#now with the actual rating fixed!

[griefabyss69]

Fritillaris

Written for @steddiemicrofic!

[ AO3 ]

'DRESS' wc: 350 | rated: T | cw: None

Steve goes for a jog—normal. Steve comes back from his jog—also normal. Eddie gawks, and Robin smirks. Honestly? Still pretty normal.

Steve unplasters himself from Robin's gangly octopus hold and rolls off the bed to his feet.

It's still dark, but he can see well enough to step over where Eddie's a mess of hair and blankets on the air mattress.

Pausing when the floor creaks, he looks back at them, but nothing short of a klaxon will wake them up this early. He's still careful as he roots around in the drawer Robin designated for him when she moved into her own dorm room.

He strips out of his sleep clothes and gets dressed in running shorts and a tank top, and then slides the drawer shut as gently as possible.

With his tennis shoes tied on tight and his walkman secure in his pocket, he jogs before the sun comes up and the unseasonably hot spring day begins.

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"Uh," Eddie greets with his spoon halfway to his mouth. His face is flushed like he was the one who went jogging, and he's not paying any attention to the cereal bowl balanced on his knee.

"Mornin' Steve," Robin yawns, wrapped in her blanket with a granola bar clutched in one hand and a mug in the other.

Steve raids the little breakfast bar Robin crammed into a corner, grabbing coffee and a banana. He's all sweaty, and he hopes they don't mind if he eats before he changes. He sits on the floor by the air mattress, noticing the way that only Eddie's eyes move to watch him.

Well. They're watching his chest actually, and he glances down at himself, laughing.

"Oh yeah, I got dressed in the dark this morning. Didn't realize one of Robin's camisoles got into my drawer."

"Uh!" Eddie says, then takes great effort to close his mouth.

"What he means is he thinks it looks hot," Robin smirks, raising her eyebrows when Steve glances up at her. "It's tight, but you do kinda pull it off."

Steve laughs weakly, looking back at Eddie.

He's… Steve had thought Eddie got all secondhand embarrassed for him, wearing a girl's shirt around campus, but…

Maybe Robin's not wrong.

[katyspersonal]

To be honest I don't really want mutuals who instantly assume I commented in bad faith to act "condescending" when I was nothing but light-hearted in disagreeing about a point in the post about one of the characters and agreed with everything else. 🤔 Especially not when I apparently pissed them off so much it made them post TWO (passive-aggressive) posts on the topic of disagreement afterwards instead of.... actual discussion? At least if I assume someone is being mean on purpose I ask them about it

[sjweminem]

so immediately after that evil wretched walmart commercial came on tv our toilet stopped working everything wants to harm me

[tearlessrain]

seriously can catastrophes stop happening for five minutes my brain is already fried from the ones we're already experiencing

[msburgundy]

in so much pain that i'm honestly second guessing if any of this is worth it lol

[nostalgia-tblr]

IT'S DONE! \o/ Total wordcount's just over 9000, which is a lot for me so I am pleased with that.

Title: Towards a New Theory of Variant Entanglement (Chapter 4/4) Fandom: Loki (TV 2021) Rating: Explicit Pairing: Loki/Sylvie, Loki & OB Wordcount: this part's about 2200 Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Not Loki (TV 2021) Season 2 Compliant, No Loom; No Time-slipping; No Depressing Ending!, Fake/Bad Physics, Accidental Mental Link, Self-cest, Sexual Content, Banter, Happy Ending, Idiots In Love, (it’s him he’s idiots), Quantum Entanglement But Make It Sexy Chapter Summary: “That’s okay, I can dumb it down more. This whole thing happened because you touched each other -” he taps Loki on the shoulder to demonstrate, in case the concept of ‘touching’ is also beyond them “- and you’re going to fix it by touching each other again.”

[zephyrine-gale]

hi!! this isn't meant to be accusatory or anything i'm just wondering if u plan on finishing your kazuscara duel comic ^__^ totally fine if not! was just curious lol have a lovely day

Hi!! I do plan on finishing it, I didn't draft it up way back in December to not see it through 😭😭

But my standards for the following pages were too high so they didn't get finished as soon as I wanted, and then I ended up super busy with other things for the next several months :'>

[caityjay13]

First, Best

I want @orchisailsa to know I am sharing this explicitly because of her tags on that post where I mentioned I was writing this but this bit has been scrapped (along with the first 2k of words that fell out of my brain when I was first gripped by the Urge of this particular wip) but I really like it so I wanted to share it. Will probably throw it up on AO3 eventually, but for now, have a random SNW-based, ADHD Jim snippet.

Ficlet beneath the cut!

When Captain Pike accepted a position with the admiralty, everyone expected that his first officer would take command of the Enterprise. No one could have been more surprised than James Kirk himself to receive the offer.

“Sir,” he began, still trying to school his features from whatever gobsmacked expression they must have taken. Jim had been finalizing the next month’s duty rosters in his quarters on the Farragut when Pike had called. He glanced down at the PADDs strewn across his desk and tried to wrap his mind around how drastically his life was about to change. Maybe. Probably? Again. He cleared his throat and looked back up at the man on the screen, waiting patiently with an amused quirk to his mouth that Jim entirely failed to notice. “Don’t get me wrong,” he continued, “I would be… hugely honored—thrilled, really—but…”

“You’re gonna ask about Una,” Pike interrupted, saving Jim from his uncharacteristic scramble for words. “Don’t worry. We talked about it, and she agrees with me. She’s actually planning on taking command of the La Palma—said she liked whipping cadets and hopeful up-and-coming XOs into shape, wanted a change of pace from deep space missions.” Pike’s smirk spread into a grin as he watched Jim’s forehead crease with the effort of processing this information. “And I’ve already floated the idea past your captain, who would be sorry to lose you, but agreed that you’d be a great fit for the position.”

Jim blinked. Looked back down at the PADDs on his desk. When had all this communication happened? He’d only been First Officer of the Farragut for five years—six? six years, wow—and now… Jim had dreamed of commanding the flagship, certainly, but his first command? He’s not even thirty-five! Sam would have a field day. Oh, shit, would he have to be his brother’s commanding officer? Sam had been thinking about settling down somewhere, so that might not be a problem—

“James.”

Jim’s head jerked up. He tugged at his uniform and smoothed out his face, which had flushed with embarrassment at being caught spiraling. “Sorry, sir. Thank you, sir. I would be. I think. I mean, yes. I would be honored.”

Pike chuckled in that disarming way he had. “At ease, Commander. You deserve it. Besides,” he continued, “it’s not like the change will happen overnight.”

“Of course, sir,” Jim nodded. He was still running through scenarios and possibilities in his head.

“Jim,” Pike’s expression had sobered somewhat. Jim focused on him intently, trying to shut out the noise in his mind. “Do you believe in fate?”

The unexpected question brought all the spinning gears in Jim’s head to an abrupt halt. Though he gave it due consideration, he didn’t have to think long before knowing his answer.

“In all honestly, no, sir, I do not.”

The image of Captain Pike in the viewscreen gave an enigmatic smile. “Neither do I,” he said. “Though I think, if you don’t mind my saying so, that this may be your destiny.”

[watery-melon-baller]

bro is this gonna happen every semester bc a bitch does not need this LMAOOO imma collect em like fuckn pokemon cards

[glitch-e-stardust]

...been going on stupid little daily walks in preparation for having a dog, but also for my stupid little physical and mental health and i hate that it's helping. a lot.

ontheotherhandireallywantadogthoso

[fazcinatingblog]

i've always said that daisy would make a great dentist

[nexus-nebulae]

does anyone have any Tips on how to take care of a fat body for someone who hasn't had one until recently. there are Things that are coming up that i never really thought about before (like thigh chafe) and i don't trust google to give me non-fatphobic answers, i want real tips on how to feel more comfortable in this changed body from people with bodies like mine rather than get told i need to starve myself to look good

[rainecloud020604]

I iwsh it wasn't hard tk talk why is everything worse now.

[goblin-enjoyer]

oh by the corpses I just seen someone on twitter point to when they added first added hats as when tf2s artstyle died. Calling tf2s artstyle beforehand "restrained 50s cold war art direction" as if it wasn't silly day one. "people rightfully shit on cod for breaking its art style but tf2 has been a mess for longer that nobody questions it" as if the game didn't have cartoony gore effects, funny voice lines and general golden comic era stupidity from as soon as it released. Im sorry but that idea of tf2 died 2 years in, even sooner if you actually look at any of the meet the team videos. and at the end of their little "thing was actually much better back in the day" speal they had the gall to go tell people to play tf2 classic. I'm sorry to people who play "classic" versions of games but why is it that whenever a bad take with someone saying that "oh the tone has been RUINED from its original light" or whatever, it's always a git who hasn't played the main game in over 10 years and stopped 2 years in. Like mate, you barely played the game! This period of time you talk about is less than a third of the games lifespan, less than even "the golden years" that the game was like in its prime. Why is the complaint with the yeti taunt glitch that a yeti is in the game as a taunt and not that the glitch exists? ugh, i need a drink. sorry for bringing twitter discourse filth here, just needed to quickly vent a little steam out me.

[nauticalfools]

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[therevengeoffrankenstein]

hey btw my mom is so insane. does she seriously think gifts can repair our relationship.