#gonna reread this so many times

[alienoresimagines]

Ali!! I read your fic last night and I'm gonna leave a comment asap but I just wanted to let you know how much I absolutely loved it ♥️

It's so romantic my heart was bursting, with all the poetry Gale was waxing, and the lake scene felt so real, all the feelings and sensations, you wrote them splendidly. It was really like watching it play out, not just reading it!

I'm so happy our countless sprints turned into something so beautiful 🥰

Pls this is the nicest thing to wake up to, ever 😭🫶🏻

Gale was waxing so much poetry in it, he was totally out of my control but it was so much fun 🥰 Thank youuu 🥹 I'm super glad it came out this way because sometimes I have a very specific image in my mind for a scene and it's all about bringing it to life rather than describing it, so to know it worked for this fic is truly a boost of serotonin 🥹🥰

I'm actually quite proud of it, too, I've never written anything this long, let alone in such a short period of time, and I've never been so locked in on one fic I could write 3k without interruption 😂 And you're one of the reasons why I was able to do that so thank you for doing all these sprints with me even when it was late, and for staying with me even when you'd finished your own fic (I hope you found yourself in the endnotes ❤️) 🫶🏻 To know you liked and that you took the time to send an ask after reading it is making me love this fic even more 🥹

You're so sweet, thank you so so much for this kind message, you've no idea how much it means to me 🥹❤️ I usually have a bad case of writer's blues the day after posting a fic but your words mean the world and definitely fought them back 🫶🏻

I crashed yesterday so I didn't get to read all the wonderful fics that came out for the wota summer event but as soon as I can, I'm locking in on ao3 because I'm so so excited to read what everyone came up with 🥰❤️

[luxaofhesperides]

OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

miri + leah

[alterigo06]

“The red dragon will return at dawn.”

[astracora]

A Mandated Holiday Break - Chapter 8

Characters: Sylus x gn!mc (poly lads)

Warnings: Sylus myth mentioned, mild hurt/comfort

Word Count: 1424

Written: 22nd December 2024

Notes: Post-relationship Sylus/MC-centric but poly LADs, with my personal pov of the game and lil headcanons littered in.

Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Masterlist AO3

Sylus enjoys a karaoke bar, especially if he's got access to you for a duet. You tease him but you'll always join him, hanging onto his arm and letting loose, and he sometimes falters over the words because he's too busy watching your face.

Still, this is good too. You've set up the game system that the doctor bought for his base, presenting it with a sigh. 'You won't know the right one.'

He'd been a little insulted, but he'd acquiesced, in the end the doctor knows gaming better than he does. It's never appealed to him, and he's never had real time to try. A sing-a-long game is loading up, yelling out 'let's sing' loudly from the speaker system.

You'd presented it to him with the doctor, beaming, "You'll like this one, I promise!"

The fish had groaned from the sofa, "Why do we all have to suffer the crow's crooning?"

As much as you've teased him for being out of tune, you've always encouraged him. He can't count how many times you've asked him to hum for you. Lay against his chest, and unable to sleep for nightmares.

The reason for the at-home karaoke session, are the cocktails that Luke has decided he wants to try making. Kieran is his primary test dummy, and if anything doesn't make him spit it straight back out. You're trying them.

It's ill advised… Sylus knows you're not a light weight, but he does know you and the twins can get competitive. It feels like it's only moments before you start doing shots together, and if that happens he's bound to get dragged in, and as quick healing as he is, he doesn't fancy driving anyone anywhere. Nor does he want to get into a taxi with someone he doesn't trust. Not with you and the twins.

He needs you safe.

He also blames you for Luke’s new hobby, you’d showed them some movies, made comments about how stylish a good bartender is, (He hadn’t filed that information away, to practice. At all.), and Luke had taken that as a challenge.

“It can’t be that hard.”

“Yeah! You can do it bro!”

You’d laughed and not thought anything of it. They’d gone out, and returned with… boxes.

Then raided his alcohol supply.

He’d dragged them both back by the scruff of the neck when they went for the very expensive top shelf. In no world were they mixing that with… was that moonshine? Where did they even get moonshine from?

He doesn’t see you drunk often, there are times you’re out in busy places because you feel you have to attend, and he’s seen you drink then to soften the anxiety and stress. You always call someone to be there then, drunk you is far more willing to rely on others. He also has seen you drink when you feel safe, has carried you on his arm more than once in those situations.

You apologise but there’s no need, especially when he gets to see the embarrassed but enamoured look on your face as he holds you in one arm. Your fingers drifting over the veins in his bicep, with a look he can only describe as hungry. He flexes a little more than he needs to on those occasions.

(There was one time you’d made a comment about beef clod, and he had truly not known how to respond.)

He can see you getting to that point now, you’re trying something green that you and Kieran are sipping from the same glass with separate straws. Luke is taking his turn at the microphone, singing something about what he wants for Christmas. Sylus is unsure if the radioactive green drink is good for either of you, but you don’t look sick, still. He’s wary, and flicks your forehead. As you put a hand to the targeted area, pulling away with an offended ‘Oi’, he grabs the glass and sips from your straw.

“Aww, Boss come on.”

It’s… not as bad as he expected, but he can’t imagine drinking it for fun.

Whether his taste buds are ‘broken’ like you’ve claimed before, and its somehow worse than he tastes, he still doesn’t feel good about putting it back in either your’s or Kieran’s hands. So he downs it.

Wrinkling his nose and pushing the glass away.

Before you can grab another concoction, now that Luke is back and shoving something else onto his brother, (He’s going to have to hide the key to the liquor cabinet he thinks, if this becomes a long standing hobby for them.), he pulls you over to the karaoke machine. “It’s our turn kitten, I’m owed a song for saving you from a terrible fate.”

Your tongue is out at him, but you stumble over grabbing his arm to steady yourself, and pick up the controller to find something you both know well enough to get through it with little effort.

His song repertoire has grown substantially since you’ve reentered his life, he feels confident that anything you sing to often he has memorised. Catalogued away to think about on nights you’re not here to sing for him.

When you’re satisfied, lining up a particular choice, you thrust the microphone into his hand, that’s not currently steadying you at the waist.

You look right at him when the song starts, familiar with some things enough to sing them blindfolded, and as tipsy as you are, with your voice wavering a little, he’s as starstruck as he always is.

“And I’d give up forever to touch you, ‘Cause I know that you feel me somehow, You’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be, And I don’t want to go home right now.”

There’s moments in his life, where Sylus wonders if he blinks, will you disappear? A fragile illusion on a wishful soul. That someone, somewhere has truly seen into him and seen something worth adoring and loving. He thinks you are easy to love, there can be no doubt that you are worthy without the need to earn it.

“And all I can taste is this moment, And all I can breathe is your life.”

You have reminded him, again and again that you love him, that he does not need to pay for it, or gift for it. That everything that is offered is freely given, and wholehearted. That there is nothing to earn. It is not a transaction, no relationship should be. You do not keep score, and you would rather he did not either.

“And sooner or later it’s over, I just don’t want to miss you tonight.”

It still leaves him with the feeling that in seconds he could wake up, in a cold cave, surrounded by gems he no longer sees beauty in, in a world where he is nothing but broken horns and lost family.

“And I don’t want the world to see me, ‘Cause I don’t think that they’d understand, When everything’s meant to be broken, I just want you to know who I am.”

He loves you, he loves his life with you, and he is so scared-

Your hands move to his cheeks, his voice halts, wavering and pausing. Blinking at you. The microphone is out of your hands and you stretch up as tall as you can pressing a kiss to his eyelids. He almost drops his own, hand tightening on your waist. You sing just for him, lips at his cheek now, and his breath escapes in a long exhale, shaking.

You are his, you are his, you are his.

When his heart wavers, yours is there, keeping it beating, in time to a song only you can hear.

He is yours, he is yours, he is yours.

“I just want you to know who I am.”

He lifts you into his arms, and he sings with you, game forgotten because it doesn’t matter. Nothing else matters. If you are happy, he is happy, and he is so very happy with you in his arms.

If he wakes up tomorrow and you are not here, he will find you anywhere. He has done it before, and he will do it for the rest of time, because you are the one who sees him.

And later, when you are laughing and stumbling through his bedroom door, trying to pull away from the uncontrolled kisses he plants on your skin, tickling you and nipping, he will swear into your skin that he will always see you too.

Whoever you choose to be.

[hood-ex]

There are less than 600 works in The New Teen Titans category. This has to be rectified *Jack Skellington voice* immediately!

[dukeofthomas]

I'm so mad that so far the only good robin!jason content i've ever found is his original run. Everything i've seen since has just been making him out to be the Angry Bad Problem Child and victim blaming him for dying. How is it that the only fucking good characterization of him is 20 issues from the 1980s

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

your favorite of my favorites: A Book Poll

okay, i have now officially seen Just Enough open tags to override my vampiric need to be explicitly invited into things, so! here are my (current) Five Favorite Books for y'all to vote on, in order of Publication Date (and incidentally the order in which i read them)

shout out to @e-b-reads and @beardedbookdragon for the recent open tags! i am inflicting this on paying this forward to @asexualbookbird and @alloreli (who i warned), and to @sixofravens-reads (who i did not).

[delineate-creates]

Day 18: Saddle

Trembling from the cold and the chilly metal pressing into her back, Harry gripped the black horn of the saddle, refusing to look behind her. Black metal arms reached around her and gripped the stallion’s reins, the horse shifting as it prepared to move on command.

“What now?” Harry asked in despair.

“I’ll take you back to your fucking lovely farm,” the knight mocked, voice somehow cultured even through the swear, “And get on with my mission. Which way?”

•

From chapter 1 of @treacleteacups’s Byzantium

[kooki914]

Nothing like rereading the spadesgore collection at 5:59 am when I have work tomorrow

Oh buddy oh pal. I have BEEN THERE.

But also thank you for telling me this it genuinely brought a smile to my face, I'm glad you like my fics :)

[luescris]

YAAAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA

I FINALLY HAVE MY COPY OF A GLITCH IN TIME AFTER THINKING I HAD LOST IT TO A PLACE FOR SO LONG BUT IT FINALLY CAME IN AND I'M SO AUAHSHSHSAHDHDHDH AAAAAAAAA

HAVING THIS IRL IS SO SO S O MUCH BETTER THAN READING IT ONLINE I'VE BEEN STARING AT THIS NONSTOP EVER SINCE I GOT IT RAAAAGHGHH

I've been working on my own design of Dan for a few days and this might've revamped my inspiration to finish because oh my God this book is so GOOD.

Take a few of my favorite pages under the cut heheheheheh (don't get me wrong they're all my favorite pages but the big ones. ouagh. they just Hit Different.)

Ouagahfshagshsh pretty colors.......

LOWKEY REALLY WANNA DESPERATELY REDRAW THIS ONE CUZ LOOK HOW HAPPY HE LOOKS AND IT LOOKS GENUINELY SO FUN TO DRAW LIKE AAUGHHHHH

YOU GO DANNY YOU GO!!!!

Literally nightmare fuel holy freaking hell man

Close up just for shits and giggles (also lowkey wanna redraw this one but I dunno if I could do it justice but might just make it my banner also we'll see weeeeee-)

Now time to stare at this for countless hours until I get bored of it (which may never happen but only time can tell hehehshshsh)

[plush4bunny]

just few of the many Maxim Horvath sketches that are my faves for @chrism02's slow burn fic (oh the painful yearning 😫❤️‍🔥) called 'Quick on the Draw'

[kingslionheart]

whats the weirdest thing you’ve ever normalised

i wanted to try to find something a bit lighter to say but there's genuinely nothing light in anything weird that i have normalised, SO.

i guess the weirdest thing i have normalised is exclusion, like actively excluding people and being very open about it. i wasn't the one doing that, it was done to me in middle school and that was part of the bullying i was subjected to, tho the adults (especially the teachers) were the ones who made me normalise it and bullying in general, because they constantly repeated to me like on a daily basis that bullying didn't exist and neither did exclusion, and therefore of course A 12 YEARS OLD IS GOING TO NORMALISE THAT

[beaulesbian]

I know i'm like 7 years late with the realization, but the first time reading the All for the game books left only chaos in my brain, which i haven't revisited since 2016.. until now!

So now rereading The raven king and knowing what will happen, the funny realization is seeing Wymack being the first one to probably guess something happening between Neil and Andrew.

When the whole "Andrew's hand under Neil's t-shirt to gain his trust, while standing in front of other ppl" scene was going on, and Wymack seeing it, and later asking Neil:

It's the "Wymack eyed him" so funny for me, bc he just realized even Neil didn't know. (I think Wymack was facepalming on the inside, thinking 'he really is that stupid'.)

And then at the beginning of The King's men, again:

("A brief, pitying glance." You love to read that! poor Neil lol, he's only confused by what Wymack means)

ajbfjdj it's almost a comedy (and a tragedy, at the same time 🥲)

[axilarycobra]

There are some characters in Wings of Fire I don't like as much, but sometimes I see someone hating on them so aggressively and unnecessarily that I start defending them when otherwise I wouldn't really care to.

For example, Moon's a good character, she's not in my top 10s but I don't dislike her either, but as soon as I see someone going off on Moon so angrily I'm like "ok, she is a child who was being manipulated for most of her arc". "Oh, she's a Mary Sue-" no one liked her. her whole book was literally everyone hating her and her not even being able to like herself for who she is. Like of course when Darkstalker helps her in her book she then starts to trust him because he was the only one who didn't hate her and knew fully who she was and encouraged her to be that way. Then he abused that trust to try to guilt-trip her every time he did something behind her back.

Glory as well, I like Glory, not in my top 10s, but I also don't dislike her. When I see people grilling her for being mean to her friends or sarcastic all the time I get all "Glory get behind me"! And it's not even over like stupid thing as well, like it just makes sense why Glory may be defensive and act the way she does, she experienced physical and verbal abuse for 6 years and like, just a few weeks ago got out. There's been zero time for recovery or processing anything, that little found family is bouncing from one major turning point in a continental war to the next. And the obligatory she was a child like of course she was sarcastic and maybe didn't make some of the best decisions in the world she's like a teenager, they aren't the most emotionally mature age group in the world.

Anyway, there are probably more examples but I thought of these two first.

[muirmarie]

thinking about the internal logic for the magic system for my original stuff again. thinking about the fact that i spent a year writing (good!) and did not touch my original stuff at all (not great lmao) and that now that i've got myself back on the right path (words!) and have tried to beat into my silly, stubborn head that the important thing is to get things done and out of my sweaty, scared hands instead of clutching them too tightly and far too long trying to focus on making them as good as they can be (sigh), i really, really gotta apply that to my original stuff this next year (SIGH) even when i really don't wanna (SIGHHHHHHHH) so. yeah. i should probably crack that sucker open again and at the very least reread it. AFTER i finish this fic that i was supposed to finish last weekend lmao (say it with me: sigh).

[headphonemouse]

Ch. 427

Shin Yoosung pulling out premature grey hair on my head tackled the boy immediately.

I can't believe I forgot about kdj's premature grey hairs. Post epilogue dokjoong bald4bald