#same with fics based on the two of us movie like i just see actual j&p

[gardenwalrus]

not that there’s anything wrong with it but it always throws me when i see nowhere boy (2009) fanfics on ao3. like you’re telling me you’re envisioning aaron taylor johnson and thomas brodie sangster as john and paul when ur reading this instead of just john and paul themselves

[gonzo-rella]

Headcanons: Being Married To Old Man Ray Stantz

MASTERLIST | AO3 | KO-FI

Relationship(s): old man!Ray Stantz x gn!also old!reader (romantic)

Warnings: Possibly inaccurate science words, because I'm a simpleton. (Let me know if I need to add any)

(A/N: Here's my first Ghostbusters thing! I've got a few other Ghostbusters fics in the works, mostly Ray-based reader-inserts because I'm in love with him, but I've also got a Phoebe-centric character study in the works that's based on part of her storyline in Frozen Empire. By the way, I loved Frozen Empire! I've already seen it three times, and it's such a joy. I'll try to catch it a couple more times at least before it leaves cinemas. Anyway, I haven't included any explicit spoilers for Frozen Empire in this, so you're safe to read this if you haven't seen it yet. I'd love to write more old man Ray Stantz fics, especially something involving Phoebe. I'm really excited to write for Ghostbusters, so feel free to send in requests! I've only seen the movies, but I plan on watching the Real Ghostbusters at some point soon. Also, even though I took my mum to see Frozen Empire the other day, I still don't have anyone to talk to about this movie, so please feel free to talk to me about it!)

It’s evident that, even after all of these years, Ray is still madly in love with you.

The adoration with which he looks at you is clear as day.

Venkman has always loved to tease you both about how sickly sweet your relationship is.

He will make fake gagging when either of you are affectionate to one another when he’s around.

(He won’t admit it, but he actually finds your relationship to be kind of cute)

It’s not like either of you are overly lovey-dovey, especially now.

Ray’s naturally a very passionate and expressive guy, but he’s rarely mushy.

Still, you show one another how much you care.

I have this idea that your silent way of saying ‘I love you’ to each other is holding the other’s hand, stroking their knuckles with your thumb and smiling at them.

It just seems so cute to have this thing that you’ve been doing for your whole relationship.

Ray knows you like the back of his hand, and you know him just the same.

It’s almost scary how well you know one another.

I can imagine that there’s been a time that someone’s asked one of you a question, and the other has been able to answer it with ease.

I love the idea of Ray being with someone who’s not a scientific mind like himself.

So, if you’re not as knowledgeable about the supernatural as Ray, you’ll still have picked up on plenty of information against your will, and Ray will always be impressed with and proud of you when you manage to regurgitate or understand his ‘science-y word salad’ (as you have referred to it).

He will also find it very attractive when you talk supernatural or science to him, but he tries not to make it obvious.

His eyes still light up like he’s a kid on Christmas when he explains supernatural stuff to you or tells you about a new psychically charged item he’s bought, and you find it so endearing.

Also, I can imagine him practically forcing you to listen to Podcast’s podcast when he discovers it, and you both end up getting really into it.

As devoted as he still is to his work and his supernatural endeavours, spending time with you is his greatest priority.

He might miss being an active Ghostbuster, but the silver lining of it is that he gets more time with you than he ever used to.

Even if you both used to be Ghostbusters, it’s nice to spend time together that doesn’t involve being covered in ghost slime and shouting over nuclear accelerators.

If you’ve not got anything else to do, I think it’d be sweet if you kept him company in his store.

Phoebe and Trevor are your honorary grandkids and you and Ray are beyond proud of them, especially Phoebe, who you’re closest to of the two of them.

Phoebe will always remind the both of you of Egon, so whenever she does something particularly Egon-like, you will exchange a knowing glance, and when she’s gone you’ll end up reminiscing about your old friend.

If Phoebe or the other Spenglers ever want to hear about Egon, you’re both more than happy to talk to them about him.

Even in his golden years, Ray is still the same sweet, passionate, excitable man you married all those years ago.

Sure, the regular excitement that came with Ghostbusting is long behind you both, but you both cherish this quieter time together just as much.

[mydarlingclaudia]

ENTER THE SURVIVAL HORROR…

OCTOBER FIC PLANS 𓉸

some fics I will be posting in October will contain dark content or will be dead dove (given I’ve never really written for either subject so this is new territory for me) but two of the fics I’m going to write are based on or inspired by horror movies and I’ll be writing both Chris and Leon!

also post dates and descriptions may change a tiny bit (though not likely!!) because I have actually only finished one of these fics, but if I do change anything I'll reblog this post!!

coming soon ⟢

taste no evil inspired by… THE VVITCH (10/30/24) -> Leon Kennedy x fem!reader

it's just you and your husband out in the woods. oh, and whatever is living among the trees. you think it's some beastly animal, Leon knows it's witches. but he can't tell you that, you'd freak out, insist on moving closer to town or even further away from where you already lived. Leon can keep you safe, he knows he can, why must you be so paranoid all the time? it doesn't help his case when your animals start being picked off and you start seeing things more clearly. it only ends badly for the both of you.

established relationship, tiny bit of fluff, gore, animal death, I make shit up about witches, cannibalism, major character death, au, fem!reader, re4r!Leon

how much blood would you shed to survive? based on… SAW (10/18/24) -> Chris Redfield x fem!reader

cheating doesn't make you a bad person, it's not like you were even married to the guy, Chris didn't even try to stop you from hitting on him, anyway. maybe getting romantically involved with your coworker wasn't the best decision you've made, but why should anyone else care? you don't let your relationship with him get in the way of your work, all you really do is help each other try to track down the murderer running through Raccoon City, how were you supposed to know said murderer would be your boss? and how were you supposed to know that you'd wake up in one of these traps one morning with Chris getting there surprisingly fast to help you escape?

established relationship, gore, mentions of infidelity, au, fem!reader, re5!Chris

she’s demonic and bloody, but she holds me tight inspired by… IN MY ROOM (10/10/24) -> Leon Kennedy x fem!reader

a college kid with a social life that's almost non-existent figures the dead girl that comes to his room every night is his girlfriend, some say that's a bad thing, he says it's everything he could wish for. who cares, anyway? it's not hurting anyone! well, not yet, at least. there's an endless list of things he'd do for you, you don't even have to ask. but why won't you come back after he takes care of a problem that would have torn you away from him? you love him, right?

not-really established relationship (idk how to explain it), a bit suggestive, Leon is kinda gross, necrophilia, gore, au, fem!reader, re2r!Leon

mouthful of love (10/2/24) -> Chris Redfield x fem!reader

mission gone wrong, the rest of your team had already been killed, so when you end up dying in that same mission it only makes things worse. but Chris can’t just leave you, right? no, that would be cruel, but he can’t really drag around a dead body with him either. who’s gonna know if he took a few bites out of you just to keep you with him? the place had already been crawling with monsters, it wouldn’t be a totally crazy thing to find on a corpse.

established relationship, major character death, gore, cannibalism, fem!reader, anywhere post re1 Chris

I will be using dark content and dead dove for tags so you’ll be able to filter out these fics. I don’t really expect anyone to give a shit about this but for those of you who do wanna read these thank you and happy halloween <3 I might also be posting extras if I find the time and feel like it, those are also probably going to be more cutesy fall fics sooooo

[myfandomrealitea]

I cannot stress this enough:

BUILDING COMMUNITY AND ENGAGEMENT ON TUMBLR IS A TWO-WAY STREET.

Stuck for ideas? Try:

Send asks. It could be anything, even something super basic. Tell someone you like their blog theme or ask them what they think a character's favorite color is. Ask them if they have a secret hobby. Tell them you had an absolute banger of a slice of toast for breakfast. Literally anything. Give them something to talk to you about. You might even make a friend!!

Draw silly little doodles for your favorite piece of fanfic. Literally cannot stress this enough; even stick men art can be adorable and/or hilarious. And I guarantee you it'll make the author's day. A two minute sketch on the notepad app of your phone could genuinely be the reason someone updates their fic, or writes another one.

Write silly little drabbles for your favorite fanart. I used to love this back when I made fanart on my old Tumblr blog. People would reblog it with a silly little 100 word drabble based on the art and I. Would. Swoon. My thing made someone else make a thing!! Amazing!!

Make rec lists. It could be for fanfiction, themed blogs to follow, recipes, movies, anything. Ask people to share theirs. Ask people to give their opinions if they try out something from your list. You wouldn't believe how many of my fanfic bookmarks have come from seeing the blogs I follow recommend something. Because we have the same interests!! Because its even quicker than me scouring hundreds of tags on AO3!!

If someone posts writing or art, ask them questions!! Humans love to be asked things. Especially about things we have made. Ask them what inspired them to make the thing. How long it took them. If they have a favorite thing about it.

Tumblr's engagement and activity levels are not dying because of the website. They're dying because of us. If we're just sat existing in a sad, isolated little bubble, of course we're going to move on to somewhere where we get actual engagement. Where there are other people in the bubble.

We've become so obsessed with an entitlement to receiving and consuming while never actually giving anything back, and that has to die.

"Oh but there's no community for what I like on here."

Make. One.

Tell people about the thing you like. Get them interested. Engage with them about it. Give them a sounding board to share their thoughts and ask questions and create content to enjoy and consume. Make it a discussion and give them something to get involved in.

Find that one other tiny blog screaming into the void about it and scream together!! That's how this website works!!

[kiragecko]

cherrystainedknuckles

I guess the only problem with being asked to take a “marie kondo approach” is that in order to find any fanfic that appears to be based in actual canon timeline and plot points and characterization (which does exist, and I’m not sure why fanon fans seem insistent that it doesn’t), I literally have to search for hours. I’m not joking, I consistently make fic rec lists, and I have to search for hours and hours for actual canonical basis. same thing with character tags on tumblr.

I’m not saying fanon fans have to stop enjoying fanon or making up their own content. I’m just saying that when the tags used for both fanon tim drake and canon tim drake are the same tag it just becomes incredibly annoying sometimes, and I understand why people who like to engage with canon (me, often) become frustrated

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I have definitely had periods where I got incredibly frustrated with fanon! Around 2019, I was wondering if I needed to leave the Batfandom, because it had been so long since I read a new fic where the characters felt 'right'.

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But, if you're willing to, I'd like you to consider what you mean when you divide 'fanon' from 'canon'. Because I struggle to find a hard line between the two, for several reasons:

1. Fandom is transformative. Every fanfic is going to have some interpretation of the source material. The line between what is too much interpretation and what is acceptable is different for every person. For me, I find it can even vary based on writing style or other odd things - lighthearted fic can have more noncanonical stuff in it than heavier fic, and still seem true to canon.

2. 'Canon' is subjective. I do not consider the movies or video games to be 'canon', and it annoys me when things from those creep into the fic I'm reading. (I'm okay with SOME Battinson.) Some aspects of the cartoons are okay. I consider precrisis Jason Todd to be an alternate reality version, but Donna's precrisis origins are more canonical than the dumb retcons. Wayne Family Adventures isn't my main version of the characters, but I'm not bothered if some elements show up in my stories. I'm ignoring most of the nu52, but I like Duke and I'm still watching this new Lian to see what happens. I doubt your divisions are identical to mine.

(Also, some things that I think of as 'fanon' have shown up in nu52 canon! I do not accept them as any more canon because of this.)

3. Most 'fanon' is based on canon. Canon Tim has weird sleep habits. 90s Dick is really lighthearted and joking around some characters in ways similar to fanon. Dick can canonically not be trusted to take care of himself if his mental health gets low enough. Jason likes classical literature. Etc.

These are exaggerated and/or twisted in a lot of fic, but where is the line where they stop being canon? I wouldn't bat an eye at a lot of this stuff, if it didn't show up SO OFTEN.

4. Most 'fanon fans' do know some canon. What line are you going to set where it will be 'enough'. And are they allowed to mention parts of the canon they haven't read yet? Is anyone allowed to talk about Dick's early Robin days, or only the tiny amount of people who have read the golden age stuff? A lot of the 'mistakes' I see are obviously made by people who have read ABOUT canon, but don't know quite how it fits together.

5. 'Canon' is FULL of contradictions. Yes, there are canon events. Yes, there is characterization that is consistent across 3/4s of comics. But. I'm still working on my sidekick timeline. I've devoted days to figuring out ages and passage of time. I've spent over a decade trying to figure out Jason Todd's motivations, and why Tim treats him the way he does. I've read all the 90s and early 2000s CANONICAL character assassination of Jason.

I spent years thinking that Donna's death was almost as foundational as Jason's, only to later discover that I had just happened to read the specific comics that focused on the fallout, and she only stayed dead for a short time. That happens to fans ALL THE TIME! We read a character summarizing an event we haven't directly read, and just accept it as what happened. But characters have biases, and not all writers care about accuracy.

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I've read some Tim Drakes that I consider to be almost entirely 'fanon'. And quite a few that were so scarily 'canon' that I got chills. (Not all of which were similar to each other.) But the vast, vast majority have fallen somewhere in the middle.

I definitely do not want the responsibility of deciding which ones count as 'canon'! And I think I would strongly dislike anyone who tried to decide for me.

Being frustrated is logical, and I empathize. But the original post was about the impossible expectations some fans feel. The expectation to read thousands of comics, synthesize all the contradictions, and come to conclusions that match the 'true fans'. That's a perfectly reasonable thing to be complaining about.

If that's what some fans are experiencing, of course they're not going to want to engage with canon! There's no way for them to succeed, so why should they even try?

When you join THAT conversation to discuss your frustration about fanon, it strengthens that perception. When you call them 'fanon fans' it emphasizes their belief that you don't think they belong. And rather than trying to change, it's more likely that they'll double down. Canon is full of gatekeepers, so they'll avoid it.

[loeyonline]

be quiet and drive

Hello again, this fic is in case you didn't have your nu metal romance from 2003, but with hendery.

based on some experiences with my ex, mtv series, imaginary scenarios that I created while I was high, etc.

Contains: a bit of sexual content, drug use, friends with benefits, too many references to nu metal and other musical genres (I don't know man, it all sounds the same to me) and a bit of toxicity

please enjoy :D

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It wasn't a bad idea, you were single and bored, he was single and handsome.

The idea of ​​fucking hendery without any commitment was a great idea.

You had met in high school, the history teacher had put you with him in a project where they had to prepare an exhibition about Mesopotamia.

But do you remember that the afternoon I arrived at your house instead of preparing the exhibition I simply shouted "FUCK, YOU LIKE RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE?" like a little child

"and linkin park, and korn, and deftones" you replied, that afternoon they spent it talking about music.

It had been too nice to spend time with him, as the days went by they had become friends.

They spent all the time together, whether it was secretly smoking in their backyard, watching vinyl, discussing music, or at concerts.

Their first concert had been slipknot which had been weird.

Because in the middle of the loud music, the people shouting and shaking their heads, Hendery grabbed you by the waist and brought you to his lips.

For some strange reason they were kissing while Cut, cut, cut me up, and fuck, fuck, was playing and maybe it wasn't the most romantic setting worthy of a Disney movie but… It was nice.

Another strange thing was that he forgot that, that is, if they were drugged, but after the concert he didn't say anything about it, not even days later, he just continued acting as if nothing had happened.

Intrusive thoughts?

"and it was so great, I can't believe I was breathing the same air as Joey Jordison, it was such a dream"

"Do you only remember that?"

"Well yes, remember that that day I smoked an entire weed plantation, I would have liked to remember the last songs they played"

You just responded with an okay and forgot the topic.

But years later someone comes to you and says something like "hey you know, I don't want to ruin our friendship but I imagined you having sex with me."

"Yes, of course, stop joking, I have to study for the next exams" you responded, knowing the strange humor that Hendery had since high school, it is not the first time he made a joke like that.

"I'm serious, last night I dreamed about you and I think it's a sign" he said, leaning back on the couch in your room. "I think it's time to give up the acids, you know" you laughed as you continued arranging papers, avoiding seeing him because it really was a very strange conversation.

"And I want you to stop being a bitch to others and give it all to me" He got up from the couch and walked towards the door of your room, you had been impressed with what he said because Did he call you a bitch? "Please think about my offer" he said and left the room.

That night you thought about it, you came to that conclusion, it wasn't a bad idea.

In other words, they trusted each other, he wasn't ugly, he was actually handsome, hot.

Anyway, you wrote him a message saying "it's okay, I'll fuck you" and not even two seconds passed before he was already calling you without any shame.

"heeeeeeey, so, do you accept it?" "Why do I feel like you've been waiting for my message all day?" "I'm coming for you, let's go for a trip" "Wait the hell…" And I cut off the call, he… He would be here in a few minutes.

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That "trip" had too many things, possibly it was your canonical event because so many things had happened.

"I hope you don't tell this to anyone" you threatened while he just laughed looking at the road.

"Baby, you know I'm a 21-year-old loser who skateboards, you know I don't talk to anyone else."

"It needs to be mentioned"

"Whatever, Are you going to suck me?"

"Right now?" Nervousness entered your body because you didn't think they would do it right away, you thought it would just be a quiet trip like the ones they usually took.

"Emm yes, I would invite you to my house but I don't think I'll get there, I'm very desperate" and that's when you looked down and saw his erection.

Ok, it wasn't the first time you thought about Hendery's penis, hell he trusted you so much that he told you his dirty shit.

Like the first time he fucked a random girl he met at his first college party. Or when I tell you about the time he spent a whole week masturbating because he heard his neighbor masturbating too.

It was too dirty but to think that now he gets hot for you is weird.

"What I do?" You looked very stupid, it wasn't the first time you did it, but it was the first time you sucked him off.

He unzipped his pants and turned to look at you "come closer" and you did, you approached him.

Before burying your head in his pants, he kissed you on the lips, it was like that time at the concert only, you could see a little more passion.

Even though it was emotionless it felt so good, damn why was your best friend such a good kisser?

He grabbed your hand and put it on his crotch so you could feel his desperation.

While they were kissing you massaged his cock over his clothes to provoke him more.

"fuck, you're so hot" he said between the kiss, while you acted automatically because you didn't understand what was happening and you just let yourself go.

"stop, if we continue we are going to crash" he says pushing you away from him a little "I need you to get off" he says pointing to his cock.

So you did, you got out and sucked his cock while he kept driving.

It was so risky, so hot.

As you sucked him you could hear his desperate moans, as if he had been waiting his whole life, he had been waiting for a blowjob from you his whole life.

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In the end he ended up parking in a remote place so that no one would see them.

They fucked like Jack and Rose in the back seats of their car, they were so exhausted by all the things they did that in the end he sat down to smoke another cigarette and then fell asleep on your chest.

There was no more conversation all night.

Around 4 am they woke up and got dressed to return.

"You can sleep at my house if you want," he offers, but sleeping with him felt too intimate to do so.

I mean, they fucked, he was inside you, you saw his cock, you kissed, but sleeping together?

"Thank you, but tomorrow I will hand in a university paper" you respond.

He was a little disappointed but he understood, you were busy, so he nodded and started the car to go drop you off at your house.

And they continued with the little game for a long time, of getting lost from society to go fuck.

The second time they fucked was at Hendery's house, having more space and comfort, they were able to practice new things.

You could tell that he wanted you so much by the way he fucked you, as if he unloaded all his hatred on you.

You noticed another personality in him, a serious one that didn't happen talking stupid anime or trying to sing like Jonathan Davis.

But now he was dirty and very aggressive, you weren't complaining about him fucking you hard because it felt great but seeing him so serious, so focused was something you never thought you would see.

You really liked fucking hendery, reinforcing your friendship was a good idea, for you.

But from his point of view it was risky, because he was starting to have feelings for you.

He liked something about you too much and it wasn't because of the way you ride him, or the way you sit on his face. He felt so good spending time with you but he would never admit it, he is aware of what happened at the concert but he didn't have the courage to talk about it.

Although, he was also afraid of confessing his feelings for you and ruining their friendship, because he knew he didn't like you.

The only way I could be with you and feel you was by fucking you.

And after several escapades to fuck he got fed up with it, he couldn't take it anymore.

You arrived at his house and noticed that he was a little more groomed than normal, he always wore baggy pants with dirty Adidas and a black shirt with the logo of some band he liked, but today he had put on some not so big pants, some clean sneakers and a black button-down shirt, and another detail HE WASHED HIS HAIR

"Hey are you going on a date baby?" you joked to which he smiled and responded.

"If I have a date, with your ass" he said and took your hand to bring you closer to his body and start kissing you.

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This time when you were riding him you noticed something in his eyes, instead of the perverted look that he always had today, they were eyes of love.

Like he was in love and it was… strange.

This time instead of hitting your butt and scratching you, he just kissed your body and bit it.

"I love you" What the fuck did he say?

"wait what?" you said slowing down your pace.

"I love you so much baby" he responded a little tiredly, he was about to come.

You were surprised and got off him "wait, this is not part of the deal"

The atmosphere became heavy and he got up "I don't care, I want to confess that I love you, too much, I'm not on drugs" he said, getting serious.

"I just want to fuck you and that's it"

"damn but we've spent a lot of time together" he responds, getting instantly annoyed.

"I better go" you get up from his bed and start to get dressed.

"Have I never been important to you?"

"It's not that hendery, it's just…" and he interrupts you.

"It's just what? We get along very well, not just in sex, you know I love spending time with you, I love being with you and it bothers me that you don't see that."

"Hendery, damn, I can't feel like that, I'm sorry," you tell him and you notice how he gets more upset. "But you do have feelings for idiots who only seek you out because you're a bitch in need of attention." And now it was you who was upset.

It took him a while to realize what he said and he started to apologize, but it was too late.

"Fuck you, you idiot," you tell him and leave his house.

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N/A: hiiii I'm sorry if it ends like this, I promise to go out with my ex again so I have content to write, lie, I'm just kidding.

[olderthannetfic]

https://www.tumblr.com/olderthannetfic/749218521745145857/while-i-love-some-queergay-whatever

“Kissing on the forehead isn’t necessarily romantic” makes sense if we are talking about a work of media that is made in a time/place where that was a common thing between same gender platonic friends.

But are you, anon? Or are you talking about like, a piece of Western mass media from the past 50 years? Or are you talking about anime — because if anything, kissing is even more loaded in Japan than it is in the West, especially if there are other people around. (Lots of people in anime fandom love to use “but Japanese culture” arguments to no homo, but are banking on no one reading them actually knowing jack shit about Japanese culture — because it’s almost never true or based on any real Japanese cultural difference, there’s just making shit up. It assumes people will take for granted anything that frames Japan as “foreign and inscrutable and impossible for Westerners to understand” which is just Orientalism tbqh)

Just saying, because I almost never see this shit said about like, a novel from 1820 or something from a culture like, say, some Middle Eastern countries where men kissing other men platonically is a thing…. and almost always see it said about current media from a culture where kissing on the forehead would be seen as something you’d likely not do to a platonic friend of the same gender.

You can’t “impose your cultural norms” on something from the same culture as you lol, or something from another culture that has the same norm! And an (for example) American assuming that modern American media plays by the rules of modern American culture and seeing it through that lens, doesn’t necessarily mean that American is unaware that different norms exist in different cultures. But like… it just makes sense to analyze a current American show for American audiences set in America in the modern day through the cultural standards of 2020s America and not, say, Bangladesh or Namibia or 1850s America.

And on another note, if you were as much of a fan of “queer readings” as you claim to be, you’d know that they often have little to do with authorial intent. In fact, it’s often specifically about reclaiming media that didn’t have you in mind as the audience.

(Seriously, I really doubt you have read many of those queer readings, bc if this bothers you so much, the stuff queer studies academics and cultural critics see as “gay subtext” in old Hollywood movies — hell, the stuff that gay, bi and sympathetic-straight directors and actors and writers often very much INTENDED as gay subtext in those movies — would make your brain explode.)

Anyway, we’ve all been in fandoms where there’s a ship some people insist has a ton of subtext but it’s just two guys sharing a scene occasionally and they just WANT to believe it’s there when it isn’t, and it can be annoying sure if there are so many people insisting this that it’s inescapable and becoming fanon that affects the fic about the ships you like, or if they’re pushy and sanctimonious about it. (My current fandom has a group of people who insist the only reason other people don’t see all the “subtext” for their random rarepair is racism or something, and then ignore how much textual stuff they have to deliberately leave out or misinterpret for their reading to “work” lol. Like scenes where their starry eyed expression is directed at a different character and that’s obvious in the actual episode but not in their selectively edited gif set or meta post.) But that is not the same as doing that with KISSING ON THE FOREHEAD ffs. And also, let’s not pretend that slash (or femslash) shippers are the worst offenders, like het shippers — and the broader culture — doesn’t constantly treat “a man and a woman interact” as meaning “they could/should be a couple,”

If you’re not bothered by that, but you’re bothered by when people do it with two men or two women… yeah you gotta ask yourself why that is. I have an idea why, and it’s not bc of your greater cultural open mindedness lol

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[skyracer-in-space]

like memories of dying days

Hiding had been boring, sure, but it also had been lonely. Really lonely.

Or, touch-starved Bumblebee has a Time™ around the Maltos. And not necessarily a good one, but it gets better.

Written for Hurtcember prompts: 6 (Touch starvation), 7 (Abandoned), 10 (Touch aversion), 19 (Desperate), and Alternate 3 (“Leave me alone"; replacing 18)

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my first earthspark fic, let's go! i spent the better part of five days working on this & it was only lightly looked over before clicking post. welp. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

title from saviour by rise against.

i used half-normal, half-cybertronian terms so here's the dictionary~

frame: body

optics: eyes

EM field: electro-magnetic field, allows cybertronians to feel others' emotons

helm: head

servo: hand

digit: finger

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As far as the Maltos knew, Bumblebee had been brought out of hiding to train the Terrans. That was what Optimus had made it out to be, and what Bumblebee had confirmed. But what they didn’t know, was just how long the yellow Autobot had been in hiding for. Close to seventeen human years.

There wasn’t a solid date marking when he first went into hiding. But there was that comm that he had received from Optimus in the middle of another back-to-back mission at the tail end of the war, where the Prime had ordered him to go into hiding to avoid a particular fledgling human organisation. There hadn’t been an explaination, the comm. had just been long enough for Optimus to give him the order before it disconnected and the scout had been left wondering why.

But then the next thing that Bumblebee knew, it had been almost five human years since he had last seen another Autobot. He spent a lot of that time in his alt mode. A lot of it was spent mimicing a normal human car. That was fine! Because he was undercover and he had spent time away from other Autobots like this before — many times! It was pretty much part of his job as a scout.

And then it had been a entire decade and Bumblebee had to scan a new alt mode because the human organisation that Optimus had warned him about — GHOST, or something — had discovered his old one and he needed a new one to remain hidden.

Later, he had been pretending to be a normal car parked on a curbside as a parking officer was making her way down the row of parked cars when a notification from his chronometer popped up: fifteen years.

On year seventeen of hiding, the scout received another comm from Optimus, and by the end of it, he’s assigned to train two newly-created Cybertronians (which, what.).

Once Bumblebee had gotten over his initial…friction about his newest assignment, and at the Prime too, things went a lot easier. Somewhat. Kind of. Things were a lot easier if he ignored the problem that was right in front of him, every day. Okay, it wasn’t causing any actual problems so he shouldn’t really call it problematic, but it still was all the same.

The Terrans were…close, to one another and to the two human children — Robby and Mo. And that was the root of Bumblebee’s ‘problem’, wasn’t it? Their closeness.

He wasn’t sure why it got under his plating so much. It wasn’t a rare occurance, plenty of Autobots were just as close to each other as the Terrans were.

Bumblebee watched as the two humans and the two techno-organics chased each other around the yard after dinner. Twitch zipped up into the air out of Mo’s reach as Robby darted around a tree being pursued by Thrash.

The sky had already started to get dark when the four of them had started this game but now it was getting to be too dark for the humans to see by, based off of how he had just watched Mo trip over a branch.

“Robby! Mo!” Ranger Malto’s shout from the house drew all four of her kids, and Bumblebee’s too, attention to her. “Go wash up. It’s movie night,”

Friday nights, he soon discovered, were family movie night in the Malto household. This had been a thing, the Autobot was also told, long before the Maltos had come to Witwicky where they would all pile onto the sofa in the living room and watch a movie (or two, if school was out). But that wouldn’t work now. Not when some of their family can’t even fit through the doors of their house, let alone in the living room.

“What about the barn?” Alex suggested, when the issue was brought up. “I think I’ve got my old projector somewhere, that we can set it up opposite one of the barn’s walls,”

With that decided, he headed into the house to look for said projector.

“Hopefully this goes better than family game night,” Robby commented, to no one in particular, as he carried a stack of cushions from the house towards the barn.

Bumblebee hovered awkwardly as the Maltos set up for movie night.

Was he supposed to join them? Or not? He’d joined them for game night but everyone knew how that had gone…

The scout watched the Terrans head into the barn.

“You coming, Bumblebee?” Dot asked. “We’re watching Back to the Future, the first one,”

The question made his optics fall on her and away from the Terrans.

There was his answer.

“Yeah. I’m coming,”

He joined the Maltos in the barn, where he found the two human kids sitting on the ground with their backs against a hay bale, that had previously been shoved up against a wall so somebody must have pushed it over here, Thrash was between Mo and Robby, and Twitch was perched on the edge of said bale. Alex was setting up the projector on a precarious pile of books on top of a stool that had been brought out from the Maltos’ kitchen.

Where they were sitting wasn’t the only thing that Bumblebee noticed. They were all so close to each other, in the physical sense. The kids on the ground had their shoulders touching one another, or if it wasn’t shoulders, it was some other part of their frames. And Twitch had her foot resting against Mo’s side too.

The sight made his spark twist uncomfortably in his chest and a breeze of wind (in the dead-still evening) flittered across his armour.

But none of that should even happen — that was just how families were with each other. It was.

Bumblebee turned down his pressure sensitivity and elected to ignore whatever that had been in favour of grabbing the other hay bale to make a seat for himself. He ended up on the ground, leaning against the bale he’d nabbed a couple of metres away from the others.

Alex finished fiddling with the projector and joined his kids. Dot

“Bumblebee! What are you doing all the way over there?” Alex asked, just as the movie was starting. “Come closer,”

So the scout got up and moved to sit closer to the others. As he settled himself back down, his arm accidentally brushed against one of Twitch’s stabilisers. The contact sent a shiver up his arm plating that made it clatter against itself softly and made him recoil away. Bumblebee caught himself before he could react too much and alarmed someone.

Dot was staring at him from across the makeshift living room, his sensors noticed, and she had a look in her eyes which he pretended not to see. The ranger said nothing and just turned back to keep watching the movie.

At some point, all four kids had reshuffled themselves and as a result Bumblebee had ended up in the middle of them all.

If he thought that his frame had reacted strangely to light touch, then prolonged contact in the form of somebody resting up against his side had an even stranger effect.

There was a spark of heat against that same side despite his sensors not registering anything unusual. What. It only grew with each passing second, growing to become painful now.

But unlike before, his frame responded far more violently to the contact; kicking into action even before his processor had a chance to generate a thought.

Bumblebee pushed away and up to his feet, the transformation seams in both of his arms splitting apart and reforming into blasters to defend

From the corner of his optic, he saw both Alex and Dot jump to their feet even before any of the kids reacted.

“Hey!” Alex shouted at the same time that Dot hollared

“Bumblebee! Put the guns down!”

The loudness of her shout cut through the barn and made Bumblebee stop dead in his tracks.

…His battle protocols were running. He had been so convinced that there was a threat attacking him that every single one of his battle protocols had been activated.

Bumblebee transformed his blasters back into arms and reset his optics to see Dot and Alex standing protectively in front of their kids. The same kids that he had just been pointing his blasters at.

From here he could feel the Terrans’ fright and their fear. Fear of him.

Oh Primus.

Bumblebee raised his hands, now that they were back to being hands again, up to show them that he didn’t mean them harm and was (now) unarmed.

“What was that, Bumblebee?” Alex questioned as everyone relaxed and settled down again.

“I think Twitch leaned against my side in a way that accidentally triggered my battle protocols,” he told them all.

Twitch looked up at him from where she was standing on the hay bale. “Did I accidentally press something?” she asked.

Her EM field was now full of worry—concern—mistake—remorse.

“I…don’t think so? My pressure sensitivity must have been too high, or something,”

Only…he had already turned it down earlier, so it couldn’t be that. It had to be something else. He didn’t voice that part out loud.

As he spoke, Bumblebee reach out with his own EM field, making sure that he projected reassureance—alright—safe into it.

“Do I have to worry about you being near the kids now, or?” Dot asked.

The Ranger was looking at him the same way that she looked at Decepticons: cold, skeptical, and most of all, distrusting. To be fair, he did just aim weapons at her children. But there was another emotion in her eyes that he hadn’t seen when she looked at Decepticons, one that he can’t decode.

Once his frame had settled down, Bumblebee ran a diagnostic scan of all his systems. It came back normal.

Okay, now he was confused; because something had definitely been wrong back there. Something had to have set off his battle protocols, they didn’t acitvate without a reason.

After that first Friday, the following family movie nights were officially moved to the barn. Bumblebee joined for most of them but a couple times, he chose to go racing instead (not that any of the Maltos were aware of that).

The times he did join them, he sat a good four metres away. Was it overkill? Maybe; but there was no way on Earth he was going to risk a repeat of what’d happened at the first one. Despite this, Bumblebee always ended up moving closer by the end of the night, usually after being asked to by one of the Terrans. So no matter how much he tried to keep a distance between them and himself, it never lasted.

The first movie night was a nerve-wracking enough experience, but it wasn’t the only one. And it hadn’t only been happening at movie night, either. That was the worst part. Because now that he had been made aware of it, it only seemed to happen even more often.

‘It’ being the way that his frame reacted to touch — and seeing other people touching each other in such a causal and friendly way, mostly the second.

Bumblebee was starting to go mad. He was sure of it.

Movie night was the closest that he got to the Maltos. But it wasn’t the only time he could come into physical contact with them. There was also the Terrans’ training sessions, especially the ones where he incorporated games.

In one of those training sessions in particular, he had them doing what was essentially capture the flag combined with a scavenger hunt. It started out with him guarding the 'flag’ (also known as a shovel) which Thrash had to steal and hide for Twitch to find; as then it would become more a scavenger hunt and less capture the flag.

Thrash, to Bumblebee’s surprise, chose to approach him head-on to grab the ‘flag’. The scout would have expected that from Twitch, if she had been in his position, but not him.

The motorcycle alt crashed out of the treeline to speed directly at Bumblebee. And then when he was close enough, Thrash transformed and pushed against the ground to vault over Bumblebee, grabbing the ‘flag’ on his way over helm.

As Thrash took hold of the shovel, one of his digits brushed against Bumblebee’s servo.

Unlike previously, the contact made a warning flash across his vision. It wasn’t warning him of anything specific, though, instead all it said was that his sensors had detected an anomaly in his servo. He hadn’t felt anything wrong — hadn’t he?

Very helpful.

Bumblebee had his pressure sensitivity turned down so low around the Maltos after that fiasco at the first movie night that he shouldn’t even have been able to have felt the contact at all. Yet here he was with a warning guaranteeing he had not only felt it but had also picked up on something anomalous in it. But what the anomaly was, he had no clue.

Bumblebee spent the rest of the day as well as a good chunk of the night too, staring at that particular warning in an attempt to decipher what the anomaly it detected could be. In the end, it was futile and he slipped into recharge.

Arcee was here, at the Maltos’. Bumblebee hadn’t even known that she was on Earth but here she was. She wasn’t able to stay long, only just long enough to meet the Terrans before she had to go.

The Terrans — all of the kids, really — were excited. To them, Arcee was a cool, badass warrior. To Bumblebee, Arcee was his friend. Before Arcee was about to leave, she bumped her shoulder against Bunblebee’s. His processor ground to a halt at the electricity that zipped through his shoulder right where she had touched him. The armour there buzzed with the unmistakeable zing of electricity. A servo came up to touch it but the ‘electriticy’ didn’t tranfer to his digits.

Huh?

He tried again, and once again the ‘electricity’ remained only in the armour of his shoulder.

It was a playful gesture — maybe a bit rough but this was Arcee, and Arcee was his friend. So would his plating and processor both please calm the frag down?

His sensors hadn’t registered any transfer of electricity either.

He really was going mad.

“‘Bee?” The sound of Arcee’s voice tugged him back out of his processor and reminded him that there were people watching. “You good? I didn’t hit an injury, did I?” she asked.

The mention of injury made four pairs of shocked eyes and optics dart to him.

“No, I’m not injured so you didn’t hit anything,” he told her.

Bumblebee refused to meet her optics because he knew she knew that there was something more to what had just happened. And if she asked about it, he had no answer. It was also sort of embarrassing because what kind of scout — what kind of hero — was he if he couldn’t keep control of his systems and frame?

“Bumblebee,” Dot stopped him rather than joining her family in the barn for movie night one evening a few days later. “Can we talk?”

“Sure?”

She led the two of them both away from the barn — away from where they could be inturrupted, because if they were then there was no way this conversation would be successful. They ended up sitting underneath one of the trees just as the sun was starting to disappear below the horizon.

“What did you want to talk about, Dot?”

“What do you know about touch starvation?” the ranger asked response to his question.

In the distance, a bird squawked and took off into the sky causing a hanful of leaves to float down to the ground.

“It’s a condition that humans can develop when they spend too long without physical contact from others, right?”

Dot frowned.

“That’s half right. Touch starvation isn’t something which only affects humans, ‘Bee, it can affect bots too,”

“And you’re bringing this up, why?” he asked, an obvious attempt at deflecting the conversation.

Dot didn’t answer and just looked at him. Waiting for the scout to put two and two together to it out. Waiting for the much overdue realisation.

“Oh.”

“Yeah, ‘oh’,” she eched.

Honestly, she was kinda surprised he hadn’t realised what was going on until she literally spelled it out for him.

Bumblebee stood back up. “Even if Cybertronians can be touched starved, I am not,” he denied.

She raised an eyebrow at him. Bumblebee wasn’t getting out of this that easily.

“Then explain to me what that was at the first family movie night here, or what had happened with Arcee?”

Shock-wide optics snapped to her. He clearly hadn’t known she had seen that second one. Bumblebee said nothing for a long minute, so long she started to think he wasn’t going to say anything.

“…Okay, you might be right,” he admitted eventually. “But I can’t actually do anything to fix it, it’s not like I can just walk up to Optimus and ask for a hug,”

Dot couldn’t read EM fields, but she’d bet Bumblebee’s field was chock full of embarassment right about now.

“Fair point. Although I would bet the Terrans would be more than happy to, if you asked,”

The ranger stood up and brushed dried grass off of her pants before she started heading in the direction of the barn, leaving Bumblebee behind under the tree and without time to say anything more.

Dot had meant that truthfully — Twitch, at least, would be certainly be willing to give him a hug if she asked. And as it turned out, she was right too. A few days later, she got home to see Bumblebee being hugged by both of her Terran kids and only looking midly uncomfortable.

[tibbythetiger]

Hello, hello!! I’m back! I went and finally got to see the film in theaters (the first two times I watched it on Peacock)! I’m going to have a  direct continuation of my previous post!!

I feel like Mike and Ness get really close after the events of the movie. Like many people already HC, I think Ness is really invested in the mystery of Freddy’s. So when Mike suddenly quits and is literally ripped to shreds with Vanessa fucked up in the hospital, his theory senses are tingling. He doesn’t try to push Mike or Abby, even though it’s killing him to not know what is going on. While Mike is desperate to find a new job, he’s pretty much out of babysitters for Abby at this point. With Max dead, his Aunt out of commission, and Vanessa in the hospital, Ness graciously stands in for the others and ends up keeping Abby with him at the diner while Mike is job-hopping. 

Also, given the attack on their Aunt, they can’t stay in their house for a few weeks. Ness offers his tiny apartment to share, which prompts Ness and Mike to share a room, and well, after one night Mike and Ness both insist on sleeping on the floor, a bed as well. It’s super cute and domestic and it makes Mike yearn for a life like this. But, he’s still not quite ready to make a move on Ness; mostly because he’s still a little freshly traumatized by the events that just happened, but also because homeboy’s self-esteem is non-existent. Ness is still head over heels for Mike, but is trying to tone it down for the time being so he doesn’t freak Mike out. However, after about two weeks, when Abby crawls into bed with them both after a nightmare, Mike finally breaks down and tells Ness about what happened at Freddy’s.  He’s surprised when Ness just believes him. 

Once the bunny (ha) is out of the hat, Mike’s walls crumble a little bit more. Ness decides that this is the best time, and decides to plan a really cute night for the three of them. He makes them dinner and makes sure he has Abby and Mike’s favorite movies. It all goes fairly smoothly, Abby does end up eating most of her dinner, but Mike falls asleep part way through the first movie, and Ness ends up putting Abby to bed. When he’s in the hallway on his way back to Mike, he finds Mike there looking at him with a soft smile and he just leans in and kisses him. 

After that, they don’t really talk about it, but they’re just together from there. They’re not super out when they’re in public (mostly because it’s 2000, and we’re assuming this takes place in a mid-western state), but Abby understands that they’re together now. Nothing huge really changes between Mike and Ness, for the most part things stay the same. Ness still helps with Abby, they still have their lil movie/TV-watching sessions after Abby goes to bed. Where they used to awkwardly stay on opposite ends of the couch, they are cuddling now. (I agree with whoever said Mike is the little spoon because YES) It’s little kisses in the morning, holding hands when they’re able to get Abby from school together in the afternoons. 

Eventually, though Abby and Mike do move back into their house, this is mostly because, with Mike’s custody and house checks, they need to have more space in order to not tip off CPS that they’re gay. (Again, just basing this off the time period and the area we’re presuming this in, I could see the state using that against Mike) Ness still spends most nights at the house, and he has a toothbrush and drawer in Mike’s room.  

This is all I have for now!! Also, I’m not sure if I want their Aunt to be dead or just, have been attacked by Golden Freddy. I feel like it could have gone either way in the movie, and I think that it would probably make more sense for her to just be dead. I’m going to try and write more general HCs for these two tomorrow! Again, if someone wants to write this out as an actual fic, please feel free to do so! Just be sure to tag me so I can make sure I can read your work!

[cybertroniannugget]

Pangea and mt Vesuvius

Not what I originally intended to post here, as I'm writing some spice at the moment but THIS is what my mind was occupied with all freaking day... The whole desaster takes place somewhere in the first movie or between 1 and two. Some details are changed up Which I did on purpose. I know all the movies from start to finish because the hyperfixations are hyperfixating real hard right now.

This is just a random story of how I get idk let's say teleported into the bayverse movies and how I'd probably handle that.

While I sprinkled in a bit more confidence than I actually got, I think it's an accurate representation of what kind of person I am: always cracking jokes, overthinking EVERYTHING, random useless knowledge that turns out to be somewhat useful.

About this fic: sfw, implied romance with OP, trans ftm character, no reader just Alex, confused Autobots they still need to learn so much about earth and everything, I also don't know okay?

This is just me struggling while simping hard for Optimus.

But we still ain't know what fucked up big M's navigation system when he crashed. Infact, why are all of our navigation systems useless here?! ", Jazz adressed, arms crossed over his chassis. "We all be getting lost all the time.

"I think I know why"

Oh please, why did I speak up just now...

All optics and eyes were fixed on me as I said that, making me immediately regret opening my mouth in the first place but here we are now.

"What? Maybe your systems think you're on Pangea.", I said, taking in the same position as Jazz by crossing my arms over my chest.

Optimus leaned closer, one servo on the railing, blue optics studying me thoroughly as to look for any signs of lie in my attitude.

"Pangea? May you elaborate?"

Hearing this deep voice so full of interest made me feel things honestly.

"The supercontinent. Wait, Imma show you."

I take out my phone, careful not to reveal the background, because I couldn't find the time to change it yet.

"Here, this is earth today. You see everything, Europe, Asia, South and North America, Autralia, Greenland and all the islands in the oceans."

"And this is Pangea, it broke apart into the continents as we know them today about 200 million years ago. This is probably what Megatron had in mind. See? When you look at a map of earth today you might think, if you turn south America around and snug it up to north America, they fit like a puzzle. It's because they were together as part of the supercontinent. Or push it up to Africa, same thing. Just squish it all together"

"That human is incredibly well educated.", Ratchet chimed in.

"That human has a name and thank you."

"But why did that happen? It makes no sense.", Ironhide complained, lifting one servo as to show his frustration in what I just said.

"If I may...", I look at Lennox, awaiting some kind of approval to continue. He nods and so I proceed with my explanation.

"Well, I don't know how to explain it scientifically, but I'll try to make it understandable."

Optimus nods, listening carefully. How do these highly educated space robots not know about that? But who am I to judge, they aren't from here so I can't expect them to know everything about earth.

"I think it probably started because of something called mantle convection. That means the heat from earth's interior rises up to the hardened crust. That caused it to break open, creating a volcanic rift zone. The cracks went further, the tectonic plates drifted apart. The rifts filled with water over time and while the plates drifted farther away, the oceans were formed. Or something like that I don't know but today we've got 6 continents."

Always undermining everything I say, great job on trying to act confident...

"And Greenland, I don't discriminate.", I added as some people eyed me.

"But I don't know if Pangea is what your systems used as the base to calculate. There were other tectonic combinations even before that, but it's a wild guess I'd say. I am certain it was one of them."

As I was explaining, Optimus' gaze changed to a warmer tone and I could feel my pulse rise to my ears. He was just so beautiful, and seeing him for the first time in person made my heart flutter uncontrollably. I wish I could tell him how I feel,

But this is real. No scenarios, no daydreaming or fanfiction. It was as real as it could get. Damn it, I wanted to shift here, not get teleported or whatever caused me to end up here with all of them. I hope we can atleast become friends. No need to get my hopes up though.

"Alexander?"

The baritone voice of the Prime pulled me out of my thoughts about him.

"Hm?"

"What kind of heat were you talking about?"

"Oh that. Well, starting at earth's core, it's liquid magma. It's really hot, like 5.200 Celsius hot. 9.000 something Fahrenheit for the Americans here..."

This was met with laughter and I continued with my lesson or whatever you might wanna call it I don't care, I'm struggling here okay?

"The further you go up, the 'cooler' it gets.", I say, underlining the word cooler with my hands in a joking matter.

"They probably got fancy scientific names but don't ask me which. Anyways shit's really hot. And it's what shoots up from volcanoes.", I finish as I look into a round of confused optics and a few tilted helms.

"Volcanoes? When tectonic plates crush against each other, or built up pressure is released, no?"

They all look at eachother, chuckling coming from my fellow humans around me.

"Okay here, that's mt vesuvius, big ass volcano."

"Sometimes these mfs shoot lava from this hole up there, pretty fascinating and scary at the same time.. It looks like this.", I add as they look at the pictures, not knowing whether to be amazed or afraid.

"The glowing stuff you see here is the lava. When it's still underneath the crust it's called magma."

"Are there many on earth?"

"Yup, don't get too close."

Optimus' optics widen at that statement of mine

"Don't worry bossbot, not on this island. The closest from here is next to Madagascar, Africa. Unless you decide to swim a few rounds up there there's no need to get worried."

The Prime relaxes, shoulders dropping while optics still focused on me.

Why is he looking at me like that? I mean I ain't complaining but if he continues like that Imma internally combust.

"You explain everything so well Alexander."

"Please, call me Alex. Alexander seems so long."

The Prime nods understandingly. "Very well then, Alex."

Oh god make it stop. I love you so much Optimus please...!

"His heart rate just shot up exponentially.", Ratchet mentioned and it was right then and there that I wanted to vanish, dissappear, sink into the ground, never to be seen again.

"Haha yeah, chronic Tachycardia, no need to worry."

That was a lie. Yes, my pulse is through the roof right now, but I've got no heart disease.

As I was met with confusion from every bot except Ratchet I explained before any questions could be asked.

"It's a general term to describe an elevated heartrate. You know, the thing in a human's chest that pumps blood through our body."

"Blood?"

"Oh come on. Okay, well then I can explain that to you guys later. And answer any questions you have as it seems no one else here cares about your education on earth and it's inhabitants.", I say grumpily, looking at Lennox, who raised his hands in defeat.

"I can see us becoming friends Alex.", Jazz laughed.

"Looking forward to it!", I said, pointing fingerguns at the silver bot, which is met with more laughter.

"Okay, class is over, what are we gonna do now?", Ironhide asks into the round of bots and humans.

I just shrug, looking at Optimus, who was still looking at me. But when I looked at him, he quickly looked away to Ironhide.

Cutie~

"Alex seems to know so much, why not ask her?."

That statement of a bystanding soldier was met with a glare from Optimus.

"Alex is a he, you better make sure to remember that!"

They went to protest, but Optimus wouldn't let them. "Unless you wish to get what humans call fired."

Oh shit he's really mad...

"I will make sure of that if you continue your unreasonable behavior."

As he said that I could swear I saw the soldier shrink right then and there infront of my own two eyes.

He looks at everyone. "This counts for everyone here. You will respect Alex."

Oh god, he's standing up for me I can't please marry me Optimus, like right now!

"Okay, lessons aside.", Epps put a hand on my shoulder, smiling. "You were great by the way. I think we can use that for good."

He looked between everyone, a stern expression replacing the warm smile, hand leaving my shoulder. "As much as of a crucial hint this is, we can't know for sure what's exactly causing the malfunction. Better dig people."

True honestly, but HOW is anyone supposed to figure it out without cutting someone open? Megs maybe...?!

"Something's on your mind again, I can see that.", Bumblebee said with snippets over the radio.

"What, me?! It's nothing."

"Nothing?!", Jazz protested. "You just gave us the best clue we could ask for. I'm no Optimus Prime but I can say that I wanna hear ya out my man."

He looks up at Optimus, who was looking at me again after listening to his lieutenant.

"I must say, that you have given us great insight on your mental capabilities Alex."

He leans closer and it took everything of the mental capabilities he just mentioned to not kiss him right here right now.

"Well uh, it's just some kind of impulsive thought. You know, the ones you can't really control...",I said nervously, one hand behind my neck, avoiding everyone's gaze.

But he didn't budge, only blinking once while awaiting an answer.

"Okay, you're not budging I see. Fine."

Taking a deep breath and regretting every life choice I had made up until that point, I went on. "Look, I don't know anything about Cybertronian culture and how things are handled. Especially this right here. Us humans, we always wanna know what exactly caused certain events. For example death here. So we came up with analyzing the body of the dead by cutting them open and stuff, it's called autopsy. Maybe, just maybe we could find something. I know Megatron ain't dead but he's in some sort of... Stasis? Someone could check his navigation system and maybe find the cause for the disruption."

I lower my shoulders, trying to be as small as I possibly could infront of Optimus, who's gaze I couldn't quite interpret.

"On Cybertron, there is quite a similar practise."

"So you're saying it's worth a shot, Prime?", Ironhide asks, unsure of what to think of the situation. "But he's not dead, as Alexander pointed out correctly.", Ratchet added.

Optimus turned around to face his Autobots.

"This may be our only chance. We must take it. For the sake of both worlds. This war has been going on for so long, we cannot let this hold us down. And now it seems there is a way to find out why this is happening. We will fix it, together."

Now it was on Lennox to speak up again.

"So we gon' dissect Megatron? I'm all in honestly. That fucker did enough damage."

My eyes widen at that. "They're not gonna kill him!" Unsure of the righteousness of what I just said I looked at Optimus, who nodded.

"See? They're just gonna take out the navigation system and leave."

"Ooh, big M is gonna be SO mad when he finds out."

"He won't.", Optimus retorted with an absolute certainty in his voice.

"Alright then, it's settled. Prepare people and gather as much information as possible for this mission and await any orders from Big O!"

And with that final order of Lennox the soldiers scattered around, leaving immediately.

Okay great, I'm gonna go be useless again wohoo.

"Alex?"

I look toward the sound of the voice I already grew to cherish. "I know, I know. I ain't accompanying you. I'd die if I did, already know that."

The Prime nods.

"I am glad you understand."

I love you so much I wish I could tell you...

As he remained standing there I grew nervous, fidgeting with the strings of my hoodie.

"Is there something you need?"

"Wha- me? No! Just... go be a hero.

You know you're good at it."

I clear my throat, pretty sure Optimus could hear my pulse. "But remember to take a break sometimes. I always see you up and about."

Did I overstep? I knew it. Chance blown. Goodbye earth. No romance.

"I highly appreciate your concern Alex."

He's always saying my name help. Is he just being polite or what does this mean?!

"There is this human saying. What was it again? I grab it with my heart...?"

Please he's so cute I can't~

"I'll take it to heart was it probably. It means to honor someone's wishes as you see them important."

He tilts his helm in question. "The person or the wish?"

That is when I think all the 5 liters of blood inside my body went up to my face.

Keep calm, stay cool Alex. Don't embarrass yourself.

"It's up to the person saying that."

Whatever higher power there is, please help me!

"You deem my wellbeing as important and so do I"

Phew, that was close...

"Can it be both?"

WHAT

"Eh, sure. There's always room for interpretation."

I guess...?

What has my life come to? They probably think I'm a know it all person. I gotta keep my damn mouth shut from now on.

"Very well then Alex, I look forward to working with you."

I only nod, trying not to get lost in those beautiful blue optics.

"I'm sure it's gonna be great Optimus!"

Unless I unsubscribe from life because a Deception squishes me...

[gingerlegacy07]

Writer Interview Game

Thank you @morelikeravenbore for the tag! Everyone please check out her blog! She's a great writer with a beautiful MC!

When did you start writing? I was around 12/13 when I first wrote an actual little story. I loved doing it once for an assignment at school and from there on I kept writing. Mostly it was little love stories I made up, but when I was 15 I really got into Cinema Bizarre and wrote a (very bad, very cringey) chaptered story about them. I also wrote a pretty big Supernatural story in Dutch, but I never continued it after about 30 chapters. I stopped writing for a few years after that. I always loved reading fanfiction though and once I got into Kpop when I was 20, I started writing a little bit again. Mostly oneshots and all. After that I didn't write in over 8 years. Well, at one point I did try my hand on an orginal story, but I'm not even two chapters in so... Anyway, when HL came out I really got obsessed with it. And I started reading fanfiction about it. Before I knew it I was writing again and this time actually finished every story I started haha. Are there different themes or genres you enjoy reading than what you write? The only trope rather than genre that I enjoy reading, but haven't written (yet lol) is enemies-to-lovers. I absolutely love that trope, but only if it's done well. And I have not yet dared to try it because I feel like I wouldn't make it good. But one day I do really want to try writing it. Is there a writer you want to emulate or get compared to often? No. I'd rather have my own style and so far I haven't been compared to someone. Though I do admit that since I read most books in English, I've gotten some ideas of describing certain scenes or use certain wording in my writing. Can you tell me a bit about your writing space? Simple; on my bed, on my couch or sitting at my dinner table haha. I'll admit I've even wrote a bit at work lol. I don't really care for the space around me. All I need is my laptop and the inspiration/want to write and the words will come to me.

What's your most effective way to muster up a muse? Listening to music, reading or watching a movie. Basically seeing or hearing anything that tells a story. A lot of times it either brings me ideas on how to proceed or it creates a vague outline for me which I want to expand and write a oneshot. I have a few stories written that are heavily based on a song. But sometimes I want to progress my WIP and want something to happen, just that I don't know what. Music, video's or book can help with that. Are there any recurring themes in your writing? Do they surprise you? Absolutely. Heartbreak, fluffiness, happy family life. With nsfw fics it's the aftercare scene and there's almost always some form of trauma. It doesn't surprise me as those themes are the ones I love to write and feel comfortable writing. Happy family life and aftercare is something I enjoy writing a lot and fluff is something I write because I'm a huge empath and need some fluff (especially after writing a very angsty scene or oneshot) to heal me. Heartbreak can make for the most delicious and soulcrushing angst and trauma does that too. They also help with character development; your character goes through something terrible and you'll need to write them dealing with it and moving on (or not) from it in their own way. What is your reason for writing? Because I want to read something that I haven't seen before or is hard to find and then I decide, well I can just write it myself. For example: with HL, I stuck to reading fanfiction until I started shipping Ominis and Poppy together. There were hardly any fics out there and the very few that were, only had them as a minor side couple. So I decided I wanted to write something with them, where they develop a friendship that turns into a relationship overtime. Very slowburn. At the same time I wanted people to read it or at least get interested and since I was sure just writing them as a main couple might not work (and honestly, I do love me some good SebastianxMC), I decided to make the main characters SebastianxReader (so whoever read it could insert either themselves, their own MC or someone they made up on the spot) with Ominis and Poppy as a pretty big side couple. So yeah, my main reason for writing is because I always got ideas in my head that I would love to read, but is hard to find. Thus I try writing it myself. Is their any specific comment or type of comment you find particularly motivating? Honestly, any kind of positive comment is already motivating to me. But whenever someone takes their time to give a bit more details to their thoughts about my writing, it is extremely motivating for me to write more. It always helps to know someone likes it enough to leave a long comment and with giving their thoughts, I can get a bit of perspective on what my readers like/do not like. How do you want to be thought about by your readers? Good question. I don't necessarily want them to have a particular opinion about me, but I'd be flattered if, whenever they see my name besides a title, they think along the lines of: Oh I do like her stories. I dunno. It's always nice to know people enjoy your work, but as far as having an opinion about me, it doesn't matter really. What do you feel is your greatest strength as a writer? I think understanding the characters I write and sticking to that while I develop their growth in my stories. How do you feel about your own writing? Not gonna lie, I always thought it was trash, but ever since I started writing for HL I actually like it now. Still, the first few chapters of my trilogy are a bit... icky to me, but overall I think I do a decent job at writing and it's pretty good. Most importantly; I love it!

That was fun! Thank you for whoever made this :D NP tags: @writingannyred @polarisgreenley @zetadraconis11 @sallowslove @mspegasus17

[acaciapines]

for the ask game, answer whichever of these speak to you the most: 4, 5, 11, 14 :D

HI ASH MY LOVE ASH.

oh they ALWAYS speak to me. i answer All. i will not be contained.

4. How many WIPs do you have right now?

actually shockingly few! ever since i finished my big owl house editing pass back in june i've not done a whole lot in terms of projects...and recently i've been playing rain world so instead of writing im playing rain world like 24/7. currently my only main project is the dess raises kris au, and in that 'verse the only thing i'm writing right now is a dess/chara relationship study. i WOULD finish it, but, uh. rain world. (<- guy who is trying so hard not to write rain world fic. i probably wont but also i am always tormented by ideas. but consider i have to tell the story of my slugpup scooter SCOOTER I WONT EVER FORGET YOU--)

5. What's a fic idea you've had that you will never write?

probably countless that i do not remember right now! but digging around through my drafts, i've got a few deltarune daemon aus that won't ever see the light of day...one of them was a fangame where the player played as one of kris's two daemons, and the other was a fic where ralsei was kris's daemon. the ideas from there have basically been repurposed elsewhere--a lot of my kris&ralsei stuff went into various works, and the fangame stuff is being reworked into the dess raises kris au.

beyond that, in terms of things that are actually abandoned and won't be used elsewhere, there are so many daemon aus that i've left behind for one reason or another, though the gravity falls transcendence au is the one that i think was the best...that one postcanon his dark materials fic i was gonna write where lyra and pan return to will's world and cause general shenanigans there with him and kirjava...a vera-centric son of sea foam wings of fire au because vera is the love of my life and i was rereading wings of fire bc i felt nostalgic....oh my god fantasy high SOPHOMORE YEAR FIC, which i tried to start TWICE, once from fig's pov and once from ayda's that was their road trip back home and i have some very funny snippets from...MY INFINITY TRAIN DAEMON AU WAIT THAT ONE STILL GOES SO HARD ACTUALLY. okay drop everything ive ever said the fact that i never wrote my infinity train book two daemon au is a travesty. i was cooking with that one.

11. Do you have specific playlists for writing fics?

sort of! i usually always have at least one or two songs i connect to any given fic, but in terms of what i listen to when actually WRITING, it's changed over the years. i used to put on compilations of video game music--usually utdr, pmd, and then just whatever got recommended to me lol--then i did like. those character playlists people make on youtube? mostly bc they tended to pull from the same pool of songs so it became good background noise lol. now i use the youtube mix or whatever its called for a similar reason--it tends to play the same handful of songs ive listened to a lot, so they dont distract me.

14. If you could see one of your fics adapted into a visual medium, such as comic or film, which fan fic would you pick?

oh i LOVE this question, and it would be without a doubt my nimona daemon au oh, are you at all like me. nimona itself is obviously both a comic and a movie, and i'd say animated film since the fic follows the movie plot more--i think there'd be a LOT of really cool scenes you could get with that fic. i also think i could make killer animatics based on my fics if i could draw good enough <3 and thats not a joke i have scripts and sketch storyboards and everything. maybe one day i'll finish one of those.

[evilpenguinrika]

How about 4 and 73?

Ask Game For Fanfic Writers

4. what is the plot bunny you’ve been carrying for the longest? optional bonus question: do you ever wonder why you haven’t written it yet and experience deep existential dread?

OHHHH BOYYYYYYYYYY. I actually have a few I believe. But I'll share a few since this would end up getting way too long lol (plus I would have to comb through my backlog to remember):

I have two plus one rewrite ideas for Ikarishipping. The rewrite is basically just a whole rewrite (for the second time in my life) of my biggest at-the-time on-going fic Bluebells and Lavenders/re: Bluebells and Lavenders that I posted way back on ffnet. The reason being that when I first wrote BbaL I was like, 13-15 and got a really nasty flame comment (I am showing my age with this lol) about my grammar and writing syntax, plot, etc and like, at the time despite English being my first language, I just could not understand grammar or the basics of the English language (look, words are hard okay 😥).

So I decided from that flame comment I was going to rewrite that fic and I did when I was 16-17. But since then my writing and style have changed and I would like to rewrite it and post it on ao3. I think I haven't gotten around to it is because it's just... A lot to do. And a lot to plan. When I rewrote BbaL and wrote re:BbaL I had meticulous notes that I have no idea where they are now.

The other two Ikari fics I want to write, one is insp by Marianas Trench song "Haven't Had Enough" which I also originally wanted to do a Cosplay Music Video back when I was 15-16 because why not lol. Plus CMVs were really popular back in my day (OH GOD I USED THAT PHRASE). I'm not sure if it's still popular now? It would be, also a Modern AU/College AU I think? I haven't really thought that ahead other than "slow burn rivals to friends to lovers" LOL

And the second idea is just inspired by the song "SUPERMODEL" by Maneskin. I'm not sure what the root idea would be other than maybe Paul and Dawn are both huge top models...? Yeah, I hadn't really gotten too far with this idea haha.

Another plot bunny I had on hold is a Hosie one actually! Actually I have a lot but I'll share two:

One is a Modern AU and it's actually inspired by my time working on student films. Except this idea is more Josie has a webseries and brought in friends from her film school days to help her out and Hope is the cinematographer. I started writing it actually, around the same time I was working on my own webseries. But since my webseries project went caput, I haven't found motivation to keep writing this fic.

The second is a Life is Strange 1 AU where Josie is Max Caulfield and Hope is Chloe Price. I wanted it to also be like a "choose your own adventure" type fic as well where at the end of certain chapters with BIG decisions, you would then pick your choice between 2 options and skip to whatever chapter your choice would be in. I think the reason I haven't done this is cuz it's also pretty hefty to write, and also doing a "choose your own adventure" is gonna require lots of meticulous planning that I don't have the spoons for.

73. how do you visualize scenes? do you see it like a movie in your head, or do the words just flow?

Definitely like a movie in my head!! It helps me more when I picture the scenes I want to write in my head and then I just figure out the words from there.

It's especially helpful when I write fight scenes! I watch a lot of anime and other action-based shows (recently binge watched Cobra Kai and watched some clips from The Magicians since I miss that show a lot), so when I write fight scenes in my stories (mainly You're The One Born To Save Hosie series), I just visualize the fights/actions like an anime. I mean, I already mucked up the magic lore in the TVDUniverse so I might as well keep going with the artistic liberties and flair with it haha. Plus, it's really fun writing these anime-esque action fight scenes :3

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thanks for the ask!!

[trialbystory]

Hmmm. Fic you maybe aren't doing now but would like to do in the future rwby and otherwise at a later date. As big and grand as you'd like. All about it. What is it based on, pairings, general plot, etc.

One RWBY answer and one OriginalFiction answer. Rwby first.

Here's a loose idea for a RWBY fic I haven't talked about anywhere and only have a single line written down for in my notes app but have A LOT of random thoughts for. Contemporary paranormal/occultism setting, think along the lines of the Dresden Files. But our main character isn't a gruff yet affable wizard-for-hire. It's Weiss (just Weiss). A necromancer, not yet fully aware of the greater mysteries of the world or even her own existence, but she's got a chip on her shoulder and a thread to pull on that leads her ever-closer to solving a very personal vendetta, but also embroils her in an unseen conflict that threatens so much more than her little piece of reality. It's a White Rose polyfic with the third (and beyond?) member undecided, but Weiss is the lead protag, Ruby shows up relatively early in a support capacity. She'll be some manner of maker or techy-type. And I like Maria as an instructor/mentor of some sort for Weiss. I have vague ideas for including Cinder and Winter, but nothing approaching solid for anyone else yet. This idea started because I have a page in StandardNotes that's several context-less quotes from various things I like and I did a thought exercise where I tried come up with a concept that might eventually use all of them, and that became this. If you want to try and fantasy book what this might end up looking like, here's the list of quotes as it currently stands. There were others when I first came up with this that I've since changed my mind on. There might be more that get added before work truly begins.

That got longer than intended. OriginalFiction idea below the break.

You want grand? Let me introduce you to something I came up with originally back in 2019 that I currently refer to as Project Opus.

Three stories. Completely individual and stand alone, in no way will they be explicitly grouped together. But if you pay attention you'll start to notice things. Someone in Story A will talk about an event from Story B as if they lived it. Or there will be a news report in the background of Story C that might give people who've been following one of the other two some deja vu. Or the same scene, playing out in 2 or all 3 stories from different points of view.

Story A is the baseline. A slice-of-life story about mostly normal people in a mostly normal world. Sometimes exciting or unusual things will happen, but it's mostly taken in stride. Such events are notable, but not necessarily unusual, if you take my meaning. Story B Is what's behind the Masquerade. It shares its setting with Story A, but its world is very different. To use a metaphor from movies, Story B is what Neo, Morpheus, and the rest of the Nebuchadnezzar's crew are doing inside the Matrix, while Story A follows the regular people go about their lives unaware of what's happening just under their noses. And Story C is the meat of it. Observers or overseers. Puppetmasters watching and controlling everything from behind the scenes. A lot of the individual narrative of this one will be powerplays and intrigue among these people and the different goals they may have. Like the folks running the park in WestWorld, though I think they'll be actually in the same world as A and B rather than apart from/above it. Shadowy councils and hidden conspiracies. You can follow any one of them and enjoy a self-contained story. But if you're reading all three, and if you're paying attention, you start to see the Narrative. The actual story that's being told across all of these three together. Where might that lead? Yeah, there's a reason I call this Project Opus. If I actually manage to pull it off it will without question be my magnum opus. Which is hilarious, because back when I first started writing I adopted "Opus In Progress" as a sort of personal motto. But it's supposed to be aspirational. Always push forward, try to make each work better than the last one, so if someone asks me what my 'opus' is (not that I actually expect anyone to), the answer is always "The WIP I'm making right now." But if this ever actually becomes a thing, the way I currently envision it, I don't know that I'd be able to top it.

[antisociallilbrat]

i would like to hear about the history of stenbrough as a ship bc as someone who left the fandom after like two months in 2017 (<- book fan curse) i am INVESTED

Say no more *cracks knuckles*

Disclaimer: Please do not take everything I say as fact, this is just my interpretation of the ship's history through out this fandom from my perspective

Okay so let's start at the very release of the 2017 movie. There were four ships out the gate and they may surprise some people, but they were Reddie (which would quickly become the main ship runner), Bichie, and Stanlon. Billverly was a strong contender but it was quickly overshadowed by Benverly once Movie fans were made aware by Book fans that they were endgame in canon. Notice how I didn't mention Stenbrough?

I'm not saying people didn't ship it after the movie came out but it couldn't compete with Bichie or Stanlon in those first few crucial weeks. Stanlon eventually died down the level of popularity that Stenbrough was at during this time but Bichie still ran strong for a good while until eventually losing popularity the more popular Reddie got. Which brings us right into the the It fandom of early 2018.

So if Bichie was losing popularity, what do we do with Bill? Who does he smooch? Oh what about Stan? They had some romantic chemistry right? - A reddie fic writer (probably)

Stenbrough really got its popularity from being a background ship for reddie fics. I can't say why Reddie writers choose this ship more over Stanlon, maybe they actually just shipped them or maybe it had something to do with wanting to just write the core four? This is also around the time the *bad* trend came about of just disregarding Mike, Bev, and Ben, or giving them like two lines- or their tropes. Ya know, Mike the only single Loser, Ben just being Bev's Bf, and Bev being a fangirl for a core four pair.

Anyways- I need to mention this even though it makes me uncomfortable bc it was such a dark time in the It fandom that Ik we all try to forget but we can't deny it happened. Remember fack? Which did fuel the reddie ship for a couple of weirdos? Same was happening- on a smaller scale- with Jyatt. Plz someone I am literally grimacing I hate this so much. Some weirdos went "Jaeden and Wyatt are best friends in irl so now i'm going to ship them" which boiled over into Stenbrough.

OKAY MOVING ON into something so much nicer, the Stenbrough renaissance 🥰🥰

From like mid 2018 to 2019 there were so many good Stenbrough fics. Stenbrough had become popular enough to stand on its own as a ship. And I'm not saying that good fics that were solely stenbrough based weren't coming out before this, this was just when we saw a big boom of them. Also at this point in the fandom, especially late 2018 to early 2019, the fandom had died down a little. I actually took a bit of a break from the it fandom during this period. But bc the fandom had died down during those few months, other ships had some room to breathe besides Reddie, one's like Bichie and Steddie, Stanverly, Poly Losers, but mainly Stenbrough. I would dare say at this point some shippers were Reddied out (they didn't know what was coming with that 2019 movie, the resurgence) so Stenbrough was honestly, very popular.

Now let's get to the 2019 movie. Reddie once again, took its place right back on top, there was a resurgence in the It fandom. I- foolishly- went into the 2019 movie hoping to see more Bichie content that would fuel my headcannons bc I was not yet a stenbrough shipper. Still didn't change after the 2019 movie.

So the ships this time around concerning Bill and Stan were a lil different. Stanpat had more of a bearing- albeit usually always as a background ship- but Hanbrough became extremely popular. Kind of a switch from the 2017 movie with Stanlon. So honestly while Stenbrough did grow after this movie, I would argue that growth was kinda stunted by Hanbrough- which I can't say I'm mad about, that's an awesome ship as well.

And yeah Stenbrough ship held on for a while after the 2019 movie and we were still getting good fics and works for it, but I think the reason it held on for so long was because Idk- a major world event happened or something and people suddenly had more free time. Am I saying covid affect the It fandom? Abso-fucking-lutely. That's when i started writing fanfic for Stenbrough.

When did I start shipping Stenbrough? It was a mixture of being home during the pandemic and reading fics from the Stenbrough renaissance. Whoops.

Which just brings us to now bc from late 2020 to now in 2023 it's pretty much the same. Stenbrough is technically a dead ship. People still enjoy it and good fics still get written for it, but it doesn't even brush the height of it's once popularity and it never will again. Kinda depressing but I don't let it bother me too much. I'm still going to be the fool who pushes out content for it 🤷🏻

[martianbugsbunny]

Martian’s Masterlist!

Figured it was about time I collected all of my fics into one area, will ofc be updating it as I write more. It’s sorted by ship, including wherefrom they originate, with a brief description of what type (one-shot, chapter fic, same-universe if I’m feeling saucy) and a short summary of what happens. V proud of myself for figuring out how to link these tbh, but if any of the links isn’t working for the love of Pete please let me know. Fics with more than one chapter will be linked to the first chapter because...logic.

For the tags, I have chosen to only use the ship names, not __ x __ format, for the sake of trying to keep the tags somewhat in hand. I have, however, tried to use what I’m aware of being the most popular/common names for ships, as well as the alternate ones I’ve seen for more niche stuff. Also tagged are the shipped characters. If I add new ships, I'll have to reblog bc of the tag limit.

*Hands you the rabbit hole* Have fun going down!

The Bad Batch {Star Wars: The Bad Batch}:

He Waits By The Riverside: One-shot. This one is different because it’s not really a ship fic, which is unusual for me; it’s more Tech-centric. Based on the song He Waits, By The Riverside from the show Renegade Nell, using the lyrics to explore the moment Tech crosses over into the afterlife and begins his wait for his family.

CaptainCroc/GoldenHook (Rumplestiltskin x Killian Jones {Once Upon A Time}):

Is This Love Persevering? (It Feels More Like The End of the World): One-shot. Established CaptainCroc mourning the loss of Baelfire. Canon-divergent for the sake of Rumple actually getting to attend his son’s funeral.

Who Makes You See Color: Chapter fic, 14 total. CaptainCroc soulmates AU where one person sees color earlier than the other. Extends from pre-Dark One era to the First Curse being broken.

The Truth Echoes Darkly: Short series; part 1 for The Truth Echoes Darkly. Echo Caves AU where instead of Emma, Hook confesses that he loves Rumple for maximum awkward.

The Echo Goes On: Short series; part 2 for The Truth Echoes Darkly. Back in Storybrooke, Rumple finds himself obsessed with Hook and realizes that he’s fallen in love as well.

My North Star: One-shot. Established CaptainCroc vow renewal, featuring Hook’s inner thoughts about how much he loves Rumple.

Better Than Blood: One-shot. Pretty racy, but the point is thinking about the poeticism of having sex with your ex-nemesis.

Cherik (Charles Xavier x Erik Lehnsherr {X-Men Movies}):

Sweetheart Will You Sleep With Me: One-shot. The night before they fight Shaw, Charles and Erik make the most of the little time they know they have left together and sleep in Charles’ room. Fluff, don’t get too excited by the title lol.

Baby While You’re At It: One-shot. Based on a Jessie Murph song. Angst with a happy ending. Charles is furious when Erik crashes a party at the school, so they have it out in the kitchen and get more-or-less back together by the end.

Espionage Husbands (Talos x Nick Fury {Captain Marvel/Secret Invasion}):

Locked In This Embrace: One-shot. Focuses on the forehead-touching scene from Episode 1, plus an original scene or two afterwards. Mostly Talos pining for Nick with a happy ending.

If You Are Gilgamesh And Did These Things: One-shot. Angst without a happy ending because the author was very upset and sad when Talos died. Nick is grieving Talos; Sonya isn’t helping.

Frankenwolf (Ruby Lucas x Victor Frankenstein {Once Upon A Time}):

Den of Blankets: One-shot. Ruby’s wolf instincts kick in during pregnancy and she builds a blanket-fort den. V fluff.

She Deserves To Have Your Name: One-shot (possibly same-universe as Den of Blankets). Victor has doubts about whether or not their child should have the name Frankenstein, but Ruby wouldn’t hear of anything else.

It’s Just A Dream: One-shot. Ruby has a nightmare spawned from her fears of being a bad parent; Victor comforts her.

As The Storm Blows Through: One-shot. Victor has anxiety during a storm because of what happened with Gerhardt, and Ruby comforts him.

Secret Admirers Are For The Subtle: One-shot. Victor anonymously sends Ruby flowers at the diner so he can drop by, “notice” them, and stick around to sketch them, all so he can spend time with Ruby. She’s on to him the entire time.

Blue Skies Smiling At Me: One-shot. Utterly fluffy beach fic. Ruby is having a good day relaxing with her friends, and it only gets better when her handsome husband joins them.

Frankenberry And The Fruit Brute: One-shot. Fun little Halloween fic where Ruby and Victor discover the General Mills cereals that match their fairytale identities.

Precursor To A Love Song: One-shot. Hyperion Heights AU where Ruby and Victor meet and feel an instant connection, even though they don’t know why. She’s a fashion designer and he’s a piano player/freelance artist. Potential springboard for a full chapter fic if I feel like it.

Georry (George Hazard x Orry Main {North and South}):

Stay By The Fire And Love Me: One-shot. The barn scene but Orry decides to stay and he and George bed down together for the night. Kind of a character study/relationship study.

HatterHare (Mad Hatter x March Hare {Adventures In Wonderland}):

The First Kiss: One-shot. Just a fluffy lil idea about what their first kiss might’ve been like.

Every Bit Of You: One-shot. Projection’n’stuff about food issues basically.

Kalluzeb (Garazeb Orrelios x Alexsandr Kallus {Star Wars Rebels}):

Don’t You Know It’s Because He Loves You?: One-shot. Kallus discovers that Zeb is in love with him via a Lasat Honor Guard tradition.

To Convince You That I Love You: Chapter fic. Kallus does risky things to prove he would do anything for love of Zeb, or that he’s worthy of him, and ends up getting hurt. Angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort.

Hour One: One-shot. The rite-of-passage post-Zero Hour fic!!! You know what’s in here and you know you want to read it! Basically just good old hurt/comfort.

Lokius (Loki x Mobius {Loki}):

The Man Of My Dreams And He’s Just Out Of Reach: One-shot (with a very long name lol). Mobius stands there across the street from Don’s house and misses Loki. Author was having some Feelings™.

Outlaw Queen (Regina Mills x Robin Hood {Once Upon A Time}):

A Slice Of Life: One-shot. Regina spends the day with her boys and thinks about how awesome it is to have them. V fluffy because the OQ family didn’t get enough of that.

Paxe/AxePaz (Paz Vizsla x Axe Woves {The Mandalorian}):

We Are Mandalorians: Our Love Must Be Forged: Chapter fic, 11 total. Axe and Paz slowly fall in love as they engage in the battle to retake Mandalore, more or less a fix-it for Paz dying in S3 canon.

PloKit (Plo Koon x Kit Fisto {Star Wars: the Clone Wars}):

Reader, Plo Married Him: One-shot. Plo and Kit share some quiet time just after their wedding.

The Tender Daily Ritual: One-shot. Basically just fluff; Kit helps Plo with lotioning his skin because it dries out in oxygen atmospheres.

Scogan (Scott Summers x Logan Howlett {X-Men Movies}):

Torn Between Love And Fear: One-shot. Scott wants to stay after sex and sleep in Logan’s room, but Logan is terrified of hurting him during a nightmare. Angst with a happy (and sort of spicy) ending.

You Scratch My Back, I’ll Scratch Yours: One-shot. Logan and Scott discover they have a mutual pain kink and indulge in it together for the first time. Incredibly spicy, I'm so proud of myself.

Guilt (It’s Gonna Last Forever): One-shot. Intended to be in the same universe as Torn Between Love And Fear. Logan has a nightmare and accidentally stabs Scott, making his worst fear a reality. No resolution for whether or not Scott lives.

Spones (Spock x Dr. McCoy {Star Trek TOS}):

I Could Drink A Case Of You (I Would Still Be On My Feet): One-shot. Based on a Joni Mitchell song; angsty with a happy ending.