#so you should read it

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Inspired by the lovely fic A Comet Pulled from Orbit by @cosmic-llin!!

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fic: "I Never Held My Breath for Quite This Long"

T | 9-1-1: eddie POV, bucktommy | ~1900 words

a follow-up, finished version of the last snippet I posted

EXCERPT:

The flow of traffic is forgiving and Eddie gets there sooner than he’d expected.  He goes up to the door and pauses for a moment before he lets himself in.  It would be polite to knock, right?  Just in case.  If he’s disturbing something.  But he clearly hadn’t hung up the phone either, so would it be weirder if he knocked?  Would it seem like he was expecting them to be—?  He fidgets, shifting foot to foot in front of the door.  He's uncomfortable and not willing to articulate why.  It takes a second, but then he shakes himself out of it.  It’s Buck.  It’s just Buck.  He knows Eddie was on the way.

So he lets himself in.

“Hey,” he calls out, and his voice sounds so loud, Jesus, but he tries to ignore it.  “Guys.  I’m here.”

“Yeah, just finishing up,” Tommy calls back.  He sounds unbothered, his voice light and friendly.  So he hadn’t interrupted anything then.  Eddie looks around and sees the first floor bathroom door open.  He walks over and looks in.

His breath catches.

Buck is perched on the edge of the sink, with Tommy standing between the long, long stretch of his legs.  And they’re… they’re shaving.  Tommy is helping Buck shave.  His pale cheeks are covered with silky white foam and Tommy has a firm grip on his chin, tilting his head for a better angle.

“Hey Eddie,” Tommy says, without looking away from Buck.  He has a safety razor with a heavy silver handle gripped tight in one hand, and he draws it in a line, slow and gentle, down the side of Buck’s face.  There is a gap now, in the foam, a line of smooth skin bracketed by two planes of white.  “We’ll be done soon, just finishing up with Evan now.”

“Uh, yeah.  Sure, man.  I can wait.”  He watches as Tommy slides the razor down in another stroke.  It’s an easy practiced movement.  Graceful.  He seems so sure of himself, so comfortable being in control.  “I’m not too early, am I?”

The question was addressed to Buck, but it’s Tommy who answers.  “Not too early.  We told you to come over, right?”  He tilts Buck’s head again.  Shaves another even line through the foam.  “And it’s not like we mind the company, hmm?”

Buck makes a soft noise of agreement.  He doesn’t open his eyes.  It’s like he doesn’t know Eddie’s there at all.

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read at ao3

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[bardofavon]

not to be controversial bc I know this is like…not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if there’s a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formatting…I will also not be offended by having this pointed out…

‘looking forward to the next update’ and ‘I hope you update soon!’ are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.

‘I don’t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel something’ is also incredibly high praise. I’m not going to get mad at this.

even ‘I love this fic but I’m curious about why you made [x] choice’ is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.

I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment that’s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner they’re hoping to receive it in bad faith.

fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes it’s frustrating but it isn’t as though I can’t see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.

idk where I’m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me I’m never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.

[noodles-and-tea]

Last part whoo!!!

PART 1 / PART 2 / PART 3 / PART 4

[andstuffsketches]

girl who lives in a cave

[keferon]

Don’t mind me I just like to see him go bananas about cartoonish Autobot rules

Maaan…..if Prowl was in tfp he would spontaneously combust at least once a day

[ear-motif]

fanfic is so good bc the premise of some genres of fic are just inherently funny. I want these two grizzled crime drama protagonists to have some fucking fun for once, so they go to a water park. I dont care how i have to logic my way into them going there i dont care who has to drag them Theyre Going

[saltymarshmall0w]

Danny is "in denial" about the Waynes being vigilantes

Danny is really grateful for the Waynes taking him in and all but it’s just… it’s really obvious they’re vigilantes. Do they WANT him to find out? Why?? To join their battalion?

Hell nah. He’s already got enough going on trying to keep in check the many shades in the city.

Danny simply pretends to be oblivious about the Waynes being vigilantes. That's a future Danny problem.

It turns into Kyle levels of denial, where he ends up pretending he thinks the vigilantes are actors hired by the city to cover up all the ghosts haunting Gotham.

And obviously, the city bases them on the infamously growing Wayne family. It's so sweet of the Waynes to volunteer to dress up as their character for public appearances.

Meanwhile, Bruce has banned outright telling Danny even though it's been nearly a year of him living with them. So what if Danny glows sometimes and has full conversations with invisible people in dark alleyways, everyone has their quirks! so, the Batkids have resolved to just "accidentally" leave their mask on after patrol or make tactical plans loudly about taking down Penguin's latest scheme with Danny a room over.

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“Is Dick coming to the Gala?” Danny asked as his head swiveled between his phone and the mirror as he attempted to tie his own tie. How did his mom always make it look so easy?

“No, he is going out as Batman tonight, since Father is unable to.” Damian responded. He may as well be blasé about their identities, seeing as Fenton was obviously both completely aware of their identities and completely in denial.

“Oh, man. Does that mean one of the “rouges” are going to attack the gala?” Danny asked, “It’s probably going to be that Two-face guy, huh? He hasn’t made an appearance in a while and his character arc with “Brucie” hasn’t made any progress in a while.”

“Nonsense, there is no predicting the mindset of a criminal like Two-face.” Damian ignored Danny’s disbelieving scoff as he maneuvered his newest brother to face him so he could take over the task for him, else they would be standing there all night. “Besides, Drake is in charge of security for the gala and will do an adequate job securing the venue. If you are afraid remain by my side where I can protect you.”

Damian tightened the tie around Danny's neck and stepped back to let Fenton pull his own collar down.

"That's very sweet of you, Dami." Danny reached up a hand and mussed up Damian's newly-gelled hair, garnering a growl and a shove from the boy. "But you should do normal kid things during the gala, like accidentally saying rude things to old ladies, or complaining about how bored you are, and don't forget to prank all the evil billionaires."

...

The “I told you so.” Danny brazenly mouthed to Damian later in the evening from where Two-face held a gun to his head was as infuriating as it was distressing.

—

(Kyle Weston is the fanon brother of Wes Weston (also a fanon character) who’s whole thing is that he believes in conspiracy theories like Wes, but doesn’t believe in ghosts at all to Wes’s frustration.)

[lazylittledragon]

what if i broke all the bones in your legs actually

[auden-dahn]

"D-Don't worry about me! Focus on helping the little one, okay?" 🌠 panel redraw of @laikascomet

[sherurose]

"You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself." Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

[mohntilyet]

but we're more like brothers (even if it kills you)

[fanaticalthings]

Jason Todd fans come get your daily dose of scrunkly Jason (ft. Damian)

+ Jason being a protective older brother

and them fighting (because obviously)

he's just a little guy here

look at them!! brothers!!

From The Boy Wonder #2 By Juni Ba

[cute-girls-from-vns-anime-manga]

I enjoy dumping a bunch of rb of "im sorry but im not yuri" onto people and just watching as half my following start melting and deperately going to read the entire manga

[arimiadev]

*non-vn gaming journalists constantly foaming at the mouth to assert how much they hate visual novels*

(this is for a review of tsukihime)