#this was half a vent fic

[littlemeow]

short agere fic, regressed tails and big brother sonic. after a scary fight against eggman, tails is struggling to cope

this is the first time ive written in a while and also its like 4am please be nice

The workshop's quiet. The only thing that Sonic can hear is his own breathing, the occasional rustle of paper as he turns a page of the book he's reading. He's laid out on Tails’ couch, ignoring the shaking of his hands as he comes down from the adrenalin high.

The last fight against Eggman had been… rough. Too many close calls. They'd won, he and Tails, of course they did, but it had taken a lot out of both of them.

He hears the floorboards creak behind him, and he cranes his neck to see Tails standing at the base of the stairs - he must have finished with his shower. He seems smaller somehow, ears drooping down, shoulders hunched.Sonic smiles at him, gently, but before he can even open his mouth to ask if he's okay, Tails rushes towards him.

He suddenly has a lap full of fox, and he groans dramatically as Tails wiggles his way under Sonic’s arms, knocking his book away.

"Well, hey there, big guy," he greets, ignoring the way Tails' knee seems to be digging directly into his ribs in order to set the book down and properly wrap his arms around Tails. "What's up?"

Tails doesn't answer, just tucks his head under Sonic's chin, hiding his face. His tails wrap around his body as if he's trying to hide.

“Oh, buddy…” Sonic sighs, sitting up enough that he can lean against the arm rest, still holding Tails. “It's okay. Its all over now. We're both safe.”

Tails shudders. Sonic can feel him sniffle against his neck.

Sonic grabs the throw blanket thats draped on the back of the couch, tugging it down. It falls on both of them, and, making sure to not let go of Tails, wraps it around them both. Tails makes a small noise, but some of the tension leaves his shoulders, relaxing into Sonic's hold. He sniffs again, and Sonic sighs, dropping his cheek to rest against the top of Tails' head.

“Were you worried? About Eggman?”

A small nod.

“That's okay. It was a really scary fight. But its over now, and he's not gonna come back for a while. We did a good job at stopping him.”

Tails doesn't answer, but reaches out slowly, brushing his fingers across the cover of the book Sonic was reading. Sonic's confused for a second, but guesses - “do you want to read it?”

Tails nods again, before ducking his face back into Sonic's neck.

Sonic laughs quietly, grabbing the book and opening it. “I guess I'll read it out loud then? I'm kinda in the middle of it, but I'm pretty sure you've read this one before so that's okay.”

He reads, slow and steady, like he used to do for Tails back when they first met years ago. With each chapter, he can feel Tails relax more and more, until finally Sonic can hear soft little snores. He puts the book down, combing his fingers through Tails’ hair.

He's not sure why Tails gets like this, sometimes. It's like the kit just gets… smaller. It reminds Sonic of when they first met, when Tails was barely more than a toddler, and looked around as if the world was a thousand times bigger than him.

Sonic doesn't understand why, but it doesn't matter. Tails always eventually bounces back, and for now, Sonic is content to rock him back and forth as he sleeps.

[zinnynia]

And so it looks like I post again, but this time, not shitposts... actually, nevermind 😂😂💀

[angels--twice--descending]

guys I have just been killing it these last few months! /sarcasm

[luvnami]

hi Ai!! I wanted to ask if you could yap about your streamer!sanemi fic >u< I'd love to hear what you have in mind for it, whatever you want to share!

HIIIIIIII ZEEEEEEEEEEE oh my god meow ok im gonna put it under the cut cause its a lot

i read a poem on tiktok by @/whispersintheabyss (its their yin and yang poem, day 20/21). its originally a mlm poem but the tldr is that the protag goes to a diner bc their mom set up a date for them, but a random person keeps the protag company while their date is late. eventually the protag and person fall in love (it's a lot more than this, but this is just a brief overview)

ive been talking with my friends about dating and life recently, especially since one of my friends is feeling really pressured by her parents to find a partner. ive had my own talks with my mom, and that whole topic abt love and marriage and dating feels very... heavy and stressful. ive also been struggling with direction in life (no college, no job), so i wanted to write smth that people could relate to! facing all these big decisions and feeling like youve fallen short of something you couldve been. im rambling a bit, but i promise ill get to the streamer part soon ><

i kind of want to emulate the whole 'arranged date' and 'run in with a stranger' thing with reader and sanemi, where streamer!sanemi feels bad watching reader wait for their date. i was also thinking of maybe reader being a casual viewer of sanemi's streams, so they recognise him and kind of laugh at the coincidences. i want them to find comfort in each other, e.g. late nights where reader can't sleep and they watch sanemi's streams to feel less lonely, or sanemi is feeling overwhelmed with the need to perform on stream so they feel relaxed being just himself around the reader

maybe i'll throw in a bit of streamer drama... i've been around these sorts of social circles so i have a fair idea of what happens (LOL)... it's probably gonna be slowburn (im sorry im such a sucker for exploring the developing dynamics of a relationship), i really want to emphasise reader's struggle to get their life back 'together' and the strains of having a viewer become more than just a face in the crowd for sanemi

this is just a huge thought so idk if i'll actually have the strength to do it... im already running out of steam for office romcom (though i swear its just the next arc that's hard to write) buttttttt i'll do my best!!!! i wanted to write a whole bunch of fics that would fit in my 'in every universe' series. i realised i never really explained, but i wanted to write about how sanemi never prioritises his own happiness in the canon timeline. its always his family, genya, masachika, never himself in the front seat. so, every fic under the series is supposed to be a separate timeline where sanemi finds his own happiness and soulmate :3 including office romcom, including this streamer fic, and a whole bunch of other one shots i have planned

[donttouchtheneednoggle]

realising you're trans is like realising you've been driving in a clown car all your life and infinite clowns of misery and uncomfortableness and dysphoria have been squished into what looks like a completely normal car and once they start coming out they don't stop

[bearsinpotatosacks]

Update on my Whumptober thoughts: Not all the prompts will be posted, I have all 31 planned out but I found out that you don't have to post all 31. If a fic is finished, I'll post it but there's some big beasts that I want to write properly instead of rush. Also, I might not even write all 31. I want the completionist title but I don't have the time nor energy to force myself to write all the prompts and I did it last year and it wasn't like life-changing. I like Whumptober because the prompts help my creativity, spark some inspiration (talking about my Delancey Brothers Fic) but the perfectionist in me just beats myself up about not getting enough fics done before October or not writing enough each day to get them finished and then writing fics that all sound the same or the ideas being kind of shitty because I'm forcing them. I want to do my ideas justice rather than mass produce shit I don't like because I feel I need to, it's a constant line I walk between "I want to write something well and that I'm proud of so might be inactive for a while on AO3" and "I want to get this idea out there so need to post a bunch of stuff now"

[irondad-defensesquad]

"What angers me is that... why did it take me nearly dying to prove you that I'm worth it?" Peter asks, though looking at nowhere. "Then again, you probably just didn't want that in your conscience, right?" He laughs, nearly bursting in tears again.

He's met with silence.

Peter inhales deeply.

"... it all just reminded me that, if I'm nothing without my suit... or anyone... then I don't deserve help," he concludes. "I already knew that. But honestly, it hurts that I wasn't proven wrong."

[poured-my-past-down-the-drain]

I HAD TO CHANGE IN THE BATHROOM AND SHE GOT IN THROUGH THE VENTS EHAT THE FREAKKKK

—Q :]

Yeah vents don’t stop it :\ it’s kind of grotesque actually I don’t know what bones she lacks to move around in a ventilation shaft like that

[nico-saurus]

Every time I would come up with a new story or a specific scene in my head I was like "This surely doesn't have anything to do with me :) This is a purely fictional scenario and I don't relate to it at all :)" just to later find out that my brain just sneaks the stuff I refuse to deal it in my stories like when you hide a pill in a treat to give it to your dog so now I'm just like "Okay, this is an interesting way to adress my abandonment issues but let's go I guess..."

[primus-why]

This rant ain't the same fandom so I don't feel bad for going off about this here... but I just spent like 4 days reading a 325k fic that was heralded as an ol' fandom classic back in like 2006... only for the last 40k or so to devolve into absolute unsatisfying insanity. I'm talking about random plot twists for no reason right towards the end with no time to flesh them out... characters hitting their peak character growth halfway through the story and then not growing any further beyond that for the remainder... a VERY unnecessary rug pull ending-- literally think Remember Me (2010)'s slow zoom-out of the world trade center on the morning of 9/11. I am not even joking (it involves a plane crash)

Precious days of life I shan't get back...

[crychan]

I AM MY BIGGEST OPP FRFR ORZ

[musical-chick-13]

It's also just so incredibly frustrating because people will take any example of a (usually male) character being horrible as some sort of "proof" that they're mentally ill (which, hmm, interesting that your automatic explanation for "why do they choose to treat other people horribly" is "they have a mental illness that just Makes Them Act Like That"), but there is no kind of nuanced or critical discussion of media that ACTUALLY (for ill or for good) tries to depict mental illness, and you try to recommend media that handles it well (that might even be good for other, completely unrelated reasons!!) and people just ignore you.

[luvnami]

been thinking abt my streamer sanemi fic a loooooot...

[derrypubliclibrary]

you ever have such a good day & then boom. The Sadness.

[macchiatosdumptruck]

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[seekingthestars]

the backstory here is very long and i don't wanna bother getting into it but

the downstairs has been torn up since like...early may. had to rip the ceilings out of the kitchen and living room and replace them, which led to also painting the living room, fixing a drywall issue on the living room wall, and ripping out the carpet to replace that

everything's pretty much done (has been for a while) except replacing the carpet

and now the carpet people are calling and being like "we need like...almost 3x more sq ft of carpet than the sq footage of the actual room" which doesn't make any sense

but anyway now my dad is super frustrated and angry and trying to deal with that so it's just gonna become another point of frustration that gets vented at me and it's not like i can solve the problem and i am tired to always being everyone in my family's venting soundboard, today is my day off, i just wanted to sleep and play viddy games and read fic and watch my show :(