#KENDALL U WRITE HIM SO PERFECTLY TOO

[ghostbeam]

(for u im sorry its long ily <3)

Dabi, or Touya, as you’ve recently taken to calling him, hates it when meaningless holidays come around but he does love any opportunity to show you even a tiny fraction of his appreciation for everything you do.

You cook for him, bandage him up after a bad night, remind him to take a breath and cool down. These are all things he sees as luxurious, comforts he closed himself off from for far too long. Your tasks may be part of your everyday life but they mean more to him. The fact that he’s part of your everyday life now…it still confuses him how you let it get that far in the first place. He doesn’t ask questions, though. He accepts every time you scrub his scalp in the shower with your fresh smelling shampoo and gladly falls asleep next to you when he can. Blissful domesticity.

At least until he stepped into the cramped kitchen in your apartment.

It’s perfectly sized for one and you have everything where you can find it but you aren’t here and fuck if Touya isn’t having a bitch of a time finding a cutting board to chop up some vegetables for the dinner he planned on making you. 

“This place is so small…how the fuck…” he trails off as he pulls out another drawer, eyes widening as he finally finds the small plastic board he has watched you chop on a million times. 

It’s one of his favorite sights even though he plays it off. Even when he was still just sneaking through your window instead of unlocking the door with a key, he loved to watch your brow furrowed in concentration with each slit and cut. 

Digging in his pocket, he pulls out the recipe he saw in a magazine at the store and ripped off of the back page. Smartphones aren’t meant for a man involved in the things he gets into so he defaults to something a little old fashioned. Touya just hopes you find it endearing as he scans over the words, blinking as he reads over each of them.

“Chop vegetables, yeah whatever.” 

Scanning the page one last time before he places the recipe on the counter and takes a deep breath, he offers a sideways smile when you pad out of the bedroom towel drying your hair. The sight of Touya standing in your kitchen with a tea towel flung over his shoulder shouldn’t make your stomach flip the way that it does but here you are, with a silly grin on your face walking in his direction. 

“Cooking?” Your tone is incredulous and he scoffs, white t-shirt hanging off of his frame just enough you can see a peek of his shoulder blade and collarbone. It’s tantalizing and you’re tempted to touch and feel and do something else less dinner related but the prospect of him cooking for you is too intriguing to pass up. “Don’t act so surprised. Was on my own for a long time before I found you.”

He’s right and you soften slightly, leaning against him as he passes the slip of paper with the recipe in your direction. You read and he watches as the corner of your mouth lifts in a half smile, eagerly waiting for your eyes to meet his.

“Sounds good?”

You nod, nuzzling your head against his shoulder. 

“Sounds perfect, actually.”

With your blessing he begins digging through your drawers for a knife.

KENDALL. I AM GONNA CRYYYYYYY WHAT THE FUCK AJSJWJSKSJSKSJSKSJ u are an Angel I am kissing u square on the mouth are u KIDDING????? Aisjwjsksjjsks I’m gonna die I’m so in love with him what the fuck what the fuck it is so vivid. Him w the towel on his shoulder the collarbone peaking out of his t shirt oh god I have butterflies I am blushing and kicking my feet over this rn what the fuck!!!!! I will literally read it every day forever oh my god🥺🥺🥺I love u so much my angel this is everything to me<333333

[tinyufoboss]

Part 2 of my tomgreg read-thru-in-review-fic-rec-favs! Some of my favs from the first 100 fics on ao3 :) More info below the cut! And part 1 here <3

- is it the real thing, or just a one night stand by @wambsgangs

- contact is crisis by brandyalexanders2 / @cousingregfancam

- The Christmas House by theremin / @iamtheremin

- is it the real thing, or just a one night stand by @wambsgangs Frustrated after being stood up for a hang-out, Tom lowers his standards to Tinder levels, and drunkenly matches with Greg. M / 7k / Finished

okay this fic was already a fav, but i coincidentally came back to it after 3x07 and it REALLY hit. wambsgangs is a queen, you should read all her fics anyway, but the jealousy/repression/pining is so good here, and it's just a super fun ride. perfectly awkward and messy and the writing kicks ass. some of my other early favs of theirs are cross me once and let somebody love you (before it's too late)

- contact is crisis by brandyalexanders2 / @cousingregfancam Greg spent the night before Tom and Shiv's wedding with Dodds. It isn't until after the takedown with Kendall that he learns the truth about what happened to him that next night. M / 22k / WIP

the only fic to my knowledge that explores the canonical detail of greg seemingly staying over at andrew dodd's place in the season one finale eps, and it's so good, dude. this fic does drama so well; greg crashes and he crashes hard, and tom is reluctantly there to pick up some pieces. all of the stuff with dodds is perfectly integrated in such a fun, believable way. brandyalexanders' writing is particularly lovely (i like all their other shorter fics, but my fav is only in the movies) but this fic just has this perfect bittersweet push-pull between tom and greg that i adore. not finished, but totally worth the read!

- The Christmas House by theremin / @iamtheremin After the divorce, Tom ends up back in St. Paul looking at a fixer-upper with an odd legal clause attached. T / 18k / Finished

on the other end of the tone spectrum, and a seasonal fav! this fic is just INCREDIBLY satisfying, cute, fun. the makings of a perfect little christmas romcom. some super funny exchanges, a bunch of perfectly tropey fake dating style antics, a surprise visit from roman. i really enjoy the wambsgans in this fic. it's an absolute delight.

okay, there! I wish I could manage illustrations for so many more, but thank u to all the fic writers out there u are doing the lord's work <3

[fbdo1986]

I think your succession hc’s are really good and would love to hear more of them if u wanna talk abt ‘em !!

thank you hun!!! i appreciate that immensely :-) these are gonna be Mostly connor and kendall centered bc these two brothers in childhood live in my head and heart rent free <3 also bc im writing something w them rn (again) struck up by a concept a friend and i came up with which is that kendall writes connor letters while he’s in college :-) they have the occasional phone call but its easier for kenny to talk about whatever more openly in writing. anyway! onto the headcanons:

- i think that connor is told that roman is about to be born through kendall’s letters. unfortunately logan lacks all courtesy to tell his son like any other parent would, so con’s pretty much stunned because he ends up hearing about it through his literal ten year old brother’s letters. this causes him to call up his father immediately and leads to a rather heated argument between them. before leaving for school especially he was definitely one to try and keep peace and order at home but he’s very much overwhelmed with feelings about this and can’t stand not to let that out and ask his father what the hell is going on. (because this is the concept that my writing will focus on i don’t want to give much more than that tbh!)

- on the topic of roman, i think roman absolutely doesn’t know until after age six that connor is even his brother. it’s the fault of the fact that connor comes around pretty infrequently (because he’s in school and then working while roman is growing up/a young kid), but none of his siblings really let it go into adulthood, and still make fun of him for it. of course, this causes roman to retort at connor that “it’s not my fault you’re ancient”. i think kendall is very adamant about trying to teach roman that he’s his big brother because to kendall connor is so important to him!! but roman is a very unobservant kid and at a certain point he’s wasting his own time since he is getting absolutely nowhere with him. eight year old shiv really is just watching this unfold. she obviously knows the truth and finds it annoying that roman doesn’t but she stays out of this conflict bc even this young sometimes dealing w him makes her lose her mind. 

- that being said, although connor isn’t very present to what roman remembers growing up, at least while he’s still at school, connor makes it a point to visit as much as possible for kendall and shiv. he’s home at holidays, and makes an extra special point to come home for birthdays if he can manage it. he wouldn’t know what to do with himself if he missed ken’s ninth birthday, or shiv’s first birthday. (bonus: connor always is sure to bring kendall home something every time he comes home, even if it’s his own birthday). 

- i think that once connor is done school and has the option to live alone and get his own place he does so. this kinda becomes a place that’s like a second home to kendall shiv and roman, since they make it a point to go whenever they can around holidays/birthdays for a few days at a time if they can. they end up kinda forging their own traditions here (silly or otherwise) and it just means a lot to all of them even if they don’t say it that there’s a place where they can all just be together. connor has always wanted that for them and he’s honestly never been prouder of anything more than the fact that he can provide that for his siblings. 

- this is more a projection but i think that roman is physically disabled! i haven’t decided how yet but i think that kendall is very protective over roman when he’s little (i think logan is very quick to roughhouse when playing w his kids) and kendall gets scared that ro’s gonna get hurt. (i’m also this close to having kendall also be disabled bc i project onto him the most. only time will tell if i do this hehe)

- here are some funny ones that are more canon adjacent just because. i think that neither roman nor connor know how to use a stove. i think that if roman cooks something for himself he’ll die, and shiv is fucking mortified at the realization that he doesn’t know how to operate a stove. for connor i think he’s insane and decides that a stove is “so archaic” and instead has expensive kitchen gadgets that complicate the cooking process completely. he has like a really advanced crockpot he likes to use instead. kendall is also mortified by this concept because he likes to attempt to be a functioning dad and knows how to cook and barbecue for his kids. connor doesn’t see what all the fuss is about because what he uses works perfectly fine meanwhile kendall is like “dear lord how did you take care of me growing up.” when it comes to cooking i also think shiv finds tom’s expensive taste too snobby. she really would just like a fucking burger sometimes. also, i think that connor has classical music on blast in his apartment almost at all times because “it helps him focus” and it prompts kendall to ask him if he’s okay when he starts coming over and it’s always on. i really don’t think shiv listens to music tbh.