#lostloveletters

[thoughpoppiesblow]

Merry Christmas JJ! How about the prompt “sunlight shining through the window” for Kay? - @lostloveletters

thank you, battie, and merry christmas to you too! (if you celebrate <3) i hope you ordered this prompt with a side of angst, because that's what i churned out haha. listening to sailor song by gigi perez on repeat does tend to do that, though

The sky was a deep blue, and the sun had long stopped shining through the windows of the B-17 Kay was in. It was Buck’s fort, she knew. She’d watched him and Lieutenant Friedkin take off for Regensburg days ago, amid ghost stories and riddles and swirling fog. She’d jokingly blown Curt a kiss, too - never really her thing, since flirtations with the boys were usually reserved just for Nora. Now, Kay didn’t know whether to be mad that she’d only done that once, or happy she’d done it at all. Curt was a good friend, and now he was probably dead.

Creaking metal made Kay turn to look over her shoulder, just in time to see a mop of blond hair emerging from the belly below. Buck was dressed in his Class As, blue scarf nowhere to be seen. He nodded to her, and sat in the right-hand-seat across from her. She looked out at the twilight sky, then down at her hands and the gloves in her lap. She’d sliced through them on a jagged edge when she’d boarded in Telergma, the flak finding her even on the ground. She could feel Buck’s eyes sweeping over her, flickering until they fell on her hand.

“Oughta clean that up,” he said, voice rumbling.

Kay hummed, nodding slowly. Instead of doing any such thing, she reached up with her good hand to rub at her eyes. She was tired, the kind that settled deep in your bones and didn’t leave. It was a pressure, dragging her down from the clouds, the same way Buck’s eyes dragged her face back to his. He smiled at her, before reaching into the pocket of his jacket. He pulled out his pretty blue scarf, and Kay marveled at how it matched his eyes. Then he grabbed her injured hand, and Kay couldn’t bear it.

“No!” Kay said, jerking away sharply. Her back met the edge of the fort hard, and Buck’s eyes were filled with sadness. His stupid, pretty blue eyes that always followed her and always watched her. He thought he’d hurt her, Kay reasoned. It was better if he thought that. She shook her head again, still not looking at him, then made to leave the fort. She paused near the navigator’s station when she realized her bloodied and torn gloves were still above, then she sighed and continued on. When her feet finally touched the tarmac Buck was still inside, sitting in the wrong seat of his plane.

[6thofapril1917]

I've never even watched SAS Rogue Heroes but Sarie's man simultaneously looks like a twink and a butch lesbian. Respect. Also good for Sarie!! - @lostloveletters

PLEASE it’s like a running joke in the fandom that johnny just looks butch. also yeah sarie’s biting him (affectionate)

[shoshiwrites]

Hi Shoshi! 4, 16, and 22 for the end of year ask game🖤 - @lostloveletters

4. How many fandoms did you write for this year?

Two! BoB and MotA:)

16. What's your favorite title of the year?

Answered here! Would also volunteer "says my heart." Again this is porn.

22. What writing programs did you use? Did you write by hand?

I pingpong back and forth between Scrivener and GoogleDocs. I do not write by hand except occasionally for brainstorming.

[stfrancisprayer]

Hi Parm! 4, 12, and 20 for the song ask🖤 - @lostloveletters

BATTIE!!!! *jumping up and down waving my hands* HI HI HELLO!!! *does a somersault*

4. is from an underrated artist

goodnight by itsue i was the ONLY one streaming you but you will always be famous in my heart </3 it's unfortunate the band broke up i quite like their math rock stuff

12. is in a movie

i've been getting into bollywood lately...this movie is fun! it's campy! it doesn't take itself too seriously! the soundtrack is catchy! give om shanti om a watch!! it's on netflix rn👍

20. i’ve recommended to someone

this is my go-to whenever somebody asks for a general song rec. also very nostalgic for me....but like it's mellow. you can put it on in the background and vibe. i've probably listened to it 100 times over at this point

thank you for asking, battie!! ❤️❤️🦇

[1waveshortofashipwreck]

Hi Emily! 1, 12, and 25 for the ask game🖤 - @lostloveletters

Thank you for the ask Battie!! 🥰💖

What're 3 things you'd say shaped you into who you are?

Short answer is my faith, my loved ones, and my mental health, find the more lengthy answer here !!

12. What's some good advice you want to share?

Never underestimate the value of self-care, just doing something small for yourself can make a world of difference

25. Fav season and why?

Definitely summer!! One reason is I hate wearing pants and much prefer wearing shorts 🤣 I also just love all the summer activities - going to the beach, going swimming, drinking a cold lemonade on a hot day, I just live for the summer aesthetic lmao

Thank you again Battie!! Hope you have an amazing day 😁💕

[rosies-riveters]

Happy Birthday Ema! I hope you’ve had an incredible day🎂🖤 - @lostloveletters

Thank you Battie! 🥹🥹

[ronsenthal]

Happy Birthday Jess! I hope it’s amazing🖤🎂 - @lostloveletters

Awww Battie thank you so much for dropping by, love you lots and lots 💙

[softguarnere]

When you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish. Then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool) <3 - @lostloveletters (I accidentally unfollowed you trying to send this on desktop, I'm sorry!)

aahhh, don't worry, you're all good! 🤗

"New Money" from The Great Gatsby

"get him back!" by Olivia Rodrigo

"Daphne Blue" by The Band CAMINO

"Wannabe" by the Spice Girls

"Potential Breakup Song" by Aly & AJ

[niemandgefunden]

Loving into the Abyss

Do you ever feel that loving is pointless? That the love you pour onto others will never come back to you? That it is forever thrown into the wind, into the void; lost forever, leaving you in cold loneliness waiting for an answer to a prayer never expressed? How many times shall I fall in love before finally giving up on it? How many heartbreaks must I endure before the last one breaks the camel's back?

[lostloveletters]

Reader-insert fics for The Godfather. You can also find these fics on my AO3.

I do not take fic requests.

Do not interact if you’re under 18, a terf or radfem, or post thinspo/ED content.

MICHAEL

Give Me Shelter, The Night Is Dark - Michael Corleone x Reader (Vampire AU, smut, female reader)

Something Borrowed - Michael Corleone x Reader (Friends to lovers, smut, female reader)

SONNY

One of Those Nights - Sonny Corleone x Reader (Smut, female reader)

[thoughpoppiesblow]

Hi JJ! How about 🎞 for WIP Wednesday! - @lostloveletters

hi battie!! @lostloveletters thank you for the ask 🖤 here’s a moodboard for one of my newer mota gals, kay!

[goatyuuji]

Itafushi my babies! Hope you enjoy them fics! <3

Teenagers Annoy the Living Hell out of Me by LostLoveLetters (M, 11.4k)

In which Sukuna is a reluctant wingman and regrets his life decisions deeply due to one hopeless brat's exasperating pining. AKA a fic in which Sukuna hates slow burn. And existence itself.

that's the spirit! by akaashism (G, 9.2k)

Toji rolled his eyes. "Just tell him how you feel, I didn't raise a coward." "You didn't raise me," Megumi reminded him. Megumi was being haunted. Not by the ghosts of his past but an actual ghost. The spirit of his deceased father. Megumi gets a wingman and a father in one go.

save your love (for someone like me) by ruledbyv3nus (T, 11.4k)

Even though he knows that he isn’t entitled to every detail in Itadori’s life, it irks him to think there is someone that he knows absolutely nothing about. Especially someone, he realizes with a sinking feeling, that is exactly Itadori’s type. What was it he had said to Todo? Tall, dark hair, kind of badass. In other words, exactly like the tall, dark-haired, intimidating looking man who just walked out of Itadori’s dorm room.

No One Gets it Right on the First (Or Second) Try by j_jabbers (T, 12.4k)

5 times Yuuji and Fushiguro's dates go other than planned, and one time where they finally get it right

moments in between by gratsu (G, 1.3k)

Yuuji’s brain feels like it’s sizzled up and died, but Megumi’s lips are a centimetre away from his own and maybe this isn’t so confusing anymore, because he’s closing his eyes and leaning in too, and— “Wait, are you guys fucking gay?” Sukuna. Fuck, he’d forgotten about him.

Wedding Ring Pop by kookiekawa (G, 8.3k)

To which Megumi comes home with a ring pop on his finger and causes Gojo to become the manchild he is.

built your walls around me by alkhale (M, 15.2k)

“You want to ruin him," Sukuna says. Maybe Sukuna isn’t wrong about that, Fushiguro thinks in a daze. Itadori’s heart is too heavy and too precious. It’s a burden that shouldn’t be given to anyone else. Because even Itadori himself can’t take care of it, can’t hold onto it for the life of him because he’d rather become the vessel to the most wretched of all curses just to help two people he’s only known for a few months—to help Fushiguro, who he’d only met that night. (I can keep it. Fushiguro’s hands move. I can hold onto it, if you want.) Or— Some dreams start to keep Fushiguro up at night, and the cure to stopping them might be closer than he thinks.

help me hold onto you by strawberrysuguru (M, 3.7k)

He aches for that closeness, that touch, but he can’t let himself lean forward and take it. Instead, he presses his thigh closer to Yuuji’s, letting the warmth sink into his skin five times megumi touched yuuji

Your Heartbeat is My Comfort by EpicKiya722 (T, 1.2k)

Seeing Yuuji die before had left Megumi needing to feel his heartbeat to know he's alive. It's how he finds peace.

Epistolary of Shadows and Embers: The Red Rain by lunaseleneartem (M, 17.5k)

Megumi, a sharp-witted detective, wielded intellect as his weapon and compassion as his shield. With his own sense of justice, he knew not the depths of love until he crossed paths with Yuuji, a radiant soul shining amidst the grey shadows of existence. Fate weaved their destinies together, connecting their hearts with a celestial thread of unyielding devotion. CW: This has a sad ending

here and where you are by cityboys (T, 17.2k)

It’s in the middle of scanning the last bottle of green tea that Itadori properly looks up. Eye contact with him is a physical, unexpected shock, a crunch of imaginary static snapping through Megumi and leaving his hands twitching at his sides. "Hey." Itadori blinks, wide and earnest. "Do I know you from somewhere?" The tea sloshes backwards in the bottle he’s holding. Megumi focuses on this until his vision steadies. "No," he says. "I don’t think so." In the aftermath, Itadori loses his memories instead of his life. Megumi grieves nonetheless. CW: This also has a sad ending (yeah yeah I love angst)

In Every Lifetime by kat_likes_writing (G, 53.2k, Ongoing)

Megumi is sent on a mission to retrieve Ryomen Sukuna's finger from a high school, which should have been an easy mission. But with his strange dreams intensifying and becoming more vivid, he has a hard time sleeping. It should be an easy mission. He is just not sure why the boy who found the finger seems so familiar. Ps: Everyday I wait for it to update like how a dog waits for his owner to come home, no warnings just wanted to let you know this fic is one of my top faves

Twitch Streamer Yuuji and Youtuber Megumi by kat_likes_writing (G, 43.7k)

Yuuji is a famous Twitch streamer who does streams from his college dorm. Among his fanbase, his huge crush on a random book reviewer on youtube has become a running joke. The fanbase decides to make it their mission to discover who Yuuji's mystery crush is. Megumi has a very small book reviewing channel on Youtube he started in high school. He doesn't even know what Twitch is, but Nobara keeps insisting he needs to help her find this random Twitch Streamer's secret crush. Her reasoning: the secret crush does youtube and reviews books.

[6thofapril1917]

If You Play With Fire, Then You'll Burn - Chapter 5

“I’m not bitter,” Johnny spluttered. “But I didn’t join up with the SAS to play nursemaid to a talentless Boer who reeks of engine oil.” “And that talentless Boer drove a hundred and seventy miles through open desert on a tank of siphoned petrol, Cooper,” Mike shot back. “Give her a bit of respect.”

Private Sarah "Sarie" Meyer has hit rock bottom.

A year after her expulsion from high school, she's managed to build a new life for herself as a despatch rider with the South African Women's Auxiliary Army Service in North Africa. Ferrying messages, packages, and relief to Commonwealth units throughout the expanse of the Sahara desert, her life has gained a stability it hasn't had in years—until it all comes crashing down around her.

When a vindictive CO reveals a classified secret from Sarie's past, she finds herself ostracized from the rest of her unit, stripped of her duties, and facing a discharge. That is, until a chance encounter in a Cairo bar leads to a proposition from a new, radically unconventional unit of the British Army.

The SAS breaks with tradition. Sarie Meyer is going to shatter it.

eventual johnny cooper/original female character, multi-chapter.

read on ao3: chapter 5 - meer probeer beheer - 4.3k words

thanks to @reneetoile for beta reading!

taglist: @hesbuckcompton-baby @dcyllom @regseekings @frstcorinthians @lostloveletters

[stfrancisprayer]

Hi Parm! I’m looking at your OC’s intro post again, and I love all the details you included🖤 I was wondering what the patch on her jacket means? It’s super interesting! - @lostloveletters

HELLO BATTIE!!! very glad you asked this question, the patch is not super common knowledge so i'm excited to talk about it.

TL;DR she's a WAC, and the patch is ETOUSA (european theater of operations, united states army) specifically the patch iteration pre-1944.

historical ramblings about the ETOUSA under the cut :)

The origins of the ETOUSA trace back to early 1941, before the US had "officially" entered the war. At this point the US portrays themselves as a neutral power because they want to keep their military operations a secret. To be prepared, they send a small group of military personnel to Britain to observe how the government was using American lend-lease supplies, should there ever be a time that the US will need to do the same on home soil. This small group of personnel were known as SPOBS, or the US Army Special Observer Group. The US joins the war in December 1941, and the SPOBS converts into the US Army Forces in the British Isles, or USAFBI. Their whole mission was to coordinate US forces in the British Isles in conjunction with the British, but the theater is changing so quickly that they end up throwing that plan out the window, and now the USFABI is sort of a sitting duck. (source, source) In June of 1942 the US Department of War decides to take the USFABI and turn it into ETOUSA (European Theater of Operations, United States Army). The brand-new department's job was to administrate, plan, and operate control over US forces in the European Theater. (source) Members of the ETOUSA included Generals (like General Patton!) to lower-ranking officials. Most of their domain was in the Communications Zone of the war rather than the front lines. With such a broad scope of administrative duties, a lot of manpower and womanpower was needed to manage it all-- enter our lovely WACs!! The Women's Army Corporation had a huge part in the ETOUSA as a whole, but many could also be found in their headquarters. (source, source, source) Without revealing too much about her story, my OC (who I don't have a set name for yet, oops) works with administrative duties related to the strategic planning of attacks. Now, the patch. While I was cooking her up this website was a saving grace for me, it's got such good info on WAC uniform guidelines/regulations-- this section features the information on the ETOUSA patch that I referenced.

In her illustration she's sporting the first design of the ETOUSA patch from September 1943. You might notice how there's also a version of the ETOUSA patch with the service forces star atop it. Let me get into that. So now it's February 1944, the US had been making some pretty big strides across Europe (especially France), and now they want to focus on western Europe; so they make sure there's enough forces over there to justify a new command post. This new organization is called the SHAEF, or the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, whose job was to administrate, plan, and operate control over US forces in the European Theater...which is currently the ETOUSA's job. But we're dealing with western Europe now, so they split the job down the middle; SHAEF takes the commanding part and the ETOUSA settles in France with the administrative and supplying part. Befitting of the new rebrand they modify their patch to the second iteration, the one that includes the service forces star, in February of 1944. The ETOUSA continues with these duties until shortly after Germany surrenders on May 7, 1945, and on July 1, 1945 it is redesignated as the USFET, the United States Forces European Theater. It retains that name until March 15, 1947, when it is redesignated as the EUCOM, Headquarters European Command. The EUCOM would be absorbed into the United States European Command (USEUCOM) on August 1, 1952. The end.

***Obviously I'm not a historian, so if somebody reads this and spots a place where I've gotten info wrong or misunderstood something important let me know and I'll add a footnote asap👍

Thank you for reading!! 💗💗💗💗 My apologies because I know this is very long-winded but I really appreciate the interest Battie <3 You reminded me I need to get on it and write a formal intro post for her tbh... but both the ETOUSA and SHAEF are in this OC's future... i got stuff brewing. let me cook

[1waveshortofashipwreck]

💐 once you receive this lovely bouquet of flowers you have to mention five things you love, publicly, and send it to 10 of your favorite followers if you want. SPREAD POSITIVITY! ⛅️ - @lostloveletters

AAAAAAAA THANK YOU BATTIE!!! You're so sweet 😭❤️

[rosies-riveters]

🏅🏆BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD. Once you're given this award, you're supposed to paste it in the ask of eight people who deserve it. If you break the chain, nothing happens but it's sweet to know so. I think you're beautiful inside and outside.💕💐💛💛🫂😘😘 - @lostloveletters

Battie! I’m making such a face rn! 😭😘 right back at you!