#8.12.2019

[patsdrabbles]

I Won’t Even Ask

Title: I Won’t Even Ask Fandom: Jeeves and Wooster Pairing: Reginald Jeeves/Bertie Wooster Rating: Gen Word Count: 422 Summary: “I presume I’d be more concerned if I knew the context of your current contortion, so I shall not ask, sir.” Wherein Bertie is his adorkable self and Jeeves has to laugh. A/N: Part 8 of my Daily Fanfic Chocolates calendar :D This is one of the results of a prompt writing challenge I did with my dear friend @moonraccoon-exe a few months ago! Please enjoy ❤

(links to AO3 and the DFC masterpost are in the reblogs!)

Bertie was not gonna fall off his bed anytime soon, thank you very much. He did, however, gracelessly, flop downwards (not hitting the floor entirely, mind you), when Jeeves entered the room and announced his presence with a customary ‘harrumph’.

“Sir?”

“Jeeves.”

It was uttered with some struggle, gravity having that effect on Bertie since his head was now resting on the ground, spine somewhat twisted as he struggled to keep the rest of himself on the bed.

“... Jeeves?”

The man in question, ever so used to keeping his face in what Bertie used to call his “stuffed frog mask”, was... laughing. Any other person might have described the act as a chuckle, hidden behind a politely poised palm – to Bertie, however, the chuckle translated as the laughter that it was. Jeeves was very close to losing it. Bertie, with an expression of disbelief and surprise pulling at his features as he attempted to keep his barely-there balance over the edge of the bed, only had time to let out a half-gasped yelp when his hold on his leg had him overbalance and topple the last centimeters downward and onto the floor.

Jeeves gasped – a laugh and a sound of worry in the same breath – and stepped closer, but Bertie was already pulling himself up by the corner of the bed.

“I presume I’d be more concerned if I knew the context of your current contortion, so I shall not ask, sir.”

Bertie could hear Jeeves still laughing in amusement behind his almost composed again calm façade.

A man had his dignity, though, and so, as he heaved himself onto the bed again, Bertie set out to explain: “I woke up from my afternoon nap with a dead leg, Jeeves!”

A raised eyebrow was his prompt to continue.

“But luckily – or not so much, in hindsight – I remembered just the thing! An exercise shown to me by the fearsome Miss Glossop after an outing with her and her brother Oswald, the little blot! I thought I might attempt it here and get my leg back in action- Jeeves! Jee- Reg, why are you laughing again?”

A step toward the bed allowed Jeeves to bend down and wrap his arms around Bertie and rest his forehead against his lover’s.

“I’m sorry, my love. I simply... Sometimes simple things such as this remind me of how dear you are to my heart, how much I adore you.”

Bertie nearly melted in his arms then, asleep leg and slightly strained back all but forgotten.

[prosy-days]

December 8, 2019 - Day 172

I made lemon pound cake with my new loaf tins!

[phototagebuch]

8.12.2019: Heartbroken

[ignis-et-equi]

🎶 Feeling like an attention whore 🎶

🎶 And not getting it from the people I want 🎶

🎶 It's a tragedy 🎶

🎶 The scarcity 🎶

🎶 Of attractive personalities 🎶

[studyeuropeanlaw]

8.12.2019 / my setup this rainy Sunday is very chaotic becaus exams are approaching very soon 🙃

[ink-flavored]

First Lines Tag Meme

Tagged by @xauroraxborealisx ! Thanks <3

Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line.

Okay I agonized way too long about what counts as a story, so I’ve decided it’s anything that is 1) completed (or at least has a finished chapter) and 2) prose. So I’ll have character intros, short stories, and longer works all in here. From most to least recent, and linked for your convenience:

1. Henry & Priscilla // 3.19.2021

“I don’t like you spending so much time with that man.”

2. Jao - Character intro for “The God-Dragon’s Wife” // 12.26.2020

Jao grew up watching her grandmother perform miracles.

3. Stargazing // 12.10.2020

The sky is impossible to read.

4. Whiskey, No Chaser // Final Update: 10.27.2020 - Date Published: 8.28.2019

Yugi hadn’t wanted a cigarette in a long time.

5. The Pyramid Report // 9.20.2020

It’s funny, isn’t it? How people will believe whatever you say, as long as you’re someone with a lot of money in a fancy suit?

6. Haunted House Sweet Home // Final Update: 7.2.2020 - Date Published: 6.23.2019

For all intents and purposes, this was home. And he hated it.

7. Grieving Fiction // 6.6.2020

The club music thumps through the speakers.

8. Snake Charmer // 5.10.2020

A soft mechanical hum and cheerful songbirds coax Yugi awake.

9. Macchiato Incommunicado // 3.8.2020

The sun crawled over the horizon, streaking orange, pink, and gold across the sky.

10. Pursuit // 3.2.2020

You love running through places where danger lurks.

11. THOSE NIGHTS // 2.23.2020

Yugi, admittedly, has more important things to worry about.

12. Han-Lao - Character intro for “The God-Dragon’s Wife” // 2.2.2020

The signs came when he was a child.

13. Sita Zhai - Character intro for “The God-Dragon’s Wife” // 1.19.2020

When Jia Zhai, a high-ranking diplomat from Syo-Lang, visited A’Shar on the business of trade negotiations, the last thing she expected to find was a husband.

14. Yu-Qi - Character intro for “The God-Dragon’s Wife” // 1.18.2020

In the Ageless Oasis, Yu-Qi heard a prayer.

15. Xinya Ba-Leng - Character intro for “The God-Dragon’s Wife” // 1.17.2020

Hours after her birth, Xinya Ba-Leng had her name carved on the wall in the throne room.

16. In a Week // 1.6.2020

It was a damn shame what the farmer found out in the fields that day.

17. Get This Far // 11.20.2019

Yugi keeps his back pressed against the wall at the top of the stairs and once again reassures himself that this is nothing.

18. Super Effective! // 8.12.2019

"If you make one more stupid pun, I will literally stab you.”

19. IRMa-1247 // 8.11.2019

Look up. Look down. Look to your sides. Roll your neck. Roll your shoulders. Arch your back. Kick your feet. Flex your fingers and toes.

20. Red Poppies // 8.11.2019

It didn’t mean anything, really.

ALRIGHT WHEW! This took a while! Hopefully all those links go to the right places.

I’m not seeing a solid pattern in any of these. They’re all from such different genres and tones that it would be hard to connect any of them in a meaningful way, but maybe I’m wrong! If anyone else sees a pattern in these, please tell me about it!

As for a favorite, that’s a very hard question. I’m a big fan of In a Week’s opening line, if only because it sets up a mystery that the reader has to solve by reading the rest of the story. Hook, line, and sinker, baby! I’d love to know everyone else’s favorites, if you have one!

Tagging (no pressure!): @blueinkblot @unbearable-lightness-of-ink @dove-actually @quilloftheclouds @feathered-quill @pens-swords-stuff @dianthus-writes @jenivi7 @waterfallwritings @sjjsalamanders and anyone else who feels like participating! Consider yourself tagged!

[leafsea]

unpredictable // 8.12.2019

[zzzaharena]

8.12.2019 // budapest museum of fine arts

[patsdrabbles]

Snow Bob 2

Just noticed that tumblr still doesn’t show my post of the continuation of Snow Bob in the Dylarrison tag for some reason? Idk why, there are no links in the original post and I’m not aware that I used any tags tumblr might be blocking, but?? Just in case any of you wanna read the continuation for Snow Bob, you can find it here on my blog and over on AO3! ^^

(Also, for some reason, my Dylarrison Jr. fic “Duet” is now visible in the Dylarrison tag? After... huh. A month? I’m really not sure what tumblr’s doing, but it does make fanfic posts getting seen rather hard...)

[stopthefuckingcharade]

princejoeybreeze's story on IG 8.12.2019

[todaysnetherlands]

8.12.2019

Today, Netherlands took a picture of himself that apparently had a filter on it. He looks great in makeup.

[vonnegutcoded]

8.12.2019 // went to a coffee shop this weekend to enjoy some internet (we still don’t have wifi i’m suffering) and bought an overpriced coffee so i could sit there for four hours

[feanva]

Barcelona - Mallorca 8.12.2019 Jewelry work!

[making-a-ru]

8.12.2019, ♑🌔, Universal #5;

Be flexible, make changes. Network, promote yourself. Be adventurous, have fun, be social, try new things. Work with Archangel Michael to open doors of opportunity for your passion, & Archangel Azrael to learn to accept change, endings, beginnings.

[tooneysunited]

lauren james scoring a brace against everton | 8.12.2019

[loveisnotsimple2]

8.12.2019

Perspektywa zmienia wiele. Czas zabiera złudzenia. I nie, nie chodzi mi o Ciebie. Ty nie pozostawiasz mi już złudzeń od dawna.

Teraz widzę... Widzę, że kochałam Twoje wyobrażenie. Kochałam Cię takiego, jakim byłeś... bardzo dawno temu.

Nie jesteś taki, jakiego Cię znałam. I choć to jest słodkie, że taki jesteś, to popadasz w paranoję.

Może i nie znam się na mężczyznach i związkach, wiem jednak, że miłość wymaga zaufania i chwili westchnienia... w samotności... bez drugiej połówki.

Nie można mieć się 24/7 - to jest niemożliwe. Nie można mieć się na wyłączność. Można być ze sobą i mieć czas dla innych...