#Rai writes

[araived]

Fun animal companions :)

Naruto’s gonna bring healthcare and housing to Konoha through the power of friendship, just you watch.

You can check out the rest of SI Team Seven (aka Team Job Hunt)‘s adventures in my fic Yes, this is that ninja show

[maharlika]

emerges from an excruciating mental breakdown just to say: arranged marriage AU between byakuya (a kuchiki) and ichigo (a shiba)

pls imagine:

- a byakuya who is still grieving and is tossed into an ~advantageous arranged marriage due to his family's wishes. he thinks this has to be some kind of punishment for marrying hisana in the first place—to be forced into a loveless partnership with a man he barely knows

- an ichigo who has grown up half in the human world and half in soul society and has...interesting ideas about how things should be

- byakuya is cold and formal and is doing everything that is expected of him and ichigo sees this and sighs and takes him to the living world...there are movies, amusement parks, malls, libraries. museums. botanical gardens. carnivals, beaches. life. there is so much life.

- maybe they kiss about it!!!!

- the rukia thing happens and byakuya is byakuya about it and ichigo gets his ass and now byakuya has to fight and/or kill his husband. GREAT. he's not having a breakdown about it or whatever

okay good night i just love arranged marriage fics and the slow and unexpected melting of kuchiki byakuya's glacial heart 🥲

[raiswanson]

New WIP who dis

I will make no excuses for my tomfoolery. My fate in life is to perpetually seed WIPs which take years to sprout and even longer to harvest. Weird analogy aside I come bearing an excerpt from a fun little thing about a famed, fatigued hero who gets sent on a fairy tale quest with a really snarky witch ✨

(full 300~ word excerpt under the cut! Next excerpt [here])

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The markings on the cave walls did not belong to a drake.

“It isn’t too big, a warrior like you will have no trouble,” they’d said.

Eodenon’s furry ass it isn’t.

I scowled and ran my hand across the smooth, polished wall. The scales that had rubbed these grooves out belonged to a fully fledged dragon, not a mere drake. Perhaps not a fully grown dragon, if the size of the tunnel was anything to go by, but a dragon all the same. Significantly more dangerous than what I’d been contracted to handle. Were the people of the village fools, or simply cheap?

That had an obvious answer. They’d intended to short me. Wait for me to deal with the beast and then play ignorant, wring their hands and purses, and risk angering me to spare a few coins.

Ought to just leave the thing to eat them all.

Hands on my hips, I stepped back and contemplated turning around. I hadn’t gone too far inside the cave. It might not have noticed my intrusion yet. The cave was still silent and cool, and I’d seen no sign of life yet. I had time to retreat and reconsider the job.

A grumble from my stomach told me to advance anyway. No, if I went back to the village to try renegotiating my fee, the beast might notice it had had a visitor and take to the air, taking my pay with it. A shorted paycheck was better than one never received.

Scrubbing my face, I sighed and resumed creeping down the tunnel. At least, even if they planned to squabble with me over payment, I could still take the additional balance out of their pantries. I knew they had that to spare. The people of Eoden always did.

[blogfordantreacy]

I was tagged by @kittensittin in the WIP game forever ago and kept meaning to and forgetting to post something!

I am working on one (1) fic, and it’s postcards (iykyk). It’s taking FOREVER and honestly I’m not even sure it’s good anymore but here’s a little bit!

“Dear Ted,

I Googled pictures of Kansas at Christmas, just to visualize what you might see when you look out your window. I imagine you must be so pleased to spend the holiday with your little boy. I’m in Lithuania with my mum, which is just as zany and healing as it sounds. Honestly, when she proposed the trip, I wondered if she had brought you over to surprise me. That’s silly, I know, but this time of year makes me that much more hopeful.

Happy Christmas Ted,

Rebecca”

I’m tagging honestly whoever wants to go bc again I am deeply behind!

[dwhorrai]

I want to be inside you. Not in a sexual way, but literally. I want to cut from between your collarbones down to your naval. Peeling apart your skin and muscle. Opening you up and seeing the real, raw, you. I want to hide away inside of you, away from the outside world and the horrible things around us. I’ll stay close to your heart, holding it tight to tell you “I love you.”

[perfectfeelings]

Things I know about healing: Speaking kindly to yourself helps a lot.

Rebecca Ray

[syn4k]

the real reason it takes me so long to write my fics is because i have to render them first which takes a crazy amount of time and processing power. anyone who has ever used 3d modeling or video editing software understands

[mischievous-thunder]

Logan's drunken monologue after realising how hard he's fallen for Wade and there's no way but to surrender and let the power of love guide him

[penceykills]

My Chemical Romance live @ Saint Andrews Hall, Michigan // June 18, 2004

[divinit3a]

woa!! happy mermay!!! have some Fish Guys!!!

[araived]

Scene from chapter 3 of my fic Don't Read Porn on the Train! (And Other Rules by Sakura).

[maharlika]

mind plagued by thoughts of byaren sugar baby AU

renji has been secretly hooking up with his best friend's ridiculously hot and rich older brother for about six months now

byakuya is so casual with money that it makes renji want to throw up a bit, but aside from that the sex is incredible and the allowance byakuya sends him every month goes straight into a time deposit and makes him feel a lot less worried about dying via starvation or avoidable medical issues

it's good. it's great, even. the sex is mindblowing

so what if renji wants for a bit of aftercare? so what if he's starting to feel like a whore - for fuck's sake, he's even getting paid like one

he's an aspirational guy, renji. sometimes the aspiration is making his boyfriend (??) - benefactor (????) - byakuya - come three times in a row and get that glazed look in his eyes that says his brain has finally shut up

sometimes - and here's the rub - the aspiration is to be able to hold byakuya's hand in public

some things are way too out of reach for a guy like renji, he knows this. still - it doesn't hurt to dream

(plot twist: byakuya fully thinks that he and renji are boyfriends and he bought a ridiculously expensive engagement ring 3 months into this endeavor) (he keeps it in his office desk and opens the box whenever he feels like he wants to abandon his family and the company and move to a secluded island. with renji, of course. always with renji, these days)

[raiswanson]

Another Sorrelwood excerpt??

I'm having a lot of fun playing with this book. Planned to share another piece when I hit 15k but proceeded to reach it almost right after sharing the last one haha. See you for another one when I hit 20k!

(Full excerpt under the cut! Previous excerpt [here], next one [here])

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“What brings you to me, killer?” the dragon growled, voice low and savage. I felt it rumble beneath my feet. “Egg smasher. Butcher. You bring a reek of blood into my den.” She growled again, glowing eyes narrowing. “Monster.”

Not the only monster here, ma’am.

I kept my grip on EndClaw firm, but resisted the urge to raise it. “I think you know exactly what brings me,” I said, keeping my tone carefully neutral.

I may as well not have bothered, for all the good the effort did. She hissed like I’d hurled a javelin at her and rumbled the cave with more growling. “Food is scarce, growing ever scarcer. If the humans wish me to leave their fattened cattle alone, they ought to leave me more deer to hunt. I must eat. They know this.”

“Well perhaps you ought to be less of a glutton then, if you’ve already gobbled up half the forest. The village isn’t very pleased with the amount of game left to hunt either. They have to eat too,” I replied.

She hissed, tail thrashing and sending rocks sprinkling down over our heads. I eyed the ceiling warily as spread her wings in an empty threat display—she couldn’t fly or leap in these tight quarters. “What I took was no issue when there were ghouls on their doorsteps! I heard no cries over a foul dragon in their midst until I’d cleared the beasts and granted them peace! It is only now, when I am all that remains, that their eyes turn upon me.” Her eyes glinted in the trickling sunlight, icy in their fury. “Upon my hoard.”

It was a typical story, and not one I felt particularly sympathetic to. “Whatever deal you brokered with the people did not include you devouring their livestock. And my deal requires you gone,” I drawled.

[blogfordantreacy]

Ao3 Stats Meme

Thank youuu for tagging me, @kittensittin!

rules: give us the links to your fics with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and fewest words.

most hits: baby we can both get lost - 2,120 hits

most kudos: love you when my soul is good (i could be your darling) - 160 kudos

most comments: cold water - 34 comment threads

most bookmarks: love you when my soul is good - 25 total bookmarks

most words: cold water - 12,490 words, 3 chapters (in progress)

fewest words: the other ten - 297 words

Tagging: @thesumdancekid @chainofclovers @fandomfrolics and anyone else who’d like to share (absolutely no pressure)

[dwhorrai]

Will you like me if I get prettier?

[skyrigel]

— Sylvia Plath, the unbridged journals of Sylvia Plath