#this is the good news i needed at the beginning of pride month🥰

[cutedumbbunny]

til death do us part huh?

[bearlytolerant]

makathi prompt #1 - saying "I love you" for the first time 🥰

Fandom: Dragon Age

Rating: Mature for sexual references

Pairing: Athi Lavellan x Makon (Makathi)

Word Count: 1,403

unbridled

Just a notion on a rainy day when her sighs are lost in the patter pat pat of the rain against the glass. His tongue slides along her inner thigh but then pauses so he can take a peek up at her through his lashes. She’s spread before him open and vulnerable. Eyes closed and she trusts him.

I love you.

It’s too soon. So he lets his tongue utter it against her, eliciting a pleasurable groan.

—

A month later he knocks on her apartment door. A muffled, “come in”, and he twists the handle, pushing himself into her world again. Sera’s out and maybe that’s for the best because he only made the space for one person in his life today.

He should wait for her there on the couch. Thinks that’s what social etiquette is or maybe how it should go. But then again, that blanket sitting there on the couch is the one he tasted her under yesterday. He is Makon and she is Athi. They are them. Do the same rules apply if there are even any rules?

So he searches. His path already marked out by her voice just moments before.

The bathroom door is ajar and she’s climbing out of the shower, hair dry and fully clothed and at first it doesn’t register quite right in his mind. Probably because his body’s holding the thought.

She beams at him with pride and he glances up to see she’s installed a new shower head. She’s only thought of him.

I love you.

He knows that’s what she’s saying so he takes her face in his hands and kisses her.

Her lips. Her eyelids. Her neck.

Lips again.

He turns on the shower, tugging her and her laughter in with him. If it were possible, he’d kiss her soul but he finds that making love to her under the water will do for now.

—

He asks her to meet his family.

“I thought I might be too unworthy to meet your family,” she had said. Such a ridiculous thing to say.

He had opened up a crack and let her light in. What it revealed, he had shared. He was scared. What if he wasn’t what she wanted?

What’s ifs and too soons sounded off as excuses but she’d left space for him to be understood.

He still doesn’t realize that too soon stopped applying to them after the first week.

They are here now, though. To see his family. She seems a little nervous, playing with the back of her earring stud as they stand on the porch waiting for someone to open the door. He squeezes her hand and kisses the top of her head. A brush of his thumb along her skin is a measure of reassurance.

When that door opens, it’s only a matter of minutes before she’s drawn into the arms of those he calls brother and sister, swept up in their admiration of her.

Three months in and he smiles at her from across the room. She’s chatting with Vilanti and he knows from the match in energy, that his family loves her too. The notion of soulmates is laughable but there’s something to be said about the way they fill up the spaces that neither of them knew needed filled.

I love you.

He says it with his eyes when, once again, they lock with hers.

—

“It might be easier if you have this.” Athi dangles a key before him and drops it in his open palm. He tucks it away in his back pocket. Pulls her in. Kisses her forehead. Tucks her hair behind her ear to have a good look at her before he kisses her on the lips.

She smiles and then hops onto the edge of the counter as she includes him in the breakdown of her day. It’s been a long time since there was a fight at the bar and even though it was just a few slaps, he can tell it’s the most excitement that place has seen in months. He asks if she’s okay and she shrugs it off because of course she is. She was only pouring drinks. Wiping the counters. A bystander.

“Red or white?” he asks as he plates their dinner and pulls the wine and glasses from the cupboard.

“Red. Always,” she says and sometimes he doesn’t know where he ends and she begins. Maybe he’s just in love with himself.

But then she jumps on his back and kisses his neck.

“What have you been up to mountain man?”

It’s not a matter of beginning or ending. He is Makon and she is Athi. They are them. He is certain that he is in love with her.

“This and that,” he says. “Nothing as exciting as a fight.”

Just briefly he thinks, what if this life he gives her is boring. What if he’s boring? He��ll just have to make sure he isn’t.

She spots the fresh bouquet on the counter and climbs back down to give it a little sniff. “These are beautiful.”

“Not as beautiful as you,” he says, depositing her wine glass in her hand.

“I bet you say that to all the girls.”

“Just one woman.”

She smiles. He lives for those smiles and he takes her hand, yanking her into himself and letting the red wine spill down the front of his apron. He searches those beautiful eyes of hers where moss meets bark and wishes he could belong to that whole inner world behind her irises. It almost comes out then.

I love you.

But the apartment door swings open and they’re pulled apart with the sound of Sera’s mock disgust.

“What’s for dinner lovebirds?”

—

It is not falling or flying. It is like when he first discovered he had magic. It is awe and revel.

That is what it is to be with Athi Lavellan.

There isn’t a discussion about it. Not really. She just asks him if he wants to help her do a little rearranging in her room. He agrees of course and brings a pothos in a hanging basket to put over by the window.

“You know I can’t keep plants alive. You’ll have to do it.”

“I know.”

“Well good. Then it’s not wasted space I made in the dresser for your clothes. You can have the left side of the closet too.”

He’s quiet for a moment—too quiet for one like this and her hands are stuffed into the pockets of her jeans.

“If you want,” she tacks on. Too quiet too. Eyes on the floor.

I love you.

It’s whispered in her grand small gesture and he’s moving for her, hands on her hips, bringing her into himself.

“If I want? That’s like saying I can breathe, if I want.”

“Well, do you?” She is earnest and she is glorious.

“Yes,” he answers. “I like breathing.”

He’s rewarded with a smile and a kiss and he knows that answer will suffice.

—

Six months in and his hands are in her hair and moonlight washes over their bodies.

Enough is enough and too soon is stupid.

“I love you,” they say in tandem, out loud just as their lips pull apart.

His forehead touches hers, long dark hair falling over his shoulder and brushing across her breast. Makon lets out a small laugh then rolls over next to her. He props himself up on an elbow.

“How long did you fight with yourself that you would not be the first to say it out loud?”

A pillow comes flying at his head which he blocks before she shoves him onto his back and straddles him.

“That sort of information will cost you.”

“Will a secret be good enough of an exchange?”

“Depends on the secret. I need at least a medium sized one.”

“So not too big?”

“Just tell me already.”

“I’ve wanted to say I love you since the day I met you.”

“I’ll be honest. That would have scared the shit out of me but I still would have gone on a date with you.”

Makon lets out a laugh that shakes both their bodies. Then he says, “gods, I love you so much,” and it keeps spilling off his lips, pouring over their intertwined bodies.

He’s not sure she can sop it all up. All this love.

But he’s certain she will try.

[kizunaaa-luv]

I have a huge crush on Daniel McGuffey, a video game producer/lead singer of a band, who participated in MasterChef Season 5 nine years ago

It's been a crazy month. I've always known the show MasterChef but never had the interest to watch it until I saw some short clips of MC S4 on Chinese Tiktok (Douyin) in June or July this year. Genuinely, it was just really enjoyable seeing the short clips during my uni break, and I felt I could also improve my English by watching MC. So I decided to watch the actual show starting with S5. Lol that's how I started to binge watch the show! 🤣🤣

In the first episode, that's when I noticed this hot looking guy in a striped t-shirt, with lots of tattoos on his arms, and a pair of glasses. Yeah, it's Daniel McGuffey, lol, but I didn't pay much attention to him at the beginning (coz he barely had any screen time, I mean...). I was more into the show because of Leslie and Ahran, hahahah.

Then in ep12 or 13, when Daniel teamed up with Jaimee, he finally got some screen time, and I thought they looked really cute together, and kinda shipped them 🫢😳😳 This is when I started to pay much more attention to Daniel. However, ironically he soon got eliminated because of the stupid egg soufflé (only when I JUST started to like him A LOT).

Ok, so after I finished S5, I started searching for the contestants' social media to see how they are doing today, and of course, I went straight to Daniel, but guess what? His Instagram account is private. So I requested so many times, but he wouldn't accept my request🙁 So I went to Twitter, but it seems like his old account DanielKaiju was deleted. So I then switched to Facebook, and finally this time I found his account! I got to see recent photos & videos of him, yay!

From Facebook, I got to know that Daniel is now part of a band called The Pride, which I actually started listening to, lol. Their music is even available on the Chinese app QQ music!!!

I like Daniel so so much, so I wanted to find a place where I can share my thoughts. So I downloaded Reddit, an app I've never used before. Sadly, not many people talk about Daniel there. So I then searched for Daniel on Tieba (a Chinese platform similar to Reddit). Luckily, I found a number of posts that expressed their feelings for Daniel which also complimented Daniel's looks lol. Of course, these posts were from like 9 years ago, but I randomly felt the need to reply to some of the posts, and wow, a person actually soon replied to my comment! Lol, we started chatting about the show and how we both like Daniel. 🥰🥰

From this person (who has liked Daniel since 2014, unlike me who only started liking him in 2023🥲), I got to know much more about Daniel's personal life. For example, how he was part of the IWSNT music video, worked for WB, had a fiancée during MC era, got married after the show, but it seemed like they got divorced later though…

At this point, I kinda became a stalker, stalking the girl’s Instagram, and also Daniel’s friends’ insta…(I feel so creepy, I'm truly sorry for the stalking in past week, I just wanna know more about you😒😞😞)

Put that aside, it was rly surprising to know that Daniel filmed lots of music videos or just fun videos back then. Wow, what a talented man who can create video games, draw, act, sing, and cook! (And look so good at the same time😍

I seriously have a huge crush on you Daniel🥹🥹. I know you had lots of fangirls back then during your IWSNT era and when MC was aired. And now here's me, a 20 year old, new Chinese fangirl being crazy over you, a 41 year old American man who lives on the other side of the world. (I know this is so random…😶‍🌫️😶‍🌫️

Am I out of my mind? I think about him all day, use his photo as my wallpaper, talk about him with my real-life friends, and even write short unfinished stories of me traveling to America, bumping into him on the street, and falling in love with him... He seriously became my new ideal type. I was never drawn to white guys, but I guess I am now, especially those with tattoos. 🥲🥲 (Ok, I'm gonna say it, I feel really weird and creepy, but I'm gonna say it. I want to sleep with you so bad, Daniel McGuffey fk me hard...🥵)

Ok, anyways, enough of those creepy shits. Yesterday I posted about Daniel on Reddit, asking what people think about him. The comments were both positive and negative... whatever, it's not gonna change my pounding heart for Daniel. Also, I found Daniel's TikTok, it was a public account, so I decided to leave a comment, and yay, he liked my comment and replied! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 I'm literally in tears right now.

And today, I searched for Daniel once again on Google and found a post about him on Tumblr, which includes links to his older videos, those filmed like almost 20 years ago... lol, glad I found those videos of you, getting to know you more day by day...? So I once again downloaded an app I've never used before, that's how I got here on Tumblr!!!

He probably will never know, a random Chinese girl who's living in Australia has a huge, huge crush on him because of a show that aired 9 years ago. This is really weird, and I feel like a creep, but yes, I like you very, very much. I really wanna visit Los Angeles now, will I get to see your band perform?

Idk, I'm writing my feelings down and uploading them on Tumblr because I'm afraid that one day I will forget all of this...(hopefully not

Hope Daniel doesn't see this post EVER (can't imagine how embarrassing it will be for me... it would be so cringey/funny for him to see a fangirl's love letter, right...? xx)

Please don’t see me as a creep, I swear I’m a mentally healthy, normal, happy university student😂😂. I’m just being huge fan girl nowadays😆 (idk I felt the need to explain

[theyilinglaozus]

Congrats on the milestone Kimmie!!! If it's not too late can I request a Wu Xi and Beiyuan drabble/ficlet where Wu Xi is a badass and also infinitely smug? (Beiyuan can swoon a little on the inside. And a sable and/or snake appearance would just be the best! But I don't really need beiyuan swooning or venomous animal appearanves.) I don't care if it's during qi ye or after. I just need more Wu Xi in my life. Thanks in advance!!! And congrats again!!! 🥰 ~Haoppo

Haoppo! Hello dear! 💖 Thank you for the congratulations and for the prompt request! I hope this is a little what you were after, I had to think for a few days over what setting I wanted for them, ha! After all, we all need more Wu Xi in our lives! 🥰 I hope you enjoy it!

“While I’m proud that Lu Ta is excelling in his studies, I’m not quite sure how I feel about being a subject for him to learn off of.”

Wu Xi listens to Beiyuan’s complaints, gently lifting his husband's sleeve away from his arm so he can get to the bite which he knows is there. His lips tilt upwards with a small grin.

“No one told you that you had to touch the snake,” he replies, gently dabbing a piece of cloth into the anti-venom mixture he's set nearby. “In fact, I’m pretty sure I told you not to do that. So you really only have yourself to blame.”

“I didn’t expect him to bite me!” Beiyaun exclaims. He breathes in a sharp hiss between his teeth as Wu Xi begins to lightly pat the soaked cloth onto his wound.

"In your experience, when has a venomous creature you've pestered not resorted to biting you in return, Beiyuan? Truly, it's astounding how you haven't learnt by now."

If there is one thing Wu Xi knows well about his husband, it is that he never has quite learned that venomous animals are, indeed, quite dangerous. Or rather, he knows that they’re dangerous - he just doesn’t believe they are dangerous to him.

The snake is a rather new addition to Wu Xi’s collection of exotic creatures. Not only was it an exquisite creature - one which could only be found in Nanjiang - Wu Xi knew that the venom it carried was rather useful in the creation of certain anti-toxins. If you could extract the venom without poisoning yourself in the process. Wu Xi is rather an expert in the art of doing so himself, and has, over the past month or so, been training his young Shamanet on how to do so without angering the creature.

Of course, like many other times he’s come to the discovery of one of the rare, native creatures Nanjiang has to offer, Beiyuan had been curious from the get-go about the new and unusual snake Wu Xi had acquired. Wu Xi warned him many a time that the breed is quick to temper and even quicker to feel threatened if not handled in the correct manner, and yet Beiyuan still managed not to heed the advice he had given him.

Wu Xi expected as much, of course. Thankfully, the snakes' poison wasn’t terribly strong; if left untreated Beiyuan would likely be left at worse with both a large swelling around the bite area and a couple of hours with a deadened arm.

However, seeing an opportunity before him, Wu Xi decides to use Beiyuan’s curiosity as a good learning experience for Lu Ta. The antidote to the snakes bite wasn't a difficult one to put together, yet it remained one that his apprentice had yet to create for himself. So, with Wu Xi's aid, Lu Ta worked to create the antidote. As he watched over him Wu Xi's pride grew, noting how quickly Lu Ta took to understanding each step he needed to carry out.

“Will he be alright now?” Lu Ta asks now, voice carrying an edge of worry within it. Wu Xi snorts.

“Oh, he’ll be fine. It’s not the first time he’s been poisoned, and I’m certain it won’t be the last.”

“You hear that Lu Ta?” Beiyuan says, reaching with his good arm to pat the young boy on the head reassuringly. “There’s nothing to worry about. You did very well.”

“He did,” Wu Xi agrees, stepping away to tidy away the supplies. “Thankfully, our Shamanet knows to use his mind sensibly. Unlike his father.”

“Come now, Wu Xi. How could you say that about me? Oh. Hello there.”

Out of the corner of his eye Wu Xi notes how the sable which sticks to Beiyuan's side pokes its head out from where it's been curled up within his husband's robes, its little head tilting upwards to look up at the other man. Another smile pulls at his lips, although Wu Xi tries to disguise it with his words instead.

“If he bites you too then I’m not helping you. You’re on your own.”

“I'll help you if he bites!” Lu Ta cries. “I know where the antivenom is kept for him. Although he hasn’t bitten you in a while, father."

Wu Xi’s gaze turns to the boy, smile softening and heart brimming with pride once more at the child's eager protectiveness.

His husband may never learn his lesson not to annoy venomous creatures, but that’s okay. That’s why he has Wu Xi and Lu Ta to look out for him.

... And at least it means the Shamanet will have plenty of experience in the handling of poisons and toxins.

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