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vinelark · 2 years ago

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ALL timkon recs I BEG

hello hi! here are some of my favs! it got long so putting some under the cut

💄 Lipstick on the glass by @cairoscene read for timkon being soft and goofy and disgustingly in love, set in vague future college-y years with amazing core four dynamics too. cair is one of the funniest people to ever exist and we are so blessed that they decided to write some timkon. (also read for my own greatest contribution to literature, the fictional “jerry the void nexus” meme)

🎢 been a number and a name by @wynterstars i had SO MUCH FUN reading this one, a 90s comics-divergent AU where robin and superboy become friends—and crushes—when superboy is pretty new on the scene. feat. lex luthor being terrible, tim staging a rescue operation that at one point involves platform shoes and a blonde wig, spice girls references, and fantastic action sequences. it’s also a series, with an installment focusing on kon & clark, and a currently updating longfic sequel with SO MANY timkon identity shenanigans (my beloved) and kon feelings (also my beloved).

📸 the surveillance series by @smilebackwards i feel like i rec this all the time but it’s because it’s THAT GOOD. a tim-centric AU where tim joins the family late, but is still involved in bat business without the bats realizing. there’s some fun timkon identity shenanigans at the top, and some of my all-time favorite tim characterization (ruthless! lonely! brilliant!) plus a great tim & bruce arc, too.

🦉 Detours by miyaji_08 this is part 2 of a series and i def recommend reading the whole thing! a reverse robins + joker jr au that has lots of trauma and lots of healing, and in part 2 there’s timkon identity shenanigans that’s simultaneously enemies to lovers + And They Were Roommates. tim sure does run a gauntlet of horrors in this series, but it has so much healing and also one of my fav reverse robins concepts i’ve read so far.

📱 unfurl by @burins tim and kon might be dating, and there’s no kryptonian sex ed handy. bruce, being bruce, makes it his business, which means talking to clark and Realizing some things about his own feelings. superbat are billed first here, but i think timkon steal the show—i laughed out loud like five different times reading this. hilarious and sweet on all sides. (and if you like this, check out their timkon road trip fic!)

🌾 A Saturday Evening by malcyon in which tim visits the kent farm for family dinner with kon, feat. very sweet established relationship timkon and fun superfamily dynamics, and it touches on tim’s past grief over kon’s death (and complicated feelings post-undeath).

🤼‍♂️ Sore Loser by @hearteyeshayley kon learns that tim always let him win while sparring, and has to process that. this was such a fun exploration of tim’s prowess as a fighter—one who regularly has to go up against superpowered friends and foes alike—and also tim as a person who is always doing mental calculations about the people around him (in an endearing way). kon, too, got his time to shine and grow, and the ending was so smart and sweet.

🔮 Ascension by Violet_Witch an AU longfic where tim is a witchling and kon is a fallen angel who has (oops) just lost his wings. tim sets out to help get kon’s wings back, and there’s a ticking clock because angel wings are dangerous in the wrong hands—and tim has a big, horrible secret that’s about to come due. the plot/worldbuilding of this was WILDLY cool, and there was a big ol misunderstanding in the middle that had me clawing my face off (in a good way).

🌌 straight on ’til morning by merils kon vs. the terrifying ordeal of growing up, feat. sweet friends-to-lovers timkon and really thoughtful exploration of some of kon’s canon past relationships and their abusive dynamics. i haven’t finished this one yet but it’s been rec’d multiple times and i’m excited to dive back in (and it's recently complete!)—and what i have read so far gave me an amazing sequence of kon and dick interacting and dick’s big brother mode activating in an instant, which is something i now desperately need more of.

📧 aaaand would it even be a reclist by me if i didn’t include send to all by @cairoscene the absolute moment i find myself feeling down i go reread this and boom. i am instantly laughing again. timkon are just one part of a bat grab-bag here but they are so so funny and cute and in-character. maybe one day i’ll compile the timkon-centric sequel that exists in my head but for now i’ll just go reread this for the zillionth time.

okay yeah!! i’m probably missing so many good fics here because i constantly have like a zillion tabs open that i plan to read someday. also i reserve the right to reblog later like OH I FORGOT— but in the meanwhile, happy timkon reading!

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lastweeksshirttonight · 1 year ago

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Lee is re-watching Sherlock for some fucking reason - Season One

I'm well aware that the crossover between "currently popular and loved British comedian in the US updates, thirst, and accoutrements" and "BBC show that went so off the rails that people now like to pretend Andrew Scott's breakout role was the Hot Priest in Fleabag" is limited, but weirdly, returning to Sherlock was one of the few things that was keeping my brain somewhat grounded and whirring during Work Hell.

We're in uncharted territory here. You're gonna learn a bit about the things I do when I'm not tracking John Oliver obsessively. I am nervous about this but hey, I'm guessing most of you knew I don't solely live and breathe John Oliver. (I know. I have multitudes. This is a shocking revelation. Please take time to process it.)

Firstly, a content note - there's going to be discussion about queerbaiting and queercoding villains, and the beginning of this goes into some of James Somerton's absolutely disgusting claims about the AIDS crisis. This post will only be focused on Season One, as that's all I've finished at this point.

Let's go.

(above image sourced from Writing Tips and Memes)

My sudden re-emergent hyperfixation started because of the hbomberguy takedown of James Somerton, weirdly. I don't follow many YouTubers - I like Bright Sun Films because he goes urban exploring, something I've always wanted to do but have never managed to make happen, and also Todd in the Shadows, whose Trainwreckords series is very well-done and expertly researched. Seeing that name, you might know where this is going. Todd dropped a video about James Somerton, who I had never fucking heard of and now wish I'd known about before, so I could scream bloody murder about what an absolute fuckwad he is.

(I don't want to get too in the weeds here, but the things James asserted about WWII, Nazis, and the AIDS crisis are so vehemently offensive that I'm still struggling with them. Claiming that only boring gays survived the AIDS crisis in particular is so vile that I have gotten anger flashes thinking about it almost daily since hearing it.)

Todd recommended watching all four hours of the hbomberguy plagiarism video, and I ran that in the background while working about two weeks ago. Eventually I had to stop doing that because the plagiarism revelations were so distracting and shocking. Todd's video was even more of a goddamn mindfuck, and even the smaller, less offensive things have taken up far too much space in my brain. Californians, does anyone at all deify Bob Iger??? Like... what the goddamn fuck??? Bob Iger????

After watching one hbomberguy video, the algorithm did its thing, and gave me a video called "Sherlock is Garbage and Here's Why". Posting it here for posterity:

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Because my brain works in mysterious ways (-cough-ADHD-cough-), watching this... made me want to rewatch Sherlock.

I initially saw Sherlock for the first time thanks to someone I met in my last year of college, 2012. At the time, Michael (a nickname) was my neighbor in the dorms; over the past ten years, she's become one of my closest friends and a true rock in my life. One of the first things we bonded over that I introduced her to was the San Francisco Giants and the ghost I will always be chasing, Tim Lincecum; one of the first things we bonded over that she introduced me to was BBC Sherlock. The show was in the early months of its extended hiatus after Season Two, at the height of its fandom, and we were both completely obsessed. I read all the Doyle stories, took in a truly wild amount of fanfiction, wrote a not-very-popular AU fic, became part of a strange inter-dorm ARG based on Sherlock orchestrated by Michael... it consumed a huge part of our lives.

When Season 3 dropped, I almost stopped watching after "The Empty Hearse". I don't want to get into why it offended me so much before we get to a Season 3 post, but just know my enthusiasm severely dampened there. The rest of Season 3 I think of with blase emotions, especially the ending, which I found just dumb, save one part of it. I recall going to see The Abominable Bride in theatres with my mom (and maybe Michael?), and I think I liked it fine - aside, again, from the ending. But I had no interest in a Season Four, and when it dropped, Michael's long rambling phone calls describing the absolute shitstorm of a plot cemented that I was never going to watch it again.

Until now.

I definitely don't think the hbomberguy video is perfect. His insistence that Doyle canon never had Holmes pull answers to cases out of his ass is... something, lol, as is his opinion that changing the solution to certain puzzles in A Study in Pink disrespects the original canon. (Bro, these stories have been retold a bajillion times, they need to mix it up to keep it interesting.) But he put a finger on something that I'd wrestled with regarding Sherlock for a long time - that the show's writing often teased something big and new and conclusive in the horizon, but almost never delivered. That wasn't an issue in early days when there was less invested in an increasingly convoluted mythic story, or when they weren't fully blowing off the resolutions to cliffhangers, but the flaw in writing a story where you promise something huge on the horizon and never deliver should be obvious.

The first season doesn't trade much in that idea, and going back to it was something I found exceptionally enjoyable!

Before I watched:

I remembered bits and pieces of "A Study in Pink" and the whole plot in summary.

I truly didn't remember anything about "The Blind Banker" except that I found it fairly 'yellow peril'-y when I saw it in 2012.

I mixed up huge chunks of Season Two's "A Scandal in Belgravia" with "The Great Game" in my head and somehow forgot the main plot thrust was Moriarty kidnapping people and strapping bombs to them.

I genuinely forgot Sebastian Moran was a character basically hallucinated into existence by the fandom and didn't appear in the show at all until a brief appearance in Season Three.

In a way, it was like I was watching the show for the first time all over again. My partner also watched the first season with me, and it was interesting to get his thoughts on the show as we watched.

To start, his favorite character is Mycroft. Watching Season One, I had to agree that Mycroft has a depth of character that I'd forgotten about. Mark Gatiss plays him perfectly, aloof and smarter than you but unsure of how to deal with his natural feelings of concern and fear for his oft-spiraling, danger-seeking younger brother - and how those feelings magnify with the influence of extreme danger-seeker (at least in this season) John Watson. The show wants you to believe so badly that he's Moriarty in "A Study in Pink", which I don't think works even if you know he isn't Moriarty - there's a warmth to Gatiss' Mycroft that, even while he's doing incredibly ominous things like shutting off all cameras in a busy intersection, still comes through.

My favorite character is Moriarty. I haven't mentioned this very much here, because why would I, but my favorite character type in media is "theatrical abject shithead". It's why I cosplay Bakugo from My Hero Academia and loved everything about Akechi in Persona 5. Hell when I was a kid, I told teachers that when I grew up, I wanted to join Team Rocket. I love the theatrical shitheads. And boy, is Moriarty some sort of theatrical shithead. I don't DISAGREE with hbomberguy pointing out that, as written, Moriarty is a complete mess of a character, a queer-coded literal terrorist with no motivations besides "I did that because I'M CRAAAAZY!"... but he's my queer-coded literal terrorist, ok? I could write a whole paper on all the harmful stereotypes inhabiting this version of Moriarty... but I can't deny that the flamboyance and violence pulsing just beneath the surface of Andrew Scott's performance was the beating heart of that show for me. Sure, Sherlock and John, at least early on, were a compelling duo, but the show was at its best with Moriarty pulling strings for inexplicable reasons in the background. I love him.

(An aside: watching Sherlock made me remember how hilarious it was to see basically every major actor from the show in one of my favorite movies of all time, 1917, to the point that I actually kinda laughed in the theatre thinking about it.)

The entirety of the first season also is more devoted to actual crime-solving and detective work than I remembered the show being. I think that works strongly in its favor, and as I recall things from later seasons, drifting from that element definitely hampers the show greatly. In particular, while the lazy and uncomfortable Orientalism of "The Blind Banker" is still incredibly glaring, the actual mystery at the core of it is very excitingly tracked and easily followed while watching. The fact that John is treated like an equal (mostly) throughout only enhances my thoughts on that. "The Great Game" is a little more slapdash (and hurt by the fact that the entire Vermeer section would be solvable with a smartphone nowadays), but you can still make connections mentally with most of the cases and deduction/investigation is being shown logically. (hbomberguy cites the Golem as a problematic logical leap akin to some of Season Two's dumbest, and I can't agree. It's a reasonable suspension of disbelief to assume Sherlock knows about assassins and is followed by some more sensible investigation and inspection of the Golem's victim. The sequence of Sherlock fighting the Golem, however, is very, very silly.)

Related to that... the autopsy doctors on this show are fucking AWFUL at their jobs. Like straight-up negligently awful. How in the actual fuck did they not investigate the puncture marks on Connie Price's body? How did they not notice a highly distinctive heel tattoo on three recently-murdered corpses? Is Molly the only vaguely competent person in the mortuary? My partner and I were extremely amused that, while Lestrade and his police force are thankfully shown with much more intelligence than in other Holmes adaptations and BBC!Watson wouldn't think jam is a clue, the writers seem to have shunted the stupidity straight to the invisible autopsy doctors.

The first season also does a good job of making Sherlock seem like an overly intelligent if socially stunted human being, instead of the condescending prickish intellectual Ubermensch he ends up becoming as the show progresses. "A Study in Pink"'s ending being Sherlock throwing aside his deduction of the cabbie's killer when he realizes it's Watson, unconvincingly lying to Lestrade and insisting he's in shock before rejoining the other man and genuinely bonding with him, is remarkably compelling as fulfillment of a promise we get from Lestrade earlier in the episode - "Sherlock Holmes is a great man. One day he may even be a good one." My memory is admittedly faulty, but part of why "The Empty Hearse" turned me off so viscerally was Sherlock's (and to an extent, Mycroft's) insufferable growing smugness, particularly where explaining plans or mysteries to John. We get told often that Watson humanizes Sherlock and that the two have a strong bond throughout the series, but Sherlock gets much more dickish in general as the series progresses. One thing I do remember with stark clarity is that after being utterly chastised at a Christmas party in "A Scandal in Belgravia", Sherlock does visibly treat Molly MUCH better throughout the remainder of the show. So, uh, why did we lose that energy with the show's central pairing?

Speaking of the show's central pairing, the queerbaiting starts SO EARLY on this show. I want to make it clear that obviously the benefit of hindsight and knowledge of how the show ends really colors a lot about the Johnlock relationship now, and as a society, we're more aware of what queerbaiting is and what it looks like, which will obviously alter how I perceive these interactions now. I also want to make it clear that I never really shipped Johnlock outside of just kind of assuming that it would be canon because everyone seemed really convinced of it. (I was an absolute degenerate that shipped John with Moriarty. On top of enjoying theatrical disasters, I enjoy ships with an abundance of chaos and impossibility.) There's some biases at play here.

Even so, we are not far into the episode where John is protesting that obviously he needs a second bed in 221B to Mrs. Hudson, he's not gay! The scene in the restaurant has such an aggressively shippy energy to it (despite Watson's consistent denials) that I actively commented on it to my partner as it was happening, saying "the queerbaiting happens WAY SOONER than I thought!" It's distracting and has aged absolutely terribly. The worst by far is John quipping, after being removed from a bomb vest at a pool in "The Great Game", that people will talk because of Sherlock ripping his clothes off in a darkened swimming pool. Why is Watson's heterosexuality so fragile that he's thinking about gossip rags as he's actively recovering from a near-death experience?!

(Aside: I'm aware that last point is not as effective when you think about the fact that I shipped two characters whose sole canonical interaction was one man kidnapping and forcing the other into a bomb vest. In my defense, a) I love mess and b) John never quips about thinking people will talk because he got kidnapped.)

Moriarty's first appearance in "The Great Game" sees him as Molly's fake boyfriend slipping a phone number to Sherlock, which lead to my partner commenting about how distracting it also was, on top of the queerbaiting, that almost every single person on the show has some sort of deep metaphysical attraction to Sherlock. Those people aren't on the lighting and cinematography team for sure; Benedict Cumberbatch is lit ominously and sometimes demonically throughout the first season, highlighting his antihero and brusque nature effectively. But many, many characters in the show - just in season one, Molly, Moriarty, multiple characters of the day, the Cabbie, and John - are all drawn to Sherlock and his very special brain and his very sharp cheekbones. Signs of a big future problem come through in this way, where the show starts sidelining Watson as our central figure and puts Sherlock squarely at the center of everyone's universe and makes lesbians fall in love with him.

(My partner also laughed pretty hard at how obvious Moriarty's pratfalls were as Molly's boyfriend, noting that the show was pretty bad at hiding who Moriarty was every time it came up.)

Some of the seeds of Sherlock's destruction are sown in this first season, obviously. The big one I haven't touched on is the ending cliffhanger itself. Moriarty has John and Sherlock trapped in the pool, tens of sniper sights trained on them, and says that he can't let them escape. Amazing cliffhanger here! It is not fulfilled on at all, but because Andrew Scott can carry anything on his back (including Spectre, which I cannot start talking about because we'll be here all day), the scene doesn't feel like a total waste and makes you want to hang on to find out what happens later.

But there was so much here that was delightful. All the acting is uniformly excellent, and the overt physical tics that come to define Sherlock's mind palace and mental prowess being showcased are barely evident here. The actual detective work, like I said earlier, is really involving! I don't feel like I figured out the solutions for the mysteries I couldn't recall the answers for too easily and thought Sherlock's deductive reason largely followed and wasn't too obscure. I'm still such a sucker for the show's style - that opening credits sequence is so perfectly put together, the text messages that interact with the scene and at the time made this show feel so fresh and modern to me, filming the character's faces in taxis through panes of glass and obscuring material in "A Study in Pink" to give everything an obfuscating sheen... give me all of it.

The music, too, was something I'd forgotten about and truly ended up adoring. Taskmaster (and The Horne Section's score for it) really owes a debt to Michael Price and David Arnold. So much of Sherlock's score could probably be dropped straight into a Taskmaster episode and I would have to think pretty hard to notice a difference in the show's usual musical palette. I've been eyeballing the vinyl on eBay, to give you an idea of how much I love this score. "The Game is On" is a perfect piece of music, clockwork spinning noises emphasizing the jauntiness of Sherlock as he drags Watson on his latest case before sliding into the more subdued, vaguely ominous thrum of its second movement descending into the madness of the third part, violins shrieking as the action reaches its apex.

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Normally, with such a degree of pleasant surprise, I'd be eager to move forward to Season Two. Unfortunately, I know the first episode of Season Two is... a doozy. To say the least. A doozy that may get its own essay because of how doozy-ish it is.

In any case, I ended up really enjoying going back to Season One of Sherlock! Super down to talk further about the show, future write-ups, and my horrible taste in fictional ships and men - shoot me a message, reply to this post, wherever, I'll be here! <3

#not john oliver #bbc sherlock #sherlock bbc #Youtube #too long didn't read - the lee lastweeksshirttonight story #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #fuck james somerton #3k words on a hyperfixation

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carpehistoryandthepens · 3 days ago

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Legacy (what is a legacy?) Part eighteen

It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see I wrote some notes at the beginning of a song someone will sing for me

Hamilton, the world was wide enough. LMM.

one, two, three, four, Five, six seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen

Summary: Mike is 13. Born May 2009. Sid didn’t know he had a son. All Mike had was hope and a prayer for his and his half-sister’s safety.

(Sid is a dad of a teen he didn’t know about AU) Sidgeno.

Warnings: (for the total story) post-child abuse (all off-screen but it affects things and is spoken about often), learning how to parent, panic attacks, anxiety, based on the 22-23 season, that said last season when i wrote these tags originally, but hey, it takes me a LONG time to write, so now its no longer last season, OCs?, the realization about sexuality. Post breakups. Desperate lack of in-depth research for CPS in both PA/CA, melodrama?, kidfic, angst, slowburn, playing fast and loose with the law for drama/storytelling purposes.

Sid was not paying much attention to the conversation that PO and Kappy were having with several other guys about Instagram and TikTok trends. He was too busy getting changed for one of the last media events they had to do before the start of the season. Everyone was yelling around the locker room and chirping about whether or not someone had seen the latest meme.

Once they had all finished with Jen's team, he could finally be free to get to the ice for one of the last practices of the preseason and skate some of the nervous energy away. Sid tuned them out with ease of long practice, the background noise of the team helping to settle. He had other things on his mind, making him twitchy.

The feeling of his chest pads settling down was calming but not enough. The routine of getting his gear on was second nature and allowed Sid's mind to wander - which was not helping the whole nervous energy thing. He needed to get on the ice. He needed to think.

Mike and Marisol were up in one of the offices with a balcony overlooking the rink, waiting to watch practice. Mike had asked to use Sid's home gym after they left the practice. It was the first time Mike had asked for anything personal, and Sid would do his best to make sure Mike was accommodated.

(Asking not to be sent away just after a panic attack didn't count as asking for something personal. Mike was scared then, but when asked that morning, he didn't look afraid or unsure. He looked determined; Mike looked like Sid did when he was about to take a face-off.

Geno and Sid had exchanged a surprised and pleased look at the question. The question was unexpected, but this was something they wanted to encourage. Geno gave Sid a nod to go ahead. Sid trusted Geno's parenting skills.)

At first, Mike asked to use the gym at the rink, but Geno had spoken up. He pointed out that Marisol and the equipment at the official team gym would not be a good mix. Mike had paled and asked if they could use the home gym. There had been no question if Marisol would be at the gym, too. (He also needed to remember to bring some of her toys into the gym; he didn't want Marisol climbing on the equipment.) Working at the home gym was better anyway; if Mike was serious about hockey (and with how he skated a few days ago, he was), then he would need some off-ice training, and Sid needed to better understand what skills Mike already had.

So, Sid had made the arragmenets to do his second, lighter workout of the day in his home gym with Mike. Geno bowed out, saying that Nikita had a meeting with his new soccer team; something about paperwork and sign-ups.

Then maybe once Geno and Nikita go home, they would watch a movie with Marisol – a Spanish one? Sid would have to ask Mike.

Loud laughter brought Sid out of his reprieve. Most of the team filed out to the various locker rooms and offices they had been directed to. Sid took his seat in a hallway, waiting for his turn before his attention was captured by PO. The guys clapped as PO demonstrated a complicated dance, apparently for a TikTok. Kappy and Pety joined him, causing a large amount of chirping from the rest of the team.

Sid pieced together that PO and Kappy were planning out when they could teach a dance together. Sid had a vague impression that it was for the Pen's TikTok, but it might have been for PO's own. Sid managed to avoid being dragged into the planning session by the skin of his teeth. Jen's new social media manager was hovering and taking photos on his phone. The kid (and God, he looked like a kid. When did this happen?!) had a glint in his eyes that sid was wary of. He had to avoid whatever the kid's brilliant idea was going to be - Sid had enough of the social media from NHL media days.

Sid missed most social media by keeping a very low profile on Instagram – or a nonexistent one like TikTok. Jen's team kept his official name and handles underlock, but he never wanted to deal with it. Sid was thankful the organization let him; it seemed more trouble than it was worth. Still, Kappy and PO reminded him it had been some time since he checked Instagram.

Ignoring the social media manager and avoiding the guys trying to get him to dance with ease of long practice, Sid scrolled through Instagram and liked a few things from his teammates and family.

Just as he was about to put his phone away, Sid found one of the fitness accounts he followed. The couple who ran it were very fit and were extremely fond of doing cute couple exercises. She was a former gymnast, and he was one of the guys who showed up on American Ninja Warrior often. He and Kathy had done a few for themselves a few times. They found the couple exercises didn't fit them very well and led to a few joking but not joking arguments. While the couple exercises didn't work out for Sid and Kathy, sid liked them because they always seemed to have fun together. Also, she was hot, and they both demonstrated which muscles were used in workouts. The guy was quite fit himself.

Zucks flung himself into the seat next to Sid, jolting Sid from the video of the guy doing pull-ups shirtless in their latest video. He caught a glimpse of the video and raised an eyebrow at Sid. "Thirst trap, Sid?"

Sid blinked at him. Of course, most of the team in the hallway heard and immediately, like sharks with blood in the water, surrounded them, trying to see what was on Sid's phone. Sid kept a straight face with only long practice of weird press questions and dealing with locker room chirping.

Before Sid could even protest that it wasn't a thirst trap – not that he would; that way led to bad chirping, not fun chirping – Kappy leaned over and whistled. "That is one hell of a trap."

Even Geno - who was across the hallway at a different station - leaned over to see Sid's screen at that.

Ok. So, Sid realized he may have been admiring what was apparently a thirst trap, thinking it was a demonstration. A man's thirst trap. Rule one of surviving in a locker room: Never admit to embarrassing mistakes. Plead ignorance instead.

Sid raised an eyebrow. "Thirst trap on Instagram? I thought that was more of a TikTok thing." That got Sid some good chirping.

Frieds immediately shot back, "How would you know? Your phone can't even handle TikTok. It has a home button!"

Doc talked over him, calling Sid a grandpa. Dumo said that his grandpa had a newer phone and that maybe his kids could show Sid how to use TikTok.

Sid took the chirping with a grin; He loved his team.

Kappy grinned from across the hallway, completely forgetting the content of the video. "Sid, you would do a good thirst trap."

Sid laughed as Reeser said, "Do you want to break the internet? That's how you break the internet. Did you even see the reaction on Twitter after that one ITR last year? When Sid was working out?"

Kappy howled with laughter, "The closest Sid would ever get to a thirst trap: Exercise videos."

Geno did the muttering under his breath, but entirely meant to be heard, which he did when he thought he was being clever. "Kappy, you seen Sid's ass? That alone break internet. Bring gown men to tears."

Sid did his best to not blush. He hadn't seen the video in the question's comments. But something in his was, as always, pleased that he would make that large of an impact on men watching Pens' videos.

Pleased?

While the team collapsed with more laughter and Jen's social team started to herd them into making their way to their assigned rooms before practice, Sid quickly realized a few things.

He… might have been watching the fitness reels for both men and women.

Sid ... may have known the videos were thirst traps.

Sid may not have been admiring the skills on display or control. He… might have been watching that one-boy cake trend from a few months ago more than just the friend's filmed reactions. Most straight men probably didn't have to ignore things in the locker room.

…. There might be some explanation for his teen years in locker rooms. Having to keep his eyes to himself consciously was a thing.

He might have been watching the videos as thirst traps.

Suddenly, a lot of things started to make sense. The ANW guy was hot. Sid watched the video as it replayed on his phone. With a blank shock, Sid realized that the workout videos he watched while strolling through reels weren't guys showing off their form.

They were showing something else off entirely. And Sid... enjoyed it. Like. alot.

How... did he miss this?

Sid was pretty sure he spent all of the next two hours in a daze. He walked through the motions as the PR team ensured his last photo shoots were good and definitely was still in space at the start of practice.

He might not be as straight as previously thought. It's good that even if distracted, he could go hard in practice because he needed to keep his body moving as he put his thoughts in order.

Sid mentally gave himself a shake.

Once everyone was on the ice, Sully outlined the drills they were going over. Everyone broke into the lines posted in the locker room. The drills were something Sid'd done before, but that only would allow his mind to wander even more.

Since he was a teen, Sid ignored some things about himself that were coming unraveled rather quickly.

Some thoughts he had as a teen started to make sense.

Some thoughts he had last week started to make sense.

His experiences with porn started to make far more sense.

And that one threesome - which had nearly been a foursome, but the girl's (really hot guy) friend chickened out - started to make more sense. That was why Sid was disappointed about the whole thing. It was not just because pictures nearly leaked out.

He's in his thirties, for fucks sake. Why is Sid having a sexuality realization in his thirties?! Not when he was younger? He spent a lot of time in locker rooms, for goodness' sake! Wasn't this something that people kinda knew from a much younger age?

He spent a lot of time with teammates like Jack and Army. And God knows with some of the guys from Rimouski and before then….

…. Jack.

A hundred images ran through Sid's head all at once. He had a crush on Jack. As a teen.

HOW THE FUCK DID HE MISS THAT.

Sid whiffed on a puck shot to him by Rusty instead of trying to get past Jars, much to the jeers of the rest of the team watching.

That's embarrassing. And Sid wasn't talking about the missed shot.

A thousand new images and memories came through like a freight train in Sid's head.

ARMY.

Oh fuck. Army.

Sid had been leaning on his stick, waiting for his line's next run for the drill, and only by years of long practice did he not lose balance over his surprise.

Geno definitely saw, though, and sent Sid a questioning look and nearly skated over. Sid waved a hand to wave him off, laughing at himself. Geno grinned but refocused on the practice, which made Sid happy. Even distracted, Making Geno smile and not worry was the best.

The wrestling, the rooming together, the long practices—Sid was rapidly realizing that he may have been flirting as much as practicing. With Army. The straightest man Sid knew. Sid thinks. Sid would have said that about himself just this morning.

Oh god, that's more embarrassing than Jack.

A hundred more moments in time paraded in Sid's mind that, when they happened, Sid had thought they were just guys being guys! Sid now recognized as having Massive Crushes (TM) on so many people.

Sid line launched forward, and this time, Jake sent him a puck as planned.

Oh god, oh fuck.

His type of guy is a hockey player. What the fuck.

Sid punctured the thought with a hard slapshot that whizzed past Jarry's ear. Jarry's loud "Goddamn fucker!" echoed Sid's own thought.

Geno thankfully waited until they had left the rink and were outside Sid's car before cornering him.

By the end of practice, the team was no longer laughing and instead had been giving some concerning stares in Sid's direction. Sid had missed a few more shots than he usually would. (or a lot more shots. And what he did hit was a bit more serious than expected. Jarry was sending him some very wounded looks by the end of the practice.)

Geno had been giving him worried looks.

They had made plans to ride back to Sid's house together before Nikita would get home. Mike and Marisol were with Helena, going to a therapist she had gotten for them.

"Are you ok, Sid? You were distracted all practice," Geno asked in Russian, getting into the passage side. He would drive them to practice tomorrow. But today, it was Sid's turn. Figuring out logistics was much more complex with kids in tow than before – but Sid didn't mind.

Sid chewed on his thoughts as they got situated and started out of the parking lot, trying to figure out where to start. He blurted the first thought that came to his head rather than any of the others swirling around his mind.

"When you have a crush on people, does it feel different when it's not a woman?" Sid will deny to the day he dies that he didn't breathe for the whole question. He breathed. It was just. Small. He asked in English because he had no idea the word for "crush" was in Russian.

Geno blinked at him from the passenger seat, surprised. But he answered slowly, taking Sid's question seriously. "For me, yes, women hot rush – all at once, men more soft falling. But both just as intense. Kinda hard to explain. Like both feelings a lot. It is very fun. Anna says not different feeling for her."

Sid kept his eyes on the road. "Oh."

"Why?"

"Figuring something out," he said before taking a deep breath, and because it was GENO, explained.

It may have taken the whole drive for Sid to fully explain – mostly because he kept on stumbling and rambling rather than getting to the point but also because he was explaining in both Russian and English, and this was a test of his Russian vocabulary even after nearly fifteen years of near fluency – but by the time they pulled up into Sid's driveway, Sid had more or less come out to one of his closest friends. Nearly three hours later, he realized it himself.

Geno was laughing as he stepped out of the car. "Yes, Sid. that crush." He said between breaths. "You think it was just friendship?"

"OH," Sid said, trying to keep his face from giving everything away; he was enjoying Geno's levity. He played along, asking, "So, most guys don't have issues in locker rooms?"

Geno burst out laughing again. "No, most don't feel much around the locker room. Not embarrassed with other men, just of themselves." They got into the house, and Sid was glad they were alone, even with how strange the house sounded without the kids running around.

Sid suddenly remembered sitting in locker rooms as a teen, keeping his eyes to himself. Before he got over it, he was embarrassed about his body – he'd always been weirdly shaped, but that wasn't the only reason he was looking at the floor. Sid wanted to look at the other guys in the room. He thought everyone had these urges and just ignored them. "Oh." He said, looking down. He felt kind of stupid for not realizing this sooner.

Geno wrapped an arm around Sid's shoulders, "It's ok! Many people do not know until later."

When Sid gave him a skeptical look, Geno beamed at him, "Not many people like me and know from boyhood. It's not often people are as in touch with themselves as I am!"

"Ok, Geno. Tit for tat! Tell me your realization then!" Sid demanded, mainly to see if Geno would tell him. That was one story Sid had never found out.

The deep red flush that spread across Geno's face as he dropped his arm from around Sid's shoulders said clearly that it was a story Sid had to know. It also declared that it was a story that Geno would do his best never to tell Sid.

Sid was pretty sure he would win this battle.

#'sid has a teen he didn't know about' au #sidgeno #8771 #i write?#this will take a while to write #working title: Legacy (what is a legacy?)#sid thought #sid had realizations (tm)#hilarity ensued.

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thesublimeiseverywhere · 1 year ago

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Tvdint meme collection part 3

I made them long time ago, time to share. Manga spoiler for some chapters not animated and characters, sfw and nsfw with different styles. At the end of the post will be the spoiler ones.

Tw: sex, violence, idk it's tvdint we are talking about

First of all, happy anniversary bi banner! You will always be famous! On 8/8/22 (Ronald's bday) season 2 was announced!

Miss them any day.

Never joke about cookies! (Video found here)

He needs to google it at least four times per month. Screen from s1 Heartstopper (I rewatched that before finish s2)

Classic Handa Tou

For my RonaDoraRona friends! (Original meme found on twitter but I lost the tweet lol)

It is so tiring living in tvdint universe, I suppose.

;)

They all know what they was doing with this pose.

And now some spoiler!

Manga chapter not animated

'24 hour surveillance, baby' has nothing straight. (From vol 3, ch 27)

30 years later au

30yl Draluc would mess with anyone don't allow him to malewife in peace fr

Manga character spoiler

Kazusaaaaaaaaa one of my fav!

Manga chapter not animated

This chapter without any context is a lucid dream I swear. And Ronald is definitely in his slut era. (From Vol 18 ch 219)

Tvdint meme collection part 1 | part 2 | part 3 (I almost run out of meme)

#the vampire dies in no time #kyuuketsuki sugu shinu #tvdint #memes

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hypermoyashi · 21 days ago

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Hi, Allen! 12, 17, 29 for the ao3 wrapped! 💜

Hello, Trai!!! Thank you so much!!! Hope you're doing well!!

12. How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?

Ohhh this one is a little bit difficult to say? Specifically for Trigun since that's what almost all of my writing has been for, both Demon AU and the Vashwood Roleswap AU aren't going to be complete before year-end, so that's at least two. I have two more completed but unedited/unposted fics ready to go for Ladies Week so far, with one more I'm currently working on in the drafting stage and four more planned (whether they all get written in time is another story). I'm also planning at least one fic for sapphic week. In terms of other things I've already started and hope to start posting next year, I've also got the Castle in the Sky AU, the timeloop fics/series, more SWAP AU, and the little lumberjack/dryad au one-shot. In terms of things I haven't started and hope to work on next year, the Mecha AU and the Garden of Sinners AU are the two ones I'd really like to work on and start posting!

So, to summarize, the count for things I've started for next year is nine WIPs, and that jumps to sixteen if you count the things I haven't started but hope to finish and post. Hopefully I can do a little more than that, too, given that only gets me a third of the way through my ideas list and I'm sure I'll have more ideas rolling in.

Rest of the answers under the cut!

17. Your favorite character to write this year?

...Very much Vash lol. I also love Wolfwood, Meryl, and Milly a whole lot, but I relate to a lot of Vash's personal struggles and find him cathartic and comforting to write. He's also just a pretty complex character, so it feels like there are always other layers to him to explore via writing.

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

Oh, this one is hard... I've written so much... Hmmmm, well, Chapter 31 of Demon AU was actually written in 2023, even if it was only posted in 2024... I think part of what makes this hard is that I'm the kind of person that's more enamored with scenarios and characters than specific lines or writing styles, so I don't fuss too much over word choice as long as it's functional to get the mood and whatever else I need conveyed. That being said, maybe it's the recency bias, but (Spoilers for the Vashwood Roleswap AU)--

Maybe he’d lost, but he’d forever deny Knives of the one true thing he wanted—affirmation that what he was doing was right, that he was a righteous protector instead of a ruthless, cruel tyrant. That his actions, born of fear that only served to inflict their pain onto others, were just. Vash loved Knives. Vash loved Rem. Vash loved humanity. So he’d never give up on them. He’d never forget Rem. He’d never betray humanity. And he’d never stop defying Knives, so long as he clung to fear and refused to change. Because… Well, call him naive, but a part of him still thought Knives might change.

I think it just encapsulates my feelings on the relationship between Vash and Knives pretty well. Things are just... Messy, and complex, but no matter what Knives does, Vash is never going to just roll over for him, not anymore. And I love him for that.

But! Thank you so much for the ask, Trai!! I had a ton of fun answering these!

[from this meme!]

#ask meme #markcampbells #trigun #about my writing #spoilers

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, September 25

Another student hands Buffy another flier. GIRL: Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior? BUFFY: Uh, you know I meant to and then I just got really busy.

~~The Freshman~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

BtVS Double Drabble: Overworked by badly_knitted (Buffy, Willow, Xander, PG)

Head over Feet by Rippertish (Buffy/Giles, T)

[Chaptered Fiction]

I'll Get You, My Pretty... - Ch. 1-5 by CheekyKitten (Buffy/Spike, M) COMPLETE!

Hello, Darling - Ch. 9 by Spikelover4ever (Buffy/Spike, M) COMPLETE!

Omission - ch. 16 by toutes_les_routes (Riley/Spike, Buffy/Riley, E)

Book Stew! - ch. 8 by MGAllan (Michael from Gingerbread/Lance from The Pack, G)

You Can Keep All The Rest, Buffy Summers, She's Ours (Eventually) - ch. 3 by Anne_Hathagay (Buffy/Willow, Willow/Tara, Buffy/Tara, E)

Slayer No More - ch. 24 by jsaint34 (Buffy/Oliver Pike, Vamp Willow/Vamp Xander, M)

Infinitely - ch. 71 by Laragh (Willow/Tara, M)

Should I stay or should I go? (Part one) by prose-for-hire (Spike/reader, unrated)

Soul Mate Magic - Chapter Six by emma-m-black (Giles/OC, M)

Unholy Matrimony - ch. 3 by CheekyKitten (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Out of this World, love... - ch. 11 by Miss Kitty (Buffy/Spike, PG-13) French, COMPLETE!

Heart of Stone by Claire (Buffy/Spike, G)

A Sword in the Man - ch. 5 by Desicat (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Champion Of War - ch. 4 by Desicat (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

[Images, Audio & Video]

Meme: [Textposts] (Buffy/Spike, worksafe) by paperpuzzles

Meme: RUPERT GILES + text posts (Giles, worksafe) by clarkgriffon

Cartoon: Paul Gadzikowski's The Hero of Three Faces by paulgadzikowski (Angel, worksafe)

Artwork: She's Finished Now by quartersety-of-a-holsety (Willow, worksafe)

Artwork: Hyper fixated on Spike from btvs awhile ago and finally finished this drawing! by wtv-my-current-hyperfixation (Spike, worksafe)

Artwork: Drew some of my OTPS... by doesimmons (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Artwork: [also episode review] Buffy, the vampire slayer: Bewitched, bothered and bewildered by onedrawsoverthecuckoosnest (Cordelia, worksafe)

Artwork: [also fic rec] Burdens to Blessings: by SlayrGrl recced and artwork by o-cm-draw-o (Buffy/Spike, worksafe)

Artwork: Drew our Slayer, Buffy Summers by verytoastyghost (Buffy, worksafe)

Collage: Collage #175 by thedecadentraven (Spike, worksafe)

Gifset: Supernatural 1.11 // Buffy the Vampire Slayer 2.22 by wozardofiz (Buffy, worksafe)

Gifset: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 2.10 | 9-1-1: 6.12 by sophsun1 (Buffy, Giles, worksafe)

3D artwork: Faith Lehane as a Ghost Angel by jade-frankenstein (Faith, worksafe)

3D artwork: Buffy Summers as a Vampire by jade-frankenstein (Buffy, worksafe)

Fanvid: Stick Season - Xander & Anya (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) by TheOverLookedOne (Xander/Anya)

[done in copics] by Lee Xopher (@leexopher) (Buffy, worksafe)

[Reviews & Recaps]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Prophecy Girl, S01E12 by ravenya003

The Initiative and Pangs by mothmans-wedding-photographer

PODCAST: Episode 75: A New Man (w/ Katie Kaisershot) by Gym Was Cancelled: A Buffy Podcast

[Recs & In Search Of]

Fic rec: [Buffy/Spike, M] Close to Home by Sigyn recced by flowspuffy

Video recs:Angel/Cordelia vid by Billy Grayson and Buffy/Spike vid by Crista Grym - both recced by apachefirecat

Video recs: Angel/Cordelia videos by Love Bites recced by vampandvisiongirl

Spuffy fic recs: Fic recs in tags and replies: please drop your fav Spuffy fics so I can distract myself. by spuffybot

ISO: Particular-Employ326 seeks fanfic recs for pro Cordelia AU of Angel Season 4

[Community Announcements]

LONELY PROMPTS WEEK :: 25 SEPTEMBER § DAY 3 by comment_fic

LONELY PROMPTS WEEK :: 26 SEPTEMBER § DAY 4 by comment_fic

EVENT: Elysian Fields Anniversary Event Details!!! by elysianfieldsarchive

EVENT: [all fandoms] HALLOWEEn HEXATHLoN 2024 👻 October 26-31th by witchesnet

First Bingo: We have our first full BINGO!! Big congratulations to: Melon by Harlow by Fanged Four Family Bingo 2024

PROMPT: Angel has a human descendant by BuffyverseKinkmeme

PROMPT: Holden Webster, vampire therapist by BuffyverseKinkmeme

PROMPT: Spike/Riley, Surviving by BuffyverseKinkmeme

[Fandom Discussions]

What If: There was no Eve? by nightshade and November

BUFFY FANDOM I WOULD LIKE TO ASK A QUESTION. [S1 new viewer] Giles is hot, right? by valhallavalkyrie9

I just started watching "Angel" (Angel the series), and now I wonder how a soul works. by trealtox

You know, technically, Spike never actually said that he and Angel were intimate only once. by thequeenofsastiel

they [Angel and Lindsey] should've had massive spuffy-style house-destroying... by soupforsoup

buffy is literally the show ever it has schlocky horror and funny looking puppets and ... by pinesorneedles

cordelia telling angel he should smile more by dykemarcille and inquiryminded

From s06E11 Gone XANDER, "Still trying to mack on Buffy? Wake up already. Never gonna happen!" by desicat-writer

I love that when Angel knew Spike was about to be [in ATS S5] by thequeenofsastiel

Honestly for me the most heartbreaking part of Fred and Wesley's story .... by thequeenofsastiel

[can't believe how many details i forgot, doing a ATS rewatch now...] by paarthursass

[Buffy and Faith becoming cops in the comics] by oveliagirlhaditright

i think jane espenson is my favorite writer on buffy... by lesbianmarrow

the only reason anyone would willingly choose to live in sunnydale... by comradesummers

when the hero falls in love with the villain she is falling in love with the darkest parts of herself... by atlasshrugd

POLL: Who is the better whumpee? [Spike or Angel] by just-a-little-whump

POLL: is she autistic? [Anya] by is-your-blorbo-neurodivergent

POLL: AO3 Femslash Top 100: Round 5 [Tara/Willow vs Warrior Nun couple] by ao3femslashtop100-tournament

POLL: AO3 Femslash Top 100: Round 5 [Buffy/Faith vs Killing Eve couple] by ao3femslashtop100-tournament

Faith's turning to evil is just a metaphor for addiction? by debujandobirds

I've just rewatched I Will Remember You and forgot how heartbreaking it is (Angel 4x08 spoilers) by atomic_mermaid

Iyari Limon is gorgeous as Kennedy [and Kennedy talk] by raccoon_smh

[zombie apocalypse team roles] by Historical-Capital43

Omg it took me a second to recognize Emma! [Emma in new show Agatha All Along] by ronsip101

Forever thankful that Buffy wasn't a "not like other girls" type character by New_Mycologist_3002

Dawn stunt double by Far-Pin9382

Angel’s funniest episodes? by entitledtwit

Harmony’s disposition in [ATS] season 5 by DevilManRay

I’m actually a little annoyed about Knox by DevilManRay

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nostalgia-tblr · 1 year ago

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20 Questions For Writers

I got tagged by @thot-son-of-odin for this!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

412 (plus some Anonymous works that aren’t counted in that number)

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

777,634

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Doctor Who (old and new), various Star Treks, the MCU, and a few others including Elementary and M*A*S*H.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

1. Trust the Devil

2. Four Times the Doctor and Clara Shared a Bed and One Time They Didn't

3. Locks And Revelations

4. Responsibility

5. How To Walk On Eggshells

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I didn’t used to but I try to now. It took me a while to get past “if I thank them for the kind words that means I agree and they can call me big-headed!” but now I think perhaps the commenter and I will become friends, as though this was still the LJ days or whatever.

6. What’s the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I am answering these together to say that with 412 works it’s rly hard to come up with an answer because I’m bound to forget something that’s either angstier or happier than the one I pick D:

8. Do you get hate on your fic?

No, despite writing occasionally Problematic stuff. Maybe I’m just lucky with that? I think on AO3 the worst I’ve ever got is a comment or two on Ten/Reinette fic about how it is a TERRIBLE pairing and how dare anyone write it. I think I deleted those, or if I haven’t then I meant to, because fuck it they’re properly tagged so the enraged anons must have deliberately chosen something that would offend them.

This sort of thing is why I still have an automatic flinch reaction when people tell me they like Rose Tyler.

9. Do you write smut?

Of course not! I write very thoughtful and insightful character studies in which the characters being studied fuck, that’s COMPLETELY different!

10. Do you write crossovers?

Not often, I’m more into the idea of crossovers than actually writing (or reading) them.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don’t think so.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yeah, a few times.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic?

Yes but not for years.

14. What‘s your all-time favourite ship?

I’m going to say Doctor/TARDIS because that’s a safe answer to such questions.

15. What’s the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Never say never – I’ve had ideas that did finally get written a decade later.

16. What’s your writing strengths?

I think it’s dialogue, which is also usually the easiest part to write. (I am a bit of a Fic Snob about how characters should sound like themselves in fic, including in AU fics where is even more important and also if they go OOC in those then that should be the point that’s being made.)

17. What’s your writing weaknesses?

The bits that aren’t dialogue. Urgh, why must things need to be described! Why must I tell the reader who is speaking!

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Well I usually see it in the context of “a phrase or word in the language we assume the characters are actually speaking” (mostly pet-names, for some reason) and that just makes me go “So what language are they speaking in the rest of this story? In the rest of this sentence, even?” Not a fan of this, nah.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Star Wars! :O

20. Favourite fic you’ve ever written?

I dunno, there’s too many of them (same problem as before).

I tag anyone what wants to do this meme!

#fic related #20 questions for fic writers

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direwolfrules · 2 years ago

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My AUs

Literally just two four seven so far but eh, I imagine I'll start another dozen before finishing the first so: have a master post.

3 Mandos and a Baby AU- My pride and joy. Too many time travelers, force ghosts, and an incredible amount of hatred for Pre Vizsla. Y’all there’s fan art now!

Star Wars as Star Trek- Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Resolute. Its continuing mission, stop Anakin from blowing up the warp core.

Star Trek Voyager But The Ghost Crew Is Also There- Basically what it says. The Caretaker's array also kidnapped ships from A Galaxy Far Far Away, and unfortunately for our favorite Rebels, they were some of his last acquisitions. Also, RIP the Ghost, blown up by the Kazon. Hell of a way to go.

Another Mando Time Travel AU- No name for this one yet, but basically Tarre sends some people back in time to 33 BBY to fix some mistakes. He just wants his people, both of his peoples, to survive.

Save A Rebellion, Ride A Mythosaur- Alternate Heroes of Mandalore where Ezra winds up riding the mythosaur. That's it, that's the post. It winds up being part of the-

-Indiana Sabine AU- Where Sabine finds a ton of Mandalorian artifacts by accident, somehow becomes Mand’alor also by accident, and makes Fenn Rau’s day. Y'all this AU has fanart now!

The Custody Battle AU- Nothing bad happens AU where Ezra builds the Gunsaber and becomes the subject of a three way custody battle between a wizard librarian, a geriatric warrior king, and the young wizard who actually has custody.

Other Stuff

Master Post of memes for The Weirwood Queen series by @redwolf17

Master Post of Bridgerton Memes

#au masterpost #master post #star wars #star wars rebels #star wars the clone wars #3 mandos and a baby au #star wars as star trek au

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klaineharmony · 1 year ago

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Tell me about something you're writing, a story idea, headcannon for a favorite ship, or thoughts on a show, movie, and/or Broadway show. What's been going through your brain begging to be let out during your very swamped year? Share your joy and/or angst with us. :)

Hello, dear friend! Thank you for this ask. As much as I want to come up with a writing/fandom/reintroduction meme (and I will try), having a question to direct my thoughts helps a lot.

What am I writing? Well, the easy answer is "nothing," as I haven't touched my stories in so long - but I am hoping to change that! Life has not allowed for fandom writing in a long time, but I'm going to try and ease back in, and see if I can get back into my 300x3 habit - 300 words, 3 times a week. It was good for me before and helped me move through a lot of stories, so maybe it will be good for me again.

That said, maybe the better question is "What am I thinking about writing?" And that list is long, but some things are closer to the top of the queue than others.

The first thing is actually part of a series. I started the third installment of my Lucy/Caspian AU (Sea and Stars) for the Narnia After Dark fest this year, and didn't get to finish it (despite the fact that the deadlines were set around pagan holidays, which was delightful!). I really, really want to finish this story and share it with the Narnia folks who love and participate in NAD.

The second thing is another continuation. I wrote a story a while ago called Three Ways Peggy Carter Could Have Come Back from the Dead - and One Way She Did. The original story had four possibilities, and was set up as a series of snapshots. I got pretty invested in each idea, and in February I wrote a second chapter that was a continuation of the first possibility, picking up that story thread and showing some more of how it played out. I'd like to do the second possibility next, and see what happens.

I've also had a couple of nascent story ideas floating around in my head that I haven't started - a new Jo/Laurie story based on a Brahms song (and yes, that Jo and Laurie from Little Women), and a new Jack/Sarah story inspired by Sara Bareilles' song "Poetry of Dead Men." The latter has been in my brain for a long time, and I'd really like to get it down.

All of those feel like they are lower stakes than my massive Newsies love letter, We'll Be There to Defend One Another. I love this story so much, and my brain has been grinding into gear again about it recently, mulling over plot lines and details and how to resolve the many pieces I've put into play. It's just a lot - it's a lot of detail and a lot of research, and as much as I love this story and everything about it, it feels very high stakes because I'm so invested in the finished product living up to what I want it to be. So that may take longer to attempt, just because the stakes of it feel so much higher.

There are other things lingering in my WIP pile that I could finish, too, but I'll stop there! That's a good start. :)

#Klaineharmony writes #Narnia #Lucian #Marvel #Steggy #Newsies #Newsies 1992 #Jarah #Little Women #Chronicles of Narnia #fandom life

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abarbaricyalp · 11 months ago

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6, 7, 8 for the fic writers ask, por favor 💜

Hi! Thanks for asking! From this ask meme

6: Are there any fics from others you reread all the time?

I'm not a huge rereader, with fics or published works. (Though I do reread as new chapters or parts are published, so I just reread your Ashes and Dreams this morning to get ready for the new one!) I did just re-bookmark humming with the birds by atlanta black. I've read napricot's I Am Easy to Find, flowermasters's beggars and choosers, dynamites's As Above, So Below, Baby! and plorp's Those Who Mourn quite often as well

7: How many ideas for fics do you have right now?

Too many! There are 11 tabs of fic open on my computer right now, which isn't even everything I've started and definitely not everything I've thought about. One of the tabs is full of my Valentine's day fics too, though those'll be shorter. Which is to say ->

8: What are you working on right now?

All of my fills for the Valentine's Day bingo! There's three or four that I think I'll be able to finish before the end of the month. I also just reopened (and got quite a bit of new stuff written on) my Pacific Rim AU after the Captain America Mech/What If Images came out. I am also halfway through the next chapter of Fragile Lives! (I'm not sure why I didn't just finish it last time I was working on it, but you've reminded me that it's on a rising action moment that would be easy enough to plow through)

#i answer things #writing #sambucky #sambucky fic rec

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onlygenxhere · 1 year ago

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20 questions writer meme!

Tagged by @jmrothwell, Thanks!

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 38

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 382,342

3. What fandoms do you write for? Julie and the Phantoms and one lone Teen Wolf

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Falling Toward the Future – The monster college au that I based a lot on my own college experiences.

The next four (actually 6) are all part of the Found Family Fluff Series. Basically my take on things that might have happened after the Orpheum and the most family friendly of everything I've written.

Burn Baby Burn – The sixth fic in the series. Julie and Luke making out in a hammock

A Bigger Table – The second in the FFF series. Ray buys a bigger dining room table so the guys can join them at meal times even though they can’t eat.

Eat the Chips – My very first Julie and the Phantoms fic and the first in this series. Julie and Luke can touch now but for some reason Luke has been avoiding touching her.

Not Today Satan – My first Willex piece and the third in the series. Alex and Willie hanging out in the studio catching up on music from the last 25 years when Julie comes in and they discover some new ghost powers.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Yes, always. Sometimes it’s just a .gif but I always reply with something.

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I feel like this should just say what’s your angstiest fic cause like most, I like to end on a happy note, or at least with hope. Even though they both end either happy or hopeful I feel like As Long As We Have Each Other and What if I’m Someone I Don’t Want Around are the most angst filled. Both are pretty depressing.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? They all have a happy ending (technically the smut has the happiest endings) but maybe We’re Having a Baby part 4. Julie and Luke have a baby. (I know you’re shocked from that title)

8. Do you get hate on fics? – Not really. Had a few 'I’m not sure I like what you did there'. But nothing mean. I’m pretty sure I would have a couple years ago based on what I’ve heard.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Yes, not sure what this means by what kind. I’m going to assume it means ships. It’s all been Juke until recently when I did my first peterpatterlina. There're four outtakes from Falling Toward the Future that are Explicit as well as Maybe I Could be Yours (Royalty AU) and a series of fics in the Naughty Files.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? I have not done a crossover (only AUs) but I’ve had a couple floating around in my head but not enough to actually write down.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not to my knowledge

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? No

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? No, but I think it’d be fun.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship? Juke (shocking) But I will actively seek out Rarrie and Peterpatterlina. And I love Willex (Willex Wednesday!) and pretty much all of them to varying degrees.

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? Never say never. If I’ve written words on something it’s always possible I’ll finish it.

16. What are your writing strengths? This is a hard question to answer because it’s all a matter of opinion and writers are our own worse critics. Maybe dialogue.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Sometimes I think I can get too focused on movement. Like making sure the reader knows how everyone is moving as they speak. It’s not always important and I can get bogged down in it sometimes.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? Just terms of endearment otherwise I try to avoid it.

19. First fandom you wrote for? Technically it would be Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure even though it never went up on the web in any way. I’ve written The Hardy Boyz (wwe) and Buffy, Willow and Oz. All of them many, MANY years ago.

20. Favorite fic you've written? This is like picking a favorite child. Looking through them all though I am very fond of Happy Birthday Ray which was the first sequel one-shot I wrote to Falling Toward the Future. I gave him my own birthday and published it ON my birthday.

Tagging @preoccupied-educator, @missjoolee, @60sec400, and @1mnobodywhoareyou and anyone else that wants to share.

#writer asks #this was fun #who doesn't like to talk about their fics #I didn't mention the wip because it's on going and it's hard to know how it will go

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birgittesilverbae · 2 years ago

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aaaaaask meme

7, 10, 18, 24, 26, 29

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

I answered this previously, but 7 when it comes to you specifically is making you yell at me. fills me with warmth

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

Your star wars au Shannon death makes me want to disappear (and your description of Bea's elbow stuff) asking this question has made me forget everything I've ever read tbh. I've been haunted by stuff I never finished, and I'll stumble over it and just get slapped in the face

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

from tmtl ch5, rewatching ep6 for the millionth time I got stuck on the fact that Bea's had to drive out to Ronda alone and then back with Mary and sit in the knowledge that they've lost Lilith too and their family of four has been cut in half in the blink of an eye

outline/v1: The return trip with Mary. Quiet, stilted questions. Not on the same wavelength, interrupting each other and apologising because they don't know how to fill the spaces that have been left for other voices.

v2: "Would you just look at me?" // "I can't. Because I look at you and all I see is her."

v3: "You're all I have left. Shannon's dead. Lilith's dead. Mary, you're all I have left." // "I can't." Mary's voice is hoarse. "Even just sitting here– You still use her soap." It's not a question. "I sit here and I smell her and when I look at you all I can see are the fingerprints she left behind. And I'm sorry, Beatrice, but I can't fucking deal with that right now."

v4: "You're all I have left,” Beatrice continues, unable to hold her tongue now that the first stones in the dam have cracked. “Shannon's dead. Lilith's dead. Mary, you're all I have left. Look at me. Please." // "I can't." Mary's voice is hoarse. "Even just sitting here– You still use her soap." It's not a question. "I sit here and I smell her and when I look at you all I can see are the fingerprints she left behind. And I'm sorry, Beatrice, but I can't fucking deal with that right now."

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

it depends on the story; tmtl for each scene I had a one sentence outline for the exact emotional beats I wanted to hit, and then a paragraph outline with scene beats and callbacks, and then a bulletpoint outline to detail the exact shape of the scene. fic: nature is gonna end up with the same sort of treatment but probably less intense about it. tmau prep work has involved a shit ton of academic papers and spreadsheets. if it's not clear, I really love prep work, I haven't had as much opportunity for research work in my day-to-day lately so I've been really digging in. honestly fic: dads has been such a departure in that it's been an exercise for me in trying to do absolutely no planning

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

I'll typically have a song assigned to a character for a specific fic and listen to that repeatedly if I'm having trouble getting into their mindset. getting out of it usually isn't that difficult, head empty brain go brr etc. but if I'm getting to stuck in something I go watch cooking videos on youtube tbh. there are a couple points I've hit where I've been writing something and had to take a step back and go 'okay, it's not good for me to be here right now I need to walk away' but I don't know that I regret those points so much as they give me more insight into myself

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

I usually turn to my sad bangers playlist (which I've been familiarizing you with cas hehe) if I'm in the need for inspiration, and lately when I've been stuck on something I've gone and stared at @princington 's art until I'm Fixed (read: made worse (affectionate))

#ask #ask meme #daisychainsandbowties #fic: tmtl

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newcontinent · 2 years ago

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ot4

okay so i made this largely ryden/polypanic reclist before i know, but i wanted to make a complete list of all my favourite longer ot4 fics as well as just smut. it’s fair to say this list is extensive and ever-expanding. enjoy!

(note: it’s safe to assume all these fics are nc-17 unless otherwise stated)

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a sense of touch by liketheroad (16,000, rated PG)

from the very beginning, slowly at first but always steadily growing towards more, they touched. so much and eventually so without thought that they never had to wonder why it felt wrong when they didn’t, because that itself happened so infrequently.

(this is so so lovely it makes me cry tbh. canon compliant and delicate and wonderful)

all in by fictionalaspect (8000)

"last person still in wins the pot," jon says. he finishes with a flourish, folding up his two pieces of paper and dropping them on top of the folded twenty at the bottom of their empty weed jar.

brendon pushes his hair out of his eyes, bites his lip, and stares at his two scraps of paper. he writes the first two things that come to mind.

(well written, well read, well loved. brendon gets rimmed, ryan wears lingerie, we’re all happy)

be(side) the sea by liketheroad (21,000, rated T)

ryan and spencer grow up on a lonely island by the sea, two against the world, and then comes jon walker to make it three.

(and then brendon arrives too! this is so sad in places but exceptionally pretty in others and i just really really like it)

burn up in love love love by dsudis (12,000)

miss you miss you miss you

(who knew jon getting gang banged could be so sweet??)

circus verse by mokuyoubi (38,000 altogether)

spencer and ryan are part of pete's travelling circus. jon and brendon come for the show, but there's something about the place that keeps them coming back for more.

(this is ryan/brendon and jon/spencer in the first part, but it’s so good and i love the idea of this au tbh)

clearly aware of the stars by jenish (18,000)

(bby!brendon has a huge crush on jon, so spencer and ryan decide to, ahem, help him out. aka cute tiny gay boys having feelings)

different names for the same thing by liketheroad (24,000, rated PG)

wherein ryan, spencer, brendon and jon live in a house in chicago and go to school and work and make waffles and have misunderstandings and fall in love. also wherein tom conrad is kind of magic.

(i love everything this author writes to be honest, but this and the other 2 fics by them on here are just so cute and awesome and everything i love about polypanic)

discussion of children at prayer (divine in accepting your defeat) by ignite_it (4500)

in which ryan, spencer and brendon died before they could live forever, pete is ruthless and possibly crazy, the world might be ending, and jon walker just wants his family back. (sad and far-fetched, but it made me cry so it belongs on this list)

every turn a surprise by mixtapestar (56,000)

when brendon is 10 years old, weird things start happening. he quickly discovers his ability to read minds, and then he spends several years at the academy, learning how to control it. after he is forced to run away to avoid being drafted for his ability, he gets hired onto a spaceship, where he meets spencer, ryan, and jon. things just get crazier from there, especially when he starts to fall in love with more than one of his coworkers.

(considering the length, the plot is kind of underdeveloped in places, but still - space au ot4!!! with superpowers!!!)

find what you need by lady_deathangel (5000)

(this was written for a bottom!jon meme and it actually has a bit of a plot. what more needs to be said)

four men and a little cabin by gigantic (9000)

unrelated, non-linear scenes from a recording cabin

(i constantly thank god for cabin fic)

from countess to cabin boy by formerlydf (35,000)

to be fair, brendon never truly intends to join the crew of a pirate ship. It just sort of... happens. she's sitting at a table in the corner, sipping her water and trying to figure out where to go next, when a boy about her age sits down at the table with her. "have you ever considered a life of action and adventure on the high seas?" he asks her cheerfully. brendon stares at him. she also stares at his hair — at least, she thinks it's his hair. It could be some sort of weird, hair-like hat gone terribly, terribly wrong. "um. what?"

(pirate au!! is it kind of ridiculous? yes. is the genderswap awkward and/or offensive? surprisingly not! overall p adorable tbh)

high school verse 1 and 2 by softlyforgotten (38,000 altogether, rated T)

(the reigning monarch of high school aus writes more high school au. the first part is mostly vicky/greta, but seriously this entire thing is so good and the polypanic in both parts is so well done i love it a lot)

(i’ll be) the only thing between you and the stars by mokuyoubi (68,000)

pete likes to be the admiral of the fleet in his free time, the cobra is after the academy, the helena is after the cobra, and brendon gets caught in the middle, leaving it up to spencer, jon and ryan to come to his rescue. oh yeah. star trek au.

(*bangs on table* star trek au!! star trek au!!! star! trek!! au!!!! amazing tbh)

the less specific i become by notamagnet (21,000)

brendon was found wandering the desert when he was two and was later adopted by the uries. he’s never felt as though he fits in with them, but he loves them regardless. everywhere he goes he can’t help but wonder if he’s passing someone who knows what happened to him. one day on tour, he meets someone who does.

(brendon is adopted and his real dad is the president???? idek man but there’s just something about this fic that i really, really like)

let each who is worthy by mokuyoubi (86,000)

“it was probably just some shitty band, you know? i mean, how many high school bands ever go anywhere, what are the odds? but i still can’t help wondering how things might have been different, if i’d joined them. like. that was a bad time for me, and what if i had found a place where i fit in? where would i be now?"

brendon has his religious crisis but never meets panic! and goes away on his mission after high school.

(hugely long and ambitious considering, but it still works and it’s kind of amazing. absolutely worth a read)

one more than three by cynthia_arrow (9000)

"i think i want to have sex with ryan ross," jon says as he spills across the threshold.

to his credit, gabe doesn't laugh, doesn't even so much as smirk.

(brendonryanspencer are together, jon is sad and wants in, and gabe is actually a very good friend)

panic! at the discworld by imperfectcircle (+ podfic by reena_jenkins) (5000, rated G)

brendon came from a tiny farm in the ramtop mountains half a cow and two acorns short of being a hovel, and had assumed the city of ankh-morpork would be similar in size and variety to the kingdom of lancre. it might even be smaller, he had supposed, because lancre -- that huddled collection of villages, mountains and goats -- was a kingdom, whereas ankh-morpork was merely a city.

this was much like using height to deduce that a baby made less mess than a hat stand, and tended to have the same effect on one's shoes.

(oh man this fic THIS FIC. 100% as good as it sounds, it captures pterry’s voice perfectly, it features otto!!!, and it is just so fucking great i cry. podfic is a++ as well)

so tonight that we might see by softlyforgotten (32,000)

adventures and reunions of a spacely sort.

(more spaceship aus!!! okay ngl this fic p much broke my heart but i love it very dearly and there’s a happy ending i promise!!)

(songs about fighting for boys who don’t fight) by jae (17,000)

right when jon was joining, william had said to him, “you know, they’re a - tight-knit bunch.

(new beginnings are hard to navigate, and ryan is a little bitch (as per usual). jon centric and wonderful if painful)

spyro! by solarcat (9000)

in which spencer smith is a small, purple dragon, ryan ross makes magical scarves, brendon urie writes songs about lonely manticores, and jon walker is magic!

(okay so part of me can’t even believe i’m even putting this in this list, but i couldn’t not do it. it’s ridiculous, it’s hilarious, but it’s also well written and it’s sure as hell original!)

that’s what he said by cyclogenesis (23,000)

truckstops and statelines and boyfriends, etc.

(okay so this is, to be truthfully honest, mostly just smut, but it is smut that is very important from me. take it from rosie, i never shut up about this fic)

there’s no ‘i’ in ryan ross by jzbell (9500)

jon walker attempts the impossible: to make the gayest band on the planet even gayer.

(group sex as organised by jwalk - what’s not to love?)

triangulation and other games of numbers by redsnake05 (24,000)

spencer doesn't think he should believe mike or tom, at first, but he finds himself wanting to trust them. when he finds out what they've really been doing, he's lucky to also find something else that he actually can trust in. (features various permutations of tom conrad/mike carden/spencer, but ultimately a great polypanic fic about trust and boundaries. and sex. obviously)

the way you make me feel (it knocks me off my feet) by dishonestdreams (9000)

jon doesn't know how he ever got by without this. without them. (i’m not super down for dom!ryan but i am incredibly down for sub!jon so there we have it. also v well written)

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(side note: because this list was getting kind of ridiculously long, i decided to split it into 2. my other ot4 reclist can be found here, and it contains smaller fics/pure smut fic that i didn’t want to put into this list)a

#reclist #IGNORE THIS

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