#all the fic under them are old

[yesimilkdamilkman]

is it just me or is the miles morales tags becoming deader every day?

[quick-catton]

i just want to say that these two have been on my mind literally all of january. the thought of the debauchery they would indulge in. bobby and his pretty boygirlfriend. using him as a decoy in robberies, his cute lil thing an easy distraction while he takes what he needs, allowing them both to easily slip away. getting to show off his pretty baby in clubs, having a sweet little thing as his passenger princess during long drives through the dessert. a doll for him to dress up and have hanging off his arm wherever they go. anyway <3

[fumiku]

Hear ye hear ye!

I come bringing two Dungeon Meshi marchil fanfics to share

Enough

He got crumbs of it in moments, here and there, and it would be more than enough to last the winter. Chil knew how to live on little, with only what he could afford. But love? Love he had had enough of for a lifetime.

I'll start with the shorter one that I wrote first, a quick Chilchuck POV 1.3k words oneshot that's bittersweet if not just plainly sad. It’s about repressing a crush essentially, but the marchil is mostly a front for a character study about Chilchuck’s complex feelings on his marital situation and love in general. I’ve been told many times in comments that even without shipping marchil it was enjoyable, so give it a shot if that sounds interesting!

He soaked her in, like hard bread softening in broth.

Grind Me Down Sweetly

Even years after their journey into the dungeon, Marcille wasn’t quite over her existential dread over short lifespans… And it showed. Every other day, she came by to Chilchuck’s locksmith shop with a shocking lack of locks to smith.

Coffeeshop au except it’s not an au and there’s no coffeeshop. This one is a long oneshot of 17k words, and contains flashbacks that are meant to loosely span over a year. This fic can pretty much be entirely read as platonic. They’re just close friends but they give married energy is all. Slice of life and cozy with a side of banter & tsundere behavior, and existential dread hurt/comfort as the cherry on the sundae. It contains some classic Dungeon Meshi things like storytelling through cooking and sharing meals~ If you like the Marcille and Chilchuck dynamic in canon, this is pretty much just a bunch of that, shenanigans abound!

She clung to her friends like time was always running out.

Blonde hair is the epitome of beauty to him meanwhile his greying hair brings her existential despair. I am composed and collected about this

"I am going to chase you out with a broom"

Some related-ish memes I made!

Extra author notes and marchil rambling under cut

With how chil is so irritable and private about romance and his feelings it makes sense that their romance would have passive-agressive energy. Are they just friends or pining? Oh wouldn’t you like to know. Are they just lightheartedly bantering or is he legitimately pissed or are they blinking in morse code their true feelings at each other? Yes

My post-canon timeline is Chilchuck lives a nice life living alone in his house-shop except his friends all visit him and care, and even though he likes living alone it’s also bittersweet and every corner of his life is haunted by the ones he loves and loved and the moments he had with them. That’s it that’s all I want… (mostly the nice life part lol)

My marchil manifesto is that she grows on him stubbornly like fungal yeast and it brings out his flavor like beer <3 Because she stubbornly puts her nose everywhere and refuses to give up on getting closer to her friends and it makes him open up and repress his feelings less and aaaa <33 Obligatory shout out to the dunmeshi discord serv for engaging with my rambles

For someone who dislikes alcohol I’m having so much fun working beer metaphors and stuff into the writing, Chilchuck has all the fun motifs to play with fr... Traps, lockpicking, married life, work, destitution, starvation, rejection, repression, opening urself up to the world. Give me the most domestic fluff and give it a subtle foundation of angst and hurt comfort 👌

And I do think that Marcille takes a particular interest in Chilchuck especially because he’s so set on being a closed book as well. Yeah she def is like 👀 at him. Aaah the way she wants to meet his family so bad 😭💕 I think she romanticizes him & his family life/idealizes him as a virtuous husband a lot too. Like how she tends to think of things in a more flowery story-like way.

I do compare him to bread and her to soup in that he soaks up in her warm vibes and softens up. Which has become a personal favorite. He was bread, she was soup, can I make it any more obvious /lyr Soggy bread Chilchuck is so funny to me. Like, you know that rock solid bread but then you soak it in soup and then it just becomes the softest crumbliest thing. I think Chilchuck is a really hard bread that will break your teeth if you don’t put him in some soup beforehand. Or wine. I wracked my brain a lot about what food Chil would like (because his Adventurer’s Bible profile just says he love alcohol and hates sweet dishes rip) and I end up giving him a bread motif a lot, since it pairs well with alcohol and whatnot.

With marchil I either do unrequited angst because Chilchuck will NOT allow himself to feel, or the most domestic fluffy shit ever but in a mostly platonic dimension because once again -gestures at Chilchuck- But in a true Marcille "If I was Chilchuck’s wife" Donato fashion she manages to get her nose into the most stubborn’s people stuff like a barnacle and it’s. So married people coded anyways. They’re a lil messed up but it’s ok they’ll iron out those bumps. Ironing because they are gonna do the most domestic chores together 🔥🔥 MARRIEDCORE I TELL YOU I should get around to making more fics and more different vibes though, I already have a bunch of prompts written down~

Even more rambling and headcanons!!

I hc that when he gets his shop all his living quarters are half-foot sized so whenever the party comes to visit they suffer sitting down at the dinner table and whatnot

There’s a very specific horror in not being able to grow old with your loved one… It’s gotta be rough being in a relationship where you don’t mature at the same speed/rate. It must be so heartbreaking to turn around and your lover suddenly looks 70 while you’re still like 26 Chilchuck living until he lives with either Meijack or Flertom or at the castle and spends his days grumbling about people being even more incompetent than they used to be real. He can live longer than 50 🙏 come on peepaw you can make it to 70. He’s got so many friends ready to nurse him, prob while he complains about it. This is why I find elderly half-foots a funny mental picture. For a while I wondered if half-foots aged visually much at all in the traditional sense, and then I remembered these.

In my post-canon headcanons I’ve adopted the idea that Marcille doesn’t do her hair, it’s always someone else making her hairdos like an attendant or Kabru and like maybe Falin learns. In the "it takes a village to raise someone" community mutual aid energy… And the rare times where the task befalls Chilchuck he learns how to put it in a single braid (even if it’s so much hair for him to hold in his small hands all at once rip) because the one time he braided it in two in canon it reminded him of Meijack and gave him psychic damage. WHICH. Ohhh my god you have no idea how much I care about Chilchuck’s daughters now. After writing the first half of Grind Me Down Sweetly I am forever changed I know them all by name and know everything there is to know about them, I am making so many headcanons every day… Meijack wears thigh-high boots because she hates when sand, dirt or snow gets in her shoes- I have fanart coming up of them over at @fuumiku and I’d love making fics centered around them as well eventually yippee The angst of old senile Chilchuck still tying marcille's hair... Old senile chilchuck confusing marcille for one of his daughters… "Have you gotten taller? Oh how much you’ve grown" -breaking his neck looking up at her- I want Chilchuck to get the top notch elder treatment.

Ok this is the alcoholism tangent. I really want to believe Chilchuck can be super old, but… Realistically he’s gonna drink himself to an early grave, he’s a work hard play hard kinda guy.

Marcille would be horrified if she knew the extent of it fr fr, but I do think it’d drive a wedge between them if she tried getting him to lay off of it… If he’s open to it though that’d be so nice and sweet. Hey hey btw did you know, Chilchuck is canonically underweight due to extremely strict dieting and alcohol can act as a good hunger suppressant! Lots of issues to dig into here It’d be cute if his daughters visit him often and collectively keep tabs on him in a caring way. It’s less cute actually beinh the daughter and having to deal with it but- CHILCHUCK IS WORTH IT okay!!! Where’s that meme of "You can fix him? So is 5 other people y’all look like a construction crew" bc this increasingly looks like ‘Marcille Senshi Laios Izutsumi and his family make sure he doesn’t poison himself like a dog with chocolate’ mission.

Truly for some people reason just flies out the window when it comes to alcohol, coherence gives way to excuses. He reminds of someone I know who got a grave disease that’s worsened by alcohol and just. Continues to take it regularly. You know that thing that’s said where "an alcoholic parent will have 2 kids, one will grow to be alcoholic too while the other will never touch a drop of alcohol" and Chilchuck is def the first I think. He gives the vibe that he’d say "An alcoholic parent puts a strain on familial relationships?? Pshh, my father was and look at me! I turned out great!". I don’t think Chil could really get shaken out of it at this point tbh, seems very ingrained in him, would prob fight it back. I relate with my own familial situation ughh. Maybe if he realized how it hurt the people around him and not only himself though…. I’d def like to see him ease up on it. Drinking is often a social activity though. That gives me hope, especially with the whole dunmeshi lesson of sharing meals, that he might be able to/have recontextualized how or when he likes to take alcohol, that alcohol is better when you have others with you and you’re still able to talk and whatnot. Chilchuck says that he’s pretty picky with alcohol tho, like he has specific tastes or a high bar. Laios can ban good beer in the kingdom and then Chilchuck just stops because it all tastes awful and he’s not rich enough to import. The brewery he likes mysteriously burns down in a fireball incident one night. Marcille risks prison for her loved ones part 2, now with diplomatic immunity! ✨

I have hcs about Chil’s family dynamic, about his daughters and how alcoholism or workaholism may have affected everyone (not me inferring that Puckpatti being the most idealistic and optimistic from Chil’s daughters is probably a result from her being the youngest and perhaps Chil being the most often at work during that time and so she was mostly raised by her mother without much involvement from him). That’s a topic for another day though, for now I leave you all with thoughts of Flertom painting flowers on a shitty ceramic mug when she was 3 and Chil begrudgingly asking Marcille advice on picking a birthday gift for Puckpatti :) Oh yeah, because if we look at the timeline in The Adventurer’s Bible and combine it with when Chilchuck said that "Due to certain circumstances he hasn’t seen his wife or daughters in years" in the Senshi backstory chapter, besides letters with Flertom he has seemingly not seen them in 4 years. 4 YEARS. Thank god dungeons disappeared, it took that much for him to retire

[lemony-snickers]

dear body: when I complained about being So Very Tired for no reason, what I meant was that I wanted to wake feeling rested after a long night’s sleep, not that I wanted you to wake me up at 2:30 am and keep me awake.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

only good thing abt the vous situation is that it lets me experience tecteun calling 13 the child that im 100% convinced she actually would bc shes the only one who uses tu for her

[always-a-slut-4-ghouls]

Getting off my ass and downloading my favorite fics to put on a jump drive I bought with a fuck tonne more storage than the two I already had from when I was in school and, wow, this is actually so much easier than the rest of the stuff I’ve been downloading for various reasons (articles on stuff I want to have around but worry might be impacted by this new presidency). You just pick pdf (or whatever you like) and bam! It’s right there in your downloads ready to be stashed away, no annoying nitpicking where I have to delete stuff I don’t need in the document or huge blank spaces, it’s just ready! Like, listen. I love “print friendly and pdf” Firefox extension, but I always have to end up deleting some stuff that is just taking up space. It does its job! It’s just not going to be neat and tidy when the website doesn’t intend for you to do this. Archive of our own does that whole thing of making a pdf themselves! This is going to go so much faster than the other stuff I’ve been downloading as pdfs

Anyway, I love you as well Smithsonian magazine website for not only being free, but also just having that extension on all your articles! That’s actually how I found it in the first place. Before that I was copy pasting every paragraph into a pages document and it was way more tedious.

[vv-ispy]

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[shiresong]

I think ppls idea that hobbits coming of age at 33 is exactly identical to turning 18 esp in terms of developing maturity from (human) teen -> adult but I don’t think it’s like that. Coming of age can be a lot of things. I had my bat mitzva at 13, but I was very much still regarded as a child, and I was certainly no more adult then than I am now at 27.

Hobbits don’t emotionally mature and intake new information slower than anyone else, I think they’re landmarks are just different. Pippin being 29 doesn’t make him the exact same as a 17 year old or something, but he probably just has less responsibilities and expectations until he’s 33, which, when you consider that most people relatively settle into who they are by their 30s, it would make sense for that to be when he (and other hobbits) are considered “fully grown adults.” I see pippin portrayed in fic as very very young and clueless, and it’s not to say he isn’t learning, or doesn’t know as much as the older hobbits or doesn’t look to them for guidance or whatever, but it also feels like a misrepresentation to me.

The only reason we (westerners) have decided 18 is the age is because of our own cultural values and how we have p much just agreed to it. There’s tons of metrics you could base adulthood off of, culturally, socially, and physiologically, but the point I’m trying to make is that you can have different milestones associated with different meanings, and it doesn’t equally convert across all cultures and peoples.

Tl;dr, pippin is still a 29 yo creature person hobbit guy and has 29 years of experience in life, his coming of age is likely more to do with additional responsibilities and expectations more than “not being a child anymore and knowing no more than a 17yo”

[nandorisms]

My eternal sunshine of the spotless mind Nandermo fic lives rent-free in my head.

Would love to write it someday.

Would love to feel the urge to write again someday 😩

[allylikethecat]

Matty's mare!!!! I love her, I love the update, it's so good 💚💚

Ahhh thank you so much for not only taking the time to read the new chapter of All the King's Horses but to also send me this ask!! I'm so happy to hear that you enjoyed the update (I'm sorry it was late!!) and that you like Fictional!Matty's mare! I'm so excited about Sally the horse, and I was grinning so much as I wrote about her because Fictional!Matty loves her *so much* which as someone who is *also* absolutely obsessed with their horse, I relate to on a very personal level. Not to be dramatic but Pop (my gelding) is my entire world, literally sometimes I will just start crying because I love him so much and I don't know how I got lucky enough to be his person. My Fictional!Matty feels the same way about Sally (which is also an interesting position for him to be in- he's a professional he's not supposed to get attached to horses like this...) Thank you so much for giving my very niche AU a chance! I hope you continue to enjoy how the story unfolds! I hope your Sunday is going wonderfully and that you have a great rest of the week!

❤️Ally

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: February 26

“Diamonds in the Mud” by Gerry Cinnamon

[scattered-winter]

thinking abt shiro again...yeah no it's gonna be all day...

[bluebellhairpin]

When another of your favourite fics disappears bc op deactivated:

[andthebubbles]

halp i'm having such feelings over anthony and benedict in That fic (like, the fact that 2 y/o anthony runs away when he's on an outing with edmund??? violet blaming edmund for losing their son??? being super possessive over benedict yet also not really seeing him because ~it should be anthony by your side??? you should not have been the firstborn??? edmund being so guilty and upset and violet not letting benedict spend time with him (esp one on one) and benedict having no idea why??! like he's a fucking child and he has no idea why his mother is so sad and why his parents are so resentful/fighting all the time and he probably thinks it's because of him?? and then slowly resenting violet for being so overprotective, and he doesn't really get to know edmund for a long time/maybe is standoffish with him too because of violet

and then violet gets pregnant with colin when benedict is... 5, i think (because he's 6 when colin is born in feb/march, and benedict's birthday is in july/august (i'm using the show ages)) and they decide to try and repair their relationship so that colin grows up in a better environment, and then when colin is born benedict sees the difference, that his mother actually sees colin, whereas with benedict he still feels like he should've been someone else/that his mother is seeing someone else. and he has no idea about his missing/presumed dead older brother until like eloise is born and someone makes a comment on the bridgertons being alphabetically named and then benedict is like, who's A?? and then he finds out and it suddenly makes so much more sense and honestly i think a part of him will resent anthony for inadvertently being irreplaceable and missed and ~maybe edmund should've kept an eye on him better, and ~if all that hadn't happened, then he wouldn't have been the heir

actually i think anthony and benedict are really similar, they just ended up more outwardly different because of their birth order. anthony gets all the responsibility so benedict can just be the peacemaker and leave the hard decisions etc to anthony. but they're both super sensitive imo, i mean, anthony didn't turn out that anxious just because his dad died lol, he was already so tightly wound up and aware of/thinking that people would judge him when he failed (to be good enough) to shoot the stag. and if he can feel disappointment like that, or pick up on a tiny little thing and read it as disappointment/whatever, then, well. (they’re both just as sensitive and good at reading other people’s feelings, is what i’m trying to say.)

i have so many thoughts about these two!!! so many feels!!!

as for whether benedict would turn out exactly like anthony, without anthony (being there/the firstborn)........ idk. i feel like the biggest difference between the two of them is their tempers; like, anthony has a quick temper but benedict's more mellow, so... in a universe where anthony just never existed, i don't think benedict would be quite like anthony/not exactly the same. but in a universe where anthony did exist, and then they lost him, then that's a whole lot of other trauma heaped on benedict (and violet and edmund) and that changes things a lot. i doooon't think benedict would have a fear of love/hurting the other person through death/grief, because when edmund dies and violet grieves/isolates herself... well, how different is that to how benedict grew up? i think he might be more used to being alone (and feeling like he's not good enough simply because he's not anthony). (and i think he's sort of wary of love going wrong, and he's looking for a stable, secure love, with whoever he loves.)

anthony in this fic though!!! he has both (fake) parents still alive who love each other very much, who were very working class and then bettered themselves/slowly moved up the social ranking to become (not super rich) merchants and business owners (they own a print shop)............... honestly all this anthony wants is to be loved :3 for who he is

and to not be abandoned lmao, he's got a fear of abandonment too, because subconsciously he was 'abandoned' when benedict was born and he didn't feel like he had enough of his parents' attention anymore, and then he thinks edmund didn't come to get him (his fake parents sent/left a note to try and give him back but edmund never got it). so he has that on a subconscious level, and then when he's 5 or 6 he realises he's adopted (his mum is trans) and... i think he's just worried that people are going to leave him. (and he's a bit afraid/anxious of storms (from like, being on a ship during storms and people being thrown overboard and never seen again etc), but i haven't decided how anxious about this he is yet.) alsoooo he has some trauma from attending harrow because bullying and fagging...

anyway!! much thoughts!! much feels!!!!!!

[orpheuscas]

anyway

[shego1142]

Not to mention that while all of the above is happening, there is also a protest going on outside of the party lead by people who are gluten intolerant, shouting angrily about how they know you’re eating cake and that since cake is so upsetting to them then that means it should be equally as upsetting to every single person who has ever existed and if cake isn’t upsetting to you then that makes you a bad person.

And not only are you a bad person for making a homemade cake, but everyone there is bad and even the place that you’re having the party at is bad and it should be burned down and destroyed completely because sometimes there are people who like cake in it.

And you’re like “Hey uh… there’s actually very clear labels on every single food item in here, and more than plenty of delicious gluten free options, and absolutely no cross contamination! It’s really a very good party venue for that exact reason, because people work hard to make sure it can be customised for everyone! At other venues in the past it was a lot harder to keep the gluten and gluten free foods separated, but if you just read the ingredients you can get all of the foods you want without ever even seeing my homemade cake that I worked so hard on! We even have gluten free cake specifically!”

And instead of responding in any normal way they put your address on the Internet and call your boss and try to get you fired for baking a cake (which they lie about on the internet and to your boss and insist that you were intentionally poisoning people’s food.)

Also sometimes, they convince really young kids who may or may not be gluten sensitive to sneak into the party under the guise of fighting for justice and those kids are told that everyone in the party is out to hurt them, and the only way they can be safe is to pretend to be friendly but actually serve everyone cookies with needles baked into them, but bringing that up makes the whole metaphor fall apart doesn’t it?

current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.