#15coldhotpockets

[serenasoutherlyns]

hand it over

“Do you see how dirty this sink is?” Alex says. She turns back to scrubbing the pristine sink.

Requested by @nielsen19844: Domestic Calex :D. ao3 fluff, very much fluffy. tagging @allergictocanon @whiteberryx @15coldhotpockets @swimmingstudentchaos891

When Casey walks through the door, Alex is nowhere to be found. Her bag is hung up, her shoes are on the rack, but she’s not on the couch or at the table, and there’s no sign of her in the kitchen.

“Alex?” She says into the seemingly empty apartment. If the shoes and bag hadn’t been there she would’ve thought she’d just gone back to work in a rush, maybe to a crime scene, and forgot to tell her; that had happened before. Their presence gives her pause, and she quickly checks the lock for damage. There is no being too safe in this business, not in Casey’s opinion. She decides that nothing looks broken, so she sets down the bag of Chinese takeout she brought home and turns down the hallway.

“Al-ex,” she says again. Alex doesn’t usually spend much time in their bedroom, but Casey is going to check there when she hears a chchchchch sound from the bathroom. The freshly cleaned bathroom. Casey opens the door.

Alex is standing over the sink with a light pink face, a brush in hand covered in scrubbing powder. She swivels toward Casey with such force tiny globs of powder-water paste splatter onto the mirror and onto Casey. She raises both hands.

“Whoa, whoa, what did I do? Is there bleach in that, Alex this suit is new.”

“Do you see how dirty this sink is?” Alex says. She turns back to scrubbing the pristine sink.

“I don’t,” Casey says.

“It’s making me mad,” Alex says, putting more and more force into the circles.

“What did it do?” Casey asks. She knows what’s going on now.

“I told you, I can’t get it clean.” She moves on to the faucet, but the brush slips not once or twice but three times. “UGH,” she yells, throwing the brush down, sending splatters through the room again. She grips the edge of the counter so hard her knuckles turn white.

“Alex, what happened?” Casey says lovingly, putting her hand on Alex’s back and running it up and down.

“I can’t stand her,” Alex said. “She’s a fucking weasel, sneaky, conniving. You know, Serena warned me about her, and I still fell for it!”

Oh, Casey thinks. She should’ve guessed. Alex picks up the brush again and starts going after the countertops, but Casey reaches over behind her and eases it out of her hand, then sets it down, taking Alex’s hand in her own..

“It’s not your fault. She had a point this time and you and I both know it,” Casey says, resting her head on Alex’s shoulder.

“I still think that kid should be tried as an adult, and now I might lose on that, and not only will there be a serious lack of justice for a dead child, Cutter is going to be super annoying about it for weeks, maybe months.”

“You’re jumping to conclusions,” Casey says. She kisses Alex’s cheek and feels her relax.

“I just can’t afford to mess this up, and Hartley convinced me to make a mistake,” Alex says quietly.

“It’ll be okay. You’ll figure something out.”

Alex breathes in deeply and sighs. “I know,” she says.

“Good,” Casey says. “Now, I brought home Kung Pao chicken and I bet you’re hungry.”

“Starving,” Alex says with a smile. She kisses Casey. “Just let me finish—“

“No,” Casey interrupts her. “Hand over the brush.”

“Fine,” Alex says, placing the handle in Casey’s waiting palm.

[tboy-boone]

For the FIRST time in years, I finally changed my username. So HELLOOOOOO I was once 15coldhotpockets and now I have changed it to tboy-boone

[darklydreamingdexxter]

Tag game now that spotify wrapped is out!!!

Reblog with your top artists and songs!!!

Top Artists:

Taylor Swift (!!!!)

Nirvana

Mitski

Lana Del Rey

Weird Al

Top Songs:

Lavender Haze

Anti-Hero

Bejeweled

august

Style

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[tboy-boone]

15coldhotpockets how was your evening

i caught a glimpse into hell long before i am destined to set foot in the fiery abyss. besides that my cat snuggled with me and i felt love unlike any other.

how's your evening, whateverhappenedhappened?

[tboy-boone]

hello 15coldhotpockets do you want to read kate fic before i post it

YES

[tboy-boone]

how was your day 15coldhotpockets

Head hurt! Foot hurt! How was your day??

[tboy-boone]

This is me and my son goggie <3 beautiful portrait, thank you for finding this 🙏

Sincerely,

15coldhotpockets

[tboy-boone]

15coldhotpockets

Yes whateverthecasemaybe?

[thebreakfastgenie]

#if i had a nickel for every time he does this... @15coldhotpockets

If I had a nickel for every time Alan Alda tilted his head at this specific angle while talking about killing babies I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

M*A*S*H S16E11 Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen // The West Wing S07E03 Message of the Week

[serenasoutherlyns]

4, 18, 20?

thank you for the ask! this one got long lol

4. Share a sentence or paragraph from your writing that you’re really proud of (explain why, if you like)

- ok, from a WIP i have:

The realization goes straight to her ribs, knocks the wind out of her. She’s sure she shakes, trying to get off the weight of the week and give the pleasure-panic taking over every part of her body a place to rest itself. That would be it for notes. Tracey gathers her things in a half-daze. As she walks out of the building, onto the subway, up the steps to her apartment, as she undoes her lock, climbs into the shower and then into her bed: Kelly, Kelly, Kelly.

i just love writing Tracey, and i think this one shows one of my favorite things about writing: so i used to write a LOT of poetry and i don't as much anymore, but a friend once said that my way of writing prose reminded her of the way i wrote poetry, that i put (rhythm, alliteration, etc) into it, and it made me feel really happy. so yeah :). and i don't usually try to do it, it just happens.

18. Do any of your stories have alternative versions? (plotlines that you abandoned, AUs of your own work, different characterisations?) Tell us about them.

- if anybody remembers not a summer crush (LOLOLOL), it was originally going to be a lot darker. so around halfway through, caroline gets sick and alex & casey take care of her, it's all very cute and kind of pushes things along there. well initially, she was going to have a period of rough mental health instead, she was going to find out that her former dance teacher had been accused of child abuse and it was going to bring up a lot of things for her about her childhood & leaving dance and all of that, she was going to go back to california and help with the prosecution, kind of right at the start f her relationship with a/c. eventually i decided that a) it took things down a sad path i didn't want to deal with, b) it took away from the point of the story which i wanted to be the family and romantic relationships in caroline's life and the start of her career, and c) it hit just a liiiittle bit too close to home for me to be comfortable writing it. so yeah! who knows if i'll ever finish that one, but that's what its original form was like.

20. Tell us the meta about your writing that you really want to ramble to people about (symbolism you’ve included, character or relationship development that you love, hidden references, callbacks or clues for future scenes?)

- i guess, i think i tend to write some characters in a way that might come off as ooc even though i don't think of it that way. for example, alex cabot is often the "ice queen," very tough and sarcastic, emotionally cold, etc. i see her dominant characteristics as like, determined and also anxious, so what seems like cold is actually scared, what seems like tough is actually this insatiable drive to get what she wants and believes is right. or tracey kibre can come across as a hardass with not a whole lot of sympathy in her, but i see her as having a need for control that borders on pathological, it hurts her more than anybody else. and she has SO much compassion for what she sees as the "right" people that it sometimes makes her make bad or cruel choices. or abbie, who has this mean and merciless exterior, but all of that comes from a place of hurt. i'm sure others share this perspective but yeah, that's where my ideas for characters tend to come from; like asking myself "well why do they act like that" not "what do they act like."

- i named jack mccoy's little sister "stevie" in the lock that kept it dark without realizing that's almost the oldest daughter on madam secretary's name

- in the first chapter of passionately, i'd say, jack says to claire "clear as day, claire kincaid, i certainly don't anticipate a problem" while the line from "second opinion" is just "i certainly don't anticipate a problem." this is because i was watching the lizzie bennet diaries and wanted to include the line darcy says to lizzie after they kiss for the first time, "clear as day, lizzie bennet."

(fun meta asks for writers!)

[serenasoutherlyns]

hi :)

rode here on the bus

ain't it hard to find them?

tus malas amistades

i am thinking it's a sign

i'm on my own where i found you, alone

(Send me a ‘hi’ and I will put my playlist on shuffle, write down the first line of five songs and give it to you as a poem.)

[serenasoutherlyns]

i hit 100 followers today!!

actually 102 but who's counting ;)

in order to celebrate, i want to give you guys some presents?

i'm going to write as many 100 word drabbles or 500 word ficlets as prompts i get in the next week! please send the length, character/ship, prompt list/number/quote (or original request), and (optional) "genre" that you want to see to my ask box and i'll run (not walk) to google docs for you.

characters:

claire kincaid, alex cabot, casey novak, olivia benson, jack mccoy, serena southerlyn, abbie carmichael, alexandra borgia, jamie ross, connie rubirosa, elizabeth olivet, monique jeffries, john munch, mike logan, elizabeth rogers, rey curtis, danielle melnick, sally bell, margot bell, anita van buren, tracey kibre, kelly gaffney kay howard , tim bayliss, frank pembleton, megan russert, (others? just ask - or, ask for any or my ocs, or let me pick!)

ships:

casey/alex, abbie/serena, serena/casey, jack/claire, jack/sally, abbie/alex, tracey/kelly, abbie/toni, jerena (yes, really, you know who you are <3), (others? just ask - or ask for any or my ocs, or let me pick!)

prompts:

halloween/horror prompts

tvtropes fanfic tropes

fake dating prompts

romance story starters

not-really-romantic story starters

or one of your own!

songs - pick a song or lyric:

walkman - bad bad hats

just let me love you - lowen

wildest dreams - taylor swift

talking to myself - gatlin

pocketful of sunshine - natasha bedingfield

i wanna __ you til i'm dead - YACHT

everybody wants to love you - japanese breakfast

i'm beginning to see the light - duke ellington/ella fitzgerald

genres:

fluff, hurt/comfort, angst, romance, "slow" burn (500 words, so), friends-to-lovers, enemies-to-lovers, fix-it. i won't write explicit nsfw but maybe some spicy- think T/M not E.

i'm tagging some mutuals in the hopes that people see this :) no pressure!

@commasplice27 @lesbianologist @wine-drunk-on-elizabeth @justalittleghostwriter @dankspeare @sweetprentiss @storiesofsvu @alexcabot @livscabot @rosiewritesagain @holycrapraewth @multi-obsessions @onherwayrejoicing @morbidlonging629 @oliviaomlandthethird @15coldhotpockets @teenageraccoon @sit-drink-smile @yipyipjemily @ms-calhoun @theofficialjerenablog @eastberlin @crazybagelbitch @arrowgirll13 @rollinsnovak @voltives @enduringalexblake @illicitaylors @disaster-and-disgrace @hoe4almondmilk @alexcabotgf @hi-i-1 @littlelemonkey @season4scullyhair @addictedtodinosaurs @whiteberryx @laezzzi @swimmingstudentchaos891 @bilingualfiction @cmmndrwidw @bumblebear30 @dxringred

[tonymarias]

thank u for tagging me now no one judge me harshly… just

@anton-wyzek @annieparrisesgf @serenasoutherlyns @theluttleprince @15coldhotpockets @eighties-toons

1. Woman by Doja Cat

2. Alien Blues by Vundabar

3. enough for you by Olivia Rodrigo

4. Tap in by Saweetie

5. Pumpkin by The Regrettes

6. Gold by Claud

7. Kiss me Slowly by Parachute

8. Wolves by One Direction

9. again by Yui

10. Put Your Head On My Shoulder by Paul Anka

Thanks @moonlark-sparkles for the tag!

you can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your favorite playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs then tag ten people! no skipping!

Yeet. (this was the playlist I used btw) Also, some songs are mp3 downloaded and won't show up for everyone else if you click on the playlist, but they show up for me ofc

Piga & Dräng - Drängarna

Komplicerad - Miss Li

Complicated - Miss Li (yes this is the same song but in english)

Touch A Touch A Touch A Touch Me - Glee Cast

La canción más bonita - Karol Sevilla, Pipe Bueno

Die in a fire - The Living Tombstone

Mano a Mano - Elenco de Soy Luna

With a few good friends - Carly Simon

Yo Soy Asi - Diego Dominguez

Vi pratar inte om Bruno - Encanto (Swedish Original Soundtrack)

Ok, I suck at tagging people, but I will try my best! No obligations to do this, anyone who wants to can!

@ven10 @sapphic-squid @vaguely-functional-directions @countessofravenclaw @violetbauds @violettaobsessed @homosandhomies @silver-inked @emecat123 @emilxvidal