#I don't know if I can ship them I would think that Lynn is still Lesbian and Djoser doesn't want a loving interaction bc yk

[ghostburguer03]

I was crazy thinking about them all the morning

Let me tell you something....

Imagine, Lynn's swiftspace sharing her recipes and foods....I can get out of my mind thinking that Djoser comments on her posts sayin if the food has calories, contains fat, it helps of the body, it's fitness, whatever.

Also I can't stop thinking about them cooking together for their Shadow Decree for their friends, also they have mom and dad vibes n they want to be a good parents of their friends of SD ♥️

[saingirl101]

Okay had some time and shitposts to really think about the finale of FHJY

I literally have rewritten this post several times thats how complex it feels.

Spoilers under the cut

First off I love that potential threads are hanging in the air particularly for adaine and kristen.

Character wise kristen ironically could have been the most complete storyline after FHSophY however with how Ally played her this season i think narratively she is the bad kid who absolutely needs a continuation for her story - tracker, bucky, her messy enemiess beebees ship, her parents, the whole buddy/bobby dawn thing, FUCKING KALINA, like the way brennan ended the season its like he's T-ing up another narratively perfect season for kristen.

Fabian, our darling boy makes several strides in improving himself and several steps back in other ways. I for one would die from laughter while he deals with having a GF, his mom, step father and grandpapa all living in the same house with a new elf baby (and also potentially stepsibling Fig).

Adaine - godamn what a fantastic narrative season as well, her confidence this season was so hot and siobhan continues to just be a dream TTRPG player. Like she's been killing it with her character decisions, impeccable comedic timing, and knowledge of the game out of the park for literally the past year and half.

Riz, like my god, such a perfect season for him and getting to see his character growth as well. He's also literally the hottest he's ever been and while I am sad he is aroace so i cannot make an OC to smooch him, he's just so fucking ool it doesn't even matter. ALSO RIZ YOU HAVE MULTIPLE QUEER PEOPLE ON YOUR TEAM YOU CAN DEFINITELY TELL THEM YOU ARE AROACE KING.

Gorgug, wow what a fucking season. Zac always kills it with his characters but besides the bit in freshman year I don't know that I ever clicked with gorgug as much as I did this season. He also had an amazing arc all those nat 20s in the last stand, the nat 20s to get them the academic help while he took on four years of school in one year, using his aertificer stuff to help take down his literal nemesis and the person whose put him down for years.

And now we come to fig and my controversial opinion. I still feel like despite them trying to T-up this possibly being emily's fairwell from playing fig I don't feel like narratively it makes sense. theres just still so much in the air and I would love to see her relationship with ankarna grow and blossom. Also despite the talk theres just so much left unresolved between her and sandra lynn. That said I'll be sad but understand if emily plays another character if they do ever make FHseniorY. THAT SAID, BRENNAN YOU OWE ME A SEASON OF GILEAR SHENNANIGANS. FIG DID SAY SHE MIGHT MOVE INTO SEACASTER MANOR, LET HER PULL LOONEY TOONS SHENNAIGANS TO PREVENT FABIAN FROM MURDER THEIR NEW SIBLING.

[alto-tenure]

For the latest character ask meme, can I suggest Inspector Cananela from Ghost Trick? :)

ask game

1) three facts about them from my personal headcanons

met Jowd and Alma both separately, but after they started dating

has an extremely light-hearted grudge against Missile for having chewed his scarf once

the most science-y of the named detectives in the game

2) a reason they suck

His style of speech is very difficult to get down. I think I've gotten it now, but every time I write him I start grumbling about having to do it.

3) a reason they are great

I love his sense of honor and his kindness and the fact that ultimately he wants to do what's right, even if he doesn't always succeed.

4) a reason I relate to them

perfectionism babey

5) (what I consider to be) the top tier otp/ot3 for that character

I'm an Alma/Cabanela/Jowd truther forever.

6) five some things that never happened to that character that I believe should've happened

oh this is really hard. I really respect how tightly Ghost Trick is written, and it's hard to pull apart at the structure without things falling apart. most of these are post-timeline reboot, I think.

more references to dynamic with Memry (this would have helped if Memry died, I think, though there really isn't space for that)

I know this is a limitation of only having so much space but it would have been cool if his coat was different in the new timeline due to there being not as much of a need for his perfectionism like there is in the old timeline

honestly sometimes I just think about that one scene where they're all just talking in the Ghost World and then suddenly the Justice Minister pipes up IRL and I still feel really bad for Cabanela here though I know it's a little early for him to be let in on the ghost circle information LMAO

7) five people that character never fell in love with

Lynne. He's probably known Lynne since she was a teenager, with her ambitions, and he would definitely be a creep if he was.

Pigeon Man. Co-conspirators, certainly, but not lovers.

I'm not a huge Yomicabs person. Like I get why people like it and I certainly can't judge people who do on the basis that I've shipped worse but idk. maybe this is also in some part pushback against the idea of shoving Sissel (human) aside too -- even tho we don't know anything about her beyond the fact that she exists doesn't mean we have to exacerbate the worst parts of canon

but, like, that doesn't mean Cabanela can't fall in love with him. it just means that I think it wouldn't be requited.

meh. idk. we'll put Yomiel down for this anyways. uh

Rindge. I don't think anyone ships this but I'm running low on characters and their relationship is purely professional imo.

Memry. I see her as a couple years older than Lynne, and also they wouldn't have met when she was a teenager, but I think he has too much self-respect to fall for someone like a decade and a half younger than him who is also a lesbian

[hils79]

Catching up on some of the things I've been tagged in. Some of these are very old. So sorry. I'm crap.

Fic author interview! I was tagged by the fantastic @lynne-monstr

No-pressure tagging: @pangzi @foxofninetales @merinnan @killerandhealerqueen @strandedchesspiece @thesilversun @silver-colour

How many works do you have on AO3?

266 as of now

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

1,467,370 words however some of those words are on collaborative fics. I don't know how to filter out the ones I wrote by myself but it's well over the 1,000,000 mark and that makes me happy

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Unleashed  (MCU, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers) - 801 kudos

Visible to All But Me - (DMBJ, Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling) - 666 kudos (ehehe 😈)

The Truth About Cats, Dogs and Penguins - (Men's Hockey RPF. Evgeni Malkin/Sidney Crosby) - 621 kudos

In which Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes are surprisingly capable parents - (MCU, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers) - 530 kudos

Not The Russian Way- (The Man From UNCLE movie, Ilya Kuryakin/Napoleon Solo/Gaby Teller) - 516 kudos

I find it fascinating that a DMBJ fic is in my top 5. The other fics are all pretty old and in large and popular fandoms. I think it was just good timing in that I posted when a lot of people who have since moved on to other fandoms were into DMBJ off the back of Ultimate Note airing.

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try! I think it's just polite to at least say thank you. Occasionally I do forget of miss one though.

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I don't really do sad or angsty endings

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Yeah, pretty much all of them.

7. Do you write crossovers?

Very rarely. I think all my crossovers have been co-written with other people.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not hate exactly, but somone once accused me of plagiarism because I posted a fic with vaguely similar themes to one of theirs. Luckily for me this was back in the LJ days where there was a comm specifically for reviewing accusations of plagiarism where independent people would review both fics. Of course they ruled in my favour but it was really fucking upsetting at the time.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I have, but I prefer not to.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I am aware of.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I have! Someone translated one of my MCU fics into Chinese which made me very happy.

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes, a bunch of times! It can be really fun if you get along well with the people you're writing with.

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

That's like asking me what my favourite fandom is. My favourite ship is whatever ship I am into at the time.

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

RIP my au for The Untamed where Lotus Pier was a hotel that famous musician Lan Wangji came to stay in while he was on tour.

15. What are your writing strengths?

Probably dialogue or soft domestic fluff

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Description. A beta reader recently commented that in one of my fics I hadn't actually described what anyone looks like. I just want them to talk and kiss, okay?

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

Not full dialogue, no, but now that I've started writing in Chinese fandoms I think there are some words that can be used. Generally only terms of address, though. Like someone calling someone 'laoban'

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

I do still kind of want to write some Mysterious Lotus Casebook fic. At least one at any rate.

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written

Juxtaposition (DMBJ, Wang Pangzi/Wu Xie/Zhang Qiling)

I don't generally write AUs, and I definitely have never written anything close to this long before. It took me a year to write it and I am very proud of it.

[iminaworldofpureimagination]

For the “give me a character” post: Diane Nguyen! :)

GIVE ME A CHARACTER;

and I’ll break their ass down:

How I feel about this character/ unpopular opinion about character/ writing decisions: combined.

Baby girl perfect in everyway

In all seriousness her goals to want to make the world a better place to make herself feel like a good person reminds me a lot of my morality ocd / hank getting off scott free.. i get it but I do find it kind of a bummer than she had ZERO wins too.. ending with the whole billionaires are excused of murder whale plot like whats even the point of trying to be an activist at this point? .. dianes mental health does take a hit but she deserves at least one win and the view towards activism feels a bit cynical but i aint even acitvist sowhatdoiknow. she also has agood heart but is also very passive aggressive she's a very flawed character and the way she lashes out when feeling wrong is detrimental to relationships and just not cool.. Diane told whatshisname..wayne that she wasn't writing a book to tear bojack apart and then.. proceeds to just do that amuses me. I think in a way its her subconscious lashing out after bojack embarrased her in front of her abusive family. I don't know if i have unpopular opinions I think most agree her approach to dealing with bojack upsetting her in intu sub wasn't beneficial to anyone it wouldn't help him change anyway.. now that i think about it after hearing the audio tape she should have confronted him sooner.. . I just thought of an opinion thats prob unpopular. The argument at philbert premiere.. and how the creator handled knowing real life hank liked his show annoys me. you can't control bad people watching /enjoying your show there are zillions of people in this world ou owe it the fans that get your show that they know bojack isn't a good person and don't approve of his actions with penny/sarah lynn/ ect.. I love bojack but i hate when he did to penny and find his actions not forgiveable while still believing in his ability to change. i just didn't care for being hammered over the head with how the handled the message they wanted to get across. .so I find the confrontation of bojack/diane at Philbert to be beneficial to no one and more Diane venting via the creator than trying to make a point that would even help such bad behavior. .. i also really hate when things get too on the nose i prefer subtly ... minusbojackhatesthetroopsbutnevermindthat..

All the people I ship romantically with this character You know its Bojack maybe when i finally rewatch it fully I'll like her/ Guy but at the times it bojack. sure it could be horrible but i thought they vibes they had when high /drunk as a skunk is kinda fun.. but honestly i also like the sweet moments of bojack being in her corner after everyone is against her with hank (this def made her finding out about penny even more crushing) i like the I need you in my life from both of them/

i feel bojack acutally understands diane more than she understood him as he has crushing depression and def sees a lot of himself in diane I think at their best they bring out good changes like bojack writing his letter to her about how being miserable all your life is stupid and it get her to call Guy back/ or encouraging her to take her meds and thanking her for taking him to rehab that ends up with her taking her meds and being in a happier mental state. I know people think they bring out just the worse in eachother but i think if he stayed sober and never made the phone call he prob be invited to the wedding as a best man.... Its not all sunshine and rainbows they had their fights that took things to far and have hurt eachothers feelings in the process. i go between shipping em to pondering is it more of a famial bond?? cause i can see diane finding comfort in bojack being similar to her famil Diane definitely use to idolize bojack their relationship is an interesting case of befriending your idol and having your idol the man that gave you a safe space as a kid turn out to be someone who did such unforgiveable things.. .. i think at the end she still loves him the sad thing about em is they never stopped loving eachother not completely.. but had to move on ..they make me cry..

My non-romantic OTP for this character PB/Diane I think it was mostly worse than her/bojack minus the message he left her.. we spend a lot of time with pb/diane and im not saying diane is without blame in the fails of it but his lack of respect to listen to her not wanting grand gestures / getting annoyed with her for not apprecating them feels kinda gaslighty.. ... he alos got rather violent after the fracking arguement breaking dianes laptop and pinning her to a wall.. that leadtoangrysex. and his reaction to diane talking about his brother was completely out of line. his Belle Room was also trash.. him wanting diane to have a say in their new home makes sense but that belle room was just trash. I dont want to make it seem like i think diane is flaweless as much as i think pb should have listened more.. I do think she overreacted in after party t to me its just a harmless suprise party with friends but im not diane either. .. Im still confused how they made it work for 10 years..

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Make her family less of a joke and more realistic... might have been nice to see. I wish Diane got a win with her activisim.. one little win.. hmm.. maybe more focus on how going to cordovia traumatized her because some people didn't get she stayed with bojack because her new friend DIED and it traumatized her.. she brings it up at the end of s3 but i think maybe if it was focused more she get more sympathy.. i love how i said i hate things not being subtle then suggest they should have been more in your face .. im such a contradiction .. She's a good rounded character. the kinda of person id love and find annoying at the same time if i knew them in real life.. if that makes any sense. I love people who have passion and she usually means well but i get annoyed by people going a bit over the top with things and she def does. no hat to diane of course im out of things to say. I wish i had a song to share .. songs are usuall good for expressing how i view a character but i got nothing

[shivunin]

✨9 Ship Songs✨

Rules: List nine songs for one of your ships

Tagged by @brother-genitivi---Thank you so much! I am always delighted by any opportunity to talk music c:

I didn't want to pick one ship, so here are three songs for each of my canon DA ships instead (I have great playlists for all of them that I want to show off haha), so nine total split across the three.

So:

Arianwen/Zevran

The Killing Kind by Marianas Trench (YT link)

The ghost in me was true but you were haunted too just didn't see it all along. Nevermore to leave here, nevermore to leave here You should never be here I know, I know, I know, I know, I know I know my love can be the killing kind.

Howl by Florence + The Machine (YT Link)

If you could only see The beast you've made of me I held it in but now it seems you've set it running free Screaming in the dark I howl when we're apart Drag my teeth across your chest to taste your bleeding heart

Got Weird by dodie (YT Link)

I got weird when we made out What a goddamn kiss to think about Poured a drink all over my wiring Short a fuse, all cylinders firing It got weird when we made out Clearly I've got shit to figure out Baby, baby, please don't hate me Call me up again, I won't get weird

Maria/Fenris

Francesca by Hozier (YT Link)

Now that it's done there's not one thing that I would change My life was a storm since I was born How could I fear any hurricane? If someone asked me at the end I'd tell them "put me back in it." ... I would still be surprised I could find you, Darling, in any life

reckless driving by Lizzy McAlpine (YT Link) (with Maria singing the man's part)

Now we're at 180 and I can finally see but then it's over in a second, crashed the car into the tree Yeah, I can see it all happen You'd rather die than take your eyes off me

Lose Myself by Lera Lynn (YT Link)

Don't want to talk Don't want to listen You'll just convince me That you're what I'm missing If I stay longer, I know what I'll do I'll lose myself in you

Emmaera/Cullen

Dark Doo Wop by MS MR (YT Link)

The world is gonna burn, burn, burn, burn As long as we're going down Baby you should stick around It's all gone to shit; it's out of our hands Baby if you could, I know: you would hatch a plan That's my, that's my man

You and Me on the Rock by Brandi Carlile (YT Link)

I'll build my house up on this rock, baby, every day with you There's nothin in that town I need after everything we've been through. Me out in my garden And you out on your walk Is all the distance this poor girl can take without listening to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock

Photograph by Cody Fry (YT Link)

If I wished myself a superpower I would make this moment last for hours If I had my will, time would just stand still Wait for me until I find some magic film To take a photograph and live inside I need some way to prove that this was real A memory is not enough I'm scared that I'll forget the way it feels To be young and in love Let me stay right here---just a moment longer The picture is so clear Please let this last forever

Tagging (no pressure): @greypetrel @demandthedoodles @star--nymph @vakarians-babe @scribbledquillz @zenstrike @gaysebastianvael @transprincecaspian @ndostairlyrium @gvnseylike @idolsgf @layalu @bitchesofostwick @jtownnn and YOU

Tell me what music you like for your fellas!!

[silver-blooded-synthetics]

@lebutterfly-effect asked:

Who was your first muse? Favourite thing about roleplaying? Least favourite thing about roleplaying? OTP for your muse? NOTP for your muse? What are some similarities between you and your muse/muses? What are some differences between you and your muse/muses? Have you any old muses that you’d love to bring back? What’s one random headcanon about your muses that people mightn’t know? What do you look for in a rp partner? Favourite trope? Least favourite trope? Are there any AU’s you’d like to explore but haven’t had the chance to yet? Do you listen to music whilst writing? If so, what kind of music?

Who was your first muse?

On tumblr it was Simon from Detroit: Become Human. I still play him on another blog, though I'm not as active there anymore as I used to be. Before I joined tumblr, I played lots of other characters though, and my first was an OC named Cain.

Favorite thing about RP?

Connecting with other people and being able to write something with them is a magical experience, I love all the friends I make.

Least favorite thing about RP?

The drama that seems to happen constantly. I just want to write, I don't care about all the callout posts and false accusations and petty fighting.

OTP for your muse?

I love all the ships I have for my muses, so I can't just pick one OTP.

NOTP for your muse?

I haven't come across anyone trying to ship with my muses that I wasn't able to work something out with so we could both enjoy the ship. I've never had a bad ship before that I didn't love. So I don't have a NOTP yet.

What are some similarities between you and your muse/s?

Alma and I both have a difficult time with physical touch. It causes overstimulation when we are already stressed or anxious and leads to sensory overload. Arda and I both have a love for music and find beauty in everything, even things that aren't conventionally considered beautiful. Errol and I both have a hard time making genuine friends, even though I don't think I have it as extreme as he does and don't handle it the same way he does, we are both very lonely people that have a hard time making sincere connections with others. Gayle and I both have a bit of a temper when things don't go our way, or the people we do care about are hurt or threatened.

What are some differences between you and your muses?

Abel and Evan are, admittedly, very difficult for me to write because we have virtually nothing in common. I've actually been debating taking them off of my muse list because of that. Even though they are important characters in my main muses lives, they are so different than me that I have a hard time getting into their heads.

Do you have any old muses you'd like to bring back?

For a short time I had two OC's on an old blog that I would love to bring back because I've played them on other sites and love them a lot. Brook-Lynn Young and Garick McClallan. They are also important to my main muses's stories, but in different ways, and are secondary characters in the story I'm writing. So they might not translate as well into RP. At least on this account. but I do love them and have thought about bringing them back. I also love David 8 from the Alien franchise and want to RP him, but there's not much of an RPC for him to belong to here. At least from what I've seen in the past.

What's a random headcanon about your muse people might not know?

Alma's name definition means 'nourshing', 'kind', and 'soul'. it has Latin, Hebrew, Italian, Filipino, and Arabic roots.

What do you look for in an RP partner?

Someone who is good at open communication and can handle misunderstandings and disagreements with civil conversation like an adult without losing their temper and getting passive aggressive. I've had RP partners in the past that were like this and I can't handle the drama any more.

Favorite trope?

Probably found family and hurt/comfort. I'm a sucker for angst, but it's got to have a happy ending, and there's just something special about a group of misfits coming together to support and love each other when the rest of the world is against them that I find amazing.

Least favorite trope?

Soulmates. I don't know why, but I've never liked the idea of people who are fated to be together beyond their control. I prefer the idea that people choose to love each other every day, despite the hardships, on purpose, against all odds. I find it much more romantic.

Are there any AU's you'd like to explore but haven't had the chance to yet?

I mentioned before I want to do a superhero/villain AU at some point, and just haven't written it up yet. But I've also been thinking about a rockstar AU for Errol, since he is already so musically inclined. I would also like to do a witch AU for Arda, and faerie AU's for both Alma and Arda, to go along with Errol's already established one.

Do you listen to music while writing? If so what kind?

I do! I usually put my entire music library on shuffle and just skip songs I'm not in the mood for. But that means that I listen to ever type of music under the sun pretty much lol. I can go from something hard to something soft one song after the other and that's just how I listen to my music. I have very eclectic tastes. Though, I will admit, when I'm having a hard time focusing while writing, I will choose instrumental stuff specifically, without any words, because that can help me focus better.

[the-firebird69]

And it is Friday night and the cavern is dropping slowly at this point it's dropped an inch from last night and it stopped early this morning at 4:00 a.m. and it is going to drop probably 6 in. At this point it would have to drop 8 in but the water is still coming in but the tide is going out and the rain water won't be enough it's a close call but about 1 hour from now it will have to go to a foot and and low tide at 2:30 p.m. or 3:30 p.m. really it will be a foot and a half but it will then by morning it will have gone down 6 in so really it'll be a foot left but the tide will start coming in and play the same game but really with the tide goes out the amount of water that's coming down it's not enough to hold it up tomorrow night we don't think it will do it either it'll be another 6 in leaving 6 in with the water is doing by going upwards it is pushing down but it is holding salt water there so we're getting a full 6 in maybe 7 in tomorrow night that would push it over the top leaving only 6 in and that's really actually low tide is down a foot and a half over there and the water here doesn't affect it and so that would be Sunday night okay well the water here does affect it but we anticipate to continuously rain up north they're clearing another 200 miles still it'll make it 400 mi to Mississippi 200 mi North 200 mi south of Memphis. We think they want to bring in ships and underwater stuff but really to do that they have to clear all the way up North it's about 800 miles and only 250 miles of it are cleared 550 more miles it doesn't take long to blast it out but it takes time and our son says when I take like a big ass ship and just drive up and down once and Tommy Allen says boy that's stupid and he gets threaten people he says a big huge 5 mi ship would do it with like one pass anything why are we doing it this way it's such a pain in the ass everything we do is inappropriate but they really can't get a big ship there no I don't think they tried. They're trying to get a big ship up there and there aren't any left and they know how to turn around they have to go into the lake. So did you get drunk drive around in the lake you don't have to be drunk but you could be and you can take some out of there it's smiling saying oh we could use the ship. So things are going that way but he's going to try so Garth said were really stupid and pissing him off and0 we don't know how to do things right and s*** and this is terrible and it's stupid and he doesn't want them doing it so he doesn't make songs anymore he doesn't do anything. And my son is dirt 4 and nobody seems to care and really we can't stand anymore and he's going to have to make money off you and really nothing's happened yet and we're just sitting here

There's other news but the muck is going to be out up to about 50% tonight how could it be 50% with only 250 mi out of the North and 200 out of the South so it's really like 30% coming up or well 25% if they do though 400 cuz they're doing another 200 in the other and it'll be total of 400 as f*** 25% it wasn't going to do and that makes sense he says he'll probably stop with a small true too so it's still not that much now it's a bunch but they're going to be up to 30% by the end of the weekend. And we can win if he was around way-chan Lynn would say why are you so slow you've been here for 400 hour.. it's misery living with you you dance why are they so slow they've been here for 400 hour ... Other news coming up

Thor Freya

Olympus

[adeadhorse]

Quinn/Logan ask meme

When I started shipping it if I did: Probably more acquiescence than shipping, which was when it became canon and overtook the fandom, but apart from that their chemistry in Chase's Girlfriend specifically when Quinn reveals it was just his elbow position that was wrong.

My thoughts: I've covered this before but. I hate enemies to lovers, S4 and I'm allergic to hype - they were never going to be my favourite couple. I would say that I think people should have higher standards and not just accept the five episodes of poorly written screentime they got (in the sense that all of S4 is poorly written), but I am out here riding for an OTP where one half has two facial expressions so I can't judge here. But I hope for y'all's sake that Quogan in 102 is good, but even if it's not you guys have a lot of quality fanfic to return to.

What makes me happy about them: They are genuinely cute and if you squint you can argue that Logan becomes a better person with her. Them seeing each other as equals is very worthwhile.

What makes me sad about them: People conflate fanfic!Quogan (specifically Logan) with canon!Quogan so now the only discourse I ever get to hear is about how superior to Chase/Zoey they are as a couple because people (rightly) hate Jamie Lynn Spears but ignore the fact that Matthew Underwood gave drugs to underage girl. Also sp*z is literally a slur he called her a slur.

Things done in fanfic that annoys me: Having them as a bastion of a healthy relationship in contrast to Chase/Zoey like hello he has a limitless credit card and she has a zap watch they are hardly the epitome of emotional regulation. I see them as being passionate and impulsive and I think that, after the the initial secrecy had dissipated, they would have struggled with the quieter, more boring sides of a relationship. I also think Quinn would have matured faster than Logan. I still absolutely see them choosing each other but I think it was a bit of a long road to get there.

Things I look for in fanfic: I honestly don't know if I've ever read a full Quogan fanfic. I think what I have read was a very long time ago, filled with angst, and that's not really how I see them now.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:  Dana/Logan, Chase/Logan, Quinn/Nicole, Quinn/Nobel Peace Prize.

My happily ever after for them: They get married and don't have kids because not everyone wants kids, and Logan is basically a trophy husband who funds his cool wife's wacky inventions.

Who is the big spoon/little spoon: Quinn is the big spoon 75% of the time.

What is their favorite non-sexual activity: Making out that 9/10 times leads to sex. They also end up taking a cooking class together and because baking is just chemistry they're pretty good at it, though they will still argue over which recipe for brownies/bread/souffles/literally anything is better.

[djsherriff-responses]

I think the common way people interpreted Rayhawk is due to a combination of how bitter they talk about each other and their character arcs being parallel. Dolph's "the shit they put on TV" when seeing Rayman's show is proof enough they would struggle to get along

But the new manga revealing Dolph's back story, it brings a lot of new elements for Rayhawk (and other stuff but this is about ships)

Gonna put this under a read more as it's long and also will bring up some sensitive topics (grooming , age gap relationships, celebrity culture and mentions of sex)

But the main point is that the toxicity of Rayhawk wouldn't be because they have similar traumas (but it can play a part), but because their individual traumas could either conflict with each other or just make things worse for both of them, it just really depends on the circumstances you want to put them under

I seen some people express discomfort about Rayfrog and their age gap regarding Bullfrog saying he watched Rayman's show as a tadpole. (Which is fine to feel btw)

But the thing is? Any baggage around that age gap wouldn't be an issue unless it's purposely focused on , most people just ignore that and focus on other aspects of the ship and characters

You can't do the same for Rayhawk, especially on Dolph's end

Ramon deeply loves people, especially children. So much so that they had a massive impact on his career choices. Ramon so desperately wants to protect children and minorities that it's the leading factor of his betrayal against the board of directors

Dolph is a minority. He was a child taken from his mother and severely abused by the system of Eden, basically raised to be a weapon instead of a person

And after escaping the military, Dolph got groomed by Alex

Whether Dolph always had a thing for older men or Alex just had such an impact on him that it changed Dolph's brain chemistry, we'll never know

But what we do know is that Dolph is shown to have an attraction to men old enough to be his father (Alex) which stems from Dolph's need for parental love , one can also make an argument that Dolph struggles understanding that affection and sex aren't one in the same which negatively impacts Dolph's self worth and his boundaries (thanks Alex you creep)

And you know , Ramon just happens to be much older than Dolph , he also just happens to be a father like figure on children's media (technically he's more like a teacher but it still works here)

Dolph is very much a representative of the very vulnerable people Ramon wanted to help , and which he failed to help anyways

" annoyingly apologetic guilt " doesn't begin to describe how Ramon feels whenever he looks at Dolph and sees the final form of a raykid , that countless children across Eden are being trained to see themselves as tools to be used and later discarded ,and it's all Rayman's fault

And that's just the platonic part of Rayhawk

You really want to mix Dolph's need for parental affectionate and Ramon's guilt over the harm he's done to vulnerable people with sex? Why don't we set the white house on fire while we're at it?

No one can convince me those two wouldn't have incredibly awkward sex. Like, there's no way those two going at it wouldn't get weird at some point

And there's the "what if Rayman knew Dolph before he left the military" angle. Personally not my favourite route as I don't think it'd be in character for Ramon to date a "barely legal adult" (even if that was common place in show business), but if someone wanted to push that, they could make some real BoJack Horseman and Sarah Lynn type tragedy out of Rayhawk

I like the idea of them hooking up for a bit , be a little toxic together and then realise that they don't have to bang each other for hugs and break it off, resulting in them having a much healthier friendship. That's just me though

I don’t have an opinion on the ship but I know the popular theory around rayhawk is that they’d be super tense and toxic because they have such similar trauma, but I also don’t think Dolph has ever met somebody who’s been in his position. Maybe Dolph early on wouldve hated Ramon, but at least according to his bio a large part of his character is growing and learning to communicate & trust others, and Ramon could be a massive step in that direction. Leading to more positive and not so toxic results. I also understand Dolph saw Rayman on TV and as the shitshow who ruined his life, but I don’t think Ramon resembles TV Rayman enough at this point for him to really associate him with such, I mean he changes his name and everything. Plus, this applies to like, any Ramon ship. I don’t really imagine Rayman will suffer from anger towards anybody but Eden, maybe annoyingly apologetic guilt, but I see no reason for him to be hostile to Dolph. I also think Dolph has grown to the point where he wouldn’t resent Ramon, since Dolph is too trusting to begin with. Anyways, my point is I don’t really think they’d have to be super toxic.

[tracidant]

Trigger warnings for Major Character Death, Cancer (nothing graphic at all)

Prompt - Bruce has incurable (by normal medical standards) brain or whatever cancer.........AND GO!!!

LEGACY

When Bruce let the family know his  diagnosis - inoperable brain cancer - he wasn't surprised by their reactions. Dick immediately contacted Superman. "He's your best friend and has x-ray vision. Maybe he can see what normal medical imaging can't and zap the cancer out." Tim contacted Michael Holt, aka Mr. Terrific, at S.T.A.R. Labs. Jason contacted Kori to see about using her old ship's healing chamber. Duke contacted Jefferson Pierce, to see if perhaps his ex-wife, Dr. Lynn Stewart, a neuroscientist, could help. Stephanie contacted her mom, a nurse at Gotham General. And of course, Damian contacted Talia.

"No Lazarus Pit."

"But Father, it will heal you. You aren't dead, so the...side effects...would be minimal, and certainly preferable to the alternative."

"No."

Cass made a call too. She left the room, and Bruce figured she just needed time. He'd wait a bit to go check on her.

While talking to Clark, who was nearly in tears, "There's nothing even I can do, Bruce. I'm sorry," he saw Cass return.

With Harley Quinn.

Cass motioned for everyone to leave the room, and Alfred suggested sandwiches in the kitchen. He figured no one would eat, but maybe it would give them a distraction.

"Hey, Bruce. Cass told me what was up. She thought maybe you'd want to talk to someone. I know I'm not a doctor any more, but I still have all the knowledge, and it's not like you're a traditional guy anyway, so how about we sit and chat a bit."

"Harley, I...thank you." He motioned for her to sit on the sofa and then sat next to her. "I already know about the whole stages of grief thing. I did the anger and bargaining and all that already. I've accepted this. You might be better off talking to the kids."

"You've cheated death a bazillion times, Bruce. You always find a way. Your SuperBestie is like the embodiment of hope. Are you sure you've really accepted this?"

"Yes. I see my legacy, Harley, and I'm proud. So proud of it. I see these kids who have grown so much. They're all heroes themselves, and they'll lead the next generation to be even better than this one. I've even helped a few former villains turn their lives around and become heroes." Harley blushed. "The Wayne Foundation is stronger and helping more people than ever. If this is where my story ends, I'm perfectly fine with that. I'm not sure I could do any better if I lived a hundred more years. Or a thousand."

"What about your kids?"

Bruce laughed. "They've had to deal with my death before. They have each other, their friends, and I'm sure you'll be there for them too, if they need it."

"Absolutely."

"Thank you."

"What about grandkids? Your kids are all gorgeous and most of them are over 18 now. They'll start gettin' hitched and having little ones soon. You'll miss seeing that."

Bruce got serious. "That will be my biggest regret."

Ivy put her hand on top of Bruce's. "Well I promise Auntie Harley will tell them all about their Grandpa Bruce and how he saved her and so many others. And I'll keep an eye on the kids too."

"Please do. Dick will try to hide his pain caring for the others. He'll try to do too much. I think I worry about him more than the others even. Duke has already essentially lost his parents, so he may feel some abandonment issues. Tim will try to pull away from his friends when he needs them the most. Jason and Damian will be angry, and they don't think straight when they're angry. Cass, I actually worry about the least. Her and Steph will have each other's backs. And Barbara too. Is it weird the women will probably deal with this better?"

"Not really. Men have such a societal stigma about asking for and accepting help.  With women, since we're seen as weaker," Harley rolled her eyes in disgust, "it's deemed ok for us to ask for help."

Bruce thought for a bit. "If people had seen the women I've seen, they wouldn't think that way."

"Well, you're kinda a magnet for strong women. Speaking of which, have you talked to Selina yet?"

"Yes. Earlier today. Right before I told the kids. She's on her way."

"Do you have your diagnosis info from your doctor? I'd like to see it, if that's ok. Psychiatrists get a lot of neurological training too, so I know my way around the human brain. Kinda nice to be looking at it from this aspect rather than just bashing them in, ya know?"

Bruce smiled and handed her the folder. She looked it over for a few minutes.

"Well, the good news is the location might be unlucky in that's it's too hard to get to to be operable, but you should keep your mental faculties right up to the end. I'm sure that's a pretty big deal for you."

"Yes, it is. The neuro-oncologist told me as much, but it's still nice to get a second opinion."

"So, you're definitely not looking for options? It's not like you don't have access to a lot of super smart people, literally. Plus the best medical science can offer, not to mention aliens and magic and all that."

"I don't want false hope. Not for me or the kids. As you said before, I've cheated death too many times. It's my time."

"I guess there's not much more to say then. At least now, but if you do want to talk more, you can call me anytime."

Bruce stood up and Harley followed. He hugged her tightly. "Thank you, Harley."

---------------------------------------------

Five weeks later, Bruce went to sleep and never woke up. He never really lost his cognitive functions, something that everyone was grateful for. He was buried a few days later, on a perfect fall day, in the family plot next to his parents.

Cass had already taken over as the new Batman with Stephanie as her Robin, with an updated suit. A few villains laughed at first, but that didn't last long, and word soon got around that the new dynamic duo was not to be messed with.

Dick had indeed tried to take too much on himself, but Wally and Donna were there to knock some sense into him. Apparently they knocked enough sense into him that he proposed to Barbara, and they were married, and pregnant, a few months later.

Tim went to San Francisco and lived at Titans Tower full time with plans on being there by himself. Kon, Cassie, and Bart, made sure that didn't happen, even when he screamed at them to leave him alone. (He was very glad they didn't listen.) With his friends' and the family's permission, he told Bernard who he really was, and Bernard moved to the Tower a few months later. He turned out to be a pretty good Oracle for them, and eventually took the name Knightwatch.

Jefferson and Katana had gotten married and moved to Gotham. Duke moved in with them and continued as Gotham's daytime protector. He still spent a lot of time at the Manor.

Roy asked Jason to help him find Lian, which turned out to be a great distraction for him. Both Artemises joined them, the younger going by Tigress now. Jason and his Artemis eventually got together, shortly after they rescued Lian.

Damian took a while before he could go back out in costume. He wasn't doing well and tried staying in Metropolis with the Kents, but that seemed to make his anger worse. He knew going to his mother right now would be a terrible idea, and finally it was Conner that suggested a plan.

"Go to Smallville. I'm not there as much to help Ma and Pa out, and if you're working on the farm, you'll be too busy and too tired for anger. Trust me on this one."

So Damian stayed with the elder Kents for six months. After a rough settling in period, the arrangement worked out well for everyone. He found a lot of joy working with the animals especially, and started looking into veterinary schools for the future.

Alfred had lost a lot and it weighed heavily on him, but as soon as he found out Dick and Barbara were going to have a child, it was as if he'd gotten twenty years younger.

Selina and Talia bonded over their grief, and Selina ended up going to Nanda Parbat to help Talia run the League. It had never been more efficient.

When the Joker heard about Bruce Wayne's death on the news, knowing exactly who Bruce really was, he left Gotham and was never heard from again.

Harley Quinn started up a group called The Reformed with Ivy, Kite Man, Clayface, and King Shark. Mr. Freeze, the Riddler, and Bane joined them a few months later. They helped out with keeping Gotham safe, day and night. Harley tried to get them to wear matching outfits, but had to settle for everyone wearing a "B" (like the Robin "R") on their assorted suits. She stopped by Bruce's grave frequently to tell him of their adventures.

[beatles-slash-fiction]

Do you remember the traveling wilburys? It was a band George was in after the Beatles.

Could you do one where he his caught having an affair with them (the members were Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Jeff Lynne pls don't include roy Orbison cause he was way too old at that point) it can be any ship or poly beatles i don't mind.

The phone rings just after four in the morning.

George’s brain still hasn’t quite adapted to LA time, so it doesn’t even really occur to him that this is likely someone from England calling.

Tom is the one nearest the phone, so George runs his foot across the other man’s bare calf and kisses his chest.

“Would you mind?” George asks, his voice groggy with sleep.

Tom yawns and reaches for the phone just as Bob and Jeff start to stir on George’s other side.

“Hello?”

George can almost feel himself start to drift back off to sleep when Tom stiffens next to him.

“Uh...yeah, hi. Yeah, sure. Just a sec-“

Tom turns to hand the phone to George.

Ringo, Tom mouths.

George is definitely awake now. He sits up and clears his throat. “Ritchie?”

“George.” Ringo’s tone is certainly a little more curt than usual. “Sorry to disturb you, I know it’s early in the morning there. You’re all working late then?”

Ringo knows they’re not working late. There’s only one reason Tom would answer George’s phone at this time in the morning. But George lies anyway, because he’s too much of a coward to admit the truth to his husband.

“Yeah,” George replies. “We’ve been working late. What’s up? Everything alright?”

“I was just calling to let you know that Dhani’s been in a car accident. He’s fine, don’t worry. But he’s fractured his wrist and has some minor injuries so he’s just in hospital at the moment being patched up. I’m with him and you don’t need to come home, but I just wanted to let you know-“

“No,” George says immediately. “I’m coming. I’ll come home. God, was it a bad accident? He’s okay?”

“He’s fine. He was with that guy who we thought might be his boyfriend, who was apparently doing eighty at the time. I’ll be having words with him. But Dhani’s fine, everyone’s fine. He’s just a little shaken up.”

“Okay,” George says. “Well tell him I’m coming. I’ll be on a plane as soon as I can.”

“No rush.” Ringo’s curt tone returns. “I can take care of our son until you’ve finished your orgy.”

And then he hangs up.

George’s heart sinks. He knows he’s got himself into this mess. He knows he’s fucked up.

Jeff squeezes his shoulder. “Everything okay?”

George swallows. “I need to fly home. Dhani’s in hospital. And Ringo knows.”

He doesn’t need to elaborate any further. The others know what he means. They avoid addressing that second part though.

“Is Dhani alright?” Bob asks. “Do you need us to come with you?”

“Dhani’s fine,” George replies. “And I think it’s best if none of you come with me.”

He can’t think about this right now. His son has to come first.

He doesn’t even let the others kiss him goodbye. All he can think about is Dhani injured and scared, and Ringo angry and heartbroken.

[emwritesstuff]

as the world caves in | ch. 9 | bucky barnes x reader

synopsis: You are a ghost story. A former Air Force pilot who had her plane shot down by Germany in 1945, but here you were in 2023, alive and frozen in your 25-year-old body.

You haven’t seen Bucky since the 1940’s, before his fall, before you went on a suicide mission only to come back alive. You aren’t sure reliving those memories – and being a living memory of everything the man has lost – is the best for him.

But you and Bucky won’t be apart for long.

This will loosely follow the plot of TFATWS - so spoilers ahead, specially regarding episode six (finale). Thread carefully!

masterlist | AO3

notes:  thank you everyone for your patience with this chapter. I'm dropping this lil shortie so we can get the story moving. Let's go! (warnings: lil' fluff, lil' angst) (word count: 3K) nine: records

Bucky knocked on your door a few weeks later.

It was late, and you were snug in your pajamas, winding down after a long day. With your identity no longer a secret, the government was in the midst of transferring you to something more… hands-on, and definitely less diplomatic, you were assuming; so much for retirement, but you figured 30 years of it had been more time than you could’ve anticipated.

You almost didn’t hear the soft rapping on wood over Vera Lynn’s mellow singing.

When you finally opened it, you found him standing there, wearing tired eyes and a dark coat. “I’m sorry, I know it’s late, but I started walking and I—"

“When I said you’re welcome anytime, Bucky Barnes, I meant any time.”

A tiny fraction of a smile was offered your way, and you grasped it tight against your heart at the same time you do his hand, pulling him inside.

His fingers lingered on yours, but before you could start thinking about it he pulled away, taking a seat at the edge of your couch. “I finished it. The book.”

Bucky answered your question before you could ask it. “I just came from there. The last one– the last name.”

“Well. Are you alright?” You sat next to him, your knee knocking against his, and his gaze went from the floor, to the spot where your legs touched, and then to you. He knitted his eyebrows, seeming a little incredulous you were even asking.

“I will be.” His hands intertwined on the space between his knees, and you placed a hand ton his shoulder, getting him to look at you again.

“Yes, you will. Do you want to talk about it?”

One corner of Bucky’s lip raised up, and he shook his head. “Is that Vera Lynn?”

You smiled, turning to look at your record player as if Vera herself was sitting next to it. “It is. Takes me back, I guess.”

“It’s all we’d listen to at the front.”

Nodding, you wondered for a second if Bucky remembered dancing to We’ll Meet Again the night before he was shipped off. Even if you weren’t the only girl he had danced with then, you still asked yourself if that memory was burned on his mind as it was on yours.

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when. A short-term promise, made back then by hopeful lovers, friends, family members; you had no idea that those lyrics would prove themselves so literal when you and Bucky mouthed them at each other in the middle of a dancefloor.

You let out a breathy chuckle, standing up and beckoning him to where you kept the rest of your vinyl. “Come on. Vera’s starting to feel a little too nostalgic to me.”

Your record collection was pretty extensive, ranging from things of the good ol’ days from the special editions that were still being released nowadays. Bucky joined you on the floor, and together you started to make your way through decades eternized in discs.

“Marvin Gaye.”

You look up from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, finding Bucky making a face at the album he was holding. “It’s really good. Do you want to—”

“No. No more Marvin Gaye.”

You furrowed your eyebrows. “You don’t like him?”

“I like Marvin Gaye! Jesus. Marvin is good—Marvin’s jus’ fine,” Bucky rubbed his eyes with his thumb and middle finger, and you finally understood.

“Sam’s been preaching you the word of R&B to you too, huh?”

You giggled at the tired look he gave you and silently took Trouble Man out of his hands, stuffing it back with the rest of the 1970’s.

Years ago, Bucky would be delighted to dive headfirst in the new – your trips to countless science fairs and expositions were enough proof of that – but looking at him now, knowing him as you were starting to once again, you figured that just a dip of the toes was more than enough.

You pulled Frank Sinatra from the 1950’s section.

“I know Sinatra.”

“Do you now?”

You put the record on your player, and Vera Lynn’s longing gave way to Sinatra’s swagger and jazz.

“Do you?” Bucky teased, frowning at the most recent items in your collection. As soon as Frank’s voice filled the silence, he nodded. “Yeah, that’s nice.”

“I do know him! Or did. Met ‘im in 1962.” You plopped next to Bucky, who was shaking his head. “What?”

“Show off.”

“No, just been around. Met people on the way. And, you asked.” Your smirk grew into a grin as Bucky mouthed your words back at you. Then his face fell for a second, and your amusement was quickly replaced by worry. “What is it?”

“Nothing, I guess – I guess I just missed a lot.” The same way one of the corners of his lips tug on his cheek again in his attempt of a smile, melancholy tugs at your heartstrings. “I missed out on everything. And I missed out on you.”

Bucky’s head was low as he spoke and you could see the tremble of his hands, even though he clutched one of your records tightly. Nina Simone, 1960’s.

“M’not going anywhere, you know.”

“You still lived an entire lifetime—”

“I did, yes, thank you for constantly reminding me that I’m over 100 years old.” You shook your head at him, sighing softly when he chuckled.

You couldn’t blame him, for clinging to every bit of past he’d missed while he was in HYDRA’s clutches – you knew that was inevitable, but you wished that such sorrow wasn’t so related to you.

“What are you doin’?” He asked as you summoned a small stool from the side of your shelf and stepped on it.

“I want to show you somethin’.” The thing you were looking for was stored at the very top: a heavy, brown leather suitcase that almost made you lose your balance when you pulled it from the spot it had been sitting in for—honestly, years, many of them.

The contents of the suitcase rattled as you climbed down and sat next to Bucky again. Sinatra still playing, telling his lover I've got you under my skin, I've got you, deep in the heart of me;

You almost laughed from the truth and irony of it.

I'd tried so, not to give in

I said to myself this affair never will go so well

You unlocked the suitcase, revealing the gathered memories inside. Pictures, movie tickets, theater playbooks, receipts, trinkets. All souvenirs of the 80 something years of your life Bucky hadn’t been there to see.

Not organized in the slightest, the keepsakes of your life were tossed together and out of order just as in your memory: photographs of you in uniform, and sometimes in party dresses; of when you bought your house; of the few times you had pets. Posing next to famous people and other important ones whose names weren’t as well known by the world.

As you and Bucky went through each of them, you added a story or an explanation, sometimes both, to fill him in on the details of your life events. He laughed at some, frowned at a lot, stared at you intently for all of them.

“Is this Berlin?”

You hummed, nodding. “1989. That party was great.”

“Party?” Bucky knitted his eyebrows in surprise.

“The city was unified, the wall was being taken down, and everyone was celebrating. I’ve never seen that many bottles of vodka in one place.” You laughed, taking a good look at yourself in the picture.

The 80’s were definitely not your best decade, looks wise. You had tried a perm the year before, and the poodle look was only then starting to dial down. The beginnings of a bruise were starting to creep on your left eye, from the mission you had completed just a few hours before.

“I don’t think I’ve ever been that drunk.”

Bucky’s surprise intensified, his eyes wide. “We can’t get drunk.”

“Yes we can.”

“No, no we can’t.”

“We can, in fact. It’s all a matter of quantity and, well, speed.” You giggled as Bucky’s mouth gaped more.

“And the hangover?”

“Horrible. Like getting shot on the forehead. Comes quickly, too.”

He grimaced, and with one last look – certainly to register your peculiar appearance on his mind – gently put the picture back inside the suitcase. A stack of papers seemed to call out to him and he picked it up, releasing them from the band that held them together carefully.

Postcards of the places you’ve been: a small note to James Barnes and Steve Rogers on the back of each one.

Bucky’s voice faltered. He let out an anguished little sound, probably something that was supposed to be an Oh, or a What, but had no strength to crawl up his throat.

You brought your knees to your chest as you waited for him.

“You—you wrote to us?”

“I did. You can keep those, they’re addressed to you.”

After all this time, you could barely remember the words you wrote in those postcards; all you knew was that some had longer messages, others a simple Wish you were here.

“After we met in Baltimore, I thought that— that you’d have moved on from us.”

From me.

As if that was possible.

“Well, I stopped writing by 2003, give or take. But really,” You sighed. “It’s hard to forget someone when you’ve always been expecting them to come back to you.”

Bucky flipped the postcard from Rome, read the writing and smiled wistfully at it. “And, I did.”

“You did. And staying away was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, but—”

“But you’re annoyingly stubborn.” His jaw tightened, then relaxed when he smirked. “I mean, I get it – If the roles were reversed, I’d leave you rebuild your life without me like a self-sacrificing idiot too.”

Alright. That was fair.

Shaking your head, you watched as he slipped the postcards in his pocket, an amused expression on his face.

“That was… a big mistake. Something a self-sacrificing idiot would do,” You screwed your eyes shut in shame, opening them when Bucky chuckled. “but now, I’m right here. And so are you.”

His stubble scratched the soft skin of your palm when you reached for him, and you continued. “We’re a little out of place in this century, that much is true, but if I’m being honest… I’m getting tired of yearning for the past, Buck.”

Good old times – sometimes really good, sometimes bad, every one of them old – tucked away in your heart like your records were tucked in neatly in their shelf, organized by year. As you went through the decades, your enhanced body eternizing you like marble, your heart seemingly stayed at that army camp overseas. Or maybe Sergeant Bucky Barnes had taken it with him, only for them to be frozen together, leaving you with an empty hole in your chest.

You lived your life longing for that missing piece, the one with blue eyes and the dashing smile and the skilled feet.

The one that in many other stories was the one that got away, the one who now believed he was somebody else, but had brought your heart back with him all the same.

The very heart that nearly leapt out of your chest when Bucky rested his forehead against yours.

You’ve never been this close – there isn’t an ounce of past in the gesture. His eyes being tightly closed kept him from seeing the surprise on your eyes and then how they fell to his lips for a millisecond. Then, those lips brushed against yours in a featherlike touch.

I would sacrifice anything, come what might

For the sake of having you near

He pried himself off you when you exhaled, as if your very breath had electrocuted him.

“M’sorry. I—I didn’t—” He said as you stared at the back of his neck, and the shock gives way to disappointment.

I didn’t mean to. Or maybe: I didn’t want to.

“That’s—it’s okay.” You clapped your hands on your knees, still feeling the prickle of his facial hair on them, and got up to change the music.

There was no doubt Bucky was touch starved, and that he probably craved the closeness that comes with a lover. He sought that for a fleeting second in Sam’s sister, and now in you. No point in dwelling on what it might have meant.

Right?

Looking at Bucky, his expression was overcast, furrowed eyebrows as he watched you from his spot on the floor. You offered him a gentle smile, and the crease on his forehead eased up slightly.

Right.

Don't you know little fool, you never can win

The record player made a scratching sound as you replaced Frank Sinatra with your go-to jazz compilation. Instrumental.

No lyrics.

There was one thing you’ve always been good at, regarding the infatuation with Bucky Barnes that has taken over your heart for almost a century now: locking the feelings away and stepping into the shoes of the best friend.

Besides, you’ve said it yourself: no more yearning for the past. Hopefully you and Bucky would be able to do that soon enough.

At that moment, however, you needed to feel the burn of whiskey down your throat and pretend it’ll heal the calcinating rejection spreading through your chest.

The guilt you found in Bucky’s eyes as he watched you sweep around your hardwood floors made you pour a glass for him.

He took it gratefully, frowning when you bottomed the whole thing up.

“There’s a lot in here.” He tapped the edge of the suitcase, skillfully steering the conversation in the direction of the more palatable, calm territory it was in before.

The sight of your autobiographical collection made you smile.

“An entire lifetime,” You said, fishing your dog tags from the bottom. “I suppose that’s where it started. Or at least, where thisstarted.”

Bucky took them reverentially, running his thumb over the imprint of your name and numbers.

He reached for his neck, producing from under his Henley the same type of metal chain he was holding in his hands. The fact that he still wore his like that sent a sharp blow to your lungs, almost knocking the air out of you.

His face softened, a smile so beautiful spreading across his lips, so much that your chest clenched in protest because it was simply not fair, how he still had you entirely.

He deposited both of your dog tags in your hands, and that’s when you saw it, and remembered it.

“Won’t we get in trouble for this?”

“Do you care?”

“Well…No.” You sighed, already resigned. And a little excited.

Bucky knew you well: it had been too long of being a good little soldier when all you were used to was the rush of being a hellion.

“And that is why, sugar, that I’m doing this with you, and not with Steve.”

The words made your heart soar, but you were sure to recapture it before it could fly away too high, still too attached to the sensation of the take-off to clip its wings.

You liked flying.

“And because Steve hasn’t been successful in his enlisting efforts. Yet.”

Bucky looked at you from behind his eyebrows, a reprimand hiding in his eyes, but he decided to shove his uniform hat on your head instead. You grumbled, calling him a jerk under your breath.

It was the night before Bucky was drafted to England. He looked handsome in his uniform, a shining, polished star, brighter than the sun even under the dim streetlight you two stood under.

After bringing his and Steve’s dates home (yours was lost to another boxing match along the way – not that you were crying about that) Bucky had decided he was going to stay up all night, because, in his words, he could sleep when the war was over. Or, more realistically, in the ship on the way to England.

So there you two were, illuminated by street lamps and moonlight, visiting the façades and front windows of your favorite places in Brooklyn like drifters in the night.

Bucky still concentrated on his task, his shoulder hunched slightly to block your sight.

“Let me see! Bucky!”

“ ’Sposed to be a surprise! I’m almost done.”

You huffed, crossing your arms. “It’s not like I haven’t seen ‘em before.”

“You gotta be more patient. Here.”

He dropped your dog tags on your hand. You displayed the small steel plates on your palm, scanning your eyes over the two. One of them, of course, had your name, number, blood type, next of kin – an aunt you’ve never met – and address.

The other had Bucky’s.

James B Barnes. 32557038.

He slipped his own chain over his head, the plate with your name clinking against his.

You brought the tips of your fingers to your lips, feeling a smile begin to form onto them.

“I forgot we did this. I haven’t looked at these in so long.”

You had stopped wearing your dog tags the day the war had ended – Bucky was gone then, Steve too, and the weight of his dog tags slamming against your chest was too much to bear – your heart was already heavy with its own engraving of their memories.

“Steve had a lecture prepared when he gave mine back.” Bucky chuckled when you looked up at him, incredulous.

You shook your head, half exasperated and half amused. “Good grief, Steve.”

“Y’know how he is. Was,” He trailed, lips twitching as they formed a thin line.

You reached for him, your hand hovering in the space between you for a second before Bucky took it, lacing your fingers. Scooting closer, you let your cheek rest on his shoulder.

“He’d be glad we’re reunited.” You said, raising your head to peek at him and the newfound upwards curl of his lip. “And mortified we’re still bickering.”

Bucky smiled and squeezed your hand. “Old people. Old habits.”

Laughter bubbled out of your chest, and you realized a few things.

In that moment, it didn’t matter – the heartache, the unrequited side of your love. It was just a fact, a fact of life, of your life, that you a lot of the times loved him as more than your best friend. You loved him. And that was the core of it, the most important fact.

And you knew he loved you – you had each other – in this big, ever-changing, modern world, you had Bucky and Bucky had you.

You sat in comfortable, familiar silence until your eyelids grew heavy and you felt yourself drifting in and out of consciousness.

“You dozin’ on me, sugar?”

“It’s been a long day.” You said with your eyes still closed, feeling him chuckle beside you.

“Tell me about it. I can go—”

“You know damn well you should stay.” You patted his arm and hoisted yourself up from the floor. “I’ll get the pull-up ready for you.”

As you sauntered towards the office, ignoring his pleads and protests that he’s got it, he doesn’t need sheets or anything, you put your dog tags back on.

They jingled lightly against your heart.

Maybe you didn’t have to leave all of the past behind to start building something good and new, after all.

[adrianicsea]

(sorry i was late idk if youre still doing these) lynnmanda for the ship thing?

i will make an exception for you and for lynnmanda!!

do i ship it: yes!! my favorite amanda ship for sure

why i ship it: i think that the chemistry and relationship they have in the movie is so interesting and compelling and like.... i promise i will NOT talk at length about chainshipping bc this isn't about them but lynn as a character literally IS a sort of mirror of lawrence, which in turn makes amanda her adam. the parallels between the two pairs of characters, along WITH the unique challenges/dynamics present specifically between amanda and lynn... that's the good shit.

canon potential: i mean the way things go in canon doesn't leave much room for their relationship to grow LMAO... that said throughout the movie you can sense the mutual fascination that each of them has about the other, and there are moments where lynn seems like she wants to be compassionate/understanding with amanda. and poor amanda is just so traumatized and prickly (and being manipulated by john the whole time of course) that she's being her worst self!! but in a world where any ONE of those things was different.... god. it's SO nice to imagine amanda shooting john instead of lynn, or amanda leaving disarming the shotgun collar, or the collar never being functional in the first place. obviously the two of them would have WAY more baggage to work out after their game than adam and lawrence do, and realistically i don't think the two of them would end up being FRIENDS much less anything more until at least a couple years had gone by.... but i think lynn provides the quiet, compassionate and yet uncompromising strength that amanda needs to start on her recovery process, while amanda represents a life lived authentically and without pretense or artifice, warts and all, which i think would really appeal to lynn, based on the state of her marriage and her life in general when we first meet her.

thoughts on fanon: for starters everybody ships lynnmanda but there's just not NEARLY as much art/fic of them as there is for chainshipping. like I Know Why and i'm guilty of it too (i prommy i have lynnmanda fic ideas, i'm just reticent to do much of ANYTHING until sleeping with ghosts is finished or closer to it), but like. i would like to see and read those freaks. i also think that there can be a tendency to forget that lynn ISN'T just a hapless victim! she's a doctor! she does brain surgery with shit from home depot and doesn't really bat an eye at it! while i think lynn WOULD oftentimes be like "damn bitch you live like this?" about amanda's actions, i don't think she would be as shocked or thrown off by it as some people assume. ALSO. and this is admittedly more of a gripe. but i think it is absolutely a crime that the name SHOTGUNSHIPPING exists for them and yet has fallen nearly to the wayside. it's really not a big deal but when the fandom has other ships called chainshipping and spiralshipping, and there IS a -shipping prefix for these two... why not use it? this is why i tag every post i make about them with both tags. i'm doing MY part to revive the shotgunshipping name, are YOU?

[celeste-fitzgerald]

jeff for the otp ask? :)

JEFF MY BELOVED ❤❤❤

OTP: Jeff/Royyyyyy. They make me too happy. It's such a soft, sappy, sweet ship ❤

BroTP: this one's hard, I'm mostly down to ship Jeff with anyone lol. I guess there's 2, kind of? Jeff&Bob, but I don't *dislike* them as a romantic pair. Mostly I just like the idea of them still being close friends irl, but no one knows about it since they're both so private. I think there's a very good chance that this is the case. My other brotp would be Jeff&Richard Tandy. I love how Jeff "I can do everything myself" Lynne still gets really excited to work with Richard on anything, and how he's always like "Richard's my #1 guy, he's always there." Idk, it's sweet.

OT3: hmmm this one's also hard. I don't think I really have one? I like ot5 wilbs, but leaving any of them out of a polyship just makes me sad lol.

NoTP: don't think I have one of these either!

[nulltune]

———  BASICS!

NAME!  -  lynn (derogatory)

PRONOUNS!  -  she/her

ZODIAC SIGN!  -   aries actually but i'm the weakest aries binch u'll ever see i think

TAKEN OR SINGLE!  -  ^_^ didn't u kno? i'm very happily married to one (1) kishinami hakuno!!! (delusional) (insane)

———  THREE  FACTS!

1. -  i used to share a laptop with my entire family, so i made a habit of keeping school/work related things to the laptop and the entertainment sort of stuff, like tunglr, to my phone (i don't want them knowing about my clownery o k ay--). i do own a laptop all to myself now, but old habits die hard! this is also why on reaally hectic days, i'd barely touch my phone, so you probably won't see me for a solid few days or more :,)

2. -   i wouldn't say i'm clumsy but i do,,, tend to lose my footing,,,, a fair amount,,,,, i feel like i've tripped going up the stairs more times than the average human should and i could be literally just getting up or turning around Just a Liddol Bit and i'd somehow lose my damn footing for no reasonnnn 😭😩 speaking of, i once simply Stood Up after eating cereal, but ended up falling in such a Spectacular way that i ended up with a bruise between my pointer finger and my thumb (among a lotta other bruises too....... f for lynn 😔)

3.  -  honey butter is the best flavor in this whole entire world and honey butter chips are the best snack in this whole entire universe. HDJFJSJ I'M PRETTY BORING SORRYYY I DON'T HAVE MUCH TO SAY ABT MYSELF BUT LIKE-- i love honey butter. i love honey butter chips. that is all.

———  EXPERIENCE!

PLATFORMS USED!  -  instagram O_O yeah. waaay back to the days way back when rping was like *smiles* hello! i then migrated to tunglr around 2016 i think? but i wasn't ever consistently writing here until i picked up this lovely moon girl <3 other than those two platforms, i've never really tried writing anywhere else!

———  MUSE  PREFERENCE!

back in my instagram days, i'd honestly write a muse just because i had a username for them or because my friend asked me to which is why none of em have ever truly stuck with me and died out after a week or two wHEEZE. it's the same for tunglr, but i only ever had one notable muse and even that muse didn't last for more than a few weeks, so i'm not sure.... 🤔 can't imagine myself writing anyone other than hakuno kishinami so like <3 she is da only one 4 me i suppose (catch me still in this hellsite writing hakuno kishinami in the beautiful year of 2034 😉)

MULTI OR SINGLE! ♫ -     considering my hakuno and her thing with love... (i am constantly thinking abt how foxtail states that love is mistaken and unnecessary for npcs okok) tbh i actually planned to be a singleship blog! however........ i wuv ships 😳 maybe it doesn't seem like it bc i try not to scream abt it much but -cough- i have a bad habit of going 😳 They Would Be A Rlly Cute Couple.......!!!!! whenever i find myself rlly liking the dynamic between hakuno and a character -COUGH- to give you an idea of how insane i can be: i even lowkey ship hakuno with a no-name no-design mob character literally just called "male student" that you can talk to in the classroom. bye but i also know it'd take a lot for my moon girl to be romantically involved with someone-- so after some thought and consideration, i eventually settled on being highly selective few-ship! with chemistry as a must. ☆ as for exclusitivity with ships, i'd say i romantically ship with one muse per character. i like it 2 be extra special y'know <3 things may or may not be subject to change in the future tho, who knows!

FLUFF / ANGST / SMUT! ♫ -    l i s ten..... i love happiness. i love wholesomeness. i love the tenderness that can exist between two people. I LOVE FLUFF!!!! but gosh darn it do i love crying. i love having my heart broken. i love emotional stakes. I LOVE ANGST!!!! there's just gotta be some Substance behind them though, ya feel? not just fluff or the sake of fluff or angst for the sake of angst. hakuno's absolutely perfect for both of em btw! i'm a weenie so i can't ever imagine myself writing explicit smut and i'd rather focus on the relationship and the intimacy between the characters when it comes to those topics! but i must say-- hakuno has a very pure and innocent nature, yes, and she fucks. it's not a mutually exclusive thing!! i will also say that my girl is pretty damn wild and she'd normally have zero (0) sexual interest in anyone but once she's romantically involved with someone.... wowowie it'd be so easy for them to make her Act Up. FSJFHSN

PLOT / MEMES! ♫ -   -sagely nod- both. both are good. hskfhwjd GIMME ALL OF EM! 😳👉👈 though i will say that i do prefer having a general idea of what our muses' relationship is before interacting! because i don't want to assume things about out muses' relationship and i know first meetings aren't everyone's cup of tea.. as far as plotting goes, having a general idea is really where it's at! enough to give us an idea and some inspo of what to write, but with enough space for creativity and who knows what! plotting, but not extremely extensively plotting, if that makes sense? i frikkin love screaming over our muses' dynamic thoo and it rlly does help me get the muse for things! it has also lead to some of the most wholesome and interesting relationships that rlly got me sobbing and brainrotting abt 24/7 okok 🥺 (i am Looking Right Back at u smowie deawie @jiejigui) as for memes, i don't rb them very often bc my inbox is a fat binch and i feel bad 😩 but i still love em!! p.s. you're always more than welcome to send me more than one if i do rb an ask meme!! ! mutuals are absolutely free to spam me okok U R NEVER A BOTHER ! i'm a damn snail (basic lynn fact) but any and all asks i get from my lovely mutuals is always a gosh darn blessing that is greatly appreciated!! 😤😤🙏💖✨✨

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TAGGED BY!  -  @exaeriss TYSM HOLY SINNED HINNED ERII !! <3 <3 TAGGING! -  i have no idea who's done or haven't done this, so if you haven't already-- steal it form me!! consider yourself tagged by me!! and do tag me if you do! i'd love to get to know u guys better ok 🥺