#leh recs

[hashtagleh]

the affliction of the feeling is a particular favorite of mine and I feel fits this vibe pretty well

listen i know we’re all fans of the “oblivious steve / knows whats up eddie” dynamic, but i dont know why bc “oblivious eddie / knows whats up steve” is Infinitely Funnier. just

eddie : aahhh i have fallen for another straight boy, when will my common sense come back from the war

meanwhile steve, talking to robin : it will be a fall wedding and we will wear red ties

like im just saying eddie was talking abt stancy getting back together while steve was staring at his lips, and i think we should appreciate that dynamic more idk

[conjuring-ghouls]

Thank you @copias-juicebox and @susulbr for tagging me! 🖤✨

You can make your picrew here.

tagging @ghu-leh @awildjonesyappears @rotting-tonight @ghuleh-recs @cardis-tricycle @cardi-c @ramblingoak @sxnnelysister (only if you want to 🖤) and whoever wants to join in!

[senadimell]

2, 7, 30?

Ooh, my first request!

2. Favorite underrated historical figure?

Princess Taiping/ 太平公主！ I wrote a paper on her and it was really hard to find sources discussing her in her own right. She’s a Zhou and Tang-dynasty figure, the daughter of the famous Wu Zetian, known as the only female emperor in China (Zhou being the single-generation dynasty established by Wu Zetian) She’s not someone I’d emulate, but man, she lived a wild life. 

She instigated two successful coups and played politics like nobody’s business. All the while, she amassed landholdings and wealth. She was her mother’s right-hand woman: Emperor Wu* used one of the Taiping Princess’ plans to get rid of a confidante who’d gone too far by setting fire to a temple. Princess Taiping’s first husband was implicated in a failed rebellion against her mother and executed, but she was able to remarry and stay on the scene. In fact, we’re pretty sure her mother had the wife of her second husband assassinated so she could remarry him. I think it’s fascinating that she was able to stay on top during her mother’s rule, as two of her brothers were executed by her mother and two were ousted from power after being named successors. Later in her mother’s life, Taiping outmaneuvered both her mother and her mother’s head of secret police to coerce her mother into agreeing to oust him. 

Eventually, she knew winds were changing in the court and her mother was falling out of favor, so she helped convince her to abdicate the throne in favor of one of her brothers, who I will refer to as Emperor Zhongzong.

It’s kinda complicated to talk about the crazy intrigue that followed her mother’s death, because practically all of her brothers and nephew all have multiple names: birth names, ruling names, and post-humous reign titles, so it can get a little confusing. So Emperor Zhongzong (sounds like jhong-tsong) came into power and his wife, Empress Wei, was also a strong political actor. She did not want Princess Taiping wielding that much political power, and Princess Taiping had lost her most powerful backer when Wu Zetian stepped down. Empress Wei wanted her daughter, the Anle princess, to hold power in the court, and even tried to have her named crown princess and heir, something unprecedented. That didn’t work and her son Li Chongmao/later Emperor Shao was named successor instead. It’s strongly suspected that Empress Wei and the Anle princess (sounds like ahn-leh) conspired to and successfully poisoned Emperor Zhongzong. The Taiping Princess lost no time in launching a coup, and in two weeks time both Empress Wei and the Anle princess were dead. 

Li Chongmao didn't stand a chance. He was around 10-12 when this happened, and when people were still talking about who would be the new leader, she said “Everybody turns to the prime minister [princess Taiping’s brother, Li Dan, later Emperor Ruizong], little boy; this is not your seat.”** Emperor Ruizong treated Princess Taiping as a political equal and relied heavily on her advice.

Meanwhile, his son Li Longji grew in political power and prowess. She felt threatened by him, and participated in a smear campaign to limit his power. He tried to placate her appointing her supporters to  government, so the government was filled with people loyal to her. Unfortunately for her, Emperor Ruizong’s advisors still managed to convinced him to exile her. Through her connections, she was still able to maintain power in the court. 

In 712 ACE, Emperor Ruizong took a comet as a sign he was to step down (rather than eventually getting killed in the struggle between his son and sister) and announced his future abdication to his son Li Longji, temple name Emperor Xuanzong (shu-en tsong) which is how I will refer to him from now on). Aware of what this would mean for her, the Taiping Princess planned her third coup, an armed struggle to upend the soon-to-be Emperor Xuanzong, but was betrayed and discovered. She fled to a monastery, but was found three days later and permitted to commit suicide (seen as more honorable than execution). In the aftermath of the coup, all of the political leaders associated her were implicated by association and were executed or forced to commit suicide. Get this: that was all but one of the chief ministers! It took years for the state to completely appropriate her amassed landholdings and wealth.

*So Empress usually denotes a designated wife of an emperor (皇帝）. Wu Zetian went from a consort to empress regent to empress regnant, essentially. When Wu Zetian ascended the throne, she did some masterful religious and linguistic subversion to establish her legitimacy and came up with a lot of new terms and names to justify what she was doing, since it was unprecedented.  Essentially, she was the female version of Emperor, but translating the linguistic titles is complicated. 

**Sue Wiles and Lily Xiao Hong Lee “Li, Princess Taiping” Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II: Tang Through Ming 618 - 1644. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women.

7. Which time period would you like to live in?

Now. The current one. Go back too far even in the past century and I lose rights and privileges that I value, like the ability to dress as weirdly as I please, the ability to discuss issues of mental health and the #me too movement with women’s rights in general, the ability to work where I want, and the ability to openly practice religion. I would also miss conversations and changes within my own faith community about treating people of all races and backgrounds equally, church culture vs. doctrine, and attitudes towards church history.

 But if I were a time traveller and could stop in a place for a vacation, I’d love to live in the early 1900s (1900-1920) and visit major urban centers for art, music, and to witness labor conditions and activism. Alternatively, if I were a time traveller I would simply attend live showings of my favorite shows and concerts (lots of musical theatre)

30. Favorite kids/teens history books:

Most of the historical fiction I’ve read takes place in the past 100 years, and a lot of it takes place in the 30s and 40s. I do have a rule for myself that I don’t seek fiction about the Holocaust--the things here are exceptions. I tend to read survivor’s accounts instead, though I couldn’t think of many novels in for this rec. 

 Between Shades of Grey, by Ruta Sepetys--gorgeous, heart-wrenching book about a girl in Lithuania sent to a Soviet prison camp in Siberia. 

Code Name Verity and Rose Under Fire, by Elizabeth Wein--both take place during WWII. Rather brutal and play around with alternative narration styles.

The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen. I don’t know how to describe it. During a Passover Seder, Hannah Stern is transported back in time to 1942 Poland, during World War II. 

Anything by Gillian Bradshaw (she’s more of a ‘dump you into the history hard and let you figure things out’ kind of author, which I love--I’m trying to get my hands on A Beacon at Alexandria. She also writes historical fiction set in antiquity, which I don’t see as often.)

Flygirl, by Sherri Smith about the WASP (Women’s Airforce Service Pilots). Tackles the racism of the era as well.

The Red Umbrella, by Christina Diaz Gonzalez, about the Cuban exile after the revolution of 1959

Esperanza Rising, by Pam Muñoz Ryan, about a girl who leaves her estate in Mexico and has to live as a migrant worker in California. 

Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix. This is about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911 and is a good introduction to labor issues and unions in US history. This book is almost solely responsible for why I don’t think Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them looks anything like New York at the early 20th century (yes, I know this takes place 10 years earlier, but conditions hadn’t changed all that much). 

The Lightning Tree, by Sarah Dunster (not the book of the same name by Patrick Rothfuss). This one’s a bit personal--it’s a coming-of-age story following the story of a girl of Waldensian heritage set in Utah right after the Utah War (1858) and a year after the Mountain Meadows Massacre. It’s character-driven, lyrical and subverted my expectations of what would happen. 

The Vanishing Point, by Louise Hawes. A fictionalized biography of Lavinia Fontana, a famous female artist in the Italian Renaissance. Considering how the art world is dominated by male artists, this was really neat to read, and also takes place further in the past than a lot of things I read. 

Distant Waves, by Suzanne Weyn: Probably the weirdest book here, but just fabulous. It combines spiritualism, Nikola Tesla, Houdini and Doyle, H.G. Wells and the wealthy crème de la crème of the era with the Titanic.

Non-fiction

Yankee Doodle Gals, by Amy Nathan is about the WASP and is fabulous.

Teens at War, by Allan Zullo. Ten stories of teenagers at war throughout history.

Witch-Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials by Marc Aronson. One of the things I realized was just how much of an anomaly the trials were, as previously courts had been denying spectral evidence as a valid source of evidence.

Night, by Elie Wiesel. A personal history of surviving the Holocaust. Here’s the thing--if you can, read both the edition before his wife translated it and compare it to her translation. Her translations soften the hard edges of the book, which isn’t something I usually want if I’m reading about the Holocaust, but have been called more true to his words.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. A moving and disturbing story about race, medical exploitation, the invention of vaccines, and poverty in the U.S. I don’t know if this counts as a teen novel, but I read it as a freshman in high school on my librarian’s recommendation.

Savage Girls and Wild Boys Does this count as children or history? It’s a history about feral children (raised by animals, etc) and other children raised in extraordinary circumstances. 

Sort of history? It’s more modern. Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick. It’s kind of a memoir of Arn Chorn-Pond, someone who survived the Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979 and was a child soldier. It’s brutal, but I recommend it to everyone. 

This isn’t a children’s history book, but I can’t miss an opportunity to recommend it. The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II by Iris Chang is utterly heartbreaking. The Rape of Nanjing has hugely significant to cultural memory, and yet most people I’ve talked to in the states have never hear about it

As for children’s books, I read my copy of The Secret Soldier by Ann McGovern to death. If not for its length, it would probably be falling out of its binding by now. 

I also read my mother’s childhood copy of The Story of Helen Keller by Lorena A. Hickok over and over again (first published 1958). 

Survivor, by Allan Zullo. Compilation of stories from children who survived the Holocaust. 

The Hidden Girl, the story of Lola Rein Kaufman written between her and Lois Metzger. After her mother is killed by the Gestapo, she has to hide in a barn to survive.

OH! ETA:

Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics  and Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History's Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath are a fun way to get familiar with historical and legendary female historical figures. There is some swearing and description of all the sorts of things you can imagine have happened to historical women, but it’s organized by rating and type. 

@brightbeautifulthings I don’t know if asking automatically tags you?

[crashdevlin]

Hearts Entwined-6: Light

Hearts Entwined Masterlist

Author’s Note: This is the only unfinished series I will be releasing today but you’ll be getting all six chapters of what I have over the course of today.

Summary: y/n is a Wiccan from the French Mistake universe who finds herself in the Supernatural universe after finishing a spell. She’s not a fan, but she quickly sees the new place for what it is; a world with real magic. But real magic comes with real consequences.

Pairing(s): Sam x Reader, Dean x Reader, OMC x Reader

Word Count: 7326

Story Warnings: Smut, 18+ HERE BE SEX, DO NOT READ IF YOU’RE A YOUNG’UN!!, oral sex (fem and male receiving), vaginal sex, unprotected sex, rough sex, bloodplay, dub-con, sex curse, free-will fuckery. Angst.

Chapter Warnings: Angst, y/n’s backstory is full of sad, alternate universe shenanigans, mentions of drug use, fingering, oral (fem rec), unprotected sex, loving sex

"You're not Jack." Asmodeus across the throne room at you.

"No, I'm not." You answered, shortly.

"My lord, Asmodeus, I-" A demon walked into the throne room staring down at a clipboard.

"Can't you see we've got a guest, Percy? Show some respect." The Prince of Hell gestured at you and stood.

"He probably couldn't see me until you pointed me out. Low-level demons don't have perception like Princes of Hell do."

"Sir? Who's this?" The demon asked, looking at you with confusion.

"I don't, rightly, know, Percy. Let's find out."

You walked around him, surveying the room you'd only ever seen on your TV screen. "That'd be really threatening if I weren't a projection."

"And why are you projected here, miss?" Asmodeus asked, following you as you walked toward the throne.

"I -unno. I was sleeping and then something was calling me here." You walked around the back of the large, ornate wooden throne. "Are we in Needham? I really didn't expect you guys to keep using this set as a base of operations, especially with Crowley dead."

Asmodeus seemed surprised that you knew the location. "It's a good central location on Earth... and the last place the hunters would expect us to be."

You looked around the throne at him. "Well, Heaven is the last place they'd expect you to be, but okay." You ran through your mental map of the asylum and started walking away.

"Where are you-" The demon Percy started but Asmodeus just followed you as you walked through Needham Asylum, exploring. You stopped in front of two cells, one housing Castiel and one housing a depleted Lucifer. They both stood, moving to grab the bars and stare at you through them.

"Y/n, what are you doing here?" Cas asked as Asmodeus showed up behind you.

"Thanks for dropping my name, Cas. I was gonna Rumpelstiltskin this shit." You joked, avoiding looking at Lucifer, who was staring at you. "And I'm not really here. I'm projecting."

"I mean, this dimension. You fled back to your own world."

"A girl's allowed to change her mind, Cas. God gave us free will, didn't he?"

"You know this girl?" Asmodeus asked the angels.

"Never seen her before." Lucifer answered, but his tone, and how his eyes hadn't let your face since he saw you, told you he knew exactly who and what you were.

"She's a witch, caused significant chaos for Sam and Dean." Castiel said, obviously catching on that he shouldn't tell Asmodeus that you were a friend. "She comes from another world. After the chaos died down, she retreated back to her home world."

"And what dimension is it that you are from, Miss y/n?"

"Couldn't tell ya." You answered, truthfully. "Know where I'm going. Know where I've been, but I have no clue where I originated. I've got no memories from before I was with my fosters, but maybe I've been with them since before my brain was saving memories." You shrugged. "Who cares? I'm here now. Well, not here, but you know what I mean."

"So, were you one of Crowley's witches? That how you know of the asylum?" The demon asked. Lucifer seemed very interested in your answer, leaning ever-so-slightly closer.

"Crowley and his mother tried. I'm not interested in being controlled. I'm a free agent." You smiled. "Anyway, I really enjoyed our conversation, Colonel Sanders, but I wanna get back to my body so-"

"But why were you here in the first place, y/n? I was callin' to Jack and you showed up."

You smirked. "It's a simple matter of you being very loud in my astral environment." You looked from the cells to Asmodeus. "I'm sure if this Jack was in Kansas, he'd have heard you, too. The searching meditation thing... loud."

"Terribly sorry to disturb you, sweetheart. Have you seen Jack?"

"I met Jack Nicholson on a plane once, but I don't think that's who you're looking for."

"How astute." Asmodeus drawled.

"Thanks. I pride myself on my deductive reasoning capabilities." You chanced a look at Lucifer, catching a flash of pride on his face at your sass.

"I am looking for Jack, the Nephilim offspring of him." The demon pointed at Lucifer "You know, the most powerful being on Earth."

"Well, like Castiel said..." For some reason you couldn't place, the name came out the way Lucifer always said it, as two syllables instead of three. "I was off-world for a while. I don't know anything about a Nephilim."

"Oh, real-leh?"

"Not one that survived. Nephilim are abominations in the eyes of Heaven, right?" You gestured to Castiel. "Only because Heaven's afraid of their power, but that's a whole 'nother thing."

"For not knowin' anything about Nephilim, you sure do know a lot about how Heaven treats them." Asmodeus accused.

"I'm well-read. Also, you know, why else would Heaven have such a big problem with a little human-loving? God did say to love us, right?"

"I'm sure God wasn't thinkin' about sex when he passed down that decree." The demon said.

"I'm sure you don't know what God was thinking. You think God's too good to think about sex? Man was made in His image and men think about sex all the time. What do you know?"

"Can we not talk about my dad and sex, please?" Lucifer whined.

You chuckled but didn't look at him. You weren't sure if you were trying to keep Asmodeus from recognizing the connection between you and Lucifer, or if you were trying to deny it to Lucifer himself, but you were certain it'd be evident if you gave full attention to him. "Everyone has to confront the fact that their parents had sex at some point. I mean, it's a little different when your father is the Allfather, but whatever." You turned back to Asmodeus. "Anyway, keep your loud meditation to yourself and I won't bug you again."

"I'll do my best, witch."

You jerked as you came back to your body and Sam tightened his arm around your waist, in his sleep. Dean's hand on your hip pulled you closer to him, in response. "Guys." You whispered. They each grunted in their sleep, so you just teleported out of their grasp. That woke them.

"Hey." Sam greeted, sitting up and stretching.

"What's wrong?" Dean asked, zeroing in on your expression.

"Um... I have to... go save Castiel from Asmodeus."

"What?" Dean asked, sitting up, too.

You took a deep breath. "Asmodeus was searching for Jack, as he's wont to do, but he found me instead. I know I shouldn't have gone, but it was so loud and scratching at my brain and I... I astral projected to him and... he's got... he's got Castiel."

"Why would you go to him?" Sam asked as Dean's eyebrows scrunched together.

"Why'd you say 'Castiel' like that?"

You rolled your eyes. "I don't know. It just came out like that. Cas and Lucifer are with Asmodeus."

"What do you mean, Lucifer?" Dean asked, as Sam took on a look of panic. "He's in Apocalypse World, ain't he?"

"Not anymore. He's in a cell next to Cas. I'm gonna go get Cas."

"What cell is gonna hold Lucifer?" Sam asked.

"He seemed... less. You know, like Cas when he got his Grace yanked. I wish I hadn't missed the last few weeks' episodes."

"Wait, go where? Where's Asmodeus have him? And what the hell are you thinking? You can't go there. If Asmodeus gets you-" Dean stood, looking down at you.

"He won't. I'm stronger than him. And it's not like I can leave Cas locked up in Needham Asylum. I'll be in and out before Asmodeus even knows I'm there."

"They're at Needham?" Dean asked.

"Yeah. I guess Crowley started a trend. You know how much the demons hate staying in Hell where they belong." You shook your head. "It's fine. I can do this."

"We'll come with you." Sam offered, standing.

"No, you won't. Lucifer is there." You took Sam's hand in yours. "Lucifer, who's tortured and manipulated you, who's tried to end everything. You don't need to be there, or see him. I'll bring Cas back, okay?"

"Y/n, don't go without us." Dean almost begged.

"I promise that I'll be back so quick." You said, with a smile. You went to your tiptoes and wrapped your arms around Sam's neck, pulling him down for a kiss. You pulled away and repeated the motion with Dean before disappearing. You reappeared outside the asylum, at the bottom of the stone steps. You chuckled at the warding on the door and passed through to the other side. You slipped through the halls of the asylum and down to basement, touching each ward as you passed it and smiling as they burned away.

Cas and Lucifer jumped up when you walked in front of their cells. "Y/n, why are you here?" Castiel asked, as you put your hands on the lock and pulled the door open as soon as it clicked.

"Getting rid of all these anti-angel wards and getting you out of here." You answered. You moved to put your hand on Cas' shoulder and fly off with him, but Lucifer stopped you by grabbing your wrist.

"You can't leave me here, y/n." You looked down at Lucifer's hand, then up to his face. His eyes went red and you were certain yours went gold because he smiled, brightly. "You're my daughter. I could tell the moment I saw you. You cannot leave me to rot in this cell."

"I can, and I should." You answered.

"Y/n... you're-" Castiel started. You didn't let him finish his sentence, flying Castiel to the bunker, dropping him in the war room, and immediately flying back to the asylum.

"You came back." Lucifer whispered, happily.

"I can't leave you here. For some stupid reason." You broke the wards on Lucifer's cell and he stepped out, happily.

"I knew you wouldn't let me down." You grabbed his shoulder and flew off with him. He looked up at the building you flew him to. "What's-"

"I need breakfast and coffee before I deal with you. Based on your Graceless aura, I'm gonna assume you should eat something, too. Biggerson's. Have some pie." You pulled open the door and headed inside.

Lucifer followed. "I am not Graceless." He insisted.

"Just two?" The hostess asked. You nodded and she led you and Lucifer to a booth in the corner. "Ashley is your server, she'll be right with you. Can I get you started with some drinks?"

"Two coffees." You ordered.

"I don't want-"

"Shut up, Dad." You interrupted as the hostess walked away. "Coffee is like precious ambrosia. You'll thank me later."

"Oh." Lucifer pretended to get choked up. "You called me 'Dad'."

"No point in denying I'm the daughter of the Devil, is there? My parents back home hinted at it my whole life, but I just thought they hated me." You smiled at the hostess as she dropped two coffee mugs off and a bowl of creamer.

"So, tell me everything." Lucifer demanded, happily.

"Not much to tell. I'm another version of you's daughter. I was sent from whatever dimension I was born in to a dimension where there's no Heaven or Hell, where the version of you is an actor named Mark." Lucifer seemed scandalized by the thought. "I don't know why I was sent away. Maybe because Heaven didn't know how to kill an archangel Nephilim. Regular Nephilim are hard enough to get rid of, ask Cas."

Lucifer rolled his eyes and reached across the table. "Let's go ahead and get this out of the way." His hand grasped yours and the last thing you saw before you were pulled down into your memories was his red eyes.

And then you were looking up into his vessel's blue eyes, which were cast down on you, reverently.

"She's so beautiful, isn't she? So full of my Grace and her mother's human potential. In a few years time, she will be the most powerful being in the universe, maybe as strong as her grandfather." He looked up at whomever he was addressing. "Michael would twist her soul, like he did with the souls of his demon followers. He would use her against me. He would have no qualms twisting the humanity in her so that he could use her power as a weapon."

"Do we kill her now, then, General?" A familiar male voice asked.

"No, Zachariah." Lucifer looked down at you again. "I now know a father's love. I understand why Father wanted us to love the humans; because He loved them so. Despite their flaws and the damage they cause each other and all His other creations... He loves them... I can't destroy her."

"I could." Another voice, a deep baritone one, volunteered.

"No, Uriel. I haven't called you here for that. I need someone to take her away to safety."

"Safety. Where on Earth do you think she's going to be safe, Lucifer?" A familiar female voice chimed in.

"Nowhere... on this Earth, but there are other Earths and there's one where the fight with Michael will never happen. Heaven and Hell can't battle if there's no Heaven or Hell."

"No Heaven or Hell? How would such a place-" The female started again.

"They conduct themselves much as the humans here do, Castiel, because they have faith in what they cannot see, misplaced though it may be for them." Lucifer sighed. "I need a team to take her to the other dimension and watch over her."

"Whoever goes would be unable to fight in the battle." Castiel's voice went low, like she'd been offended by the thought of not getting to fight.

"And in the interest of complete disclosure... as this universe is the epitome of the mundane, I do not believe there is a way to come back."

"We'd be stuck?" Uriel asked, anger lacing his words.

"Yes. You would be stuck, forced to live as humans, unable to fight in the Apocalypse, completely cut off from Heaven's Grace... and I would be eternally grateful and in your debt for this service."

There was silence as Lucifer looked at the trio of angels before him. "Of course we'll do this for you, sir." Came Castiel's voice, finally. "And no debt will be necessary. We're happy to serve you."

Lucifer smiled. "No, you aren't happy about it, Castiel, but you might find it in you, eventually. Here. I will begin the spell to send you, you should get used to holding Orli."

Your vision was jostled as you were passed from Lucifer's arms to the waiting arms of a brunette woman with sharp blue eyes. Castiel, or as you'd always known her 'Mom', looked down at you with disdain. "This is terrible." She whispered as your 'father' came into view, looking down at you. "I am a soldier, not a-a nursemaid."

"We're being trusted with our leader's most precious-" Zachariah began.

"We're going to have to live as hairless apes, Zachariah. We will eat and sleep and age and die with them and it is all because our General decided he needed to feel the joy of Creation before taking down Michael. How is that fair?" Uriel almost growled.

"It's not Lucifer's job to make things fair for us, you maggot. This is an honor he could've asked anyone to carry out but he turned to us. Us, his most trusted. Take it as an honor, you dumbshits."

The trio stared down at you. "She isn't light. I'll not call her 'Orli'." Castiel finally whispered. "We'll call her 'y/n'."

You gasped as you pulled out of your memories, blinking rapidly.

"I was the good guy in your dimension?" Lucifer whispered, confused.

"Never do that to me again." You insisted, pulling your hand out of his grasp.

"Well, I'm sorry, but wasn't that easier than hearing you blather on about how you don't remember anything? Now you remember something! Your parents hated you because they had to give up their celestial identity to protect you."

"I'm just realizing that I never saw my parents being any kind of affectionate... and Castiel was my mom, which is... awkward." You sighed. "And it totally explains why they wouldn't go to church with me. They wouldn't want to hear you badmouthed so much."

The server walked up and took your orders, two cheeseburgers and fries, and walked away. "How did you end up a witch if you were raised by angels? I mean, not that you could call Castiel and Zachariah prime examples of angel, but..."

"I don't even know, now. I thought my grandma started me on it, but... I don't even know who that woman was."

"So, you're a witch, but you're Castiel's friend?" Lucifer picked up the coffee mug and sniffed at it before taking a tentative sip.

"It's complicated." You answered, watching with interest as he took another sip followed by a gulp.

"Complicated? I'm your father, but not your father. I'm evil but I'm also a savior. You're an angel and also a witch. You think I can't handle complicated?"

You raised an eyebrow. "Who are you a savior to?" You took a deep drink from your mug and set it down. "I am involved with the Winchesters so knowing Castiel, this Castiel, is unavoidable."

"Involved?" You could see the whine coming before he put his own mug on the table and slumped his shoulders. "Tell me you haven't allowed one of those birdbrained cretins to touch you."

"That's really none of your business, Dad."

"Oh, my Dad. Which one was it?" You avoided his gaze, knowing he could see the truth in your eyes if he caught them. He huffed out an angry breath and leaned back against the booth seat. "I honestly don't know which one would be worse. Sam, with his self-righteous bullshit or Dean, with his self-hatred and both of them, both of them, think they're so freaking special. Just, what, 'cause Dad wrote about 'em? Dad only wrote about them because-"

"Shut up." You demanded, looking across the table at him. He stopped his whining rant and looked at you. "Grandpa wrote about them because they're special, not the other way around. They are intelligent, handsome, brave and they have pushed through a million things that would have destroyed lesser men, including literal Hell for both of them. I'm blessed to have gotten either of their attention and fortunate enough to have gotten the love of both of them. You're the fuckin' Devil, you aren't gonna make me feel bad about my relationship status."

"You're with... both of them?" Lucifer asked, picking up his mug again.

"I said it's complicated, didn't I?"

"You know I hate them, right? And they hate me? Your boyfriends hate your father." He reiterated. "They want to send me back to the Cage."

"If you could handle being on Earth without trying to kill all humans and take everything over, maybe they wouldn't be so bent on sending you back to where God sent you."

"I wasn't trying to murder Dad's faves last year, was I? No, I was just trying to bask in some of the love and attention that I have been, historically, deprived. Then, here comes Castiel and Crowley, the little worm, to end my fun."

"This is when you were Rick Springfield, right?"

"Who? I was wearing Vince Vincente."

"I know. But you know, a single Jessie's Girl reference would've been amazing." You joked.

"What? Anyway..." Lucifer waved away the confusion and continued. "I was just having some fun. No big plan, no mass genocide, just a bit of-"

A phone started going off in your jacket pocket and when you pulled it out the screen said 'Sam'. "When did they plant this on me?" You whispered, answering it. "Hey, Sam."

"Where've you been? Cas has been back for almost half an hour and you're nowhere to be seen."

"Lucifer escaped." You lied. It flowed out so easily that it almost didn't feel like a lie when you said it. "I went back to put the enochian wards back up and he was gone. It's all my fault, Sam. I have to find him."

There was silence on the other end of the phone as Lucifer gave a proud look across the table at you. Sam cleared his throat. "It's not your fault, y/n. Lucifer, he's an opportunist. As soon as you broke those wards, he was probably thinking about how to get out of that cell. Why don't you come back? We'll regroup and look for him, together."

"Gimme an hour, Sammy. If I can't find him in an hour, I'll come back."

"Y/n, I don't think that's-"

"I just need to try to fix this myself first. Please."

"Okay. Call us if you get close. He might be powered down, but he's still Lucifer."

"Okay. Love ya. Bye." You quickly turned the GPS location option off on the phone and looked across at Lucifer, who had a positively giddy look on his face. "Don't give me that look."

"You just lied to your boyfriend about me. I've never felt so proud."

"I lied because if I told him, he and Dean'd pack into Baby and hunt us down. You might not be the Dad who felt the love of being a father over me, but you are still my father."

"And what's your endgame here, Orli?" He leaned forward. "You can't just let me leave here on my own, because you don't trust me. You can't tell Sam and Dean where we are because they'd never trust you again. We can't stay here forever and you don't want to come with me, so what's the plan?"

"No plan. You think I had a plan when I pulled you out of Needham? No. I just couldn't let my Dad rot in a cell because of some ambitious underling. That's it. Knowing all the pain you've caused, all the death and destruction... I looked in that cell and saw my dad. So, I am going to eat this burger..." You smiled as the waitress dropped off the plates and walked off. "...and I am going to come up with something, with or without your input. 'kay?"

"Look, why don't you just let me head out by myself? I'm not gonna do anything. I'm practically human." He picked up his burger and took a bite. "Look at me, I'm eating! Oh, wow! That is amazing. How disgusting." He took several more bites as you watched in amusement.

"If you think that's disgusting, wait 'til it comes out... and slow down if you don't wanna learn about vomit." You popped a fry in your mouth and leaned forward as he noticeably slowed in his eating. "You don't know how to do this, Dad. You need help. And if you think I find you any less dangerous because you've had your Grace yanked, then you must think I'm stupid."

"I dunno if 'stupid' is the right word." He swallowed and picked up his coffee. "'Uninformed', maybe? Of course I'm less dangerous. You think that ingrate, Asmodeus, would be breathing if I were full power?"

You rolled your eyes. "So you can't dust people with a snap of your fingers, anymore. So? You know how many humans murder each other every day? Not a drop of Grace between 'em. You're still dangerous."

"That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me."

"Eat your food." You demanded softly.

He didn't speak as he started eating again, slower this time. You dropped money on the table and walked out into the parking lot with him as soon as you were both done eating. "So, what's next, Orli?"

"I don't know how I feel about you calling me that." You said, grabbing his forearm.

"Why? It's your name." He insisted.

"Yeah, but-" You shook your head and flew him to the Bunker's War Room. Sam, Dean and Castiel all shifted into defensive stances as soon as they saw you. "Hey, guys."

"You found him?" Sam asked.

"He didn't escape." You responded, honestly.

Lucifer threw his hands up. "Oh, come on!" He groaned. "You couldn't keep a lie going for more than an hour?! Are you sure you're my daughter?"

"I can lie. I just prefer the truth." You answered.

"What do you mean, 'he didn't escape'?" Dean asked.

"I let him out. I couldn't leave him there with Asmodeus. I-I know that this could be seen as-as a betrayal, but-"

"'Could be'?" Lucifer chimed in.

"I took him to get something to eat. You can't tell this but he's... way depleted."

"It's true. He's very weak." Cas confirmed.

"I am not-"

"Shut up, Dad." You snapped, before turning back to Sam and Dean. "I'm so sorry. I just couldn't leave him there. I really just went to save Castiel, but there was my father in the next cell over, I couldn't leave him."

"Seriously, babe, it's pronounced 'Cass-tee-el'. Long 'E'." Dean corrected.

Lucifer's face screwed up in disgust. "Okay, ew, infantilizing pet name." He gagged. "And my daughter is just saying it like her daddy does."

"You callin' yourself 'daddy' is ew." Dean shot back.

"I'm saying it how it's said in my dimension." You defended.

"And why's it said that way in your dimension?" Lucifer prodded, pointing not-too-subtly at herself.

"Why don't you shut your stupid mouth before I shut it for you?" You growled. He put his hands up in a non-threatening gesture.

The anger flowed out of their faces. "You found out where you're from?"

"Not quite, but Lucifer helped me remember some."

"Get this! I'm the Michael in her universe!" Lucifer exclaimed.

"What does that mean?" Castiel asked.

"Means Chuck entrusted the Mark to Michael so he's the one who was tainted and rebelled. Lucifer's the obedient son where I'm from." You answered.

"Did you remember how you got to... Muggle world?" Dean asked.

"Cas took me." You went with the shortened version of his name to avoid name shame. "Cas, Zachariah and Uriel."

"Really?" Sam exclaimed.

"Oh, it gets better. Show 'em the picture." Lucifer directed, chuckling.

You knew exactly which picture he was referencing. You rolled your eyes and summoned your laptop, opening it and pulling up a picture you'd poached from your Facebook when you decided you weren't going back home. It was you and your parents at a park on July Fourth. "Anybody look familiar, Cas?" You set the laptop on the map table and turned it so that he could examine the picture.

"This is one of my old vessels... and one of Zachariah's."

"These are my parents, who I thought were my parents, anyway. They always treated me with disdain. Never understood why." You trailed off.

"Oh, they hated her!" Lucifer laughed. "So much so that they changed her name."

"What's that got to do with anything?" Dean asked, as Sam asked, "From what?"

"Well, I guess I'm a sentimental douche having never been influenced by the Mark, 'cause I named her 'Orli'." He moved to sit on the map table next to your laptop. "That's Hebrew, Winchesters. Means 'My Light'. Castiel didn't care that y/n was my light, hated that they were being sent away for Orli's safety, so they changed her name before I even finished sending them away."

"I'm very sorry, y/n." Castiel looked from the picture to your face.

"Wasn't you."

"I know the neglect and poor treatment you suffered, y/n. It was a version of me-"

"And another version of you was a smiley, Twitter-obsessed goofball who helped the homeless." You shook your head. "Adam Campbell really can't hold a candle to the light Virgil extinguished. Point is, you're no more Misha Collins than you are the woman who raised me and changed my name. Don't sweat it."

"Wow, she has a saint-like level of not letting shit get to her. I mean, human Castiel was an alcoholic pill popper who once overdosed on Vicodin and meth... at Orli's twelfth birthday party. To forgive that-" Lucifer mockingly whistled appreciatively. "Of course, Zachariah as a human spent 5 years of her life in prison for instigating a bar fight that ended with a cop in the hospital, so..."

You shook your head. "It really wasn't that bad. Zachariah never turned his temper on me."

"She's great. Isn't she great? That's my daughter. I'm getting emotional." Lucifer mocked being touched again.

"I should've left him at the asylum." You groaned.

Lucifer jumped off the table. "No, this is good! We're bonding! Where's your brother? He should be here for this!"

You blinked at him, not enthused. You knew where Jack was, you could feel him in his room. You knew he was listening to everything. "My brother will show himself when he's ready to face you. Until then..." You summoned the spell-etched manacles from the dungeon and slapped them onto Lucifer's wrists.

"Oh, come on!"

"You come on. I couldn't leave you with Asmodeus, but you were right when you said I don't trust you. None of us do."

"Here I was, thinking we were bonding." Lucifer bitched.

"Dungeon?" Dean asked.

"Dungeon." You and Sam confirmed.

"Let me show you to your accommodations." Dean grabbed the chain and pulled the archangel toward the dungeon. "Crowley rated us five stars."

You turned to Sam as soon Dean disappeared from view. "I really am... so sorry... that I lied, you know, when you called? I just didn't want you guys to jump in the Impala and rush to Biggerson's before I... you know, had my time with him. I needed... something from him. I don't know."

"I understand, y/n. You wanted to see him without us influencing the conversation." Sam brought his hands to rest on your neck, his thumbs resting against the curve of your jaw and fingertips caressing your hairline. His gorgeous hazel eyes looked down at you with adoration. "You know, Lucifer was right."

"That's a strange sentence." You whispered.

Sam chuckled as you blushed under his gaze. "Orli's a good name for you. You are so full of light."

"I don't know about-"

"Y/n, you saw Lucifer in a cell and you had to save him. Not because you needed him for anything, just because you couldn't leave him with Asmodeus. You are full of more light than Chuck."

"Thanks." You whispered, looking down.

"I'm surprised by your light... especially after... I didn't know about how you were raised. You never mentioned..."

You pulled away and avoided Castiel's gaze. "It's really not that big a deal. Your raising was much more screwed up than mine."

"No, come on, don't downplay your pain." Sam pleaded, sitting in one of the wooden chairs. "Tell me about your childhood, y/n."

You sat sideways on his lap, legs hanging over the arm of the chair, and looked up at him. "My mom was an addict. Got worse every year I was there. Like Lucifer said, she overdosed on crystal meth during my twelfth birthday party. Pretty much traumatized all of my friends, and I didn't really have very many to start with. I can't count the number of times I had to clean her up, turn her on her side so that she wouldn't choke on her vomit like Hendrix." You sighed. "It was the sleep issues that caused the most problems, I think. Meth caused her some terrible insomnia. She'd be up for days, then drink until she passed out. I thought that was normal for a while, until one of my teachers told me it wasn't, called DCF. That was the first of many times that we picked up and moved without notice, started over from scratch. I was 7.

Dad went to the state pen when I was nine, got out just in time to threaten my first boyfriend with bodily dismemberment. He never talked to me again. I tried everything I could think of to... make everything okay." You bit the inside of your bottom lip as you thought through years of just trying to survive life. Sam put one hand on your hip and the other rested on your thigh, which gave a gentle, encouraging squeeze. "I started slipping them healing potions when I started with the witchcraft. Mom was losing her hair and teeth, and Dad got Hepatitis in prison so I was trying to help them... just gave them more energy to hate me. When I graduated from my sixth high school, I moved out... stayed in the same apartment until I got here. I liked staying in one place... I liked that they could find me if they needed me."

You chuckled. "It's almost like I thought one day they'd wake up and realize that they loved me, come over and make amends, but... never happened. When I disappeared, they told the cops I must've run away because it's not like someone would've noticed me enough to want to kidnap or kill me."

Sam tucked a finger under your chin and prodded you to look at him. "They were blind if they didn't see your light."

"They gave up everything because of me. They had to stop being angels because of me. It's no wonder Zachariah had a violent temper and Castiel turned to drugs and alcohol. I have no idea what happened to Uriel, but I'm sure his reaction wasn't much better. I just wish they had told me I was..."

"Hey, that wasn't your fault. You were just a baby." Sam hugged you tight to his chest. "You know Dean practically raised me, right? Our dad was drunk, when he was around. But I always had someone. I always had Dean, even when I didn't want him. You... you didn't have anybody."

You wrapped your arms around him. "Well, I have the both of you now."

The first kiss was slow and sweet, an affirmation of your previous sentence, but it didn't take long for the kiss to deepen. Sam's hands tightened their hold on you as you twisted on his lap to better accommodate his searching tongue. You grabbed at his gray under-shirt and moved to straddle his lap. He groaned and grasped the back of your t-shirt, pulling it off over your head. "God... I did not get to really enjoy this view last time." Sam whispered, running his hand down your chest.

You leaned up and kissed him. You were ecstatic to be in his arms again. To be touching him, knowing that you were about to teleport to your room to make love, it still seemed a little surreal. It was surreal that you could teleport, and that you were a Nephilim, and that your father was Satan, and-

Really, everything about your life at the moment was the ridiculous antithesis of what you'd expected it to be.

You teleported to your bed, jumping up and pulling your clothes off while Sam got oriented with his new surroundings. He smiled as soon as his eyes fell on you. "Eager?"

"What, is that a bad thing?"

"Not necessarily." He pulled his plaid shirt and his undershirt off over his head and tossed them to the floor. "But you remember, last time you were a bit overeager and, uh, I barely got to taste you."

You smirked. "I remember it well. But I'm not under a sex hex anymore, so..." You trailed off, letting your eyes drift down his muscular chest. "Man. You are... unnaturally handsome." Sam smiled at you and reached forward, pulling you onto the bed. He rolled your bodies until he was on top of you, looking down at you through a curtain of his fluffy hair. "Oh, you look even better from this angle."

"You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, you know that?" He whispered, adoringly. You opened your mouth to disagree with him about how beautiful his exes had all been, Jessica especially, but immediately forgot to argue as his mouth attached to your neck and your mind focused on that. You could hear his pants unzipping as his hands massaged your hips and thighs. "Hey. None of that." He pulled back and shook his head at you as he pulled the zipper back up. "No Nephilim magic. We're taking this at my speed, not yours, Miss Impatient."

"Sorry. I didn't mean to." You promised.

"You're stronger here, y/n. You have to be careful about your focus." He whispered, leaning back down to kiss the tip of your nose.

"How am I supposed to focus in this situation, Sam?"

Sam smirked. "Well, that's your problem, isn't it? Now, just lay back and relax, let me do this how I wanted to last time."

You sighed and closed your eyes as Sam started to kiss his way down your body. He took his time, just like he did before, but you since you weren't dying from heat this time you were able to enjoy the slow build of desire between your legs. He seemed determined to make it last as long as possible, avoiding all the most common erogenous areas and pointedly keeping his hands to himself. "Sam." You whined. Your hands were twisted in your pillow, trying to find something to do.

"I will gag you." He mumbled against your navel, where he'd been swirling his tongue for what felt like an hour.

"But-"

His teeth came down on your hip, just hard enough to make you gasp. "Y/n, shut up."

"This is punishment for last time, isn't it? 'cause I Kilgrave'd you." You sat up slightly and looked down at him. He was between your legs, just where you wanted him to be, but he still had his jeans on and he had completely avoided putting that mouth where you wanted it.

"Is it so bad that I want to explore every bit of you?"

"Can you explore a sexier bit of me than my belly button, please?"

"You are no fun."

"I beg to differ, Sammy. I am a barrel of fuckin' fun."

"What do you have to do that's more important than what I'm doing with you?"

"Nothing." You groaned, throwing your head back on the pillow. "I know I'm not the only one this is torturing. You look like you're about to bust your zipper."

Sam chuckled. "You're adorable when you're frustrated." He whispered, before dropping one of his hands to lightly rub his fingers down your lips.

"Fuck, Sam."

"Finally." He finished your thought for you as his middle finger slipped inside of you.

"Gods, can I take your pants off now, please?" You asked as he started to fuck his finger in and out of you.

"Yeah, go ahead." Sam consented as he added another finger. "You're so fuckin' wet."

"You've been working to get me wet for forever, so-" You snapped your fingers and his pants were suddenly on the floor with his shirt.

"I'm not ready to fuck you, yet." He said before he started to circle around your clit. He licked and sucked at your womanhood for several minutes until he pulled back and got up onto his knees. "Wanted to taste you. Sorry." He licked at his fingers and gave a satisfied noise.

"You could've tasted me any time over the last hour, Sam."

"No fun." He reiterated, then kissed you. "But you definitely taste delicious."

You wrapped your legs around him and pulled him down to you. "You sure are spending a lot of time with me for being no fun."

"Lucky for you, I'm in love." He smirked, kissing you before reaching down and wrapping his right hand around his cock. He slid his cockhead between your lips and guided it to your entrance. He swiveled his hips as he sunk into you. "Fuck, y/n." He kissed your neck and shoulder as he worked to get himself completely sheathed in you. He was bigger than you remembered, or maybe it just seemed that way after months of sub-par sex with José. Sam's movements were sure and confident, as he always was with you, but José had always approached sex like he was afraid he'd hurt you with his 8 inches. You'd never had the heart to explain that the two men who touched you before him were both giants in comparison, or that he actually hurt you more with his careless hands than his cock. Fingernail maintenance is vital.

"Hey, y/n. Earth to y/n." Sam whispered in your ear. "You got that far-off look in your eyes."

"Sorry. Just trying to be quiet. Don't wanna force you to-" He rolled his eyes and pulled his hips back, immediately slamming them forward and causing you to cry out. "Fuck, Sam!"

"I don't want porn star noises, but if you don't make some noise I'll think you aren't enjoying yourself." He nuzzled into your neck as he started a quick piston of his hips, which you met every motion of, using the way your legs were wrapped around him as leverage.

You definitely enjoyed yourself. Through seven different positions and two hours of not even caring that the entire bunker could hear you evoking all of your favorite gods and titans, he managed to keep you just on the edge of cumming and at the peak of enjoying yourself. When he buried his cock as deep as he could from behind, left hand fisted in your hair as the other put blinding pressure on the bundle of nerves he'd all but ignored during the whole event, you finally tipped over the edge. You screamed in pleasure as your legs gave out and the two of you fell to your mattress, nerves tingling.

"Jesus, Sam." You panted out, exhausted. He pulled you against his chest, chuckling as his cock slowly softened within you. "What?" You asked, turning your head to look at him.

"Did you run out of Pagan deities? Time to call on Jesus?" He asked, amused.

"Oh." You started laughing. "Shut up."

A knock on your door made you twist and grab your sheet. "Cover up, Sammy. I'm comin' in." Dean called. Sam smirked as he wrapped the sheet around his waist and you reached down to grab his shirt from the gloor, which you put on but didn't button. Dean walked in, balancing three plates on his arms. "Thought you might need lunch. Protein and carbs to replenish." He handed you each a turkey and cheese sandwich with a small bag of chips, then sat down in the chair next to your bed and took a large bite of his own sandwich.

"You know, Lucifer must be way weak, 'cause he was raging like no one's business and nothin'. Not even a light bulb burst." Dean said around a mouthful of bread and meat.

"Oh, yeah. Probably should've mentioned that Lucifer knows I'm with both of you and is not happy about it."

"All the more reason to shake the rafters, sweetheart." Dean winked at you as you took a bite. "So, Cas, Jack and I were talkin' game plan for Apocalypse World and Cas thinks we should milk Lucifer for all the information he's got on this other universe before we head out."

You nodded. "I can do that."

"Yeah?" Sam asked, licking potato chip grease off of his fingers.

"He did it to me. Dredged up this old memory from the depths of my mind, something from when I was days old. I'm sure I could get at his memories from a couple weeks ago." You shrugged. "I could not if you'd rather interrogate him for it."

"Tempting as that sounds..." Dean cleared his throat. "Your way's cleaner."

You smiled. "We're gonna get your mom. Promise."

"We believe you." Sam said, smiling.

[hashtagleh]

You’re so right, and because I get super loving/appreciative when I’m high, I went and found my favorite fics by them to rec to you guys, and if there’s a single fic in this list that you haven’t read, you need to drop everything immediately to change that because holy heck you will not regret it!

if i stare too long | MetalSandwich/Harringroveson/Steddilly (Billy/Steve/Eddie) | word count 191K

Post season 4 but Billy and Eddie both survived, and Mungrove happens first because they’re both hot for Steve which is just *chef’s kiss*

This is ot3 already because I fell in love with Eddie but hate seeing anti-Billy content and they’re often pitted against each other in fandom, but the writing in this alone is literally so good. Then there’s pining and misunderstandings and the smut omg it’s perfect. They’re all stupidly in love with each other and it’s sweet and sexy and a not-quite slow burn and just the BEST happy ending 😍

(ALSO there’s illustrations by celebillustrate for every chapter, so this fic will literally spoil you)

Wicked Game(s) [technically a series, but you can read the main fic on its own] | Harringrove | word count 128K

A non-traditional ABO fic where Billy and Steve are both Alphas, and Billy starts off as an asshole with a crush on Steve, so he tries getting Steve to submit like an Omega but Steve is Not Having That and there’s a whole thing about Steve literally only able to submit if the other submits to him, so that they’re clearly equals, and Billy and Steve end up figuring out how to make it work while also still being true to their designations.

There’s pining and angst and misunderstandings and a whole bunch of sexiness and of course a happy ending. Even and maybe especially if you don’t care for ABO fics, you will for sure still like this one. 🔥

cherry pie | Harringrove | word count 133K

I will admit I haven’t read this one in a couple of years, so my memories are a bit fuzzy, but it’s tagged in my bookmarks as one of my top favorites, so I’m going to end up rereading it as I compile the typeset for binding it anyway.

Things I do remember: Billy and Steve have a summer fling right after graduating high school, and that whole fling is the whole first half of the fic so that’s where you see the original falling in love. But they’re emotionally constipated and Billy follows through on his plans to go back to California at the end of summer while Steve stays in Hawkins, and then for five years Steve and Billy don’t talk at all. Billy goes back for Max’s graduation

- oh yeah, they have a good relationship here, that’s important and I love it -

and he only expects to be there for a week but she convinces him to stay all summer again, which he ends up agreeing to because of course. Billy and Steve are clearly still pining and Steve is hurt but also open about it, and both of them have grown a bit from the teenagers they used to be, and of course they end up getting back together because happy endings only and always! 🎉

this ain’t a love song | Harringrove | word count 13K

Modern college AU that’s literally just 🌽 but damn is it good. Billy and Steve are each under the impression that the other hates them, but really they’re just pining super hard. (That bit isn’t ever formally acknowledged in the fic but the reader can see it.)

They finally hook up at a party and they’re keeping the masks that the other expects, and borrowing one of the fic tags here - the dove is not dead but it’s not healthy either. They’re both drunk and into it but there’s not the checking in for consent but just the expectation that the other could stop them if they wanted when they get to kinks - namely, Steve applies his King Steve persona and the power dynamics and how things played out were hot enough to awaken a new, hyper-specific kink in me 😜

(For anyone hesitant, the ending is indicative of a good actual relationship in the near future and while Steve is still confident after the sex, he’s not mean like he was in the scene, so we can see his affection there too even if Billy is a dumb boy who can’t pick up on it. He’s also basically like “next time you can lead” so there’s an unacknowledged comment about the power imbalance not really being an imbalance for real.)

Bonus, by ToAStranger:

Under the Covers | Harringrove | word count 87K

Another that I haven’t read in forever, but I classify as one of those classic post-season 2 Harringrove fics that just shape fandom. There’s pining and angst and slow burn and also a dash of humor tossed in there that makes the whole thing read as an honest to God novel. Top tier, highly recommend. 🙌🏻

There’s a whole lot more to read by either or both of them too that I also adore, and some that are on my shortlist TBR, so be sure to go check out their other fics too! Honestly they’re both such a gift to the Stranger Things fandom 💛💛💛

brawlite ao3

ToAStranger ao3

I dare y’all to name a better fic writing duo than @brawlite and @toast-ranger-to-a-stranger. I’ll wait…

That’s right, you can’t. bc they fucking outsold.

[indiafrontline123]

RECPDCL commissions 66/11 kV Power Substation

New Delhi: 66/11 kV Power Substation, located at an altitude of approximately 12500 feet above MSL, has been inaugurated by RECPDCL, a fully-owned subsidiary of REC Ltd. (A MAHARATNA PSU), and will provide energy to Leh town through three outgoing 11 kV feeders.

[northgaia]

North Gaia EC Showflat Launch

Meyer Residence

Meyer Residence is one more private property by SIngs Holdings in District 15, Singapore. The improvement is all around arranged, offering high availability. Transport stops are strategically placed around the area, and a MRT is a couple of steps away. The home highlights a pool, rec center, kids jungle gym, BBQ regions and that's only the tip of the iceberg. With the accessibility of all fundamental townhouse offices and closeness to conveniences like schools, Meyer Residence is an ideal spot for family living.

Waterwoods

Waterwoods EC is District 19 property arranged along Punggol Field Walk by Sing Holdings Limited. The advancement comprises of 6 squares rising 17 stories and has 373 units. It was intended to offer a shower beach front living with simple admittance to the city. Waterwoods is all around found and served by 3 MRTs; Rumbia, Riviera, and Coral Edge. The EC is likewise encircled by many schools like Rivervale Primary School, and shopping centers, eateries, permitting inhabitants to meet their everyday requirements without going a long way from home.

HISTORY OF YISHUN

Presently known as Yishun New Town, the region was in the past called Nee Soon. It's a private town arranged in the northeastern finish of Singapore's North Region. Encompassing Yishun are Mandai toward the west, Ang Mo Kio toward the south, the forthcoming Sengkang and Seletar toward the east, the Central Water catchment toward the southwest, and Sungei Simpang Kiri toward the North Gaia.

Yishun arranging region comprises of seven subzones: Northland, Yishun Central, Yishun South, Yishun East, Nee Soon, Springleaf, Lower Seletar Reservoir, Yishun West and Khatib.

The region Yishun is found was initially involved by native migrants called Orang Seletar. They were regularly alluded to as the ocean individuals since they lived in boats and working on fishing along the Seletar River.

Yishun was the home to Lim Nee Soon, a fruitful industrialist who set up pineapple and elastic estates nearby. Pepper and gambier manors were the most famous yields at first before they declined in the last part of the 1800s.

Under Lim Nee Soon's authority, domains that housed his laborers created nearby. The Chinese foreigners functioning as workers framed a drawn out settlement in the estates lamenting ascent to towns like Nee Soon, Mandai Tekong, Heng Leh Pah, Hup Choon Kek, Chye Kay, and Bah Soon Pah.

The town's improvement as Yishun New Town began in 1976 with plans to foster the region earlier under Nee Soon District. Development on open land began in the resettled towns. The new town was wanted to offer comfort by finding numerous conveniences from schools, shopping centers to strict structures inside the area.

[depressinglyanxiousdevil]

Asian Drama Recs

So below is a list of all of the asian dramas I have finished watching. I am not including the ones I have started in this post - maybe in another list. I need recommendations from people please.

List of Asian Movies & Dramas I Have Watched

Chinese Dramas

·      Detective Sweet

·      Master Devil Do Not Kiss Me

·      Master Devil Do Not Kiss Me 2

·      My Amazing Boyfriend

Chinese Movies

·      Love You You

·      So I Married an Anti-Fan (DVD)

Filipino Movies

·      24-7 in Love

·      All You Need is Pag-Ibig

·      Beauty and the Bestie

·      Diary of an Ugly

·      Everyday I Love You

·      I Fine…Thank You… Love You

·      Just the Way You Are

·      Must Be… Love

·      Para Sa Hopeless Romantic

·      She’s Dating the Gangster

·      Talk Back and You’re Dead

·      You’re My Boss

Japanese Dramas

·      A Girl and Three Sweethearts

·      Minami Kun No Koibito – My Little Lover

·      Itazura Na Kiss: Love in Tokyo (DVD)

·      Itazura Na Kiss 2: Love in Okinawa (DVD)

·      Itazura Na Kiss 2: Love in Tokyo

·      Ouran High School Host Club Anime

·      Ouran High School Host Club

·      Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon

Japanese Movies

·      The Black Devil and the White Prince

·      Heroine Disqualified (DVD)

·      Kurosaki-kun no Iinari ni Nante Naranai

·      L♥DK

·      Orange

·      Ouran High School Host Club The Movie

·      Wolf Girl and Black Prince (DVD)

Korean Dramas

·      38 Task Force/Squad 38

·      Age of Youth/Hello, My Twenties

o   Season 1

·      Angry Mum (DVD)

·      Another Miss Oh Hae Young (DVD)

·      Arang and the Magistrate

·      Bad Guys (DVD)

·      Bad Thief, Good Thief

·      Baek Hee Has Returned

·      Beautiful Gong Shim

·      Big

·      Birth of a Beauty

·      Boys Over Flowers (DVD)

·      Bridal Mask

·      Bride of Habaek/Bride od the Water God

·      Bring it on Ghost/Let’s Fight Ghost

·      Cheese in the Trap (DVD)

·      Cheongdamdong Alice

·      Chicago Typewriter

·      Cinderella and The Four Knights

·      City Hunter (DVD)

·      Criminal Minds

·      Cruel City/Heartless City

·      Descendants of the Sun (DVD)

·      Divorce Lawyer in Love

·      Drinking Solo

·      Ex-Girlfriend Club

·      Faith/ The Great Doctor (DVD)

·      Falling for Innocence/Falling for Soon Jung/Beating Again

·      Fated to Love You

·      Fight for My Way

·      Flower Boy Ramyun Shop/Cool Guy Ramen Shop

·      Flower Boys Next Door

·      Flower Grandpa Investigation Unit

·      Full House

·      Gap Dong

·      Goblin/Goblin: The Lonely and Great God/Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

·      Go Ho’s Starry Night

·      Good Doctor (DVD)

·      Gu Family Book

·      Healer

·      Heartstrings/You’ve Fallen for Me

·      Hero (2009)

·      Hi School – Love On/High School: Love On

·      Hong Gil Dong

·      Hotel King

·      Hwarang

·      Hyde, Jekyll, Me

·      I Can Hear Your Voice/I Hear Your Voice

·      I Remember You/Hello Monster (DVD)

·      Iljimae

·      Joseon Gunman/Gunman in Joseon

·      King of High School/King of High School Conduct/High School King of Savvy (DVD)

·      Lie to Me

·      Lookout/The Guardian

·      Love in the Moonlight/Moonlight Drawn by Clouds

·      Love Rain

·      Lucky Romance

·      Man to Man

·      Marriage Not Dating

·      Mask

·      Masked Prosecutor/The Man in the Mask

·      Master’s Son

·      Meloholic

·      Memory

·      The Miracle

·      Modern Farmer

·      Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo

·      Ms Panda and Mr Hedgehog

·      Ms. Temper and Nam Jung Gi

·      My Father is Strange

·      My Girl

·      My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

·      My Love from the Star/ My Love from Another Star/You Who Came from the Stars (DVD)

·      My Only Love Song

·      My Secret Romance

·      My Sweet Family/My Sweet and Boody Family/Sweet, Savage Family

·      Naked Fireman

·      Noble, My Love

·      Oh My Ghost/Oh My Ghostess

·      Ojakyo Brothers/Ojakyo Family (DVD)

·      One Well Raised Daughter Ha Na/A Well Brought Up Daughter Ha Na

·      Personal Taste/Personal Preference (DVD)

·      Pinocchio (DVD)

·      Playful Kiss (DVD)

·      Reply 1997/Answer Me 1997/Answer to 1997

·      Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim

·      Rooftop Prince

·      Sassy Go Go/Cheer Up!

·      Scholar Who Walks The Night

·      School 2013 (DVD)

·      School 2015: Who Are You

·      School 2017

·      Secret Garden

·      Sensory Couple/ The Girl Who Can See Smells (DVD)

·      She Was Pretty (DVD)

·      Shut Up Flower Boy Band

·      Smile, You/Smile Honey

·      Smile Again (DVD)

·      Something About One Percent/One Percent of Something

·      Spy Myung Wol

·      Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

·      Suspicious Partner

·      The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince/Coffee Prince (DVD)

·      The Best Hit

·      The Flatterer

·      The Innocent Man (DVD)

·      The K2

·      The Legend of the Blue Sea

·      The Man Living in Our House/Sweet Stranger and Me

·      The Master’s Sun

·      The Strongest KPOP Survival

·      To the Beautiful You

·      Trot Lovers

·      Two Weeks

·      Vampire Detective

·      Vampire Flower

·      W: Two Worlds

·      Warrior Baek Dong Soo

·      Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo

·      When a Man’s in Love

·      Who Are You? (2008)

·      Who Are You (2013)

·      Yong Pal (DVD)

·      You’re All Surrounded (DVD)

·      You’re Beautiful (DVD)

Korean Movies

·      100 Days with Mr. Arrogant

·      A Frozen Flower

·      A Werewolf Boy

·      Fashion King (DVD)

·      The King and the Clown

·      Love 911

·      The Magician

·      My PS Partner/Whatcha Wearin’?

·      Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River

·      Special Investigation Unit

·      Steal My Heart

·      Twenty

·      You’re My Pet

Taiwanese Dramas

·      Bromance (DVD)

·      Drunken to Love You/Love You/Love You While We’re Drunk

·      Fabulous Boys

·      Fated to Love You/You’re My Destny

·      It Started With A Kiss

·      Love By Design

·      Love Cuisine (DVD)

·      Miss No Good

·      Moon River

·      Murphy’s Law of Love (DVD)

·      Refresh Man

·      School Beauty’s Bodyguard

·      Someone Like You

·      The Prince of Wolf

·      They Kiss Again

·      What is Love?

·      When I See You Again (DVD)

Thai Dramas

·      2 Moons The Series

·      Bad Romance: The Series

·      Cinderella Rong Tao Tae

·      Cubic

·      The Cupids Series

o   Kammathep Hunsa

·      Diary of Tootsies The Series

o   Season 1

·      Full House

·      Kiss: The Series

·      Kiss Me: The Series

·      Leh Ratree

·      Love Sick The Series

o   Season 1

o   Season 2

·      Make It Right The Series

o   Season 1

o   Season 2

·      My Bromance The Series

·      Once Upon a Time… In My Heart

·      Senior Secret Love Series

o   My Lil Boy

o   Puppy Honey

o   Bake Me Love

o   My Lil Boy 2

o   Puppy Honey 2

·      SOTUS: The Series

·      Stupid Cupid

·      Together With Me: The Series

·      U-Prince the Series

o   The Handsome Cowboy

o   The Gentle Vet

o   The Lovely Geologist

o   The Badass Baker

o   The Absolute Economist

o   The Foxy Pilot

o   The Playful Comm-Arts

o   The Extroverted Humanist

o   The Single Lawyer

o   The Crazy Artist

o   The Badly Politics

o   The Ambitious Boss

·      Ugly Duckling

o   Perfect Match

o   Pity Girl

o   Don’t

o   Boy’s Paradise

·      War of High School The Series

·      Water Boyy The Series

 Thai Movies

·      30+ Single on Sale

·      Crazy Little Thing Called Love

·      First Kiss/Love at the Next Stop

·      Love at First Flood

·      My Bromance The Movie

·      Seven Something

·      The Bedside Detective

Water Boyy: The Movie

[hashtagleh]

I just binged through everything in here and it is beautiful, would highly recommend 👌🏻

Hey, I hope you are doing well! I love reading all of your great stories! I've been trying to reread some of them and I am trying to find your regency au thread? Once again I love your writing, and that k you!

Thank you! Here you go!

https://aurumacadicus.tumblr.com/tagged/regency-au/chrono

[livesets-dj-mixes-edm-podcasts]

Download Robin Schulz - Tomorrowland 2019 (Weekend 1) (Boom, Belgium) for free now!

Artist: Robin Schulz Show: Robin Schulz – Tomorrowland 2019 (Weekend 1) (Boom, Belgium) Quality: 320 Kbps 48000 Khz Genre: Electronic

Discover more TOMORROWLAND 2019 live sets & radioshows HERE

Robin Schulz – Tomorrowland 2019 (Weekend 1) (Boom, Belgium) Tracklist

[1:30] Robin Schulz ft. Francesco Yates – Sugar (Stadiumx Remix) (Intro Edit) [TONSPIEL/WARNER]

[3:20] Madison Mars – My Feelings [SPINNIN’]

[4:35] Dynoro & Gigi D’Agostino – In My Mind (Robin Schulz Remix) [TIME REC.]

[6:25] Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit [COLUMBIA] w/ Deorro – Burn Out [PANDA FUNK] w/ Tom Tyger vs. Charles B & VCTRY – One Too Many [PROTOCOL]

[8:05] Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams [RCA] w/ Milan Lieskovsky – Voyager (Festival Mix)

[11:00] ID – ID w/ HI-LO & Sander van Doorn – WTF [HELDEEP] w/ The Bloody Beetroots ft. Steve Aoki – Warp 1.9 [DIM MAK] w/ Knife Party – Internet Friends [EARSTORM] w/ Ingrosso & LIOHN & Salvatore – FLAGS! [REFUNE]

[16:07] Hardwell – Spaceman [REVEALED] w/ Steff Da Campo x Dave Crusher – September [HEXAGON]

[17:55] Robin Schulz ft. James Blunt – OK (Adaptiv Bootleg) [TONSPIEL]

[21:35] Sound Of Legend – Tell Me Why [LIVETOP] w/ Lucas & Steve vs. Pep & Rash – Feel Alive [SPINNIN’]

[24:35] Lilly Wood & The Prick & Robin Schulz – Prayer In C (VIP Remix) [TONSPIEL]

[28:00] Meg & Dia – Monster (ID Remix)

[31:20] Robin Schulz ft. Christy McDonald – Ha Leh Lou Ya (ID Remix) [TONSPIEL]

[34:07] Robin Schulz ft. Erika Sirola – Speechless (MOTi Remix) [WARNER]

[37:25] Wolfpack & Warp Brothers – Phatt Bass 2016 [SMASH THE HOUSE] w/ Tisoki – Bring It Back [MONSTERCAT]

[39:55] Darude – Sandstorm [NEO RECORDS] w/ Max Vangeli & De KiBo – Feel The Music (Laidback Luke Remix) [NOFACE]

[41:15] Tommie Sunshine & Haus Of Panda ft. Snap! – The Power [MUSICAL FREEDOM]

[44:05] Zombie Nation – Kernkraft 400 [EPM] w/ Daft Punk – Technologic (Acappella) [TIGER RECORDS] w/ Carta & SMACK ft. Kris Kiss – Hit The Deck [HEXAGON]

[45:35] Icona Pop vs. TUJAMO & Salvatore Ganacci – I Don’t Jook It (Paul Kold Mashup)

[48:12] Robin Schulz ft. Harloe – All This Love (Deepend Remix) [WARNER MUSIC]

[51:04] Robin Schulz – Let Me Feel The Night

[54:45] Robin Schulz – ID

[edmlivesets4u-blog]

Listen or download Robin Schulz - Tomorrowland 2019 (Weekend 1) (Boom, Belgium) for free now!

Artist: Robin Schulz Show: Robin Schulz – Tomorrowland 2019 (Weekend 1) (Boom, Belgium) Quality: 320 Kbps 48000 Khz Genre: Electronic

Discover more TOMORROWLAND 2019 live sets & radioshows HERE

Robin Schulz – Tomorrowland 2019 (Weekend 1) (Boom, Belgium) Tracklist

[1:30] Robin Schulz ft. Francesco Yates – Sugar (Stadiumx Remix) (Intro Edit) [TONSPIEL/WARNER]

[3:20] Madison Mars – My Feelings [SPINNIN’]

[4:35] Dynoro & Gigi D’Agostino – In My Mind (Robin Schulz Remix) [TIME REC.]

[6:25] Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit [COLUMBIA] w/ Deorro – Burn Out [PANDA FUNK] w/ Tom Tyger vs. Charles B & VCTRY – One Too Many [PROTOCOL]

[8:05] Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams [RCA] w/ Milan Lieskovsky – Voyager (Festival Mix)

[11:00] ID – ID w/ HI-LO & Sander van Doorn – WTF [HELDEEP] w/ The Bloody Beetroots ft. Steve Aoki – Warp 1.9 [DIM MAK] w/ Knife Party – Internet Friends [EARSTORM] w/ Ingrosso & LIOHN & Salvatore – FLAGS! [REFUNE]

[16:07] Hardwell – Spaceman [REVEALED] w/ Steff Da Campo x Dave Crusher – September [HEXAGON]

[17:55] Robin Schulz ft. James Blunt – OK (Adaptiv Bootleg) [TONSPIEL]

[21:35] Sound Of Legend – Tell Me Why [LIVETOP] w/ Lucas & Steve vs. Pep & Rash – Feel Alive [SPINNIN’]

[24:35] Lilly Wood & The Prick & Robin Schulz – Prayer In C (VIP Remix) [TONSPIEL]

[28:00] Meg & Dia – Monster (ID Remix)

[31:20] Robin Schulz ft. Christy McDonald – Ha Leh Lou Ya (ID Remix) [TONSPIEL]

[34:07] Robin Schulz ft. Erika Sirola – Speechless (MOTi Remix) [WARNER]

[37:25] Wolfpack & Warp Brothers – Phatt Bass 2016 [SMASH THE HOUSE] w/ Tisoki – Bring It Back [MONSTERCAT]

[39:55] Darude – Sandstorm [NEO RECORDS] w/ Max Vangeli & De KiBo – Feel The Music (Laidback Luke Remix) [NOFACE]

[41:15] Tommie Sunshine & Haus Of Panda ft. Snap! – The Power [MUSICAL FREEDOM]

[44:05] Zombie Nation – Kernkraft 400 [EPM] w/ Daft Punk – Technologic (Acappella) [TIGER RECORDS] w/ Carta & SMACK ft. Kris Kiss – Hit The Deck [HEXAGON]

[45:35] Icona Pop vs. TUJAMO & Salvatore Ganacci – I Don’t Jook It (Paul Kold Mashup)

[48:12] Robin Schulz ft. Harloe – All This Love (Deepend Remix) [WARNER MUSIC]

[51:04] Robin Schulz – Let Me Feel The Night

[54:45] Robin Schulz – ID

[jeremythejirachi]

Local Acts Keep The Rec Room Warm During The Cold

Local Acts Keep The Rec Room Warm During The Cold

Oh the weather outside was frightful, but the show inside was delightful.

Buffalonians came to the Rec Room Friday night to not keep warm from the dreadful weather, but to celebrate local musicians. Alternative/punk act Dilettante (pronounced Dil – leh – Taunt) were celebrating the release of their EP Dilettante with other local acts Winksi, Of Night And Light, and Overlook.

Starting off last…

[conjuring-ghouls]

I was tagged by @cardi-c and @susulbr. Thank youu!! 🥹💖

you can create your picrew here.

click here to make your little creature!

and make the quizz here.

tagging: @ghu-leh @copias-juicebox @ghuleh-recs @cardis-tricycle (no pressure 🖤) and anyone who wants to join in!

[sarkarimirror]

REC extends CSR support of Rs. 3.50 crore to HelpAge India

Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (REC), A Govt. of India Navratna Enterprise, committed financial assistance of Rs.3.50 crore to HelpAge India under its CSR initiative. The financial support will be utilized for the construction and operation of elderly shelter home with wellness facility (60 seater). The project is being undertaken at Shey village, Leh- Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir through the CSR arm of the corporation i.e. REC Foundation. The main objective of the project is to envisage an integrated cluster of facilities such as comprehensive and modular elder friendly shelter services, day care and leisure facilities (including dementia day care) and geriatric health care services. The Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) in this regard was executed between REC Foundation and HelpAge India in New Delhi on 15th November 2017. Shri P V Ramesh, CMD, on behalf of REC Foundation and Shri Mathew Cherian, CEO, HelpAge India signed the MoA in the presence of other senior officials of REC and HelpAge India. Read the full article

[conjuring-ghouls]

tagged by @delullu and @ghuleh-recs

The title of the last song you listened to is the epitaph on your tombstone

Ritual - Ghost

What does that say about me? 😭🤣

You go @ghu-leh @awildjonesyappears @ramblingoak @cardis-tricycle @rotting-tonight @writingjourney

[conjuring-ghouls]

Thank you @ghu-leh and @susulbr for tagging me! 🖤

Last song: basket case - green day

Favorite color: dark blue and dark green

Currently watching: i've been watching loads of mr. ballen's videos on youtube lately

Last movie: jane eyre (one of my all time favorites)

Sweet/spicy/savory: sweet or savory, i'm too weak for spicy hehehe

Relationship: single

Current obsession: one (1) satanic pope

Last thing googled: graveyark 4k. i was doing some spooky edits for my sister!

Selfie: I don't usually share my face, but have this one from some months ago

I know some of my moots have done this already, so i'm tagging some people that i think still haven't: @ghuleh-recs @cardi-c @writingjourney @rotting-tonight @togetherasone @delullu @awildjonesyappears @copias-sewer-rat @cardis-tricycle

(also please don't feel pressured to share a selfie or to show your face! feel free to skip that one 🖤)