#53K

[lyss-sketchbox]

Whoever decided this is a good idea, what is wrong with you

[clumsyclifford]

the reckless hearts

pairings: michael clifford/calum hood, michael clifford/harry styles (temporary), alex gaskarth/jack barakat, assorted minor pairings

rating: T

total word count: 53.7k

important tags: summer camp support staff AU, strangers to friends to lovers, ensemble fic, friendship, fluff, angst, hookup culture, bittersweet ending, galaxy hair michael

warnings: N/A

summary:

“And you’re what?” Michael asks, before giving Calum a once-over. “Logistics, I bet.” Obviously Michael hadn’t been tuned into his surroundings when Calum had given his brief introduction. “Yeah.” “Mike, I literally told you about Calum,” says Alex. “Did you?” Michael asks. Understanding dawns on his face. “Oh, you’re Calum, Alex’s roommate.”

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(Or: summer camp AU, but make it support staff.)

Well. Here it is. The big ensemble summer camp fic I've been writing for over three years. This is the longest fic I have ever written. It is my passion project and my beloved child. Enjoy.

CHAPTER I // CHAPTER II // CHAPTER III // CHAPTER IV // CHAPTER V // CHAPTER VI // CHAPTER VII // CHAPTER VIII // CHAPTER IX // CHAPTER X // CHAPTER XI // CHAPTER XII // CHAPTER XIII // CHAPTER XIV // CHAPTER XV // CHAPTER XVI // CHAPTER XVII

[tsukasalover]

“Yo Tsukasa4 on Ensekai in 2 months”

[nocternalrandomness]

USMC CH-53K approaching a tanker

[ghostwarriorrrr]

German Army CH-53GA Sea Stallion | 84+39 | Departure, Air2Air

[fabbyf1]

Breathe You In (Like a Vapor)

"I'm not so drunk that I don't know what I'm asking you," Max said. Charles swallowed the lump in his throat. "Me either." "So, is that a yes?" "Are you sure about this?" Charles asked instead, laughing unbelievably and shaking his head. "This is not something we do, mate." "It could be something we do," Max said, grinning at him. His fingers flexed on Charles' hip, and it did something weird to Charles' brain. When he looked back on this moment later, he would blame Max's big hand on his hip for what he did next. Because for some reason... Charles kissed him. He wasn't sure why. OR: the self-indulgent story of how Charles and Max fell in love over winter break 2022, in a classic Enemies to Friends With Benefits to Lovers fic that nobody asked for.

Charles Leclerc/Max Verstappen | 53k | Read on AO3

[turtles-allthewaydown]

Chapter 18 of Nothing Ventured has been posted and it's a rough one again, y'all. Chapter warnings for restrictive/disordered eating (and the implication that this is a pattern) and past child abuse. Featuring misplaced guilt, childhood trauma, and "you're a good dad."

[a-star-is-here]

I feel like wasted potential tbh

[senseoftheday]

out of context & unedited snippets from the WIP Not Quite Shining/Ren Faire AU companion fic where also BoE is a punk band:

All of this bullshit is on top of the fact that the suit is fucking gold. It hurts to look at. When Gideon twists, it reflects on the walls. The leather bow-tie is at least pretty snazzy, and Gideon reminds herself that it’s far better than the suit with the flippy sequins that her father made her wear when she was twenty-one and impressionable. (That had been before Cytherea hauled ass to Barcelona to go cougar some impressionable Spanish girls, and she’d used it as an excuse to run her hands up Gideon’s back and arms to draw patterns on it. Twenty-one-year-old Gideon had been horrifyingly into it, but then Ianthe had drawn a dick on her back and things had only gone downhill from there.)

[throughtrialbyfire]

finally finished the basic refs of my Dragonborn Trio, aka the main cast of my Skyrim longfic, "Cycle of the Serpent"!! i made these mostly to have dress up dolls of the characters for my own future use, like when they obtain new armor or clothing for guilds and factions, and wanted to share them here!

emeros uses he/him, wyndrelis uses he/him, and athenath uses they/he!

more information about them can be found on my OCs page!

[e-louise-bates]

I'm not saying I'll never write another series after I finish Whitney & Davies, but ...

I have learned over the last ten years that when I am done with a story, I am done with a story, and trying to keep part of it alive enough to continue into another story, and another, is not my style, no matter how much I might love the characters and the world.

Which is why, I think, I've struggled so much to stick to W&D over the years and have branched off so frequently into other projects in between books (much to the detriment of the series--it's not great when there are over ten years between Books 1 and 4 and you still have one more book in the series to go), and why I've never been able to make a sequel to From the Shadows work despite the many, many times I've tried, and why I abruptly decided the Pauline Gray series was done with three-novellas-turned-into-one-omnibus rather than an ongoing series as originally planned.

It's a valuable lesson to have learned about myself as a writer! Not helping me get through Book 4 of W&D, however. Especially not with the prospect of Book 5 looming on the horizon once this one is finished.