#belikebumblebee

[korralone]

Hi do you have any avatrice recommendations?

For sure! I actually made a whole doc for my friends with avatrice fic recs so anytime someone wants one feel free to message lol

I'm going to try and limit this to 10 and also list some fics I don't usually see on rec lists:

tell me please all is forgiven (touch me) by paddingtonfan69

Beatrice realizes that her touch helps Ava with her training, and, well, things escalate.

in the way everlasting by belikebumblebee

Beatrice has imagined a million variations on the same theme: Ava, alive; Ava, where Beatrice can get to her. Some seemed less than realistic, and others even more unlikely, and quite a few of them downright impossible even by the standards of their reality. Still, none of them involved having to patiently, painstakingly parse out what little Ava could tell her of the street signs she's seen and cross-reference it with landscape descriptions and the placement of old phone boxes. None of them involved the thirty minute drive taking twice as long due to road work on the way out of town.

oh, there's a river that winds on forever (i'm gonna see where it leads) by zefrumiousbandersnatch

Ava and Beatrice walk over 600 kilometers from Lisbon, Portugal to Santiago de Compostela, Spain and fall in love.

Right on Time by quietblueriver

Ava comes back. There are a lot of feelings. The OCS gets a therapist. Everybody does some healing and learns to deal.

now our hands join 'round the meaning you sought by snapfreezes

Beatrice takes the ring, twists it between her fingertips. It’s the perfect size. She just knows it.

She wonders what it would look like on Ava’s left hand.

a little piece of heaven by Smokestarrules

Through Switzerland and through the portal and through whatever comes after, Ava learns Beatrice. Learns to love her, to trust her, to live with her.

Learns from her, too.

where you die I will die (and there will I be buried) by julesby10

Love tastes like lemon drops and the iron of blood, smells like fresh laundry, soap, and the sweet undertones of argan lotion, sounds like a low, level voice and a marked British accent, love is earthy tones and navy and the texture of linen. Love, Ava discovered, feels like home.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Or what it feels to go from strangers to tentative friends, to being friends, to suddenly realizing that you can't live without this person.

i just wanna stay (in this lavender haze) by Humble_wats

Beatrice returns home after years away, and Ava is the new groundskeeper on the enormous Young estate.

come back (even as a shadow, even as a dream) by karatam

Three months after Ava disappears into the portal, Beatrice still can’t let her go. She’ll do anything to bring Ava back. But when she manages to succeed, the question is what else has Ava brought back with her?

or

Ava comes back wrong.

Where Water Comes Together by riderwrites

Ava forges a connection to bodies of water: oceans, rivers, and rain.

Ava finds a family she never thought she'd have: mother, sisters, and soulmate.

or Ava bonds with the ocs while near water in some form or fashion, found family kind of vibes.

[springbeemaya]

Tagged by @baldursghaik and @fallout-lou-begas thank you both!

Yeah I am also realizing I can make a poll on desktop.

So: make a pool with five of your all time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite!

Tagging @fraujuhu, @atinyhellu, @qbert0, @fulcrum-art-fox, @belikebumblebee and anyone else who would like to participate!

[piratekane]

title: baby, i've got a plan (run away fast as you can) note: for my main squeeze, @belikebumblebee. an effort.

Beatrice took her vows before God - has lived with them for years; thrived in their simplicity and the comfort they’ve brought her. They’ve been her constant, her center of gravity; a feeling in the middle of her chest that keeps her warm on the few nights where her resolve flickers like a dying candle, flame licking into the air searching for renewed life. 

It doesn’t happen often - her faith is unwavering - but in the first nights after Adriel, after Father Vincent, after Mary, she lays in bed next to a restless Ava and wonders: what is God’s reason for this?

She makes another covenant; another solemn promise on her knees in the lamplight of their one-bedroom flat, head bowed and fingertips pressed to her lips.

She vows herself to Ava.

(read on ao3)

[niftybottle]

  @melikochan​ tagged me to do this picrew!

tagging, lessee, @phoenixfalls​, @queersintherain​, @belikebumblebee​, @genius2mania​, and @purlturtle​ - some of my newer mutuals

[vlka-fenryka]

pov: You're in a horror movie

I was tagged by @warlock-enthusiast

Thank you dear! <3

Choose your look

What is your role?

I tag @astrangegirlsmind @ennaih @nonomnismoriar @shinysoroka @belikebumblebee and everybody else who wants to do this :)

the look:

the role:

the tragic hero

you are the good guy who just cannot catch a break. your life just fucking sucks, frankly. one day, you have friends, family, hobbies you enjoy, maybe even a dog. and then, something happens that sets off this never-ending chain reaction of bullshit and it all gets swept away from you in a heartbeat. all your friends are dead now and you might be alive but god at what cost.

[gohandinhand]

okay no reason to not keep this going because there are so very many stories i've loved and reexperiencing chunks of them as i compile these rec lists is rly joyful! so here are more stories that occupy my brainspace long-term:

a nun, a halo bearer, and an interdimensional pseudo-demon walk into an apartment // lilith cohabitating with avatrice by @fiddleabout

We Need To Talk About Ava // ava comes back wrong by @whatwordsmiss

oh, there's a river that winds on forever (i'm gonna see where it leads) // hiking the camino au by zefrumiousbandersnatch

in her careful hands // switzerland haircut fic by @unicyclehippo

redshift // atla au by @bazaarwords

on that dizzy edge // roommates au by @littledata

honey, cast me a line // pacrim au by @softpluto

how shall i speak of doom // vampire au &

the opposite of faith // horny worship au both by @lucytara

a beggar in the morning // absolute favorite soulmates worldbuilding, nuns can fuck au &

the gods we can touch // switzerland era, both by @thecousinsdangereux

romance is not dead (if you keep it just yours) // tiktok au by @emilyjunk

in the way everlasting // post-s2, ava returns by @belikebumblebee

all of the girls against god series by @possibilistfanfiction

in my veins // vampire au by puppybusby

i sense a rhythm humming in a frenzy // 80s au by littlepacketofchips

Customer feedback surveys for Bar La Vasseur // what it says on the tin, fun story told through customer reviews by @jtl07

i am the thesis of her prayers // almost a nun au by @paddingtonfan69

any avatrice recs :)))) have already read all your fics and now i am depression (genuinely daydream abt ur star wars au daily)

i could hype each of these fics individually but basically if it’s here i think it’s incredible and you have to read it 💖💖🥰

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the sweetest taboo// 1930s au &

i know now what no angel knows// fallen angel au by @dumpsterfireofsubtext

indy au part 1 & part 2// or, ava peels an orange & makes me feel insane 🫠🫠🫠 by @estherthenormal

lemon drop boy// t boy ava au

lazarus woke with a kiss// scp/ lab rat ava au &

how to stitch holes in the sky// dragon age au, all by @the-darkness-does-not-bargain

teach me to love (as you have loved me)// this is. yeah. this is beautiful. newbea au by @birgittesilverbae (💖💖 ily)

beyond our space and starlight// eldritch au by @thistleation

escape attempt number whatever thousand, some hundred and four, probably// hades au by @foulbearobservation

do a flip// aikido gfs au by @sunsafewriting

if saints and angels spoke of love// (bea is a math teacher & ava’s basically the guy from dead poets society) by @mermaidandthedrunks

choose the devil i know (over the heaven i don’t)// firefighter au by @sapphicstacks

leave the light on (i’ll find my way home)// lighthouse au by @snowandwolves

on the run from a losing game// chef au by @fiddleabout

this must be the place// lumberjack au by @littledata

love thy neighbour// my fav roommates au. pokemon strap-on fic 😌🙏

turning sun into sugar, spinning straw into gold// pnw au by @gohandinhand

the world is just an illusion (trying to change you)// roadtrip au, &

a lover, or something of mine// reincarnation au by @smokestarrules

who needs comfortable love// sentient halo au by @the-ominous-owl

this celestial glow is blinding// firewatch au

the thought of high windows// 60s au

pull back the curtains for venus// alien bea au &

of greater marvels yet to be// fleabag au, all by @seabiscuits-us

[ekjohnston]

i'm re-reading that inevitable victorian thing and urgh, man, it's so good i can't believe i found it in a store by coincidence rather than ordering it after seeing it on a List For Queer Fiction That Is Actually Great For Other Reasons Than Its Queerness, Too. i like it so much.

I recently re-read it too (and I NEVER re-read my books!), and loved it the whole time. It’s so weird, and I just adore it. And yeah, it’s easily my queerest book, but I love so many other parts of it too.

Thank you!

[cranesofibycus]

i can't believe i have managed to run into a fellow ex-animexxler in this year of our lord 2020, i feel like i just discovered we went to the same elementary school or something :')

Aww, it does feel like that, doesn’t it? I just visited the website for the first time in, like, 10 years or something and I can wholeheartedly recommend it. It really felt like going back in time. The colors! The fonts! The bad layout! So many memories of my very first internet friendships and early fandom nonsense <3 

[therealdarkwiccan]

Episode artwork by @youareavision

@belikebumblebee

[skillzyo]

belikebumblebee replied to your post: “[[MOR] Well, if CMG doesn’t get back to me about what time she’d...”:

(to be clear, i don't like this, i just mean to express my interest in your life and stuff.)

Thanks for the support

[sunspill]

wayhaught+"eyes on me."

ficlet under the cut

“Stupid,” Wynonna is cursing her, in that furiously terrified voice Waverly has become far too accustomed to. “Stupid, Waverly, what the fuck were you thinking?”

“That’s not really helpful,” Waverly snaps, annoyed more that her voice trembles than at the mess of wires and beeping lights in her hands.

“Oh that’s not helpful? Was picking up a bomb helpful? Was--”

“Wynonna.” Nicole’s voice cuts in, laboured like she’s breathing harder after a hard sprint from her truck to the bar. “Dolls wants you outside.”

“If you think--”

“Wynonna.”

Waverly looks up, finally, away from the bomb in her hands. Wynonna is pale, and pinched, and she’s got the deepest furrow in her brow Waverly’s ever seen. “It’s okay,” Waverly says, stifling the smallest tremble in her tone. “Wynonna, it’s okay. Go help Dolls. There’s bigger things happening than me.”

Wynonna shakes her head. “No such thing. Not in my book.”

“I’ve got this,” Nicole says, and Waverly--hasn’t managed to look at her yet. But her voice is calm and quiet and warm and it makes Waverly feel less like she’s going to tremble her way through the floor. She did a science experiment in school in the fifth grade. Lab coats and goggles and gloves even though they didn’t touch anything more dangerous than the weakest of acids. But the experiment--they’d put plastic army men in sandboxes and vibrated the sand until the little green men sank between the grains and out of sight, quicksand in accelerated time.

“--can you hear me? Waverly?”

Waverly snaps back to the present. She looks at Nicole, the curl of her hair more pronounced now that’s cut short, the lines of stress and worry and fear around her eyes and mouth. “Yeah,” she manages, her voice rasping. “I can hear you.”

Nicole shucks her jacket, her hat, letting them drop carelessly to the floor. “Hell of a thing, bombs. Did I ever tell you I came in at the top of my class at the academy?”

Waverly blinks. “Sheriff Deputies attend an academy?”

“Someday we’ll talk about how your sister is vastly, vastly underqualified for her position. The badge position, not the heir position.” Nicole inches closer with every word, and then she’s just there, close enough to touch. “But, my point is… I did go through some training on… this.”

“On bombs? Like this one? You know how to disarm this?”

Nicole falters. “Well--”

“Oh my god, I’m going to die.” Waverly blinks, rapid. “I’m going to die and I’m not wearing matching underwear. You’ll make sure they put good underwear on me, right baby? I don’t want to go in the ground wearing--” she falters. “But I guess there won’t be enough of me to dress for a funeral.”

Nicole’s hands falter above her shoulders, feather light, and then trace the lines of her jaw. “You’re not going to die,” she says, firm. “Dolls is gonna find the other bombs, and Wynonna’s gonna shoot the revenant, and you’re gonna go home with me.”

Waverly takes a shaky breath. “Promise?”

One hand trails down to press to her chest, feel her thundering scared rabbit thump of a pulse. The other disappears and then emerges from Nicole’s pocket holding a pair of wirecutters. “Cross my heart,” Nicole says. She smiles. “Eyes on me, baby. We’ll be home in no time.”

Waverly holds her gaze. Takes in Nicole’s face like it could be the time. “Eyes on you,” she echoes, and Nicole’s hand is on her heart.

[iamthegaysmurf]

Thank you, @belikebumblebee, for the extra love!  And you’re welcome, @charcoalred.  I love to talk about my processes and I’m always happy to answer questions like this about my stories and my writing!

[piratekane]

8 and 13

Ooo, good ones.

8. is there a character you love writing for the most? the least? why? I think it fluctuates over the years. Right now, it's Ava Silva, but that's because I'm down into it for her. I also really enjoy Lucy Tara, Emily Prentiss (rip to my youth that woman had a chokehold on me), Beca Mitchell, oh! Charity Dingle! Nicole Haught! They all have distinctive voices, and are seemingly different characters so I'm not sure why they all appeal to me, but they just do. I think it's that they're all just so earnest in what they do. I love a character who throws themself all in because that's just who they are. I know this is many characters and not answering the question, but it's my ask box and I can do what I want LOL.

13. who are your favorite writers? Unfair question, I can't list them all. But let me list a few.

@dealanexmachina, @fiddleabout, @karatam, @thegirl20, @simplyavatrice, @birgittesilverbae, @smokestarrules, @belikebumblebee, and @iamthegaysmurf - that's just a few

[jobethdalloway]

playlist: sundown :)

1) Moonshadow (I can literally only listen to this song during or after sundown. It seems so wrong in the daytime.)2) Moonlight Lullaby3) A Promise to Keep4) Wish For You

5) Black Hills of Dakota 

6) World at Large

7) Body and Soul (I could probably put a lot more jazz on this playlist, and it took me forever to remember the name of this specific one I was thinking of. My grandfather was a jazz clarinetist and the first CD I remember buying myself was a Benny Goodman greatest hits collection to listen to while I went to sleep and I thought this was totally the most romantic instrumental song ever)

Thanks, bumblebee!! That was fun :D (See playlist prompt here)

[vlka-fenryka]

belikebumblebee replied to your post: So apparently The Witcher is either terrible or...

i don’t know shit about the witcher so i don’t have a pony in this race, but i’m interested now, who is henry and why do we hate him?

I loooove Witcher 3 so I was really excited for the show but... ugh... I’m talking about Henry Cavill. I do NOT like him at all. Just a few years back he was in a relationship with a college student who was barely legal at that time which makes him look like a pedophile. Really there is barely anything more gross and creepy than a mid-30 guy who dates a girl that is just 19. (Okay, if the guy is even older, then it’s even grosser) He also said some really stupid things while talking about the ‘MeToo movement (or rather about the consequences) Like “If I flirt with a woman I’m gonna call a rapist” bla bla. He apologized for this comment later but yeah...Sour taste.  Other sources say he is really self-centered and only talks about himself and doesn’t like women who are opinionated and want a life for themselves. But those are rumors so I shouldn’t judge him by them (but I still kinda do). Plus he looks really bland and in my opinion doesn’t fit the role of Geralt one fucken bit.  So yeah, whenever I see his face I wanna punch him right in his fucken white teeth.