#favorite 2023 tropes

[absolutebl]

BL 2023 - Touching Head Touches

I had a half dozen favorites in this category.

The Director Who Buys Me Dinner

The winner because the gesture carries so much more weight in a historical. Every touch does.

Our Dating Sim

La Pluie

HIStory 5

Between Us

Bed Friends

Other enjoyable executions of this trope?

Boss & Babe

Blessing

Be My Favorite

Cafe In Love

All The Liquors

Make a Wish

You Are Mine

Switches!

My School President

Sing My Crush

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[temeyes]

when will my big skull man come back from the war,,,,,,,,,,

[peculiarpinkpig]

if I had a nickel for every time a struggling latino was looking for a job to help out his family and somehow ends up being involved with aliens who happen to have blue, I'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

[luckyxmisfortune]

heard of the new farmer?

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[synninbone]

JayDick Week 2023 Day 5: Fingerstripes

Dick had called in a favor. He’d busted his ankle and Bludhaven didn’t sleep. Normally, Jason had figured it was Tim who was Dick’s first choice. Especially after the last fiasco when Jason had fit into the suit. 

Dick didn’t seem to be bothered by that old fact, though. He’d hobbled on his one crutch and thrown the suit Jason’s way when he’d come climbing into Dick’s window. Or maybe he hadn’t had a choice. He was sure if they made Roy wear a wig, it might work. 

(Roy had gained back his bulk lately. He was bigger than Jason now, and he’d probably rip the suit worse than Jason might.)

“Calling in that solid,” Dick said in lieu of an explanation. “Just until I can put some weight on this thing.”

The last one Jason had worn, he’d kind of replicated himself. He wasn’t sure if Dick’s costumes came in any other sizes, but it had some stretch. Halfway into trying to pull it up his thighs, though, Jason thought he was making a mistake. He struggled by the time it hit just under his ass.

Dick leaned against the doorway. “I forgot how much you grew. Kind of can’t believe it sometimes. Even my Robin costume was too big on you before. Remember?”

He did. He also remembered wearing Dick’s green gloves and imagining he was being held. A scandalous thought at the time that had Jason unable to look Dick in the eye for a week. 

It was a snug fit by the time he got it all the way up, but it was doable. Dick’s eyes raked over him, lingering on the blue bird stretched across Jason’s chest.

 “Feel like I understand pillsbury biscuits now,” Jason tried to joke.

“Afraid you’ll pop out the minute you unzip, Jay?” 

Jason turned away with the excuse of putting on his domino. “Something like that.”

Full fic on AO3

[domesticatedantelope]

Once Tyril has her back, he doesn’t let her go.

Not when he’s dreamed of this for so long, the warmth of her body safe within his arms, her heartbeat racing under his touch, vibrant and alive. After a year of agonized uncertainty, she is here and real and smiling, tears shimmering like distant stars in the violet of her eyes.

Verena never weeps. She wields that sharp-edged smile of hers instead, as both weapon and shield — but in this moment it is soft and open, warm with affection as the tears sink down her face.

Though his very being aches with longing, kindled to flame and barely tempered into restraint, his hands are gentle as he trails a questing touch over her skin, searching for any signs of injury. 

“Tyril.” A hand covers his own, leading his palm against her cheek, where she leans into his hold. He meets her gaze and sees a welling of emotion in her eyes, the urgency of his relief mirrored back at him. “I’m okay. Truly.”

He traces his thumb down her cheek, smoothing a tear away and cherishing the feeling of her skin. “I tried,” he chokes out, and his voice breaks under the force of his regret. “I tried everything. Would have done anything to get you back.”

“I know it, my heart.” The endearment steals his breath, the utter faith behind her words making his heart squeeze in his chest. She looks at him like she would tear the heavens from the sky before she parts from him again, and only a fool would ever doubt she could. “Never again. I swear to you.”

When she draws him down into her arms, his mouth surges against hers, kissing her with a desperation bordering on need. And when she pleads for him, gasping his name out on the sweetest sigh, he answers with a trail of hungry kisses down her throat, eager to reclaim all the parts of her he’s missed so dearly. He feels her fingers tugging through his hair, feels the shiver when he sucks against her skin, feels every place they come together in that perfect, steadfast promise. Never again.

Verena makes good on her word. Night falls long before he’s had his fill of her, and even then, when they’ve curled into a messy tangle in the sheets of her bed, when sleep begins to take her, when he dreams of her again and wakes to the same dread that she will vanish with the coming day — she keeps their fingers linked together, and she doesn’t let him go.

[samsayswhatever]

[pleasetakethis]

Better Together

Written for the 2023 Fandom 5K Exchange. I matched on What If...? Peggy/Nat and had to explore the multiverse.

Pairing: Peggy Carter/Natasha Romanoff Rating: Explicit Word Count: 5.3k Tags: Multiverse, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Feelings Realization, Porn With Plot, Hurt/Comfort, Minor Peggy Carter/Steve Rogers Summary: Peggy adjusted to life in the 21st century because she had no other option. One trip across space-time was an anomaly, or so she thought.

When she was yanked into an alternate universe by a being with incredible power to help fight against a multiversal threat, Peggy realized the idea of finding a way back to her time might be an achievable goal.

The Watcher told Peggy that her world, and that time, needed their Captain Carter. He showed her why with a few detours on the way home.

Read @ AO3

[atenderofsycamoretrees]

Kim Shui Spring 2023 Ready-to-Wear

Photos by Daniele Oberrauch / Gorunway.com

[lostmidnightwriter]

Inktober - Day 10: Winter Garden

"Over the treetops and mountains

Over the blackened ravines

Then softly it falls by a house near a stream

And over the garden wall to thee"

[absolutebl]

BL 2023 - Boys Feeding Boys

Love Tractor

Between Us

My School President

Star Struck

Boss and Babe

Why R U?

Bed Friend

Y Journey

SWITCHES!

Be My Favorite

My Personal Weatherman

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[witch-hazels-musings]

Anything Kaeya related tbh

Waking up next to them cuz it’s a literal dreammmm & the office romance one 😝😝😝💖🤟🤟🤟

im such a sucker for the waking up next to them fics -- though I'm a sucker for some of the biggest tropes. I've decided to fall into them rather than avoid them because hey, they make me happy TM

(the workspace one ooh boy lol)

[silverdragonreads]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: James Bond (Craig Movies), Skyfall (2012) - Fandom Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James Bond/Q Characters: Q (James Bond), James Bond, Eve Moneypenny, Gareth Mallory, R (James Bond), Danielle Marsh, Female M (James Bond), Bill Tanner, Original Double-0 Characters Additional Tags: Backstory, Q-centric, Alternate Universe, Sort of superpowers but not really, BAMF!Q, Everyone underestimates him, Empathy, Empath!Q, Skyfall spoilers Series: Part 1 of Denominations Summary:

"Q confirms that he's an Empath three months before his first day of primary school, and the deciding of Denominations that comes with it."

OR

Q is smarter than anyone gives him credit for, and an Empath to boot.

[basilacademia]

2023 Artfight! I got really sick last year and had to stop early, so I’m hoping I can participate a lot more this time!

[graha-stan-account]

GUYs

We all have tropes types, am I right?

[rotisseries]

rori this is me stumbling into your asks because i remembered you were a zukka fan and and and

have you ever read this fic because if not i HIGHLY recommend

I have not! but I PROMISE YOU I know all about it askfhkflb, my dash was insane when the last chapter dropped. I'm just not big on amnesia fics lmao, I keep hearing about how good it is, I want to read it! but it's been sitting in my marked for later for months. maybe years. I stand and salute to "fire lily," "yes sokka?" though