#soulxmaka

[silluuuu]

Keep you safe and keep you dreaming

hi friends! wrote a quick lil sickfic for ficwip's 1000-word challenge (write a fic with exactly 1000 words) that doubles as a gift to my no-longer-sick friend @anxietybard!! thank u to @toweroftunes for the beta!! pls give it a read under the cut or on AO3 <3

She hates when he’s sick, and he can’t help feeling guilty about it.

Soul tosses another tissue into the trash-can heap, watching as it tumbles down the mound of bunched-up microbes and nestles itself against the rim. He lets out a sigh that is noisier than usual, mucus corroding the sides of the exhaust pipe that is his throat.

He understands the root of her discomfort, of course. It’s not so much the present cough and sniffles as it is the memories it brings back. It’s the past that eats at her soul, for lack of a better word. Because when he’s sick, she makes herself sick with her own consumption, her own acidic bile of regrets. He knows what she sees, when he’s lying in his own bed in the apartment: the Soul of ten years prior, bedridden and feverish in an infirmary cot, looking like the first cut into an ultra-rare steak.

He tries to remember this, to empathize with this, when she’s being the way she is now, three hours deep into a WebMD rabbit hole and shoving both remedies and conspiracies in his face.

“An orange is a perfectly reasonable thing to eat when you’re sick!” she’s saying from the foot of his bed, holding a plate with a full-on pyramid of them balanced in her left hand, the other hand defensive on her hip.

“S’not the idea of oranges that’s unreasonable, it’s the fact that you’re giving me twelve ,” he grits out. He wants to lie back dramatically, but he’s too clogged up to do so. 

Many moons ago, he would’ve thought of the orange onslaught as a thinly-veiled attempt to keep Blair out of his room, having heard way too many warnings and factoids about cats and their aversions to citrus over the years. As if on cue, Blair yells out a grateful “Thaaank you~!” from the living room, her keen nose having registered the oranges’ absence.

Years prior, Blair would have been way too happy to ‘play nurse’ for him in his vulnerable state - something that had always irked Maka, obviously. To be fair, he sort of feels like having someone lie in bed with him might be pretty helpful for his recuperations, though he has a strong first choice for this assignment, and it certainly has never been Blair.

“Twelve oranges might be good for you!” Maka insists, pinking in the cheeks at his mental suggestions. Their link is always more open when he’s sick; it takes too much effort to keep his walls up that he doesn’t want to expend, and all she usually hears is vague sniffling and doom-and-glooming, so. “Besides,” she adds, suddenly serious. “Scurvy’s making a comeback.”

“You think I have scurvy? ”

“I’m just saying that an orange or twelve couldn’t hurt!” she exclaims, moving to place the plate on his bedside table. He snatches his phone off its charger just in time to avoid death by Annoying Orange, and makes good use of it to pull up the symptoms for scurvy.

As he scrolls, he starts to grin. “Hah. Maybe I caught it from you.” At her curious glance, he adds: “Apparently one of the main symptoms of scurvy is being chronically irritable.”

She huffs, rolling her eyes at him as she exits. Guilt renewed, he sends out an apology on the airwaves, one that she meets with a brush of mental fingers.

M’not going anywhere, okay? he thinks, sending the words through the gap in the door, a love letter. Promise.

There’s a sound like a sigh in her soul, followed by a montage of emotions. An old, deep, burning fear. An undying flame, smothered by time, suddenly reborn. And then - relief. Comfort. And then… guilt of her own, for being the one who needs the comfort.

Go sleep s’more , she thinks back, voice growing weaker as she heads deeper into the house. I’ll be here when you wake up.

The reciprocal I promise that she tacks on is a mere whisper of a thought, but he hears it nonetheless. It’s an effective anesthetic, lulling him into a nap.

He dreams of orange peels and dark cathedrals, the old ache across his ribs tugging at something still-unhealed in his psyche.

When he awakes, it’s to a new smell - a bowl of chicken soup, steam rising and catching the late afternoon sunlight through his window. Next to it, a cascade of saltine crackers arcs along the accompanying plate. A mug of tea sits at its side, steaming slightly as well. The oranges are still there, moved slightly back. She’s left him a tiny space on the table for his phone to sit, which he sheepishly plugs in.

He reaches out for the soup and takes a sip, the ache in his chest slightly soothed. He smiles a little, savoring it, taking in the quiet of the room, the way the steam clears his head, opens his sinuses.

Once he’s almost done, the door clicks open - she’d felt him wake up, of course.

“Is it okay?” she asks.

“S’delicious,” he says, clearing his throat a little.

“Good,” she says, business-like, taking the empty bowl and placing it on the table. And then, slightly less businesslike: “Can I come in?”

He looks up at her, gaze soft as he takes in her embarrassment, as if they haven’t been doing this for years. “Duh.”

She lifts the comforter and clambers in, getting settled and resting her head on his chest.

“You sure you wanna stay?” he asks after a few minutes, poking at her shoulder. “Might get sick.” “S’worth it,” she mutters, ducking her head. “Besides. I’ve had plenty of vitamin C.”

“You sure?” he asks. “Got some oranges I could lend you.”

She scoffs in response, squeezing at his side. 

For the rest of the afternoon, they lie wrapped in each other, comforted by the fact that, amidst the steam and the scent of oranges and the promise of not going anywhere - that suddenly, it’s slightly easier to breathe.

[souleatersoma]

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[reverbmod]

2024 Posting Schedule!

Catch all the sweet Reverb content coming your way very soon!✨

August 16th - La petite robe noire with Artist @jadedkappa and Author @silluuuu

August 17th - Today is Special with Artist @lilliesofinspirationvalley and Author @blackbloodteeth

August 18th - You are my center when I spin away with Artist @mellancholy-morose and Author @chichirichick

August 19th - If my heart were a compass, you’d be north with Artists @drowsystarlight & @vin420 and Author @snorlaxlovesme

August 20th - These Promises with Artist @guacamoletrash and Author @justpocketchange and Author @chichirichick

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August 22nd - A Bit of Bittersweet in the Bake with Artist @bearmageddon and Author @emotional-support-hufflepuff

August 23rd - Death Parties in Paradise with Artist @alcruid and Author @memethebum

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August 28th - The Masque of the Red Death / The Red Masque of Death with Artist @not-so-scandalous and Author @sharks833 and Author @professor-maka

[thiefofblood]

in 2012-2014, i had this folder of solely soma fanart that i would just download off of tumblr and i think google? and i still have it on a usb so i was looking through it the other night and there were 650 images in there that i'd like to at some point go through and source properly (they literally are all named whatever the file name on the dl was, so there's tons of just tumblr+random number names)

anyways all that to say is that when i was looking through it, i found a decent amount of genderbend art, one was male maka/soul, but i had no female soul/maka. so this is me making up for it. everything's the same soul's just a girl now with long hair and an undershave

commissions | ko-fi | shop

[arcadeichu]

Idk if anyone cares about this but I love this ship so damn much 👉👈

[chichirichick]

Happy Reverb [again!]

Since we all know I'm a robot, I was able to churn out Reverb #2, a very special SoMa fic that let me collab with the wonderful @guacamoletrash

These Promises

Keep a close watch on @guacamoletrash for art, since I was too excited to wait :)

[theeyeofthetigger]

Next time you might want to specify when you ask him if he wants some, Maka-

[kittenintheden]

never doubt a bitch’s commitment to sparkle motion

[hraugur]

for @silluuuu the wizard of writing

[lanming-art]

Smile! 💚❤

Do not repost without credits, do not edit or erase the sign ☺🥰

[soulxmakaweek]

Final themes!

Thanks to everyone who sent in theme suggestions and participated in the voting rounds! It’s because of y'all that we now have the final themes for SoulxMaka week 2023!

Just like the years prior, you can create anything for SoulxMaka Week so long as it applies to the themes provided. We ask that you follow each day’s theme as it comes, but you are more than welcome to post for a previous day. You can make any form of art, including fanmixes, drawings, gif or photo sets, interpretive art (like knitting or jewelry), AMVs, fanfiction, or anything else that comes to mind. As long as it has to do with the themes for SoulxMaka Week and that it is about SoMa, anything works!

One thing, though - please do not steal art or repost other people’s work! We ask that you reblog what isn’t yours because it is not yours to take. Respect other people’s hard work!

If you participate, please tag your posts using the tags "SoulxMaka", “SoMaWeek2023”, “SoulxMakaweek”, or @ us (@soulxmakaweek) when you post so that we can find your work and reblog it onto this blog!

Anyway, that’s it! In the meantime, please help us spread the word by reblogging and linking this post to your friends. Have fun preparing for the event!

Love, @redphlox and @l0chn3ss

[silluuuu]

One for the Road ch. 9

happy rainy monday my loves, and i hope you enjoy this long-ish update <3

thank you so much to @toweroftunes for the beta, the support, the long discussions over Halloween costumes and sooo much reminiscing over 2000s pop culture xD

one for the road chapter 9 is up and ready 2 read 💪

[chickycherrycola]

King of My Heart, Ch. 3

Happy Sunday lovelies, and happy KOMH update day! I know it's been a hot minute since I've updated this fic, so I'm very pleased to present this extra-long chapter 😄I won't spoil the goods too much, but in this installment, we meet a bunch of new characters (including one i'm VERY excited about), Damien/Kid continues to have the Worst Time Ever(tm), and our two leading idiots get up to a lot of bickering (and hand-holding😏) on the journey to Bellemorte.

Read Ch 3 here on AO3!

As usual, I must take a moment to thank @moriohpissky for the beta, the gorgeous fanart pieces she's drawn for this fic, and for continuing to be KOMH's #1 fan 👑💖 my endless gratitude and thanks to you, dear!

[reverbmod]

And now the moment you've all been waiting for:

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[thiefofblood]

day 2 - love language

i liked how this looked with just flat colors so :)

commissions | ko-fi

get as a print!

[graylinesspam]

Here's my SoMa playlist for anyone interested. It's not all super romantic or relationship focused tbh. This playlist actually has some lore. from my own brain ofc. I never liked the idea that Maka had zero interest in music (which is a popular headcannon) mostly because she shows a lot of interest in Soul's music in cannon. And also because I can't get the idea of Spirit being a grungy punk dad out of my head.

So this playlist is less of "this song describes them" and more the idea that Soul likes to play music, like a lot, and Maka will only sit through jazz and the backstreet boys for so long before it gets on her nerves. So this is an amalgamation playlist that they built together for like lazy days cleaning the apartment or to listen to together while traveling for missions. And it's music that's kinda outside either of their preferred genres but music that they'll both listen to without outwardly complaining. (Because I headcanon that Maka listens to like thrasher metal or Broadway musical soundtracks. And Soul HATES it).