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[toudan]

Daydreaming

He knows you’ll always do your best to listen to him, but he prefers it this way. How else will he be able to get lost in you?

PAIRING.⠀Xia Yizhou | Caleb x Reader

CONTENT.⠀gender neutral reader | established relationship, fluff, nerd4nerd, Star Wars <3 | ~0,7k words

A/N.⠀I admit this is very very self-indulgent but I hope someone out there can enjoy it regardless :)

available on AO3 | reblogs and comments are always appreciated!!

Rambling about your interests is a regular occurrence, but you’ve been more withdrawn as of late.

You never need to explain to him—he knows you like the back of his hand. Stress from your health and studies, your insecurity getting the best of you; part of him blames himself for being so distant this week. Being the Colonel comes with a massive workload. Though Caleb is more than capable of finishing his tasks successfully and punctually, sometimes he’s needed in several places at once. You’ve been buried in work yourself, going to sleep even earlier because of tiredness.

There haven’t been many chances to spend time together lately, which is why he just had to grab this chance as soon as it became available.

A video on the television is paused in favour of you explaining it to him, moving your hands animatedly. Your eyes are practically twinkling as you chatter away. He’s still listening attentively (multiverses and portals, or something like that) but it’s hard trying not to get lost in how happy you look. He thinks it’s the most radiant you’ve appeared in days.

It’s in moments like these that Caleb falls a little more in love with you.

He lets out a quiet, dreamy sigh as he leans against the cushions. He’s tuning out the world around him, and the only voice he hears is yours. You’re smiling so wide and you’re glowing, exuding warmth and joy in waves. He snaps himself back to the present when you suddenly stop and stare at him with worry in your eyes, your brows furrowing in concern.

“Am I boring you?” you blurt out. The urge to flick your forehead for immediately jumping to such a negative conclusion is strong. He opts for affectionately ruffling your hair instead, resting his hand on the top of your head.

“Of course not. I’m still listening,” he says. He smiles mischievously. “Nerd.”

“I’m the nerd?” you gasp in exaggerated incredulity, swatting his hand away in retaliation. “You’re the one with a bunch of LEGO kits!”

“And I bought them because you wanted them,” he retorts, amused. “You wanted to build the Death Star together on Valentine’s day. Only nerds pick that over going to the mall.”

“It’s more fun because there’s nothing at the mall,” you grumble. “And you wanted the Millennium Falcon. You’re just as much of a nerd as I am.”

He chuckles. “Whatever you say, pipsqueak.”

“Caleb!”

You shove him while giggling, eyes crinkling into little curved moons. He feigns agony, clutching his shoulder and letting out a playful grunt. The action only makes you laugh harder and shove him again before slumping against him with a huff.

“I still can’t believe you actually like listening to me ramble,” you sigh once you’ve cooled down, peering up at him. “Don’t you get tired?”

“I like seeing you happy,” Caleb says simply. You turn your head away and bite back a smile, making his lips curl into a smile of his own. You’re so easily flustered over the smallest things. It’s endearing to him. “What?”

“You know I’d listen to you talk about planes too, right? Even if I don’t understand it?” you ask, returning your gaze to him. “I feel bad making you listen to my nonsense.”

He shrugs. “It’s not nonsense if it makes you happy.”

Wrapping his arm around your shoulders, he pulls you closer. You make yourself comfortable by his side, reaching out to lace your fingers together. You bring his hand up to your lips and press a chaste kiss on it, thumb rubbing soothing circles on his skin. He exhales slowly, filled with contentment. He knows you’ll always do your best to listen to him, but he prefers it this way. How else will he be able to get lost in you?

“So. Do you want to tell me about this character?”

You immediately light up and nod, clapping your hands together in excitement. As you begin your introduction, he finds himself staring at you again, tuning out the world around him except for you. He’s always happy to listen, but you’ll have to excuse him just this once—he’s falling in love with you all over again.

[anghraine]

I genuinely love "Arena" for the twist with the Gorn just trying to defend themselves against colonialism and Kirk ultimately refusing to kill any of the Gorn and deciding to open diplomatic communications instead.

But also, okay, there's this less consequential subplot because the architects of this whole human captain vs. Gorn captain combat situation claim they've supplied the raw materials for victory. But at first it doesn't seem like anything Kirk finds is remotely useful for combat—there are minerals and gemstones and such. As he's clearly losing, the architects are sympathetic to the bridge crew and like "you should probably prepare for grief, but we'll at least show you what's happening" and suddenly the bridge has a live feed of what's happening, but can't communicate in any way with Kirk.

Spock realizes that one of the rocks is encrusted with potassium nitrate and puts it together that the raw materials are actually components for ancient gunpowder. Kirk tastes the potassium nitrate and also realizes what the minerals are for, and promptly starts trying to build a sort of gun out of bamboo, sulfur, potassium nitrate, diamonds, and coal. On the bridge, McCoy and the others are just ??????????? but Spock is going "Yes...yes..." in a, uh, totally disinterested way, I'm sure. He then bothers to explain what Kirk is doing to the others while Kirk is trying to get the right mixture of the various components to create his impromptu chemistry project bamboo explosion gun.

Anyway, Spock being "look at him, he's so smart <3 he knows his chemistry even though this particular knowledge is irrelevant to his daily life... yes...yes..." while nobody else even understands what they're seeing may not be the most obvious shipping scene in TOS (nor probably even in the top 20 bc TOS is what it is). But the nerd4nerd energy is very strong, lol.

[rvstyartstar]

♡ William Dalton x miss Betty hcs!!

im cooking for the 3 WillBetty shippers (myself included)

•they're soo nerd4nerd coded to me.

•theyre BOTH corny at flirting using lines from romance books i just know it.

•william fell first because for one, hes a helpless romantic and finally has someone he can share his love for reading with without being judged.

•he'd purposely try to look as knowledgeable as possible when she's around to get her attention, he doesn't know it's actually working.

•William has tried to tell Betty how much he love her in words. But he knows he's unable to, so he just enjoys the little time they spend together when he can.

•betty genuinely loves William while reading it's just cozy to her.

•they both listens to eachothers sentiments of the books they're reading.

•william has once fallen asleep in Betty's lap and betty would have a conversation with someone else while stroking William's hair as if he was a sleeping cat.

• Averell was surprisingly the first to notice his brother's crush on the assistant and decided to make himself their wingman.

• the others later to catch up, jack before joe(because Joe's too busy trying to escape duhh) but they'd tease the hell out of him for it.

• they both get jealous easily when the other would get touchy or somewhat flirty with another person (Don't look at me the Dalton/LL series implase that)

•before bedtime William would always excuse himself to go to bathroom just to meet up with miss Betty,they'd held on to eachother in a tight embrace enjoying the warmth that it brings, knowing that even though the love is mutual it'll probably bring one of them down in end, they'd kiss and say their goodnights and both will be on their track again.

•jk y'all, when Averell tells ma about this she makes it her mission to set up the two together in a date outside the prison but the plan is still in work shhhh...

+ also a scenario me and my friend made is that; Peabody is trying to get the brothers escape plans from their youngest through miss Betty since she and him have a somewhat friendship going on.

"Well the secret's ain't mine but it does include one my brothers"

"Oh really? I mean you obviously you shouldn't go around telling others about your brothers business buuttttt since we're besties i don't see why not you-"

"William got a crush on you"

Miss Betty who's now a blushing mess"Come again?"

[thisonelikesaliens]

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This was the first year I got back into fandom again so I was curious. I sure rambled a lot.

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[losergendered]

ID: a set of 6 images in 3 pairs. each has one image of the listed character, with a white outline in front of their corresponding flags, and a second image which is a blank flag splice. END ID

Ash Williams from Evil Dead is a hypersexual boycrazy bisexual boytoy dogboygender chainsawic himbo trans man with NPD, autism and low empathy!

Herbert West from Re-Animator is an acespec demiromantic nerd4nerd evil gay gayfreak vilegender genderscientist gorething goremedle bloodysyringeic autifreak with ADHD, autism and no empathy! He has a special interest in human anatomy, chemistry and neuroscience!

Dan Cain is a bisexual hyperromantic prettyboygender loverboyprotag doctorian twunk with autism and very high empathy!

They are all in a polyam triad and in love!

For @rabidbatboy !

[localcryptic]

tal/eden and mortum if u wanna?

oh you know i wanna (heehee thanks for asking)

tal and mortum get along so well. except tal only ever speaks to her as eden. and only has the confidence to act the way they do around her when they are wearing eden's face. and tal has come to see eden as a completely separate person from themselves. so i have to constantly remind myself that this is, in fact, a ship that still contains tal, and not a completely different character <3

the "mixed feelings" box is them about each other dhdjb i think neither of them know where to go with this thing they have going on between them. tal genuinely likes mortum and feels guilty when they realize just how far things have gone between her and the puppet. torn between caring about her so they want to keep up everything going on between her and eden to not break her heart, and caring about her so they know they have to rip the bandaid off at some point.

tal would hold no ill will towards mortum. and mortum totally deserves to kill them for it 🫶 if the circumstances weren't so complicated and fucked up they'd be so good for each other. nerd4nerd t4t scientist4experimental specimen. they have the same fundamental curiosities. the parts of eden that mortum likes most are all just tal in shinier packaging.

(psst. you reading this. send asks. if you wanna)

[kingofdorkville]

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masters and i have the same brand of autism. i really thought she was cute! this ship was nerd4nerd, autistic4autistic and gay as hell. not much lore though. this ship is defunct.

mike and chase. we're married. we met in s2 of house. we have the same brand of trauma. I've shipped with him since i was little. we have an office romance thing going on. we were made for each other.

[thateclecticbitch]

My crush just asked for my phone number afhjdjekckwlgns!!!!

[usernameproxy]

i made Joan Church talksprites! Providence (act 1) version, Grimd'arc version, and godtier version! (knight of hope) more propaganda is in the tags :3

Vote for Joan Church in @original-character-championship!

[dathen]

I want them to do a podcast together I want them to do Buzzfeed Unsolved together

Mina’s excitement about the ruin of Whitby Abbey being haunted delights me so much, but especially for imagining the dynamic with Jonathan.

Jonathan: Just imagine all the gentle ladies that once lived in these halls, singing and laughing with their gentle merry hearts…

Mina: And perhaps their ghosts still wander these crumbling halls to this day!!

[welcometogrouchland]

ok a curveball: manny/camila or caleb/evelyn

"curveball" both these couples are canonically married anon /j

Jokes aside BOTH OF THESE SLAP AND ARE HIGHLY UNDERRATED, ESPECIALLY MANNY AND CAMILA!

A for Caleb and Manny: Like, Camila and Manny's nerd4nerd romance is so sweet, so highschool romcom-esque, it's so incredibly fluffy, until you remember that Manny fucking died. Of a terminal illness. And like. You can tell how much Camila loves him by the way his things still litter the house. They are so incredibly sweet and sad to me and tbh as much as I joke about other ships w/ Camila (hiiiii darimila <3) realistically, I know that she is never really going to get over Manny. Not in an unhealthy way, just. He was her first and only love, and the joy he brought to her life is something that only Luz can even come close to replicating (Luz brings joy into her life in a similar but distinct and unique way, btw)

And Caleb and Evelyn...OUGH CALEB AND EVELYN

A+ and they only score higher bc of the weeks following and leading up to thanks to them where I was physically incapable of being normal about them. It was fucked up they had a GRIP on me

I'm much more settled about them now and I'd say that currently they leave me torn. Not on what we actually know- the tragedy of their relationship, the idea that they both represented a form of freedom to the other with their shared cardinal motifs, the way they've massively impacted the narrative and the lives of everyone in it and yet most of the world will never know their names, and yet you wonder if they'd be content with that so long as the couples and heroes of the modern era can be free and happy in a way they never got to be- that's all spectacular. Rich with potential and depth.

It's about what we don't know and whether or not I even want it explored in canon. On the one hand, yes, obviously, I want spin-offs and post-hoots dedicated to unlocking their past and telling us everything about them as people and their dynamic with each other.

On the other hand, I almost prefer the autonomy over their story that the fans have gotten. We don't have the constraints and considerations of the crew so we get to run buckwild! Personally I love the idea of Caleb and Evelyn meeting under false pretences, I love some lies and betrayals and some drama and then some making up and living together and oops! They're boning now! And oops! He's dead now. Literally this is riveting to me.

But the crew only has so many minutes to tell this story in, and has age ratings and audiences to consider. They probably wouldn't be able to give it the nuance and horror it deserves. So I think, in the end, as much as I wanna know what Dana thinks went down, I'm also content to keep exploring them in a mostly fannish context <3

Sorry the witteclaw section is so much bigger than the Nocedas section, they just have a lot more ambiguity to mine. I'll end this by saying though that I would actually sell my soul for on screen Manny content, in any sort of capacity. I NEED to know how he paralleled Luz, and maybe even Eda, how he kept that bright cheery smile we always see him with despite the undoubted hardship and pain he was going through, how proud he'd be of how far Luz and Camila have both come, how happy he'd be at the idea that his families grown with the addition of vee and maybe even hunter, how glad he'd be that his daughter and wife never lost their spark. I have to stop now or else I Will Cry

[pommy-granite]

i looove harrow&palamedes' friendship <3 they are nerd4nerd bestfriends. she doesn't even like him. he saw this extremely angry goth skeleton girl be Smart and said yeah okay thats gonna be my new little friend :) and then she was. also hilarious how batshit crazy Harrow is throughout the entire thing whereas Pal is one of the most well adjusted characters of all time. the epitome of Normal Guy. when faced with a death she lobotomized herself and he sealed his soul into his bones like a normal person. made for each other.

[badgerfrogs]

i don’t have many followers on this blog to answer but if i wrote a zukka au featuring the following, how interested would people be?

- autistic zuko/adhd sokka (i’m on the spectrum and i’d have to do some more research about writing adhd characters but i think there should be more fics with neurodivergent zukka)

- trans zuko (i’m not trans but i’d be sure to research & read about trans experiences & write about zuko being trans respectfully)

- zuko abolishes the fire nation monarchy and moves to the south pole as an ambassador and to be with his friends and with sokka, who’s working as an engineer and co-chief-in-training in the southern water tribe

- !!!!chief-in-training katara!!!! she and sokka split the role so that sokka can do his engineering work & train in the arts and katara can dedicate some of her time to traveling with aang (this co-chief thing also results in plenty of sibling snipery and banter)

- homoerotic sparring practice

- nerd4nerd zukka

- sokka with chronic pain from his leg injury

- plenty of southern water tribe worldbuilding

- it would contain very little conflict/no actually dangerous stakes for characters & relationships because i like writing fluff, if anything it’d be low-stakes drama

- it would probably be mostly one-shots too but in a series, i’m not much one for longfics since im a writing major which takes most of my creative energy and i write fics mostly for fun

- zukka pranks and fun

- white lotus member and cultural liaison to the southern water tribe sokka

- plenty of vacations and the gaang healing from cptsd/the effects of growing up in war

- writer/poet zuko

- katara and zuko sleepovers (they’re like “me and the bestie<3” but they actually are just besties)

- katara loving zuko and sokka but kind of hating zukka at first because she doesn’t want to think about her brother and her best friend kissing (among other things)

- perhaps some love letters?

- reparations and decolonization from the fire nation with the help of zuko

- zuko righting his nation’s wrongs while also not shouldering the burden all alone and getting to heal as well

- zukka sneaking around like teenagers in love

- bakoda (ft. trans bato), mailee, and possibly pianjeong and maybe yueki (i’d have to figure out how to fit it into the canon universe) would certainly make appearances as well, along with the rest of the gaang

- sokka and katara’s family loving zuko and considering him family too

- disgustingly in love zukka

- zuko’s complete and utter inability to lie

- sokka and aang’s brotherhood

- sailing trips and campfires and life in the southern water tribe

- zuko’s little sister kiyi visiting!!

- sokka’s grandpa energy and pai sho mastery

- druk... but in the southern water tribe

- hawky

- jin’s return ft. song

- human heat pack zuko

- southern water tribe kids and communal family!

- sokka’s eternal battle against the spirits

- zuko crying out of happiness when the fire nation trade ships come and he can eat fire flakes again

- zuko and aang competing to be the best sons-in-law

- zuko and sokka’s debilitatingly intense baby fever

- baby izumi in the southern water tribe later on!!! baby izumi & southern water tribe culture!!!

- healthy, supportive relationships and friendships filled with compassion and kindness

- and more!

[thateclecticbitch]

Update: I think we might be going on a group date situation with our other friends, maybe. Also, he is AuDHD too no wonder lol.

My crush just asked for my phone number afhjdjekckwlgns!!!!