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And for the first time in all my life I know I'm more than what I fear - When Mara, Princess of Sodden, is exiled from her own country, she becomes the ward of Queen Calanthe of Cyntra, and the best friend of princess Cirilla of Cyntra. As the years go by, they get closer. But when Nilfgaard invades, Cyntra falls, and everything changes. - This fic is heavily inspired by Patroclus and Achilles’s relationship from Song of Achilles. Mara is an original character, who’s life is modeled after Patroclus. Though the story will still follow canon. (Plus some little things I add for SOA parallels or just cause I think the story needs it).
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Quotes from the fic below the cut:
”I don’t remember much of my early childhood. But I remember vividly the day it all changed.”
“She gave him laughs and smiles that I was sure were only ever awarded to me.”
“I vaguely remembered him, like one of those faces from a childhood that had been long since forgotten.”
“A spark of hope lit up in my heart. If I could find the Witcher, I could find my friend.”
““When you see Geralt… fuck I don’t know, just go kiss your princess.””
““However, one of the few things the law cannot control, cannot rule over… is blood.””
“Only those of his bloodline may hone its power.”
#ft Geralt being a protective dad#This is my first time promoting a fic on tumblr#So I don’t know I hope y’all like it#the witcher#the Witcher fanfic#the Witcher fanfiction#Ciri x original female character#cirilla of cintra#yennefer of vengerberg#jaskier#dandelion#geralt of rivia#geraskier#if you squint#fanfiction#ao3
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Chapters: 5/? Fandom: The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dark Link (Linked Universe) & Linked Universe Links | The Chain Characters: Dark Link (Linked Universe), Sky (Linked Universe), Four (Linked Universe), Time (Linked Universe), Warriors (Linked Universe), Wild (Linked Universe), Wind (Linked Universe), Hyrule (Linked Universe), Legend (Linked Universe), Twilight (Linked Universe), ghirahim and cia are there but only for the first chapter so it doesn't really count Additional Tags: Dark Link-centric (Linked Universe), Found Family, eventually, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Psychological Trauma, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Linked Universe (Legend of Zelda), it's a lot more light hearted than it sounds i promise, Shapeshifter Dark Link (Linked Universe), I will make that a tag, Fluff, Healing Summary:
”Dark Link.”
Ghirahim.
“If you escape, it’ll be treated as a case of treason. Do you understand?”
They both knew what treason meant. It meant being killed.
“I can’t die.”
The look on Ghirahim’s face was nothing short of ghastly.
“We’ll make you wish you could.”
Or; Dark is kept in a small, empty room for hours at a time as punishment whenever he fails to kill the heroes. It does more damage than he realises, and, when a foiled escape plan somehow leads to Dark ending up among the chain... Maybe he can start to heal.
#linked universe#this is my first time trying to promote a fic on tumblr i dont really know what im doing#but this is what the ao3 link to tumblr came up with so#im trusting it#ive already updated quite a few times so theres like 30k words to get through for any newcomes#if you like dark link or like the 'villain gets adopted into hero family' tropes you might like this#feedback is always appreciated <3
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This crackfic for The Mars House came to me in the night like the Ghost of Christmas Past and I had no choice but to write it. Merry Christmas to January and Gale
#The Mars House#January Stirling#River Gale#fic#i'm sorry#boxing day is still Christmas it still counts#this is my first time promoting my own fic on tumblr and i feel a bit embarrassed about it haha
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CaitVi fic rec!
Alone In The Ring: Act 1
Vi Vanderson, a small-time boxer from the undercity of Zaun, is arbitrarily chosen to take on the reigning world champion, Mel Medarda, when the undefeated fighter's scheduled opponent is injured. While training with her siblings and adoptive father, Vi tentatively begins a relationship with Caitylyn Talis, a Piltie on the run seeking refuge in Zaun.
Alone In The Ring: Act 2
Following on from Act 1 Vi accepts the opportunity of a lifetime, to fight Piltover Boxing Champ Mel Medarda for her belt come Progress Day. The problem? Progress day is only a few weeks away and Vi has little time to get in shape.
Cue the training montage...
by TransmissionStatic on Ao3 and Bsky
why do i recommend this fic? it's dope, that's why!
Vi as Rocky? Cait as Adrian? (disaster) Jayce as Paulie? Powder as a little shit? smut and training montages? Warwick the dog? it's fun! go read it!
Act 3 is the fight and it's coming soon! There's also some great art attached that i'm not posting here bc i have the blessing of the writer but not the artist to come around tumblr peddling this fic.
#arcane#caitvi#fic rec#alone in the ring#rocky#sports au#boxing au#writer ain't on tumblr but we chat on bsky and i like this fic so much i asked if i could promote it here#and they said yes#and so i am#a fun and sexy read that'll make you wanna watch Rocky 1976 again for the first time since you were a kid and caught it on TNT#powder arcane#jayce talis#not my fic
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Chapters: 15/? Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ahsoka Tano & Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker & Ahsoka Tano Characters: Ahsoka Tano, Anakin Skywalker | Darth Vader Additional Tags: Human Disaster Anakin Skywalker, Darth Vader Redemption, Eventually he’s got a way to go, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Ahsoka Tano Needs a Hug, Vader needs a reality check and a therapist, Eventual father daughter relationship, Which used to be a brother sister relationship, So it’s complicated, Palpatine is the worst, More tags will be added as I figure out what I’m doing lol, Canon-Typical Violence, because Vader will be Vader, Mentioned Padmé Amidala, Jedi as Found Family (Star Wars), because they were Ahsoka's family and she's sad now, Angst, It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better Summary:
It’s a few months into the Clone Wars and Ahsoka’s apprenticeship to Anakin Skywalker. They've just won the second battle of Geonosis. They’re getting a rare leave to the Jedi Temple. Everything is fine. But when Ahsoka goes to sleep that night she wakes up to a living nightmare, thrust into a terrible future with a strange Sith Lord called Darth Vader who seems to want her alive for reasons unknown.
#star wars fanfiction#ahsoka tano#darth vader#time travel#star wars fic recs#shameless self promotion lol#mywriting#i never realized how easy it was to link ao3 fics to tumblr lol#so i thought i'd link this one too since I never did despite writing it for like over 2 years now lol#hoping to update this again soon#sometime this month#but here it is#my first star wars fanfic that started it all
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for years or for hours
spending the night at spencer's apartment for the first time, and he's more than a little obsessed with you
a/n: my obsession w early seasons!spencer strikes again!!!! i saw an edit of train episode spencer when i was drunk the other day and wrote half of this. he fucks guysss i swear he fucks
cw: shy!reader, fem!reader, smut mdni, fingering, praise, spencer is confident like v v confident, handjob, unprotected piv
wc: 3.7k
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(reblogs are the only way to promote fics on tumblr! please reblog if you enjoyed it :) )
Spencer’s quickly got you expecting contradictions. From the sight of him, lanky and awkward-seeming, you’d never expected anything of the sort that you’ve seen.
When he asked you out, subtle and slightly cocky in his charm. When he’d swooped down to kiss your cheek when you’d met him at the restaurant. When he kissed you on the sidewalk, mouth warm and all-consuming.
His apartment isn’t a surprise, thank goodness. You’re nervous enough as is, spending the evening at his for the first time. It might have done you in if it was too far off from your expectations.
No, the cozy warmth of his domicile is just right for you, and you feel more than comfortable curling up on the sofa waiting for him to return from the kitchen.
It’s another astonishment when he sits down next to you, smile soft as he pulls you into his side with an arm around your shoulder, cool as can be. You’re not complaining, of course. Not even as you duck your head to hide the flush that’s crept up on your cheeks.
You’d gotten used to it, you thought. To expect the incongruity between his outward-facing persona and his true actions.
Apparently not, though. Not when you gasp when his index finger crooks under your chin, guiding your face up towards his.
His eyes dance as he looks down at you, a level of devotion that you feel just as vividly, no matter how early it is to feel this way.
“I was wondering if you could tell me what you want tonight,” His voice is low, melodic as it floats into the limited space between the two of you, “so we both know what we’re prepared for.”
Your words get stuck behind your molars, only a squeak leaving your lips when his thumb swipes over the curve of your jaw. His resultant smile is indulgent, even as he prompts you again.
“I really want to hear you say it for me, please.”
His cupid’s bow is really defined, you think stupidly. It’s so distinct and sharp, you can’t help but want to kiss it. But he won’t let up, you know that.
It’s not that you don’t want to sleep with him. You’ve wanted to since you met him, and more every day that you got to know him. You spent nearly an hour in the shower before coming to his apartment just for that reason. But wanting it and saying out loud are two different things.
Your voice is low when it finally comes, a whisper under your breath.
“You know I want you, Spencer.”
His smile is tender, spreading wider across his face as he leans closer to you.
“What is it you want?”
“Spence…”
“All you’ve got to do is explain to me. I just want to know what you’re okay with doing tonight,” He croons, as if he doesn’t know, the bastard.
It takes a few more moments of silence, his thumb brushing over your skin steadily.
“I want to sleep with you.”
There’s an agonizing beat of stillness, but he makes up for it swiftly when he descends on you. That cupid’s bow melds perfectly against you, the softness of his lips sending giddy sparks up to your brain.
He’s muttering against your lips, but your brain’s too fuzzy to register more than a few words at a time, what with his fingers gripping your chin, and the other hand descending to your hip. Soft compliments and musings spill into your mouth, entreating you to come closer, kneeling on the sofa cushion just to be able to lean over him.
He pulls back at your movements, letting out an amused chuckle.
“You want to get closer?”
He leans back against the couch, spreading his legs slightly, causing his slacks to tighten around his thighs in a way that has you salivating. His hands returning to your hips, he looks up at you with that smile that makes you shiver.
“Come here, pretty girl.”
The nickname sends a shudder through you, but not even that could keep you back.
Despite your flush, you let him guide you into his lap, your hands awkwardly hanging by your sides.
His hands come up to brush against your knuckles, causing you to delight in the feeling of his calloused palm. He continues to move, skimming over your wrist, to your arm. The touch goes to your shoulder, the curve of your neck, and settles on your face, cupping your jaw in two impossibly large hands.
Drawing you to him, your foreheads touch. A sigh leaves your lips, wanting desperately to feel him kiss you again.
“Spencer…”
His mouth quirks up at one side, his left thumb rubbing circles into your cheek.
“Don’t have to ask me for it. You can take whatever you want, I’ll go willingly. Okay?”
You don’t bother responding, the feeling of his hands on you overwhelming your senses until it’s all you can do to lean in, pressing your front to his. Kissing him again, you can’t help but push closer, your lips parting against his.
Your mind floats away as he delves into your mouth, sounds muffled by his lips on yours. It could’ve been minutes, or hours, but you can’t bring yourself to wonder. Not when his lips are so soft, when you can slowly rock yourself on his lap.
Your movements force him to part from your lips, groaning. Slipping his hands down to your hips again, he urges you to rise off his lap, standing with you. Even as you both stand, his breath continues to mingle with yours, as if he can’t be enticed to part from you. He doesn’t even move to speak, his words tumbling straight into your mouth.
“Can’t— can’t do this here. My bedroom, okay?”
A whine leaves your mouth, but you nod desperately, letting him walk you backwards towards his bedroom. Despite your unwillingness to move your mouth from his, you can’t stop yourself from stepping back, gazing around his room with insatiable curiosity.
It’s exactly what you’d expect from looking at him. Neat, but slightly unkempt, with lining every available shelf, and even some stacked in towers on the floor.
As you turn around, eyes roving over every inch of the room, you jolt at the feeling of arms wrapping around you from behind. Warm breath hits your ear, causing you to shiver, then relax back into his chest.
“I’m glad you’re so interested in my home, but can I give you a tour later? There’s something else I’d much rather be doing with you right now.”
You let out a breathless giggle, nodding and turning in his arms, curving your own arms around his neck. A smile breaks out over his face, dipping down to press a slow, sipping kiss to your lips before directing you over to his bed.
Falling on your back on his bed, you revel in the softness of his sheets. Stroking the duvet absentmindedly, the smell of Spencer is even more concentrated here. His characteristically complex scent surrounds you, notes of citrus, old paper, and something unmistakably him.
It elicits another laugh from the back of your throat, causing him to look down at you with a quirked brow. He descends on you, crawling up the mattress until he’s hovering over you with an amused look on his face.
“What’s so funny?”
Despite the giggles still bubbling up in your throat, the sight of him above you has them halting immediately.
“Just excited, I guess. A little nervous.”
The dark pools of his eyes seem to deepen further, a swirling haze of browns that suck you in.
“I’m excited too. And a bit nervous, I suppose. But, I’ve got to tell you, I’ve been wanting to have you here for a while, in my bed.”
And there he goes again, saying something that sends a shiver of desire and heat down your spine, forcing blood to rush to your cheeks.
Without even trying to come up with a response, you lean up instead, capturing his lips with yours again. That works wonders in shutting his nerve-inducing declarations up, his hand coming down to grip your hip firmly.
You both get lost in it, lips moving steadily against each other for an indeterminate amount of time. Your brain only returns to you when you feel his fingers dip beneath the waistband of your pants.
He pulls away, looking in your eyes for any protest. Instead, you lean up for one more peck, before holding his wrist and encouraging him to descend further. He lets out a shuddering breath, his calloused fingertips tracing the skin right over your hipbone.
“Can I take this off?”
His voice comes out in a murmur, only audible because there are scant centimetres between your faces. Desperate, you nod quickly, mumbling your assent.
“Yeah, Spence, I want it off.”
He smiles, kissing you one last time before clambering off you, kneeling between your legs. He helps you eagerly, his fingers fumbling with pulling your pants off you. The moment you’re rid of the article of clothing, he wastes no time in climbing over you again, his hand returning immediately to your hip.
He seems to be focusing solely on touching you, his eyes angled down at where his hand touches your skin. Suddenly you wish you’d bothered to wear nicer underwear, anything better than the slightly ratty pair of red panties that surely don’t match your bra, but he doesn’t seem to mind in the slightest.
Brushing his fingers over the front of your panties, he lets out a groan, dropping his forehead to your collarbone. Slowly, slowly, he dips down further, tracing over the small wet patch that’s been forming since he kissed you the first time tonight. You can feel his lips curve into a smile against your skin at this discovery, and you can’t help but beat him to the punch.
“Don’t laugh, Spencer, please?”
“Why would I tease you? You’re all ready for me, I’m so glad.”
His words are placating, but you can hear the satisfaction in his tone.
His fingers haven’t ceased their movements, tracing slow circles over the gusset of your panties as you squirm under him.
He lets you whine a little longer, before retracting his hand, chuckling at the resultant yelp of protest.
“You’re all wet for me?”
You nod frantically, lifting your hips in an effort to tempt him into ridding you of your panties.
“Yeah, Spence…”
He nods in satisfaction, finally giving in and dragging the fabric down your legs. Once he’s set them aside carefully, he drags his palm up and down your inner thigh, kneading at the plush flesh there. Slowly moving higher, higher, he makes you wait until his knuckles brush against the bump of your pussy, making both of you suck in sharp breaths.
His eyes flick up to you, fingers gliding up and down over the seam of you, watching your face contort with the too-little pleasure. After watching you for a beat longer, he swipes up your slick with one lithe finger, positioning it at your entrance.
Pressing his forehead against you, he hums softly, kissing the apples of your cheeks as he slowly presses his middle finger into you. The feeling is overwhelming, the slight stretch of his finger causing you to arch your back, pressing your chest into his.
He grins, swallowing your moans with a crushing kiss. Slowly speeding up his movements, he brings his thumb up to cover your clit, swiping slow circles over the sensitive spot.
Finally, he interrupts the silence, words tumbling out of his mouth as if he’d been holding them back with great difficulty.
“So tight, angel. Does that feel good?”
You can only moan in answer, struggling to keep your eyes open as he slides in another finger.
“That’s it, there you go. Can’t wait to see you when you cum, you going to cum for me?”
His hair has fallen over his forehead, looking down at you with his pupils dilated.
Speeding up his ministrations on your clit, he makes you squirm again, watching with delight as you grind your hips down against his hand. The slow-building tension within you rises, each movement of his fingers and your hips bringing you closer and closer, until you have to grip his wrist in both of your hands, throwing your head back.
He leans down, mouthing at the now-exposed column of your throat, his words vibrating against your skin.
“Come on, angel, want to see you fall apart, you can do it. Wanted to see you like this for so long, so pretty and pliant for me. You’re going to let me keep touching you, huh? As long as I want? So that I— oh, good girl!— so— so that I can see you fall apart for me?”
He’s so preoccupied with rambling that even you reaching your climax in the middle of his sentence doesn’t stop him, but his hands show you all the appreciation you need. Along with his fervent praise, his right hand continues to thrust within you, allowing you to ride out your high. His left hand has snaked up your shirt, thumb swiping at the skin right below the underwire of your bra.
It’s only once you whine in overstimulation, pushing his hand away from your cunt, that he pulls away, although he never stops his caresses to your torso. Leaning in to dot kisses on your lips, he continues to mumble.
“Did so good for me, angel, thank you. Did that feel good?”
Chest heaving with the aftershocks, you gaze up at him with stars in your eyes, nodding.
“Felt really good, Spencer. I didn’t— didn’t expect…”
You trail off, unsure of how to explain why you’re so overwhelmed, but he understands, moving off of you to lay on his back next to you.
“I know. I don’t exactly think I was expecting for this to happen tonight either… But it was okay?”
You can’t help but grin at the contrast between his previous confidence and the hesitance he exhibits now. Shifting to lay half on top of him, you prop your chin up on his chest.
“It was more than okay, Spence,”
Without thinking about it, your hand drifts to his lower stomach, trailing down his clothed skin to the waistband of his own pants.
“Do you want to… keep going?”
Your voice comes out soft, still a little flustered by your own forwardness, but you still stare up at him, hoping he’ll say yes.
At the feeling of your fingers stroking his waistband, he throws his head back with a sigh, staring up at the ceiling. You can’t stop yourself from laughing, shaking your head at him.
After a moment, he looks back down, his hand coming down to rest on your back. His breathing is slightly shaky, but his voice remains solid.
“If you want to, sweetheart. Okay?”
Another wave of infatuation rocks through your body, smiling up at him once more. Moving your hand away from his pants, you drag your palm up his torso.
“Can we take this off, please?”
His smile gains a wicked tinge to it, his hand moving in circles against your back.
“Only if you do too.”
You assent readily, kneeling on the mattress in order to pull off your shirt and bra eagerly, leaving you completely bare. Although you’d normally be embarrassed, you don’t seem to find a moment to be shy, not when he’s shirtless on the bed in front of you.
Spencer smiles up at you, the smile he uses when he knows he’s got someone cornered in an argument, the one he uses when he’s sure he’ll be able to beat you in chess.
“Come here, sweetheart.”
He reaches out to hold you by the waist, dragging you over to lay at his side again. His arm holding you to him, he grabs your hand, laying it on the warm skin of his chest.
“You can touch me angel, go ahead.”
Biting your lip, you slowly move your fingers over his skin, leaning forward to press a tentative kiss to his chest. He squeezes your waist affectionately, sucking in a harsh breath when your hand trails down to his waistband again.
Slipping your hand under his pants and underwear, you brush your fingertips against the heated skin of his cock, gasping just as he does. Looking up to him, you see him squeeze his eyes shut.
Your confidence grows, dipping even lower in order to wrap your fingers loosely around his shaft. A breathy moan leaves him, sending shivers down your spine.
An experimental tug gets him throwing his head back in pleasure, groans tumbling from his lips.
All of a sudden you can’t take the barrier between you, pulling your hand out of his pants and tugging his pants and boxers down clumsily. He laughs a little, helping you out with a shaky hand until he can kick the fabric off his ankles.
Before you can second-guess yourself, you reach out again, wrapping your fingers around his cock again. Slowly moving your hand up and down, you watch him begin to pant softly. Only once you’ve gotten into a rhythm do you allow yourself to look down, the sight causing you to clench your thighs together.
It’s like the rest of him, long and surprisingly thick, with a curve to it that has your cunt feeling more empty than ever. You can’t help but squirm, pressing your front further into his side.
Even with your efforts to stay composed, nothing gets past Spencer. In between grunts and breathy moans, he still manages to tease you slightly.
“What do you think, angel? Want to keep going like this, or do you want me to make us both feel good?”
His words have you shifting against him, wetness pooling within you again.
At your nod, he slowly peels your hand away from his cock, pressing at your shoulder to lay you back against the bed again.
With a breath stuck in your throat, you watch as he kneels between your parted legs, hand stroking at your hip. With his other hand holding the base of his cock, he leans forward, swiping his head through the accumulated slick pooling at your entrance.
Both of you hiss at the sensation, your hand coming up to cup his cheek.
With his eyes locked onto yours, he slowly pushes forward, letting you feel the stretch. Kissing your palm, he watches you intently, ready to stop at any hint of discomfort. However, although it’s a bit of a struggle, the pain-mixed-pleasure quickly becomes overwhelming bliss.
He continues to push in until his pelvis is flush with yours, falling forward with a hand on the sheets next to you. Leaning in to place a crushing kiss on your lips, he murmurs against you as he begins to rock his hips.
“Pretty— pretty girl, you feel so good. So good for me, sweetheart, so tight,”
He pants into your mouth, thrusting slow and deep. Every time he presses into your fluttering cunt, his pelvis grinding against your swollen clit, neither of you can keep quiet.
He can’t help but speed up, gripping one of your thighs and hiking it up around his waist, allowing him to sink that much deeper. You’re captivated, both by the sensations of him, and the sight of him. His lips are parted, eyes dark and lidded as he gazes down at you, face overcome with both affection and lust.
It’s not long until you start feeling it again, that unknowable, intangible pleasure that goes straight to your head, legs beginning to tremble. Trying to warn him, you raise a hand to grip at his shoulder, nails digging into the skin there.
“Spencer… Feels so good, think m’gonna—”
Your mouth tips open on a soundless moan, back arching off his duvet.
“I know, angel. Getting close again?”
One of his hands snakes down between your bodies, tracing maddening circles over your clit. The stimulation is just enough, just what you need to get you there, feeling the pleasure shoot through your veins.
It takes one, two, three more movements of his hips, and you fall apart, a low, keening moan ripping itself from your throat. Spencer hums, muttering praises down at you until you tip over into overstimulation.
“That’s it, sweetheart. Fuck— so tight, you feel so good. You’re going to make me cum, sweetheart, can I— can I, on your stomach?”
His hand comes up to knead at the softness of your stomach, staring into your eyes.
At your gasped-out yes, he pulls out of you with a groan, tugging at his cock a few more times until he cums with a low groan, marking your skin with his release. Once he’s just as spent as you are, he collapses at your side, arm sliding under your shoulders to pull you closer, as if he’s loathed to be parted from you.
The room is silent for a few minutes, the soft sounds of the city punctuated by the heavy breathing coming from both of you.
Only once your breathing evens out, he leans over, dotting kisses in your hairline.
“Felt so good, angel. How are you feeling?”
You smile hazily, resting your head on his shoulder.
“Really good. A bit… sticky.”
Both of you become increasingly aware of the cooling mix of fluids on your bodies. With a chuckle, he sits up, rubbing his thumb over your shoulder.
“I’ll draw us a bath, how does that sound?”
A rush of warmth goes through your body, and you follow his movements, sitting next to him and capturing his lips with yours again.
“I really like you, Spencer Reid.”
He doesn’t reply, not in words. But the swirling emotions in his eyes, and the all-consuming kiss he gives you are more than enough answers.
#divider creds to uzmacchiato!#mdni#mie writes#criminal minds#spencer reid#spencer.r#spencer reid imagine#spencer reid x reader#criminal minds x reader#spencer reid fanfiction#spencer reid smut#criminal minds smut#spencer reid x fem!reader#spencer reid x fem reader#spencer reid fluff#dr spencer reid#criminal minds fluff#criminal minds fanfiction#writing#bau team#spencer reid x you#spencer reid x y/n#matthew gray gubler
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PSA: if you are not interested in reading about ‘fandom drama’, please skip this post. You are responsible for your internet experience. If, however, you care about exposing bullies and POS in fandom spaces (specifically the tomione fandom in this case), carry on.
I’m posting a document here that was recently shared with me. It’s about Greyana (if you don’t already know who this is, you’re not missing out, and I encourage you to ignore this post). Specifically, it’s about what a horrible person Greyana is in the fandom. I did not write it. I didn’t know about most of this until it was shared with me, including the parts where she attacked me specifically. I won’t go into all the details of what’s in this, but the short version is: Greyana has a history of harassing other writers, using alt accounts across multiple platforms to promote her work, employing bots to promote her work, using generative AI to write as much as she has in the first place (which means she has stolen from other writers to do so), and more. There is a reason she exists (as herself, anyway) only on specific platforms. Tumblr users didn’t put up with her shit and called her out, so she left. I therefore know I’m sort of speaking to the choir here, but I wanted to put this document out there. I probably should have shared it sooner, I just really didn’t want to get involved because she doesn’t deserve my attention. Now, however, I am, and I’m giving it to her… because this is about more than that.
I don’t like bullies. I don’t like malicious hypocrites, I don’t like liars, I don't like thieves, I don’t like people in fandom spaces tearing others down when we should be building each up and supporting each other, and I don’t like when it is painfully obvious that someone only cares about stats, about being ‘the best’ and about monetizing fanfiction in whatever way they can get away with (such as via TikTok). This isn’t about ‘fandom drama’ at this point. It’s about setting the precedent that this kind of deplorable behavior isn’t acceptable anywhere; that being abusive, deceptive, and malicious because ‘it’s only fanfiction’ does not make it tolerable.
The point in sharing this is simply to let people know. I’m not asking or telling anyone to do anything specific, although I encourage you strongly to not support her and people like her. These are the types of people who ruin fandom spaces. Who make other writers stop writing and feel good about themselves when they succeed in doing so. Actually, here’s something I’ll ask: if you like Voldemort/Hermione as a pairing and have considered writing it, now would be a great time! Because she has recently started spamming her volmione fic as though it is the only one worth reading, as though there simply aren’t any good ones out there (this is going to shock you, but there are), slamming those other fics, etc.
Here is the link to the document again. It’s also posted below. It’s public. And keep in mind, this is only the shit that people thought to capture in screenshots before she deleted things.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y4v_kUHBapUyqUqc4yOkD1TjduIO8pBk/view?usp=drive_link
#Tomione#Dramione#sorry to bother you dramione tag#discourse#Fandom discourse#Greyana#I hope I never have to post about such stupid shit again#fandom#My apologies to my followers who hate this shit#please ignore if thats you#Proship#Invictus
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you & me. (m) — PATREON EXCLUSIVE
pairing: sugardaddy!jaemin x afab!reader
words: 7.2k+
summary: when your ex offers to finance you, you’re not sure how it will blur the lines of your relationship.
genre: fluff, smut
warnings: toxic!jaemin x toxic!reader, possessiveness, jealousy, daddy kink, choking, car sex, blowjob, degradation, spanking, bigdick!jaemin, creampies, use of a dildo, double penetration, mentions of anal sex, overstimulation, squirting, breeding kink, subspace
this fic is exclusive to the $5 tier on my patreon, which you can access here! below is a tumblr preview
Your boss calls your name after you finish cleaning up the last table of the night. You take off your apron, walking over to him with a curious expression. He shoves an envelope to your chest, startling you by the force.
“Someone dropped that off for you today. You better set them straight that this is not a mailing service we’re running here.”
You nod. “Yes, boss.”
You take the envelope to the back room, clocking out before opening it to see its contents. You gasp when a thick wad of cash stares back at you, enough to cover your rent for six months. There’s no note attached, but you don’t need one to know who the sender is.
You search Jaemin’s name on the internet once you step outside. There’s an article celebrating his recent promotion at the hospital, and you check which bus line you have to take in order to get there. Rage fills your vision as you stuff the envelope down your bag, heading to Jaemin’s workplace with the intent to kill.
Maybe not actually kill him, but perhaps maim and slightly injure.
When you approach the front desk demanding to see him, the nurse behind the counter gazes at you with worry.
“I’m sorry, ma’am, may I ask what this is regarding?”
“He knows what it’s about,” you hiss. Her delay only causes your temper to worsen.
She swallows at the venom laced in your voice, reaching towards the phone and dialing Jaemin’s line. They speak in hushed tones for a while before she relays to you that he’s on his way.
When you spot him striding down the hallway in his scrubs, you feel guilty for pulling him out of his important work. But the guilt is soon replaced with fury when you remind yourself why you’re here in the first place. You locate the envelope inside your bag, growling as you throw it back to him.
“I told you I don’t need your money.”
He tugs you aside into a nearby empty room, attempting to calm you down. “This money was just sitting in my bank account and I have no use for it. Please take it.”
“I am not going to owe you anything, Na Jaemin.”
“Who said I wanted you to? The funds are yours, no strings attached,” he says.
You scoff. “What’s your angle here? Do you think I’ll run back into your bed just because you pay for my bills?”
He’s offended by the accusation. “Of course not! I-I still care for you and I hate watching you struggle when you don’t have to. I want to give this to you. I want to help. Take the money, please.”
You think about how your limbs ache from your long shift and how you’ll have to return home, only sparing enough time to eat before you wake up and restart the cycle. It would be nice to receive a break, and you know how stubborn Jaemin can be when he sets his mind to something. If you deny him now, he’ll continue to persist for weeks because even he knows you’ll give in eventually.
“I’m only taking this because you’re a pompous prick,” you say, hesitantly dropping the envelope back into your bag. “But this won’t be for free. I have to give you something in return. Anything you want.”
A flash of lust sparks across his gaze, and you flush when you realize what’s on his mind. Memories of university play behind your eyelids, when he would get so jealous that the only way to appease him was to offer yourself up to him on a silver platter.
“I saw you! Laughing with him, acting like you didn’t have a boyfriend waiting back home,” Jaemin growls, causing you to roll your eyes at his behavior. “Does he know you’re seeing someone else?”
“He doesn’t care! He has a girlfriend!” You argue, pushing at his chest. “You’re acting like a lunatic.”
His eyes darken, stepping towards you and cornering you against your bed. “You know I fucking hate watching you drape yourself over someone like that. How are you going to make it up to me?”
It’s awful, you’re fully aware, but a fire ignites low in your belly at his demands. You love it when Jaemin gets like this, and you move his hand until it’s clasped over your neck.
“Take me, daddy. Take me any way you want me.”
You swallow, flitting away from Jaemin’s heavy stare. The tension in the room shifts, and a spark runs up your spine when he takes a step closer, his fingers brushing over your hip delicately. He’s inches from you, close enough for you to feel the heat of his skin. Your breath puffs out in small gasps, waiting for him to pounce.
“Anything I want, hm?” He repeats, hand wandering lower and lower. “You’ll give me anything I want?”
“Dr. Na?”
You jump away when a voice interrupts you. A nurse stands under the doorway, eyebrows raised at the two of you. You cough awkwardly into your palm while Jaemin clears his throat, regaining his composure.
“Y-Yes? What is it?” He asks, flustered by getting caught in the act.
“They’ve requested you down in the burn unit. There was a five car pile up and they’ve just brought in the survivors.”
“I’ll be right there,” he says to her. He whispers to you before leaving. “I want dinner with you this week. That’s my only request.”
You nod, gathering your sanity back after realizing you almost pounced on Jaemin in a public place and while he’s at work.
“I’ll text you.”
He wants to say more but the nurse demands his attention, so he leaves you in the empty room, craving him like you used to all those years ago.
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Gwyn, glimpse, graveyard
I think tumblr ate my LAST mini fic request. I’m going to hunt it for sport. good thing I remembered the words
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The first time they take Jonah back to New York, he’s ten.
For years, Enzo has written letters to Jonah to read, for his birthday and Yom Kippur, saying good luck on his first day of kindergarten, and more. Jonah found his voice on his tenth birthday though, claiming he was double digits now and old enough to visit his dad.
After several conversation with each other, Enzo, and Jonah, TK and Carlos decide to make a whole trip out of it.
It’s Carlos’ first time, and TK loves to watch him and Jonah take in the city together. It’s basically Jonah’s first time too, seeing as he doesn’t remember the years he lived here. They do Spring Street and Times Square, Central Park and bagels. They visit Owen in his big office, who insists on having a night with Jonah all to himself. It gives TK the opportunity to woo his husband on a New York City date night, and something in TK heals at being able to sit across from the love of his life at candlelit table in the place that once was his home.
On the last day, there’s one more visit they need to make.
“This is our mom’s grave,” TK tells Jonah as they stand in a grassy hill. Carlos offered to wait off to the side, but TK pulled him forward to make their family whole.
Jonah only knows Gwyn through pictures, videos, and stories, but he looks at the headstone with wobbly eyes and whispers, “Hi, Mama.”
“We’re doing good,” TK promises her. “Jonah is crushing his soccer league,” he brags, and Carlos chuckles. “He’s got a good coach.”
“Okay,” Carlos mumbles, cutting TK off from any more praise about his ability to wrangle a bunch of 10 year olds into something resembling a soccer team every Saturday.
“And Carlos got promoted a few months ago. That’s right, Sergeant Reyes is in front of you now.”
“Tell her your news, babe,” Carlos gently jumps in.
TK looks over at him, smiling. “I’m going back to work too. They needed some help at the fire academy getting those kids ready, and… I don’t know how long I’ll do that for, but it’s something new.”
“Proud of you,” Carlos murmurs, and then Jonah jumps in.
“Proud of you!”
TK chuckles and leans into his family’s warmth. A bit later, when they leave the cemetery, TK hears a whisper in the wind that sounds a lot like his mom’s voice.
I’m proud of you too, my sweet boys
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Masterlist Part 2/5
this is an older masterlist since like my first one, it's at the max limit tumblr will allow lol.
here's the link to the other two: Masterlist Part 1/5, Masterlist Part 3/5, Masterlist Part 4/5, and Masterlist Part 5/5
my blog page rules: i’ll write basically anything (ships, x readers, fics, HCs, matchups, angst, fluff, nsfw, etc.) I don’t mind most requests, just nothing graphic involving minors or anything that promotes hate.
please only submit one request at a time.
It usually takes me a little while to finish requests, but I’ll enjoy reading and working on pretty much any request ♡ ♡ ♡
I’ll write for any of the following fandoms: HxH, jjba, death note, bg3, genshin impact, and danganronpa (i’ll write for pretty much any character from these fandoms)
Death Note:
L, Misa, and Light reactions to being proposed to X
Hunter x Hunter:
Phantom Troupe cuddle HCs X
Neferpitou with an obsessive reader X
Phantom Troupe surprise kiss headcannons X
Chimera ant arc royal guards’ attraction types. X
JJBA Non Villain Stuff:
Strange morioh scenario (also jotaro x mermaid) X
Polnareff, Jotaro, Joseph x gorgon reader X
Part 5 gang with a reader who sings too loud at night X
Johnny Gyro Diego with a reader that sings explicit songs X
Mista when the reader has 4 babies on 4/4
Part 5 gang with depressed teen reader X
Polnareff x gorgon reader X
Kars, Rohan, Giorno, Johnny, Gyro x reader similar to gundham X
Stardust crusaders with reader that has a defensive stand X
Jolyne x closeted reader X
Joseph and Caesar with oblivious crush reader X
Johnny, Gyro, Diego, Jolyne, and Ermes with blunt reader X
Kakyoin with clingy reader X
Part 4 characters reactions to reader with WOU X
Jojos with Rapunzel like reader X
Jotaro with sibling reader who wants to fight alongside him X
Jojos with chill reader that has a crazy stand X
Jojos with a sibling reader who insists on fighting with them X
Kakyoin with cuddly reader X
Jojos with a reader whos scared of blood X
Part 4 characters with a conspiracy theorist reader X
Being Jotaro's little sister (not by blood) X
Jojos with a nerdy reader X
Jotaro Kujo comforting a reader who's insecure X
Jojos with a reader that befriends cryptids X
Kakyoin with a reader that loves to do his hair X
Jojos with a partner with a stand like D4C X
Josuke and Giorno personality changes X
Reactions to reader that sings to and attracts animals X
Part 7 gang (+Jolyne and Ermes) x oblivious reader they crush on X
Parts 5 and 7 character with an easily distracted reader X
Sons of Dio react to having more siblings
Parts 5 and 7 characters reactions to reader with self healing X
Part 5 gang reactions to a doll-like reader X
Jojos comforting reader with panic attacks X
Arguing with jojos over smth but it escalates, ends in cuddles X
jojos with a partner that loves plushies X
Golden wind gang reactions to alien shapeshifter reader X
Jojos (plus Kakyoin) cuddle HCs X
Steel ball run crew with a reader with powerful but cute stand X
Jojos with a reader that overreacts to a spider (platonic vers.) X
Jojos with a reader with a lovecraftian like stand X
Jojos with a reader that overreacts when scared of a spider X
Jotaro with a reader with a siren like Stand X
Steel ball run crew with a god of death reader X
Jojos vs reader with darkness stand X
JJBA Villains: (link to more villain fics)
Jofoes dating Dio's daughter reader X
What kind of cake jofoes like
Nonverbal teen who sees the jofoes as parents X
Jofoes x werewolf reader X
Jofoes x witch reader X
Jofoes reactions to chile reader having drawn on their face X
Angst for the reader having a miscarriage with jofoes X
Jofoes with reader similar to Doppio/Diavolo X
Reactions to a Dullahan (headless) reader X
Strip poker with Kira part 2 X
Jofoes being lovesick X
Angst for jofoes with child reader dying X
Ranking their volume in bed
Taking care of part 1 Dio while he's sick X
Pucci reacting to a reader who looks like his sister
Jofoes with a transmasc reader who wears their clothes X
Jofoes with a demonic reader X
Yoshikage Kira strip poker X
Pillarmen Yakuza AU part 2 X
Jofoes getting flustered/embarrassed X
Reactions to a reader trying to pretty them up X
Jofoes with a partner similar to Nagito X
Pillarmen's reactions to the reader asking about their biology X
Jofoes comforting an overstimulated reader X
Jofoes meeting their child selves
Dio Brando with an arranged marriage to the reader X
Reactions to the reader being immortal X
Favorite positions during intimacy
Jofoes if you asked to do their makeup X
Jofoes reactions to ex partner having had their child X
Pillarmen Yakuza AU
Jofoes with a reader that struggles with chronic illness X
Pillarmen with ancient but bloodthirsty reader X
Getting a little chubby because of a doting reader X
Angst for how they act in an argument X
Reactions to reader with a Death note like stand X
Reactions to reader with wonder of u X
Hand holding during intimacy X
Genderbent jofoes meeting their fem counterparts
Reactions to a child choosing them over joestars X
Reactions to a cute but deadly stand X
Reactions to an assassin reader similar to killua X
Dio x reader- nightmares from his childhood X
#jojo's bizarre adventure#dio#dio brando#funny valentine#diavolo#enrico pucci#kira yoshikage#kars#doppio#kira#death note#hunter x hunter x reader#hunter x hunter#dio x reader#kars x reader#diavolo x reader#vinegar doppio x reader#chrollo x reader#kira x reader#jjba x reader#jotaro kujo x reader#jolyne cujoh x reader#joseph joestar x reader#phantom troupe x reader
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To The Light [ joel miller ]
summary: Joel finds a young woman being held hostage by a group of men while he's out on patrol one day. He brings her back to Jackson, where she's given the opportunity to have something resembling a real life, for the first time. The two of them orbit around each other, destined to crash, if both of their reservations don't get in the way.
pairing: joel miller x f!oc / f!reader rating: 18+ minors dni word count: 96.8k (complete) a.n. be kind and soft with me, i have not posted regularly on tumblr since 2013, trying to get back into the swing of it to promote my fics
see tags and warnings on ao3
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Joel finds the love of his life lost in the woods.
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Read insatiable (a To the Light one-shot) here
#the last of us#joel miller#joel tlou#tlou#fanfic#fanfiction#ao3 fanfic#joel miller fanfiction#joel miller smut#joel miller x reader#the last of us fanfic#pedro pascal#the last of us fanfiction#the last of us hbo
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https://www.tumblr.com/olderthannetfic/746553097204203521/the-fandom-hates-women-response-to-lack-of-ff
The "fandom hates women" part of it comes from the fact that fandom as an entity just doesn't watch the kind of media that draws femslash, even if it ticks all of the boxes of things those very same people say they like. There are so many times I've watched a show that I've seen mega-popular Tumblr posts wishing existed, and then the fandom is so, so small comparatively and often in general. There have been superheroes, vampire/supernatural shows, fantasy shows, movies, books, the list goes on, that feel like they were generated out of Tumblr's desires for ideal fandom media, and everyone knows they're never going to attract anywhere near the same attention for fandom and fanworks because the common denominator just tends to be that if there isn't a full ensemble of attractive men to ship either with each other or with the women, fandom's not interested.
So it's not about prioritizing women in that sense, it's about people witnessing hypocrisy over and over again the second a show doesn't have a mostly-male ensemble. The people who are in these fandoms are frustrated that good faith attempts to get people interested are met with every excuse in the book that all eventually boils down to "I don't like watching stuff with women in it as much as I like watching stuff with men in it." And if that's how people feel about it... sometimes the conclusions are going to turn into the more uncharitable take of "fandom hates women."
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Maybe, but whenever I see a "fandom hates women" reblog of my stuff, one or two reblogs further down the chain I get an overt TERF. I just had to go block several people today, in fact.
The first person to reblog with a comment like that is usually subtle, but their friends and friends of friends are not. The rhetoric that very quickly starts is the fandom equivalent of that "All the butches are becoming trans men! We're losing lesbians!" stuff.
Here's the thing: I've been in ten billion fandoms that were so awesome and fit fandom's supposed tastes to a T and yet no amount of promoting them could get anyone to try the canon. This goes for canons that are all men or all white men or all majority ethnicity men or whatever else.
The default state of media is to not engender a big fic fandom.
I agree that the rare outliers mostly follow certain patterns, but we extrapolate too far when we say that a lack of those patterns is why a fandom is small.
A fandom is small because that's the near-universal default.
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Yes, a small slice of fandom consists of guilt-ridden queer fujoshi who say they want more f/f but don't make much of a move to make that happen. I tend to run into that a lot because of my own tastes and having friends who share those tastes.
Far more of fandom is people talking generally about how representation matters without saying they would personally join these fandoms if they existed.
Neither group is large enough to be the real reason some woman-heavy canon fails to take off to HP levels.
The real reason is not hypocrisy but the fact that most things don't take off like that. Most things without massive, massive audiences especially don't take off like that. And the very few things that do are flukes and don't actually predict that another similar thing will take off in the future.
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Go to AO3's tag search. Search for all canonical fandom tags. Sort by uses and descending order.
Right now, I get 64,390 tags.
The first page, 50 tags, goes from HP with 497,845 works to the Thor movies with 59,266 works. By page 6, we're below 10 thousand works.
By the end of page 10, we're down to Labyrinth with 3,906.
Somewhere in the top 500 AO3 fandom tags (many of which are just franchise metatags for each other), we go all the way from megafandoms to medium size and down to relatively modest ones.
That's not a lot of room for a big f/f-heavy fandom given the trends in mainstream media and that mainstream media is where most really big fandoms come from.
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I also notice that you're conflating a lack of desire to watch something that's primarily about women with a lack of desire to watch something that includes women.
There are tons of fans who want something more like The Mummy with a leading man and leading woman they love.
Granted, that's not me and that's not a lot of my fujoshi/slasher audience, but it's extraordinarily common. I know plenty of people who don't like canons that are only dudes, but since they also don't like canons that are only ladies and they don't ship f/f, this gets spun into "fandom hates women".
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Let me be clear:
Conflating "lesbians" and "women" is a radfem position.
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average adam faulkner stanheight fan: if adam isn’t in saw xi we riot! @lionsgate @kevingruetert @jameswan #adamlives #justiceforadam #corpseinconsistencies
average john kramer fan: What people don’t realize about John, is he’s such a genius that even when he makes mistakes, he planned on making the mistakes. He is the greatest villain of all time
average jill tuck fan: Appreciation post for the Women of Saw 🩷 [the same ten photos that get posted once a week]
average lawrence gordon fan: last night i watched a 2004 tv movie about serial killers called ‘the riverman’, followed by the cheesy family rom-com ‘a castle for christmas’. today my friends and i are going to binge the entire third season of netflix’s ‘stranger things’. none of us have seen a single episode of the rest of the show and we don’t plan on it. then we might rewatch ‘another country’ together
average amanda young fan: sorry i haven’t been online in 4 weeks i’ve been too busy trying to get the new pig cosmetic in the rift [posted 7 weeks ago]
average mark hoffman fan: [underneath a gifset of costas mandylor in a republican christian propaganda ‘sci-fi’ movie] #hes so fucking hot #i would give anything to put him in a sports bra and make him do jumping jacks in front pf me i would literally do #ANYTHING #i need to make him into a marionett and fist him lol
average daniel rigg fan: Here’s a quick low effort doodle I did of Daniel! I just love him so much ❤️ [a literal masterpiece, the best art you’ve ever seen in your entire life] [3 notes]
average allison kerry fan: i am hardcore attached to ONE ship which is probably either allison/amanda or allison/lindsey and my whole blog is devoted to them. there are dozens of us DOZENS
average lynn denlon fan: okay so i know bahar is a realtor now but in her last instagram post where she’s congratulating her son on some new achievement, both the first and last words in the post have 11 letters, AND there’s an X and an I visible in the background of her post 👀?? is this a reach???
average jeff denlon fan: No seriously let me finish seriously when you compare him to the other shitty men in Saw he’s NOT that b
average david tapp fan: i’m 39k away from publishing my 40k tappsing Everybody Lives AU <3 this is going to be epic [account has been deactivated for an indeterminate amount of time]
average brit stevenson and mallick scott fan: Hey I stayed up making this instead of writing my thesis paper for grad school. Here’s a 30,000 word document about the implications of Brit’s promotion within the Marshford group and how it would lead to her eventual demise and also how she rose to the top in her group. It also delves into her relationship with Mallick, whose existence, I believe, is an obvious literary reference to an ancient Roman play read by only me and three other people currently alive. I translated relevant passages and included them in my work. I got understimulated around page 8 so I did take a break to pierce myself in the same spot that I believe Mallick would have a piercing. If you read my fics on AO3 you will already be familiar with the location.
average peter strahm fan: haha peter does CRACK cocoaine haha i think he sniffeds some drugs! why else would he be so MANIC HYPER CRAZY!!! i love my crazy JUNKIE man LOL get him some andderall STAT!! if hoffman didn’t kill him the SPEED certianly would of! LOL!
average lindsey perez fan: i love lindsey perez i’m such a big fan of the character lindsey perez
average matt gibson fan: i literally would eat garbage out of a dumpster
average ezekiel banks fan: holy shit i just finished spiral what a good movie what the hell!!! what a cool addition to the saw universe! i bet everybody else loves this as much as i do! let me take a big drink of water as i check tumblr dot com to see all the nice things people will have to say about darren lynn bousman’s Spiral
average william schenk fan: my hobbies include: being a fujoshi,
average cecelia pederson fan: [pic of cecelia yanking on the metal loop around her neck and smirking] https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT3f5IIzt5PG-M7G9_Z-gjY4gZaiUneTdMlYrFAcdBGcJo0-N-RDQcj2JfxOaBTxKa6J_DiDQNgqVpg/pub
average logan jigsaw fan: What people don’t realize about John, is he’s such a genius that even when he makes mistakes, he planned on making the mistakes. He is the greatest villain of all time
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how does one manage when there's no feedback, no engagement, no... anything? the last few things i've published have gotten zero. it's frustrating. it's discouraging.
Getting No Feedback/Engagement
It's frustrating when you put your work out there and don't get any engagement or feedback. However, what to do about it (if anything at all) depends on how you're publishing and what you want the feedback for.
Whether you're publishing books/e-books or publishing online via your blog or a fiction-sharing site like AO3, it's never a good idea to rely on reader comments for feedback to help you improve your writing. If you want feedback for improvement, it's best to utilize alpha and beta readers, critique groups, critique partners, and feedback exchanges with other writers.
If you want the feedback an engagement because you want to know that someone is enjoying your work, or because you want to make sure you're building a following, you'll need to spend some time learning how to build an audience on the platform you're using. It's so important to remember that there are over 6 million registered users on AO3, for example, and over 11 million stories. Kindle Direct Publishing on Amazon hosts a couple million authors, with millions of books being sold each year. Tumblr has 135 million active users with 21 million new posts created each day. So, you no matter where you're publishing your stories, there is an unimaginable amount of competition. Unfortunately, you can't just post your stories and expect people to flock to them. That's why it's so important to learn how to build an audience on the particular platforms you're publishing on, and then you'll want to learn how to utilize social media to help get your work out there. For example, if you publish on a fiction-sharing site or your blog, you'll want to make sure you're using all the right tags and other metrics to draw people to your story. It's also extremely important that you support and engage with other writers... read and comment on their stories, boost them when appropriate. You might also consider starting a social media page specifically to find more readers. For example, let's say you write Supernatural fic and post it to AO3. You might make an Instagram page for your fiction, post SPN related memes and content, and update potential readers when new stories go up. Again, symbiosis is super important. If you don't engage with others, they won't engage with you.
If you're publishing books/e-books, you'll want to spend some time learning the best ways to promote your books, which will include things like figuring out who your audience is and where to find them, learning the proper tags, figuring out what kind of advertising speaks to them most, and learning to create promotional images and videos.
No matter what, it's really a matter of taking the time to get your work out there and find your audience. Because regardless of where you publish, they're unlikely to find you if you don't do the work to find them first.
Best of luck! ♥
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nonexistent rizz



the team is shocked to see that… early seasons!spencer pulls?? and he has pulled???? (aka, the team discovers that early seasons!spence has a girlfriend)
a/n: first cm fic!!! super indulgent, deffo way longer than it had to be but I don’t care, I love love love the dynamic of the s1/s2 team and I NEEDED to write it (look at '#mystery girl!au' on my blog to see more musings about them <3)
cw: alcohol consumption, reader referred to as a woman, reader is around spencer’s age in s1/s2 (23-24), completely inaccurate early 2000s technology i think, cuties being cute, not edited in any way
wc: 2k
part two | part three | mlist
(reblogs are the only way to promote fics on tumblr! please reblog if you enjoyed it :) )
“‘O Keefe’s! My wonderful, wonderful sweethearts, we are going out!” The moment the team steps out of the elevator, Penelope is bombarding them, hands moving wildly as words seem to tumble out of her mouth. “And yes, Hotch, I am sure we have no cases lined up yet, and yes, I’m sure JJ can corroborate that the moment she gets to her office and no, you may not stay behind, tonight is compulsory. That stands for you too, Gideon!”
Hotch hasn’t even opened his mouth, shaking his head in defeat as he takes in Garcia’s determined face. Under the watchful eyes of the team, his shoulders slump, a tired hand scrubbing down his face. “Fine. We all have to finish our reports, but if we’re all done in half an hour, we can go. Gideon?” He turns his face, hoping for Gideon to find a way to bunk off, but there’s a glint of amusement in the older man’s eye. “Sounds like there’s no getting out of it.” With that, he walks off, to his office.
Penelope whoops excitedly, “Okay! That means we’re all going! That’s the first time since Gideon came back,” but her face sets slightly when she meets Spencer’s eye. “No. No, Baby Genius, you will not do this to me,”
“Garcia, I have pl-” “No! You are coming out with us, and we’re going to have a great time, and whatever Russian indie film you were going to watch will still be there for you tomorrow. Okay? No more complaining, baby, you know I won’t listen.” With a pat on his shoulder, she flounces off. Defeated, he doesn’t move from the elevator area, shrugging helplessly when Elle, JJ and Morgan brush past him to the bullpen.
With a sigh, he takes out his phone, pressing his newly-programmed speed dial and bringing the phone to his ear. From Derek’s vantage point in the bullpen, he can see Spencer, pacing back and forth in front of the elevator doors, and he can see the moment whoever is on the other side picks up. The younger man’s face lights up, like when he’s on the receiving end of a rare Hotch smile out in the field, but more spirited, buoyant. Only snippets of the conversation float in through the slightly-ajar glass doors, but they’re enough to give him pause, and still his fingers above his keyboard.
“...Garcia’s got this plan for us all, and…”
“Yes, I know, I do like going out with them, but that’s not what I wanted to do…”
“...I took the metro tonight, so I think I’ll just… Really? You want to?”
At that point, Spencer turns, his voice muffling, and keeping Derek from his vested interest in his conversation. But what little he heard is more than enough to pique his interest. He flicks a pencil onto Elle’s desk. “Greenaway. You know if pretty boy’s mom is in town or something?” Elle looks up from her monitor, head tilting, “Not that I know of. Besides, doesn’t she not like flying? I don’t think he’d have her come here. Why do you ask?”
Derek doesn’t reply, simply gesturing to the glass doors, where Spencer is walking inside, his mouth twitching to conceal his smile. His steps are measured, like he’s trying to feign calm. He settles at his desk, hunching his back in a way that can’t be comfortable, typing rapidly as his knee jiggles up and down. Elle turns back to Derek, eyes wide with wonder.
“That is not how you look getting off the phone with your mother.”
The incident is quickly forgotten, however, when the BAU team are crammed into a booth in the back of the low-lit bar. Penelope has roped Hotch into helping her bring drinks back from the bar, and the rest are speaking a little too loudly, arms flinging and bumping into the empty glasses littering the table.
All except for Gideon, who, despite having had three glasses of whiskey, is still just as calm and observant as he is fully sober. It is this that causes him to zero in on Spencer, sitting across from him, sandwiched between Morgan and the newly-returned Garcia.
There’s a pink flush across his high cheekbones, and he’s incredibly giggly, all things that are completely expected for him, a few drinks in. However, what the experienced profiler picks up on, are his darting eyes. Spencer can often be found staring into the middle distance, or, since Gideon taught him the importance of building rapport with victims and officers alike, trained steadily on the space between someone’s eyebrows, but this time it’s different.
His eyes flick to whoever’s talking, feigning interest, but every few seconds, it turns back down to his lap, where something is clutched in the hand he keeps under the table. If it were Hotch, Gideon would know with absolute certainty that he was watching his phone, waiting for a text from Haley.
But this is Spencer. The youngest person he knows. The youngest person he knows whose technological knowledge is somehow worse than Gideon’s own. What on earth would have Spencer acting-
Oh. Gideon nearly gasps at Spencer’s movements. On his fifteenth peek down at his lap, Spencer stiffens, then draws his hand up from his lap to get closer to his face. It is his phone, and Spencer Reid has somehow learned to text as quickly as Morgan does. His thumbs fly over the buttons on his phone, and he can’t hold back the smile that spreads on his face.
Gideon’s eyes furrow, and he can’t hold back from nudging Hotch’s shoulder, pointing in Spencer’s direction. Hotch pulls himself away from his conversation with JJ, and Gideon can see his expression morph from mild interest, to confusion, to complete bewilderment. After a beat, his face turns to meet Gideon’s and his normally stoic demeanor is shaken, eyes wide.
Spencer, however, doesn’t even notice his mentors’ faces, still tapping away at his phone and craning his neck to look around the bar.
It’s a while later, when JJ has pulled the team (minus Hotch and Gideon) onto the dance floor, a few drinks past tipsy at this point. She’s laughing out loud, holding Elle’s hand and twirling her under her arm. Penelope and Derek are mock-waltzing, bursting into laughter every few steps, and Spencer…
JJ pauses for a moment, before Elle pulls her into moving again. Her head whips around, trying to find Spencer, before giving up. He must be back at the table with Hotch and Gideon, he was never very comfortable dancing anyway.
The four on the dance floor quickly devolve into a mess, swapping partners until they’re all dizzy and laughing. JJ and Penelope are shimmying back and forth together, when Penelope gasps a little, tapping JJ’s arm without ceasing her movements. “Jayj! Look, see that girl at the bar?” She gestures subtly at a younger woman, probably in her early twenties, wearing a purple wrap top that has JJ sighing wistfully.
“Pen, I think I’ve seen my soulmate. Would it be weird for me to crawl over there and beg her for her shirt?” Penelope giggles, gripping JJ’s forearms so they can sway to the music dramatically. “Just a little, my sweet. How about we go ask her where it’s from, though? I think that would be a little more…” She goes uncharacteristically silent, and it has JJ twisting to see what shut her up. However, Penelope tightens her grip on her arms, keeping her from moving.
“JJ. My love, my heart. You’ll always be honest with me, won’t you?” Now she’s worried. JJ nods quickly, deciding to just focus on Penelope. “Yeah, Garcia, of course. What’s wrong?”
“I think I’m seeing things, and you are one of the most qualified people in the world to tell me if I’m going crazy. I’m going to turn us around, and you’re going to look at the woman in that gorgeous top, and you are going to either scream, or send me off to Hotch for a psychological evaluation.” Her tone is serious, hushed, and JJ nods solemnly.
The intricate plan is conducted, and JJ is now facing the bar, her eyes searching for the girl, when she stiffens, sucking in a breath. “Yes! I’m not crazy, you see it right? What is going on!” Penelope smacks her arm repeatedly, but JJ can’t tear her eyes away from it. It being something she couldn’t possibly have prepared herself for, not in her wildest imaginations.
The girl is sitting on a barstool, sipping at a cocktail, and chatting to… Spencer. Spencer, the BAU’s Spencer, child-prodigy-lovable-dork-awkward-mess Spencer Reid, is stood in between her legs, smiling down at Mystery Girl without a hint of fear. It’s devastatingly sweet, his eyes soft in a way she’s never seen before, as he nods along with whatever she’s saying. Penelope jolts her out of her trance with a tap to the arm, JJ whispering, “He’s so… carefree.”
That’s the only way to describe it. He’s looking down at her, eyes locked onto hers, and he’s still. His hands aren’t tapping, his leg isn’t shaking. He’s just looking at her.
JJ can feel Morgan and Elle huddle near her, questioning Penelope about what they’re looking at, before shutting up as they see it. She hears them take twin gasps, and huddle even closer. They stand in silence, surely a hindrance to the people dancing, but they can’t tear themselves away.
It’s only when Spencer shatters their worlds once more that they finally find themselves able to move. Four pairs of eyes follow him, as he leans even further towards Mystery Girl, and they all bulge at once when he raises a hand, carding his fingers through her hair. Penelope whispers, “oh my god”, Elle grips JJ’s arm in a vice grip, and Derek makes an unseemly noise, before gripping their arms, tugging them back to the booth.
They collapse in the seats, faces pale as they look at each other, next to a very confused Gideon and Hotch.
“What? What is it?” Hotch questions them, brow furrowed deeply. None of them speak, however. Only Elle lifts a weak hand to point. She directs their attention to the sight at the bar, and they all turn back to it, gasping once again. They’re… “kissing,” Derek breathes, shocked. Hotch and Gideon stiffen, but still crane their heads until their eyes fall on what has rendered their highly trained team speechless. And their reactions are just as silent.
Mystery Girl has stood up, her arms around Spencer’s neck, and he’s leaned down to meet her lips, hands braced on her hips. It’s honestly not that scandalous, a lazy, casual kiss that they part from with twin smiles, but the FBI agents can’t handle it. They don’t say a word, straining their ears to hear whatever she is saying as he holds her hand (Penelope lets out a squeak at that), and walks with her towards the door, not even noticing that his coworkers have returned to the booth. Her voice is low, but Hotch manages to pick up a few of the words.
“...go home and watch that movie I was telling you about? Metropolis, I think you’ll really…” And they’re off. Spencer Reid has left a bar, holding hands with a girl (that he’s apparently spoken to multiple times? Who refers to a place as home for both of them?), acting like it’s the most normal thing in the world.
The group sits in silence, unable to muster a comment, when Penelope’s phone buzzes. She checks it, and silently turns the screen over so they can all read it.
BOY GENIUS: Hey Garcia. I wasn’t feeling well so I decided to go home. See you Monday :-)
“What?”
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Alright y'all. Self-promoting something I haven't finished yet.
Idk if it's a thing already, but I want to make this very clear: Dorcas Meadowes is badass. There are many fics that bring to our attention just how much of a powerful witch she is, and in canon, she dies by Voldemort's hands. Because that's how much of a threat she is.
So. I am writing a fic. It'll be about 7 or 8 chapters, and I'm thinking 20k-30k words but I'm not sure yet, as I have everything planned out but idk how many words each chapter will have yet. I'd like it to be at least 3k words each, but idk if I'll manage that.
It'll be my first fic that isn't single chapter. I am working on it slowly due exams. But I'll share where it comes from! And what will be in the tags, probably.
In canon, the Mckinnon's are murdered in July of 1981, a couple months before James and Lily.
Dorcas dies "after the second half of 1981, before the war ended", so between July and October, 1981.
You know what that means? She was killed by Voldemort himself, after Marlene died.
Of course I had to do something with that.
So. What would've happened if someone stopped her before she went to try and fight Voldemort herself after their spouse's death? Makes you wonder, right?
So yeah. Dorlene (she/they lesbian Marlene, my beloved), Wolfstar, (queerplatonic) jily, past jegulus (& endgame jegulus, probably, haven't decided yet if I'm gonna focus on their angst that much. Anyways, trans! Reggie), endgame (aro & acespec!) Pandora x (trans!) Mary x (demi lesbian!)Lily (yes this is confirmed but jegulus isn't, lmao, I just want the lesbian throuple), (queeplatonic) Xenodora, and Rosekiller (they've been dating since like fifth year and became DE together. And they say romance is dead)
Also autistic!Rosier twins. Idc. They have the truest autism experience by having a complicated relationship with friendship, romance and sexual attraction, ok? Ok.
With lots of Peter Pettigrew for everyone because, say it with me, he also was a marauder ¡!!! In this fic, his most important friends were James and Marlene all his life. So y'know. Dorcas and Peter spend a lot of time together after Marls dies, and... No spoilers, but. Angst will happen with this. Also, Dumbledore bashing <3
So uh Dorcas-centric, full of grief & becoming a bit impulsive because of it, and uhh, that.
Surprisingly, I'm making it happy ending! My beloved virtual bestie deserves it after reading two fics & a lot of thoughts that are mostly angsty 🫡 they don't use Tumblr, I'd tag them of they did. Anyways.
I will be posting it, probably by May. But y'know. Just fyi
#marauders#marauders era#the marauders#dorcas meadowes#marlene mckinnon#peter pettigrew#regulus black#james potter#sirius black#remus lupin#lily evans#mary macdonald#pandora rosier#evan rosier#barty crouch jr#marauders fic#marauders fandom#dorlene
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