#modern au (legs jake! edition)

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

~interaction loosely based on a real event between my cousins and their mom~

Kiri, from the couch next to Jake: If you don't hand over the popcorn, I'm telling Dad.

Lo'ak, standing up and withholding popcorn: HA, jokes on you, I'm not afraid of Dad.

Jake: Ow.

Kiri, snuggling into Jake: It's okay Dad, I'm afraid of you.

Jake: Wow, thanks, babygirl.

Lo’ak, watching them: .... scooch over, I wanna cuddle with my dad.

Kiri: NO, I'm cuddling my dad! Get your own dad!

Neteyam, from the other couch: That whole conversation gave me whiplash.

Spider, next to him: I actually think I'm having a stroke.

[eleanor-bradstreet]

The Field: Lavender Forever (Benedict Bridgerton x Reader)

Benedict Bridgerton x fem!Reader Modern AU Rated: 18+ - explicit sexual content, drug use Word count: 2.4k

Part 1: Dandelions Part 3: In a Week Masterpost

Summary: Two years into your relationship, you and Benedict share pleasures on a summer day.

Author's Note: The second in a four-part series based on songs about fields/nature that I associate with Benedict. This part is based on the song Lavender Forever by Jake Wesley Rogers. Thank you to the talented @bridgertontess who made me oodles of photo edits for the header image! 💙

Two years later

You were on your back with Benedict’s head between your legs when the tea took hold. Sprawled on his bed with your dress bunched around your waist, you surrendered your body to the sensations he and his favorite elixir could stir within you. You had been wary the first time he offered you the mysterious purple powder his brother Colin had brought back from some remote corner of the world. But after learning to mask the taste in a cup of tea and having several exhilarating trips where every nerve hummed with heightened sensation, you now shared his fondness for it, particularly when paired with sex. 

You knew you were being irresponsible, rude even, to be getting high and getting off like a teenager visiting her boyfriend and sneaking around his parents’ house. But while he was your boyfriend and this was his family home, you were old enough to know better and Benedict was not the reason you were at Aubrey Hall. It was the company outing, now an annual tradition after its initial runaway success. It had grown from a dinner into an entire weekend and you had arrived early to help Anthony coordinate. Everything was in hand but you still would have made yourself available to your boss were it not for his brother who kept spiriting you away like some hedonistic pied piper. 

It was the day before the employees arrived and you and Benedict were making the most out of your time together by indulging in every pleasure. It was something you had been working on perfecting, timing your dosage of the powder with your climb to orgasm so that both of the highs he offered hit you simultaneously. It was damn close this time, the weightless calm of the tea flooding in just moments before you felt the first flutters of ascent. You gripped into Benedict’s hair and pulled him closer against your body. He responded with a moan and sped up the fingers that were rocking inside you.

Then someone called both your names. It was Anthony. He was looking for you. You knew the door was locked but in that moment you wouldn’t have cared if it wasn’t. Soaring on the tea and the rising wave of release, all you could focus on was reaching your pinnacle. Breathing hard, you tugged at Benedict’s dark locks and began to grind against his tongue, building friction as he sucked your clit hard and wantonly. 

Each of your names was shouted again, growing closer, more agitated. You were nearly there…

You panted to keep yourself from squealing and with a final swirl of his tongue, Benedict brought you over the edge. You rasped his name at the same moment Anthony barked it which caused him to laugh, releasing you from his mouth but keeping his hand in place as you writhed.

“Coming!” He called as you clenched around his fingers. You couldn’t even acknowledge his cheek. You were too numb, your entire body tingling as euphoria muted out the world. But then he was pulling you to stand, the two of you laughing as you straightened each other’s hair and somehow you wandered to the foyer below where Anthony was waiting. The powder had the strange effect of making time slow but also leaving you unable to remember one moment to the next. It rooted you firmly in the present with every sense notched to ten.

“Anthony?” You smiled and tried your best to sound sober. “What do you need?”

“Ah, there you are. What have you been up to?” He raised a curious eyebrow but when Benedict burst into a fit of giggles it lowered into a glare. “Actually…don’t answer that. I need to ask you, is the agenda finalized for the weekend?”

You could feel the stress pouring off of him though it was a foreign concept to you in your current state. “Yes, the coordinators have it.”

“Alright. And we’re good to announce the rollout of the new branding for the charity hospital?”

“Yes, it’s all taken care of.” Despite your current immature behavior, you really had completed all your tasks and were happy to report as much. As you watched the tension easing out of Anthony’s stance, you felt arms wrap around you from behind and the warm breath of someone nuzzling into your neck.

“Benedict, do you mind?!” Anthony growled. “Can we have one minute of peace to discuss some business?”

You bit your tongue to keep from bursting into laughter as Benedict pulled away, hands raised in defeat.

“Sorry, sorry.”  

You turned to see him saunter over to a flower arrangement and begin stroking the petals.

Anthony’s eyes rolled so hard you swore you could hear them. “And the uh…the hampers. For the picnic.”

You nodded. The weekend was going to kick off with a relaxed reception. Each guest being gifted a hamper of local treats to sprawl with on the grounds as they settled in. “Daphne and your mother are putting them together in the back garden. I can go and check on them now.”

He sighed in relief. “Thank you. You’ve taken care of everything.”

“I always do.”

He matched your grin and you basked in the warmth of his favor. Then Benedict suddenly appeared beside him and booped him on the nose with an orange daisy, sound effect and all. The two of you couldn’t contain your hysterics as the viscount clenched his jaw and stormed off to escape you.

You were slightly more apprehensive about hiding your condition from Benedict’s mother and sister but thanks to his antics you hardly needed to. You found them both in the kitchen garden, hampers arrayed before them as they inspected the contents. Benedict swooped in, gave each a kiss on the cheek, complimented how Daphne was tying bunches of Clyvedon lavender to the handles, slipped a hamper onto his arm ‘for a test run’ and pulled you away. It was not what you had intended by checking on their progress but you were so giddy you didn’t protest. As you scampered along the back of the house where staff were bustling with deliveries and laundry, he pilfered a quilt that had been hung to dry with other linens. 

Then you were out on the grounds and far from any onlookers, weaving your way around out buildings and trees, taking a familiar route that made your destination obvious. But the effects of the powder lent the well-worn path a new magic. Your journey seemed to take a day, you and Benedict both falling into a slow, wandering gait with your eyes casting about at the nature that surrounded you. He would sling an arm across your shoulders and marvel as he pointed out dragonflies and rabbits through the sun-dappled shadows. You felt like Alice, swirling in a strange and beautiful wonderland.

Then you reached the field, overgrown and verdant, the grass rippling with the warm breeze. There were no dandelions to be found, not only because the season had passed but because the Bridgertons had actually taken your suggestion and harvested the blooms to try their hand at wine making. Benedict had insisted on it that day when you shared your first kiss and the product of the first harvest was tucked into the hampers for everyone to sample.

You spread the quilt and began to rifle through your spoils like a couple of wily scavengers. Inside you found the bottle of wine bearing the label you designed, a jar of honey, a wedge of cheese, a small bit of bread and fruit from the orangery among other little delights. You loosened the bunch of lavender and breathed deep, feeling its calm sweetness waft over you. You began to twist at the stems, an old hobby from childhood, and within minutes had fashioned a fragrant crown.

You popped it onto Benedict’s head with a giggle. “I hereby proclaim you Lord of Summer.” He rolled his eyes but left it on, too distracted by the food. 

You began to sample everything on offer. The scents were mouthwatering, the colors overwhelming. Benedict promptly began eating the honey with his hands. When he caught you watching him he held a sticky finger to your lips and moaned as you sucked it clean, never breaking eye contact. It tasted like sunshine. 

There was a small knife in the hamper and you attempted to slice the cheese but with half your mind floating somewhere else altogether, you slipped and cut your finger instead. You hissed as you held it aloft, watching a crimson drop swell on your fingertip, captivated by the way it sparkled in the light. Benedict lightly took your wrist, equally mesmerized.

“This passed through your heart,” he murmured. “And you live in mine.” Then with the gentlest swipe of his tongue he lathed your wound and sealed it with a soft kiss. The act felt so profound, so intimate, that you could feel your heart tugging to get closer to him. Within seconds your tongues were entwined, as were your limbs, and you both shed your clothing until you could feel the heat of the sun on every inch of your skin. 

You rolled to straddle him, never failing to marvel at the planes of his toned body. You found him aggravatingly attractive when sober and now with the heady haze of the powder he seemed like the male ideal; Adam waiting for you in the Eden of the field, a perfected creature born and bred in flowers. Planting your hands on his chest you lowered onto him, both of you groaning in ecstasy, and then began to move. You were somehow drowning in the sensations of your body and floating high above them simultaneously. It was almost as if you could picture yourselves from a distance, the two of you entirely nude, clothed in nothing but sunlight and writhing rhythmically against one another. Surrounded by nature and the dusky perfume of lavender it felt primal, pagan, an ancestral ritual you were reviving. Benedict trailed his hands up to cup your breasts, watching you, enthralled as you rode him. 

As always with this elixir time seemed to bend, leaving you no measure for how long you chased pleasure together. All you knew was that you reached a crescendo when pixelated rainbows burst behind your eyelids. Your heart felt as rapid as a hummingbird’s and was joined by the throb of Benedict between your hips, pulsing something electric into your every nerve. You both panted and laughed, content to stay joined together.

“Marry me.” Benedict looked up at you with eager eyes, all smiles beneath his lavender crown. 

You paused. “Ben…you need to stop asking me that.” 

His request didn’t bowl you over because it was the third time you had heard it. The first was far too early in your relationship to take seriously. The second had been what he requested as a gift for his most recent birthday and you were convinced he was joking. But now it seemed he wouldn’t relent.

“You need to give me a straight answer.” He frowned.

“It’s not fair when we’re high and you’re inside me.” 

Benedict smirked, running his thumbs gently over your hipbones. “An altered man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts. I want your honest answer.”

Your heart thudded double time. You knew your honest answer. You had known it from your first kiss. But there was always some anxiety that stopped you from speaking freely, some logical argument that your brain lobbed to overrule your heart. You had wanted to wait until a respectable amount of time had passed in your relationship. You had worried what it would look like if you married into your boss’s family. Mostly you couldn’t quite allow yourself to believe you could be so lucky. 

“I honestly think your timing is terrible.” You deflected.

“The timing is perfect.” He studied you, pupils wide. “I can see your soul shimmering around you. The blues… the greens… iridescent.” He ran his fingers feather-light up the sides of your body and down your arms, tracing your outline. “It changes color when you’re laughing. When we’re making love. I want to see what color it is when you say yes.”

Your breath caught, stunned and a bit jealous that you had not received the same superpower from the tea. You didn’t know if you could see his soul but he did look ethereal, glowing like a stray stream of light. Then again, he always looked like that to you. He was sun-kissed even in the darkest of hours, possessing some innate source of joy. 

“Bit presumptuous to think I’m going to say yes.” You teased.

“Then tell me why you would say no.”

“We’re already mucking up this weekend enough as it is. If we get engaged Anthony may kill us both.”

“That’s why you don’t want to announce an engagement, not why you don’t want to marry me.”

“Ben…” you breathed, knowing he had you cornered. 

He continued. “Because if the rest of my life could be like the last two years, I know it will be a good one. I love everything we do together. I love picking you up from work. I love reading next to you and feeding you and fucking you and buying you toothpaste and painting you and cherishing you.”

He laced his hands with yours and held them tight to his chest, speaking softly. “I was born to love you and I want to die that way. That’s why I want to marry you. Why don’t you want to marry me?”

Tears pricked at your eyes as love and excitement swelled within you. If this had all been a ploy to make you emotional and vulnerable to his advances, it had worked. But you couldn’t be mad at him. Perhaps he had understood exactly what you needed to overcome your defenses. You couldn’t think of any reasons to resist anymore but still knew you couldn’t topple the plans for the weekend.

“Ask me again on Monday.”

His pale eyes sparkled as a crooked grin overtook his features. “Is that a yes?”

You beamed, nodding, praying that you weren’t hallucinating. Benedict gasped, gazing up at you in awe.

“Purple,” he whispered. “It’s purple. Lavender.” Then he lifted the crown from his head and reverently placed it on yours.

The two of you stayed in the field for the rest of the day, lounging half-clothed in each other’s arms and watching the clouds float by until the sky grew ombre and the grass grew dewy. You polished off the picnic and opened the wine as you descended back to earth. It was sweet with a kiss of grassy bitterness. Exactly as you remembered from childhood. A resounding success. A memento of your first fateful meeting in the field returning to celebrate this one. 

Tagging: @angels17324 @bridgertontess @broooookiecrisp @secretagentbucky

[writingmochi]

ｌｏａｄｉｎｇ ｉｎｔｅｒｆａｃｅ．．．

below is the list of ongoing researches. updated: 28 of may 2024

works placed here will not include a synopsis to mitigate against idea theft (unless i've already posted an official teaser/masterlist to it)

details are not fixed and will be edited accordingly

list is made in order of priority or what i'm currently working on

status and taglist will only be added to works in the current year's list (2024)

COMING SOON IN 2024

I ONLY SAID • an entry for discovery: 400 and solstice: a comeback story! • part of loveless anthology

cast: soobin ✗ fem.reader

synopsis: as you stood on the crowded train while making eye contact with the boy from the neighboring school. light shines into the dim train car as it becomes empty and filled with sand. approaching you is a humanoid figure, who calls you the king and queen of viliya—the island kingdom that is plagued with nightmares that haunt its people which you and the boy are also not immune to

genre: two lost souls find comfort, silent lovers, magical realism, meet ugly, hurt/comfort, adventure, thriller, coming of age, romance, high school au (both are 19 and in senior year), late 2010s au, modern royalty au, angst, fluff, mature content (phobias, trauma, war, explicit smut)

inspired by: music my bloody valentine's "i only said" (1991), txt's 2019-2020 star seekers music videos ("nap of the star", "magic island", "eternally"), and movies bridge to terabithia (2007) and tigers are not afraid (2017)

status: writing

taglist: give a comment on the visualizer post!

THE BALLAD OF THE CORVIDS

cast: jay ✗ fem.reader

genre: mystery, adventure, tragedy, magical realism

based on: video game what remains of edith finch (2017)

status: writing

taglist: currently not available

EVALUASI • part of the deep end collab • part of menari dengan bayangan anthology

cast: heeseung ✗ fem.reader

synopsis: heeseung can finally breathe after finishing the final leg of his solo tour, his manager gives him one day to explore london. that’s when he meets you, a traveler from a room next to his

genre: slice of life, drama, romance, musician au, tourist au, fluff, angst, set in the same universe as crossroads

inspired by: movie before sunrise (1995)

status: writing

taglist: currently not available

LOOMER • an entry for discovery: 400 and equinox: the escapist • part of loveless anthology

cast: jay ✗ fem.reader

synopsis: jay has always been a loomer, an introvert, and an outsider in a group of people others presumed are bad. looming in the shadows in the corner of the parties full of drinks, drugs, and sex, only can be seen with the flamed blunt of his cigarette in the dark. out of the blue, an orange flame is ignited in the dark corner, creating a silhouette of another person, another loomer, standing beside him

genre: lonely people in neon cities, drama, romance, early 00s au, bad boy au, angst, mature content (consumption of drugs, explicit smut)

inspired by: movie fallen angels (1995) and millennium mambo (2001)

status: writing

taglist: give a comment on the visualizer post!

WE ARE DREAMERS (visualizer) • an entry for solstice: the long break

cast: taehyun ✗ fem.reader ✗ hueningkai

synopsis: hey, it's your last day of high school! you have one month to go before your graduation. with the company of your best friends, taehyun and kai, let's make this one month the most memorable month of your entire life!

genre: teen existentialism, that awkward period when you're in between a teenager and a young adult, coming of age, friendship, platonic but with a few romantic tendencies, best friends au, high school au, comedy, fluff, angst

status: writing

taglist: right here

TERRA INCOGNITA: ACT 1 (masterlist) • an entry for solstice: deus ex machina

cast: jake ✗ fem.reader

synopsis: as the world entered the middle of the 21st century, many things have changed for the better or for worse in the newly united korea peninsula: the preparation for the succession of the new conglomerates of the past decade, the uprising of deviant androids, and the new layer of life shield by walls of codes. in the middle of it, two beings are trying to understand each other and the situation of the world they live in; an unknown territory

genre: cyberpunk, cyber noir, psychological thriller, science fiction, dystopian future, politics and philosophies regarding artificial intelligence and humanity, romance, drama, angst, mature content (war and revolution, explicit smut)

based on: video game cyberpunk 2077 (2020) and detroit: become human (2018), anime serial experiments lain (1998), and tv show succession (2018-2023)

status: writing

taglist: right here

EPISODE 3: TAEHYUN • part of smirch anthology

cast: film club’s cameraman!taehyun ✗ film club’s star!fem.reader

synopsis: kang taehyun always felt like he didn’t belong in the group. while most of his friends are the rowdy group that everyone notices, he is the one who watches from the sidelines. that’s because he is mostly behind the camera, always capturing the gang while letting himself be left behind. he uses his love for camera and photography to be the cinematographer of the film club, who is now shooting a film for a film festival starring you, the girl he always seems to be mesmerized with

genre: teen drama, coming of age, slice of life, high school au, fluff, comedy, angst, mature content (drugs, suggestive themes, mental health)

based on: tv shows skins uk; specifically gen 1 (2007-2013) and skam norway (2015-2017)

status: plotting

taglist: right here

ONE DAY, I WILL RETURN TO YOUR SIDE: ACT I (masterlist)

cast: detective!jake ✗ detective!fem.reader

synopsis: a man who has lost his memories awoken to find a detective telling him to investigate the dead body by the delta. together, they investigate the corpse, the fishing town it is in, the end of the world, and himself.

genre: mystery, thriller, adventure, noir, slow burn, drama, comedy?, angst, mature content (crime, drugs, explicit smut)

based on: video game disco elysium (2019)

status: plotting

taglist: right here

SUPERVILLAIN THEME • part of madvillains duology

cast: villain!hongjoong ✗ villain!fem.reader

genre: superhero fiction (any form of art/music is portrayed as a superpower), dystopian future, science fiction, adventure, action, mystery, thriller, drama, romance, angst, mature content (rebellion and war, underground illegal things, explicit smut

based on: music madvillain’s “madvillainy” album (2004), comic batman’s gotham city and rogues gallery, ateez’s strictland lore, and music history

status: plotting

taglist: right here

MURDER BY NUMBERS

cast: soobin ✗ fem.reader

genre: horror, slasher, mystery, thriller, halloween au, high school au, late 80s au, angst, mature content (gore)

based on: music the police "murder by numbers" (1983)

status: plotting

taglist: currently not available

FAKE PLASTIC TREES • an entry for discovery: 400 • part of frequency modulation anthology

cast: san ✗ fem.reader

genre: adventure, sci-fi, romance, dystopian, angst

inspired by: movie wall-e (2008)

status: plotting

taglist: currently not available

COMING SOON IN 2025 & BEYOND

CONTINUATION OF SMIRCH, MENARI DENGAN BAYANGAN, LOVELESS, FREQUENCY MODULATION, TERRA INCOGNITA, AND MADVILLAINS

THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE ECLIPSE

cast: jay ✗ fem.reader

genre: high fantasy, historical au, medieval au, fluff, angst, mature content (implied smut)

based on: movie disney’s tangled (2010) and video game assassin’s creed series (2007-2020)

CHROMAQUEST

cast: enhypen maknae line (sunoo, jungwon, niki) ✗ fem.reader

genre: adventure, comedy, thriller, friendship, platonic relationship

based on: video game undertale (2015) and deltarune (2018-present) and tabletop rpg dungeons and dragons (1974-present)

ALTERNATIVE

cast: grunge guitarist!beomgyu ✗ shoegaze bassist!fem.reader

genre: drama, battle of the bands, music festival setting, historical fiction, early 90s au, rivals au

BLITZ STORM

cast: txt ✗ reader

genre: family drama, science fantasy, action, adventure, dark comedy, superhero au, college/university au, fluff, angst, mature content (parental abuse, childhood trauma)

based on: tv show the umbrella academy (2019-present) with many pop culture references

SPIRIT PHONE

cast: seonghwa ✗ fem.reader

genre: mystery, science fiction, psychological horror, supernatural, dark comedy, kind of win-to-exit trope, idol au with a twist, angst

based on: music lemon demon's “spirit phone” album (2016)

THE POETS, THE CANINE, AND HAEYANG

cast: beomgyu ✗ reader

genre: magical realism, angst, set in the time wave universe

based on: music boygenius "me and dog" (2018) and "letter to an old poet" (2023)

HEARTS OF THE CITY

cast: seonghwa ✗ fem.reader

genre: adventure, fantasy, coming of age, angst

based on: music lee jin ah’s “hearts of the city” album (2023)

POSTCARD FROM MOUNT HALA

cast: jungwon ✗ fem.reader

genre: adventure, magical realism, coming of age, angst

based on: video game celeste (2018)

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[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

The thing about no war jeytiri is that relationship is a fucking warzone all on its own. The nerf gun battle of 2018 will go down in history as one of history's most brutal battles. The water balloon wars of 2020 contained the most betrayal of any war in recent memory, because Neytiri talked Lo'ak into putting a ballon down the back of Jake's shirt.

Even not modern and on Pandora, Mo'at and Tsu'tey are just trying to lead a normal life with a normal clan and Jake's like "bet I can gather more herbs faster than you, Neytiri." And she's like "Jake, that's so incredibly childish-" *trips him for a head start*

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

EVEN FUCKING MORE Things My Dad Says/Does That Modern AU Jake Sully Would Also Say:

-Jake repeatedly tells Neytiri he needs her to make a list of the kids shoe sizes and favorite foods in case she dies unexpectedly. It was less of a joke when the kids were all little and growing constantly. 

-Jake picked up Lo’ak and his friends from It with red balloons floating in the trunk. When Spider noticed he screamed, which started a chain reaction and Kiri cackled at them. Lo’ak insisted he didn’t scream, and that may have been true, but he definitely screamed when he went to get in bed only to find another red balloon under the covers. They all woke up the next morning to him screaming again at the one Jake put it the shower. Jake and Kiri found this utterly hilarious.

-On Thursday’s before Tuk started kindergarten, Lo’ak, Neteyam, Kiri, and Spider got picked up from school by Tsu’tey. This was because Jake took Tuk to playgroup on Thursday’s (this is where she met Popiti). One Thursday when they got out of Tsu’tey’s truck, Jake wasn’t at the door to great them. Instead he was at the window. He yelled “HI KIDS” and startedabsolutelyy blasting them with nerf darts. Tuk popped around the door with another nerf gun, and suddenly Tsu’tey pulled one out of the car. It was brutal, it was like the Red Wedding. No survivors.

-When Neytiri had Tuk, her work sent her flowers. Jake crossed out the name of her company in pen and wrote his own as Mo’at helped her in the door, then presented them to her and said he bought them. She laughed so hard she had to sit on the floor. 

-Whenever anything breaks, it’s like *Home Depot Theme Song* “no, don’t call the mechanic, Neytiri, NORM SPELLMAN can fix that.” Jake has nO delusions about his own skills. But if a pipe breaks, a fuse blows, maybe the TV stops working: that’s a problem for Norm Spellman. Norm bitches and moans but once he gets there the problem is interesting/boring enough for him to talk and Jake always sits there and lets him ramble if he makes the sink run again. 

-One time they went on vacation and Jake wouldn’t stop calling every tourists outfit “The Jake” because they’re all wearing shorts, t-shirts, and sneakers. Lo’ak and Kiri wanted to strangle him. 

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

When their kids are little, Jake and Tonowari are the kind of besties that are like “my son will marry your daughter so we will be true brothers *giggle*” and Ronal and Neytiri are like for the love of God, you can’t interfere with their lives! Then it happens, TWICE, and Jake and Tonowari are elated and Ronal and Neytiri are so suspicious. Tsireya and Lo’ak on their first date, Tonowari and Jake wearing disguises in the back behind a bush with binoculars and wigs trying to make sure the date is perfect. 

Jake, twirling his fake mustache: What’s happening now?

Tonowari, looking over Jake’s shoulder through the hole in the newspaper he brought: He kissed her hand, wow. 

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

EVEN MORE Things My Dad Says That Modern AU Jake Sully Would Also Say

-Sometimes when Tuk isn’t around Jake suddenly swears loudly in the middle of sentences to make the older kids and Neytiri laugh, it goes like this:

Neytiri: Jake, can you hand me the-

Jake: do I have to do FUCKING EVERYTHING around here?

Neteyam and Neytiri: *startled laughter*

Jake: yeah babe here it is. 

-Any time they watch a horror movie, mostly Lo’ak, Kiri, and Jake, Jake will end the evening by asking them if they were scared. The kids always claim no, so he says, “Good, statistically you are much more likely to be killed by a family member, anyway.“

-There’s a fake person that Jake blames all the family's problems on. Someone took Tuk’s toy at school? That bitch Susie was at it again. Neteyam got beat in the spelling bee by just one word? Susie simply has no friends to spend time with so she was able to practice more. Someone threw up on Neytiri at the hospital? Good, glad Susie was sick. 

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

Lo’ak makes Spider join the cheer team to get closer to Tsireya because she does cheer on swim team off season. But then they’re both really good at tumbling and get very competitive and into it. I haven’t decided if Tsireya is a flyer, but if she is then one time Lo’ak isn’t one of her bases they drop the stunt and she lightly brushes the ground and now Lo’ak won’t let her do any flying without him spotting at least.

Jake Sully and Tuk Sully, cheer teams number one stans. They wear matching handmade shirts to every competition. Jake thought his first cheer meet would be boring and now he’s on the side of the mat decked out in the proper colors like slapping the mat like “PULL, PULL, YEEEEES LO’AK! GET THAT, SPIDER!” Tuk screaming uncontrollably because she knows Spider just nailed that stunt because they practiced a million times in the yard with Lo’ak and Spider using Tuk as a flyer while Neteyam had a heart attack on the porch. They let Tuk put their hair up in the high cheer ponytails as well.

Ao’nung, probably, one time: You’re a boy cheerleader???

Lo’ak: *backflips over to him, punches him in the face, round offs away*

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

What goes on during movie night ?

Ooh okay so movie night:

It's just absurdly hard to decide what to watch. Movies are brutal for the family. No one likes the same things, but they somehow always have fun? They have to institute a family decision making process, and this is how it goes:

It's in order of age. Jake (1), Neytiri (2), Spider (3), Neteyam (4), Kiri (5), Lo'ak (6), and Tuk (7). (Mo'at is 8 when she is around, and when she is she somehow always wins).

Whenever a decision needs to be made, Jake has Neteyam have Siri (Jake does not understand how to use Siri) pick a number between 1 and 7 and whoever's number it lands on makes the decision. This ruling is absolutely final, and the only rules are that parents can overrule for safety and that the same number can't be picked back to back.

Neytiri wins a suspicious amount of time. It's simply Eywa's will. When Neytiri wins they watch a lot of documentaries and classic rom coms. Jake always complains the loudest to annoy her, but then him and Neyetam are on the ground on the floor up close fascinated by the horror of US prison system or by the absurdity of 27 Dresses.

Jake, in contrast, almost never wins. When he does it's always the worst comedy ever but like, the most fun night. It's Grown Ups 2 or The Naked Gun, and Neytiri is trying so hard not to laugh in the corner while covering Tuk's ears and glaring at Lo'ak when he laughs at the jokes.

Lo'ak only wants to watch terrible action movies. This is everyone's favorite night lowkey. No one would ever admit it, but the movies are such a brain break, and they love how much they can annoy Lo'ak during them. They're all munching on popcorn and lounging on the couch absolutely destroying the logistics of The Fast and The Furious.

Neteyam, through a mouthful of popcorn: How would one car cushion the fall of another car?

Spider, throwing m&ms into Kiri's mouth: Oh, it wouldn't, that's a double car pancake.

Lo'ak: IT'S JUST A MOVIE, MY GOD.

Jake, intercepting an m&m: As long as you don't think you can drive off of a helicopter, son.

Kiri: well, you could, right, you just wouldn't live.

Lo'ak: PLEASE.

Tuk wins and they watch a classic Disney/Pixar film. No one pretends to hate these nights. Everyone loves Encanto and Moana. Jake is a huge Olaf fan. Spider and Lo'ak's remote-microphone renditions of every song in Camp Rock are legendary. Everyone has joined in at some point, by the end of the movie the family are all exhausted and sweaty and the amount of blackmail on Jake's phone is wild.

Neteyam's picks are always extremely snobby Oscar level A24 films. Tuk always falls asleep. Lo'ak and Jake play games on their phones and miss things and then ask stupid questions and it drives Neteyam insane. He's never angrier than when Jake asks the dumbest question ever that was answered earlier during the peak moment of Three Billboards.

Kiri's picks are super pretty nature documentaries. These nights are instant nap time for Jake, Lo'ak, and Tuk, piled on top of each other on the couch. Spider, Kiri, Neytiri and Neteyam share a carton of ice cream right in front of the tv and marvel at the pretty animals. One time when they are all older teenagers, Lo'ak and Spider decide to take edibles before this endeavor and Jake catches them so they give him one as a bribe and the three of them cry when a lion kills a zebra. It is very obvious but also very funny to everyone else. Also Jake ratted them out to Neytiri right away but said "Babe, they included me! ☺️" so Neytiri let it happen.

Spider's picks are crazy. He's all over the place. For a long time post his adoption, when they were little, he picks whatever movie the person he's felt he most recently pissed off he thinks would like best. Lo'ak discovers this quickly and begins to start a fight with him right before movie night lol. Neytiri and Jake were very suspicious when Spider was like "no I actually want to watch Jackass and it's not because you grounded me yesterday, Jake." Eventually he does pick his own stuff (he likes Homeward Bound and Cheaper by the Dozen) but sometimes he does still pick what his siblings want.

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Modern AU Sully’s take in neglected toddler Spider from the house next door when they finally notice he’s not being treated well when the kids are all little. When they first adopted Spider they got him a cake and started having “gotcha” days as a way to make up for Jake’s parenting guilt for not noticing he needed help earlier. Neytiri was just humoring Jake (but also Spider is just so surprised by nice things and it’s very sad and cute and she likes it). Lo’ak was little and did not understand why Spider got two birthdays but he only gets one, so he would lowkey (HIGHKEY) try to sabotage the entire day. Jake RELISHED in foiling his every plan because that is making it up to New Son, get it? Also Lo’ak was being a little shit. Imagine Jake like using one hand to raise Spider’s to cheer as he’s blowing out his candles and one in front of Lo’ak’s face to keep him from blowing the candles out first. Jake puts the presents up really high so Lo’ak can’t reach them and open one and Lo’ak like, cries out of pure frustration and Jake is evilly beaming in the background. 10/10 parenting, Neytiri, Spider is being loved aggressively and Little Shit is learning to share. Then Spider gives Lo’ak one of his presents (it’s a stuffed whale and a year later Lo’ak loses it somewhere and scream-cries until 2:30am until Jake finds it buried up to its neck in the sandpit at the playground) because Spider feels bad. Jake is in the background, arms crossed over his “Kiss the Grillmaster” apron like “He doesn’t deserve that” to Neytiri and she’s like “Oh my god, let them be nice to each other.”

Anyways I was inspired by this, Lo’ak, Spider, and Jake are self explanatory but the older kid is Neteyam (he gets to be oldest here I guess) and Neytiri high fives Spider there at the end skskskks. 

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sully family trip to the library 🥺

So much drama.

I really don't think Jake and Neytiri are library people, I think they're bring your kids to the local rock climbing gym parents. I live in a world where they're just like, doing the most insane shit all the time. Pre-kids they were like what if we randomly skipped work today to go sky diving, and what if tomorrow we try a kickboxing class? Like their idea of a fun date or couple activity is trying something they've never done before and seeing who is better at it. One week they're in a couples cooking class like bullying the shit out of each other's food while the rest of the class is like 👀 because it's couples cooking you were supposed to make something together? Next week they're learning parkour, and every time the other falls first they run over and make sure that person is okay and then they point and laugh. By the time the kids are born it's crazy. Kiri, Neteyam, Lo'ak, and Spider in the back of a stupid family skateboarding class watching their mom not so subtlety push their dad so he falls and then pretending not to have seen who did it like Jesus Christ, right in front of us?? Our salad??? (This got off track can you tell I'm entering my Jeytiri era rn?).

So yeah I don't think the library was their main place before their kids. But now the kids love reading and the jocks (their parents) must entertain them.

I think Kiri and Neteyam vibe hard with a good book, while Lo'ak is with his parents in that he'd rather be outside doing something athletic and dumb. Spider and Tuk are in between, they can be swayed either way and get bored with reading or with dumb shit. They have short attention spans.

I think Jake does really good voices in the childrens section, so he without fail will find himself surrounded by like 15 kids and not notice until the end of the book because he feels like he has 15 kids anyway. Parents don't realize he's not there to read for everyone because he's so good at it and he's got so many kids sitting there listening who don't all appear to be siblings lol.

Neytiri really likes the romance books. I think she's a little bit of a romantic, and even if reading isn't her favorite pastime she'll get sucked into a good romance. Jake likes John Grisham type detective dad novels, but he'll read all the YA nonsense his kids say is good. He's read all of The Hunger Games, Divergent, John Green, he and Tuk are caught up on Percy Jackson. Lo'ak reads those crazy sports books middle school boys read, and those My Weird School books. Neteyam has read all the books. Man is reading Stephen King and Octavia Butler and what not way too young. Idk just every book, all of them. Kiri mostly has as well but she and Tuk have also read every single Warrior Cats book multiple times. Tuk also eats up the Rainbow Magic series, and some Junie B. Jones.

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All right here are the aus I've tagged that imma focus on and add more stuff to:

I read through all my old posts and these are the ones I jived with hard. The ones I have thoughts about, the ones I want MORE from. If you all have stuff you want to add, or more specifics you want from me, feel free to ask! I'm gonna make more posts for all of them though. I graduate from college in less than a month but I'm done with all my work before that, so give me like three to four weeks and I should be posting more headcanon stuff more frequently lol. Too many essays rn, too many final bar crawls to attend.

This list is added to the pinned post :)

Canon: this happened i don’t make the rules (avatar)

Modern au where Jake has no working legs: modern au (wheelchair jake! edition):

Modern au where Jake has working legs lol: modern au (jake legs! edition)

Spider was raised as a Sully and was never kidnapped: spider sully was never taken!

For Spider Sully we are just going to stick with: spider sully au

Spider adopted by the Sully's post Way of Water: spider sully post WOW

Mo'at being a great grandma to Spider: grandma mo'at vibes

Humans never return au: humans never return au

Soulmate au concepts: soulmate au's uwu

Spider was kidnapped for years au: spider gone for years au

Eywa blessed Spider bonds with a palulukan au: charlotte the palulukan au

Modern au Spider Sully with asthma: asthma! spider

Norm and his made up boyfriend Ritu stuff: norm and ritu agenda

Spider can see ghosts instead of connect: spider vs ghosts au

Spider being Eywa blessed: eywa blessed spider au

The ikran racing au where Spider is the stableboy of the ikran and racing is a huge part of the culture: ikran! racing!!! au!

Spider rescuing Neytiri and Tuk in the ship: OUR SAVIOR- oh its you

This one is self explanatory: daemon au

Role reversal metkayina coming to the omaticaya for help: this human child will teach your children our ways

Tragic Lo'ak falling for Spider but feeling like he has to pick Tsireya to fit in and not be disappointing sad romance au: tragic romance locorro

Locorro getting mated without permission, like Lo'ak is like I can do what I want and Spider is like uhhh please lets think about this: locorro mated without permission call the police

ALL the humans leave and then they find Spider (there is a version of this being written but I still have thoughts): only human Spider au

Lo'ak captured instead of Spider thing so he and Neteyam cook up a little scheme to get Lo'ak back: lo'ak kidnapped instead of spider

Nocorro accidentally mated au, this ask was kinda adult but the concept has such a chokehold on me it simply has to be discussed more: nocorro oops we're mated

NETEYAM GHOST, SPIDER CAN SEE GHOSTS AND NETEYAM AND HIM FALL IN LOVE BUT HE'S A FUCKING GHOST this concept murders me: neteyam ghost!