#Black Butterflies and Déjà Vu

[b-etter]

I lose my voice when I look at you

Can't make a noise though I'm trying to

Tell you all the right words

Waiting on the right words

Just another lovesick afternoon

Black butterflies and déjà vu

Hoping for the right words

Waiting for the right words

[letsmakepoppunkgreatagain]

The Maine - Black Butterflies & Déjà Vu

[floralcrematorium]

2010s Nostalgia || Hetalia Edition

Hetalia Youtube Nostalgia Playlist | 117 songs | 7hr 5min

• Hey Na Na - Katie Herzig • Viva La Vida - Coldplay • Rasputin - Boney M. • Glad You Came - The Wanted • Hot Mess - Cobra Starship • Counting Stars - OneRepublic • Fireflies - Owl City • Bombshell Blonde - The Jagged Edges • Do Better - Say Anything • Welcome To The Show - Britt Nicole • Dance With The Devil - Breaking Benjamin • Survive - Sick Puppies • Life is Beautiful - Sixx:A.M. • Fairytale - Alexander Rybak • Everybody Loves Me - One Republic • Don't Mess With Me - temposhark • Mimimi - SEREBRO • I Like It Loud - Cash Cash • I Just Wanna Run - The Downtown Fiction • I'm ALIVE! - Becca • Lovestruck - Breathe Electric • I Like To Dance - Hot Chelle Rae • Haven't Had Enough - Marianas Trench • Kiss Me Thru The Phone - Soulja Boy, Sammie • Hard out Here - Lily Allen • Runaway Baby - Bruno Mars • I Don't Care - Fall Out Boy • Airplanes - B.o.B., Hayley Williams • Rock Star - Prima J • This Is War - Thirty Seconds To Mars • Hey Brother - Avicii • Cinderella - Tata Young • Centuries - Fall Out Boy • Déjà Vu - 3OH!3 • Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy Me - Lene Alexandra • Miss Jackson - Panic! At The Disco, LOLO • The Ballad of Mona Lisa - Panic! At The Disco • Europe's Skies - Alexander Rybak • Bad Apple!! - RichaadEB, Cristina Vee • Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off - Panic! At The Disco • Let's Kill Tonight - Panic! At The Disco • Hurricane - Panic! At The Disco • Casual Affair - Panic! At The Disco • Never Close Our Eyes - Adam Lambert • Playing With Fire - Ovi, Paula Seling • Angel With A Shotgun - The Cab • Nicotine - Panic! At The Disco • Killer - The Ready Set • How to Be a Heartbreaker - MARINA • This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race - Fall Out Boy • Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) - My Chemical Romance • Troublemaker - Olly Murs, Flo Rida • Good Girls Go Bad - Cobra Starship, Leighton Meester • I Can't Decide - Scissor Sisters • One Woman Army - Porcelain Black • How To Start A War - Simon Curtis • Maps - Maroon 5 • Do Better - Say Anything • STARSTRUKK - 3OH!3 • Remember Everything - Five Finger Death Punch • The Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin • Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes • When You're Evil - Aurelio Voltaire • Canadian, Please - Julia Bentley, Gunnarolla • Sarah Smiles - Panic! At The Disco • Take Me to Church - Hozier • Viking Death March - Billy Talent • Headstrong - Trapt • Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind • Don't Believe A Word - Third Eye Blind • Warriors - Imagine Dragons • iNSaNiTY - CircusP • Paralyzer - Finger Eleven • I'm Awesome - Spose • 24 - Jem • Clarity - Zedd, Foxes • Hall of Fame - The Script, will.i.am • The Is Gospel - Panic! At The Disco • Immortals - Fall Out Boy • Rather Be - Clean Bandit, Jess Glynne • Wake Me Up - Avicii • a thousand years - Christina Perri • Just Like Fire - P!nk • Safe & Sound - Taylor Swift, The Civil Wars • Safe And Sound - Capital Cities • Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Lorde • Demons - Imagine Dragons • DNA - Little Mix • Remember The Name - Fort Minor, Styles of Beyond • Victorious - Panic! At The Disco • 右肩の蝶 (Butterfly On Your Right Shoulder) - Kagamine Rin/Len • We Are One (Ole Ole) - Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez, Claudia Leitte • Hero - Skillet • Maraca - Mohombi • The Phoenix - Fall Out Boy • DONTTRUSTME - 3OH!3 • Teenage Dream - Katy Perry • SING - My Chemical Romance • Good Time - Owl City, Carly Rae Jepsen • White Rabbit - Egypt Central • Not Gonna Die - Skillet • The Kill - Thirty Seconds To Mars • We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool, DCup • Nobody's Listening - Linkin Park • Disco Pogo - Die Atzen • German Sparkle Party - The Something Experience • Dirty Little Secret - The All-American Rejects • I Could Be The One - Avicii, Nicky Romero • Can't Hold Us - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis • Still Into You - Paramore • Primadonna - MARINA • Pompeii - Bastille • 恋愛サーキュレーション (Renai Circulation) - 物語シリーズ • Awake And Alive - Skillet • Monster - Skillet • Poker Face - Lady Gaga • Falling Inside The Black - Skillet

[lc-holy]

Miraculous awakening Live-blog:

Originally I didn't want to watch the film because I know I'm not going to like it, but since I've seen a lot of people talking about it, I thought I'd make up my own mind.

(I watch the film in French)

Fu's voice is a little less cartoonish than in the series. But what intrigues me is who is Fu talking to? Is he breaking the 4th wall by talking to the audience?

He could also have said: "this film is a Jeremy Zag fanfic, it's not canon to the series".

So Marinette in the film is ashamed of her father? I can understand that she's a teenager, and that her father is a bit overprotective.... It's a bit cliché and déjà vu but hey.

Wow, Sabine and Marinette's discussion in the bakery... it was too weird and unnatural.

First song... it's so weird... I don't understand what's happening? We see Marinette taking a bike, going in all directions, but finally coming back to the bakery...

And I have the impression that the lyrics don't match what we see on screen? I have the impression that the song wants to show us that she's weird because she's clumsy like in the show, but at the same time she doesn't say it clearly.... I find the song lyrics too vague and empty... I don't understand what this song is trying to tell me...

Oh, Gabriel! His design is my least favorite at the moment. Mostly because of his tiny shoulders! In the series, his shoulders are broad, which gives him presence.

Oh, it's nice to see how Gabriel's clothes are made. After all, in the show, Gabriel doesn't want to leave his house and does everything by phone. I think it's nice. But the scene didn't even last 1 minute...

Alya saving Marinette was pretty good here.

So Alya likes to film people making fools of themselves? I thought her passion was journalism and superheroes! And Marinette smiling? If I were her, I'd be afraid she'd film me without my knowledge and post it on the Internet.

Well, the dialogue is awkward, but I understood what Alya meant xD

I don't quite understand Marinette's montage, which is supposed to show us her clumsiness...�� I don't think Marinette is all that clumsy, actually. She's supposed to be the school's disaster girl, but she hasn't done anything really catastrophic.

Wow the miraculous butterfly giving end-of-the-world flashbacks.... I wasn't expecting that.

But why is everyone laughing at Marinette! She hasn't done anything particularly embarrassing...

First interaction between Adrien and Marinette, it's pretty sweet. I can see why she has a crush on him, he's one of the first people to be nice to her (although there was Alya too, but hey). But Adrien disappearing while putting the books away! I burst out laughing. Did he run away or what? He hadn't even finished putting the books away! And the fact that he said afterwards that he found Marinette too weird? Is that why he ran away?! It makes the scene less cute...

Adrien: "I'm used to it, I work alone all the time." I don't understand why he says that? Why does he work alone? In the show I can understand, he's home-schooled, but here I don't understand what they wanted to tell us about Adrien with this sentence...

So in the film Adrien can go out whenever he wants, ok.

Fu is very strange, but it's funny. Fu giving her the ladybug's miraculous is almost the same as in the show, except that in the show fu gives her his miraculous because she saved him but also because he saw her clumsiness and lack of confidence.

I thought it was funny at first, but fu is starting to get creepy, and I feel like I'm watching a parody of miraculous here.

Okay, the akumatization scene could have been interesting, especially with the parallel when Adrien finds the black cat ring and the failed marriage proposal. But the akumatization is so quick??? We don't have time to feel all the frustration of the akumatized character, who cries and suddenly growls a little because he's not happy. We don't see Gabriel feeling the negative emotions. And no pact between Hawkmoth and the akumatized? okay...

And we're talking about the fact that Adrien didn't have to do much to get his miraculous? It just came to him because he's the chosen one. The same goes for Marinette... in the end, the fact that she saved Master Fu's life was for nothing, since the miraculous come magically to the chosen ones.

Wow Calm down tikki... I have a feeling she's going to be radically different from tikki from the series. I feel more like tikki with Plagg's behavior.

Tikki's rap is weird, I don't know if I like it or not xD

Marinette: "First a song, now a yo-yo and then what? A dinette?" Huh? You know you can be humorous and still make sense. Maybe it's just the French translation.

Is the yo-yo alive?

Huh?! Chat noir is here?! But we didn't see Plagg and Adrien meet! We didn't see Adrien transform! We didn't see Adrien's reaction when he discovered the miraculous....

Chat noir: "A young girl doesn't hang out in a place like this at this time of night" How to destroy the charm of Chat noir's character in one line... But it's a different story, so the characters are bound to be a bit different, so we'll let it slide.

It's a shame we didn't get to see Adrien's reaction when he found out he'd been chosen to be a hero, because he seems to be playing the super-mysterious hero by hiding in the cathedral. So far we haven't seen much of Adrien, except that he looks sad to have lost his mother.

Chat noir is a bit strange? As we haven't really been introduced to Adrien, we don't really understand why Adrien suddenly changes personality...

He made a joke without being insufferable! Phew, it's Chat noir all right. And then he calls Ladybug assistant... Chat noir... I believed in you...

Alya says Ladybug is strong, even though she's done absolutely nothing so far.

The lighting effects are really nice.

Oh my, the careless whisper music started when Chat noir took Ladybug's hand! What's that music?

So Ladybug and Chat noir didn't beat the akumatized person, the butterfly simply left the object. Which makes me think that Tikki didn't explain how to purify the akuma! She should have explained this to Marinette instead of telling her to trust herself.

So it's Fu that explains their power ok. But even after falling in love with Ladybug, Chat noir still wants to go it alone?

What's with the characters in this movie disappearing like that?! Is master fu a ghost?

Plagg is so pathetic?! What did you do to him?! Is this his first on-screen interaction with Adrien?! I feel like they introduced him to us as if we already knew him.

He farts and burps, yay.... It's the quintessence of humor. (I'm not against fart jokes, but in movies it's always complicated to make jokes like that).

Stop farting plagg!!!! Aaaaaahhhh!!!

So is Hawkmoth a separate entity? But then, who is Hawkmoth? And is Nooroo kind?

Nooroo: "These powers aren't meant for this" Nooroo says this when Hawkmoth tells him he wants to cause chaos to get Ladybug and Chat noir's miraculous back. So Nooroo's power can also be used for good? like in the show?

Uh... what year is the film set in? Are there any prisoners in the catacombs???? Are people still selling newspapers in the streets? What's going on?

I'm sorry, but the akumatizations in this film make no sense....

Nino tells Adrien to be super mysterious to seduce the person he loves. But this scene should have taken place before Ladybug met Chat noir! Chat noir's behavior would have made more sense!

Why doesn't Adrien want to stay with Marinette? Because he thinks she's weird? (#notmyAdrien)

Well, their discussion is actually quite cute.

The action scenes are nice, but we need to stop using unnecessary slow motion. Why slow down when Nino confesses to Alya?

Ladybug still had a plan to beat the bad guys, even if there was no Ladybug vision. Wait... Isn't there a lucky charm?

But don't akuma go into objects?! They go into people! Oh okay... it wouldn't be very kids friendly to break their leg to get the akuma out of their body anyway...

Meh... the way she purified the akumas was not impressive at all. And she didn't do what she did in the show and get the akumas that formed Hawkmoth's head. It would have been cool to see this scene with this animation. Well...

oh? Chat noir became a little more humble all of a sudden.

Parisians still read newspapers? Don't they have the Internet?

Ladybug and Chat noir advertising cars? The subtlety of this ad xD it made me burst out laughing.

The rooftop scene is very cute, too bad it ends with Chat noir blocking Ladybug against a wall.

Tikki forced Marinette to touch Adrien's hand to bring him closer and now that Marinette wants to ask Adrien to go to the ball, she tells him to stay focused on her mission? She was fearless from the start and now she's cautious? Why is that? Tikki's behavior has changed completely...

Do the earrings flash in case of danger? It's not very discreet, but okay.

So Chat noir pretended to be in danger to get Ladybug to come?

Wait, wait... Chat noir tells his life story here?! And his secret identity? oh... that’s right... From the beginning, they never talked about the importance of keeping their identity a secret... So if it doesn't matter, why don't they already know who they are!

Adrien: "Since my mother died, I've sworn not to get attached to people, so as not to suffer" Ok Gwen Stacy.

Joking aside, we see so little of Adrien interacting with others in this film that this sentence is a little surprising. And he has Nino, doesn't he? Isn't he his friend? In fact, we don't really know what their relationship is, since they've only exchanged two sentences.

In all the songs, French lip-synching is catastrophic....

"Every day you save the world with that mask but the girl wearing it saved my heart" "How could I have imagined for a second that she could love me, behind my mask hides an empty and abandoned heart" Chat noir throwing out corny quotes he found on the internet xD

And stop farting plagg !!!! I promise you I love plagg in the series but here he is uninteresting and insufferable!!!!!!

Ooh... Gabriel are you okay?

Adrien gets angry with his father, but he doesn't care that he's in a terrible state?

Oh! Adrien "tutoie" his father in the film.

And we've never seen Chloé and Adrien interact with each other... Are they childhood friends or not?

And Marinette loses hope again ...

Stop with the careless whisper music, please.....

No, just no ... even if Adrien is heartbroken, he'll still turn into Chat noir to save Paris ... now Adrien is just selfish. He turns into Chat noir just to see Ladybug. This scene really made me angry...

The fact that they say they're "stronger together" is starting to get on my nerves. It's so cheesy.

Chat noir cataclysm is a liquid?

Hawkmoth masters the force?!

Tikki: "Get up, Marinette, don't let your fear paralyze you" No, but you have to stop using phrases like "go and believe in yourself!". Marinette has a head injury and has to be taken to hospital.

So there wasn't even a final fight? Quite simply: Oh no, Chat noir is my son! I'll stop being mean!

Gabriel's story told in a minute. I prefer Felix and Kagami to tell it, sorry Gabriel.

Gabriel: "The only power stronger than death is love" Gabriel, even you don't deserve to say such corny things...what have they done to you, poor guy...

I heard Fu was more competent in this movie than in the series. And really...I don't see how...he served any purpose other than to explain their power. He didn't even choose the heroes.

Ladybug: "the power of love will be there to protect you" ah yes, the film completely assumes its cheesiness.

So there's no Miraculous ladybug: it's the power of love that literally fixes everything.

Didn't we even see Marinette make her dress?

Has Adrien turned into Luka or what? Instead of playing guitar chords, he's playing cheesy poem quotes!

This final scene is long....

This identity reveal sucks... my god... no impact.

 I'm not giving a score because I don't like to rate films. But here's my general feeling:

This is fan fiction written by someone who can't write. I tried to detach myself as much as possible from the series, but even though I knew nothing about Miraculous, everything is too vague and unexplained. The relationships between the characters are bizarre and unlovable.

Marinette is an empty shell who tells us nothing except that she doesn't trust herself.

There's nothing charming about Chat Noir, who thinks only of Ladybug and has nothing heroic about him.

The relationship between Gabriel and Adrien is non-existent.

Chloé is useless.

Plagg just farts...

The final battle is non-existent... ! ! !!!

Yes, you don't write a series like you write a movie, but here instead of taking another direction to make a parallel universe to Miraculous the series, they just took away everything that made it fun. They didn't add anything or develop anything differently, they just took things away.

The music in a musical should tell a story, but here it's the same thing all the time... and it doesn't tell much either.

If you like the film's music, I think you might enjoy the film, because it's watchable. It's not horrible, but it's forgettable and cliché.

I'm not going to talk about this movie again, I'm clearly not the target audience. I'll leave it to those who will like the film. I will only continue to watch the series and the special episodes.

[hinaliix]

Caitlyn my beloved 🤲

Also this song is very much giving CaitVi to me and I just had to share it thank you

[pedrito-friskito]

I’m baaaaaaaaaaaack. 😇

friskito has returned!! didja miss me?

I never meant to disappear into the ether like I did, and I can’t guarantee this is me 100% back to where I was, but we are taking life as it comes, folks!

my darling @prolix-yuy tagged me in a wip game a few weeks ago, so I figured what better way to announce my return than to tell you what I’m working on and what’s coming soon! (also, just as a little note, I’m gonna start posting a lot more on ao3 as well!)

so, without further ado….

STRAWBERRY WINE: you didn’t think I was gonna leave this one unfinished, did you? I’ve got not 1, not 2, but 4 parts completed, ready to be edited and posted once the motivation grabs hold. part 32 will be up FEBRUARY 3RD (brace yourselves!)

DISOBEDIENCE (PART II): I said there’d be a part 2 when I posted part 1 back in….October, and it is officially in the works. no date, but we’re getting there.

BLACK BUTTERFLIES and DÉJÀ VU: the Soap Mactavish little sister AU nobody asked for…reader x Ghost, follows the timeline of the MWIII game (did I cry playing the game? yup. did I cry writing parts of this fic? also yup) - not complete but multiple parts, part 1 will be up FEBRUARY 5TH.

ONE PLUS ONE: for my calculated risks lovers! I truly cannot believe it’s been a year since I update this story, but one is on its way! a glimpse into their wedding night, and some well-deserved shenanigans…! this will be up FEBRUARY 14TH!

and I can’t really classify these at WIPs because have I started them? nope. do I really want to write them? uh YES.

CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS: I hinted at this one before - santi garcia x reader x frankie morales. based on the tswift song, prepare for angst and drama and a sprinkling of heat.

THE UNTITLED DIN DJARIN HOCKEY AU: I know there’s gonna be 4 parts (like 4 periods in a hockey game hahahaha) but is there a plot yet? nope. all I know so far is rink medic x hockey player din, modern setting, the rest has yet to come to me!

so there you have it! my inbox is open if anyone wants to say hi (or has thoughts about anything that’s on the horizon!) xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxoxoxo

and tagging a few potentially interested peeps (again i’m SORRY I LEFT FOR SO LONG 😭)

@iamskyereads @psychedelic-ink @inklore @winchestershiresauce @thevoiceinyourheadx @theradioactivespidergwen @wildemaven @amywritesthings @steadyasthe-flowers @undercoverpena @splendiferous-bitch @munsonownsmyass @alwritey-aphrodite @vermillionwinter @spacecowboyhotch @nothoughtsjustmeds @saintmurd0ck 💕

[spacetravels]

hoping for the right words, waiting for the right words

uhhhh this is so noahmc to me it’s in my playlist and also melting my brain

[iwriteasfotini]

OLIWITS Excerpt from TCT Chapter I

Excerpt from Our Love is Written in the Stars: The Changing Times, Chapter I - Flowers 

TW: blood

…

She was walking through a dark graveyard, running her fingers along the tops of the tombstones. There was a bright moon in the sky, the air around her still as a butterfly’s breath. 

A wolf howled in the distance but she didn’t turn. There was something she had to do. She knew the headstone before she laid eyes on it. It was like something from a past life, déjà vu. 

She knelt down and gently traced her fingers along the inscription in the stone. 

The last enemy which shall be destroyed is death.

Lily twisted her hand in the air and a bouquet of seven red roses materialized in her grasp. She could feel the sharp thorns of the stems, and squeezed hard, puncturing the skin of her hand. As warm blood coursed down her palm and dripped onto the ground at the foot of the grave, Lily whispered, “deduc me in tenebras.” Lead me into darkness. 

Purple light flowed into the graveyard, and swirled around her. The warmth and love allowed her to take the first deep breath in her memory. Then the light concentrated on the roses, which burst into flame. The brightness made Lily squint, but the fire was heatless. It only lasted seconds, leaving the roses black and charred. 

Suddenly the air was no longer still as a wind rushed through the graveyard. The black roses crumbled and were carried away by the currents, only one was left. A pure white rose. 

Lily laid the rose at the foot of the grave. Then kissed her bloody fingers before pressing them to the gravestone, leaving a smudge of blood and love behind. 

A wolf howled again. Lily stood, and as she turned, she saw she was surrounded by a horde of faceless bodies, adorned in dark robes. She barely had time to gasp before the bodies leapt at her. Her scream was lost in the mob and with a violent jolt Lily Evans awoke. 

…

Next week, look for a new excerpt from Book 6. Daily posting will begin on Ao3 on September 1 (that's 2025, I know...)

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Don't Come Down • Bad Behavior • Lovely • Black Butterflies and Déjà Vu • Taxi • Do You Remember? (The Other Half Of 23) • Little • The Sound Of Reverie • Lost In Nostalgia • I Only Wanna Talk To You • Lonely • How Do You Feel?

Spotify ♪ YouTube

[willow-lark]

lark's byler must-reads written pre-s4

day 3 of @bylerficrecweek!!! i was very excited for this day bc i have been in the fandom a LONG time n there are so many classics that i think everyone should read 💕

the sight of a flower in bloom by @angeltrapz (NR, 1/1, 6.7k, 2017/post-s1) - this is a BEAUTIFUL character study of will accepting his sexuality. i think the current byler fandom should take notes on some of the s1-era fics like this one.

you'll forget about your days away by orphan_account (T, 1/1, 14k, 2018/post-s2) - mike's in trouble, so will has to rescue him. i LOVE the fairytale aspect of this fic. miwi lovers this is required reading!!

The Irresistible Force Paradox by @willelbyers (G, completed series, 1.4k, 2019/post-s3) god this pair of drabbles is one of the best things on the face of this earth. a haunting exploration of the rain fight and its aftermath that everyone should read.

Do You Copy by @serendipitous-magic (G, 1/1, 1.8k, 2019/post-s2) - mike dreams of will's death in the exorcism. very angsty but also very sweet! i cannot recommend this fic enough.

black butterflies and déjà vu by ilmostro (G, 1/1, 3.2k, 2017/post-s2) - it takes a long time for will to tell mike how he feels, but he gets there eventually. god, i miss all the post-s2 future fics, things weren't the same after s3 and the byers moved. i love this!!

[letsmakepoppunkgreatagain]

The Maine - Black Butterflies & Déjà Vu

[ninelivesastrology]

Rewired my brain

[eternatuslesbian]

UNDER THE HUNTER'S MOON - a dimilix playlist

portugal by walk the moon / black butterflies and déjà vu by the maine / drumming song by florence + the machine / straight to my head by you me at six / don't take the money by bleachers / let it die by STARSET / used to be by SIAMES / powerless by linkin park / oh my love by to kill a king / portuguese knight fight by cage the elephant / in the darkness by dead by sunrise / afraid of heights by billy talent / i won't give in by asking alexandria / ivy by frank ocean / pork soda by glass animals / francis forever by mitski / beyond my control by meet me @ the altar / the garden by the crane wives / stay by oingo boingo / running up that hill (a deal with god) by kate bush / hunter's moon by delain

cover art by @koroart!

pt: UNDER THE HUNTER'S MOON - a dimilix playlist

portugual by walk the moon / black butterflies and déjà vu by the maine / drumming song by florence + the machine / straight to my head by you me at six / don't take the money by bleachers / let it die by STARSET / used to be by SIAMES / powerless by linkin park / oh my love by to kill a king / portuguese knife fight by cage the elephant / in the darkness by dead by sunrise / afraid of heights by billy talent / i won't give in by asking alexandria / ivy by frank ocean / pork soda by glass animals / francis forever by mitski / beyond my control by meet me @ the altar / the garden by the crane wives / stay by oingo boingo / running up that hill (a deal with god) by kate bush / hunter's moon by delain

cover art by @koroart! end pt

[lifemod17]

Hi Tonee!!! I'm very late but I couldn't not send you some for the music asks so 🥺

16 / 23 /25

no such thing as too late!!! thank you for sending these my sweet lunar ladybug 🥰🥰

16: makes me nostalgic: fun fact I found out about this song through an episode of Ghost Whisperer (2005)

23: has interesting sounds that tickle my brain right: somewhere around the 1:53 - 2:05 mark

25: i want to hear in a grocery store: at the grocery store, in the post office, at a festival, at a resto bar etc. people here need to get into Hozier more:

[dreamer-of-ships]

Chapter four of Black Butterflies and Deja Vu is up! I hope you all enjoy!

Excerpt below! Check the rest out on AO3 and let me know what you think in the comments :)

___

Later, when they’re back at their flat, Nick sits comfortably in the armchair in their living room while Adam and Kaid sit on the couch, playing Call of Duty on the Xbox. Now and again, Nick looks up to see how they’re progressing through the game, but for the most part, he’s glued to his phone, texting back and forth with Charlie. 

C: Tell me how rugby trials went when you get home!

N: They went really well, I think. Some interesting characters for sure, but a lot of good talent!

C: That’s good! Was it nice playing again?

N: Yeah! It was hard, though. Definitely need to build up my stamina again after this summer.

C: I’d say you had pretty good stamina all summer…

Nick smirks as he reads Charlie’s text, shaking his head as he types out his reply.

N: Behave 🔥

C: Fine, you asked for it. 

C: Did you enjoy your first taste of being captain?

N: There wasn’t much room for captaining today haha. Coach ran most of the drills to see what the first-years could do but I definitely tried having ‘a captain aura’.

C: A Captain Aura? 💀

N: Yeah like all important and dominant and shit.

C: You always give off a captain aura then lol.

N: Okay now you’re just being kinky.

C: You were the one who brought dominance into this.

Nick looks up from his phone, already feeling his cheeks flush. He did not mean this to turn into a flirty conversation, but that’s always par for the course with Charlie. He smiles from ear to ear as he notices another text message come through.

C: Sorry, back to ‘behaving’ again

N: I don’t think you know how tbh

N: We could facetime tonight?

C: Facetime or 🔥FaceTime🔥

N: The second one 😂

C: You know I’d never say no to that x

N: 8 pm?

C: Can’t wait x

N: ❤️

C: ❤️❤️

N: ❤️❤️❤️

“Are you flirting with Charlie right now? Because you look like a tomato,” Adam says then, cutting through his reverie.

Nick looks up at him, clearing his throat as he pulls himself back into the present and pockets his phone. 

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he tries to sound natural.

“Seriously, I hope it’s because you’ve been flirting,” Adam says. “You’ve gone proper red in the face.”

Nick doesn’t give him a response, just shoots him his middle finger instead. Adam snorts and then goes back to playing the game.

“Room for three?” Nick asks after a moment.

Kaid laughs. “Ah, now he’s done making googly eyes at Charlie; he remembers about the rest of us.”

Nick sighs before leaning down, picking up the third controller on the coffee table, and waiting for Adam to add him to the game.

Soon, they’re shouting at each other and swearing like sailors, and for Nick, that’s a great evening. 

Read it on AO3

[mermaidgirl30]

Writing the epilogue for Dark Shades, and I am 100% deeming this as Angel and Joel’s song 🥹😭