#lost touch

[browneyesandhair]

Incorrect Bridgerton Quotes Colin: No, that’s not it. It’s like there’s an itch in my brain and you scratch it to provide relief. Penelope: An itch? What an interesting turn of phrase - I’m not sure that I should be trusted with the role of scratching your brain. Colin: It’s just something about you. I feel comfortable in your presence. It’s as though I’ve known you for years. Would you be open to me calling on you tomorrow?

Insp: SS

[poisindonottouch]

Queer Reads: Eliot Grayson

For rec 15, we have more werewolves! And also a very salty were-bobcat. 

First off, I love Eliot Grayson. Seriously. I have devoured everything she’s written, and she’s written a lot. Featured in the little graphic are the Mismatched Mates books, of which there are 10 total books. The first three follow the Armitage Pack, then we get vampires (First Blood), and werewolf academics (The Werewolf Experiment), and then we get into darker waters, following some characters who have escaped from a lab run by evil warlocks doing nasty magical experiments on people (Lost and Bound and Lost Touch). And then we finish up with two very different brothers from the Castelli pack, with another vampire book thrown in there.

I should say, these books deal with alpha weres, the most common of which are alpha werewolves, but this is not omegaverse. There's no mpreg, and no omegas in these books, though there is lots of knotting, and if you need to google that, uh, I'd recommend you don't.

Grayson is currently working on another series, The Twilight Mages, set in a fantasy world where magic is a gift from the gods, unless you’re born at dawn or dusk, when the magic is far more of a curse than a gift. I read a review about these books that called them indescribably horny, and that’s very accurate. There is a plot, but it is 100% centered around banging. Luckily, all this horniness is surrounded by feisty characters, laugh-out-loud banter, and spicy chemistry resulting in well-earned HEAs. 

Grayson’s writing has been described as having too much graphic sex, so if you like your romantasy to be heavier on the plot than the porn, Grayson is probably not for you. But if you like any excuse for sex as a plot device, check her out. 

[tomsmusictaste]

Broadside // Come & Go

We Were Sharks // Hotel Beds

Yellowcard // Hang You Up

[madc0w]

Listen/purchase: Lost Touch by Tears Run Rings

album

[17bees-in-a-trenchcoat]

There is something so weird about stumbling over an old friend’s account on stuff, for a moment you convinced yourself you still talk, but then you realize you have lost contact long ago and you’ll probably never talk again

[clunge]

We Were Sharks - Stay

[honeypleasejustkillme]

i thought i was at my lowest but holy shit it gets lower

[egophiliac]

it's never the last time.

I was trying to justify to myself having Leona know how to use a waffle maker, and. well. sometimes you just gotta go where the flow takes you.

[theeroticlover]

Let's get into the shower together... :)

[secretsoftheuniverse1987]

Thinking about how Dean Winchester was an atheist before he got caught up in the biblical apocalypse because in his mind, the two possible realities were an absent God and a cruel one. Thinking about him learning God was real and he had a Plan for him. Thinking about how that robbed him of his faith that a God wouldn't be capable of such cruelty. Thinking about how quickly he came to put his faith in Cas, despite his distrust of the divine. Thinking about The Man Who Would Be King. Thinking about Dean's only on-screen prayer to God being a plea to "bring him back."

[groverapologist]

jason "my mom abandoned me so i need to earn everyone's love or they'll abandon me too" grace, piper "i need to force my dad to care for me and see me even if it's for the worse" mclean, or leo "my mom died and it's my fault and she was the only one who could love me unconditionally" valdez.

[flatasafryingpan]

Wei Qingwei from Shen Yuan of No Relation by @grubus not really sure whats going on with his fit i gave up

this fic is making me want to draw again :'D MQF next!!

[sofiaxima]

My heart, where are you? I have lost touch with you lately, have you been feeling insecure maybe?

[tomsmusictaste]

We Were Sharks // Never Looked Better

[eggwhiteswithspinach]

👏 Lost Touch

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

As per usual, it’s DP crossover with (probably) DC, although you could probably adjust it for other fandoms

ANYWAYS

A little kid and his mother are trick or treating in another city, perhaps at some kind of event rather than knocking on doors, and the kid is dressed as Phantom. It’s very adorable, with his little ghost-shaped bucket and clearly homemade and already stained costume—listen, white only works if you can just fly over street grime or phase it out of your clothes—and his slightly I’ll fitting wig. The kid is SO happy to be out and about dressed as his favorite, and maybe even showed it off to Phantom back in Amity Park before his family left.

The hero, insert whoever you wish here, is probably in civvies and just enjoying the event. The kid, meanwhile, is so glad when people ask who he is so he can explain, and so- the hero gets to hear ALL ABOUT the local town hero who is probably pretty small time despite the kid’s clearly exaggerated stories. The hero certainly never heard of him, but the kid’s mom confirms that Phantom really was the town hero, despite some mixed reviews of the poor guy.

“Did you manage to show him your costume?” the hero asks.

“Yeah! We went down to the cemetery to leave flowers and I got to show him my costume.”

Wait. Cemetery? Maybe it was part of theme, because Phantom had to be named that for a reason, but… it sounded like…

The kid ignores the suddenly VERY still hero and instead turns to his mom. “Momma, do you think we should bring him candy? He doesn’t get to trick or treat like we do, and I can work super hard to get him a bunch!”

The kid’s mom just smiles. “We could, but maybe we should bring him something homemade. I bet he’d like something more filling, teen boys like him have a hollow leg.”

The kid wrinkles his nose. “Like Vernie with the pizza bagels?”

“Like your cousin, yes. We can make some cinnamon rolls and take them to his memorial, maybe bring some of the apples from your grandpa’s garden…”

The hero is pretty much forgotten as the two-part family wanders off, not quite intentionally forgetting the hero is there so much as the hero somewhat accidentally ended the conversation when they just froze and didn’t ask anything further.

Not that the hero didn’t want to. But they’d learn something very serious.

One—there was a small town hero they’d never heard of. Two—that hero was apparently a teen. Third—most pressingly, the teen hero was both beloved enough to have kids dressing up as him and dead enough to have a grave.

This… might require some phone calls.