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[bigfootsmom]

Slow dancing for the soft prompts?

“C’mon, up you get.”

Eddie’s voice cuts through the gentle hiss of rain against the windows and the soft staticky music leaking from the small radio perched next to the fridge. 

Buck lifts his head from where it had been resting on his folded arms, blearily searching the now dark kitchen for his husband. He can feel the beginnings of a headache pounding in his temples and his mouth feels like he swallowed sand. 

“Wha– what time is it?” Buck asks, throat clicking as he tries to rewet his mouth. 

Scrubbing his hands over his face, Buck twists in his kitchen chair to look at the clock hanging on the wall. It takes him a moment to read the small numbers, but when he does finally manage it he’s surprised to see how late it is. He had planned to already have dinner ready, but the remnants of half completed prep is strewn around the countertops. Halfway through preparing the food, Buck had to sit down at the kitchen table — the ache in his leg becoming too persistent to ignore.  

“It’s time for you to go to bed,” Eddie hums, smoothing a warm palm across Buck's shoulders. Buck leans into the contact, shifting toward Eddie’s warmth like a sunflower seeking the sun. 

“Mm— not tired,” Buck mumbles, tilting his head up for a kiss. 

Eddie complies with the request, easily planting one against Buck’s lips before asking, “oh really? Why were you sleeping on the table then?” 

Buck sags, knee and hip twinging as if to remind him why. “I was just resting.” 

Calloused fingers card through his probably wildly unkempt curls, and Buck finds him sinking more and more against the solid warmth of Eddie pressed against him. Just when he thinks he could actually nod off like this, Eddie breaks the silence. 

“Is your leg bothering you?” 

Biting his lip, Buck sighs as he spins his wedding band around his finger. The warm metal glints in the lowlight of the hall light filtering into the kitchen. There are more days than not that his leg ends up bothering him. But that’s to be expected when he had fallen through the floor of a burning warehouse and landed on his previously crushed leg. Today is just particularly bad. 

Buck had known it was coming, had woken up with the telltale stiffness in his joints. But he had ignored it, not bothering to do any of the stretches his PT had taught him, hoping to muscle through like he used to be able to do. He knows that was stupid of him. There’s a small curl of embarrassment settling in his belly, and he debates not telling Eddie. He doesn’t even have a good reason he can provide for why he didn’t do anything. Not one he can articulate at least. 

In the end, he decides he doesn’t like lying to Eddie, even by omission. “Yeah, it is.” 

“Did you do your stretches?” 

Buck’s silence is answer enough and Eddie nods to himself. “Okay, c’mere.” 

Eddie gets a big hand wrapped around Buck’s bicep and helps him stand from the kitchen chair. Buck goes willingly, letting Eddie pull him up and into his arms. 

At first, he thinks they’re just embracing, and he’s not complaining about it, soaking up all the heat radiating off of his husband. Then Eddie starts rearranging Buck’s arms, getting them loosely looped around his neck before Eddie’s palms slide to Buck’s waist, holding him gently. 

The music coming from the radio is low, too low for Buck to identify the song that’s playing. But he can hear enough to realize that Eddie is moving them in a slow shuffling rhythm around the kitchen that matches the staticky rhythm humming through tinny speakers. 

“Babe, what are you doing?” 

“Dancing— we’re dancing,” Eddie replies, swaying their bodies together as they rock side to side. 

Buck shoots Eddie an incredulous look, but he just leans forward and kisses it off Buck’s face. “We can do your stretches instead, if you would like?” 

With a laugh, Buck shakes his head fondly. “You’re ridiculous,” he mutters, but continues to follow Eddie’s lead, letting himself be slowly spun around the kitchen. 

It helps. The ache doesn’t leave him entirely, but the stiffness slowly bleeds from his joints — the slow gentle movements of their “dancing” and the warmth of Eddie helping to ease the persistent discomfort. 

Gradually, Buck finds himself relaxing, allowing more of his weight to settle on his husband. Eddie accepts it gracefully, a pillar of strength against Buck. 

“There you go, baby,” Eddie murmurs, pressing a kiss to Buck’s temple. 

Tucking his head into the hollow of Eddie’s throat, Buck sighs out, “thank you.” 

“Always,” Eddie says as if it’s just that easy. 

Maybe it is. 

send me a soft prompt and I'll write a little something!

[devirnis]

Let you set the pace for the ask game?

- try-set-me-on-fire

hi brick <3

this fic is swinging between being wildly kinky and wildly sappy, so have some of the sap :3

“I ordered sushi from your favourite place,” Eddie says. “Figured it would be easier in case I had to hand feed you.” The gentle tease in Eddie’s tone makes Buck feel warm all over. “Thank you, sir. You thought of everything.” A veritable feast of sushi rolls are presented to Buck’s mouth. Eddie even dips the rolls in soy sauce, making a mess of his fingers in the process. He alternates between feeding Buck and eating himself, occasionally offering Buck a piece of ginger to clear his palate. Buck always enjoys when they get takeout from this place but the food tastes even better today. Or maybe anything would taste amazing as long as Eddie was lovingly feeding it to him. After the last roll is placed in Buck’s mouth, Buck oh so helpfully sucks on Eddie’s fingers, swirling his tongue around them to get them clean.  Eddie groans quietly in his ear. “Good boy, Buck.” Smiling to himself, Buck snuggles even further back against Eddie’s chest as he continues to lick at Eddie’s fingers. Eddie’s other arm wraps around Buck’s torso to hold him close. Buck can feel Eddie getting hard again, his dick starting to press insistently against Buck’s ass through the thin sweatpants. Idylly, Buck wonders just how much of his come Eddie’s planning on plugging inside him today. He shifts his hips experimentally, grinning when he feels Eddie tense behind him. “Give a guy a minute,” Eddie chuckles.

[sibylsleaves]

some things fall when they're meant to fall

25k (COMPLETE) | rated T | read on ao3 Eddie’s gaze drop to Buck’s lips—pink, like his birthmark. Eddie wants to taste those lips, and he wants it with a fierceness so sudden it shocks him. “I’m, uh,” Buck stammers. “Last night. When you saw me and Tommy…we—we were on a date.” Everything inside Eddie goes still. If his heart is a kite, then this is the moment it plummets back to earth.

or, Buck tells Eddie some news. Eddie has a realization and breaks up with his girlfriend. Not necessarily in that order.

written for @burnthatbridge

Chapter 4/4 now up on ao3

Eddie spends the next two days talking himself down from a panic attack and convincing himself that everything’s going to be okay. He doesn’t reach out to Buck. He doesn’t hear from him either, which is probably the longest they’ve gone without at least a text in…Eddie doesn’t even know how long.

But it's going to be okay. It has to be. This is Buck. They’re best friends. They’re partners. They’re always going to be okay, in the end.

Besides. Eddie’s already gotten through the hard part. He’s already detonated the bomb. He’s already smashed his heart to pieces at Buck’s feet. And yeah, things are going to suck for a while. It’s going to be hard, and painful, and awful but they’ll get through it. They same way they get through every hard, painful, awful thing.

This is what Eddie’s telling himself as drags himself into the fire station for their first shift since his confession. He ducks into the locker room, changing briskly into his uniform and trying not to startle every time someone enters. Trying not to be too obvious that he’s bracing himself for when it’s Buck.

The thing is, as much as he’s dreading him walking in, dreading Buck either trying to talk to him or awkwardly avoiding him, he also really can’t wait to see him. It’s been two days and he already misses him—the way he always skips into the locker room with a smile and a stupid joke or a fun new fact he’s learned, how his eyes inevitably find Eddie, and how he’ll always fall into step with him as they start to assemble for Bobby’s morning briefing.

But by the time Eddie’s finished changing and closed his locker, Buck still hasn’t shown up. Chim and Hen have already come in, changed, and filtered back out to the app bay for the morning briefing. Eddie trails after them, off-kilter without Buck’s shoulder knocking against his.

Bobby’s announcements are quick and to-the point. Eddie’s barely paying attention to them, his gaze darting around, searching for Buck.

But he’s not there.

(continue reading on ao3)

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[secret-samol]

It's one of the most important times of the year.

That's right, Secret Samol will be back for a 9th year! Sign ups for Secret Samol 2024 will be from November 9th to November 16th. More details and rules can be found here:

And thank you to @dancy-nrew for this year's adorable banner! 🥲

[hieronzine]

🍂❄️🌸Applications Announcement!🌸❄️🍂

Hello Friends at the Table fans! We are very excited to announce:

A Chaotic Cataloging: A Seasons of Hieron Fanzine

Applications for #HieronZine contributors will be open from Saturday May 4th until Saturday June 1st.

Introducing the Mod Team:

🌸Muna🌙 @peacereturnedtothevalley - Head Mod + Socials

🥐Katie✒️ @KatieDiek - Production

🍷Lee🐇 @imperialhare - Finance

🎭Avi🗡️ @oziads - Design & Art

🎨Annie🐭 @dancy-nrew - Art

🍊Julian📚 @burins - Writing

🦉Danny✨ @suedeuxnim - Writing

We're super excited to get this project going, hope you are too!

[boo-cool-robot]

FatT forcemasc memes, anyone?

[Original art by @dancy-nrew and @wellnoe]

[wereshrew-admirer]

ben and blueJ playing with their baby(/bud/spore), secretsamol pinch hit for @dancy-nrew <3

[austinramsaygames]

CalazCon!: A Mega Game Actual Play

As Operation Cromwell prepared one final push to defeat the Jovangellian resistance, CalazCon's surprise assault threw everyone's plans into chaos…

You think you've seen a big actual play? You haven't seen anything like this!

CalazCon is a Beam Saber mega game series featuring 30 players across 6 play groups. Each squad battles against the occupying nomadic media convention, CalazCon, while trying to win the hearts and minds of the locals on behalf of the Democratic Federated Systems (DFS). Their choices will affect each other through the course of their shared campaign. Can they liberate the city together, or will they be consumed by the con alone?

The show will launch on Monday August 5th, 2024 on Youtube and your podcatcher of choice!

The show features incredible art from @bfleuter, Cory "Hadrian" McDaniel, and @dancy-nrew!

Structure

The show has a cyclical format. Each play group, called  a ”squad” will conduct a Mission, followed by a Downtime session, and then the squads' legislators will vote on what happens next.

The Missions take the form of traditional Beam Saber missions. Player characters, called “pilots”, get into danger, struggle to get out of it, and help each other overcome obstacles. At the end, they gain their rewards and suffer the fallout of their actions.

The Downtimes also use the normal Beam Saber format. After a harrowing mission, the pilots take this moment of quiet to recover, fix their vehicles, cut loose with fellow pilots, pursue their long term projects, and generally develop their relationships with each other.

Once every squad has completed one Mission AND one Downtime, their legislators gather for a parliamentary session. Each squad's legislator gets a chance to make public speeches and private deals to further the goals of the DFS, the squad they represent, or their own personal desires. There are only so many votes they can cast, so some pursuits will have to be left by the wayside.

Once the votes are tallied, the goals are set, and passed along to the squads as objectives that they must pursue in their next Mission, beginning the cycle anew.

The first ten episodes will be released one each week day for two weeks, so that the audience can meet the cast as soon as possible, then the show will switch to a twice weekly release schedule.

CalazCon launches on Monday August 5th, so don't miss out on this innovative mega game actual play!

[ernestinapickman]

Partizan tattoo based on Annie @dancy-nrew ‘s hoodie design! Super happy with how it came out

[burins]

song meme

tagged by @vinelark and have been picking away at this as typing allows! I suspect this is going to look very silly because I haven't been listening to very much music lately (or when I have it's mostly been on han's Spotify in the car) mostly audiobooks

shuffle your on repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs, then tag 10 people

good luck babe by chappell roan - has anyone not been listening to this song? I'm so happy she's blowing up on a song that's I think legitimately one of her best. also this is a dinahbabs song if I ever heard one. which one is which? great question it's both

be the wheel by theo katzman - I think this showed up on my discover weekly? I'm actually not entirely sure. it's a bop! like most of theo katzman / vulfpeck's stuff the lyrics don't really make much sense, but it's a fun summery tune

where you lead by carole king - so the other reason that I thought this playlist might be a little bit all over the place is because I had my library program playlist on repeat for like two and a half hours on Wednesday. this is from that

what'd i say by ray charles - another one from the library program playlist! Ray Charles is making so many different sounds with his voice in the song and it's a delight

1612 by vulfpeck - This is an oldie! I put it on my crush playlist when I first started dating my spouse :)

masseduction by st vincent - I just relistened to this whole album and it's still so so good. sugarboy is another dinahbabs song

make some room by the suffers - This is a song for cooking brunch.

butterfly by jon batiste - jon batiste has such a beautiful voice

springtime by alison russell - holding you by the shoulders. listen to Alison Russell right now. Do you like harmonies? Do you like incredible vocal performances? Do you like beautiful and hard-hitting lyrics? This album got four Grammy noms and it deserved every single one of them

ameriican requiem by beyoncé - so this song did make me tear up when I first heard it omw to work. The chorus is a little... milk toast, but I am such a sucker for a big choral inflected song. also after listening to so many two-minute 45-second little tidbits of songs it is really nice to sink my teeth into something that is nearly 6 minutes long and actually grows and changes over that duration

tagging (no pressure) @timetoboldlygo @luckydicekirby @uhuraisgay @suedeuxnim @mengyao @blotthis @dancy-nrew @misspickman and anyone else who'd like to do this! if you don't use Spotify just tell me about 10 songs you've been listening to recently

[bigfootsmom]

Omg “buck and Bobby hug” wip? -@try-set-me-on-fire

i love this one <3 post lightning strike buck suffers maybe just a smidgen of separation anxiety. On a call Bobby gets hurt (not bad) and ends up in the hospital to get checked out and no one tells buck because they don't want to stress him out. Spoiler alert: it stresses him out.

Bobby is probably just busy at work. Maybe he’s busy at a scene, or maybe he’s just caught up in some paperwork and not looking at his phone. Yeah…yeah. That has to be it, that’s why Bobby isn’t texting him back.  Buck stares at the black screen, chewing his lip. Bobby is busy and he doesn’t need Buck bothering him.  He picks up his phone, swiping it open — the screen still filled with his text message thread with Bobby. The string of unanswered texts makes an uncomfortable feeling prickle in the back of his throat.

send me the title of a wip and i'll tell you about it!

[fatt-twitter-updates]

PALISADE 43: Where They Are Pt. 1

3:07 PM PDT / 6:07 PM EDT, 29 March 2024 (Source)

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And here are the new maps by @/dancynrew (@dancy-nrew) that were mentioned in the episode!

[Img ID: Two illustrated maps of the divine cycle, both depicting a colorful, gaseous, swirling, mirage-like nebula, with diamond-shaped, golden stars along the edges of the deep blue and black of space. The first map is titled 'The Quire System' and shows the system of eight planets (identified with lines that lead to banner-shaped nametags as Brighton, Gift-3, Altar, Seneschal, Skein, Crown, Thyrsus, and Moonlock) orbiting the planet Volition. The planet Volition has scribbly black lines drawn around it, possibly to represent the 'crackling black glass and bubbling oil shores' of its surface. The purple planet Palisade is orbiting on the outskirts of the system, with the Diadem crack along its circumference and its two moons. The nail-shaped station called The Brink is floating next to Palisade. The station looks a little like it's creating currents in the nebula. The orbits of the planets are depicted as glowing white lines, almost like ripples. The second map is titled 'The Twilight Mirage' and is similar to the previous map, except in this map each of the orbiting planets are depicted as buttons, and each button planet is connected by thread to the scribbly thread that surrounds the planet Volition. The Brink is depicted as a needle with a thread that is cut off and not connected to the thread going toward Volition. In the second map, Palisade's moon, Travertine, is also shown as a button and Palisade's other moon, Chimera's Lantern, is drawn as an actual oil lantern. The orbits of the planets on this map are shown as dashed lines, like the stitching on a quilt. The text on both of the maps uses the Divinity Sans typeface. End ID.]

3:09 PM PDT / 6:09 PM EDT, 29 March 2024 (Source) (dancy-nrew tumblr post with maps)

[sibylsleaves]

some things fall when they're meant to fall

17k (so far) | rated T | read on ao3 Eddie’s gaze drop to Buck’s lips—pink, like his birthmark. Eddie wants to taste those lips, and he wants it with a fierceness so sudden it shocks him. “I’m, uh,” Buck stammers. “Last night. When you saw me and Tommy…we—we were on a date.” Everything inside Eddie goes still. If his heart is a kite, then this is the moment it plummets back to earth.

or, Buck tells Eddie some news. Eddie has a realization and breaks up with his girlfriend. Not necessarily in that order.

written for @burnthatbridge

Chapter 3/4 now up on ao3

The wedding is beautiful, the bride gorgeous. And the Best Man?

Well, Eddie’s a little biased, but he’s not sure he’s ever seen someone glow the way Buck is glowing today. It’s like there’s a halo of light radiating off him all day—where he stands, beaming at Chimney and Maddie during the ceremony, where he raises his glass during his toast at the reception, where he and Tommy sway in the middle of the dance-floor, surrounded by all the people Buck loves most.

Eddie tries not to be too obvious about the fact that he can’t keep his eyes off him, but he’s not really sure he’s doing a good job.

He’s not really sure he cares.

They look good together, Buck and Tommy. Eddie’s seen them together before, lots of times, and he thought maybe he’d built up some kind of armor to it, some kind of resistance that protected his heart against this slow, crushing ache, but he’d been so, so wrong.

Maybe it’s just all catching up to him at once.

Or maybe—maybe there’s been a change. A shift in the way Buck’s looking at Tommy, because Eddie could swear that there’s something different on his face tonight. He’s holding onto Tommy and looking up at him and Eddie could swear he can see it in his eyes.

Buck is falling in love.

(read chapter 3 on ao3)

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@remembertheskittles @myao3library-blog @sorryimlatecapt @swiftiesisters14 @bewitchedbewilderedbisexual

@myphilomena @neuromagpie @fleurdebeton @daffi-990 @crysty-rp-2023

@confetti-cupcake @pixelmator5 @fabgirlll @evansbuckkley @lyricfulloflight

@daisievalentine @crazyfangirlallert @bucklavaa @torturedpoetdean @smallandalmosthonest

@notalwaysdead @anatargmova @marmottion @flavored-soda @thebirdling

@tulipfromtheinternet @takemebythehand-andsetmefree @sunshinediaz @thatsveryood @devirnis

@messyhairdiaz @skies-below @actingcamplibrarian @dirundmir @stagefoureddiediaz

@wh0rebehavi0rmain @dancy-nrew @eddiebabygirldiaz @screamatthescreen @organizedstardust

@leothil @theroguetranslator @kinnards @gregoryus @jorniq

@inell @epicbuddieficrecs @neeterpoo @JAKEJAGIELSKIDESERVEDBETTER

[secret-samol]

Hello! We're in need of a pinch hitter for someone with prompts about Brnine, Belgard, and Figure/Phrygian! If you're interested dm a mod (hi this is @dancy-nrew) or send us an email!

[hieronzine]

Annie Johnston-Glick. “Party!”, 2024. In A Chaotic Cataloging: A Seasons of Hieron Fanzine.

Find Annie @ dancynrew on twitter & @dancy-nrew tumblr!

Preorder your zine HERE!

[haunthouse]

Tagged by @dancy-nrew to shuffle my on repeat playlist and post the first 10 songs and then tag ten people! <3

vi: don't let love bog you down - rent strike

i want you - mitski

things that scare me - neko case

red wine supernova - chappell roan

evil men - the taxpayers

feminomenon - chappell roan

pearl diver - mitski

a.a.a. - squalloscope

what i have to - miya folick

hail to whatever you found in the sunlight that surrounds you - rilo kiley

tagging @dykevillanelle @piratechaos @scorndotexe @mobydyke @charaznablescanontoyota @polyboros @housefreak @tallahasseemp3 @folkdances @kaoinim