#techncially not a fic

[grittyreadsfic]

anyway happy offseason what if i did daily recs again

[courfee]

i lowkey wanna post snippets of my fic on here because i need attention and validation to motivate me to write more because for some resaon i decided it was a good idea to write long ass chapters again instead of shorter ones that might just get me more people to tell me how absolutely cool i am (the reason was that this is a 10 things i hate about you au so obviously i cant have more than 10 chapters) (its a struggle) (i am struggling) (i need someone to pat my head and tell me im doing good)

[ghostpal]

Me: I'm going to be super normal about this fic i'm writing. Nothing crazy or in depth, its just for fun. This is super normal

Also Me: *Creates an in depth system for name tags including contents, accessories, and how changing the badges work. Creates a detailed system regarding photos with the band*

Still Me: *does thorough research into the layout of the Pizzaplex. gets frustrated by the maps not clearly lining up and considers making one of my own*

[dorminchu]

soon

you know what? I can’t take it anymore. Ereani Curse of Ymir + endgame marriage fic incoming, soon. can’t give an exact date but I genuinely am invested at this point in their goofy relationship. the warcriminals are learning to love. maybe even make some of the mistakes as their parents but not all. is thant a hint idk maaaan

[sapphicmsmarvel]

a court of thorns and roses masterlist

💜: favorites

🔥: smut/spicy

feysand:

punching bags 💜

feyre x reader

lost and found

feysand x reader:

getting together 💜

the afterglow

feysand vs spider 💜

disability comfort 💜

overstimulated

morrigan x reader:

who i picture as mor

dating mor and meeting the inner circle

gifs with mor + pt 2

tell me what you need me to do

the inner circle walking in

azriel x reader:

the beginning of your life with Azriel

mr. loverboy 💜

worlds collide 💜

nightmares

baby blanket 💜

"too much"

through feyre's eyes

shit got weird 💜

paranormal scaries

crack! headcannons

cassian x reader:

dating a high maintenance girlie

some honkas

with you, i can be quiet without guilt 💜

drowning

im gonna get you pregnant

shy girl series:

summary: Cassian and Y/N awkwardly third wheel (four wheel techncially) Feyre and Rhysand. They find love along the way! (no nesta slander)

coming soon!

you know how to ball, I know aristotle series masterlist

platonic!acotar characters x reader

full cast:

one day at a time

bad dates 💜

rhysand:

the night courts justice 💜

feyre

lost and found

headcannons for all characters

perfume 💜

loving a plus size reader 💜

modern au! competition

getting mad over silly, silly little things

"hey bitch, what's for dinner?" 💜

queer wife energy

random fics ive written for acotar

feeding my complex 💜

^ azriel x reader x feyre x rhysand ^

[comp-lady]

[Fic] Trial and Error

Fandom: Ghost

Pairing: hinted polyghouls

Characters: Swiss, Dew, Rain, Cumuluis, other nameless ghouls

Notes: this is techncially a fill for mushy may day 18 of 2023 lamo

Summary:

Lughnasadh was right around the corner, a holiday of thanks to His Infernal Majesty. To the seven princes and four queens of hell. A large feast for the whole abbey, with the longstanding tradition of an effigy of Baphomat made of bread. Which is what the ghouls are practicing, currently.

Read it here on AO3

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[ectoplasmicsoda]

Psssst for the blooblood enjoyers. This isnt techncially bloobloods but i figured id give ya thos fic i did for phic fight

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55140430

[eddiediazes]

wip wednesday

i was tagged by the wonderful wonderful @rewritetheending who has tagged me in the past when i had nothing to share but i’m back! and writing again! so i DO have something to share today!! so here’s. well techncially it’s a 6x11 coda but in my usual wacky way it’s also just. cuddling fic more or less.

It starts driving him crazy, once he’s noticed. At the store, when Eddie almost puts a hand on his back. At the Diaz house, when Eddie almost bumps their shoulders together in the kitchen. At the loft, when Eddie’s fingertips come within brushing distance of his wrist and then dart away again, and Buck feels like he might actually throw up, after that one.

Every time, he thinks he’ll finally snap and blurt something insane out like, why won’t you touch me anymore? I think I really might die if you never touch me again. But every time the words get stuck in his throat or crowd together around his tongue until the moment passes and he just gives up and moves on.

After two solid weeks of near misses, of Buck noticing every little twitch and falter of Eddie’s hands, Eddie does it again. He reaches out, and he stops, and Buck watches him do it, just stares at his hand as it hovers there, and he snaps. Only - he still doesn’t manage to say anything. Instead, he just reaches out, and takes Eddie’s hand in his own, and holds on like he isn’t going to take no for an answer.

They’re in the grocery store. They’re standing in front of the bananas, and after Buck waxing poetic about appropriate ripeness for a solid two minutes, Eddie finally put a bunch in the cart, and rolled his eyes, and he’d reached over like he was going to take Buck’s elbow and steer him away, but instead he’d stopped again - and now they’re just standing here, holding hands in front of the bananas.

“Okay,” Eddie says out loud, staring down at their hands - which is almost as ridiculous as Buck just deciding to grab his hand in the first place.

going to tag my beloved besties @colonoscopys and @fallingthorns just bc i’m a little out of the loop and don’t know who’s writing and who’s been tagged and who hasn’t but! also if you are reading this and want to share or want me to tag you, you can just consider yourself tagged!

[mintmatcha]

I'm alright how are you?? I come to you asking this; does aizawa ever tell you about oboro?

ALLLRIGHT SO LIKE THIS IS TECHNCIALLY A SPOILER FOR THE AIZAWA CHAPTWRED FIC I NEVER UPDATE BUT YEAH, WE TALK ABOUT OBITO AND THE SHAPE OF GRIEF

"It's not the same," he stumbles over his words, uncharacteristically meek, "It'll never be the same as what you went through, with her-"

Your hand finds his and squeezes. "It's all right."

"I lost a friend." Aizawa squeezes back stronger than you did originally, "When I was young."

It's not quite a shock to you. You had seen the news when you were younger, how a UA student died. Back then, it just felt like words, a news story for you to ponder, but now you can see theripples it all left behind, gripping on to your hand tighter than ever.

"I'm sorry." What else is there to say?

"I'm not looking for sympathy, I just..." he sighs, "I just want you to know that you aren't alone. You aren't the only person defined by grief."

"Is it fucked up that it does make me feel better to know I'm not alone?"

"A little," Aizawa replies, no humor in his voice, "But it also makes you human."

[olderthannetfic]

On BNFs: Techncially speaking, I am one for the small fandom I'm in! Because I'm the only one writing in English AND posting more than once every 5 months. There are other writers. There are even other writers writing in English. But because of my free time and lucky work schedule, I happen to be the only one who hits both those criteria. Meaning if someone doesn't want to google translate read Chinese, they will most likely be reading my fic. No crazy skills or socials. Just some luck.

--

[thekuraning]

34 and 50!

what are your current obsessions?

34 - Time I succeeded

DAMN well ok uhhhh I was top 10 internationally during the DigiCon 2022 vital lab raid!! But I can't prove it since the app shut down. I was proud of that one, though!

My favorite lasting success that I can prove is the first time I finished a longfic, which was called Slowpoke Tails and Koffing Fumes that I posted to FFnet. It's... not very good!! In fact, reading it now I cringe a lot! But it's my favorite because in a time when my life was very rocky and very close to uhhh aliven't-ing, it was a goal I set for myself that kept me keeping on. It's very silly!! And maybe has a few edgelordy moments, but mostly just silly! I am very proud of this shiny little trash bag!

50 - current obsessions

*knocks politely on your door* Excuse me, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, Guzmamore? *wedges my foot inside so you can't close it* listen i was skeptical too ok I was SO SKEPTICAL ok so last april??? I was just hanging around on pinterest, as you do, when I stumbled across this art by Alcka (who is an absolutely lovely artist btw and they have more guzmamore art) and let me tell you something my friend it ACTIVATED something in me and i am about to go on a very long rambling rant about this so im gonna put it under the cut ok??

SO LISSEN OKAY JUST LISSEN im crying im sobbing I used to have a Team Rocket!Sycamore RP blog back in 2013/14ish and I used to play Guzma briefly in Wild Encounters and I thought I had packaged them up and put them in the closet under the shoes but I saw that one piece of art (WHICH SYCAMORE TECHNCIALLY IS NOT EVEN IN!!!) and I became absolutely F E R A L about them overnight like it was supposed to be silly it was supposed to be hahaha and then like a one shot where they kept running into each other on Melemele and went on a silly little date but YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT THEM SO MANY

Because as silly as it WAS once I started writing Turning Point I started kind of like finding this vibe between them??

Like on the one hand you have Guzma who has problems with authority and mommy issues and probably daddy issues too who makes a point not to rely on other people but will fall in line for anyone who gives him a pat on the head

On the other hand you have Augustine whose best friend/lover just died catastrophically but not only that who betrayed him and stabbed him in the back so thoroughly and also he had to give you a medal and a parade for getting lysandre killed like Augustine too has issues no matter what backstory you give him just based on XY alone if the man did not start with issues the man has developed issues

And like to make matters WORSE the headcanons I developed for them completely separately during the times I played either of them ALSO kind of started to vibe? idk idk just each of their dispositions like augustine being a feral little freak and guzma being kind of sturdy and down-to-earth when he's not a seething mess they just started to balance each other out and suddenly i had a finished fic and i couldn't get them out of my head and now somehow i have 4 more long fics in planning mode for these two idiots i just hhhHHHHHHH i cant get over them i love them too much the rarest of my pairs

also i have recently become obsessed with the idea of making pokemon character muppets

[grittyreadsfic]

march fic stats / i also read four books!

[msmargaretmurry]

techncially i think all of tnno has haunted me since the first time i read it but if i am forced to pick favorite lines/scenes:

-the first interview dylan does for the documentary. there’s a part in there that talks about the version of connor they ask about vs the version dylan wants to talk about and i think it just so perfectly conveys that there’s public vs private parts to a person, and how connor always felt comfortable being that version of himself with dylan. i feel like the who they are with each other comes up a lot in the fic overall but right then it really just *chefs kiss* you know?

-the scene where connor comes to dylan’s apartment when he gets back and kev and tanner are there. it’s a killer contrast of the different types of close (the “we weren’t that ridiculous, we’re we?” “i think we were worse” exchange!!) works so well. also within that scene the “An empty apartment can be lonelier than an empty hotel room, because the hotel room, at least, is always temporary” just is a direct hit. like every time i read it my heart just aches

-not really a scene or a line but the alex and dylan friendship is so real in how it is too live far away from a friend who you used to be lucky enough to see all the time but you still remain close

-this line “Dylan has never had another team as close as the Otters were. In Chicago, they came close for a while, but it’s different in the NHL, where guys have wives and children, real families of their own. It’s not a place for staying up all night talking about the future; it’s a place for living it.” something about this last line just makes my brain buzz every time i read it and it always makes me think about how it must feel to be connor and dylan and remember all the plans and hopes and dreams they had about the future and wonder if they’re feeling left behind as their peers settle down and start families and maybe make the dreams they had at that age a reality, if that makes sense?

anyway that’s all

man, sometimes i really miss when i was writing tnno, because it was so satisfying to dig into the dichotomies in it -- public and private, past and future, closeness and distance. dylan's extremely fraught relationship with all these things in relation to connor was just SO good for narrative tension and made it so easy and fun to write. that first interview scene i'm really fond of because it was my first chance to give a look at connor in what is now more or less his element -- no longer the rink, but the studio where he is stubbornly attempting to take charge of his own legacy, with all these people who are super comfortable with this version of him, which is SO weird to dylan and puts him in such a weird mood, which obviously goes great for everyone 😂

the scene in the apartment with the rookies i'm also really fond of because i always think about my first draft of it i had a huge note to the side that just said MAKE THIS HORNIER!!! and obviously it's more of a feelings fic than a horny fic but i did make the scene more EMOTIONALLY horny. which is the most important part i think.

your last point -- that definitely makes sense and for me there is absolutely and undercurrent for both of them of just like. seeing friends and siblings build homes and families, and feeling a little left behind, quietly longing to do that themselves but feeling too unsettled/undeserving/lost/etc to know where to start. but then, you know [ao3 user yourblues voice] sometimes home is a person!! so now that they've found each other again they're gonna start building, too.

this got so long, i'm sorry 😂 but thank you so much!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[ao3feed-tf2ships]

Surprise

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/46075054

by DeckofDragons

The Medics have a surprise for Misha.

Words: 1853, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English

Fandoms: Team Fortress 2

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Heavy (Team Fortress 2), Medic (Team Fortress 2), RED Heavy (Team Fortress 2), RED Medic (Team Fortress 2), BLU Medic (Team Fortress 2)

Relationships: Heavy/Medic (Team Fortress 2), Medic/Medic (Team Fortress 2), Heavy/Medic/Medic

Additional Tags: the teams have merged so they have to go by proper names now, Mpreg, cis mpreg, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Kink, Fic is SFW techncially but I'm into it in a kink way, Technically they're kinda surrogating for each other, Morning Sickness, Non-graphic vomitting, no risk of it but there is frank mention of miscarriage, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, these guys probably shouldn't be parents but it's too late to stop them, inspried by a request

read it on the AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/46075054

[uniasus]

fic rec! Yugioh, 7K

Summary: There are a handful of moments in life where time stops. For Jounouchi, one of these moments follows a card game.

Comments: Mmm, angst. This is a more extreme ending of the pier duel, with Yugi needing medical care and then a dive into Jounouchi's angst about having been controlled/not strong enough to throw off the mind control until too late. Techncially wishshipping, but pre-ship so you can read it as a really close friendship if you want.

[vagrantblvrd]

Can I get some Freewood love with the not!fic prompts?

Friend, omg, yes!

I was thinking about various ideas for these two and was blanking on something that didn’t fizzle out after the first bit?

But I woke up to snow this morning (we usually don’t see a lot of it where I live) and I was like !!!

Because, look, okay. Those snowed in fic tropes that often go hand in hand with a ~remote cabin?

But also I’ve been thinking a lot about bounty hunter-y AUs lately. (I blame all the cheesy movies/tv shows I grew up on).

SO.

FAHC-ish AU where Ryan starts out as this bounty hunter-ish guy. Works with Michael after there was a Situation that amounts to your typical buddy cop kind of deal?

(Loose cannon/idiot Ryan who ended up in the business after some shenanigans that’s part of his Tragic Backstory and somewhat less of a loose cannon Michael who was just tracking down this asshole who owed him money and got dragged into the whole thing and realized he wasn’t bad at it/kind of liked the work? And then like. They started a business together because that’s what happened in a lot of those terribad movies/tv shows I watched I guess?)

ANYWAY.

Bounty hunter Ryan who’s gaining a reputation for being a creepy bastard – that sense of humor of his and jokes that don’t land right with certain audiences. Also, doesn’t talk a lot on jobs because as Michael’s pointed out flubbing his words makes him look like a dumbass? (More of one, anyway.)

So he channels the Cool Guys from terribad 80s movies and such when he’s working, and there was that time the masks came into play because Bigger Baddies and it was a panic!moment and there was a mask kiosk right there, it’s not like he fucking planned it, Michael. (Being the nerd he is, though, he immediately gravitated towards the skull mask and now it’s part of his aesthetic. Because reasons.)

Michael’s back in Los Santos dealing with paperwork and recovering from their last job – took a nasty spill off a low roof and sprained his ankle/fractured something/whatever works as a legit Plot Reason for him not going with Ryan on this latest job.

Hacker who got into stuff he shouldn’t have – businessman or politician or other Upstanding Citizen who has all these Rumors floating around them that went to Ryan and Michael about their problem.

Offering them a shit-ton of money to bring this hacker in, no questions asked and all. Best not to, really, because the little weasel is just full of lies and would say anything to save their skin. Honestly, just trust the businessman/politician explicitly and ignore the hacker’s lies and it’ll all be fine.

(Yeah, not sketchy at all, but the guy’s got some muscle-bound goons with him and they’re definitely the kind who’d have no problems killing a couple of nobodies like Ryan and Michael and what pleasure it will be to do business with them, yes indeedy)

Anyway.

Of course this asshole hacker is Gavin and of course he went digging into stuff he shouldn’t have and oh, God, he should have taken Dan up on the offer to visit him earlier.

Now he’s being chased all over the place by this lunatic in the leather jacket and nothing he does seems to slow him down for long.

Traps and lies and doubling back and hiding and whatever else that ends up with them up in the mountains somehow? Gavin running to this little town – supposed to be able to find a small airport nearby and a plane he could ~borrow to put some space between himself and all these bastards in Los Santos only to find out it was all in vain.

The plane he was told about rusting away, bullet holes all along the fuselage and ripping through one wing and he doesn’t know what happened here, but it can’t have been pleasant.

And then Ryan showing up, all Scary Spooky with his stupid everything (no mask because it really was a one time thing, why won’t you drop it, Michael?) and the piece of junk car Gavin stole to get out there and this ridiculous ~chase up a winding mountain road.

Up high enough for there to be snow, a light dusting of it on the ground and too focused on not dying to notice the storm about to hit, and anyway, anyway.

The car dies halfway up the mountain and Gavin makes a go of it on foot for a bit. Remembers seeing a cabin or such on a map he looked at way earlier, or maybe a gas station attendant mentioned it at some point, whichever.

He gets a fair distance away, Ryan bitching as he gives chase and at the start of this whole merry chase Gavin was !!! but as things went on and Ryan stumbled/fumbled along behind him grumbling and complaining and such he’s more ??? because who the hell is this guy?

Not like the other people this businessman/politician sent after him – those were more likely to just kill him and bring his body in, real unpleasant bastards, but this guy?

Gavin doesn’t even know.

They’ve had those intense face-to-face confrontations that could have gone Badly a time or two, always interrupted by some unsuspecting passerby or stray jumping out of hiding to startle them enough for Gavin to slip away.

Just enough for Gavin to wonder if maybe this one won’t put a bullet in him so he can’t run – one of the others tried that and thank God Gavin stopped by an Ammu-nation before hand to grab some body armor under his clothes or he’d be very, very dead, wouldn’t he?

Make him curious, because for all the inconveniences and such Gavin tosses his way, all the angry yelling and bitching and complaining Gavin catches wind of? He hasn’t decided to hell with it and shot Gavin when he had the chance. (Or worse, because wow there are all these ways he could have killed Gavin by now.)

Anyhow, Gavin’s still running, yes, but he’s not flat-out terrified the way he was at the start. All the traps and whatever else he threw at Ryan intending to slow him down, but no real concern about any injuries that might be inflicted in the process.

Now Gavin finds himself dismissing things that might do serious damage to Ryan even if means Gavin could actually escape. (Stupid, stupid, stupid, because no way to know if he’s right about Ryan or if he’s just looking to collect on a bigger payday for bringing Gavin in alive, but yes.)

And then!

In their run through the woods or whatever is taking place, Gavin has to cross this rickety bridge over a river and is terrified the whole time it’ll give way under his weight, but by some miracle it doesn’t. He gets across just fine, and is almost out of sight when Ryan comes charging across, and of course that’s when the damn thing gives up the ghost.

Gavin pulled up short by Ryan’s startled yelp, turning around just in time to see him swept away by the current and almost, almost taking the opportunity to get the hell away.

But, no.

Because of course he damns himself for being an idiot, a fool, and runs along the river bank after Ryan. Keeps track of him as he pelts along until there’s a safe(ish) spot for him to fish Ryan out, pull him to solid ground.

Ryan who’s been doing his best not to drown, trying to remember all the things you’re supposed to do in that kind of situation and certain he’s going to die out here and Michael will bitch about how fucking stupid he was for the rest of his life, because of course he would.

And then there are hands grabbing at him and he’s being pulled out of the water and onto land and he gets a glimpse of a too-familiar face (annoying as hell and goddamn Ryan hates the little shit so much) before he passes out.

Wakes up who knows how much later in this dusty, rickety old cabin in the middle of nowhere freezing his ass off and also kind of without the clothes he was wearing earlier?

Musty blanket and jacket he doesn’t recognize thrown over him and someone (with an accent) muttering to themselves as they struggle to start a fire and what the hell happened?

He must say something or make too much noise while getting his bearings because the hacker whips around clutching a sad little book of matches in his hand and looking like a trapped animal as he watches Ryan nervously.

“Ah, hello,” the hacker says with this awkward little laugh. “You’re awake?”

And then, you know.

Ryan finding out the hacker dragged Ryan all the way up here just as the snowstorm hit and did what he could to warm him up. Was just starting to work at getting a fire started to warm things up faster when Ryan woke up and looks like they’re going to be stuck up here for a while, you know?Ryan half-frozen and clearly in no shape to hike down the mountain even if the storm wasn’t shaping up to be a bastard of a storm. (Supposed to last a couple of days, dump a significant amount of snow and no one in their right might would be out in it.)

And Gavin is still staring at him warily, keeps out of arm’s reach and skittish as hell and with the flickering light from the lantern Gavin managed to light Ryan can see how tired he looks?

Exhausted and run ragged (literally) and just as beat up after the last however long he’s been on the run. (Way before Ryan and Michael got pulled into things, that’s for damn sure.)

“Oh,” Gavin says, and fishes Ryan’s phone out of his pocket. “Michael wanted you to call him back when you woke up.”

Which.

What.

Gavin shrugs and explains that after he ~borrowed Ryan’s phone off him earlier that day, the day before in one of their face-to-face confrontations Michael called it expecting to get Ryan.

Turns out he’d been doing some Investigating, talked to a hacker buddy of a friend of his (Matt and Jeremy, respectively) and found out the asshole businessman/politician who hired them didn’t tell them everything.

That oh, hey, maybe it would be a good idea to keep Gavin alive and meet back in Los Santos somewhere to discuss what their next move was because they’re pretty much guaranteed to end up dead if they don’t. (The businessman/politician intending to double-cross them and either get them thrown in jail or outright killed rather than risk loose threads and such. What with that being the case with all the others they sent after Gavin and just. Yeah.)

And of course Gavin was like, ??? and talked to Michael about things and they’ve got this truce/understanding thing going on and Michael telling him Ryan’s a stubborn fuck and it might take a while for him to come around. (Also, don’t let the idiot die if at all possible.)

Gavin wary of a trap, but also this tiny grain of hope maybe things wouldn’t end with him dead, and then the bridge and the river and that moment of hesitation he feels guilty/ashamed of as he hands back Ryan’s phone.

Battery’s almost dead and there’s a sliver of a signal up this high/remote location, but the fact Gavin gave it back is…promising?

Not exactly trust but pretty damn close, and Ryan calls Michael and isn’t sure if the asshole hears him or what, but he tells him about their current situation and a place they could meet in a few days before it completely cuts off/dies and then, well.

Then it’s him and Gavin and this cabin in the middle of nowhere and ALL the huddling for warmth and sharing stories and FEELINGs.

Soft looks when Gavin falls asleep somewhere in there, exhausted as hell and the kind of trust/nothing left to do so in Ryan’s presence after everything they’ve been through.

Usual romcom stuff and when the weather clears and they make their way down the mountain to meet up with Gavin run into some baddies and have to fight their way free.

Another day or so to get to the meeting spot with Michael – small town nearby and this abandoned gas station or something like that on the outskirts.

So of course the asshole businessman/politician and his musclebound goons show up. There’s all these veiled/not-so-veiled threats thrown Ryan’s way when it’s obvious he Knows Too Much.

But maybe, the asshole says. There’s a way out of this for Ryan, because the asshole businessman/politician could use resourceful people like Ryan and Michael. Just let him have Gavin and keep his secrets and he and Michael could be looking at a lucrative job offer, if Ryan knows what he means.

Gavin getting all twitchy and fidgety because it’s a good deal, and really, they’re not friends, him and Ryan and Ryan would get to live. (He wouldn’t blame Ryan at all for accepting the offer, maybe tells him with this odd little smile it’s a good deal, you know? Ryan would be a fool to turn it down.)

Ryan watching Gavin who won’t meet his eyes and of course he’s going to tell the asshole businessman/politician to go to hell – even if he hadn’t caught feelings for Gavin he would have – but Gavin seems to think he won’t, and that’s just.

Ryan doesn’t know, really, because one of the goons gets impatient and goes for Gavin and Ryan just reacts – no conscious thought to it at all – and the goon’s on the ground howling about the knife in his leg and Ryan sweeping Gavin behind him before the shooting starts.

They get pinned down and have that Intense Eye Contact Moment where they’re sure they’re about to die and ~confess their love?

But that’s when Michael and Jeremy barrel on in, driving one of Jeremy’s ridiculous Rimmy Tim-ified vehicles and maybe hitting a goon or two along the way.

More shooting and yelling, but this time the odds are more in Ryan and Gavin’s favor and by the time the smoke clears the asshole businessman/politician’s escaped and the goons he left behind are super dead.

Also, the realization they’re all fucked now, because the asshole businessman/politician is definitely going to spin things to make them the villains of the story and him as the Upstanding Citizen most people know him as and, wow, okay, not cool?

But whatever because Ryan and Gavin are being totally obvious about their mutual feelings to the point Jeremy who doesn’t even know them can see it. (And he’s an idiot, as Michael can attest to. Like. Christ, it took forever for Jeremy to realize Michael was flirting with him and they were living together for months before the asshole caught on to the fact they were dating??? Like fucking Christ, what is Michael’s life???)

They end up having to ~go underground in Los Santos to avoid being murderized by various peoples, and people think they’re just another gang/crew in the city so why the hell not live it up, or something.

Hitting back at the businessman/politician by going after his ~unsavory allies and from the outside it looks like any other criminal squabbles, you know?

Rimmy Tim was a joke, but it becomes Jeremy’s Thing. Mogar happens when Michael picks up the leather jacket with the snarling wolf’s head at a thrift shop and someone asks him a dumb question and things go from there.

Gavin is just. He makes the most of being a little shit, and everyone despairs of the day he and Matt meet properly because oh, God, no.

Ryan embraces the stupid skull mask because Michael still won’t leave it alone (and also keeps people from recognizing him). Gavin’s the one with the idea for the face paint, some stupid joke that suddenly wasn’t one day.

(And oh God. Gavin being the one to do his face paint that first time, before they got their shit together and the intimacy of being that close to one another and touching Ryan’s face? Getting him to turn his head for a better angle to work with using a light press of his fingers and sudden  awareness of everything about something like that and FEELINGS and maybe, maybe, that’s the first time they kiss?

OR.

Some awkward throat clearing and eyes being averted with all the !!! of realizing the oh, no he’s hot thing is NOT going to go away anytime soon, what do???)

At some point Geoff and Jack and the people they stole away from Burnie and the Roosters happen and they join forces because wouldn’t you know it? Part of the reason Geoff and Jack and everyone they brought with them are even in Los Santos has to do with the asshole businessman/politician.

Bastard making a grab for Rooster-held territory and/or interests to the point they felt they needed more of a presence in the city, which is where the Fake AH Crew comes in.

And then just.

A lot of shenanigans and assholes getting along too fucking well for anyone’s peace of mind?

Also, also.

Ryan and Gavin finally getting their shit together and smooching the fuck out of each other. (Maybe there’s one close call too many, or Pretend Married for a job, or just. Absent-minded kiss and then the !!! and following panic before they’re like.

WAIT.

Realize they’re basically an old married couple at this point and are like >:((((((((((((( at all the time they wasted when they could have been smooching and so on instead and decide to make up for it.

(The others go from being amused to exasperated to annoyed as fuck in quick succession because goddamn they’re the worst, okay. Sappy motherfuckers who are also assholes and do what they can to make everyone’s life a misery, sometimes even intentionally.)