#courtship series

[writingtraumaforever]

Courtship Series Headcanon:

Shadow believes everything Sonic tells him with zero doubts.

Which isn’t great considering how overdramatic Sonic can be sometimes.

Like Shadow texted a picture of a cat he’s fostering chasing the mouse on his computer screen while he’s working, and Sonic texted back ‘Dead.’ to which Shadow immediately called him panicking like— “OHEMGEEAREYOUOKAY???”

Sonic pinned Urban Dictionary to his desktop after that, which resulted in thorough research that now has Shadow talking like a meme.

“Shadow, I think I broke my ankle.”

“Aw. That’s so sad. Alexa, play Despacito.”

“Sonic, may I rizz you up?”

“Shadow, there’s an emergency and we need to go!”

“Don’t worry, my bruh. I’ll get you back to Ohio with a 1, 2, buckle my shoe skibidi style.”

“…What?”

This also means that when Sonic told Shadow Google knows everything, Shadow legitimately believed him.

His Google search history is as follows:

‘how to impress the sister of the child that died for you’

‘can I fix the moon after splitting it in half?’

‘why do people keep saying the moon was pissed on?’

‘does me having alien DNA make the demon alien my father or my equal?’

‘how do I tell my boyfriend that he does not in fact gotta go fast?’

[writingtraumaforever]

TIS ME. I AM SOMEONE. MY COURTSHIP FANFIC OF THEM MENTIONED THIS, AND I FEEL VERY VALIDATED. THE WHOLE SECOND CHAPTER IS NAMED CIRCLING MAN.

someone pointed out how hedgehogs mate going circles like this after Sonic mentioned he can “run laps” around Shadow in the takeover…..yeah

[waitineedaname]

sometimes i remember mobei-jun is significantly older than the other members of the demon trio and it makes me giggle. like, binghe and sha hualing are the same age, but mobei-jun is shang qinghua's age, who's peers with shen qingqiu. imagine you're like 38 and some 19 year old rocks up, kicks your ass, and declares he's your boss now. and he starts asking how to court his teacher. what do you even do with that

[theheightofdishonor]

I watched Make It Right after reading @waitmyturtles write up of the show and honestly, they were right, it's so good? I felt completely baffled by own presumptions that this was a mediocre show. It gives so much grace to its characters to be messy and I love how it showcased so many different facets of queerness

[recurring-polynya]

She's not even wearing a hat, Leila.

[phlebaswrites]

Snow and Sky

Summary:

Hikaku knows his own heart.

(And who it belongs to.)

Rating: Teen And Up Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Hikaku/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 440 (Complete)

Entry for @asian-drama-tropes

December Lake/mountain pool/hot spring (sex optional) | Kneeling in snow/storm as a show of penance/devotion | Gifts of hair care items as courtship | The student becomes the master | "The will of Heaven."

Part 12 of Secrets of the Heart

"I'm fully recovered, you know." Hikaku doesn't squirm or kick, but he does insist on protesting the rather undignified position he's in. "You don't have to carry me."

"But I want to hold you." The snow crunches under his clan head's sandals, and Madara-sama flashes him a small but mischievous grin. "You wouldn't deny my wish, would you?"

Put like that, there's no possible way for Hikaku to refuse, and he shakes his head, silently resigning himself to the embarrassment of being carried up the mountain.

Read the rest on AO3.

[maenecoon]

so like

remember how i used to be a phayurain blog -

@alittlebitofrainbyyourside inspired me, a few months ago, to write something about vampires and biting.

soo i'm thinking about sire phayu who's fangs are aching. it flares up occasionally because of his improper vampire development phase (long story short, phayu was neglected as a fledgling and thus has some "defective" vampire traits).

when phayu's fangs ache, they ache like a bitch, bc of Vampire Urges, he needs to sink his teeth into something. hard. preferably repeatedly. he'd use to teeth on wood, but it's not the most comfortable thing to chew, not to mention it doesn't taste great (phayu, having the rare vampire phenomenon of having functioning taste buds).

enter fledgling rain, who is eager to help his sire. a bit too eager. when rain's teeth ache, phayu offers him his thigh/neck to fang warm, so it's only right that rain returns the favour. he offers himself as a chew toy, baring his pale neck and blinking up at phayu innocently. waiting for phayu to use him and bite him.

phayu who might be a bit hesitant initially because he's afraid of overwhelming and hurting rain. he's extra careful with the pain control, making sure rain feels as little as possible, making sure his bite stings as less as he can make them. making careful little bites in the fat of his shoulder.

and then rain who, very rudely, grabs phayu by the hair, pulling him away from his neck. phayu who overlooks the insubordination and is just about to apologise when rain whines because phayu isn't biting hard enough!

phayu is a bit confused, but honestly, he should've seen it coming bc rain is a pain slut and he knows. i think he's just so used to being Too Much for his other partners that he treats rain the same way by default - like he's glass. (honestly phayus fault for corrupting rain tho ngl)

anyways. phayu who starts to play down the numbing effects of his bites. waiting for rain to have one of his mouthy little rants before phayu bites him down hard. rain letting out a wobbly yelp of surprise. phayu deciding he loves the way rain sounds when he cries, so pretty and wrecked. having to bite him again and again and again.

next time he won't use his aching fangs as an excuse. next time he'll bite so hard that it draws up blood, blood warm from rain's previous feed (basically, phayu's own "blood", lmao). no longer showing any inhibition when digging his fangs into rain. in fact, using his sire control to further disable rain's pain control, making the sensation of the bite feel further heightened.

(i think it'd make rain cum on the spot. phayu continuing regardless, praising rain for taking his bites so well, praising rain for being so pretty when he cries, his voice so beautiful when he screams from pain and over sensitivity.)

just! biting! biting biting biting! clearly i am missing the og vampire boys a little bit :,))

tbh,, it was thinking about vampkimchay that had me thinking back to vampphayurain (love bites au) and how i just completely stopped writing them because i couldn't get past the courting stage. the story needed to continue with phayu trying to court rain. i thought smut was the hard part to write but i didn't consider ✨feelings✨ would be the scarier thing. let's not get into how that reflects on me personally LOL but anyways!

if you're still here, thanks for listening to my rambles. the first installment of this au is linked below. i've written five parts of vampphayurain being cute/horny/trying to navigate their relationship as sire and childe, so if that interests you then maybe you could check it out 🦇

[anghraine]

My daily kudos digest always brightens my day (upside of having written so many fics even if I haven't posted or updated anything on AO3 only started a WIP on DW, shh in a year). However, kudos on shorter fics I'm personally very fond of, but which aren't my "major" fics in terms of popularity, are always particularly nice and today was like... a red-letter kudos day :D

[beautyarchive]

Summer Glau in the ‘Getting Closer’ episode of Dollhouse (2010).

[operadsaremyhappyplace]

Leon: So you like cats?

Pob: Yeah, I do.

Leon: *slowly pushes a glass off the table*

[writingtraumaforever]

AHHHHH!!! Look at this cute little piece @grim-hawkins made and sent me of our favorite fluffy boys from a moment in my Courtship Christmas series!!!

Oh my goodness, I can’t thank you enough for this!! My mind is blown every time someone draws inspiration from something I’ve written, and this is just SO SWEET! Love this and can’t thank you enough! You���re SO INCREDIBLY TALENTED! <333

[iron-shrike]

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[lajulie24]

I was tagged by @diplomaticprincess to answer the following. ❤️ Tag some people you’d like to know better!

Last song I listened to: “Technicolour Beat” by Oh Wonder

Last show I watched: Ted Lasso

Last movie I saw: The Banshees of Inisherin

Currently watching: Shrinking, The Last of Us, The Mandalorian, Dickinson, and just finished up a rewatch of Star Wars Rebels. Oh, and I guess I’m watching Ted Lasso now.

Currently reading: The Courtship of Princess Leia (it’s a reread for book club, this shit is terrible but hilarious), the Saga graphic novel series, lots of Star Wars fanfiction

Current obsessions: My new ankle boots, interesting necklaces and dangly earrings, my new purple and pink highlights, the Maintenance Phase podcast (among others), the Kitchen and Jorn YouTube channel (among others).

Tagging: @corelliaxdreaming @delicatefalice @keys2thefalcon @organanation @otterandterrier @graciecatfamilyband @millennial-falcon @ewokshootsfirst @inelegantprose @theorganasolo @contrivedcoincidences6 and anyone else who wants to play!

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Star Wars: Galaxy Series 3 #319 (Topps, 1995) - Isolder and Teneniel Djo riding a rancor on Dathomir by Hector Gomez

[guilty-pleasure-reading]

Romance Dreamcast

Nicole Jordan: Courtship Wars Series

Book 1. To Pleasure a Lady

Marcus Pierce, the Earl of Danvers & Arabella Loring

Book 2. To Bed a Beauty

Andrew “Drew” Moncrief, the Duke of Arden & Roslyn Loring

Book 3. To Seduce a Bride

Heath Griffin, the Marquess of Claybourne & Lilian “Lily” Loring

Book 4. To Romance a Charming Rogue

Damon Stafford, Viscount Wrexham & Eleanor Pierce

Book 5. To Tame a Dangerous Lord

Rayne Kenyon, the Earl of Haviland & Madeline Ellis

Book 6. To Desire a Wicked Duke

Ian Sutherland, the Duke of Rotham & Tess Blanchard

Supporting Characters

Basil Eddowes & Fanny Irwin

[how-the-feathers-have-fallen]

I genuinely hope we're one of those species of frog that's very bright and colourful as a warning to all natural predators that we're poisonous to the touch and twitter is some Veruca Salt caricature who tries to take us as a "pet" off some log in the deep forest and ends up dying from heart failure in less than ten minutes (there is no cure btw 😘)

They are studying us in petri dishes