#rarepair love

[deadheaddaisy]

I wish you’d write a fic where Janelle tells Mike she thought he was a jackass when they first met

Thanks for the ask! I hope this is what you had in mind. 😏

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"Truth or dare?"

"Are we really doing this now?" Janelle sighed, rolling her eyes.

"Yes! Don't be a spoilsport - choose!" Esk responded, winking at Anna from where they sprawled on the floor under the viewing port in the forward observation lounge. 

Janelle narrowed her eyes as she intercepted Anna's answering smirk, and deliberately twitched her right foot where Anna could see it. The smirk was immediately replaced with a look of unease as Anna rubbed her ankle in unconscious memory of that foot connecting with her ankle. This time it was Janelle's turn to smirk. 

Rostov's arm tightened around her shoulders and she looked up at him and smiled, squeezing his hand in response, before returning her attention to Esk. "Fine. I don't trust your dares, so - truth."

"How long did it take for you to decide that Rostov wasn't quite the jackass you'd pegged him as from the start?" Esk contrived to look innocent as they dumped the loaded question in Janelle's lap and left her to deal with the consequences.

"Hey! What the hell, Esk?"

"You thought I was a jackass?" Rostov queried, and for a moment she glared at Esk before registering the amusement in his voice. 

Glancing up into those soft brown eyes, Janelle couldn't help smiling. "I did, yes," she acknowledged. "You're big, and you take up a lot of room, and every time I tried to get anywhere, it felt like you were in front of me, or where I needed to be. So I had to keep finding ways to get around you or move fast enough to get in front of you before my path was blocked. And for a while there, it felt like you were doing it deliberately, so - jackass." 

Rostov chuckled. "Well, I'm glad your opinion about me changed," he teased. 

"That, or I learned to appreciate the view when I was stuck behind you. I'll never tell which," she said, waggling her eyebrows significantly. As the others burst out laughing, she took the opportunity to throw her cushion unerringly right between Esk's eyes. 

"HEY!"

"How'd you get so accurate with a pillow, Janelle?" Hoshi snickered.

Janelle shrugged nonchalantly. "I'm an engineer; physics is what I do."

[talshiargirlfriend]

@deadheaddaisy insisted I post her rarepair to ao3. Took me a minute, but here are my beloved step-blorbos Kelly and Rostov in action :)

[deadheaddaisy]

Got any suggestions @talshiargirlfriend? 😁

[sloanslone]

My FINAL Artemis x Aeolus fa...(My EPIC designs-Y'all really made me do this...)

(you'll see Artemis's antlers if you get pumba off her head ig 😭, I just didn't wanna draw a dead dog or fox on her....)

[enden-k]

on my knees for the cowboy cyborg and the space knight 🌹

[paesthethyc]

🐟💀

[deadheaddaisy]

Not that I'm pointing fingers at @more-better-words and @talshiargirlfriend for enabling my addiction, of course...

Also let's be real, I'm my own enabler for being completely batshit about Malcolm and Hoshi.

i hope i am not only a mutual to you but also someone you can point at a fictional character and go "oh shit that guy on tumblr is super fucking mentally unwell about that one" about

[chiquilines]

In honour of mha ending, have some old (and i mean OLD) miryumi scribbles i never got around to posting. They were the main characters in my heart

[proxythe]

sorry im really obsessed with this pair … 🧚 u guys must understand… i have a rare pair addiction …

[misty-zzz]

i love you cabcase,,,

this is literally just the ii season's winners

[deadheaddaisy]

Crewman (Janelle) Kelly and Crewman Michael Rostov, Star Trek Enterprise. Even managed to get @talshiargirlfriend on the Kelly-Rostov train!

followers. tell me ur fav rarepairs. like. no one ships them except you and maybe a signgle friend you convinced type of rarepairs

[lethalcola]

[riumeri]

"Huh? You got a weird email from me yesterday? U-um, yeah, about that... My account was hacked, so you can just ignore it."

[ruebird]

surprise diluveh

[deadheaddaisy]

Hey @talshiargirlfriend - guess what your step-blorbos have wrought upon you? 😁😏

just for curiosity's sake, to any fic writers in the audience --

if you've done more than one, vote the lowest down option!

*not as in "i invented a trope", but as in "i was the first one in the transformers ao3 collection to write a tagged 'only one bed' fic"

(ao3 specifically used only because its so easy to search for this information, but if you were the first one to write a fic for anything on other sites, i'd also love to hear about that!)