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[matznothere]

Do u ship valgrace

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yep

[thewintersoldierdisaster]

My whore thoughts about Mat while decorating your guys Christmas tree is really there… like him tying you up with the lights or garland

-💌

bestie, i love your thoughts!!! 🥰

it all starts out innocent enough, doesn’t it? mat hauls the decorations out of the attic and you get started as he’s unloading and piling boxes into the living room and hallway

he complains a little, lifting heavier boxes and getting scratched up by the garlands - “not the kinds of scratches i like having on my arms, baby”

you put him to work, wanting to get as much done as you can while he’s home. the tree goes up and you get mat to start on the lights since that’s a man job and you hate dealing with the tangled strands

mat hates dealing with the lights too and he teases you about using the knots elsewhere, playfully hooking a loop around your wrist and tugging you close. you wiggle in his embrace, wet and turned on from even the lightest restraint. mat’s grin goes wicked when he realizes and after that all bets are off

he turns you in his arms, your back to his chest, and twists the lights around your wrists so you’re restrained but still able to move

“mat,” you whine in warning and he ignores you, kissing down your neck and letting his hands roam over your body and under your clothes. he cups your tits and squeezes, playing with your nipples until they’re tight, stiff peaks.

“just getting into the holiday spirit, squeaks,” he nips at the hinge of your jaw and his hands are suddenly in your pants, fingers dipping shallowly through your soaked folds and teasing at your entrance. you arch your back into his touch, keening for more

mat tightens the lights around your wrists and lowers you to your knees while he pulls his cock out of his pants and taps you lightly on the cheek with the dripping tip. “c’mon, baby, open up,” he coos. “let’s see how close you can get me without your hands.”

you scowl up at him at the loss of his hands on you - what happened to your orgasm? but still you lick lazily at his cock, soaking it in your spit and smearing his precome over the shaft. when you finally take him into your mouth, mat grunts and you nearly fall over with your balance thrown off. mat’s hands are around your head, keeping you steady as you suck and lick and moan around him

he comes almost embarrassingly fast, ropes of his come sliding down your throat while you try to swallow as best you can. with your hands still tied at your back, you wiggle your shoulders to try and loosen the lights

spent, mat’s cock softens against his thigh, messy. he grins down at you and joins you on the floor, laying flat on his back and teasing, “think you can ride me back to full mast?”

“not with my hands tied,” you grumble, soaked and swollen and cranky that you haven’t had an orgasm

“don’t be a pouty baby,” mat reaches out to thumb at your lower lip. “take a seat and i’ll take care of you.” he gestures to his face and you happily swing a leg over his chest to sit on his face so he can lick you to a very satisfying orgasm

it doesn’t end there of course because there are so many decorations around the house. one night, he ties you to the bed with leftover garland, the scratchy fake needles digging into your skin and sparking the pain/pleasure center of your brain

when mat comes home from a road trip, you take the opportunity to tie a big red ribbon around your tits and cunt, kneeling on the floor until the tree for him to unwrap. which he does with great enthusiasm, his eyes lit up in delight when the ribbon falls away and he’s able to get his mouth on your stiff nipples, sucking at them until they’re sore and puffy and you’re halfway to an orgasm from the nipple stimulation alone

as an oldie but a goodie, mat pulls off the dick in a box treat before you leave for the islanders holiday party, making you late and being subjected to teasing from the guys about the leftover wrapping paper stuck to mat’s pants 🤭

[kawareo]

Maybe you already answered this but, why is his hair white after the nautiloid?

Like a year of zero sunlight, brain injury, and trauma. A few years after the game it starts to grow back darker again

[markantonys]

While I still don't think the show has done enough to show why the world despises and fears male channelers (since it really should've been embedded into the world building, so far we only know that the Aes Sedai hate and fear them) and it does kinda lessen the impact of the narrative that none of the EF5 had at least an initial gut reaction to Rand being able to channel. I do wonder how they're gonna handle that topic moving forward, cause it kinda has to be addressed now that Rand is actively channeling. I could see it being expanded more deeply as Rand's madness progresses/tie it into his arc.

the show has made it ABUNDANTLY clear that Male Channelers Are Considered Bad News By All. it IS embedded into the worldbuilding. was the king saying that logain's gone mad and trying to kill him not enough for you? was the people of tar valon jeering and throwing fruit at him not enough for you? was rand and mat saying "hey if i'm a male channeler please kill me" not enough for you? was rand's terror the second he realized selene saw him channel not enough for you? was selene's act of how a normal person would react to finding out her boyfriend can channel not enough for you? was his heartbroken yet unsurprised reaction to her rejection not enough for you? was the whole backstory of a male channeler causing the apocalypse not enough for you? do you think that show-onlys are completely incapable of putting all these pieces together along with aes sedai treatment of male channelers and coming to the conclusion that male channelers are probably not very popular with most people and it's going to be very tough for rand that he is one?

literally what else should they have done that would make sense within the very small world and very early story of the first 2 seasons/3 books that they didn't already do? shown emond's fielders sitting around the dinner table talking about how much they hate and fear male channelers when none of them has ever met one and thus it's not relevant to their lives? wasted time doing a whole sidequest for rand in s2 where his abilities are discovered by some Average Citizens and they react badly? shit all over show!mat's characterization and given him a negative reaction to rand in s2 that would not make sense for his current show headspace, just for the sake of furthering rand's randpain? i'm sick of the rand stans who act like rand is the only character who matters and mat's characterization should be sacrificed just so we can go "oh poor rand uwu even his own best friend is mean to him". portraying mat in 2x06 as the sort of person who bullies and kicks his best friend while he's down would've been beneficial because......? what is so wrong with the show making the ef5 feel like mutually loyal friends instead of "rand is the best and most loyal friend in the world but the rest are little shits who abandon him as soon as the going gets tough"? seeing as in the books, mat continues to be an extremely loyal friend to rand throughout the series but most readers are too stupid to see through his unreliable narration and realize he doesn't mean it when he says that rand channeling is like him eating babies, i'm not surprised the show decided to simplify things in order to convey the true heart of mat's character (loyal and caring friend to rand) in a more obvious manner.

and i guarantee you that no show-only is going "oh, it's only aes sedai who have a problem with male channelers, everyone else thinks they're cool". that's not happening. show-onlys are not stupid, and they understand that male channelers are considered bad news by all; or maybe they haven't thought much yet about how male channelers are viewed by the average public, but in future seasons once we see rand getting shit from the average public, they are not going to be surprised or confused or go "but i thought it was only aes sedai who had a problem with them and everyone else thinks they're cool?", they're going to go "oh, well we've seen how much aes sedai hate them, so it makes sense that everyone else does too". stop. think for 2 seconds about "have i actually seen a large number* of show-onlys misunderstanding X and/or do i think it's plausible that a large number of show-onlys would be likely to misunderstand X, or do show-onlys have enough context clues to figure out X for themselves or to be unsurprised when X is expanded on and made more explicit in future seasons and i'm working myself up into a state over a non-issue?"

*there are always going to be a handful of people incapable of critical thinking who willfully misunderstand what the show is showing us, just like there are readers like that with the books, hence unless a LARGE number of general-population show-onlys are misunderstanding X, as opposed to just 20 idiots on twitter, i do not consider it a failure by the show in portraying X.

[spockandawe]

Okay, it's not a good *wallet* habit, but i highly recommend cultivating a stress response of acquiring a new niche hobby. Work is hard? New hobby! Never enough hours in the day to do important things? NEW HOBBY. It's a flawless solution, don't even worry. I have no idea how long I'm going to be preoccupied with this, because I'm accelerating but have no gauge for max speed, but straw marquetry time

[lam-ila]

happy 300!! 🦋 could i request a moodboard of a soft, lazy morning with mat barzal?? thank you!!

hi my love!! of course!

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Maleeha’s 300 Follower Celebration!!

[masterfuldoodler]

I love your sketches omg 🫶🫶

Aaaaaah thank you!!!! <3

[not-poignant]

I didn't understand how it was possible to be doing so much work, and I'm glad you're finally taking a break ❤️

To be fair, I am lucky that I type very fast! I've had an awful lot of practice writing and so I'm faster at it than someone who is starting out or even someone who is 5 years into a writing career.

That being said, I have no idea how I was doing so much work as well. Prior to 2023 it was normal for me to only be working on 2-3 stories at a time (with around 5-8 chapters a week max, and my main story updated only once every 2 weeks). Not the amount I'm doing now. Things exploded with Underline the Black and my lack of impulse control (as well as the appeal of offering side stories) meant I started up two more stories alongside it. Then calm Palmarosa and Constellations and suddenly I had a lot on my plate that I felt like I had to be regularly committed to.

I was pretty burnt out prior to getting Toby (our puppy), so on that side of things, I was a little too ambitious in thinking I'd be able to juggle everything.

I have known that like, once certain side stories finish, my schedule quietens down and I think what I've been hoping for is like 'just hold out until this finishes, and then this finishes, and then this finishes. Just hold out.' But my stories take some time to complete, and 'just holding out' means sometimes waiting 1-2 years.

So yeah instead of doing that I'm going to try something sooner. I was doing the week break from Underline the Black in 2024 but it just hasn't been enough.

So like, I am very lucky I type fast! When I'm comfortable, I'll always be prolific to the point that at least some people will be like 'I don't know how you do that' - a lot of that is just experience. My typing speed is around 120-140 words per minute and I can comfortably finish a 3,000 word chapter in about 2 hours (with room to think / imagine what is coming next etc. and pausing to reread sections for clarity). Sometimes faster. Sometimes slower if the chapter is challenging. On very good days, I can write 2 chapters in a day. The last time I had a day like that was March 11th.

Editing takes me a lot longer though, and weirdly so do things like the Birthday Spotlights. I think I really underestimated how much time each one would take to do in terms of the graphics + hyperlinks + finding quotes etc.

I'm still going to be writing here and there over the next two months. But even just an update/posting hiatus and a slow down will help an indescribably amount. The reality is I haven't actually done very much at all this April and I still feel very overwhelmed (even more so because I knew I was running down my buffer of chapters for May/June), so taking the next step, and hope that's enough!

The good news is I've taken hiatuses before and I've always come back afterwards raring to go, and I'm hoping that's the case now too. :)

[supernaturalkickparty]

Oh I love the wrestling fans headcanon! I can see Dean getting disillusioned with WWE in the late 2000s and ending up dragging Sammy to indie death matches in backyards and warehouses

They're wrestling fans and I love it,

Dean

Sam

John's favorite wrestler was called the hangman and it gave me brain worms of Dean being a huge hangman adam page fan and I'm like yes please.

John took them to small shows and when John was out of town they'd go to backyard shows or parking lot brawls and hang out with other kids and do dumb kid shit.

They went to a few death matches, they did an open challenge amateur fight, tag teams of course.

Spn gave us canon wrestling fans Winchesters and I love it.

My headcanon is they watch ROH, AEW, TNA, and GCW.

But Dean is definitely a hangman and mox fan while Sam is a Kenny and young bucks fan.

[matznothere]

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[thewintersoldierdisaster]

Barzy and reader, finally both having the day off after both of their schedules being buzy. All they end up doing is just cuddling the whole day.

oh this sounds so freaking perfect 🥹

like it’s been a few weeks since your schedules really lined up - mat’s always been traveling or practicing and you’ve been busy with work

so the first thing you notice is that you wake up to no alarm. when you panic a little, mat hooks an arm around your waist and tugs you back against his chest.

“my alarm -“ you say and he grumbles against your neck

“turned it off. we’re both off, let’s just relax,” he buries his face into your hair and doesn’t let you go until you relax back against him, falling asleep again

when you wake up for real, mat’s snoring softly into your hair and you smile to yourself, getting cozy under the blankets and snuggled against his side until he wakes up a little bit later, kissing you softly on the corner of your mouth

“isn’t it nice waking up without an alarm?” he asks on a laugh, letting his hands roam over your body lazily

you nod and the lazy groping turns into lazy morning sex and a shower before you decamp to the couch with a pile of pillows and blankets. neither of you feels like braving the cold, so you commit to the lazy sunday

mat makes breakfast burritos for both of you while you’re on coffee duty. everything is carried to the couch nest and you eat with your legs tangled with mat’s. the tv is playing quietly and you decide to binge watch something easy. both of your phones are on do not disturb and tossed on the counter

mat’s resting against the arm of the couch and you’re draped over his chest, head tucked under his chin. there’s a pile of blankets around the both of you and his hands are resting on your back, keeping you in place

at various points during the day, you both doze off in quick little naps. you get up for snacks periodically and to refill your water bottles. you both untangle to read your latest books, your feet resting in mat’s lap while you flip pages.

the fireplace is going and it’s the coziest day you’ve had in a long time. you make out slowly on the couch, crawling into his lap every once in a while for the comfort of his touch and mat stretches out with his head in your lap so you can rake your fingers through his hair

dinner’s ordered in from your favorite restaurant and eaten on the couch, comfy and cozy, and you yap about upcoming travel plans and what’s happening at work and the latest gossip from the girls because mat loves to gossip

after dinner you probably have sex again, slow and soft and characterised more as love making than the feral sex you can both be prone to

another shower and the day ends curled up in each other in bed, rested and ready to take on another week 🥹

[doubletaileddoubletrouble]

“...why is that stupid faker so pretty? THATS A REAL QUESTION” @shadowlikesguns

Oh. Uhm. He just is? He doesn't really have a routine that I know of. Other than not brushing his quills for like a month straight. @ask-sonc

SONIC BRUSH YO DANG QUILLS-

[karizard-ao3]

what do you think about fictional boys who are like "i want her to step on me"? 👀

I think that these fictional boys are correct to feel that way and should be encouraged and rewarded for their behavior.

[hunter-sylvester]

Imagine Kevin writing Hunter notes 🤭

From your amazing fic 🥰

Oh my god, seeing that line handwritten out sure is something 😖💀 Not in a bad way!! Just...I really went ahead and put that in a fic, didn't I? lmao

I definitely held back less with Candy Apples ^-^" which was admittedly really fun, I should hold back less in my writing going forward.

But...if Kevin started leaving Hunter notes like that...boyo would 404 every time. I don't think Hunter deals well with affection that direct. His brain would disconnect for a few seconds. If Kevin winked at him on stage he'd fuck up his guitar playing every single time without fail. Fans would post compilation vids of him doing it if when Skullflower got big. At least that is now my headcanon lol

[hxans]

Mat Cauthon, 12

What's a headcanon I have for this character?

Oh man, I mean, I find it so easy to adopt other's headcanons for him --he's dyslexic, he's ADHD, what if he had the untapped potential to learn to channel-- what's something I have come up with independently, let me think...

I suppose, if he never became the Prince if Ravens, he would be destined to be Elayne's First Prince of the Sword. In the books, he challenges and defeats both her brothers in a duel, before going on to try and save her life from a Forsaken's kill order. He also has the charisma and tactical knowledge that leads to building his own army. I don't doubt Elayne's sweet-talking skills that she couldn't convince him to take Gawyn's spot by her side as Gawyn becomes busy being Egwene's warder-husband.

Plus, he and her warder Birgitte are natural bffs. Now whether or not Mat would accept or even volunteer to let Elayne bond him as a warder also, well, I'll leave that up to a toss of the dice.