#I need ship name ideas for these specific pairings..

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GIRLIES!!!

And dudes…

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May I request some Luffy smut? Maybe including some aphrodisiac of some kind or influence from a devil fruit- I don't mind! I'd just love to see your ideas

I am SO sorry this has taken so long, thank you to everyone who's sent in requests for being so patient. Life has been kicking my ass this month so badly I haven't even been able to read any fanfic, let alone write it. Fingers crossed that the end of November is kinder than the beginning!

I'm really excited to have finally finished this request, I'm a big sucker for sex pollen/aphrodisiac stuff so this was really fun for me! Also, this was my first time writing for Luffy, so I hope I did him justice!

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Pairing: Luffy x Reader

NSFW

Summary: You find your Captain in dire need of a little help. What kind of friend would you be if you didn't provide? Warnings: Smut, Sex Pollen/Aphrodisiac, Oral Sex (Reader receiving), Vaginal Sex Word Count: 1.8k

You should have known something was wrong when the ship was quiet. The Thousand Sunny is never quiet. There’s always the sound of clashing metal, of excited voices, of a song dancing its way across the deck. But you don’t hear a single noise outside of your door, nor do you see anyone as you pad your way outside. 

You knew that you were docking soon, that your crew would leave to explore the island, but you didn’t expect them to leave without waking you up. You had been on night watch last night, so you certainly needed the rest, but you’re not used to them not at least momentarily waking you to let you know where everyone’s going.

Your surprise and confusion only grows as you hear someone crashing through the brush, and you see your Captain emerge, sprinting precariously toward the ship as though he’s being chased.

“Luffy?”

He doesn’t answer as he continues to rush forward, launching himself up onto the Sunny. Luffy stumbles onto the deck, teetering dangerously towards the railing. Before you can rush to catch him, his back hits the wood, and he lowers himself to the ground, legs splayed out. You can’t even tell if he can see you until he murmurs your name. He’s dripping with sweat, his face red.

You kneel down between his legs, leaning forward to try to get a good look at him. You can’t see any visible injuries, but clearly something is horribly wrong. “Are you okay, Luff?”

“No.” His voice is nothing but a whine, his eyes glassy and unfocused. “Need…something.”

“Something?”

Luffy glances around, pout on his face. “Something. Dunno what.”

You reach out to rest your hand on his forehead, which is burning so hot you almost pull it back in shock. He leans into your touch, giving off a soft hum. “You have a fever. Do you know what happened to you?”

“Nothing happened. We were all exploring, and we split into groups, and then…hm…I ate that fruit Zoro picked.”

Oh god. Zoro’s not exactly a botanist, or a survivalist, and for a single moment you believe with every fiber of your being that your dear friend has accidentally poisoned your captain. “What kind of fruit was it?”

“I dunno. It was sweet. And red.”

You sigh. “That doesn’t narrow it down at all. God, you would think that eating one mystery fruit in your life would be enough for you.”

His indignation beats out his discomfort for just a moment. “The first one went really well.”

You guess you can’t argue with that. “Can you remember anything else about it? We can rule out any devil fruit since you haven’t…exploded.”

“It was warm. And it made me wanna come find you.”

That makes you pause. “It…made you want to find me? Like specifically me?”

“Yeah.”

You have a bad feeling about this. “Do you know why you wanted me?”

He squints in concentration. “To…make it better.”

“How?”

He grabs your hand and places it back on his face. The sound he makes is borderline erotic. “Like this. This helps.”

The warmth against your hand, the moan that escapes your captain, the tent you can see growing in his pants, it all starts painting a very troubling picture. A very tempting one, but troubling nonetheless. “Luffy, are you warm anywhere in particular?”

“My stomach. And lower.” He pulls you closer, wrapping an arm around you and burying his face in your neck. His nose nuzzles against you, and he takes a deep breath, inhaling your scent and sighing. His hands gently massage against your hips, reveling in the feeling of your skin beneath his fingertips. “You’re soft,” he murmurs, lips brushing lightly against you. You clench your thighs involuntarily, a move you hope he doesn’t notice.

“You’re—ahh!” One of his hands moves up to your breast, squeezing your breast through your shirt, and he moans again at your squeak. “You’re not in your right mind, Luffy! I think that fruit was—ah!” His hand slides beneath your shirt, then your bra, and finally he pinches your nipple. 

“Come closer.” His voice is thick as he pulls you onto his lap. “I think this is fixing it. Feels nice.” He jerks his hips, and you can feel his hardness rub against you. You try to keep your moan inside of your mouth, but when you do, he huffs, and ruts into you harder.

“Luffy!”

He grins. “That’s better.” As his hand begins to slide down the front of your pants you finally come to your senses and grab it, stopping him in his tracks. He blinks at you, a little clarity coming back to his eyes. “What’s wrong?”

“You–you’re clearly under the influence of something, and I don’t want to make you do anything you don’t want–”

“I want it.” The hand slides slowly down further. His voice grows hungrier, more desperate. “I need it.”

With the way he’s looking at you, pupils blown out and cheeks flushed, you believe him.

“Well if you really need it, I’d hate to deprive you, Captain.”

He grins, and before you know it, you’re pinned to the deck, your shirt and bra removed, Luffy’s teeth pressing insistently against your chest. He shoves his hand unceremoniously between your legs, making a small noise of satisfaction against you when you squeal. His fingers slide against your clothed clit, sending a shiver up your spine and slowly building the heat in your gut. He hums quietly, “It’s wet.” He looks up at you. “For me?”

You flush, before nodding quickly. You can’t bring yourself to look at him out of fear you’ll combust. You can see the sweat sliding down the muscles in his arms and chest, his tongue peeking out of his mouth as he pants. He looks even better than you’d ever dreamed, his eyes radiating a hunger than you never expected to be directed at you.

He quickly slides down your pants and underwear in a single motion, and in your surprise you press your thighs together, shielding yourself from him. He practically growls, “Stop that. Wanna taste.”

He pries your thighs apart, diving into you with the same enthusiasm he does everything else. His tongue laps at you with reckless abandon as he sloppily takes everything you’ll give him. His hands pull you impossibly closer, his nose brushing against your clit as his mouth explores. When you moan, he laughs against you, the rumble of it spreading across your sensitive skin and making your thighs tense around his head. You worry you’ll suffocate him, drown him, but he doesn’t seem to mind losing to you.

You can feel the tension building in your body, your legs shaking as you come closer and closer to your peak. Your hands grip the grass beneath you, one second away from ripping it out of the deck entirely. Some part of you is hyper aware of the fact you are out in the open, where anybody could see or hear, but the rest of you is lost in the pleasure of the moment, in the feeling of your Captain’s tongue against you. So you don’t try to stop your back from arching as your climax grows nearer, nor do you make any attempt to hold back your cry as you cum on your Captain’s face.

He pulls away from you, his face dripping, his pupils blown out, and his lips upturned into a dazed smile. You can’t bring yourself to look away as he slowly licks his lips, savoring every drop of you. Without a word, his mouth crashes into yours, and you can taste yourself on his lips. His hands roughly force down his pants, exposing his weeping cock to the cold air. He lets out a borderline whimper of relief against your lips, before pulling back just long enough to whisper, “Get ready.”

“Lu–ah!” He thrusts into you in one smooth stroke as his lips once again insistently press against yours, stealing your breath away. You can feel every inch of him as your body welcomes him in, clenching around his length. He moans into your mouth, the sound deep and wanton. He gives both of you little time to adjust before his hips are rocking, chasing the release he’s been so desperate for. He’s moving so quickly you’re surprised he was patient enough to even wait this long. His hands are borderline bruising on your hips, his teeth clacking against yours as your kiss grows rougher and rougher, as your dear friend and Captain pounds into you with the fervor of an animal in heat. 

You can feel his muscles tense under your fingers as you pull him tighter. His breaths grow more ragged with every moment, and as he finally pulls away from your kiss you get to see the beautiful sight of the dam breaking as Luffy finally cums. His face is filled with a mix of relief, exhaustion, and affection as he gives a final few thrusts, your own climax coming not soon after. He collapses on top of you, and the weight is more comforting than crushing, though it steals your breath away anyway.

“I was right.” His voice is sleepy and slow, and you can’t help but picture the faces of your friends as they find you stripped bare and pinned to the deck below your Captain. Sanji might have a breakdown.

“Right about what?”

“I needed you. You fixed it.” His hand comes to rest on the back of your head affectionately, and he places a comically loud smooch on your forehead.

“So you’re all cured?”

“Ye–” He hums, and you can see an idea take him as his face scrunches up and his eyes shift away. “No. I think we’ll need to do this again.”

You can’t keep the smile out of your voice as you respond. “Oh yeah? How many more times, do you think?”

“I dunno. A lot. It could take a while.”

You laugh. “You know, I think we can do this as many times as it takes.”

He lets out an overjoyed laugh. “Awesome!”

“But first we should get inside before anyone else gets back. I don’t really want them to see me like this.”

He nods, quickly scooping you up and carrying you in the direction of his cabin. Before you can say anything else, you hear the voices of your crew coming closer, and you quietly urge him to rush.

You only get a moment of relief before you hear Zoro’s confused voice.

“Whose clothes are these?”

Your panic is quickly overshadowed by Luffy’s booming laugh rumbling through his chest, spreading the same infectious joy that he always does. The embarrassment is worth it, just to hear such a wonderful sound.

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[a-memory-a-distant-echo]

ok, i'm being so brave and making the rec post that i told anon i would do like three days ago.

the obligatory caveats. this is not comprehensive—i haven't read all the fic in this fandom, and i've barely looked at anything not in english. my reading habits are pretty broad—i'll read almost any pairing, and am generally willing to suspend my disbelief to do so. i am not usually an au person, though this fandom is doing its absolute damndest to prove me wrong on that point.

also i have…more…fics that i felt i should rec somewhere, so probably this is rec post one, but ten felt like enough and also saying things in public where people can hear me is, it turns out, absolutely excruciating. please no one be mean to me about this post, especially if you wrote one of these fics, because if you are i will simply fill my pockets with rocks and take to the sea, ok? ok.

excited to find out what i manage to do that ruins the formatting, links the wrong fics and/or people, or otherwise breaks things in this post. please tell me if i've fucked up, or if your fic is on this list and you would rather i keep your name out of my mouth, or whatever.

first, a very special mention to the mlc reference guide by @yletylyf. this is such an incredibly comprehensive and generous resource. you want a timeline for this show that does an incredibly poor job of maintaining its own timeline? it's here. you want episode summaries? they're here. you want all the people and places? they're here. if you're writing fic, you want this guide, because it's so much easier and faster than scanning episodes or subs files to figure out the name of one specific guy or whatever. it also means that at least occasionally you work on the thing rather than accidentally rewatching the same scene five times, or hypothetically watching two to four episodes without even really thinking about what you're doing. the reference guide is the unsung mvp of fandom.

beyond porch and portal, difanghua, teen, by willowdream. this is the vampire au that i didn't know i wanted? the author posted it and their note was like 'i'm trying to be the change i want to see in the world,' and i was like ok sure, i'm not really convinced that the change i need is vampire aus, but i'll give it a go, and then i did and was like, oh shit, i'm eating fucking glass about this vampire au, i'm chewing on my own fucking fingers, i'm so fucking normal about this, i need another hundred thousand words of this and also seventeen more vampire aus in my inbox by monday morning. i literally finished reading it and scrolled right back to the top to read it again. i have no idea why this fic hits so hard, but it took me out at the knees. the voices are perfect. something about it is just impossibly compelling.

不安的遠離，再无歸期 | restless distance, without return, fang duobing/qiao wanmian, mature and teen, by @difeisheng. this is technically two fics but they're short and you should read both of them because they're such a brutal, perfect encapsulation of grief, and a really beautiful acknowledgement of the ways that fang duobing and qiao wanmian can be read as reflections of each other, separated by a decade, and it just fucking guts me. i dunno. it's about the grief! it's about the yearning! it's about someone who understands parts of you that you wish didn't exist! i think i've reread this like once a week for the last six weeks and i feel like it gets overlooked because it's not A Ship but like. it could be. it should be.

dance the silence down, fanghua and feihua, explicit, by @momosandlemonsoda. this fic. ugh. ok. i'm breaking my own rules. i had two when i started writing this post: no works in progress, and no reccing things that i haven't left a comment on, like a goddamn grownup. this one fic is breaking both of those rules and i feel bad about it and will hopefully spend like, all day tomorrow just commenting on every chapter or something, but i have to do this. this fic is so good. this fic ruins me. this fic is 63k, still a work in progress, and also if i were losing the whole internet tomorrow and i got to keep one fic in all the world and it was the only fic i could have for the rest of time, it might have to be this one, even as a work in progress. i ignored this fic for so long—by which i mean probably two of the four months since i first watched mysterious lotus casebook—because i was like, i don't like aus, and i especially don't like rock star aus. (or sex work aus, and you're never gonna fucking believe what else this author is writing and what else i absolutely cannot get enough of—this is a sneaky bonus rec for all i wanna do is wrong, another fic that i feel so so so normal about!) but then i was like okkkkkkk but. maybe i'll try it. people seem to be nuts for it. and then i read it and i was like OH HOLY SHIT PEOPLE ARE FULLY CORRECT TO BE ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED ABOUT THIS and normally, honestly, i wouldn't bother posting a rec like this because it's like 'oh haha have you read the five most popular fics in this fandom?' and it feels so redundant, but i know for a fact that a friend of mine who finished watching the show yesterday is reading this post, and even if everyone else has read it, she has not! anyhow as a former music person and a former diner cook, this fic like. i don't know. i feel like it broke me but also fixed me? i literally criticise writing professionally and every time i try to talk about this fic i find myself speechless because it's so perfect to me. i am deeply unwell about this fic. every time a new chapter comes out i sit down and read the whole thing again, yes, all sixty-thousand-plus words of it. some nights you go to bed and you're like 'what's the fucking point?' and then you're like 'no wait, there will eventually be more of dance the silence down,' and somehow that makes things suck a tiny bit less. my wife has made me take out like six sentences from this rec because they're too intense and too weird about it but i need you to understand: you have to read this fic.

in this dream, there is a lover to share this life with, fanghua, g, by @lianhuajing. alternative ending for the end of episode 27, in which li lianhua—precious man who has yet to discover a hill he's not willing to die on—apologises to fang duobing the only way he knows how, and it's wildly upsetting for everyone (but it's ok and it doesn't end miserably, no one panic). this is a delightfully angsty treat, and i love how conflicted fang duobing is in it—i feel like it's not something that i've seen explored a lot, but this poor boy really fuckin goes through it—his best friend and his childhood idol are the same person but are lying to him about it, and his dad's not actually his father and has been lying to him about it, and his best friend/childhood idol may have killed his father, and—yeah, is lying to him about it. like? someone give this poor man a hug and a cup of tea and a snack and a blankie. i love that we get to see some of his internal conflict in this.

quintessence of dust, feihua, teen, by justthereforit. this plays with one of my very most favourite tropes in the world, which is the one where the heart is a physical object and a physical form of trust and control and surrender and—like. this is so good. it's set in episode 13, which is, for me, one of the absolute peak angst points, and it absolutely nails it. di feisheng who's upset and vulnerable and frustrated and angry, li lianhua who knows he's going to die and can't bear the thought that he's going to take anyone else down with him, and they're both just so fucked up. chef kiss. i love it when everyone is emotionally wrecked and continually like 'ok no, i can take one more knife in my soul to protect someone else', and this absolutely delivers on that.

under moonlight, we change our futures yet again, feihua, explicit, by @thesilversun. the wedding room! obviously we have to have a wedding room fic, right? i'm not going to lie: i'm willing to suspend a lot of disbelief for wedding room fics, but in this one, it's actually a wonderfully, horrifyingly plausible setup. it walks a really fine line of keeping people in character, and acknowledging the inherent horror and seriousness of the situation, and also providing some desperately hot sex, and also managing to get the emotional beats of it, too. it has a sequel, which imo really has to be read as the conclusion to this fic, and it's just as good. it's possible that some of what i'm saying here is 'i love vulnerable-inside crusty-outside di feisheng' but like. i do. i love it so much.

what's sealed away, feihua, teen, by @bbcphile. AMNESIA FIC yessssss, a-fei my beloved, fics that handle brain damage/memory issues/amnesia well my beloveddddd. i love the a-fei arc, but i also have had a number of brain injuries and some other stuff that means that my own memory is…not so great, so i sometimes really struggle with how often amnesia in fiction is played off either as nothing to worry about or as a funny thing where everyone's in on the joke except the person who has amnesia. this fic is a great and sometimes very visceral exploration of a horrifying experience, and a really fantastic study of a-fei/di feisheng as a character, as well as the relationship that he has with li lianhua. a-fei trying to balance the trust he has in the sense memory of his body with his understanding of his relationship with li lianhua with li lianhua's reaction to—everything, really—is really well done and wonderful/terrible to read.

我��愿面朝大海 | i wish only to face the sea, g, by foreverstudent. ok so you wanna fuck yourself up some more? go read this. this is canon divergence from episode 39, and fang duobing has learned too well the lessons he's been taught, and sees the shape of things before li lianhua ever touches the wangchuan flower—so he sets about making sure that he won't be able to throw it away. this is agonising and gorgeous and maintains the canon relationships while developing the narrative differently. i wept literal tears. i was like 'ok that's it the worst part is over!' and then i remembered that there was another part coming and then i started crying. anyhow, it is—as ever, with me—about the devotion.

我住長江頭, 君住長江尾 -- i live upstream, you live downstream, fanghua, teen, by @rimbaudofficial. ok so this is Not a fic that i should like, because i am a massive academic failure and despite being in my forties have regular nightmares about having to re-engage with academia for like. any reason. HOWEVER. as noted, i read indiscriminately, even when i'm like 'reading this is a terrible idea and will be upsetting for me personally!', so i was like 'well, how bad of an idea can it possibly be?' and then instead! it was. incredibly charming? it was so fucking cute? the fang duobing characterisation in this is somehow just perfect to me—he's simultaneously confident and vulnerable, and also just so deeply committed to the weird clueless guy who he's decided is meant for him. di feisheng and li lianhua have a perfect weird-bros friendship. i would read another ten chapters of this and i would love it.

[zvtara-was-never-canon]

Not to compate siblings, but I wish the zutarians could be more like zukaangers, specifically with the incessant need to make Zuko/the fire nation seem less bad. It seems like they're constantly trying to justify Zuko's actions and paint the fire nation as just 'misguided'. Zutarians refuse to give Zuko guilt for the actual things he does.

And it's baffling to me because a big theme that zutara and zukaang share is guilt/forgiveness. Zukaangers lean into this so fucking hard. They will give Zuko guilt for everything he did, everything his forefathers did, everything his nation did, hell everything the world did, and have it juxtaposed by Aang's forgiveness and reminders that Zuko is not his nation nor his past mistakes.

It feels like zukaangers have Aang forgive Zuko because he can and wants to. Meanwhile, zutarian have Katara forgive Zuko because she should. If that makes sense.

Zukaang is everything Zutarians want their ship to be.

Based on a dynamic that is actually a central point in the story and that had a profound effect on these characters? Check.

Selfless hero that looks at the villain, picks up on all the sad vibes on that motherfucker, and confidently says "If not friend, why friend-shaped"? Check.

Hero's kindness living rent-free in the villains head? Check.

CONSTANT red and blue imagery that actually has a deeper meaning instead of just being the result of the show assigning colors to each nation to make it easier for the seven year olds to keep track of everyone? Check.

CONSTANT parallels, with entire episodes and full arcs dedicated to it, including one of the characters having a dream in which they are the same person because they're THAT alike? Check.

Romantic imagery?

Motherfucking check.

I guess that's why Zukaang shippers are much more sane. Even though Zuko and Aang's dynamic with each other in the show was clearly meant to be platonic, it is so important to canon and so throughly explored by it that it becomes IMPOSSIBLE to make the ship work if you mischaracterize either of them. It really wouldn't take much rewriting to make them a perfectly reasonable endgame - and I say this as someone who doesn't ship it and prefers Zuko to be an older brother figure to Aang.

Meanwhile Zutara has nothing beyond aesthetic and "enemies to lovers is a nice trope." The characters don't interact much until the end of the story, don't think of each other at all for most of it, and are openly, genuinely uncomfortable when people think they're dating. It's all about self-inserting as Katara to date an OC they attached Zuko's name and face too, or vice versa (more rare, but it happens).

OF COURSE it's out of character, OF COURSE it completely screws up the dynamic - it was never about "How would this pairing work?", it was about shilling the idea of one of the characters involved.

[siri-ike]

Summer of change

Chapter 6

Chapter 1 Chapter 5

@elf-kid2 suggested marry go round.

This is too soon. It's way too soon. She can't know. Why would she even have suspected? What if she turns him over to the guys in white? What if she's with the guys in white?! She knows his full name too! She could tell his parents.

No, no, no, no, no.

Danny could feel his chest tightening, his heart racing, eyes watering. He takes one step back, and Steph stops interrogating.

He falls.

 Further and further, he keeps falling down, there's no end. Until he's far away from the girl.

_____

"-like the teen titans? What about a costume! Is it all black like Batman’s, or colorful like that kid who used to always be with him? How long have you-" Steph was abruptly cut off by Danny dropping through the floor right in front of her.

Well. If he thinks she's giving up just because he ran away, and can apparently do so despite walls and floors, then he is dead-wrong. Another loud creeak sounds from the floor.

She can maybe solve this mystery when she's not at the top of a jenga tower.

_____

Danny feels slower than usual. There's no way this is 112 mph. It feels more like 60, maybe 70? He reaches the top of a Ferris wheel and has to stop.

This is exhausting. Why is this so exhausting? Oh well. At least he's alone.

_____

At the nearby merry-go-round, Steph tried looking up anything she could on Fenton, but every time she tried to search “Danny Fenton", it auto-corrected to “Phantom.” 

Who even uses words like phantom anymore?

"Any ideas?" She addressed a (formerly) painted tiger. “I got nothing.”

Her dad used to bring her here sometimes. It was still abandoned back then, he would just rent a section to set up his quizzes. And while he was busy with that, she got to play on the rides, even if they didn't work. The best one by far was the prize shack, second was the fry stand (she'd figured out very early how to work it), and third best was the merry-go-round. Specifically, Thurber the tiger. She’d found a stuffed animal in the prize shack that matched it. Soft, white, and with rainbow stripes. Plus, the tiger was in the best condition of all the mounts, only missing a tail and part of one paw. Thurber was her friend, even when no one else wanted to be.

And she was certainly going to need a friend now.

According to the internet, Madeline and Jack Fenton were a pair of mad scientists. They seemed to be obsessed with ghosts, specifically catching and studying them. They had two kids, named Jasmine and Daniel, both of whom had appeared out of nowhere 7 years ago. The 4 of them lived in Amity Park, Illinois.

Which was a city that only some sources said exists.

The other information about it was suspicious, too. They had an observatory, a research lab, and a museum. All that would be normal for a city of over 2 million, but there's only one school, a restaurant chain that doesn't exist anywhere else, and an entire summer camp, for Pete's sake! How does such a big city not only go unnoticed but also not have an operating hospital!?

_____

Danny sat on the highest point in the amusement park. The north and east had rides as far he could see, and to the south was endless ocean, some cargo ships, speedboats, yachts, and... Danny stood up to get a better look. "Is that a giant ice berg? In Gotham Harbour. In the middle of summer!?"

Suddenly the Ferris wheel pod rocked, and the sound of steel buckling and bending under the weight of disrepair squealed out. Danny puts his hands on one of the walls and phases…

He phases.

He phases.

Alright, no phasing. This is fine.

A little death never killed anyone, right?

_____

Steph fought back as hard as she could but whatever was in that powder had really messed her up. Her only choice was to run. And boy, did she. Gym was her best subject, much to her parents dismay. She ducked and weaved through broken down rides and attractions like it was nothing more than an obstacle course. Once she was far enough away from the creep she slowed down, jogging quietly through the cluttered storage space she had found herself in.

Parts of rides lay strewn about, probably replacement parts. And, in the corner, there was even… "Thurber!" Steph gasped, running towards a fully intact replica of her tiger friend. Even the paint job was preserved. She ran her hand over its body, wiping away 50+ years of thick dust. It gave a quiet growl. She began pulling wood crates out of the way to-

Wait. It growled?

@ladyredmoon13 @ryuukthehatter @sonrium @niamcarlin @sunnysolaria @tiffanyhart13 @tkiesai @not-your-average-url @lurukifennecfox @atomicsheepscientist @glowstickia @superbpastanickelzonk @persephonedevoted @idontgetpaidenoughforthisshit @howtogetblinded101 @ultra-stormsaga @piece-of-pierce @random-fandom-place

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Ena's Birthday!! [Personal]

It's February 23rd, aka ENA Day, aka—Ena's birthday!! To celebrate, I got this lovely art piece from @lunarbun-ships, who got it done real quick in time for today! Thanks again for that, Bunny!

Happy Birthday, Ena! You make life at the theater so much more exciting with you being there! I love you so much! :]

As a bonus treat, I also felt a touch inspired last night, so I wrote up a lil piece to go with the art! Nothing major, but just a lil extra expression of love to the most beautiful low-poly gal I know! Hope ya guys like it!

Word count: 868

Today had been rather confusing for Ena, though she at least had some idea of why such things were happening to her today. After all, it was her birthday, and it had started off fairly well. Moony had stopped by with her gift, that being a big bag of discounted Valentines Day candy she appeared to have picked up that day. It wasn’t anything spectacular, but she certainly appreciated the thought. Not long after did she receive a message from her partner Lüc, who simply said to stop by the theater. Nothing more, nothing less. Not even an expected ‘happy birthday’.

Regardless, Ena was right away intrigued, and headed over to the theater not too long after. The surprises continued when she saw that the lights were out, and a ‘Sorry, We’re Closed’ sign hung from the doorway. At first, she was ready to message Lüc again about this, but then she took a moment to try the door, and found it was still unlocked. With even more curiosity than before, she took a step into the empty theater.

Now, seeing as the theater was a smaller, independent one, it was never exactly buzzing with activity, but it was still off to see it both dark and empty as it currently was. She would have found herself slightly unnerved, if her attention had not been caught by a single spotlight which shined down onto the concession stand, and more specifically, a single desk bell.

Rather collected, she approached the counter, and with only a moment’s hesitance, reached out and rang the bell.

Ding!

The sound resonated, and silence returned, though just for only a moment, before the lights suddenly flicked on, and a banner flipped down behind the counter, paired with a shower of confetti. While Ena was caught a touch off guard, she could see through the confetti that the banner read, in alternating blue and yellow colors: ‘HAPPY BIRTHDAY ENA!!!’

“S-Surprise!” Lüc cheered out as he popped up from behind the counter, arms in the air. “Happy b-birthday, Ena!!!”

“Oh!” Ena smiled, quickly bouncing up to the counter. “Pardon my previous hesitation, my dear! I had no earthly idea you were awaiting for me behind the counter there!”

“Eh, n-not for that long, really,” he remarked. “J-Just a few minutes, once I reasoned y-you were on your way. But I am g-glad you are here! For I…” he ducked back down under the counter, and popped back up with a two-decker slanted angle cake, “...have a w-wonderful treat here for you!!”

Ena gasped, clapping her hands. “Why, a birthday cake! For me, as it has my name and my colors lovingly strown onto it!”

“Y-Yep!” Lüc nodded proudly, setting the cake on the counter side. “Had it s-specially baked just for you! Costed a b-bit extra, but I think for someone as amazing as you, it’s w-well worth it!”

“Oh, darling! How—!” She suddenly paused, and her face flashed, shifting to a sadder, half white face. “H-How…” she repeated, sounding now on the verge of tears.

Uh, oh, Lüc winced. He knew how Ena’s mood swings went, but he wasn’t quite expecting one to happen so suddenly. “H-Hey, Ena, it’s okay, n-no need to—”

“HOW SO AWFULLY SWEET!!” She belted out, tears starting to stream down her face as she leapt over the counter, again to his shock as he just barely caught her, the two falling back onto the floor. “You always make sure to do so so SO many nice and kind things for me, and-and I can hardly think of how best to repay such kind kindness!! What if I never can, and your kindness towards me just goes unpaid?? What kind of girlfriend would I be if I did that!?!?!”

Lüc blinked, still a bit shook, before gently holding her case and chuckling. “Ena, sweetheart…it’s okay! Y-You don’t need to repay me for any of this. I’m doing this f-for you because it’s your birthday, and I want it to be special for you.”

She sniffed, nuzzling her head up into his sweater. “But you always made every day special for me…”

“Heh, I try…it’s because I love you, Ena,” he remarked, kissing the top of her head. “And you make every day s-special for me just by being the lovable person you are. My life is better because of you, and I wanted to give back even if it’s j-just in a small way like this.”

“...thank you, Lüc,” she replied softly, turning her head up to him. He smiled, before jumping a bit when she suddenly pulled his head down for a kiss, which he happily returned in kind. “S-Sorry I got all emotional…,” she half-mumbled.

“N-No need to apologize for your emotions, my love,” Lüc assured her, gently running his fingers through her hair to calm her. “You’re never wrong for crying around me. And hey, we still have the rest of your b-birthday to be all cheery, yeah? S-Speaking of, would you like me to cut a slice of cake for you, to cheer you up? It’s h-honey glazed, your favorite.” She took a big sniffle, and slowly a smile formed on her half-darkened face. “Yeah…that would help…”

[thecircularlibrary]

2 hands

f1 au

word count: 1146

warnings: n/a

pairings: xanax

named this after the tate mcrae song specifically bc max drives for mclaren

Max couldn’t bring herself to get up. Her six o’clock alarm went off fifteen minutes ago, but the shirtless boy sleeping with his head on her stomach was just too adorable to move. She knew today was an important day for her—the McLaren logo on the front of the backpack on her chair wouldn’t let her forget. Finishing seventh at Qualifying the day before had to be the biggest fumble of her career thus far. As a female driver in a world of male ones (save for her surrogate older sister), she couldn’t afford that. It didn’t matter that she’d beat thirteen other drivers for that spot. The important part was she lost to six.

“Max.”

Xander’s voice brought her out of her own head and she looked down at her boyfriend with his chin propped up on her ribs and his arms around her back. His curly hair was growing longer and his brown eyes stared into hers with one eyebrow raised.

“I can hear you thinking from down here and it doesn’t sound good,” he mumbled, laying his head back on her stomach. “I wish I could lay here all day.”

Max tried to ignore the way his curls brushing her bare stomach drove her crazy. She was ticklish for God’s sake. She lightly tangled a hand in his hair and pushed it back until his head came up, before laughing at his pout. “We need to get ready and go. Are you ready?”

He shot her a look from where he was now sitting back on his heels, shirtless in pajama pants and rubbing sleep out of his eyes. “Yeah, I’m totally ready to go, we can head out now if you want.” Max leaned up and shoved him back so she could get up, accidentally knocking him off the bed.

“Ship, I’m sorry!”

— — — — — — — — — —

Breakfast was hell. Every time Max sat down at the table, she felt unwelcome. Or worse, she felt too welcome. She didn’t know whose idea it was to make all the drivers of each team eat together, but she knew that none of the drivers that had cycled through McLaren would ever treat her as an equal the way that Libby Grambs did. And she wasn’t even on her team. They weren’t supposed to treat her well and they did; why Team McLaren couldn’t get their heads out of their—“Liu!”

Max’s head snapped up to see the other McLaren driver, Cortes, trying to get her attention from across from her. “How’d you sleep?” he asked with a sheepish grin.

Cortes was worse than the other members of the team. At least they left her alone, even if it was isolating. Cortes, no matter how many hints she threw at him, couldn’t seem to catch one. He was overly flirtatious in a way that he thought looked sweet. Given that he was a whopping thirty-two to her twenty-two, it just creeped her out. 

“Fine,” she clipped. She didn’t mean to be rude (all lies) but she didn’t have the headspace to deal with this today. He had qualified for the Grand Prix, at tenth place, and was walking around as a constant reminder.

Her boyfriend, in his neon orange polo and black slacks, walked in and grabbed his breakfast before shooting her a grin and a thumbs up and sitting at the other end of the table. 

This would be a long day.

— — — — — — — — — —

“We’re gonna be trying to have Liu in the lead today.” Max’s head snapped up from her notepad and she looked around at the rest of the team staring at her. Cortes was staring at the coach with shock evident on his face. 

“What do you mean, we’re having her in the lead! She’ll lead us alright. Lead us to lose!” Cortes spat out, glaring at her.

“She ranked higher than you,” came Xander’s voice from next to the white board with the other two assistant engineers. “Both overall and in the qualifiers yesterday.”

“That doesn’t mean anything—”

“Hawthorne is right,” said the lead engineer who had made the suggestion in the first place, Brian Grady. “She’s been scoring consistently well over the season and this is a really good chance for her to pull ahead in overall scoring for the team.”

“I could pull ahead too,” came Cortes’ desperate reply.

“Not enough to do us as good as Liu pulling from number six to number five or even higher. The decision is final, Cortes. Perform well in this race, and the next one may be a different story.”

After the meeting and before her practice sessions, Xander pulled Max aside. She frowned up at him. “Is everything alright?”

He held up a clipboard in response and flipped a few pages until he was on her chart.

“I want you to watch your G's in this race. The only thing more important than winning is staying safe and you cut it kind of close during qualifiers. We don’t want you hurting your shoulders and being out of practice,” he explained with worry in his eyes. He wasn’t wrong either, she’d cut it extremely close last race. And it still wasn’t enough.

“Xander. I’ll be okay, I promise.”

He raised his eyebrow. “But…?”

“But if I don’t make podium, my season is over before it even really starts.”

“That’s a bit dramatic, don’t you think?”

“No, I don’t think! I can’t let Jameson or Libby beat me out for this title—”

“You’re worried about Jameson and Libby? I really hate to break it to you, Max, but your biggest problem is Cortes. I’m not necessarily talking about racing either!”

“Oh, so you’re jealous?”

“No, I’m not jealous! I’m concerned—”

“Keep your concern driving related, please and thank you.”

“My concern is driving related, that’s why I pulled you aside, you need to watch the force on your turns—”

“Can you monitor my practice laps?” Max interrupted again, giving him wide, innocent eyes. He stared back at her.

“Of course I can. Can I just say though—”

“Hmm?” she turned to look at him.

“All my life, I’ve never met anyone in possession of a skill for interrupting as phenomenal as yours.”

“You mean other than yourself, of course?”

“Right, right.”

— — — — — — — — — — — —

After the podium celebration (she had placed third!), Max managed to weave around and avoid both Grambs sisters in her journey to the medical facility. Xander had been right about watching her turns, and now her shoulders were killing her because she didn’t listen. The medical facility was where Xander found her later, laying on her stomach, with a long heating pad across her shoulder blades. Max twisted her head to look at him before muttering “You were right.” and pouting. Xander brushed her hair from her face and kissed her forehead.

“It’s almost like that’s my job,” Xander said, laughing and continuing to stroke her hair. 

[shadamyheadcanons]

What are your thoughts on Sonurge?

On a silly note: Sonurge demonstrates the main problem with the clumsy “just smoosh the characters’ names together” naming convention. It works on paper, but if you say it out loud, no one knows whether you’re shipping Sonic with Surge or Scourge because their names rhyme. I’ll always prefer fun styles that use actual words like the Pokémon fandom does (ignitionshipping, etc.). Shadow and Amy could’ve been “Guns ’n Roses,” but no. We’re stuck with “Shadamy” forever instead. It’s a damn shame.

As for Sonurge itself, I don’t hate it, but I’m not really a fan. Explanation and alternatives under the cut, along with spoilers through the recent Riders arc.

I prefer pairings where the characters like each other and enjoy spending time together. Surge has been through a lot, and being around Sonic doesn’t help. I’ll never get the appeal of “these two characters piss each other off and try to kill each other, so they should smooch.”

If I want to put Sonic with a rival, Knuckles is right there. He always has been. They thrive on the competition they share, but it’s obvious they care and love spending time together. There’s real trust and fondness there, and you’d never have to, say...bribe Knuckles to convince him to go to Sonic’s birthday party, as a random example.

I also think of Surge as a lesbian despite the lack of evidence. Call it profiling, but...

This is the most butch character I’ve ever seen outside of The L Word.

For Surge’s part, I don’t think she’s ready for a relationship. She has way too much to figure out first. I think she needs to decide who she is before anything else. Once that happens, I do have a vague idea of a relationship dynamic I’d love to see from her, though I don’t have any specific partner in mind yet. Surge has an engaging sense of confidence and boldness to her personality. I would love to see her lean into that when she flirts. If it were me, I’d set her up with an uptight character, someone who’s always played by the rules, who’s high-strung and secretly afraid of losing control and won’t let anyone in. Then Surge strides in, smirks at her, and says something like, “You look like you don’t know how to have fun. I can fix that. 😉”

Surge brings her on a wild, high-speed journey full of thrills, heights, and things the girl has always been too scared or proud to try and sweeps her off her feet, and the girl learns to loosen up and enjoy the ride. Surge would be in her element for once, and she’d get to save someone from a life of careful, controlled, safe monotony. The scene where she got to be a hero for the first time is my favorite moment of hers:

[IDW issue #70]

My first instinct for this was Lanolin because, well...

[IDW issues 69, 57, 62, & 58]

*gestures vaguely*

And on a comical note, it would be funny to see how Surge’s static electricity would interact with Lanolin’s wool. Actual footage of Surge and Lanolin cuddling:

Unfortunately, they got off on the wrong foot:

[IDW issue #67]

...and Lanolin’s already started loosening up thanks to her recent character development, so it’s less convincing than it once was.

But then I remembered Jewel. They haven’t met because Jewel was busy when Surge visited Restoration HQ, so there’s only speculation to go on, but Jewel definitely has the type A personality to contrast well with Surge’s roguishness, and she needs some adventure in her life.

[IDW Endless Summer & issues 45, 31, & 76]

This is the curator of a rock museum. She gets her kicks filling out paperwork. Even she thinks she needs to get out more.

She has plenty of experience looking after reckless people and keeping them out of trouble and, as evidenced by her friendship with Tangle, we know she doesn’t judge or try to change them:

[2019 annual]

Surge has been manipulated by people who’ve tried to change her this entire time. Wouldn’t it be nice to have someone accepting like Jewel, who’d provide stability and respect? On top of that, Jewel’s been beating herself up over a lot of things and kind of feels like the odd one out. She used to spend more time with Tangle, but they barely see each other now, and it’s obvious she’s lonely. Lately, it’s become a serious problem; she’s leaned on untrustworthy characters like Duo/Mimic and Clutch because she’s so desperate for support. Sonic, Tangle, and Amy have all tried to make her feel included, but that hasn’t been solved 76 issues in, not permanently. Endless Summer is as subtle as a freight train about it:

The writers have really been beating us over the head with “Hey, have you noticed Jewel needs someone?! Because Jewel really, REALLY needs someone!”

Jewel could also bridge the gap between Surge and the Restoration; she’s approachable and welcoming. It’d be nice if Surge had someone like that on the other side. They already have something in common, too. They both hate Clutch for taking advantage of them.

[IDW issues 72 & 73]

Same vibe, same arc. Never underestimate the power of, “oh, God, he did that to you, too?! Screw that guy!”

With Restoration HQ being gone, it’d be feasible for them to run into each other without Surge finding out Jewel’s the director. They could even get to know each other before that information came out, and by then, Surge could already have a soft spot for Jewel and wouldn’t want to fight, especially since Amy already let Surge know the Restoration wouldn’t force her into anything. And wouldn’t it be cute if Jewel got flustered around Surge, too?

There’s also the funny tendency of queer people to congregate even before they know they’re queer, which pairs nicely with Jewel and Tangle being friends. Take it from me, it’s not just a meme.

Naturally, this is 100% speculation. I don’t normally do never-met ships, but now that I’m thinking about it...👀

That said, I haven’t seen any evidence that the writers are planning to put Surge in a relationship anytime soon, if ever, and they could always just create a new character for that role if they did.

I hope things get better for Surge. She’s not my favorite and she has a lot of things she needs to work on--and some apologies to give--but she deserves happiness, no matter who you ship her with.

[kings-highway]

Fanfic Writer Review

Thanks you the wonderful @mania-sama for tagging me for this and letting me inflict my thoughts upon all of you <3 love you asshole :)

Many, many words below the cut!

“How many works do you have on Ao3?”

Sitting pretty at 47! I have deleted a few fics in the past but I have never orphaned any or posted anonymously, so the count is accurate.

“Your top 5 stories by kudos/likes?”

In the Woods of Japan - 1,969 kudos

Should surprise nobody to find this one is my most beloved! Ironically this is also the second story I ever posted to Ao3 - writing it was like a fever dream, posting a chapter almost every day or every second day for a bit. I truly, truly think that writing this fic was one of the best decisions I ever made, if you all and the haikyuu community hadn’t shown me so much support, I have no idea what I’d be doing now - it broke me out of a 3-4 year dry spell where I hadn’t written anything at all, and has directly led to me not only writing regularly now but finishing original stories as well and truly even if it’s not my favourite piece in my library, I will never regret deciding to attack Daichi with a bear. Also shoutout to the only story I ever let Daichi be bisexual in. Finished writing this story and then stole his labels forever. Bitch never figured out his identity again.

All for the Love of an Energetic Redhead - 1,185 kudos

The success of this story is so funny to me. Sometimes I have an idea on whether or not a story will be well received, and other times the story is Energetic Redhead and you post it and are immediately flabbergasted by how many other people wanted Kags and Ushi to get blackout drunk and fly around the world. Ironically, the only reason this got written is because I don’t have the art skills/patience needed to make a comic I wanted to, based on the only two red-haired characters, but wanted to push my “two autistics vs. two energetic but VERY different redheads” agenda. It would have gone something like “several panels of Ushijima and Hinata standing side by side, Ushijima is distracted by something while Hinata motor-talks about all things volleyball. Ushijima suddenly interrupts him, realizing who he is and saying: You are not my usual redhead-” and the panel is interrupted, cutting to Kageyama trapped in a dark room with Tendou.”

Competitive Fake Dating - 1,061 kudos

Sometimes as a fanfiction writer, you have to remind yourself that you are a fanfiction writer. It’s all fun and games writing massive, sprawling stories with deep themes and complex character relations. But this is fanfiction, bitch, sometimes you have to make your blorbos kiss for points.

Imperfect Facial Symmetry - 916 kudos

Oh, what can I say. This one truly is special to me. 100% one of my favourite fics of all time, there are only very few things I would change about it, but most of those being wishing I could go back and add more, drag it out. I don’t like stories or headcanons that make Tendou out to be attractive or even “attractive in a weird way” I think his character is far more interesting if you allow him to be conventionally unattractive, and I think pairing it with a version of Ushijima obsessed with the limitations of his own self expression, to rewire the definition of “attractive” into “lively” and “expressive” is such a good representation of why I love this ship specifically. There are a lot of headcanons present in this story that I since used in pretty much every other. God I could talk about it / them / this story for fucking ever.

American Summer - 882 kudos

Sequel to #1, In the Woods. What can I say, you go for a bear, you escalate to an American named Adam. I did NOT want this story to be the way this story ended up. Earlier drafts of the story included stargazing on the top of a rented motorhome, losing your virginity in the back of a car, getting into a fight with a couple of 22 year olds outside of a bar, visiting national parks, overcoming jealousy for your boyfriends’ trauma-bonded found family, and slowly beginning to let go of that trauma. INSTEAD after writing a couple chapters I remembered you can’t legally rent a car at 18/19 in California and I had to rapidly adjust, and apparently instead of a coming-of-age vacation my only other idea was serial killer so. Uh.

“Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?”

So-so. I WANT to reply to every comment, but I have a really severe kind of social anxiety, so I don’t reply most of the time. I’m too afraid of looking really conceited and egotistical, if I reply to a comment about the things they like about the fic with the things I liked about the fic or just agreeing with them, I’m just hyping myself up as if I wasn’t the author and keeping all the attention on me, if I just thank them and nothing else, I feel like I’m not appreciating it enough and they’ll be offended by my shorter response, if I make a joke or be funny, 90% of the time I don’t get a reply back, and then I sit there with a stomach ache of anxiety wondering if they were annoyed by me trying to be silly. So. I really, really, try my best to reply to comments, especially at the last chapter of a longer fic, or if there’s a direct question I’ll always answer those, but otherwise I get nervous and can’t bring myself to hit enter on the responses. But I love all the comments I receive so much and I really am trying to get better at engaging with people.

“What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?”

Has to be Astrophilia. I don’t enjoy angsty endings most of the time, I don’t think the world needs more stories about people failing to be happy, or suffering needlessly with no reprise. Astrophilia was originally going to be a hardcore angst ending with them definitively dying in space/losing the ability to communicate with Earth, but as per the previous reason given, I just didn’t see any value in that story, and wanted to give it more of my usual spin. (No hate to people who do like angst, I just don’t.) Most of my angst is found in the middle of my fics, where it belongs :P (the catharsis of recovery is important to me!)

“What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?”

All of them? I think ignoring the one-shots that exist only to be fluffy, and thinking about what really qualifies a happy ending, I would have to go with Soulmake Adventures. Sure, there’s no fairytale happy ending to it (which is the point of that story) but in that I think that’s the happiest ending. Each character is explicitly given long, healthy lives filled with new experiences and growth and change, and are not bound to static one-note love stories. Their happy endings are not defined by the satisfaction of the romance story that was contained in Soulmake Adventures, but each of them achieving a level of self-actualization that allows them to take control of the choices they make and live for themselves first.

“Do you write crossovers?”

In theory? Yes. I just don’t have a reason to :)

I would LOVE to do a SK8 + Haikyuu crossover though. I think Langa and Kageyama need to be locked in a room together.

“Have you ever received hate on a fic?”

Not really. One comment comes to mind but I also don’t feel like giving enough description that would allow someone to track it down, feels mean to put a spotlight on someone, especially because I've never received hate, with such a strong word. Just… disappointment or confusion.

Oh, except for this one time this crazy person told me I’d stolen the plot of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. smh.

“Do you write smut? If so, what kind?”

Yes? No? I think sex and physical intimacy is one of the most interesting ways to explore relationship dynamics and emotions, so I tend to use sex a lot in my stories, but as most would know I rarely, rarely write graphic sex. “Smut” I think has the connotation of sex that’s meant to be hot, which I’ve never done. If you see characters fucking in my stories, there’s a purpose to it. BUT that being said never say never. Sex is just sex, if I think of a good story idea that uses it, then it will be.

“Have you ever had a fic stolen?”

I think? I had a ton of my stories being hosted on one of those data scam sites or whatever. I truly just. Whatever.

“Have you ever had a fic translated?”

I think so! I’ve had many people approach and ask me permission to, but I can’t say for certain if they ever got completed. I think so.

“Have you ever co-written a fic before?”

No! I do love the idea of collaborating on a fic, but I hate the idea of co-writing. There would have to be a premise that lets us write our own halves (dual perspective, maybe?) that’s relatively separate. Otherwise, the actual process of two “writers” on a fic sounds absolutely terrible. What, gonna share a google doc and take turns writing lines? I would go crazy with control-freak energy. BUT the idea of collaborating on a story in other ways and sharing credit for ideas and working together to make it good would be awesome.

“What’s your all-time favourite ship?”

*glances at my Haikyuu themed fanfiction blog and Ao3 account*

S… Sculder… (Mulder/Scully - X-Files)

It’s really really hard to decide, “all-time favourite” comes with a huge weight to it. Amy/Rory from Doctor Who is also really fucking high on that list, as is Ten/Rose to be fair. But then I think about where I am currently, and in terms of energy/thought put into a ship, that shit has to be DaiSuga, right? In terms of favourite, clearly… but… if we’re going with Haikyuu, a relatively recent love of mine, I think UshiTen is more compelling…

BUT if we’re talking about ships that take up my brainpower, ships that live rent-free forever in my head, it’s going to be my original characters, always. I have a handful of personal characters from original stories that never leave my thoughts. The real answer would probably be two of my OCs. If you know you know.

But that’s a stupid answer so I’m gonna go with Sculder because they are perfect.

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

There are SO many WIPS that’ll never get finished, but I think the answer that serves this question the best is a WIP in my scrap folder called “The London Reconnection,” which follows Suga about 5 years post leaving Japan to study English Lit in London, and is working towards his masters. He had effectively lost a lot of his cultural roots and really enjoys the lifestyle of London, especially the teas, and although he had always planned on eventually going back to Japan after getting his masters, as he gets closer to that, he’s started considering staying in London and staying forever. Which, at the time, doesn’t hurt so bad - he hasn’t spoken to anyone back home in three years, and the last time he went for Christmas, he didn’t even bother checking in with his friends… though a wrench gets thrown into his confidence for what he wants and his plans for the future when, literally out of nowhere, Daichi shows up in the library he works at with his little sister, having come to support her while she receives an experimental treatment for a rare disorder, and they’re expecting to stay, possibly indefinitely. Suga hadn’t spoken to Daichi in quite a few years, but had always considered him “the one that got away” (though they had never officially dated.) So suddenly, his perfectly curated London lifestyle is tipped on its side due to the dropped-in presence of an old, familiar face and one that can barely speak a lick of English, let alone blend into the London culture. Cue English lessons, lots of metaphors about teas, identity, and falling in love with someone you used to know intimately, but don’t really know at all anymore. I think about it like 3 times a week but more than likely will never write more than the 4k or so I put down for the first chapter…

“What are your writing strengths?”

Fuck if I know, my man. I think dialogue? I get a lot of compliments regarding how natural my characters feel, how much they seem like real people, so I think that has to be one of the strongest points of my writing. I also think I’m very funny. Humour is 100% subjective so this doesn’t really count, but I love some of my own jokes in my writing. Write to make yourself laugh, friends, that’s the key.

“What are your writing weaknesses?”

The fact that if a scene bores me I’ll just straight skip it. I tend to rush scenes that would be realistic simply because I don’t care about them, certain characters or plot lines getting abandoned because writing the necessary scenes for them to really work just sounds boring. Even if I think the scenes or characters are good and important and very interesting, if it bores me I just… can’t force myself to do it. I also really struggle with combat and action sequences, anything that requires “choreography” of any kind, I think I tend to under-explain each scene in an effort to avoid over-explaining an action sequence, which results in muddied and confusing character motions with little context.

“What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?”

I don’t think I have any thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? I’m sure this is related to some kind of fan-debate about this, but… I’m not sure what the camps are. If I write Dialogue in another language in a fic, and the perspective character doesn’t speak that language, I italicize it but otherwise write it like normal dialogue. If the character does speak that language, I italicize it but write it in English and make a note in the dialogue tag that it was in whichever language. I think, though don’t hold me to this, spoken dialogue should always be written in a way that the reader can “hear” which would unfortunately have to include the phonetic anglicization of languages that don’t use the latin alphabet IF you’re writing in English (or converting it to whatever language you’re writing in.) This is due to the enjoyment of the reader being able to “hear” the story or keep the immersion. If I’m reading a story, and it presents to me, in dialogue, a string of sanskrit, just skipping over that without hesitation. No idea. Character may as well not have spoken, can’t hear it. BUT if it’s in the text of the book, describing the writing they’re reading, signage, or anything else, then it should stay in its original written form, perhaps translated elsewhere in the story if needed. I don’t think authors are required to translate spoken dialogue if the perspective character can’t understand it. HOWEVER that is also my opinion for, like, original fiction stories. Because fanfiction is supposed to be for sharing, I can understand wanting/expecting a translation of whatever cute or funny quip the characters are making in the language. I, personally, have never provided translations for any of the languages I use in my fics. Sorry.

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

I have no interest in writing fanfiction for other fandoms. As mentioned above, if I had to pick one I might go with SK8, but I’m not really a “fanfiction writer” in the sense that when I read/watch media I get overwhelmed with the urge to write stories for them. I don’t even really read fanfiction. Haikyuu is special in that, these little fucks satisfy my creative urges and that’s all they have to do, it’s not really about any hyperfixation on the media or interest in writing fanfiction as a whole, y’know. Besides, if I started writing for other fandoms, that would give Daichi a break from me and I can’t allow that.

That being said, ships I haven’t ever written for… I have a SemiShira WIP in progress that hopefully will be finished Kogagoshi as well I’m a fan of, if you can believe that. FukaTora, too. Honestly I have a dozen AsaNoya WIPS, and considering they’re one of my favourites the fact that they’ve never been more than a background ship/side pairing is a SHAME. Same with AranKita.

“What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?”

Time Enough to Risk it All has to be my favourite, just because it’s, well… it’s what it is. I think it’s tight and well contained, it doesn’t suffer from my usual rambling, missed plotlines or dropped ideas that I scrapped after I started posting. It feels cohesive and tightly knit and it ends the same way. Not too many things going on. However, I will say, Imperfect Facial Symmetry is really high up there as well, as is The Stoplight Demon even though it was not everyone else’s favourite. I do think if I can finish “This is Not the End” the way I want to, and have it be what I hope it’ll be, it will become my favourite. But I still have time to ruin it, so we’ll see if Time Enough keeps its title :)

Tagging: victims!

@harumin24 @vvalllerie @reviiely

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Hiii! 28 fem here, I'm **not** replacing anyone, just looking for anyone who would be interested in more stories with me. I have more time to write so if you are 21+ please don't hesitate to send me a dm! Most random stuff but willing to do original characters as well! I love talking ooc, it helps keep me engaged and I love plotting and collaborating! Can do some days of rapid fire responses, other times it might take a few days. I know real life comes first and I will always be patient so no worries. Would love to hear from you!

Here are some of the fandoms with pairings/tropes I like:

**Spock/Kirk** - Wholesome sci-fi adventures, potential for shorter procedural missions, would ideally want to expand and write other members of the enterprise as needed (such as Bones, Sulu, Nyota, Chekov, Scotty, Nurse Chapel, etc.), would play/write either characters

**Charles/Erik** - Friends to Lovers to Enemies, would do either post xmen first class cherik or would do older versions of them, darker themes, I would prefer to write Erik in this because I don't think I can do the optimistic Charles justice, we need to plot further with this one cause I would be down for lots of ideas

**Deadpool/Spider-Man** - slooooooow burn to even get to friends then maybe 🌈, would mainly start as Deadpool and Spider-Man running into each other doing work/patrols in the city and mexican food, prefer to write as Deadpool but would be willing to write Peter

**Deadpool/Wolverine** - post movie, Logan has nightmares, differences in their timelines, Logan visits this universe's version of the X-Men. Would be open to writing either.

**Harry/Hermione** - my preference would be to start sometime during deathly hallows after Ron left and Harry and Hermione are still dealing with the Horcrux, and writing either is good with me

**Hannibal/Will** - MURDER HUSBANDS 4EVER, post fall, (or I also have very many ideas for this ship, oh man), I would loooove to play Will for once in my friggin life but I would also understand that your sweet soul could not handle Hannibal and I have experience writing hanni

**Lestat/Louis** - set season 2 finale, during the hurricane, sweet *sweet* depressing vampire cuddles while mourning our daughter crying blood, but I get that's a LOT to start so also start of s3 rockstat era, Louis doing Lestat's makeup, would write either, genuinely love these two, tho more experience writing Lestat

**Daniel/Armand** - devil's minion era, or post season 2 TV show devil's minion, Armand IS ALICE au(?), open to writing either (would also do a one shot for Daniel/Louis)

**Crowley/Aziraphale** - I prefer writing Crowley but that's cause I have a very specific view of him and his feelings for Aziraphale, however I do like writing Aziraphale too, post season 2, or lots of different ideas for this one too

**Joker/Akechi** - set p5r term 3, OR Akechi has a palace that they do after Sae’s palace and before Shido’s cause I think Akechi should get to do a patricide, or whenever joker sleeps and goes to the Velvet Room, Akechi is there or they know they are the two tricksters from the start and Joker starts in the metaverse with Akechi and Joker knows about Akechi’s murders but Akechi is his only family until he finally meets the phantom thieves and starts to pull away from Akechi and wants to turn him in

**Lucy/The Ghoul/Cooper Howard** - heterosexuals strike again, post season finale as they track down Kyle McLaughlin and figure out what is happening, would probably prefer to play The Ghoul but I would also like Lucy too so IDK not a hard preference actually

**Hughie/OC** - AU he leaves the boys and lives a normal life and is cherished for ONCE in his ridiculous existence, would be fine with either male or female OC just not starlight sorry Annie January you have a cool name but your powers kinda suck and ur personality is idk I just think him and Kimiko would have been cute 🥰

**Homelander/OC** - again I'm fine with male or female and would prefer to write the OC but am open to it. OC could be someone new joining The Seven or someone he somehow met during his childhood (maybe even Sage or Hughie)

**Tyrion Lannister/Daenerys Targaryen** - rewind a few seasons, take things slower then follow the journey to King's Landing and the Red Keep, maybe when they first met, would write either but have more experience as Daenerys. (Sidenote: I also ship Jorah/Dany and Tyrion/Varys so same thing)

**AU / Tropes** I like and would do with ANY of the ships and characters above or even OCs:

Soulmate AU

Hanahaki disease

Teammates/Roommates

Childhood best friends

Enemies-to-lovers

Coffeeshop (always - one exists in every fandom and ship)

Stockholm syndrome 🕊️

Powers OR (No Powers for fandoms that have supes, mutants, magic, etc. )

Amnesia where person A wakes up and doesn't remember person B but wrongly (rightly) assumes person B is their spouse/significant other or just memory loss of critical moments

If you're interested at all, my dms are open! Thank you! 🖤🫶🏼🩵

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hey! Have you ever written RemusxRegulus?

honestly love the ship and saw you were looking for requests

I was thinking maybe a college au, or do whatever you'd like!

Thank you very much for your request! I hope this meets your expectations, sorry for the delay ⋆˙⟡ This is my first request and I'm very happy with the result, I hope you like it too, tell me what you think <3

Secret Friend

Summary: Remus starts talking through letters with a stranger, but who knows how close this stranger might be?

Pairing: Moonwater (Regulus x Remus) You can see this as Romantic to Platonic, you decide.

Words: 4k

Warnings: Non-explicit mentions of stress, anxiety, feeling of loneliness and problematic adolescence (nothing specific), minimal hurt/comfort (You can barely notice it) Muggle & College Au, not proofread.

Remus and Regulus didn't consider themselves friends, not at all, sure, they shared a dorm room in college, but nothing more than that, they didn't even talk in the dorm, Remus had a part time job at a coffee shop so he didn't even spend much time in the dorm, Regulus didn't talk much either, so their conversations were reduced to a simple “Good morning” and a “Could you turn the fucking light off?”, but nothing more than that.

Neither of them intended to establish a friendship, Regulus enjoyed his loneliness and Remus had too many worries to pursue a friendship.

Remus hated the education system at all, but there wasn't much he could do if he wanted to graduate, so he had to adapt, staying late doing projects or even doing them at work, earning a few lectures from his boss.

But here he was again, to say that he hated Professor Sprout's class was an understatement, Remus felt that the teacher was very positive about life, the woman loved social activities and said that being sociable would be very useful for his work life, Remus couldn't disagree more.

Professor Sprout's new job was called “Secret friend ”, even the name was ridiculous, it consisted in that during the rest of the semester you would be assigned a “Secret friend”, who would be a person of any career and grade of the university, with whom you would have to write letters, this with the point of knowing someone from zero, without judging or without ideas of that person.

Remus wanted to die, he had enough to do with his career and his job without worrying about talking to a fellow faculty member, he thought about just never sending the letter and not participating, but Professor Sprout assured that she would give extra points to those who participated and Remus definitely needed those points if he wanted to keep his scholarship.

Remus had to resign himself, he would be talking to a stranger for the rest of the semester, great.

It was Saturday night and Remus was coming back from work totally exhausted, when he got to his room it was already turned off as usual, Regulus used to sleep early and he used to curse Remus for leaving the light on while he was studying.

Remus thought about simply going to sleep, he was exhausted, but as he lay down on the bed he remembered Professor Sprout's project, that damned letter.

Remus cursed to himself, he had been carrying the letter from his “Secret Friend” for two days, ever since Professor Sprout had handed it to him, but he hadn't had the time or the energy to read it.

Remus would have preferred to leave it in his backpack and forget about it, but he had to write a reply by Monday and give it to the teacher, so with annoyance he stood up and looked for the letter in his backpack, before returning to his bed, turning on the light on the bedside table, the brunet was thankful that Regulus was deeply asleep and could not insult him because of the light.

The brunet looked at the envelope of the letter, there was nothing special about it so he opened it and took out the letter, Remus rolled his eyes slightly when he saw it for the first time, it had a perfect and tidy handwriting, the opposite of Remus'.

Remus just wanted to get it over with so he started reading the letter.

“Hello stranger, I don't know how to start this letter, I must admit it wasn't in my plans to have to talk to a stranger for the rest of the semester” Remus couldn't help but laugh as he read the first line, at least the stranger didn't seem too excited about the project either.

“Professor Sprout said I shouldn't give out information that would reveal who I am so I guess this letter will be brief, I find it ridiculous since among the thousands of students at this university you are unlikely to know me, but well, I can tell you that I like poetry, books and art and that I hate this project, we don't have to talk too much if you don't want to either, I just need the extra points, but you can tell me something about yourself if you want, so we'll have something to talk about - Atte. Stranger.”

Remus had to admit he was a little intrigued and amused by the letter, he thought he would have to deal with someone irritating who wanted to talk often, but knowing that his secret friend had as little interest as his own made him feel a little calmer.

Remus thought about answering the letter until the next day, but he knew that his work would be chaotic because it was the weekend, so he grabbed his backpack, a sheet of paper and a pen.

For a moment remus stood thinking, before he started writing, he hoped his secret friend wouldn't make fun of his poor handwriting, his dyslexia and bad calligraphy were something he was not proud of.

“Hi stranger, I'm glad to know that you're not too excited about this project either, I need the extra points too so that's why I signed up, you can write whenever you want, I don't want to talk too much either, my work and school take up most of my time, I like books too but I haven't read anything in a while, do you have any recommendations for me?

There's not much I can tell you about myself, I guess I'm not very interesting, I spend most of my time at school and sometimes in the library, I hate coffee and I love music, any kind of music, I can't go a single day without my headphones.

I don't know what else to tell you about me, you can ask if you want, bye bye stranger - Atte stranger."

Remus wasn't very convinced with his letter, but he couldn't care less, it was just a project, he had no intentions of striking up a real friendship with that stranger.

“Could you turn off the damn light, Lupin?” Regulus snorted without even looking at Remus, the boy just rolled his eyes, putting the letter in an envelope quickly and stuffing it in his backpack to give it to the teacher on Monday, then turned off the light before he could hear another one of Regulus' complaints.

Monday early in the morning Remus handed in his letter, forgetting about it for the rest of the week, his secret friend was serious about not talking so often, Remus didn't care, his week was chaotic and he didn't have the time to worry about it.

Remus's cafeteria job was actually pretty simple, but working double shifts and having to deal with jerks made Remus want to quit, but he knew it would never happen, he needed the job to pay for his degree and generally support himself.

On Friday afternoon Remus had already received his letter, when he got to his room it was empty, Regulus hadn't spent much time in his room that week, but Remus was grateful for it, he didn't want the boy to see him reading a stranger's letters.

Remus took the letter in his hands and opened the envelope, beginning to read the letter which had the same perfect handwriting.

“Hello again stranger, I didn't even remember I had to write you back, my professors have been drowning me with projects, I don't think I asked you what major you were in, but I'm studying art history, it's not as easy as it sounds, I swear I hear one more story about some disturbing fact about a 16th century artist and I drop out of school.

Do you really work? I hope you don't mind if I ask where you work, I don't know many people with a job of their own, my parents would kill me if I even suggested the idea.

I'm very bad at recommending books, but at the moment I'm re-reading “Dead Poets Society", it's my favorite book at the moment, you can find it in the school library, I'm sure there's more than one copy, let me know what you think.

How can you say you hate coffee? It's the only thing that keeps me surviving college, you should try the coffee in that little cafeteria on campus, that's coffee.

I don't have much time to write, I have to finish three essays by tomorrow, so goodbye stranger - Atte stranger.”

Without even noticing Remus had a smile on his face as he read, that guy was funny and even though he sounded a little bitter, he liked him, which was ridiculous because he had never seen him before.

Before Remus could think anything else, the sound of keys brought him out of his thoughts, Remus knew instantly that it was Regulus, so he put the letter in his backpack as he watched the black-haired man walk in, carrying a load of stuff, Remus couldn't help but laugh slightly at the sight of him, he looked frustrated and fed up with everything, now there were two of them.

Regulus didn't even look at Remus as he entered the room, trying not to drop everything he was carrying, in frustration he set everything on the floor and placed his coffee on the bedside table, the smell of it flooding the place instantly.

“Ugh I hate that fucking smell” Remus huffed referring to the smell of the coffee, shifting to the other side of the room, where his bed was.

“You're free to go lupin.” Regulus said without looking at him, taking a sip of his coffee, Remus just rolled his eyes, muttering a low “fuck off” before heading in the direction of the bathroom to take a shower.

A week later Remus was in the library, reading the book that the stranger had recommended, until he remembered that he had to write to his secret friend again.

“Hello stranger, art history? Really? I guess it's interesting, my career is more boring, I'm studying law, it's not very interesting but very heavy, I hope you manage to finish those essays, I have to learn half of the constitution by the end of the month, great.

And yes, I hate coffee, that has to do with my job, I work in a coffee shop on campus, I think brewing so much coffee has made me intolerant, I can't even stand the smell, it's disgusting.

To me it's more surprising that someone doesn't work, how do you pay for your career? I guess you're rich or something.

Something tells me that the “little coffee shop” you speak of, is where I work, I hope you are not one of the idiots that makes my day more difficult :)

I'm reading the book you recommended, it's interesting, you have good tastes, I hope you manage to finish your essays, good luck - Atte. Your stranger friend”

To Remus' surprise, he and his strange friend spent the rest of the semester talking, their letters became more and more recurrent, Remus found it strange how easy it was to talk to this person, the guy assured him that no, he wasn't rich, although Remus found it hard to believe him because of the things he told him, he was sure the guy at least lived comfortably.

Remus and the stranger spent the rest of the semester talking, Remus told him that he had a passion for photography, but that buying a camera was way out of his budget, he also cursed his secret friend for recommending Dead Poets Society and not telling him how much the story was going to tear him apart, Remus swore he would die when the stranger told him that there was in fact a movie as well.

Because of this book, Remus had had a fight with the librarian, because despite the stranger's words, there are not two copies of Dead Poets Society in the library and when he wanted to ask for the book again someone had already taken it.

Remus was about to hang Regulus when he saw him in his room reading that book, but he had to restrain himself and hope he would finish it quickly, what did he know about Dead Poets Society anyway?

To Remus of a few months ago it would have seemed ridiculous to talk to a stranger and even more so to look forward to his letters, for Remus it was a way to strike up a conversation with someone without feeling pressured or judged.

He didn't have too many friends at his college, many considered him “intimidating”, plus he didn't have time to go out and socialize with the rest because of his work, so having someone to talk to without feeling pressured was kind of soothing.

That day had been an especially hard day for Remus, his boss had given him a lecture because a customer complained about his “rude” behavior, Remus tried to tell him that the customer was treating him like a criminal and deserved to be called a jerk.

But despite his pleas his boss didn't care, “the customer is always right”, how he hated that phrase.

School was killing him and the incident in the cafeteria didn't help him at all, he felt totally overwhelmed, when he got to his room he was about to gasp with frustration when he saw Regulus there, he could only wish they didn't have a fight that day.

But Regulus didn't even notice his presence, he was sitting at his desk writing without looking up, Remus didn't give it a thought, he just went to his bed and threw himself on it, his arm covering his eyes from the light.

He couldn't remember the last time he had felt peaceful, work, school, it was all getting to be too much.

He hadn't heard back from his secret friend for a week now, which wasn't helping him clear his head either, he needed a distraction.

“Can you turn off the light? I have a headache” Remus said, his tone less hostile than usual, he sounded more weary.

Regulus could have protested as usual, insulted him, but hearing the tone of his voice and how tired he looked, he just couldn't, so he just muttered a low “fine” before stopping what he was doing and turning off the light, leaving his things on the table and going to his own bed.

Remus murmured a soft “Thanks” before covering himself with the sheets to try to sleep, he was somewhat surprised that Regulus hadn't protested, the guy had been less rude the last few days, they didn't talk too much, but Remus felt something was different, though there was too much going on in his head to give it any importance.

In the morning Remus felt strangely better, this fulfilled his theory that sleep solved everything, the brunet stretched slightly, scrubbing his eyes slightly sleepily before standing up and going to the bathroom.

Before he reached the bathroom his gaze fell on Regulus, who was still asleep, he looked so peaceful in those moments, then his gaze shifted to the desk, where Regulus' papers were still strewn about.

Remus frowned, his gaze fixed on one of the essays, the guy blinked several times, maybe sleep was playing a trick on him, but he was almost sure that that handwriting was the same of his secret friend.

It couldn't be true, Remus couldn't believe it, Regulus couldn't be the guy he was talking to, Remus didn't even believe Regulus was capable of signing up for that project.

Remus' mind started to process everything, he wasn't sure what career Regulus was studying but he had seen some of his books about “art”, he had also seen him reading Dead poets society, but it all had to be a coincidence, right?

Remus' gaze went from the essay on the table to Regulus and again, he could remember the letters of his secret friend and even if he didn't want to accept it the handwriting was too similar, especially since the boy had a peculiar way of writing the letter M.

Remus saw Regulus stir in bed, he didn't want the guy to know that he had been staring at his handwriting, so he immediately went into the bathroom, trying to organize his thoughts.

Remus wanted to believe he was crazy, so ignoring his thoughts he stepped into the shower, though his mind was elsewhere.

When he came out of the bathroom Regulus was already awake, once again deep in paper, writing non-stop.

Remus wanted to stop thinking, but his gaze went to Regulus' bag, where an envelope was sticking out slightly.

“Where did you get this?” Remus said bluntly, taking the envelope and showing it to Regulus, it was one of his letters, the same one Remus had written last week.

Regulus didn't even look at Remus, his gaze fixed on the envelope, the guy cursed under his breath.

Regulus' silence was answer enough for Remus, he felt a whirlwind of emotions wash over him, he was frustrated but most of all embarrassed, he had been talking to his roommate all this time? With the same one he insulted every morning and could barely tolerate?

A thought clicked in Remus' mind, “You…You knew it was me?” he asked in a low and somewhat hesitant voice, to which Regulus only nodded slightly.

“Since when?” asked Remus again, his voice didn't sound annoyed, if anything, confused.

“Ever since you said you worked in the cafeteria on campus I had an idea it was you, then one day you said your roommate had taken the dead poets' society copy from the library…”

Regulus explained in a low voice, without looking Remus in the eyes, Remus could remember, he told his secret friend when he saw Regulus with the copy of the dead poets' society, now he felt like an idiot, what else had he said?

“Oh god” was the only thing Remus said, he was totally confused and bewildered.

“Are you mad that…it's me? The one you were talking to” Regulus asked, with a tone of vunerability that Remus had never heard before.

The brunet felt his chest squeeze like never before, he wasn't sentimental at all, but with those words something stirred inside him.

“No, it's not like that Regulus…. I just…” Remus said, stumbling over the words, he didn't know what to say at all, but he definitely wasn't upset that it was Regulus he was talking to.

“I never thought it was you…that's all” Remus added quietly.

“Why?” Regulus asked instantly, looking Remus in the eyes for the first time.

Remus hesitated for a moment, searching for the right words. “It's just that you…your always so closed off, you don't even look at me when I'm in the room…And in your letters you talk so calmly and seem to understand everything I say…Why aren't you like that here?”

Regulus felt a pressure in his chest, something he didn't often feel, he hated feeling like this, vunerable, exposed.

“The first time I saw you I thought you were intimidating…I thought that if you thought I was dumb and weak you'd take advantage of that…I thought that if I was tough and closed off you wouldn't want to mess with me” Regulus said quietly, playing with a thread of his sweater, trying to avoid Remus' gaze.

Remus swore he felt someone squeeze his chest, “Intimidating,” was how half his class described him, and his chest hurt to hear it each and every time, he wasn't mean or intimidating, it was the last thing he wanted to be, but he knew his height and the scars from his troubled adolescence gave him that image.

“I'm sorry, Regulus, I never meant to-” Remus tried to speak but the words got stuck in his throat, he hated that they had that image of him and even more that Regulus had had to change his personality because of him.

“You don't have to apologize, Lupin, I know you're not mean or rude, I was just worried, it's just that I didn't know how to fix things afterwards” Regulus admitted somewhat ashamed, scratching his neck in embarrassment.

“We can do it now, can't we?” Remus asked in a soft voice, giving Regulus a small smile.

The black-haired man looked up, his eyes widening, something in his chest stirring, he nodded almost instantly, giving Remus a small smile back.

“Do you fancy going for a coffee?” Remus said kindly, standing up.

Regulus frowned immediately, looking at Remus with confusion “I thought you hated it, you said so in your letters-”

“I can take it for you” Remus interrupted, smiling at Regulus and walking to the door, holding it open for Regulus.

“Who knows, maybe I'll end up loving it, stranger” Remus muttered with an amused smile.

Omg I don't know about you but I loved this, this idea came to me at three in the morning and I definitely had to write it, thanks to the person who made the request, maybe it doesn't have much of a College au but I hope you like it ✦ ∿ (btw, I don't know how many times I wrote dead poet's society)

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Most things will be cross-posted on Den of Angels, Instagram, and Facebook. Additional information will be under the cut. I ship from the USA and due to postal concerns, I can only send the large, high-value packages within the USA right now.

Allergen warning: I live in a pet-friendly, non-smoking household near a corn mill.

Harucasting Smile Maji head: She’s some kind of tan resin, but I don’t 100% remember which one. Her previous owner split the head and body so the coa went with the body. I remember her previous owners name & email, but I don’t recall their instagram handle. Maji has thankfully NOT been recasted so I do not worry about her legitimacy, but I wanted to be upfront about that detail. Her magnets need to be reglued and she still has faceup residue. As with any of my Harucasting dolls, in respect to Haru’s wishes, I will only sell his dolls to pro-artist/anti-recast individuals.

$100 + shipping

5stardoll Elf Elaine: She was painted by her previous owner and given a mani-pedi which is chipping as well as pretty purple body shimmer. Her face still has faceup residue on it. She’s really cute but I need to make room — I am willing to sell her head separately, though. According to her card of authenticity she was produced in late 2018. I believe she is in normal pink skin.

$170 + shipping

Latidoll Blue Yern:

Yern is a slim MSD sized doll and the Blue (MSD) line has been long discontinued. Yern still has her coa and Latidoll manual, as well as the emblem in and outside of her head. I am not sure of the specifics but her torso has had some kind of mod job for mobility reasons?

Yern is from early 2009 and has certainly yellowed, but her yellowing appears to be consistent. Yern would probably benefit from a restringing with thicker elastics but I can get her to pose and stand just fine. Her s hooks were replaced and she has traditional/standard bjd s hooks in her wrists and ankles. For whatever reason one elbow likes to stay slightly bent. Yern will be shipped UNSTRUNG so that would be a good opportunity for her elastics to be changed; she still has an o hook for her head.

Her faceup is holding up really well considering it is quite old but please be aware that it is old, has some wear, and it is not factored into the price I am selling Yern at. The biggest sign of wear I noticed as a small dark streak near her temple.

She has some damage near her foot/ankle. Considering her age I think she has been holding up really well.

$100 + shipping

Dollzone MSD Girl Body: normal pink resin. Arrived from Alice collections in late 2022, spent most of its time in the box. Asking $200 + shipping.

Harucasting Big Geuru: She is in neul medium tan. She has a face up by @tonocha331. She has an extra pair of hands and comes with her box and card of authenticity. She will come without clothes or eyes.

She has some small s hook scratches in one wrist from a previous owner and several small scratches on her belly. Her face up seems to be in overall good condition other than three shiny spots on the side of her head. $550 + shipping

Logandolls Primrose: Primrose in light tan (coffee) with additional heel feet (strung) and an extra pair of hands. She does not come with a company box but she has a card of authenticity and comes with a blanket that I believe logandolls made for her. Received in a trade from my friend @groovyblueworld! She will NOT come with a pair of eyes. If desired, I can ship her in an old Dollzone company box for extra protection. Ordinarily she would cost $480 new but I am asking $440 + shipping - you basically get the extra hands and feet for free and an extra $10 discount. I can also sell a Flower Primrose faceplate in Resinsoul normal for an additional $40.

$440 + shipping

[olympeline]

Love love love the omega verse fruk content! But, what do we think about omega Arthur accidentally getting pregnant in the 16th century and voila, FACE fam is born… something something “nation people don’t get pregnant even if they’re presenting omega and going through heat” but then new land is discover and “oops” turns out there is a reason why nation people have reproductive cycles

Oh nonny, do not unleash these thoughts on me! I tell you they will take root 🥺

See? Now I’m posting about it. I hope you’re happy! 😩

If this happened, I’m guessing it would be because of a very specific sets of circumstances. Otherwise nation-people don’t reproduce like humans do. When a new land is discovered, a successful settler population is established, with the main bulk of the settlers coming from an omega nation, and a significant portion coming from their alpha partner. And it had to be part of the New World, maybe? Like the clue is in the name. Just something about the Old World that makes it so no new nation-people are born the human way there any more. They used to be but it happened so long ago, when the Old World was new, that now not even China remembers. It’s become like an old wives’ tale to the nation folk. Anyway, all these boxes have to be ticked otherwise the new colony/nation-person comes into being the “normal” way and just appears one day. I kinda like this idea actually. Like a/b/o nations can have kids but such rare situations have to arise that they almost never do? And reproductive knowledge is still a loooot of guesswork back then too, so.

Soooo Francis and Arthur don’t bother with even the primitive precautions they had at the time. Why would they? The NA twins are the first new nation-people born this way in thousands of years, so the Dover pair had no idea they needed to be careful. Just carried on with their usual fooling around every time Arthur’s heat came, including on the shores of the New World. Like, literally on the shore, maybe? Francis is already there with the French colonists when he senses Arthur is near. Goes miles down the coastline close to where the English settlers are. Headcanon here that nation-people can travel much faster than normal humans so this doesn’t take him months, lol. Finds an English ship anchored and their personification alone on the beach. In heat and giving off an aura of STAY AWAY NORMAL HUMANS I LOVE YOU BUT FOR NO SPECIFIC REASON ENGLAND NEEDS SOME ALONE TIME WITH HIS FUTURE MATE ANCIENT ENEMY WHO HE STILL TOTALLY HATES SO GO INTO THE SETTLEMENT AND LEAVE YOUR MOTHERLAND BE UNTIL HE CALLS YOU, OKAY?

Arthur is all curled up in the sand like an overheated, grumpy merman. Scolds Francis for making him wait, then pulls him down and won’t even let Francis move them off the beach until they’ve done it a few times. Something about this heat has made it almost as bad as the first one and it started coming on halfway across the Atlantic. No amount of whining from Francis about sand in his hair or his new clothes getting ruined is going to make Arthur wait a moment longer for that knot. Even after Francis puts his foot down when the tide starts coming in and drags Arthur inland, they still keep at it. Marathon session that goes on and on until they’re both sore, sticky, and totally exhausted.

Francis: Needy this time weren’t we, mon lapin?

Arthur: Mmmm…*Sated omega sounds followed by three day sleep*

Francis stays by Arthur’s side and brings him food when he wakes up. He can’t explain why. He just…really wants to. Struts and sashays right into the English settlement, commandeers a kitchen and supplies, and just dares them to object, lmao. No one is that dumb! So Arthur gets a French feast when he wakes up. Then Francis keeps hanging around and staying close. Eventually a secretly pleased but outwardly embarrassed tsundere Arthur has to shoo him away back to his own lands. The food and aftercare are nice but people might start to talk and suspect, you know? They’re still supposed to be enemies.

Afterwards life carries on and things go back to normal. They get distracted by the day-to-day routine of being nations. So much so that Francis fails to notice when Arthur doesn’t call on him for help with his heats. It’s only when Arthur misses a third time that he starts to wonder. But then, Arthur was a late bloomer and their cycles are always a little wacky. Not so weird to skip a heat or two then have several close together. Francis isn’t too worried and neither is Arthur. Then he starts getting other weird symptoms. Often at hilariously inopportune times:

Arthur: *Mid Anglo-Spanish naval battle* Die, Catholic dog! You…

Antonio:….Yes?

Arthur:…One moment, please. *Dashes to the side of the ship to throw up*

Antonio:…Comida inglesa, ni siquiera una vez.

We’ve basically entered a pregnancy focused romantic comedy at this stage, lol. Not that anyone realises for a long time, Francis and Arthur included. It should be obvious: Arthur throwing up, not getting his heats, the alphas around him (even his enemies) suddenly not wanting to hurt him as much and pulling their punches when they fight, Francis wanting to stick around and be by his side, etc. It shouldn’t take a genius to work out what’s happening. But remember, hardly anyone knows Arthur is an omega at this point. Plus this kind of nation-person pregnancy is something that had passed into antiquity and become a myth. So everyone’s density is justfied.

In the end, it’s Alasdair who works it out first. He’s an alpha and Arthur’s older brother so his own protective instincts had to be going crazy. Which, on top of all the other changes Arthur is going through, the biggest telltale is his scent. Arthur’s brothers know him best out of everyone and, as the group’s sole alpha, Alasdair’s nose picks up what should be impossible. He thinks he’s wrong for months but the evidence keeps piling up. One morning he comes in to find Arthur slumped over with his head in a bucket as has become a common occurrence lately. Then, while Arthur’s good and distracted, Alasdair sneaks up to scent him. Then rips up his shirt and sees that barely there, slightly rounded middle. There’s no denying it then. Arthur’s omega nature and his “arrangement” with Francis was an open secret in the British Isles family. Arthur’s hastily put together potions and spells could disguise his scent enough to fool other nation-people, but not them. They all suspected but none of them, not even Alasdair, ever said anything out of respect for Arthur’s feelings. They knew what a blow it must have been for him. In spite of everything, they still care for the idiot, you know? He’s still their little brother.

Alasdair accuses Arthur in his ordinary, ultra blunt, Scottish way. Arthur brushes him off as being crazy. Alasdair leaves and comes back with Dylan and one of his books on the ancient history of their kind. Dylan is convinced, Arthur isn’t. You know how he is: denial all the way, baby! Dylan says Arthur is sick because the child needs to spend time in the New World where it will be born. Needs to soak up the energy of the land and the like. Otherwise…bad things, for both of them. Arthur says “you’re all crazy stop being crazy go away, crazy acting brothers of mine” but Alasdair says “right, then!” and just grabs Arthur up. Then, with Dylan’s help, they bundle their furious, spitting sibling onto a ship headed for Virginia. Alasdair goes with him. Meanwhile Dylan heads across the channel to tell Francis (“DYLAN DON’T YOU DARE DYLAN I WILL KILL YOU I SWEAR IF YOU SAY ONE WORD TO THE FROG-” - Arthur, probably). Francis is stunned by the news. Stunned and…cautiously ecstatic? I know he really wishes he could have a family in canon. Oh man, he would so want to believe this is real. But also be so afraid to get his hopes up because it sounds impossible. The drama! We love it. 🥺 Francis jumps on the fastest ship they have and sails to the English settlement to be reunited with Arthur. After a hilariously awkward conversation between the Auld Alliance duo (“…so, seems ye knocked up my little brother” “…oui, seems I did” “…aye, carry on, then” “merci”) Francis is allowed into the bedroom to see Arthur. Who’s still a Scottish prisoner, still in denial, and sulking like mad in a nest he made. Don’t ask him why he keeps wanting to make nests these days even though he hasn’t had a heat in ages. Well, you can ask but the only answer you will get is shut up and go away, dickhead. Arthur Bloody Kirkland is the face of the United Bloody Kingdom and he can make bloody nests if he bloody wants to! *Hissy tsundere noises*

Arthur tries to bluster at Francis to go away or better yet help him throttle Alasdair who’s obviously gone mental, but Francis doesn’t give him the chance. Just pounces and kisses Arthur, cheats shamelessly by using wicked lips and fingers on the omega spot on Arthur’s neck, making him go all loose and purry. Then Francis presses both their hands to Arthur’s stomach and they feel something move.

One of the NA twins - probably Alfred, I mean let’s be honest - waking up to say hello.

Even Arthur can’t deny it after that. Shocked and furious, he tries to rant at Francis (“WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE TO ME YOU FUCKING FROG! THIS IS YOUR FAULT! I’LL FUCKING SKIN YOU FOR THIS-!” - Arthur, definitely) but Francis is crying too hard to notice. Then he’s laughing and sobbing at the same time: hugging Arthur, professing his love, and kissing his lips off. Arthur’s shock and fear based rage stands no chance in the face of Francis’s thousand years plus heartfelt yearning for a family. He gives in and lets Francis have his moment of ecstasy. The kissing soon evolves into something else and Francis almost loses control and gives Arthur a mating bite, but pulls back at the last second. They’re not ready for that. Arthur noticed. Arthur didn’t say he did. Arthur is secretly grateful and feels his heart flutter even so.

Things go pretty smoothly after the big revelation, all things considered. High emotions settle and they start planning. Arthur stays in the New World and so does Francis. They have their people build a small cabin on the border between their territories so Arthur can have some peace away from curious human eyes. Alasdair goes back to Britain and takes over as leader of the UK for the time being. Dylan scrapes together every bit of knowledge about nation-person pregnancy he can (not much and not all of it useful) and brings it to the FrUK couple along with the usual books on human birth. They all decide to keep it secret from the rest of their kind. Otherwise everyone would want to come and see this miraculous anomaly. Arthur is stressed enough as it is even if he is starting to come round to the idea. No one wants him and the baby to become objects of curiosity. Then the time comes and Francis is with Arthur for it. Getting screamed at, getting his fingers crushed, taking promises that Arthur will FUCKING MURDER HIM FOR THIS-AAAAARRGGHHH!!! without complaint. It goes just like an ordinary human birth. The only surprise is two babies pop out instead of the one they expected. Arthur names the oldest Alfred, after his great king. Francis, when he finally stops sobbing, names the other Matthew. They know by instinct that their true names are America and Canada. When Francis nuzzles Arthur’s neck and kisses that special place with a soft whisper of “mon amour” Arthur knows he’s asking permission. He says “yes” and Francis bites him, leaving his mark as their new sons sleep between them.

Afterwards Arthur moans and complains that the bite was a stupid idea and now he has to wear a damn neckerchief or cravat even in the fucking tropics, but he doesn’t really mind. It’s him who orders a pair of gold rings for them to wear, hidden by gloves or else worn on chains under their shirts. ❤️ Yeah, they become mates much sooner in this version of events, heh. It’s still a secret though, even to their kids before their old enough not to accidentally reveal it to anyone else. Alfred belongs to America, so he lives in the English colonies. Matthew is of Canada, so Francis raises him until the British win the French Canadian territory and Matthew moves in with Arthur instead. They’re still national personifications and have to obey the politics of the day. So they can’t live together as a family as if they were human. Sad, but we know it turns out all right in the end. Peace comes eventually and they can be a family then. And that’s where I’ll leave this AU, I think. This post is already pretty long.

Hope you enjoyed reading! ( ´ ∀ `)ノ～ ♡

[maks-punchout-hyperfixtion]

Punch out headcanons take one

Sorry super punch fans, this is only wii/nes versions

Minor circuit

Glass Joe

Pretty good baker, can't make complex stuff without help though.

Actually retired once after the arcade/nes version of punch out, came back after Gabby jay retired, has had thoughts about it again but keeps remembering that his life would be dull without it. Also his score rested and he still got 99 loses (102 after the wii game)

Has trouble sleeping, uses weighted blankets to help.

Von Kaiser

Your meaning to tell me that dispite being 42 canon years old with some of the most out of pocket head canons ever im the only one that thought it would be funny for him to have a kid be the near opposite of him? Aka he is a dad.

Knows how to cook, doesn't often anymore but still knows

I believe he would like coconuts.no i won't elaborate.

Disco Kid

Likes all kinds of songs, not just disco. Still loves disco though.

Is a relative of kid quick, nobody knows what relation though.

I like the idea that he is friends with aran, i don't ship disco clover but its still a nice pairing we need more.

King Hippo

Can speak English but prefers grunts or noises.

Likes to explain his culture, specifically gifts and other stuff other find meaningless.

Also has a lot of tropical recipes he gives to everyone.

Major circuit

Piston Hondo

Still has that restaurant from the Wii live action ad.

Piston honda? Oh that's his twin.

Definitely has a manga collection. He also has 3 sets of everything. One for display one for reading and one for borrowing. He does not trust aran,soda, bear hugger, and king hippo with them at all.

Bear Hugger

Dad energy. He essentially went and adopted all the boxers with daddy issues, or parent issues in general.

Forced the WVBA to give maple (the bear) a seat in the crowd so she could watch the match, they had to make an entire separate area for her.

Has walked out in the snow with nothing but his overalls and shoes on. That gave everyone a scare forgetting he's used to the cold.

Great Tiger

Uses his clones to do/help with his chores. Once got beaten up by them (a reference of the century here folks)

Once his jewel was stolen and was found in a pawn shop selling for 3 dollars. He was mad at how low the price was then anything.

Once brought his tiger into the shared house, and it immediately broke the couch. The tiger is not allowed in the house anymore.

Don Flamenco

He and Carmen broke up after his first lost, got back together shortly after and forgot the whole issue.

Used bull fighters techniques on bald bull, he would have won if bald bull didn't right hook him into next sunday (literally)

Has tried multiple different types of hair growers, wigs, and more. He is still Balding.

World circuit

Aran Ryan

Actually got in the world circuit fair and square, not by cheating.

He started cheating after some idiot tried to stab him in the ring, good times from the WVBA!

I have a feeling he would say he likes to eat limes raw just to get on everyone's nerves.

Has also gotten confused with his Older brother, spo Aran Ryan, who promptly got a name change after aram started to cheat.

Soda Popinski

None of the boxer can drink his soda because its a legit health hazard to all of them.

Has no clue what the hell is going on 68% of the time.

Has actually used dry ice as a ice pack. This guy isn't human anymore.

Bald Bull

Hates don flamenco with a passion after the bull technique incident.

Is actually calm outside the ring, any public out brust is to get rid of potential paparazzi's (it doesn't work often)

Makes a pretty good calming tea.

Super Macho Man

Once had a horrible movie shoot that made him lose alot of viewer, proceeded to have an early mid life crisis and dye his hair gray.

After his loss with little mac he was more upset at the ladys chasing after little mac rather then him, rather then the sudden drop of viewers (which wasn't even a dent)

Probably had alot of talks about his boxer outfit, you know what im referring too.

Mr. Sandman

Dispite his name, he gets very little sleep. Not like glass joe but still.

He's so strong the WVBA actually has a ambulance on standby whenever he fights.

One time was put up against glass joe, actually laughed, realized it was serious, looked the referee in the eyes and said "if im put up against him ever again we'll need to find a new glass joe" and forfeited the game. Technically if joes score didn't reset it would now be 2-299.

[steddieunderdogfics]

This week’s writer spotlight feature is: @morningberriesao3! morningberries has 15 works in the Stranger Things fandom on AO3 and all of them are in the Steddie tag!

@steddieas-shegoes recommends the following works by @morningberriesao3:

Sweet Surrender

Sneaky Link

How I’d Kill (to See You Again)

"If I could write a sonnet, it would be about berries. She specializes in that very specific angst with a happy ending that grips you by the jaw and spits in your mouth and then you say thank you because it tastes so good. So anyway love her, love her work, love everything about what she writes and does. 10000/10" -- @steddieas-shegoes

Below the cut, @morningberriesao3 answered some questions about their writing process and some of their recommended work!

Why do you write Steddie?

Funnily enough, it all started when I exclusively read Eddie x reader on tumblr. I didn't have an account yet, so I made a quick burner and would gobble up anything under the tag. I always saw people on the internet "shipping" characters but never really understood it, until I came across one particular fic called Wild Parts, where the pairing was reader x Steddie. I remember being more excited for Steve and Eddie to fall in love than I was with the reader aspect. It all went downhill from there when I discovered there was a whole community that loves Steddie. I decided one day, yeah, I want to make them fall in love, too!

What’s your favorite trope to READ?

Honestly, the first thing that comes to mind is the classic friends-to-lovers where Steve has a sexuality crisis because he's falling for Eddie. I could read it over and over and never get sick of it.

What’s your favorite trope to WRITE?

I feel like angst with a happy ending is common ground for, like, 90% of my fics. I also find myself constantly writing miscommunication, and giggling at all the comments that say, "IF THEY JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER!" Yeah. That's a point to be made.

What’s your favorite Steddie fic?

It's quite literally impossible to choose just one when there are so many talented Steddie writers creating new works everyday. I'll rapid fire a few that pop to mind first (all on AO3): Sea Legs by Midnightdrive. Drought by a_star_danced. Wanna Hurt You Just to Hear You Screaming My Name by DotyTakeThisDown. I've Been Having a Horrible Time Pulling Myself Together by Deadrats. Stupid Cupid by DirtyValentine. Money, Power, Glory by StrangerThings1975.

Is there a trope you’re excited to explore in a future work but haven’t yet?

Definitely! I want to write ALL the tropes! I think the reason writing Steddie hasn't become redundant for me is because each time I write a fic, I want it to be different from the last. I rack my brain like, "Okay, I've already done Kas Eddie, Friends to Lovers, Enemies to Lovers, No Upside Down, Modern Setting, Rock Star Eddie... What's next?!" 

What is your writing process like?

It's a very linear process for me. I'm somewhat of a daydreamer; I see the things I write in my head almost like a movie. And then I just type it out as it plays in my brain. I rarely outline anything, but I'll have random gibberish in my notes app to remind me of ideas or big plot points I need to wrap up. I'm honestly surprised anything I write makes sense when I'm through with it. I'm waiting for the chaos of it all to bite me in the ass one day.

Do you have any writing quirks?

I don't know if it's a quirk so much as a fault, but I do this thing where I let my comments pile up and pile up. I won't let myself answer one until I can answer them ALL, because I don't want anyone to think I'm ignoring their comment specifically. I also have to match the energy of the comment, so when it's super long I HAVE to write something back that's super long. This makes it an hours-long task when I let them go for as long as I do unanswered. If anyone hasn't gotten a reply back yet, I PROMISE I WILL!!! 

Do you prefer posting when you’ve finished writing or on a schedule?

In a perfect world, I'd only start posting a project when it's completed so I could keep up with a posting schedule. Reality is: having 20 WIPs saved to my laptop in which I'll post the first couple chapters as motivation for me to finish it. It's a flawed system, but it works out most of the time!

Which fic are you most proud of?

I think it'll always be Sweet Surrender. It was my first fic and the first time I had ever completed something similar to a novel after it was wrapped up at 150K. When I look back, I see some flaws, but I'd never want to change them. If we're talking about which fic I think I wrote the best, I'd say How I'd Kill. The fantasy universe allowed me to get creative with the plot and scenery, and I think my excitement for that is reflected in my quality of writing.

How did you get the idea for Sweet Surrender?

Sweet Surrender is an amalgamation of every fic I read and loved when I first was introduced to the fandom. I basically owe it to all the favourite fics I mentioned earlier. Without their inspiration, I never would have started writing fic in the first place. 

When writing Sweet Surrender, what was something you didn’t expect?

The response. I cannot capture in words how GOOD it felt when people started reading, commenting on, and loving something that I created. You see it mentioned all the time, but it really is true when they say that a comment goes a long way. I was absolutely gobsmacked to see people following along from the beginning. It was such a motivator, and truly a feeling that nothing else could give me.

What inspired Sneaky Link?

I read Must Be a Devil Between Us, Or Whores In My Head by whateverokayFINE (a modern, OnlyFans AU that Sneaky Link could never touch)—loved it SO much that those daydreams I mentioned took off. It stayed as an unposted WIP for a long time because I told myself that I couldn't write a convincing modern AU. I'm so glad I did though, because I've never had a response to a fic like I've had with Sneaky Link.

What was your favorite part to write from Sneaky Link?

There were so many fun side plots to Sneaky Link—the whole thing was a blast to write. One of my favourites was the main conclusion, when Chrissy got to be the hero. Glitter and Chanel No. 5 really saved the day. Of course the first few chapters were hilarious, too. Dumbass, clueless Eddie will never fail to make me giggle, and his obliviousness to Steve's hidden identity really drove everyone up the wall.

How do/did you feel writing How I’d Kill (to See You Again)?

This story really had its CLAWS in me. I wrote the chapters so fast that I think I put out almost 50K words in a matter of four weeks; I've really never written that quickly before or since. The last few chapters were a little slower going, though. I think I was nervous as the plot got a little heavier how people would react, so there were definitely some mixed emotions.

What was the most difficult part of writing How I’d Kill (to See You Again)?

When I wrote Eddie betraying such a soft, loving, trusting Steve. When he pinned that part of his personality against him. I love writing angst, but I had never delved quite this deep into the trope. I definitely teared up a couple times making Steve go through it like that.

Do you have a favorite scene and/or line from any of your fics?

Without spoiling much, I think the end scene of chapter 7 of How I'd Kill (The Judas Kiss) was absolutely thrilling to write, and of course the following chapters as well. This whole idea of "morally gray" Eddie Munson was the reason I started writing the fic in the first place. But when I got to the bit where he had to be morally gray and posted the chapter, I immediately had this fear; I didn't know how the readers were going to react, or if I, as the writer, would be able to properly explain Eddie's motivation or make him forgivable for what he did. It was an "oh shit" moment for sure, but I think I ended up doing an alright job pulling it off.

Do you have any upcoming projects or fics you’d like to share/promote?

I'm currently writing a piece for the 2024 Steddie Big Bang called "A Thousand Flowers Could Bloom". It's in collaboration with Inflomora-art, so I'm completely thrilled that I'll have gorgeous artwork to go with this fic. I'm sure by the time this is posted, it'll already be live! I'm so proud of this story—it might be the best I've written yet. So yeah, if you're reading this, please check it out!!! 

Outside of these questions, Is there anything YOU would like to add?

I don’t think so, but thank you so much for this! It was really fun to answer all these questions <3

Thank you to our author, @morningberriesao3, and our nominator, @steddieas-shegoes! See more of morningberries' works featured on our page throughout the day!

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