#polyamory would have saved camelot

[dilutedh2so4]

Another day, another post longing for Paris/Helen/Menelaus 💔

[an-aura-about-you]

a little more procrastination, a little more Handbook for Mortals!

let's do Chapter 8 part 2:

when we last left our hero, Scheherazade told us she was flirting with Jackson. we didn't actually see her flirting with Jackson because the narration thought it was more important to show us the logistics of everybody going home.

-Zade walks into her apartment and reiterates to us that she likes both Mac and Jackson for some reason.

-Zade wonders if it's possible for her to love two people and thinks it's not, but sorry, you can't convince me that polyamory wouldn't be a viable solution. High Noon Over Camelot changed my brain chemistry too much for me to not consider trying it.

-she also seems to think Mac and Jackson are friends but I don't really know if that's true. this is the first time she's brought it up, we haven't had any scenes with just Mac and Jackson by themselves, and with how she laid everything out with Tad back in the chapter that introduced him (that I mercifully spared you from reading) it's weird that it wasn't mentioned before. granted, she could be lying again like she did about what happened after she saved Sofia. I am whipping this dead horse until the remains are dust.

-the writing level of this book is so bad that I was actually impressed when Sarem used the correct its in a sentence.

-Zade takes a moment to think about Lambo Girl but decides she's just not as worried about being kamehameha'd in a parking garage as she is about which boy she wants to kiss.

-ok. so I am actually super lenient when it comes to cartomancy because I don't do a lot of it and thus don't have a lot of practice. typically I use my tarot cards to prod my brain for answers by association. "I have drawn x card, which means y in this position in the spread, and this makes me think of z. Why is that?" that's how my own readings tend to go, a way for me to examine why I think the way I do and what I want to do about it. as a result, I believe there is no wrong way to read tarot cards.

or rather, I thought that until I read this book. because Sarem writes the one possible way to do a tarot spread wrong. observe:

I promised myself to do a reading on her when I was done with this. (For what it's worth, I did--and I came up with nothing. The cards made no sense, which told me that someone had gone to great lengths for me to not get a reading on the situation at all...So I pushed the whole incident--and the girl--out of my mind and decided not to worry about it till it came up again.)

what.

the fuck.

do you mean.

you came up with nothing?

how do you come up with nothing with a deck of tarot cards?? no associations spring to mind whatsoever??? did the cards become blank? were they replaced with garbled text and images making them illegible? how are they not making sense? by contradiction? contradictions happen with people all the damn time! also how would this go down in the movie that's totally gonna be made f'real? essentially skipped over like this? just paid lip service?

this is the scene I was saying would be better with a crystal ball or a scrying mirror because this bullshit would make way more sense.

-let's add another tally to bigoted language because it's spirit guide time.

-based on how Zade words her query, she's looking for commitment, which just feels weird when you aren't even really dating either of them yet. don't you wanna, oh I dunno, do that first??? The Straights Are Not Okay.

-Zade is sad about her lack of communication with her mother when she's making the active choice to not contact Dela. we're gonna learn in a little bit that Dela has also chosen not to reach out to Zade, so idk what to tell these knuckleheads. they're just determined to play sea lion and squirrel.

-Zade takes the time to explain what all the cards she lays out means except the Devil because she doesn't know why it's there. really????? you get a card from the Major Arcana in your spread and you aren't even a little tiny bit curious about why that's there???? or the fact that it's appeared between the Magician and the Lovers and shares imagery between both of those cards??????

in fact let's go over it a little bit. the book doesn't specify the orientation of all of these cards, so I'm gonna be a basic bitch and assume none of the cards are appearing reversed.

brushing up a bit from biddytarot.com, the Devil is the shadow self, attachment, addiction, sexuality, and restriction by choice. and without looking up the other cards in this set of three, I know the Magician and the Devil both have their hands positioned As Above So Below and the Lovers are mirrored in the captive couple in the Devil.

honestly, the thing I'm taking from this is Zade is the one causing her own problems. if Zade is the Magician, and she does see it as literal for herself, then the Devil combining imagery from the other two cards is putting Zade in that spot as well. she only sees the Lovers as representing a potential relationship for herself, and while I do agree that that's not necessarily wrong, it does feel like willfully overlooking that it's also a card of choices. when taken as a complete story in these three cards, it will not reach that happy liberation until Zade relinquishes whatever darkness is keeping her from making a choice.

for someone so determined to get back home and do a tarot spread, she sure is willfully blind about what it's trying to tell her.

-we get the spreads for both Jackson and Mac and Zade is ultimately like either of them would be good. hmmmm I wonder if the tarot cards are telling Zade that she needs to make her own damn choice on this one???? think that's a possibility????

-we then jump to an italics scene and get an update on what Dela's doing. she's been doing tarot spreads on Zade to figure out what she's been up to. seems weird we're getting Dela's pov on this, but then maybe Zade didn't have anything to say about how the first card she got for the three she laid out for her future was the fucking Tower??????? I mean, she basically ignored the Devil, so this tracks.

-Dela then gets a customer so we can get info on how tarot cards work in this universe. said customer is a woman who gets more specific description than any of the other women we've been introduced to apart from Zade combined. even more than Lil, who did get a description but it was that of Generic Goth With Tattoos.

-ugh, Dela's talking about Destiny too, but like. I guess there's only so much fighting about it I can do? if it's right there in the story, then that's how it is, but stories in which a character can't escape destiny can be so much better. idk, the thing that I would say if this is a real world situation is the truth: that there are things that we will never be able to control. some things are set in stone, but idk if the things I think of as set in stone are the same things Dela thinks of as set in stone.

-omg it's the lemonade scene. you guys are not ready for the lemonade scene.

-get ready for some serious tallymarks.

-but before that let's play another quick game of When Is This Story Set? Zade buys a small lemonade from Hot Dog on a Stick in the Fashion Show Mall in Las Vegas, Nevada for exactly $2.09 after tax. the same lemonade today costs $3.99 before tax. I don't know what Hot Dog on a Stick's prices have been historically, but if I had to guess, I'm willing to bet this price is circa 2011 when Sarem first started writing H4M the screenplay.

-the teen boy cashier is all goo-goo eyes at Zade and he compliments her hair. I don't even understand why everyone is complimenting her hair? I don't mean that as a slam on it because it's simple, even though it is based on how she described it. (I don't think I ever bothered to mention it because of how unimportant it is? but she's dyed the lower half of her hair like pink and blue and green and shit.) but Zade's hair is the thing she's gotten the most compliments on. she told us back in Chapter 0 that the people she knew back home said she was sweet and kind, but nobody she's talked to in the book has said that about her. it's one of those things we have to take her dubious word for. and that's about to be made even more dubious.

-the narration points out this cashier is probably 19 or 20, so fully an adult and not much younger than Zade, but it feels gross for Zade to look at him and think, "Talk to me in ten years." like. why are you saying a jailbait line if he's not jailbait?

-I will give Sarem this, at least she's writing Zade uncomfortable with Alan the cashier's attention. this is clearly her glamour going on, the thing Lambo Girl said she had.

-but uh-oh! Alan's girlfriend also works at Hot Dog on a Stick and she's mad that Alan's making goo-goo eyes at Zade! so instead of telling Alan to quit it she goes to yell at Zade? why?

-Zade's telling us she's not afraid of this teenage girl getting up in her face about this, but why would any adult be? especially when said teenage girl is more than half a foot shorter than you? it's a simple misunderstanding and you could just walk away.

-Zade tells the girl not to start anything with her, but she's getting mad.

-"I'm not really sure why I had allowed some lemonade girl to bother me--" an excellent thing to bring up since that is exactly what you are doing by not walking away. you know full well she's being unreasonable and she's at work. she, theoretically, is already in plenty of trouble for starting shit with a customer. you don't need to do anything else. but I know you're gonna.

-"I wanted to teach her a lesson." and here's what Zade does to do that: she uses her magic to make the vat of lemonade explode, dumping the entire contents of lemonade on her. the narration says it sent "shards of glass in every direction" so you can't fucking tell me she didn't get absolutely glassed. Zade even had enough presence of mind to spare everyone else. add this assault to the violent actions tally.

-things Zade could have used magic for but didn't: saving Sofia's life

things Zade used magic for but didn't have to: putting up a tent, assaulting Hot Dog on a Stick girl

-she straight up says, "When life hands you lemons..." as she walks away, the thing she should have done before it escalated to this point.

this is how the chapter ends, with Zade assaulting and humiliating a teenage girl due to a misunderstanding that we know full well was because of Zade's magic. the girl was saying some hurtful stuff to her, and it's true there was no need for it, but Zade was the adult here and she chose to do something that could have killed another person because she was called a skank and a bitch. jesus fucking christ.

[maester-of-spreadsheets]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😤😏 for arthuriana ask game=)

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ORKNEYS ORKNEYS ORKNEYS

actually are there any retellings (modern or medieval) that really dig into the like... whole concept of the brothers being from Orkney? Like, weaving in the unique history and mythology of the place? I wrote a drabble once involving Mordred basically playing tour guide for the neolithic sites out there and that was fun to write. But I'm hardly an expert, so it might be fun to see more things like that from someone who knows what they're doing.

😤Your Most Specific Nitpick About Your Fave (anything from "Gareth would not have a beard" to "this is basically a different guy")

A reciprocated and long-term Arthur/Guinevere/Lancelot polyamory situation would fix the heartbreak for a long while but it would not save Camelot.

😏Gawain?

What a guy! What an oldest sibling coded young man!

[lily-orchard-gossip-blog]

re: tip 44 (the best solution to a love triangle is polyamory). for reference, i'm polyam and a massive polyshipper, and even i can acknowledge this tip is bullshit. there's many reasons polyamory can't work ie incompatible orientation, one person involved isn't comfortable with sharing, the people involved are notoriously bad at communication, etc. using polyamory as a bandaid fix for infidelity or relationship strife doesn't always work, and it's unhealthy to say otherwise.

This video is a perfect explanation for the types of love triangles out there, and why the tip might not actually be helpful to some writters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZylCbao4wA&t=799s

However, I think we can all agree that Camelot would have been saved if King Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot entered a polyamourous relationship, instead of staying in a dedicated love triangle. (Seriously, there is soooo much longing from everyones for each other, it's ridiculous, and I need that to exist.)

[rainbowvamp]

9. love triangle

Oh love triangles. 

I’m going to be honest, I don’t understand traditional love triangles anymore. Once I was introduced to Polyamory as a concept, I just didn’t understand them, so… how about instead of writing about a love triangle, we write about a triad. 

Which triad? Oh which triad? There are so many to choose from! Merwaincelots, I’m saving something up for Merwaincelot week. I want to talk about Merwencelot. 

Gods I love Merwencelot. The three of them standing together before Lancelot’s little knight’s trial? It means everything to me! Their little interactions as Gwen is getting ready to make him a little knight’s outfit?! Lancelot asking Merlin if they’re together! I can’t stand it! I could burst with my love for this triad.

Ik, Arthur is supposed to be Gwen’s great love or whatever, but never once in my life have I cared about what is canon less than I do about Arthur’s canon. 

Gwen brushes on both Merlin and Lancelot canonically. Lancelot crushes on Gwen canonically. If you want a love triangle, how about Lancelot and Gwen are Together and pining for Merlin. How about Gwen and Lancelot sitting together and talking about how they got together, reminiscing a year or so later (nothing bad happened, Lancelot became a knight and never left Camelot), and Lancelot is like “yeah, lol, I thought you and Merlin were together when we first met, but when I asked he said no.” And Gwen is like “I only wish we had been together. Tbh, I still fancy him. Just a bit.” Because they have the secure sort of relationship where she can say that and Lancelot would not freak out about it because he’s a Genuinely Good Guy. 

And Lancelot’s like, “Actually, kind of same.” 

And then they have this little secret shared between them about how they both have a little crush on Merlin, and Merlin is absolutely oblivious. They start leaving him little gifts, and he things “aww, my friends are so nice.” And they’re like, “… yes. We are so nice.” And they do not correct him because they are his friends and they are nice.

And Merlin never develops feelings for them, because aro, but he does love them a whole lot, and so he just… moves in with them one day. “Are you sure I’m not imposing?” 

“No, never!” They both say, and they are so so so happy! Gwen and Lancelot are married at this point, obviously, and he’s their housemate/bestfriend/secret crush. What could go wrong? 

And nothing goes wrong, really. Merlin is happy to be so near his friends. He does magically openly in their home without fear of being walked in on at any point. He sleeps in a separate bed for a while and then the winter gets really really bad and Lancelot very gallantly offers to sleep in the middle of the bed so Merlin can share their warmth (as though this is any real hardship to him or his wife). 

Merlin gratefully accepts because warming spells only last while he is awake and it is freaking cold!

Merlin curls up with his back against Lancelot and when he starts snoring Gwen and Lancelot share one soft kiss because they’re just so glad that he is close to them.

They share the bed for a couple more nights through harsh winters and Lancelot wakes up with Merlin curled around him on the third morning. Gwen giggles about it and Lancelot and Merlin are both blushing, but it’s goodnatured embarrassment. It’s pretty clear that it’s not that big of a deal for Lancelot when they go about the morning and nothing has really changed except sometimes Lancelot smiles a little brighter and Merlin relaxes and doesn’t worry about it and goes to go do whatever he’s doing in th castle because at this point there’s no way he’s Arthur’s manservant, but I don’t care enough to come up with another thing for him to do. 

And Gwen and Lancelot gush about it and Gwen asks Lancelot if it was good, and he tells her it was just as nice as waking up with her in his arms! So cute! 

I know you’re thinking this doesn’t sound like a triad yet, but wait. Wait.

QPR. Queer platonic relationship. Merlin is like “when you guys have a kid, I call dibs on second dad.” And Merlin is really really really surprised when Lancelot and Gwen are both like “duh. What did you think you’d be?” 

It makes Merlin all glowey to think that his friends think he’s good enough to be a third parent to their maybe one day child. 

One time when Lancelot has to go off to battle or something, he asks Merlin, basically begs him, to look after Gwen if for any reason he can’t return. Merlin’s like “me? Are you sure?” And Lancelot gives him this look that he has obviously borrowed from Leon because it is very long suffering and says, “yes, you Merlin. You live in our house; you share our bed; who else would I trust with this?”

And Merlin kind of suddenly gets in. 

Oh, wow, okay, he’s kind of with them, but not with them. It’s complicated. He can see that it is very complicated. But it is a good complicated. He likes it.

They should have a conversation about it, but Lancelot is riding off to battle and so that’s probably not going to happen anytime soon. 

He and Gwen have an awkward hour or so before Merlin admits what’s bothering him and Gwen is like “Yeah, you’re just like an extension of us? We aren’t together, but… I mean, we sort of just fell into this really good thing and I know you don’t love us romantically, but you love us and you live with us and you’re a part of our family.”

Merlin promptly cries.

He hugs Gwen and he sleeps with his head on her shoulder.

Lancelot was right, because it just as nice as when Lancelot holds her. 

When Lancelot comes back from battle it is very late at night, Merlin and Gwen are already sleeping and it’s the whole “married man walks into his wife in another man’s arms” scenario, except he is so happy and when he starts to undress for bed Gwen wakes up and looks around a bit with half closed eyes and when she sees Lancelot she smiles and tells him just, “he’s ours.” And goes back to sleep.

Lancelot climbs in the bed beside Merlin instead of Gwen and holds them both.

Merlin wakes up in the night to complain that he’s hot and makes Lancelot go back to the middle. 

Lancelot climbs over him in high spirits and they all go back to sleep. 

The end. 

[exasperatedfey]

Guinevere’s Camelot

I long for my loves,

They never leave my thoughts or prayers.

(Which is probably improper for a bride of Christ,

But I was once the bride of mortals.)

Old habits die hard and new ones can’t replace them

Especially when you have had two men at the same time.

People are fixated on that last bit.

I know the nuns along with all of England talk about me;

Whispers of all kinds are practically screams in a convent.

Not that I blame them,

Former queens aren't exactly typical recruits for the church.

They don’t know that I spoke three languages.

Or that I loved books.

Or that I helped my husband navigate the political web of Camelot.

Figures the only thing people will remember me for is the men in my life,

And they have the story all wrong.

While it’s true that Lancelot would come to our room before Arthur,

It was not to make love to me.

He also never had to hide from my husband in the wardrobe,

Nor did he ever have to climb out the window.

Lancelot was just desperate to escape the court

(Charming as he was he preferred stabbing things to the intricate rules of the nobility)

We’d always greet Arthur arm in arm,

He slept between us,

And the three of us always made love together.

I loved both of them.

They both loved me.

They loved each other.

There was never a scale balanced in favor of one person,

Even if it did take some doing to get there.

For Arthur and Lancelot thought their feeling towards each other were platonic.

They were only further convinced of this when they met me.

But in my kingdom, loving more than one person is commonplace

(Or at least it was. I confess to not knowing how my home has been changed, it being the first of our allies to fall).

In any case, I knew what was going on was as natural

As my own developing feelings for Lancelot.

If only Camelot were as liberal as my home.

Then it probably would have taken less time for us to come together

Than the three years of fully explaining how relationships worked in the North

And yet another to to even think about doing it my way.

(Then again, perhaps not as my loves were incredibly stubborn.

But it would have made no difference to me. I was having none of this silent pining nonsense.)

The court noticed our awkward little dance,

And took every opportunity to shun me for being a “loose woman”

(The older members did at least.

The young ones thought my having a lover was romantic.

Which was certainly true, but the details were skewed.)

Aside from this making politics a little dicey sometimes,

I had no reason to care.

My ladies maids were all from my home country so I was not without friends.

I had my books, a happy relationship, and power.

Life was wonderful with only a few hiccups.

Such as my inability to get pregnant.

We all desperately needed and wanted an heir.

So when we learned of Galahad we were overjoyed.

(Arthur and I were at least.

Lancelot felt rather guilty about the whole thing).

Galahad had been born of an affair with a woman named Elaine shortly after Arthur and I were wed.

She had been in love with the champion that saved her,

And he in need of a distraction from the two people he was convinced could never be his.

He’d been ashamed (and remained so until he died)

So he left her to wake up to an empty bed.

They’d been reckless and thus, Galahad was born.

I never met Elaine,

She died soon after giving birth.

So I think Galahad tried to find the comfort his parents hadn’t been able to give him in God.

But whether he ever found that comfort I’ll never know.

He also never knew that had Lancelot known about him,

He would have been loved by three parents instead of none.

I do know that Galahad wanted nothing to do with his father.

Which is fair,

Lancelot had broken his mother’s heart,

Left them both,

And was currently seeing a married woman

(He would have spontaneously combusted had he learned about the three of us).

There was also the matter of Mordred.

Mordred had been born of an awkward time when Arthur was trying to figure out how polyamory works.

The affair was brief and unsuccessful,

So we stayed our own happy circle.

Like Galahad, we didn’t even know about him until he came to court.

His timing was perfect.

Galahad had refused to be named as the heir as he wanted as little to do with Lancelot as possible

(He said it was to devote himself to finding the holy grail but he was always out on his quest and only came back when Lancelot was out.)

So we were happy to welcome him.

Come to think of it, Mordred didn’t even need a hostile takeover.

Arthur named him his heir immediately.

He had no competition,

And Arthur himself was a bastard.

But Mordred had been raised by our enemies,

And I can’t help but think that he was bad to begin with.

Anyone whose first instinct is needless warfare over something that would have been given to them with no conflict is no hero.

Perhaps I’m biased based from the lingering glances he let rest upon my figure, but I digress.

He raised hell in Camelot,

Bringing an end to the unity we had worked so hard for.

Our home is now no more than a bedtime story

That mothers whisper to their children

While war wages around them,

As they struggle to remember what peace was like.

All the negotiations with obstinate kings,

The ensuing battles,

Doing the negotiations again,

Navigating court drama,

Just amounted to our home destroyed with the men I loved dead

And the man I would have raised as my son,

The cause of all this misery,

Asking me to marry him.

So I ran to the nunnery

Becoming the wife of God,

Rather than Mordred’s.

Perhaps it was cowardly of me to not bat my eyes

While readying my dagger for the wedding night.

But then what?

Would I have to select another,

Marginally-less-terrible man,

To conspire with and then marry?

For what?

For him to be usurped,

Me to be executed,

And for all my hard work to be undone again?

I refuse to lie with an enemy

In a vain attempt at damage control.

I’d rather live out my life providing aid

In a place of spiritual healing.

No amount of praying will fill the Arthur and Lancelot shaped holes in my life.

Only time and helping my sisters rebuild the country in our own quiet way will.

However, I can’t help but hope wherever they are,

They are waiting for me.

[thisweekingundamwing]

Weekly Recap May 27-June 3

IT’S SUNDAY!!!!

Another week has gone by and our Gundam Wing community has created some amazing content for you to bask in! 

Thank you for all your submissions! We have also tried to go through AO3 to find more published content but it’s easy for things to fall between the cracks so please continue submitting your links - we don’t want anyone’s work to be forgotten! You can submit anything gundam wing related. We want to see any and everything you’ve created.

Beneath the cut you’ll find links and information about the wonderful content created by our super creative peers. If anything piques your curiosity please give it a go. Don’t forget to comment, like, and reblog! Support and encouragement mean the worlds to creators. It helps keep them motivated and inspired.

Thank you all for being awesome and I hope you’re looking forward to next week’s update!

Fanfiction:

Also, just as a quick side note, if there aren’t warnings listed below be sure to read the warnings listed on AO3 before reading!

@amberlyinviolet​, Knife in Hand (Chapter 17)

Chapter warnings: Explicit Sex. Chapter Summary: This is exactly what you think it is: 3k words of smut. Pairing: 2x3.

@anaranesindanarie and @rhysgalentalcernunnos,  The Maxwell Twins: Shi and Duo

This is an ongoing RP between myself and Rhys. Our characters are twins. I'm Duo and Rhys is Shi. Please enjoy what we have cleaned up and finished of this so far.

BurnedVamp

Ass-king For It

Heero's irritated by Duo's moody behavior because Quatre is sexy and people want him.Boo hoo cry him a river.Sonfic: Cake By The Ocean by DNCE. Pairing: 2x4.

Memories

Things that happened between, with, and because of Trowa Barton and Quatre Barton-Winner. Drabbles. Pairing: 3x4.

War Crimes

Quatre isn't what Trowa believes he needs. That doesn't mean he isn't going to make him be so. Or delude himself into believing things that aren't real. Such as the blonde's sadistic tendencies that don't exist.Inspired by Hozier's 'Take Me to Church.' Pairing: 3x4. 

Cedechan, Within the Nexus

Unexpectedly, he finds himself partnered with Wufei Chang and one of Doctor J's former wards, and when tragedy strikes again, he must rely on their help to find the assassin.And fighting his inner demons and long-time enemy, Heero, don't help matters...

@chronicwhimsy​, Salvage (Final chapter)

Chapter Summary: 2x5 Fluff! The final chapter was posted on Monday. Pairing: 2x5.

@claraxbarton

Need

6x2 Summary: A late night of work and a few mistakes. 

Offstage

Summary: It’s Duo’s first professional job, at a summer stock theatre company in upstate New York. As an intern, he knows he has a lot to learn. But he didn’t count on having to figure out how to deal with THIS mess.6x2, 1x3, 4xR, others.

Young Gods (Prologue)

Summary: A Phoenician relic finds its way into Dr. Relena Peacecraft’s hands. An unexpected group must decide the fate of the world. Full of sex, adventure and sass.Pairings: 2x5, 3xR, Meilin x Hilde, 4x6.

DarkBluePhoenix,  Neon Genesis Evangelion: Legacy – Gundam Invasion

A Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and Mobile Fighter G Gundam CrossoverIt’s a Gundam! *RANDOM EXPLOSION!* The cast of Gundam Wing meet our young heroes and befriend them in this tale of how those who understand, those who fight, those who doubt, and those who pass by, can claim victory against the forces of evil reborn. Mission Accepted. All systems go! Gundams… Evangelions… Launching!

duointherain, Camelot: Who's the Daddy Now?

Moody and Julia are out working as bounty hunters and have a great witness, whom they've saved from the San Francisco earthquake. A very proper Irish Catholic man and his lovely young wife are gonna fit right in on Camelot... Pairing: 1x2.

@helmistress

Nicknames 

Summary: Quatre is forever insulting Zechs, and Zechs wants to know why. Pairing: 4x6 fluff. Featuring Quatre Winner, Zechs Marquise, Sneaky!Quat. For Summer of Zechs and Rhysgalentalcernunnos.

Entertainment Center (Second and last chapter!)

Pairing: 2X3 insinuations/wanting, Triton Bloom, Duo Maxwell, Une, lots of cursing >_>

@kangofu-cb 

Mission: Redacted (Chapter 5) 

Summary: Wufei, tooling around the Earth sphere, looking for something to do. Enter Sally, stage left, to make him an offer he cannot refuse. The beginnings of his very own black ops group. 

Vieux Carré 

Smutty Sunday contribution, sequel to ‘Gin and Tonic.’ Duo and Trowa have another “date.” 2x3, NSFW, no real warnings.

@la-femme-noelle, Bedayat Jadeda (Part 2)

Sequel to Heartbreak Café. Bedayat Jadeda, translated from Arabic to 'New Beginnings'. Quatre tries to settle into his new relationship with Duo and Wufei, learning the dynamics of polyamory while still trying to overcome the demons of his past. Duo and Wufei are determined to heal his pain and make him realize that he is worthy of everlasting love. Pairing: 5x2x4.

luvsanime02, Standby 

Heero goes in front of the Board of Professional Review, and now she has an important decision to make.This is the fifth story in Navigation, a fem!Heero series.

@morbidbirdy and @the-notorious-bhg, 

Where I Belong

In the year AC 205 the status of the Earth-Sphere remains relatively peaceful thanks to the efforts of the ESUN and it’s peacekeeping organization Preventer. The five young men who had once fought together for this peace now work quietly behind the scenes to maintain it. Despite their new roles in this world, Heero and Trowa struggle to establish a comfortable place in it. In the process of finding themselves they eventually realize that their place is with each other. Pairing: 1x3.

End of Line

The Grid, the legendary Tron System, has always intrigued Duo Maxwell. After years of dreaming and months of tireless work, he finally receives the final part he needs to unlock the door to the digital frontier. A blast of a digitizing laser later he finds himself in the world of his dreams. However, soon that dream becomes a nightmare as he comes to realize that his existence in this new world is both a danger to him and to the programs who reside there. With the help of Security Program Trowa and a mysteriously damaged and glitchy program named Heero, he embarks on a journey through The Grid to seek help from a mysterious entity known as the Gatekeeper. Will he be able to get out of the Tron System, or will the organizations who are hunting him manage to derez him first? Pairing: 1x3, 3x4.

@peachandbetty, Orders 

Chapter Summary:  Bit by bit, he got back to what he knew. He wasn’t a solider, and he had no firearm at his side for his hand to hover over when something didn’t feel quite right. He didn’t have an enemy to face, nobody at his heels pushing him to succeed and survive. But what he did have were orders. Pairing: 1xR Explicit.

@themanwell-deactivated20170531

A Safe Good Place

The moment when Trowa realized that the best thing in his life had finally crossed paths with the worst thing in his life, he was surprisingly relieved because, really, what it all came down to was the simple hope for a safe, good place.It would take a risk, the biggest risk he'd ever imagined but, he'd do it. He'd make it happen. At this point, there was no turning back. Pairing: 2x3.

May Demons Rest: Shinigami Sleeps 2017

A re-write of my 2004 fanfic "Shinigami Sleeps.” To find and free Duo from his demons, Trowa leaves his uneventful life at the circus for the mean streets of an obscure colony in L2. Pairing: 2x3.

@the-notorious-bhg, Kiss the Planet Goodbye

Working for NASA requires Heero and Trowa to be apart for months at a time. Astronaut and Flight Engineer Trowa Barton is about to embark on his third expedition to the International Space Station where his lover, Army Captain and Mission CAPCOM Heero Yuy will stay on the planet to communicate with the ISS team from Mission Control. Their last night will be spent joining their bodies together in the desert beneath the stars. Pairing: 1x3.

Val_Creative, Reason 

A God does not strive to understand something plainly obvious to His own eyes. Pairing: 1x2. 

@weiclown, Revenge Through Sex 

Chapter Summary: Heero shouldn’t have let Duo use his laptop. The others go out, and come home to find Heero grieving over his broken laptop. What better form of revenge than keeping Duo awake all night with loud sex with Wufei? Pairings: 1x5, 3x4 implied. 

wrennette, Dragons of Earth

Instead of dying in the attack on L5, Long Meilan proceeds with the altered Operation Meteor as the pilot of Shenlong Gundam. Pairing: 5xm.

Fanart:

@shinigami-of-excellence,  Cute little Duobat and Wufei picture.

A gift for @renmaxwell. 

@maevemauvaise

Relena as a fanct goldfish mermaid for @chronicwhimsy

Disney!Relena

Dorothy in a revamped black dress!

Mariemaia Khushrenada 

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Having listened to High Noon Over Camelot, I must inform you that polyamory would not in fact save Camelot.

polyamory and bisexuality could have saved camelot