your face.

"Seriously?"

"Seriously."

You engulf him with your arms wrapped around his neck gently, placing your head onto his shoulder while he supports you around the waist, a small rubbing motion made on your back.

"Thank you, I'm sorry"

The kiss he places on your head releases the tension of your longing, carrying with it the missing confirmation the both of you had lost all too long ago.

"I'm sorry too."

low-key wanted to make it soul crushing but got over my bad mood before it could happen😔watch out

Please feel free to leave any idea/recommendations

[meetmypointlessaddiction]

December Fics Day 7 ~ Holiday Cheer

Thanks or all the comments and support on the other parts of this Daily Fic challenge, it means a lot and I'm so glad people are enjoying what I'm writing 💛

Just a reminder that my requests are also open for any Logan ideas that you have or even if it's just to share any thoughts. 🫶

Summary: Logan's refusal to get in the Christmas spirit ruins your mood. How will he make up for it?

Warnings: like the teeniest bit of angst, but like it's not even really that angsty

Pairings: pretty sure this is suitable for everyone (fem!reader/male!reader/gn!reader) however towards the end in a conversation with Storm I feel like I may have slipped a little and it leans more towards a female reader

Enjoy and please like and comment if you do. Something as simple as an emoji literally makes my day better so please don't hesitate to comment and obviously reblog to share my work.

December Masterlist

Getting Logan into the festive spirit was difficult. And  that was putting it nicely. Just as you’d expect, the man was a huge grinch and no matter how much you begged and pleaded, Logan refused to participate in any of the festivities that were going on around the school. 

For example, you were currently chasing him around your bedroom, trying to force a Christmas jumper on his. Around Christmas time, the dress code for teachers changed from formal to Christmas jumpers and so it was tradition for you all to wear ugly jumpers or fancy ones or one with flashing Christmas tree lights on the. “I am not wearing that. It’s awful.” Logan said, shut away in the bathroom, the door locked and his body against it to prevent you from opening it. 

“Logan, come on. Seriously, it’s not that bad. Besides, all the teachers are wearing one, it’s tradition.” You pleaded through the door, your head rested against it as you tried to bargain with him. “We can go out to that nice steakhouse you like if you wear it?” You tried but he was having none of it. “Fine, you big baby. Don’t wear one.” 

Logan thought that was the end of it but, like usual with you, there was always something else. He got two days of peace, living his life as the grinch of the mansion before you were yet again chasing him, trying to force him into some festive item.

~~~~~~~~~~

He was at the other side of the kitchen counter, glaring at you as you held up a pair of pyjama pants, decorated with red candy canes and gingerbread men. “Oh Logan please! We’ll be matching and it’ll be cute. Nobody even has to see you in them, I’m not asking you to walk around the school in them.” 

“Bub I don’t wear shit like that, you know this.” He argued, unwilling to crumble to your wishes. You glared at him and threw the pyjama bottoms onto the kitchen counter. He noticed how every time he turned you down, the sadness on your face seemed to multiply. Was he being harsh?

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Three days before Christmas and you were in a mood with Logan. You had asked him to wear a Christmas hat to the dinner that evening and he had refused, straight up refused. Not even the usual bickering that you had before you finally left him alone, the man said no and went and locked himself in his office. Maybe he was being a grump but he didn’t want to wear the damn hat and your puppy dog eyes could not convince him otherwise.

It wasn’t until Storm knocked on his office door, asking to come in to talk about something that he realised how much he had messed up. “You’ve really upset them, you know, Logan?” Storm pointed out and Logan looked up from the work he was marking. 

“Huh? How have I? I don’t wanna wear the damn Christmas stuff, it ain’t that big a deal.” He grunted and Storm whacked the back of his head. 

“Jesus Christ Logan how dense can you be? This is your first Christmas officially together. The first Christmas where the pair of you aren’t just having some kind of fling. The matching pyjamas, the Christmas jumper, the Santa hat. They want to make memories with you, they want to be able to look back on your first Christmas together and recall all the cute shit you guys did. Instead, you’ve spent the majority of the month being a grumpy grinch and turning them down with every request they had.” Storm explained and Logan’s face softened. 

“Oh…” He muttered. “I didn’t realise it meant that much. I just-.” 

“This proves how dense men are. You’ve had almost 200 years on this earth to figure out people’s emotions and you’re still clueless. Look, I don’t know how you can fix it but you better find a way to before Christmas Day otherwise Christmas dinner is going to be awkward for everyone.” With that she left and Logan immediately knew how to fix it. 

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On Christmas Eve, while you were in your office grading papers, he slipped into your shared bedroom, finding the Christmas jumper, the pyjama pants and the santa hat, putting them all on. He had been a bought a big bouquet of roses and some sweet Christmas themed treat that you had raved about all month, putting them on your bedside table before lounging on the bed, waiting for you to return. 

When you trudged back into your shared room a little before 10PM, you weren’t expecting Logan to be awake, nevermind sat on the end of the bed, dressed in festive attire holding a bouquet of red roses and a box and treats. “What-?” 

“I’ve been a dick and I’m tryna make it up to you. Storm kinda pointed out to me that this Christmas is more that just a holiday. It’s out first one officially as… well as a couple and I should have been more considerate of how you wanted to celebrate it and I’m sorry I’ve been turning you down.” He finished with a deep breath, standing from the bed and holding out the flowers and chocolate. You took them from him and noticed the note sticking out of the flowers. 

Sorry for being a dick, I’ll do better. Yours always, L.

“Logan…” You could feel the tears brewing as he held you against his chest, one hand on the back of your head and the other on the small of your back. “I’m sorry too… I shouldn’t have been so pushy. You didn’t wanna wear them and I got way too upset about it.” 

“Nah I was being a baby. The jumper isn’t even that bad and the hat is kind of cool, well the kids seemed to like it anyway.” He admitted and you noticed how he had pulled the return tag out of the pyjama bottoms. 

“You know that you can’t return those pants now that you’ve pulled the tag out?” You pointed out and the tips of his ears flushed pink. 

“Well they umm… I like em. They’re comfy and well… I wanna match with you.” He mumbled and you couldn’t help but kiss the adorable, shy smile from his face. “Merry Christmas, bub.”

This might be my favourite one I've written so far so let me know what you think!

Dividers: @coolcatsgraphics

I'm also on A03 :)

[spider-person1]

I just read something about dragon slayers giving something to their significant other as a way of confessing. I can't find the post but it's somewhere on Tumblr and it got me thinking.

Dragons are known to guard treasures. And they don't like it when others try to take it from them. Let's say, Natsu and all the dragon slayers (raised by dragons) are like this as well, hoarders, I think, is the term.

Let's say, Natsu's treasures are memories, so every time he lives something that he deems significant, he has a little token that he associates with the memory (throwback to the fact that he has Lucy's maid dress from his first mission with her). Anyway, dragons, as proof of love, would give their most important treasure to their mate. And there are two ways this scenario can go:

1:

Natsu and Lucy are on a simple mission, nothing over the top and it's just Him, Lucy and Happy. I see them walking in a forest, idk why but there in a forest...And Lucy finds a pink pebble. She really couldn't care less, but something caught her eye. It's the exact shade of Natsu's hair. She laughs, picks it up and gives it to Natsu "Look, it's you as a rock" she's just teasing, making a joke because they're on a chill mission and she's relaxed. She thinks nothing of it, she figures Natsu would either laugh with her or mumble something about it being stupid 'cause "I'm a dragon, not a rock" or whatever. Either way, she thinks he's gonna throw it and leave it at that.

But no, he keeps it. Lucy laughed, with her pretty smile, and gave him a rock that made her think of him. So he kinda made her smile ? Because of his rock self ? Whatever. He loves that rock, it makes his friend happy, and he likes when she's happy...'cause she's pretty yk.

But he slowly realises that he *loves* love that rock. Like...he doesn't want Happy to find it, he doesn't want ANYONE to see it, that's HIS rock. He wants to keep it hidden, close to him, he wants to protect it. That's HIS treasure. He soon realises, that's his most prized possession. He loves it.

And, obviously, he loves Lucy too. Let's skip forward, they fought a lot of enemies blah blah blah, defeated Zeref, blah blah blah...He wants to keep Lucy with him, to protect her and make her officially HIS. 'cause she's pretty and he saw those other dudes hitting on her and that infuriates him.

So, one day, he goes to her house with that pink rock. "She remembers", he thinks, "That rock made her happy, so she'll remember it". It's the perfect mating gift. A happy memory of a moment where it was the three of them, being a silly family (he most likely burnt something at the end of that mission, most likely meant that they didn't get the payment...)

Anyway, he gives the rock to her. She doesn't really react, she kinda just accepts it. No over the top reaction, no hug, no nothing. Natsu doesn't think anything about it, she accepts the rock, and she even keeps it on her desk, where she writes her book (maybe he thinks that's her most prized treasure?).

Doesn't matter, they're mates now. Because that's how it works, right ? And so he's all happy because she accepted his gift. Let's say, all the other dragon slayers know about it. The first generation, of course (and rogue and sting, you get what I mean). Luxus doesn't really know, or he doesn't care about 'dragon mating gifts'.

Let's say, Lucy casually brings up that weird (but cute) gift Natsu gave her, and let's say she told Wendy. "Yeah, he just showed up and gave me that pink rock with a big goody smile. He's stupid like that." Wendy simply blushes and mumbles a little "Congratulations" to which Lucy just looks at her, confused.

Now, a few months later, there's a whole discussion about who's most likely to be in a relationship. Nobody knows who started it, but soon the whole guild is debating about it, saying who's gonna be alone forever and who's perfect for each other. "Well, one thing I know for sure, Natsu's never gonna have a girlfriend" says a guild member, "Yeah, he wouldn't recognise flirting even with a girl clinging to him" says another, laughing.

Natsu freezes, staring confused as everyone agrees. The other dragon slayers are all showing the same expression. What do they mean ? "What do you mean ? I have a mate."

The whole guild is silent, some flushed red and others coughing to cover a laugh. "What do you mean, 'mate'" that might have been Gray with that mocking tone, not making fun of Natsu 'cause he thinks he's lying, but because of the wording.

"Well, I have a girlfriend" mate, girlfriend, same difference for dragons. Lucy looks at him, a bit betrayed. Why didn't he tell her about it ? Aren't they friends ? He practically lives with her !

"Wait...you have a girlfriend? How ? Who ?" All the dragon slayers are confused as to why everyone is asking that, it's pretty obvious to them. "I've been with her for months ! I thought you knew, they know" he says, pointing at Wendy and Gajeel. Lucy feels a pang in her heart, Gadjeel knows ? But not her ? And Wendy didn't tell her ? Why ?

Mirajane, feeling that this isn't really answering anything, asks again "Who's the lucky girl ?" She says with a kind smile. To that question, Natsu just points at Lucy and with a matter-of-fact tone says: "her".

And it's at this moment that we can witness for the first time, the fairytale guild entirely silent. No whisper, no laughs, it's as if they all just stopped breathing. Everyone staring both at Natsu's casual demeanor and Lucy's very pale face.

"Natsu... I'm not your girlfriend." She tries to reason. She would know if they had gotten together. Natsu is *heartbroken*, what does she mean she's not his girlfriend? She accepted his gift ! "But I gave you my treasure" it might be the first time she witnesses Natsu's so helpless at so close to tears. He brains does the work fast, remember that pink rock he gave her, the congratulations from Wendy..."Oh..."

She's not really mad, just a bit frustrated. She doesn't know how to explain to him that it doesn't work like that for normal people, but let's be honest, nobody at Fairy tale is normal. She lets out a sigh, and Natsu tenses. He knows when Lucy's about to kick him for his stupidity and he feels like this is gonna be it. She simply pinched his cheek, "That's not how it works, that is not how you get with someone. You have to ask them, with words."

Anyway, there's no real end to that thought, I'm not good at writing. This is longer than I thought it would be. You can say that she spent the whole day explaining communication to him and they got together for real and they're in love, yay !

I have an alternative to that scenario, but I don't know if I should really write it. I never really posted anything here and my writing is baaaaad

Anyway, that was just a thought. Byee

[acupofteaintheafternoon]

Hiii!! I heard you write for Limbus Company!

I’m not sure you write for side characters, but I wanna request a Vergilius x sinner!reader where Vergilius doesn’t want to admit to himself he’s in love, but it’s clear to the others that he’s a lot kinder/softer to the reader

Vergilius x reader, having a hard time to express his emotions

where the fuck are the limbus company banners, i'm asking for a friend, also his name is so hard to spell. and also i'm sorry if he is ooc

made these headcannons too long i swear

The hell is going on that bus? There’s no sane sinner in that bus (maybe except Ishmael and Heathcliff)

And then we have someone like Vergilius. Complicated ass man. (just like Edgeworth)

I do not know him on a personal level but this is what I can say. When he is in love he’s obvious about it, as much to his dismay

You’re a sinner , that’s all that you have to know. But this man is so obvious even you realise how in love he is with you.

You could be the most oblivious person on earth but you could still realize that ''yeah he does love me''

He is strict as fuck with others, stricter than that one teacher that everybody hates. But with you? He is kinder.

He doesn't accompany you in missions yet he has a soft spot for you. He is concerned about your safety

As much as Dante can bring the sinners back, he is still concerned about you and your own safety. What if Dante cannot bring you back? What if you get lost? What if Dante dies and you die too? His thoughts are spiraling 

Expect this man to be a little bit more talkative with you and asking you about your missions. 

Faust does that for him but with you? He asks you first. And he likes seeing you talk about how the mission itself

If you’re a yapper (like me) then he will actually pay attention to what you have to say (unlike he does with Don Quixote)

He is miserable , that’s true (and looks like smoked Roland from Library of Ruina lmao) but your presence in that hellhole of a bus makes everything better for him

Charon sees you as a mother figure but says nothing about Vergilius and how he’s acting towards you. You have to discover it yourself in the end

Even if he doesn’t accompany you all in dogshit he will still be there waiting for you to come back

This man DOES NOT SMILE AT ALL. He forgot the basics of smiling. But that frowned mouth of his might make a tiny bit of a smile when you’re there.

Now to the juicy part, how does he deal with his emotions?

Simple, be in denial. That’s all.

He will try to distance himself from you but it is almost impossible, given the fact that you’re with him 24/7

Even the others in the bus saw that he is a lot kinder and softer with you

Rodion keeps on telling you in her way that Vergilius loves you

Heathcliff is even worse. He doesn’t bring it up to you but brings it up to others, in his way of talking obviously. 

The only sinners that actually cared to tell you are Rodion and maybe Ryoshu (my beloved). The rest are like ‘’go realise it yourself’’

This man is not a loser as much to everyone’s disappointment. He does not blush, he does not stutter, he does not become awkward and he responds in the most serious way possible. He will call your antics stupid while he thinks that they’re cute or some shit.

Love is like a new word for him. What does it mean? What language is it? Does the language even exist? Is it in the english dictionary? How do you spell it?

Yeah…Good luck dealing with Vergilius’s confession (if he is even going to confess, that’s the problem)

Also, good luck going through his pavement of approximately 828 emotional walls built around him. Thank you for your sacrifice

[magknightidv]

The Knight and The Florist.

Masterlist.

Warnings: Nothing you wouldn't expect from an Idv fic. (Fairly short)

Richard Sterling x fem! Reader

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The Florist. Y/n L/n. Recently dragged into the claws of Oletus Manor by a mysterious letter supposedly telling her of clues of the location of her missing brother. A boy so young when he was stolen from their mothers arms, the girl had barely understood the severity of the situation until she watched her family succumb to an illness that she was immune to.

How will her first meeting with the equally as new "Knight" go?

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Matches. Games. Decode. Run. Hunters. Survivors. All key words I must remember. I must. One wrong move could cost me and the other survivors our winning matches, the more we win the more we get in return. Or so I've been told by Lily. She's a sweet girl who means well, energetic, maybe a little peculiar.

What if I fail my match. Who will come rescue me. I've been teamed with the other newest survivors, they likely will not be as experienced as the players who have been stuck here for years. No, they simply won't be as experienced. I cannot be fully sure I won't fumble and lose us a match. I do not even know how to play these games, decoding seems simple enough but what do I do if the hunter finds me? I can supposedly contain the hunter but I do not even know how to, I can even support people in some equally as unkown way. Oh how I wish they'd put me in a practise match where there would be no rewards, no consequences. Just a bit of practise.

My breathing becomes heavier and my room suddenly feels a lot smaller. I can't take it. Out.

Get out.

Leave.

Run.

Hide.

A ring of black takes the edges of my vision as I sprint towards the garden area of the manor. The flora and fauna will comfort me, surely. They wither quickly, like my family did. I'm safe with them. In my rush, I fail to notice the taller figure of a man in front of me as I enter the greenhouse.

My head smacks straight into the figure's shoulder, he grunts and turns with arms outstretched as though to catch me should I fall. I don't fall but I do stumble back in my panicked shock and take in his appearance. Long, dark hair, heterochromic eyes of blue and brown, a lean build. He's incredibly handsome, and the beauty mark just below the left (my side) side of his mouth adds to his looks.

"I-" My words fail me as I stare at the man in complete awe. He's the even newer "Knight" I suppose. A moment of stunned silence overtakes us. The greenhouse calms as though even the plants were riled up by the outburst before calming with my own heartrate. "I'm so sorry." I finally blurt out.

The man doesn't seem to particularly care, almost apathetic even before realising I'm apologising. "Oh. It is no issue, I suppose I was the one blocking the doorway." He bows slightly before returning to his towering height.

"My name is Richard Sterling. I have been dubbed, The "Knight", of these games. If it is not too much to ask, would you be able to tell me what this entails?" His tone is sincere and face although fairly flat, there is a slight upturn to his lips. The sense of dread fills me once more as I realise he's asking for advice. Advice I cannot offer.

"I'm very sorry Mr Sterling. I, myself have not been present for any matches yet. I am able to show you the schedule however if you would like? I saw that our first match would be together I believe, so we can learn together." I try to pull a kind smile onto my lips and it works as he smiles in return.

"Yes, I would like that miss..?" He holds his arm out for me to take, I wrap my arm around his and begin to lead him.

"Y/n L/n, The Florist."

What did I come to the greenhouse for again? I strain my memory to try and remember but all I see is the embarrassing but enjoyable first meeting with Richard.

---fin.

Something short and sweet, I have more ideas for these two that I wanna get to working on. REQUESTS ARE OPEN BTW PEOPLE START SENDING THEM IN PLEASSEEE I BEG.

[messrsrarchives]

hi Robyn!! im curious, what are your thoughts on bartylily? idk if you’ve talked about it before or anything, but i heard your thoughts on Lily’s complex morality in the jeverus yap video and wondered how you think that applies to bartylily

MHM YEAH YEAH I HAVE !!! only briefly and yk,, i don't have TOOO many thoughts about them but i'm definitely intrigued!!

i mean we can go very simple with academic rivals: we can go simple with lily constantly trying to prove her worth, constantly trying to prove that she deserves a space in this world even if she came into it two steps behind whilst everyone else keeps moving forward, like she's neverrrr going to catch up because they Won't Let Her. pair this with that one annoying boy who just doesn't do anything !! she's so fucking frustrated that this guy just blazes through everything and he's so arrogant about it (add an extra layer here if wanted because i like to imagine barty truly did like learning so maybe there's a bit where she realises how much work he puts in and that intrigues her a bit. why not flaunt it? why put on this big show of arrogance when it's all hard work? what else is he hiding etc etc). you can go simple but still complex with a poot muggleborn and a rich pureblood and all of the assumptions she would have about him and how quickly it's thrown upside down OR alternatively, how little it changes??? academic rivals with a touch of a field experiment LOL

i think you could also go more,,, hm. this is the bit that's related to what i say about jily/snily - snape is Fundamental to lily. there is no lily without snape, he is the forefront of her complexity - both in terms of Him and also the shared experience they have of homelives and cokeworth etc - she haunts the series with her love but love is MESSY! and dangerous. and her standing by snape for so long until his actions affect her personally is so so soooo complex. i have a dorlily fic that i never got around to posting but a big part of that is their connection over slytherins. a big part of it is yk, people are mad at lily for sticking by snape when he does all of these bad things, but dorcas Gets It. dorcas gets it so so much. so they can bond over it all. over that grieffff even though they're still Here. barty and co are Still Here and snape is Still Here but they're both grieving the people they used to be and yk, also grieving maybe a part of themselves because they never expected to be the kind of people that stand by and do nothing but they Can't. love is messy man. so i'm thinking that kind of vibe of "okay if there's something inside snape worth saving, maybe we've been too quick to blow off all of the slytherins". i'm thinking a girl that is so fucking scared because the world she was brought into isn't built for her and she is so desperate to find proof that this can be changed. that they just need to fix it. they need to find the rot and cut it out and plssss don't say this is just How Things Are, surely somehing went wrong along the way? anything. literally anythingggg that could have gone wrong besides Herself.

i do wonder,,, a lot of that complexity i mentioned is rooted in shared experiences and time spent together, so i think it would be slightly different? i think the reason snape is the one lily sticks by is because of that history and how much they relate to each other and i'm pondering how barty and lily would do the same? vastly different backgrounds and experiences - arguably a lot of overlap too. similar themes with petunia and barty crouch sr. you could do something there! forced proximity via dorcas and/or snape? prefect duty? lily finding barty doing something he probably shouldn't be - does she turn him in or does she turn a blind eye because they've been spending more time together and she thinks she's finally starting to unpick who he is underneath all of this?

i think there's mhm yeah a lot of potential avenues you could take to make them something so fucking tragic. so tragic and so complex and also so,,, gentle? i think there's some tenderness you could find there too.

but ultimately,,, i don't *personally* see bartylily as something long-term or even really,,, definable??? more as a phase, at least for lily. OOOO i think it could be really cool if it's NOT a phase for barty and you could work a bit with the longbottoms' attack? you could work a bit with okay there's two houses that could be hit, dear god don't let it be lily's son. let it be the other boy. don't make me have to ruin her life again type vibes??? obviously we'd play around with that a lot so you still get the twisted insides because a past relationship isn't enough for that so yk, that's where we pad out the trauma and messy morals prior to it all! bonus points if lily and alice were friends so he's fucked either way really. but,,, i'm thinking. it wouldn't be long-term. for lily it's a phase. maybe even post-SWM??? are you catching my drift with the thoughts there? post-SWM and all the anger there that she couldn't fix him or save him and she's really angry and upset and heartbroken after that happens that she seeks comfort in the first person she can find and if she convinces herself that she can save barty and she can crack him open to find something nice inside, maybe she can still do the same with snape? so it's this short-term, desperateeee thing in my mind of trying to convince herself people can be saved but she ends up losing herself even more because of it (see again: she never thought she'd be the type of person to stand by someone like snape for so long).

tldr (sorry i yapped): mhm yeah i could definitely sit down and try to get myself intrigued in them! i could definitely sit down and develop a cool scenario that makes me yearnnnn for them but,,,, my overarching thought here.... the. the thought eating away at my brain is like. snily. i feel like it would mimic snily a lot so i think i'm leaningggg towards that short-term fling. i'm leaningggg towards that desperate "plsplspls prove that you can be fixed because i need to know if snape still can be, pls give me some indication that you guys are still human" and barty proving that he CAN be good, he's not like his dad no no he can be different and good and there's something worth saving within him, just find it plsplspls type of vibe so really !!! i'm potentially just inflicting my snily feelings onto bartylily but,,, i could be intrigued. i could be intrigued and i say this as if there's ever a chance i wouldn't be intrigued in a ship LOL.

but yah !! i could see how the same kinda themes and traits pop up and i can see how i'd get invested in them but in my mind they exist - in the wizarding world at least - as this short-term desperation to prove something to each other and to themselves but muggle world,,,, i could be convinced of anything 🙂↕️

[elainsgirl]

So I saw elriel related vids on tiktok and saw a g/wynriel saying in the comments that Sjm likes/is inspired by mythology and that clotho giving the necklace to her means that she is the golden string between Azriel and Gwyn. I'm like... what???

They put soo much importance to that necklace and bonus chapter alone. What if clotho doesn't even give it to Azriel which some of us speculate, because clotho saw how sad he was while trying to get rid of the necklace?

And It's sad how the chapter is brought so out of context that they completely ignore the first part and all the intimacy between Elriel

I feel like Azriel being able to smell elucien bond and Elain being able to see visions definitely has deeper reasons. Maybe she even saw visions of her with Azriel or Vassa with Lucien which is why she is so distant from Lucien. Maybe she already knows/feels he's not the one for her. Or simply doesn't like him like that way

I just find it so funny when antis nitpick the mythologies they choose to believe Sjm is following. The mythology where Ivan’s 3 sisters marry 3 bird-transforming wizards and he’s off to save his wife who is cursed by Koshei? Nah Sjm clearly isn’t following that one.

Clotho is the “gold string” between gwynriel? The one connecting them together? Kind of a bold statement to say when she has done absolutely nothing for Gwynriel- by acosf there is no mention of Gwyns necklace despite her meeting with Clotho on page aftet solstice, simple deduction -> she hasn’t given the necklace to gwyn. Therefore she has started nothing between them, she has not interwined their fate together. Far from a fated string,

Now, Clotho is connected to fate - she could have given the necklace to gwyn - who would have then worn the necklace, this could have symbolically ended elriel and began Gwynriels fated love story, ofc none of that happens.

I just find it so embarrassing when they try to make the necklace work for Gwyn, it was brought with another woman in mind. Everything about that necklace - the rose, 3 colours, its simplicity yet beauty when light passes through- it all screams Elain. Not Gwyn, nothing about that necklace is associated with Gwyn - its why I strongly believe she doesn’t have it. Sjm wouldn’t make her wear jewellery symbolic of another woman, also…the idea that mated men gift their mates jewellery yet gwyns mate is out here, taking his time and buying a necklace for another woman- the whole thing is icky and so unromantic for Gwynriel. I also believe Az went back for the necklace.

*Can you imagine if Clotho did give Gwyn the necklace but we find out the reason she hasn’t worn it is because it wasn’t her style? Lmfao*

What else can they place importance on for gwynriel? What part of acosf screams Gwyn and Az are mates! They’re the next love story! The bonus is the foundation of gwynriel and it’s something GAs can’t deny either. This same bonus that has not been reprinted (to my knowledge) or even included in the SE despite how popular it is. If Azriels book was next - his bonus would’ve been the perfect addition. I mean what do you expect? These same antis that minimise the importance of the TT, Hybern, Az figuring out elain is a seer, “why not make them mates?” Scenes. Ofc they’re going to act oblivious to the importance of elriels bonus chapter. The fact Az wanted to BEG on his knees for Elain, finding out the secret Nesta realises in acosf is all about Elain, Azriel aversion the elucien bond. Im sure in the mind of antis -these are just useless filler scenes mass chose to focus and write on for a reason they can never explain. Sometimes it truly feels like Antis have read a different bonus chapter to the established one, in fact it sometimes feels like they’ve read completely different books w the interpretations they come up with 😭

The fact Azriel can smell eluciens bond is glossed over bcs it proved he hs some connection to Elain otherwise the bond should not affect him the slightest. Mass was clever w her wording in acowar - “only a mate can sense what is amiss” -> Lucien sprouting the same thing Amren/Madja said - yet what I find so interesting is compare him to Az in that scene, Lucien is so clueless and helpless for Elain yet Az focuses on her and knows what’s wrong. “ a mate can sense what is amiss” - certainly it wasn’t Lucien,

And I know antis love refuting this by saying “Az is a spy! So ofc he would’ve known” hmmm So was Lucien at a point hence why after seeing the foreshadowing of Elain becoming a spy- eluciens came up with the theory that Elain would be a spy- not w the current spymaster she was compared too, no, but with the ex spy Lucien anways. ✨ anti logic ✨ never fails to make you confused and leaves you with a headache.

I think its a mixture. The bond is unnatural to Elain and she isn’t attracted or interested in Lucien hence her disinterest. I honestly cannot wait for Elains pov on this whole matter.