#also Theo and a clone are here. don’t mind them

[just-rainbow-thoughts]

Why don’t you go shopping with your weird clone and maybe you’ll feel better

[b-rainlet]

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- the-scarecrxw

(Since you sent 4 of those emojis I'm gonna go off but I'll stick to one in this answer and make seperate posts for the others aksnsns)

I can't give you anything Jonathan centric (that isn't Tommy/Jonathan, one of my fave rarepairs) but Jerome features in lots of my AUs.

This one is one of my faves that's entirely self-indulgent and if it ever gets written it's probably gonna be the longest fic I ever published (Again: If it ever gets written):

I gotta apologize in advance, it's just a fun little AU I haven't put too much thoughts into in terms of plotting so this is gonna be A. Long, B. Messy and C. A little chaotic

- First off, you gotta understand that @nsfwitchy2 Me had some fun with a pretty nonsensical and definitely not canon-compliant AU where Jerome and Jeremiah have three Mums (Tabby, Lee and Barbara, who all date) and live with them and Barbara Lee as their little sister.

- Ecco also lives with them, she sees herself as both the twins' gf more than a genuine part of the family tho (for now)

- (Meanwhile at Wayne Manor Alfred and Jim date and are very tired parents of Bruce and his clone 514A, in this AU - and pretty much every AU - nicknamed Brook)

- (Selina kinda goes back and forth between living at Wayne Manor or at Lee's place)

- Also, everyone dates. The twins. The clones. Eccomiah, Jecco, Batcat, Valeyne, Wayleska, they're all fucking

- Which isn't THAT important for this particular AU but I figured I'd give a warning xD

- This is mostly my attempt to give Tabitha some more backstory? Just...how I personally see her character and how I could see her end up if things would've went differently after S2

- The google docs file is called 'How Tabitha started being a Mum while disregarding canon completely' lmao

- Like her current life involves having 4 kids (if you count Selina) and two wives and that's a hell of an AU and I just like to overthink things and play with the way things would have needed to have gone in canon to have her 'end up' like this

- Also I can see her struggling with having a family all if a sudden (that isn't a manipulative brother or a weird cult)

-Especially if that involves Motherhood

- So on one hand it's a 'S2 until now' fic, explaining what happened to her in my canon

- But also - mostly because I find that easier to organize in my brain - it's interwoven with a 5+1-esque fic of all her children calling her 'Mum' (and her getting emotional over that)

- So it switches back and forth between the past and the present but for rambling's sake, I'll start with the past

- She still leaves Theo behind and flees with Silver but she keeps Silver close instead of immediately sending her away

- And her and Silver get taken in by Fish after they leave Theo because they have nowhere to go and Fish loves taking care of strays

- (Fish, who probably didn't end up in Indian Hill but rather lives in hiding until she is ready to strike against Penguin)

- She refers to herself as Liza's Mother in canon, you can't tell me she wouldn't instantly adopt Tabby and call her 'Honey' and give her motherly advice while Tabby tries to be all bite but actually enjoys somebody taking care of her for once

- Selina🤝Tabby

'Trying so very hard all the time to not show how soft and insecure they are'

- Actually, I'd start diverting from Canon even sooner aksnsjd

- Well not full on changing canon, but I'd...pepper in some stuff

- Like some scenes of her back with Theo and the Maniax

- Mostly her talking to Theo about Jerome's planned murder, which, yeah, she knows it's been set in stone from the beginning but that doesn't mean that she isn't talking about alternatives where he doesn't get killed off

- And Theo's like "Don't tell me you're going soft. No one will miss him. He was just a boy. Not worthy enough to be remembered."

- And later on she betrays him and goes 'I remember him'

- Anyway, they stay with Fish for a while but Tabby doesn't wanna keep Silver in Gotham

- So she sends her back to the school she went to before coming to Gotham with Theo (but makes sure their weird cult can't get their hands on her there)

- And Silver wants her to come with but Tabby says she has some unfinished business

- Aka she just doesn't wanna leave Barbara (who is in a coma atm, if Memory serves right)

- And Tabby's reasoning is that it's not safe in Gotham but really, she thinks she can't be responsible for another person

- "She needs a mother. A Family. I can't give her that." - "You are her family."

- So Silver's out of the picture and Tabby hangs with Fish until Barbara wakes up and they get together again (and never ever seperate)

- Also there's no Butch/Tabby because that was unnecessary as fuck

- And I gotta be honest, I haven't thought more about canon because Butch/Tabby alone makes my head hurt already but somehow they start dating Lee

- Who brings Jerome into the relationship because I sure am fond of Lee being Jerome's Mother (like as in, I have several wips with that concept alone not counting this one)

- Jerome probably came back to life after S3 and Lee fought to have him not be treated like a violent criminal but rather a child who was taken advantage of and after his release from Arkham (where she visited him and made sure he got some proper treatment) it seemed natural to have him live with her

- (But also he's still a criminal aksnsjs, you can see how much I thought about this)

- (Sue me for sticking to the heartfelt scenes and avoiding the mess that is plotting)

- Tabby and Barbara already had Selina and through Jerome, Jeremiah and Ecco were added et voila! Their Family is complete

- (Why exactly Barbara Lee exists if Tabby and Barbara have been non-stop dating since S2 I can't tell you, I simply think she is neat and I like the idea of big brother Jerome)

- (This AU? Self-indulgent? Why would you ever think that?)

- In the present however she is dealing with what is mostly referred to as 'feelings'

- Mostly panic at realizing that the bunch of weird children she's been living with are seeing her as some kind of parental figure

- Because suddenly they all call her 'Mum'

- Unsurprisingly the first one to call her Mum is Jerome at breakfast

- She's reading the newspaper and there's an article about a hostage situation the twins planned and he goes 'Mum, are you done with that? Can we see?'

- And they snatch it from her and argue about how they didn't even make the front page while Tabby nearly chokes on her coffee

- And of course she breaks down talks to her wives about it later while they get ready for bed because no one ever called her 'Mum' before

- Barbara's braiding her hair, while Lee's off to the side, getting ready for bed and it's very domestic and I am very gay

- But neither see it as a big deal because both of them have been called Mum before (by Jerome at least. Like. Immediately upon meeting them)

- So she's trying to be nonchalant about it because it's only a big deal if she makes it one

- While also not being able to deny the warm feeling that spreads throughout her body when Jerome keeps calling her 'Mum'

- Miah and Selina on the other hand are both hesitant to call anyone Mum

- Miah cause of Pride, Selina cause of her Mummy Issues

- But they both do at some point

- I think I have more notes on this SOMEWHERE but I kinda wanna have Miah call her Mum while he's ill (because we all know he'd be super fussy and want attention 24/7)

- So she humours him and while he's close to falling asleep - and she's totally not carding her fingers through his hair because she isn't soft or anything - he mumbles: "Thank you Mum" and she melts

- Selina would be more angsty

- Like, maybe it's her birthday and she disappears for a while (as she tends to do) but Tabby (who's closest to her) knows how hard this day is for her (since again her Mum isn't there with here and looks for her and brings her back home but doesn't make a big fuss out of her birthday

- Just...lets her be, gives her space but also lets her curl up close to her and maybe Selina doesn't call her Mum on that exact day

- But it's the day she realizes she wouldn't mind calling Tabitha her Mother, so she hesitantly tries it out a while later (maybe days, maybe weeks, however long it takes for her to feel comfortable with it) and they share a smile

- Then there's Barbara Lee, but she barely counts because she's a toddler and calls everyone 'Mummy'

- Even her father ajsnsnsn

- The last one would be Ecco because I have a very soft spot for Tabby and Ecco being close

- Ecco's rather formal with them for the longest time (she calls Barbara, Lee and Tabby 'Ma'am' for the most part because she may like them, but she doesn't think they see her as family. She's just the token girlfriend).

- So there's a scene where they connect, possibly over Tabby's hand and Ecco's head since I hc that Ecco gets headaches and migraines a lot (considering that she still gets shot in the head by Miah, like I said, this AU isn't necessarily the most bullet proof in terms of linear timelines)

- But so is Gotham so-

- So there's possibly a scene where Ecco's headache is getting super bad and no one's around (especially not Miah to dote on her) and Tabby awkwardly tries to bond by telling her about her hand and how she can't feel much (is a little clumsy with it) and Ecco immediately imprints on her like a duckling

- Maybe it's even the first time anyone reached out to Ecco in a way that feels genuine, especially without the twins or any of her (various) other partners being present so now she's willing to die for Tabby

- Which ends in her also calling her 'Mum' (while she keeps calling Lee and Barbara 'Ma'am' and Lee's so mad ajsnsjdj she was trying so hard to bond with this kid but couldn't quite get it right and you're telling her her socially pretty clumsy - but still wonderful of course - wife managed with just one conversation?? Slander

- And of course because I can't stop myself, there would be even more tidbits here and there of Tabby overcoming her previous way of living (as in, thinking caring or showing emotions is weakness) by having her reminisce a LOT about Theo

- For example by having Jerome climb into bed with her while Barbara's sleeping and Tabby is waiting for Lee to come home

- Lee works as a doc in the narrows which may be a little illegal, but the people didn't just stop needing help after her Queen of the Narrows arc was over, so I vote she keeps at it (and is held in very high regard for it by pretty much everyone)

- Tabby always stays up until everyone is home because she likes knowing where everyone is and that they're safe while Jerome has frequent nightmares and wanders around the house, so this isn't a rare occurrence

- And sometimes, they talk Theo

- "You miss him?" - "Don't know."

- "I wish he was still alive so I could kill him." - "....Me too." - "Which one?" - "...Both."

- (ajajsbssj this is all just copy pasted and cleaned up a lil', leave me and my pretentious way of writing dialogue alone)

- Tabby also has a lot of interludes where she thinks about what growing up with Theo was like/her childhood in general

- How she always protected him from other children bullying him and how they swore to have each other's back but how in hindsight, she was the one doing all the dirty work for him, helping him fulfill his dream and enact his revenge

- Realizing that he probably never cared for her, not like she cared for him

- There's also allusions to them having sex because you cannot tell me they did NOT have sex

- And it ends with Tabby realizing that she is quite happy with how she ended up, even if it's neither how she thought she would ever live nor what her old self would've even wanted, possibly seeing too many attachments as 'weak' judging by the way she canonly used Butch for convenience sake at first

- And yeah, maybe now she can provide the family - the Mother - somebody else desperately needs

- So she brings Silver home

[existentialburden]

fuck it this blog is for me and I wanna talk about superhero au bcause it’s wild and I love it. nobody has questioned me but that means nobody has gone out of their way to stop me either so >:3 basic summary time.

TL;DR superhero kids vs villain kids. villain clones join superheroes but then get hiveminded by a different group. one villain runs off to start a monster kid gang. some of the villains join the heroes, some join the hivemind. a clone and a villain run off to do murder, fuck w the monster squad, and then sort of start to be good people again back with the heroes. a mind-jumping clone just wants to do general murder and takes over the hivemind. the villains are in shambles so they make another clone and recruit two randos who hate the hivemind. it’s chaos.

superhero au does what it says on the tin... at first. bcause who has time to stick to just ONE storyline? disgusting. the basic story is there’s a group of superheroes- which are the C9 Mains and m’pal’s Nobel 808 gang (y’know, like the Echo and Wynn I sometimes talk about. that group), making 14 superheroes- and their one (1) robot... chaperone? he oversees it all and we love him a lot. he’s robot dad. that’s Ross. I adore him. anyway there’s that crew, Ross, and then a member who’s technically neither C9 nor Nobel 808 and that’s Hill. we love him too. so that’s all well and good. but who are they fighting? well. Nuad and Yüur (previously the [REDACTED] duo mentioned a lot y’know), along with the crew Hill belongs to, make 8 villains (along with their “boss”. Orie. who is. okay gonna level w u here everyone involved is a teenager except for like... Ross. including Orie), and they’ve done my personal favorite hero vs villain trope which is made some hero clones with false memories and THOSE are the 14 C9 and Nobel 808 alts. w Enny and such. and the clones aren’t treated great but they do what they’re told and wreck the heroes’ reputation until the heroes actually get ahold of one of them and then there’s a whole thing about getting them tf out of the villain base bcause jesus christ. fellas. y’all good? then Theo and Fate get involved as a hivemind duo and get the whole hero gang Recruited so Theo can feed off their powers... except for Enny, who managed to get away and runnnn back to the VILLAIN base to seek help there bcause what use is being a villain if Bigger Badder Villains will kick ur ass? shit happens and everyone’s freed from the hivemind, three of the villain crew join Theo and Fate to just vibe, two join the heroes bcause oh they’re nice, Nuad runs tf away bcause he’s UPSET, and Enny is like well time to be a villain again bcause fuck whatever that was. Nuad runs off to another city and starts making monstrosities and actually... finds a crew willing to be monsters. that’s Luca, Orca, Alan, Dane, West’s crew, and most of Ulfort’s crew, making a whopping 16(? I’d like to check my math but no) monster kids and that’s WITH us ignoring some of Ulfort’s crew bcause... I don’t remember why. anyway he’s got a loyal monster crew, something something found family- anyway. the villains are left with Yüur, Enny, and Nico (not me Nico, Noodle’s character Nico, I swear), led by Orie, so Orie’s like okay let’s get Enny some fun new powers so she’s happy to stay and also take away her fear by request which is nice. then the heroes go “yeah we can take em” and capture Enny & Nico (who then proceed to run tf off), and then Yüur. Enny and Nico end up running to the same city that the monster crew is in, and they clash a few times but it’s p harmless. at some point Nico finds Kodi and fights him and wins but just sort of take him as a hostage and Enny’s like dude that’s a whole-ass hero and he’s like yea ik he’s my hostage now :). which is something. Kodi’s surprisingly chill about it. the heroes eventually pick up on there being a shitton of monsters in this city and go to take care of things but end up with Kell leaving the crew to join the monsters bcause the hero life wasn’t for him. uh. Nuad finds out Enny and Nico are in town and goes >:O and gets the monster crew to capture them, along with Kodi. Enny gets her fear back, Nico loses a hand, Kodi gains a monster form against his will, and Fern gets some Memory Issues. then the monsters let em go and go break Yüur outta hero jail instead bcause Nuad was sad about it. aaand. Orca goes FERAL feral gettin way too many experimental monster forms and keeps fighting Nico so everyone goes “well let’s make Nico feral bcause he’s a bastard” and they do. and Enny goes "fuck you turn him back” and kidnaps two of the monster crew to use as a bargaining chip and long story short Nico is un-feraled, Nuad and Enny have their memories of each other wiped, and Kodi ends up back with the heroes. Enny is now hated by monster gang and Rita and Ulfort are Traumatized. alt Kodi (Kods) comes and finds Enny to convince her to come back to the hero base to chat and she does, bringing Nico along, and then they just get sorta held there again. Enny starts learning to be Not A Terrible Person Who Murders Sometimes and eventually Nico starts vibing with that too. STARTS being the key word. meanwhile Orie’s trying to build a new team somehow and ends up making a merged clone of Enny and Nuad with the corresponding memories from before each of them left the base, for fun and profit. they are allowed the ability to jump bodies and take over minds, limit one body at a time, and hate each other/themselves a lot. they have a hit list. they run tf off to go attempt murder and end up jumpin around, eventually using OG Nuad’s body to try and raid the hero base and kill Enny. that doesn’t work but it does let them jump to Aila in there and ends up giving Finn a means to gain a monster form too. he is not with that group he just wants to be a spider sometimes. the Ennuad clone ends up finding their way to the hivemind so that’s a problem again! Orie has at this point given up on them actually doing anything she wants them to so she recruits two other superpowered kids, Ryze and Enzo, to be villains bcause they hate the hivemind and Orie needs to take out the Ennuad clone anyway, and makes another merge clone with herself and Marx, one of the previous villain crew. Ryze and Enzo unionize. shit never stops happening. it’s wild rn.

[sonicfrontiers]

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i can’t fuckiong believe i forgot to respond to this holy shit. anyway thank you so fucking mcuh for sending this theo ily here i Go

in case it wasn’t obvious i am answering these abt sonic lol :) 🎶 - if your hyperfixation has songs/an ost, what is your favorite song from it?

oh fuck you this is an impossible question to answer when it is SONIC are you kidding me every piece of music ever created for this series is a goddamn masterpiece. but i think the one i’ve most consistently called my favorite is bingo party from team sonic racing so i guess i will submit that as the answer to this question

💎 are there any fun facts or trivia that you would like to share?

i like telling people who don’t know anything about sonic just what the sonic lore is really like. like i love being the one to tell people that no shadow isn’t a clone of sonic and in fact shadow was created 50 years before sonic was born and also is half alien. i don’t know i think my knowledge abt sonic is less like trivia and fun facts on the technical side and more like. I Have Created A Comprehensive Timeline Of Every Game In The Series In My Mind Including The Spinoffs And Other Dimensions And Alternate Realities And Events Erased From Existence and i think that’s too much to put in this ask response fhbjgbdf

💕 tell us about one of your favorite characters and why you like them!

YOU EVER HEAR ABOUT MEPHILES THE DARK

ok i already answered one of these ask things specifically about mephiles like ages ago so maybe i will do a different character. what about uhh. shadow smile :)

i think about shadow a lot as a character mostly because i think out of all sonic characters he’s the only one who really got like a defined character arc over several games. heroes ended with a cliffhanger on his stories for fuck’s sake, like. that’d never happened before and has never happened since. he’s got so much conflict going on and it’s really really gratifying to watch him go from so troubled and angry and hurt and clouded in sa2 all the way up to him finding peace with himself and who he is and what his purpose is in 06 (even though that all got erased. fuck man)

ok. ok ok i am going to walk away now i did not need to type that much fuck man fuck.

this was for this prompt (media hyperfixation ask game) that i rbed a while ago btw lol, feel free to send me any more if you want but there is a half chance you’ll get a homestuck reply due to Where I’m At right now and if you don’t want that watch the fuck out (if you do you can specify though smile :) )

[kaspbrak-tozier-reddie]

Band of Toziers - 4/?- ao3 

Pairings: Reddie, Storis, Byler

Words: 14.5k

Preview:

- The Losers come over as soon as Eddie send them a text, with a 'Code WTF?!' - The Party drive up to Derry to meet Richie after Mike sends them all a text Just a sappy chapter on Mike, Boris and Richie meeting the Party and Losers Club.

We're now getting some Reddie, Storis and Byler stuff now ❤

Notes:

Because there are two Mikes, I'm calling Mike Wheeler 'Mike' and Mike Hanlon 'Michael', when the two are in the same place. If I get lazy or lose track, I may refer to both by their surnames just to lessen the confusion.

This does jump from boy to boy, so I'm sorry but it should get better. I've never done this sort of thing before.

An hour after Eddie had sent a 'Code WTF' (Unique situation - changes per person), Bev rushes over. She doesn't bother with the front door and jumps in through Richie's bedroom window.

"Uhhh, did you make a clone machine?" Bev asks as soon as she picks herself off the floor. She eyeballs the three Richie's in the room, noting the subtle differences between the 3 and picks out her Richie, the only one with the bad eyesight. The other two look like weird variations of Richie's personalities.

Happy Richie:

Okay, now she's reaching, but that's just the vibe he gives her.

Emo Richie:

Fall Out Boy,

My Chemical Romance, and

Panic! at the Disco.

maybe industrial

maybe a plug

double lobe

Bev's reaching, but she wants to have fun before they come by and trash her judgement.

"Hi I'm Michael, but you can call me Mike," the one dressed in bright colours says, holding out his hand towards the young redhead.

"Hi, Mike," Bev replies.

"I'm Boris," the emo looking Richie says.

"Hi, I'm Beverly, but please call me Bev," she replies. Her strong demeanour falters into shyness. Nothing about this is okay. Why hadn’t Richie told any of them about his family?

”So, uh, I’ll explain when the others get here,” Richie says.

As they all wait for the rest of the Losers to arrive, the 5 of them sit in absolute silence. Bev is confused, watching as the three Toziers interacted with each other just by eye glances. She noted a heap of similarities in their demeanours. "Weird right?" Eddie asks.

"Yeah, and here I thought one Richie was enough," Bev replies.

Richie's bedroom door swings open and in walks the rest of the Losers Club. "SUP FUCKERS?!" Bill screams as he enters, then he sees the 3 Toziers sitting around Richie's desk. "Oh shit!" Stan, Ben and Mike spot the 3 Toziers in the room. Completely disregarding Eddie and Bev who are chilling by the window.

"Richard, did you finally make that cloning machine? The one you've been talking about?" Stan asks.

"Nope," Richie replies. "This is my twin brother, Mike." He gestures to the identical twin in the bright clothing, "and this is our cousin, Boris."

As Boris looks at the rest of the Losers, he locks eyes with a blonde-haired boy. He smiles slightly, at him, and the boy smiles back.

Now was Richie's introduction of the Losers, all groaning in dread

"Guys, this is Big Bill, our ring leader. If he jumped off a cliff, he'd expect us all to follow," Richie says as he hugs the leader.

"This is Haystack, he's a gifted poet. It got him a girl that's way outta his league," Richie points to Bev and tussles Ben's hair.

"This is Mike Meyers, you know, that dude from Austin Powers. Mike's our nerd, he lives in the library."

"Finally, we have Staniel or Stanley Urine, either one works. He likes watching birds, at first I thought he liked watching girls but I found out he meant the actual animals. So I promise, he's not a creepoid."

Mike and Boris laugh simultaneously.

"Ignore him," Stan says. "I'm Stanley Uris, that's Mike Hanlon, Ben Hanscom and Bill Denbrough." Stan throws a quick smile to Boris before looking away, blushing.

Beverly catches it in her peripheral vision. Stan's demeanour changed as soon as he saw Boris. "Eddie, do you know if Stan had a crush on Richie at some point?" Bev asks the hypochondriac. Eddie feels a pinch of jealousy running through his veins but still thinks upon it. He wasn't subtle with his feelings, but if Stan did have a crush on Richie, it would've been subtle. The hypochondriac tries to get into Stan's mind but comes up blank.

"I don't think so, why?" Eddie responds.

"I swear I just saw Stan blush."

Eddie sits upright and looks directly at Stan.  He tries to hide his jealousy, and takes his time before saying, "Richie?"

Bev shakes her head, "Boris."

Eddie wants to laugh, that can't be right. Stan is emotionless and often talks about dying or birds. So, it can't be true, that Stan blushed, Bev must've been seeing things. But then he sees it for himself, Stan is laughing with Boris, his cheeks are bright red but he doesn't even care. He elbows Bev and gestures to Stan, she smirks, then turns back to Eddie. "So, what about you and the Trashmouth? Told him yet?"

"No," Eddie lies through gritted teeth. He has to talk to Richie about it first before they tell the Losers.

*

"So, Mike, you seeing anyone?" Ben asks Richie's twin.

"Yeah, my best friend, Will Byers," Mike replies.

"Gee Rich, step up your game and ask out Eddie," Bill says.

"I thought that - " Mike sees Richie shaking his head; he doesn't continue.

Much like Eddie, Richie wants to wait until he has spoken to his hypochondriac boyfriend.

Richie listens in on Mike, learning about his group of friends. Like Richie's group, they have a name for themselves. Instead of the 'Losers Club', Mike's group calls themselves the Party.

There's a shit ton of similarities between the two groups that Richie realises as Mike explains. The Party sit in Mike's basement playing Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) and the Losers Club sit in an underground bunker (clubhouse) doing god knows what, mostly drinking and playing 'truth or dare' or 'never have I ever'.

Then as Mike starts explaining his friends, Richie quickly learns that Mike's their ring leader like Bill's the Losers Club's leader.

Will sounds a bit like Eddie;

Dustin = Richie;

Lucas = Stan;

Jane = Ben;

Maxine 'Max' = Bev; and

Steve = Mike.

Richie got all of that just by Mike's descriptions of his friends. It amazes Richie, sometimes, how fast his mind works. Maybe it also has something to do with his undiagnosed ADHD.

"Anyone want anything to drink?" Richie asks, they all said 'yes'. "Eds, can you help me?"

"How many times, Richard? Don't call me 'Eds'!" Eddie responds and gets up, following his tall boyfriend down the stairs.

*

"Hey, Boris, can I talk to you for a second?" Beverly asks the 'emo-looking' Richie.

"Yeah, okay," Boris replies, he gets up from his seat on the desk and sits on the window sill, beside Bev.

"Do you like Stan?" It catches Boris off guard, it stammers a little. "It's just, he's been blushing like mad and he never really does that." Boris looks towards the blonde-haired boy for the umpteenth time today.

There are several things that Boris notices about the bird expert. The way he stands when talking to people; perfect posture. His hand gestures as he speaks. Boris is not one to believe in 'love at first sight' but he thinks that he can let this one slide. There's just something different about Stanley compared to Theo. He started to like Theo a few months after they started to hang out, maybe it was the drugs or the alcohol but he's been sober for 48 hours now. He hasn't had a craving for weed, coke or alcohol since he laid his eyes on the blonde-haired boy.

Beverly nudges Boris, "you're staring," she states. "I can hook you two up if you want?"

"No thank you, Beverly. I need to get to know Kolibri first," Boris says.

"'Kolibri'?"

"It means Hummingbird in Russian." Boris removes himself and goes back to join Mike and the others.

Bev just lets it sink in, 'Hummingbird'. Why did he call Stan a Hummingbird?

He did make Stan laugh before; it makes sense. Maybe.

Stan looks over to Bev, she quickly signals over. He mutters a quick 'sorry' to Mike, and pads over to Bev. "You called?" Stan says.

"Do you like Boris?" Bev asks, cutting to the chase, she's not in the mood for that airy-fairy bullshit.

"No, maybe, yes? I don't know," Stan sighs.

He too isn't one to believe in 'love at first sight', he finds it bullshit. But he couldn't explain his feelings about Boris any other way.

"He called you a hummingbird, in Russian."

"It's the way I laugh, it sounds like I'm humming." Stan smiles and blushes. Beverly had only ever seen one person do that, and that was Eddie whenever he spoke about Richie. With Eddie, it was a sign of embarrassment and shame because of the bullshit lies Sonia fed him. But Stan? Stan's is because he's shy, he's opening up to Beverly about something that he would normally go to Richie for. Richie would make a joke, to break the tension, but would 100% support him.

"Is it weird? He looks so much like Richie, I need to talk to him." Stan gets up and goes downstairs to where Richie and Eddie are pouring everyone a drink.

*

"Richie, Eddie, can I talk to you both ab - " Stan cuts himself off as he walks in on Richie and Eddie kissing. "Never mind." He does a 180 and heads back to the stairs.

"Wait!" Richie calls, "We'll explain just tell us what you wanted, please."

"Okay, I'll go first," Stan says, he sighs, "I may have developed some sort of crush on your cousin." Eddie's jaw drops; he didn't misread Stan. Richie smiles, which freaks Stanley out. "Why are you smiling?"

"Because it's cute!" Richie exclaims.

"But he looks like you! I just don't think - "

"You worried you'd get feelings for me or something?"  

Stan pauses for a bit and looks at the ground. "I don't know, maybe. You both look alike, he's basically like you. So's Mike."

"Stan, look at me." Stan moves his head up and meets Richie's eyes. "Look me dead in the eyes and tell me that you only see me as a friend."

Stan looks to Eddie, who's still got his lips parted. The blonde boy smiles momentarily at Eddie, then looks back to Richie. He searches Richie's face, looking at the similarities between Boris and him; physically. Okay, so Richie's kinda hot, Stan thinks, but as he gets to the personality, Boris is more chill and conventional. He isn't spontaneous like Richie is.

Richie is bothersome, his jokes are appalling and not to mention his flirting with Eddie. Considering what Stan just saw in the kitchen, he's hoping that Richie will be less vexatious. But then again, even before Eddie, Richie was annoying. Who knew a 5-year-old could be that irritating? Also, he's astonishingly intelligent, barely has to study for anything and will still pass with flying colours (it'll be interesting to see what he'll be like at college). Stan's spent too much time with the trashmouth that he's not fully attracted to him, besides his looks. But that's because Boris, who looks a lot like Richie, opened a floodgate.

"I like you as a friend," Stan says, staring at Richie.

"Also, Stan, please don't say anything to the others about Rich and me, please," Eddie says.

"Wouldn't dream of it, Kaspbrak," Stan replies and grabs a tray off the bench.

*

The three boys carry up a tray each of the drinks, for the Losers, Mike and Boris. Richie gives Stan a wink and shoves him lightly into Boris, causing him to fall directly into Boris' lap. Stan gives a tight embarrassed smile at Boris before giving Richie the middle finger, to which, Richie responds with his own.

Mike watches from the sidelines, looking between both Richie, Stan & Boris. He nudges Michael, "Does that normally happen?" Mike asks.

"Hmm, no, Stan and Richie say one or two words to each other. Then just stare,"  Michael replies. "Richie smiling at Stan? That's not normal."

"When Richie tried to set Stan up with Greg, he smiled exactly ... " Bill trails off and looks directly to Stan, who, by the way. hasn't bothered to remove himself from Boris' lap. "Oh."

Even Ben and Bev notice the smile that Richie is giving Stan, whenever their eyes lock. Everyone in that damn room can see that Richie and Stan are best friends. Mike Wheeler thought that maybe Richie and Stan hated each other but that smile; that god damn smile ... It's living proof that Stan likes Richie's opinion. Because Richie and Stan are best friends.

Bev walks over to the three boys, leaving her boyfriend with Richie and Eddie. "You know, Stan told me that he needed to speak to Richie," Bev says.

"That makes no sense," Michael says. "Stan has never once asked for Richie's advice."

"Whenever Richie and I have our smoke sessions on Fridays, he tells me if Stan had spoken to him," Bev explains. "Not to mention, Richie goes to him before he comes to me."

"Wait, wait. Does that mean that Stan found out that Richie was gay before you did?" Bill asks. Bev nodded. "If you knew for a whole 5 months, Stan knew for what? 5, 6? Months?"

"8, actually." The boys' jaws drop; Stan had kept a secret for 8 months and said nothing?

It puzzles the Losers as to why the two-act like they hate each other when, in reality, they're the best of friends.

Mike is just listening in by this point when he starts to get a little bored - he's not going to lie. He decides to talk with the others on the opposite side of the room.

"How's it going, Mike?" Eddie asks.

"Good, good. This is the chaos that I miss," The Party's leader says. "It was before we met Jane and Maxine, it was just us boys."

"Chaotic as fuck?" Richie chimes in, Mike laughs and nods his head. "Say, Mikey, invite your friends up. We've got the room and I'm sure mom won't care. If not, we can chill at Mike's farm."

Mike shrugs and pulls his phone out from his pocket. He opens the Party's group chat inviting the Party up to Derry.

**** **** ****

A few hours later, the Losers, Boris and Mike all head down to the clubhouse. Showing the two newcomers the ropes. As per usual, Eddie and Richie sit in the hammock, just not head to toe like normal. More like sitting side-by-side, cuddling. "Say, Koromyslo, you and Edward? Yeah?" Boris pipes up. Richie ignores the question, only focusing on the unknown word that sounds a Russian translation of sorts.

"What's a 'koromyslo'?" Richie asks.

"Rocker," Boris says monotonously. "So you and Edward? Yes?" Stan giggles.

"You fucking snitch, Stan!" Richie yelps.

"I said nothing, you two are so obvious!" Stan laughs. "You always sit head to toe. Now you're cuddling?"

"You're insufferable," Richie mutters.

"He isn't denying it," Beverly says. "Did you two finally admit your feelings?"

Richie rolls his eyes and looks at Eddie, the boy beside him nods head slowly with caution. The Trashmouth cups Eddie's face in his hands and kisses him. He goes to lean down a little more, trying his best to get in a comfortable position but accidentally leans too much into Eddie. The hammock rocks dangerously and tips the two boys out.

Richie's glasses are just millimetres from falling off his face and are held up by Eddie's shoulder. Quickly fixing them, he looks up to see Eddie straddling him. "Well, I like this view," Richie says. Eddie groans in disgust.

Why? Goddammit, Richie! Eddie thinks to himself

"Come on guys! Leave this place for our innocent childhoods!" Ben groans.

Eddie pushes himself off Richie, dusting himself down before holding out his hand for Richie. "Damn, then I can't tell you ... eh, who am I kidding? I've jerked off to the thought of Eddie's mom down here," Richie says.

"BEEP BEEP RICHIE!" All 6 Losers groan and Eddie punches him in the arm.

"Why do I like you?" Eddie mutters.

Richie looks somewhat offended but knows that Eddie is 100% joking. The two reposition on the hammock and Richie leans over to grab a comic book. His backpack sits by the wooden post that's barely within arms reach. Bev watches on, silently hoping that the hammock tips over again; that would be priceless.

*

Mike and Boris watch the Losers Club sit around minding their own business. Richie and Eddie are reading a comic together, while Stan is bird watching, from a hole in the ceiling. Bev, Ben, Mike (Hanlon) and Bill are playing cards quietly by the swing.

The only sounds that can be heard are the rustling of pages turning; rope squeaking, as the hammock rocks gently; leaves rustling above them, and birds chirping.

Suddenly a buzzing noise interrupts the silence, every head in the underground bunker turns to Mike. He pulls his phone from his pocket.

"Hey, babe?" Mike answers.

"We'll be there in like a day. We're catching a flight now," Will says on the other side of the call.

"Okay, see you tomorrow, Will. Love you."

"Love you too."

Mike hangs up the phone. "What?" Everyone goes back to what they were doing, leaving Mike to his thoughts.

"It's 6 pm, guys," Bill says.

"Crap! Mom's not going to be happy! I'll be grounded for sure!" Eddie says.

"You're staying at mine, remember?" Richie says as he helps Eddie out of the hammock.

"Shoot, sorry, Rich."

"All good, Eds."

Mike follows but looks back to Boris, who's waiting patiently for Stan. The Wheeler boy sees something in his cousin's eye; a look that he's seen today and every day, for the past year. It's the look of love, no doubt about it. He climbs up the corroded aluminium ladder where Richie and Eddie are waiting. Mike feels a slight wind change and sees Eddie shiver. As if on intuition, his brother wraps his arms, tightly, around the hypochondriac. "Hurry, you two. Eddie will get hypothermia!" Mike calls.

"It's not that - " Stan emerges from the bunker and immediately gets hit with the wind change. "Never mind, it's a wee bit chilly."

Boris quickly hoists himself up and shrugs off his leather jacket, enveloping it around Stan's shoulders. The boy blushes ferociously, as he tugs the jacket's opening together, he leans into Boris for extra warmth.

As the 5 of them walk up to the streets of Derry, Mike feels like he's 5th wheeling, slowing down his pace to walk behind the couples - one couple; Richie breaks his awkwardness.

"I was thinking since your friends and boyfriend are coming tomorrow, what if we go on a camping trip? The 6 of us? The week before we're set to go to college?" Richie says.

"Hang on Rich, 6 of us?" Stan asks.

"Well, wouldn't want Boris to be 5th wheeling now, would we?" Richie replies, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.

"Yeah, but why me?" Stan states.

Richie simply points to the leather jacket that's enveloped around the blonde's shoulders. Stan reddens again, leaning into Boris to conceal his embarrassment, but that only makes it worse.

**** **** ****

The following day, Mike awaits the arrival of his friends. All but Dustin and Lucas were coming, due to last-minute college plans and family vacations, the two couldn't make it; but Max, Will and El are coming. The three of them are catching a taxi into town. "When were you friends supposed to get here?" Maggie asks Mike.

"9 am," Mike replies, still pacing impatiently. The clock on the wall reads '11 am', the Party is 2 hours late and Mike's starting to worry. "Maybe their flight's delayed."

Maggie nods, hugging her second son briefly before heading off to work, leaving Mike and Richie alone, in the kitchen. The Wheeler boy checks his phone again for the 10th time within the past 20 minutes, still no messages from his friends. Richie makes another cup of coffee for himself, putting himself in the way of Mike's pacing line.

"Check the Snapmap," Richie says, getting annoyed with his brother's pacing.

"I don't have snap chat, and neither do my friends," Mike replies.

Abruptly, a boy comes down the stairs in nothing but boxers, huffing out in annoyance. Boris could hear the two of them, all the way upstairs. He's usually a heavy sleeper so how the fuck is Eddie still asleep?

"What even is social media?" Boris replies groggily.

"Did you seriously just get up?" Mike ripostes.

"Yes, now quiet. I need my normal 4 cups of coffee before anyone talks to me," Boris says and grabs the pot of coffee, pouring it into a mug that he pulls from the cabinet above. Richie and Boris leave the kitchen to wake up elsewhere, allowing Mike to deal with his chaotic crisis.

*

Finally, 3 hours later, the Party shows up, "What the hell?" Mike says as he stands on the bottom-most stair. "Where have you guys been?!"

"Our taxi broke down, we had to walk all the way here. No reception." Will puffs out.

"Mike, who's at the - oh, hello," Richie says as he goes down the stairs. "I take it, you're Will." Will just about faints when he sees Richie and it doesn't help that Boris exits from the kitchen, causing poor Will to faint.

Richie yells for Eddie with his 2 fanny packs (that he no longer uses) but still has first aid supplies.

The feisty young lad comes bounding down the stairs with a cold and wet cloth. "Well, lay him down," Eddie says. "And Boris, Richie, mind if you leave the room? I don't want him to faint again." The trashmouth and the emo leave the room, while Eddie tends to Will.

"Richie wasn't kidding," Mike says.

"Yeah well, you pick up a few things when your mom makes you think you're sick when you not," Eddie retorts; he turns his head to look at the girls. "Hey, I'm Eddie, Mike's told us all about you."

"I'm El, and this is Max," the brunette says. "Who were those boys?"

"The one with the glasses is Richie, my boyfriend and Mike's brother. They had no idea that the other existed until yesterday." Eddie explains. "The other, dressed in black, is Boris, their cousin. He was adopted by a Russian family when his parents died. His story is super morbid."

Will stirs on the couch and Mike rushes to take Eddie's place beside Will, keeping the cool cloth on his head. "What happened?" Will asks.

"You fainted, guess my brother and cousin are a bit too much," Mike says. "You okay?"

Will nods and Mike leans down to peck his lips.

"Don't worry, I'll bring them out, just don't faint on me again," Mike says.

"Wouldn't dream of it," Will replies, the boy spots Eddie in his peripheral vision. "I'm Will Byers."

"Eddie Kaspbrak," Eddie replies and takes the cloth off Will's forehead.

Mike walks back out with Richie and Boris; the two boys behind him, scratch the backs of their heads nervously as they are introduced to each of the Party members. So as it turned out, Mike and El dated before Mike got with Will. It had taken El moving away with the Byers for Mike to realise that he wasn't in love with El, he was in love with Will. "I had spoken to El, about it," Mike says, "thankfully she was understanding."

"We were better off as friends anyway," El states.

It's awkward for a moment, and Richie thinks of a good icebreaker. "Shall we head down to the quarry?" Richie asks.

"Where Koromyslo?" Boris asks.

"You know where we were yesterday?" Boris and Mike nod, "It's a few yards further, it's where we like to go swimming."

"Ahem!" Eddie fake coughs.

"Sorry, most of us, like to go swimming. Eddie hates it because there are germs," Richie fixes. "But, babe, let me just say that there are germs everywhere you go, including a hospital."

Eddie rolls his eyes. "If we're going, we need swimwear," Eddie says. El and Max look at each other, "Shit, Richie maybe we should go and get Bev."

Richie whips his phone out and immediately starts texting the redhead and not even 2 minutes later, she's bursting into the Tozier residence.

"I heard two gals needed swimmers," Bev says. "Hello, I'm Beverly Marsh, the only girl in the group of 7 dirty annoying, chaotic boys."

"Piss off Marsh, I just wanted the swimmers. You're not coming," Richie spits, then starts laughing and as does Bev. "Sorry, she can be a bit of a handful sometimes. Ignore her, she's just happy that she has other females to talk to."

The redhead sticks her tongue out at the trashmouth, only to get a middle finger in return. "Well Bev, I'm Maxine, Max for short. And this is El," the other redhead says. "I think we're going to get along just fine." Bev leads them up the stairs, letting the 4 boys wonder what the fuck just happened.

"Girls." They all said simultaneously.

**** **** ****

As the lot of them finally made it to the quarry, they are aced with the massive cliff. "Is it safe to jump?" Max asks.

"We do it all the time," Richie says.

"Yeah, after Bev constantly shows us up," Eddie replies and on cue the redhead pushes past everyone, jumping straight into the murky green water below. Boris goes next, somersaulting into the water.

"Oh come on!" Richie cries and goes to do a run up.

"No! Don't you dare, that's dangerous"' Eddie says sternly, Richie gestures to Boris. "You're clumsy and idiotic; he's probably done a heap of practice. Do. Not. Do. It."

Taking his boyfriend's advice he just does a basic run and jump, landing feet first in the disgusting water below.

Since Eddie is left with the newcomers he links them up, standing in between El and Will, taking both their hands in his and guiding them forward. Mike spits out the shitty water that got into his mouth and as does Eddie.

Boris, Bev and Mike immediately start to splash each other and wrestle, in the water; while Richie sits on the sandbank to get to know the others a bit.

Max starts off, talking about how she beat Mike's highest score on an arcade game. It was the initial reason as to why she thought Mike hated her. ' 'MadMax' beat my high score '. Richie and her, got talking about skateboarding, he had always wanted to try it but never got around to it. "I'll show you, I taught El not too long ago and now she's a pro," Max says.

"Well, in that case, sign me up," Richie replies.

El's next. She had fled the orphanage when she was 12/13, she met Mike, Dustin and Lucas in the woods one rainy night while they were looking for Will. Richie starts to laugh as El said that Mike hid her in his basement for a solid few months without no one knowing besides Dustin and Lucas.

Before Will can say a word, Richie feels cold water on his now partially dry hair. "You're dead Marsh!" Richie bellows.

"It wasn't Marsh this time," Eddie teases.

"I don't care that I love you, you're going down Kaspbrak!"

Will, Max and El watch on as Richie and Eddie tackle each other, laughing.

[pastellarts]

Music has always been a huge part of my daily life, keeping me company in any moment, work, inspiration, exams, love and break-ups, graphic design projects, you name it. Many songs and melodies pop in my head when reading stories as well and I make my head canon soundtracks.

The Rogue & Gambit mini has concluded and has made the fans of the 2 characters and especially of the pairing full of happiness. As the story was unfolding in the 5 issues, I was thinking of songs that could describe how a character feels, a situation or an action sequence. Further, because I used to do Radio shows in the past and creating a playlist was never a simple task.

The songs are from various genres, countries and periods and most of them damn sexy. Special nod to 90s songs that were so cool when the pairing was born. Many thanks to  @anaxpert and @cajuncajole for making suggestions and wonderful additions. Check also the forum discussion “Soundtrack of Love” in ff.net. Feel free to comment with songs that match with what you read or how you felt and of course create your own!

So, here is my personal playlist for the mini in youtube and a short explanation for each track of the playlist :)

PS: I have never fangirled so hard in my life before!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSHQsSs-RPCcRwiRFGWeW0eYp7mxWCCtP

#1 - Ring of Fire (the title, of course)

Issue 1

#2 - Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White: fits colours, powers and Gambit’s mischievous and sneaky when he enters the DR session and flirts with Rogue

#3 Missing: one of the best songs of the 90s, well, Gambit misses Rogue a lot.

#4 Sympathique: Kitty’s office, where she sends them with that ‘eat shit’ grin to the mission and knows what she is doing.

#5 I heard it through the Grapevine: The awesome flight scene

#6 Stop Draggin�� my heart around: the best Rock ‘n Roll duet for Gambit, whose patience runs out

#7 La isla Bonita: A sexy song to take us to the island

Issue 2

#8 Strange Love: Therapy starts

#9 Wildest Moments: When I heard this song for the first time, I thought immediately of the on-off relationship between them and fits perfectly the pages where they talk with bubbles

#10 Ojos Así: Rogue meets Gambit with the strange eyes (suggested by @anaxpert)

#11 Beautiful Tango: the B&E scene

#12 Would you go to bed with me: Nothing better to describe Gambit’s libido

#13 Crazy little thing called love: and how it was love at first sight for Gambit

#14 Don’t let me be misunderstood: A classic for Rogue that tries to explain

#15 Too hip to retire: a jazz song for the attack from the first golems

#16 Voodoo Dreams: enter Lavish

Issue 3

#17 Because the night: Antarctica

#18 Leather and Lace: trust Stevie Nicks to write a song for trust issues

#19 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face: first time together physically, first time admitting and talking through things

#20 Fool: Rogue’s explanation

#21Try again: taking a leap together

#22 Together in electric dreams: wanted to add something for the electricity here

#23 Lovesong: Adele makes us feel all the feels

#24 Wild is the wind: In bed with the love of your life

#25 Lovefool: Ma colombe and loving looks during hospital visit

#26 Cool Plan: Mission time with sexy innuendos

#27 Rock and Roll: and action!

#28 Love is a Battlefield: classic 80s for battle against their own clones

Issue 4

#29 Take Five: Rogue talks and Gambit needs five min to release them

#30 Rearrange: absorbing memories from each other

#31 Can’t help falling in love: Rogue’s memory of the wedding of Scott and Jean

#32 What is love: what else would they dance to but a 90s classic?

#33 Hedonism: Gambit’s memory and feelings

#34 My Feet can’t fail me now: fast New Orleans jazz for them fighting having no time to spare (tip @cajuncajole)

#35 Connected: Classic 90s for realising what they need to do with these memories

#36 History: what about the bad memories?

#37 Besame Mucho: “Never use last with us”

Issue 5

#38 Boom boom boom: Bang bang bang bang and fight!

#39 Where is my mind: Who is Lavish?

#40 Supergirl: 'Dat’s what I’m talking about, you guys are dead meat’

#41 By your side: Gambit is by her side

#42 I got you babe: another 90s node to those 2

#43 My first my last my everything: ‘If time is a circle then everything happens at once. Now. Before. Forever.”

#44 Here comes the sun: Giving the memories back

#45 Love’s what I want: who doesn't? Theo shares some words of wisdom and Rogue gets it.

#46 La Vie en Rose, #47 I belong to you, #48 Halo and #49 All long as there is you: Rogue will take messed up with Remy LeBeau anytime.

#50: San me koitas: ‘Cheesy’ Greek love song written for a romantic movie in the 70s with awesome opening melody (open subtitles for the lyrics) for their happy sunset

Bonus tracks: #51 The Lovecats - #52 Catgroove because Roguey will meet some cats :D

Thank you once more @1979semifinalist and @pereperezart

[dearmrsawyer]

It’s hard to find ace fics, and even harder to find good ones. There are a variety of ace experiences in this list. In some of them the main character is ace, but not all of them. Some of them are stories about asexuality, and some of them aren’t. But sometimes it’s just nice to have ace characters without their identity being the centre of the known universe. There are a variety of ships here, so hopefully if you also like ace fics, you’ll find something here you haven’t read before!

10am gare du nord by achapterends [tomlinshaw, 2k]

Nick visits Paris, and he leaves with a promise.

A Most Diverting Adventure by nothanksweregood [OT5/Bressie, 10k, historical fantasy au]

A curious interaction with the village's local blacksmith leads to adventures undreamt of.

Ace by aclosetlarryshipper [Larry, 32k]

It’s real. He can’t keep denying it. Denial has just made things more difficult. Acceptance is the first stage to anything.

Louis sniffles and pulls the sun visor down, flipping it open to reveal the mirror. He stares into his own icy eyes, grimacing at the red rim around the edges.

He tries to say the words, but they still feel too final and condemning.

all things grow by outwardbound93 [Narry, 6k]

Maybe this is doing it all over again, Harry thinks, looking out at a crowd whose cell phone cameras are lit up as far as he can see, like stars in a summer sky. Harry turns and sees Niall there beside him, his face all wonder. The years haven’t touched him a bit. “Well,” says Niall. “It’s not space, but it’ll do.”

Or, Harry acts, and sings, and figures out who he is when he's not.

B-side by blainedarling [Zarry, 14k]

Everyone loves Harry—but, to Zayn, Harry is six foot of infuriating, who spends his time pottering around Craze Records and stealing Zayn's flying saucers. (Or, the record store AU where Zayn's too proud to realise that the only reason he finds Harry so annoying is because he fancies the pants off him.)

but that’s all i want to do right now by nothanksweregood [Gen, 5k, werewolf au]

Maybe 2016 was the year of Realising Things, but it takes a party and a conversation with Nick Grimshaw for Niall to realise some important things about himself.

Now with fully shifted werewolves!

call this what you like by dramaturgicallycorrect [Narry, 12k]

Harry’s looking for love in all the wrong places, and Niall’s not meant to be looking at all. 

Cool for Cats by rockinaintnowalkinthepark (PDF) [Larry, 23k]

There’s Louis, there’s Harry, and there’s the lovingly and fittingly named Trash-Cat (formerly known as Lucifer).

divinely decreed and custom made by nightwideopen [Tomlinshaw, 3k, wingfic]

Nick tucks himself into the corner, making himself as small as possible. Meanwhile, Louis kicks his feet up onto the adjacent empty seats, larger than life and reminding Nick how he's everything.

find a way out of myself again by mozartspiano [Narry, 18k]

Harry can't go home so he makes a new one.

AU set in Montreal, Canada.

Finding Lou by stylinsoncity [Larry, 60k]

Louis is the nomadic stranger who wanders into Harry’s bookstore. Harry is the skeptic who falls for him.

It’s Just You and I and This TV by secretspeller [Tomlinshaw, 9k, sickfic]

Nick couldn’t imagine Louis, in all his lionhearted prickly-mischievous pop-stardom, as the object of worry, but Harry sounded genuinely concerned so Nick gave in. “Fine,” he said, “I’ll look in on him after the show.”

Let It Be Lightning by alexenglish [OT5/Bressie, 40k, Pacific Rim au]

Niall Horan made a choice when he enlisted with the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. Leave his family and try to make a difference. He started out as a Jaeger Tech, elbow-deep in the greasy guts of the machines that were supposed to save the world, but here he is, five years later, fresh out of the Ranger Academy with another choice to make:

Assemble a team of Rangers able to pilot two or more Jaegers at any given moment. Interchangeable partnerships, all Drift Compatible with each other. The implications of pulling off this project are astronomical, but at the end of the day, Niall's just worried about how many people are going to end up inside his head.

like deja vu by justawordshaker [Nouis, 100k, magic realism au]

A canon compliant magical realism au that follows Niall and the boys while they try to navigate a post-Zayn world. 

Naive Melody by liquidmeasure [Ziall, 23k]

Post-Zayn canon fic. Zayn steps in to help Niall deal with Theo. Niall isn't sure how to deal with Zayn.

Nowhere feels like somewhere (in your arms) by geewhizmo [Zarry, 19k, mermaid au]

Zayn begrudgingly resigns himself to spending a long and boring summer house-sitting in a tiny seaside town with nobody but a dog for company.

That is, until he meets the boy who makes his home beneath the grey ocean waters.

(A mer!au that takes place in an imaginary town off the coast of B.C., Canada)

On the Waves, Down to Earth by missberrycake [Lilo, 46k, Jurassic World au]

In which the Jurassic World luxury resort’s array of cloned dinosaurs aren’t enough to keep the public’s attention. When a crack team of scientists create the genetically engineered Indominus Rex, something goes terribly wrong. The vicious creature escapes, leaving it up to Harry, Liam, Louis, and Niall to save the park from an all-out, prehistoric assault. And if it takes the threat of an imminent dinosaur attack for Louis to realise his feelings for Liam aren’t purely platonic, then so be it.

only words to protect by serenityandtea [Paylinshaw, 30k, HP au]

Hogwarts AU in which Hogwarts really isn't the safest place in the Wizarding World any more, Louis and Liam just want the war to be over already, and Nick thinks he's sending them off to boarding school.

(right in there.) by softly [Ziall, 2k, werewolf au]

When you touch me, my mind is gone. The only words I know are lost inside your body.

something good can work by thebelljarlife [Nouis, 13k, hurt/comfort]

It's the beginning of the OTRA tour and Niall's knee isn't what it should be, and Louis is there to help when he can.

They Lie There Hand In Hand by almizil [Nouis, 18k, youtubers au]

It started when Louis tweeted “Any suggestions for my next video?”, and multiple fans immediately started begging him to collaborate with Niall Horan. The name seemed familiar. He’d heard it before, but he didn’t really care enough to keep up with other YouTubers. “@MRS_ TOMLINSON92 whose that ?” he tweeted back. Cue about 10 or 20 links to the same video. Interesting.

(Or, Louis and Niall are YouTubers who become a duo, then a couple. Their flaws make things complicated.)

wait up, i’m coming home by hattalove [Larry, 28k]

The one where louis finds harry, then loses him, then finds him again. a flawless performance from fate featuring some penguins, some celestial bodies, and a whole lot of tea.

You Didn’t Say You’re Sorry (You Don’t Care That You Hurt Me) by slashter [Gen, 13k]

"I'm asexual," he says, almost immediately, and four sets of eyes widen--he can feel the intensity of their gazes burn into his sides.

[Or the one where Niall comes out to his bandmates but doesn't get quite the reaction he hopes for from one of them]

[asagimeta]

Teen Wolf episode 6x10- “Riders Of The Storm”- Observations And Predictions

So... as most of you have probably guessed, I'm not what you would call "happy" with the episode, in fact, I'm pretty upset by it.. I.. need to go drown in fanon for a wile, but because of my OCD, the observations and predictions come first, so as much as I'd love to get through this quickly, there are alot of questions- and I mean ALOT- that need to be discussed... hopefully I'm not here *all* night though

Stiles still seemed aware as he was looking at the board and saw the ticket before hearing Lydia, this is significant because we see that once again, he's the only person who's aware in the train station (from the original batch, that is) without having a deep emotional connection to draw him out

That Stilinski reunion.... man oh man was that a great reunion, even my mom squealed and got chills! ... Wich makes me wonder why the hell that was all we got, we didn't get ANYTHING else with the sheriff and his son? The sheriff, who has spent the entire season going through this emotional journey with and for Stiles, and finally, FINALLY he seems to have really broken through his negativity towards Stiles for... less than five minutes? Why? That makes zero sense, we even see the sheriff again at the station but this grand reunion only lasted for a few fleeting moments and then isn't even MENTIONED again? Why?

So only one person can see the rift.... that's interesting, or rather, I guess, only one person can see someone coming THROUGH the rift? Malia caused a flicker after all, but you know, man, this just.... this has GOT to point towards magic!Stiles... a rift form and Stiles just plain pushed through it? He didn't get burned? He didn't have to have ANYTHING to do with the Hunt? Even Liam had to jump on that horse in order to get through a rift (how the hell did he actually land upright on that creature anyway?) How does any of that BEGIN to make sense without magic!Stiles? (He could be a were!meerkat by how he sprung up in that jeep...)

Malia trusts Lydia the way Scott should trust Stiles, wich is GREAT development considering the beginning of their relationship was "If she was injured I'd eat her", I'm happy to see it :) I do wonder though, since Scott seems suddenly MUCH more loving and sincere towards Stiles, if he trusts him at all like he should...

"A true alpha, a werewcoyote, a banshee-" "A Stiles", God this one scene, this one LINE, has so much in it, so much magic!Stiles potential!! For one thing, this is very oddly similar to the speech Theo made- "I came for the beta with anger issues, the banshee, the dark kitsune, the werecoyote, I came for Void Stiles!" (I don't remember if that's the right order but you get my point) How eerily similar.... and then there's the fact that once again Stiles is referring to himself as a *something*, "What the hell is a Stiles?" ring any bells? Plus the entire "What are you now?" "Better" convo... and remember, a stiles is a bridge that humans can cross but not animals, so a Stiles is a bridge.... ugh there's just so much there....

Reunions continue to give me life, they continue to kill me and give me life, I have nothing to say except that really

Parrish's green fire... huh..... his oddness continues to amaze me but there's nothing meta about it I can think of for now

So... what determines where people go? I mean on the one hand you have people like Mason and Hayden ending up in the same place because they were taken around the same time but.... then on the other hand Peter was taken the same episode and ended up somewhere COMPLETELY different, there's no link between someone being taken by Dug vs the actual hunt either, and yet some are ending up at the actual train station and some are ending up in places scattered around Beacon Hills that have been turned into the train station... even Scott and Stiles later on are taken at almost exactly the same time and yet Stiles ends up on one floor of the school and Scott ends up on the other... what determines where someone goes? Anything?

I can't believe Stiles was gone for three months, I mean I know that time moves differently in the other realm, we all knew that, but I still thought it was three weeks at the very MOST, am I the only one who didn't ///AT ALL//// feel like three months had passed in canon?

I'm so happy that Stiles did that liquid nitrogen thing, I love seeing his quick-thinking in action, wich isn't meta but it's just... it's nice... and I deserve something nice after that ending.....

So... you can't stop the train... but you're going to divert the train to send them to another town .. to... do their supernatural feasting elsewhere...? That seems awfully ... chaotic neutral to me.... or maybe lawfull neutral I don't know.... but it's just odd, that Scott, the KING of We Have To Save Everyone, just sends the train on it's way without even trying to look into a more permenant solution, and why, again, do we not know why the hunt was stuck? Are they not at all concerned that they'll get stuck in the next place too? It just seems so abrupt and desperately OOC that they didn't even bother looking into anything else, they didn't exactly exhaust any efforts, and if it was a matter of time, why not divert it for NOW and go back to it later? But no, everyone just moved on like the Big Bad was actually defeated....

And because I'm letting myself talk about nice things this post, have we talked about Papa Stiles/Pack Mom Stiles lately? Because it was nice and present in this episode and I appreciate that on EVERY level

So... Scott seems IMMENSELY more clingy with Stiles than he's ever, EVER been before and oh God I love it, "Do you want to split up?" "Never again"- when has Scott ever had that attitude towards Stiles? Especially in a serious, life or death- mass life or death at that- situation? That's more like something Stiles would say to Scott, I'm so happy to see this development, and although the mysterious bad-memories scene last episode wasn't addressed, I think it did really make some changes to how Scott sees Stiles, and I'm glad for that, if not still a little confused, having the freindship in canon that they have in fanon is something I've always wanted to see (even though it's way too early to tell if that's really what's happening/going to happen, it's still worth mentioning)

Onto something I *don't* appreciate however, the Malia and Peter scene, it feels like Malia really was forced to give up alot of autonomy here, she has VERY clearly chosen more than once to consider herself a Tate and not a Hale, and has made it as explicitly clear as she possibly can, and yet this entire season has been showing the Malia HALE connection with no references to her father and very much pushing Malia into a relationship she clearly doesn't want- and worse, pushing it in an emotional way, I mean I get in *canon* why they had to do that and it makes sense, but I wish the writers had done it differently because it just seems strange that she spent so much time clearly denying being a Hale and now all of a sudden it's forced down her throat, like asking someone "Do you want a red popsicle or a blue one?" and then when they say red you give them nothing but blue, it's.... very annoying....

I'm just... really surprised no one has made the "wolf herding the sheep" analogy with Peter leading the people out of the train station yet... honestly... *cough*

Why can Peter make contact one second and not the next? One minute his claws are going straight through the rider, hitting nothing but fog, and then the next he's able to kick the guy into the wall? What changed? It didn't seem like there was really any difference

So Corey being used as a bridge actually explains ALOT about how people are crossing in and out of the other realm and why the memory stuff seemed to sort of stop with Corey, remember that the last time someone was brought up as being forgotten it was Corey himself, and after Mason found his phone it sort of... stopped, so Corey merging the realities explains THAT much atleast

Ahh the scene were Stiles is almost shot... it mirrors the scene with the chemist in season four so well, once again someone is about to shoot Stiles, who closes his eyes but stays otherwise still, scrunches up his face and then- BAM, out of nowhere someone saves him, Raf the first time, Lydia the second, there's got to be a reason they chose to mirror THAT scene, it wasn't for Stydia, because that wasn't a Stydia scene or even a Stydia EPISODE- hell if anything it was a Stalia episode, so if they weren't going for magic!Stiles, why clone THAT scene? It makes no sense if you aren't going for magic!Stiles, and then let me point out, once again Stiles makes a point of trying to say "Scott, I can't fight this guy" when historically he DOES seem to "fight these guys" on his own pretty well...

Well Stydia is canon for atleast now, I'm not that concerned, I actually don't mind Stydia, I still think that it's only temporary, that something will happen in 6B to jiggle them and we might get Sterek endgame (or everyone single, that's common to come up in the meta pack) but we'll see, considering how much the end of the episode bothered me, I really can't be bothered to worry about Stydia in any way....

Finally someone gets it about the ghost guns!! I'm glad Chris makes a point of saying he needs one of those guns, but it's annoying that no one bothered to realize that the riders can be killed by their own guns before now, since we've had an entire season and they only find out about this in the end (well, only ACKNOWLDGE it at the end) only to... not... use it again... I do love that cute western scene with the showdown between Chris and the hunter though, that was nice, and having a canon McArgent pair is really cute, but it begs the question of Scott, does he even know? What's his reaction to it? I mean his mom is dating his dead ex-girlfreind's dad who also hunts werewolves... that's... that's like six levels of awkward but he hasn't even found out yet to our knowledge... that'll be some real wasted potential if they don't do anything with this next season

OK BOYS, GIRLS, AND NON-BINARIES WE HAVE FREAKING PROOF THAT CLAUDIA IS NOT A TULPA! She was, in fact, conjured by the Hunt, unlike Caleb, I am amazed and shocked and really happy to have this information, although it's a little bit sad that we don't have something!Sheriff anymore, knowing that Claudia is something other than a Tulpa explains alot, and we can chalk the beleif/non-beleif thing up to the fact that Claudia was only there for the sheriff's benefit, if he didn't believe in her, what was the point? (Although, am I evil for wishing Stiles had had a flashback of himself and real!Claudia?)

I also really liked the "He has a pack but I'm not in it" thing, particuarly because I really thought for a second there that Theo was going to try to be part of the pack before Malia stepped in, Peter got the best line of the night too- "No one likes a nazi", so finally I'll credit a point to Peter for something good

"Worming is one of my skills" Stiles says, as if there are more skills there besides your basic human skills... I need magic!Stiles guys, I've had this carrot dangled in front of me and jerked away too long and too many times now, I don't know how much longer I can take it

So um... is it me or... do we... still not *quite* know what exactly the train does yet...?

That was one cool rider transformation, someone in the meta chat mentioned that maybe the riders are people who tried to control the hunt and they became part of it, that's a pretty good theory I think, I'm curious about the nazi arm badge though, do all riders have something so specific to them as a person on their wardrobe or is it just Dug?

Man those nine herbs are really making the rounds, wouldn't THAT have been usefull since, oh I don't know..... season one.....

Ok I guess... I guess it's time to talk about the ending, I don't want to honestly but there's just so much weirdness.... Stiles giving up the bat was pretty IC, but that was pretty much it, for one thing the Sciles thing is completely out of left feild, just last episode Malia tells Scott that Stiles has been apartment hunting for them, and now he's suddenly moving all the way across the country? Not just to another town or another state but another COAST, remember that for Stiles, essentially, only a month has passed since then and graduation, there's arguement that this last scene is placed in August after their last summer together but still, Stiles would have needed to apply for school and blah-blah.... Scott is FINALLY returning Stiles' affections on level with how Stiles acts towards him and NOW he goes across the country? And FBI? Are you kidding me? Law school I was prepared for, reluctantly, but I figured that even though it doesn't fit Stiles' charector they might toss him there anyway, but FBI? No, Stiles HATED the FBI, he made it clear that his issues with Raf were not solely about Raf, but that he just didn't like the FBI snooping in his town's business, he thought it was intrusive, I could see Stiles as a sheriff or a deputy if you want him in law enforcement, atleast that's comfortable enough with Stiles still being in Beacon Hills, still being near his loved ones and protecting his home and the people he's cared about, but Stiles has NEVER expressed interest in moving away and doing any kind of large-scale protecting people mission, that's always only been Scott who cares about large-scale protecting, Stiles just wants to protect his HOME and that has never showed sign of changing, and he's getting help from Raf now too? I don't think Stiles would accept it if it was offered, plus the school he's attending is OUTRAGEOUSLY expensive and with the financial issues brought up in season four he must have had one hell of alot of scholarships to afford it, how much make up did he do after missing three months in order for THAT to happen? Then there's handing over the jeep, wich we now know is his MOM'S jeep, just.... that ... no... and why would Lydia drive him to Washington? That isn't about Stydia, that's about the weirdness of Lydia driving Stiles to Washington, seven hours away from where she belongs at MIT, instead of either of them taking a plane (Stiles doesn't have a car anymore, why drive? It'd be cheaper and easier to take a plane) and Stiles has been back in BH for over a month and didn't get his liscence back? What's the hold-up? That seems awfully important, then you have the non-Stiles stuff, Liam is still insistant on not being the Alpha or even the Alpha replacement but people seem to ignore him, no one mentions Malia and what she's going to do after highschool even though it's CLEARLY taking place when they're going off to college (IE: probably around August) and summer school should be done, even if it wasn't though, why would she be the only one of the main pack who hasn't even MENTIONED plans- or had plans mentioned about her- for after highschool? Then there's Scott getting into UCDavis, now I know nothing about colleges (and I'd like to keep it that way) but he was failing alot of classes before and he and Stiles both express the "I can't believe you got into UCDavis" thing with no explanation of HOW he got in, I just??? And wait, wait.... Stiles has this big parting scene with his dad nowhere to be found? I get it, I mean, Dylan may not have come back to 6B at the point that they were filming this, they were filming his exit, SO WHY WAS HIS DAD NO WHERE TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE IN THE LAST HALF OF THE EPISODE AT ALL? After the entire season featured SO. MUCH. of that relationship being repaired.... ///what////?

And then we come to the THING- the big thing: The body in the woods, now this may seem like just a cute throwback to season one and hell, it might be, I mean my credits of placing winning bets on this show clearly doesn't show for MUCH, but alot of people seem to feel like this ending was very ominous- it was very nice on a surface level, it was pretty but.... I can't be the only one who was waiting for something to dart out in front of the jeep and cause it to crash in the last minute of the show, because that's how Teen Wolf works- it's how Teen Wolf ALWAYS works, it just felt so strange... too neatly tied up, not just in a "Everyone was happy" kind of a way but ... it was just... too neat, there are plenty of ways to have happy endings that still have some mess to them and this felt utterly unnatural in all of the worst of ways, I described it in the meta chat earlier as "uncomfortably weird"- wich is great in the way that Teen Wolf is a horror show and the definition of horror isn't gore and jump-scares, it's making the audience uncomfortable, but... it's not a good kind of uncomfortable? It's the uncomfortable of, say, the Lost Girl finale', where everything just felt supremely weird in a loose-ends, OOC, the writers stopped caring sort of a way....

There have been alot of theories going back and forth in the meta chat, mostly between Athena and I, but we're wondering if this even actually happened, different realities may have bled through, this might be LITERAL wish-fullfillment for one of the charectors as everyone is stuck in the trance via the Hunt (honestly I'd pay to see that one) or even a genie, hell, it might not even be the real Stiles, maybe this Stiles is as much a Hunter-induced changeling as Claudia was.... it just feels like the kind of fanfiction ending season-one!Stles would have written, if that makes sense, he got everything he wanted in season one: The girl, Scott's approval and affection, his dad's approval and affection, closure with his mom, getting into some top-notch school for law enforcement (because that IS something I believe he would have wanted up till around season three) and everyone was kinda given the ending he probably thought they'd have, Lydia is mysteriously a junior at MIT and Scott despite all odds got into his school of choice, people like Malia who he didn't know in season one are mysteriously absent of an ending at all however... and think about the filming facts we have so far:

Jackson will return for 6B at atleast some point, Scott, Malia, Lydia, and Stiles, have all been filming even though three out of those four are supposedly not in BH at current, Rafeal has been filming, and even though Stiles will be in 6B we know his filming schedule has been tight and probably won't be in it as much as some of the others, all of that could easily line up for one of the above endings, especially with Jackson, who might appear as part of Stiles' hunt-induced hallucination/alternate universe or what have you....

*sigh* I am tired

I am tired and need fanon and I'm going to run and hide in powerplay-Vikturi fanfiction

Teen Wolf comes back in the summer for the last time, this is our last shot folks, prayer circle that we get everything- or atleast a few of the most important things- that we want from 6B, and that this weird, creepy, bizzare ending is completely overwritten