#tttc time

[bookskeepers]

third time's the charm ♡ chapter seven

content warnings: MDNI, bad jokes, reader rambles about neuroscience, sexism mentioned, dirty talk af, reader tries to hold a conversation during sex tho, oral (male receiving), fingering, peepee in veevee, protected, nipple play (m + f receiving), overstimulation, TICKLISH COOTER, i probably use every possible word for 'penis', not proofread

word count: can't measure on mobile so... ~3.2k? idk tbh

a/n: note to self: never write on mobile again. wtf. also the 'ticklish down there' is a self story bc when my ob gyn disinfected my hoo ha for iud insertion i told her it tickled (bc i was giggling) and she said I'm her first ticklish patient (and yes, i have also gotten ticklish during receiving oral </3)

taglist: @wakashudou @maddyb-rapps

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"Guess we're starting off with a bang, huh?"

The line catches you off-guard. After all, it's not actually related to the activities you two will be partaking in; your door did slam into the wall with how much force you used to fling it open.

After taking way too much time to process what he said, you finally break out into a fit of giggles. "Because," you begin, "we're going to have sex, but the door also whammed into the wall..."

There's a look of amusement in Tsukishima Kei's honey brown eyes as he takes a step into your dorm, closer to you. "Sure. We can say it was intentional."

You take a step back unconsciously, making room for him to pass by you into your room. Unlike last time, you forgot to clean up -- there are clothes scattered on the bed and three different textbooks opened haphazardly on the floor. Your rug is crumpled up in the corner of the room, a victim of an outrage earlier in the week at getting an annoying text from a groupmate about a project.

The minimal mess doesn't seem to bother him, though. You watch as he sets his own bag on the ground, noting to yourself that he actually brought a bag with him this time. He steps over the opened textbooks, taking care not to accidentally damage them, before he arrives at your bed. He's facing away from you, so you can't see his face, but you can hear the smirk in his voice as he picks up a particularly lacy bra that would leave nothing to the imagination if someone saw you wearing it. "Weren't gonna wear this one for tonight, huh?"

Your face begins to heat up as you rush over to his side, snatching the garment out of his hands and kicking it under the bed. "Uh, don't worry about that." Mai had decided it'd be funny to gift you the world's most revealing lingerie set (which was impressive, given the nature of lingerie) yesterday as a 'congratulations for hooking up with the same person twice' gift. You had opened the box and thrown it at her in shock. She had thrown it back, and it stayed on your bed where Tsukishima found it.

He watches you with a bemused expression before leaning back on your bed as if this were his dorm room, not yours. "So... what can you teach me about sex, from a neuroscience standpoint?" he asks, reaching one hand out to take your arm and pull you closer.

You stumble in the process, finding yourself flat against him with both your palms pressed firmly on his chest. "Oh!" you exclaim, face turning even redder. "Well, actually, all I really know is that women produce oxytocin when they... y'know, release, and men release dopamine, I think?" You begin to ramble, talking about the effects of these two hormones on the brain while Tsukishima watches, clearly listening to your every word.

As what was supposed to be a hook-up starts nearing closer and closer to a lecture, the blonde male holds your wrist up to his mouth, planting soft kisses on it as you continue to talk. "...so some really sexist people think that, because women release oxytocin when they orgasm and oxytocin is linked to pairbonding, promiscuous women are incapable of forming lasting relatio-- what are you doing?"

His tactic of slowly and gently placing kisses up your arm to distract you worked, as now your focus is solely on him instead of whatever neuroscience-related lectures were replaying in your head.

"Performing an experiment," he says between pecks, his voice low and sultry.

You raise a brow at him, biting the edge of your bottom lip. "Oh? And what experiment might that be?"

His other hand, the one not holding your wrist up, trails up your spine, applying a gentle pressure to get you to lean in. "Something, something, oxytocin. Can I kiss you? For experimental purposes, of course."

You close the gap between the two of you in response, contentment flooding your nervous system as your lips move against his. They're softer than you remember, smooth with the addition of chapstick. When you part for air, you feel the faint taste of vanilla.

"Sweet," you remark before he can go in for another kiss.

He pauses halfway, leaving the barest of space between you two, a slight smile on his features. Fishing through a pocket with one hand, he procures a tube of balm after a few seconds. "You like the vanilla flavor?"

You put on an expression of deep thought before shrugging. "I'm going to need a few more taste tests before I'm sure," you state, pulling him in for another kiss.

It doesn't take long for you to melt into him once more, that awkward tension usually involved with kissing a stranger long gone, since you've already, y'know, had sex with him.

Gone is the shaky, hesitant individual from last time. You're more confident in your movements with him, wasting no time in running your hands under the edge of his tee, the hem riding up as your hands go higher and higher. As your fingertips reach his pecs, you take a second to pinch and squeeze lightly at his nipples and you relish the groan he releases into your mouth as a result.

"God, I forgot how good that feels," he whispers, acting as if it hadn't been more than a week since the original hookup. "Do it again," he says as he lifts you up and places you on the bed before taking his shirt off, exposing his nipples to the cold air.

You don't respond verbally, instead opting to take one of the peaks into your mouth. You give it a good suck before gently nipping at it, causing Tsukishima to entangle his fingers in your hair and let out a small noise. Heat begins pooling between your legs in earnest as you continue to lavish his chest with attention, eventually switching from one nip to the other, one of your hands pulling and tweaking at the one that isn't in your mouth.

After a few more moments of this, he places his arms on your shoulders and you stop. His face is bright red and he's panting, covered in a thin sheen of sweat. "Is that what it feels like when I do the same to you?" he asks in a husky tone, moving his hands from your shoulders to the hem of your shirt. "Because I'm about to do that to you. I missed them."

There's an edge of playfulness in his voice hiding the twinge of sincerity as he pulls your shirt over your head, once again taking the time to visually appreciate the way your chest looks in your bra. "I like this color on you," he says before he pushes you back rather harshly.

You lay flat on the mattress with a squeak as he hovers above you, one knee on the bed and the other leg straight. "Like this sight, too," he adds as he lowers his head to your chest, his tongue flicking over a clothed nipple. The wet feeling combined with the friction of the bra material against your sensitive flesh makes your back arch ever so slightly into him, and you can feel his grin against your skin. Tingles of electricity bloom around where his mouth and hands meet your breasts, and tiny gasps and pants leave your own mouth as he continues sucking and nipping at the flesh.

He pauses briefly. "Feeling that oxytocin rush yet, baby?"

"Definitely," you breathe out as your back arches up against him when his fingers press against your clothed core. "You could probably make it really rush, if you tried hard enough."

"Don't worry." He sits up, hands leaving your chest to start working on your bottoms. "I fully intend to."

You lift your hips into the air to help in his quest, watching the lust practically cloud his gaze when he succeeds in removing both your pants and undies in one fell swoop. "Shit," he murmurs, running his thumb through your folds. You shiver at the contact. "Good thing I didn't get a chance to eat dinner."

You lift your head off the mattress to stare him down, a look of shock on your face. "What?"

He laughs, now using his middle and ring finger to slide up and down between your southern lips. "Now I get to fully enjoy this feast."

Without giving you time to retort, he prods his fingers at your entrance and presses his tongue flat against your clit, causing you to cry out and arch your back. He wastes no time in attaching his lips to the sensitive bud as his fingers begin pistoning in and out of you at a relentless pace. He's far more ruthless this time, seeming to have figured out what you like from the previous hookup alone.

The sounds of your moans and his slurps fill the air, until he abruptly pulls away from your vag. "No conversation this time?" he asks, his tone almost pouty.

"Oh, I can talk if you want," you offer. He nods before delving back in, and your body shudders at the contact. "So... did you... you know that the clitoris is -- ohmygod, right there, pleasepleaseplease -- a bundle of really sensitive ner-- haaa -- nerves? And when you s-- just like that, you're doing it so good, don't stop -- when you suck on it, it feels fucking phenomenal?"

He hums against your cunt, sending vibrations straight to your brain. You continue to babble, occasionally interruptimg yourself to praise him. Your fingers find their way to his hair again, scritching at the scalp gently.

Unlike last time, where he managed to tear an orgasm out of you, you find the stimulation to start to be overwhelming. Your thighs are spasming and trying to clench shut around his head. A brief glance downwards reveals that one of his hands are unaccounted for, and suddenly you can hear the faint thwapthwapthwap of skin against skin underneath the cacophony of your moans -- is he jacking off?

Your body struggles against him and you find tears forming in your eyes from how the situation has suddenly become too much. He shifts his mouth against you and the pleasurable feeling vanishes; it's replaced by the sensation of being tickled. You push his head away, breaking out into giggles. "Stop, please stop," you manage to choke out.

And just like that, he stops. "Everything okay?" he asks, lifting his head from between your legs. His ears are red from where your thighs applied unnecessary pressure, and the lower half of his face is shiny with your fluids.

"Yeah, it was..." you start, chest heaving. "Just getting to be too much..." You sit up, scooting away from the edge and patting the bed next to you. "Besides, don't you think it's your turn to feel good?"

He raises an eyebrow at you before settling on the bed next to you. "Giving you attention is all I need to feel good," he murmurs, cupping your cheek with one hand and placing his thumb on your lower lip.

You press a soft kiss to the pad of his finger, before noticing that his pants are just gone. His cock rests against his lower stomach, the tip angrily red and leaking. "When did you take your pants off?"

"When I was eating you out," he responds in a matter-of-fact tone. "I'm pretty nifty with one hand."

You adjust your position so you're straddling Tsukishima, smiling devilihsly at him. "Oh, I've definitely been on the receiving end of nifty," you confirm.

"You sure you're good to continue?" he asks, concern evident in his tone. Both his hands come to rest on your waist. "I'm okay with stopping, you know. Don't push yourself if you don't want to."

Those sparks that flew when you had kissed him a week ago are flying again and wreaking havoc in your stomach. The tender concern in his tone, despite the two of you barely knowing each other beyond the confines of your dorm, has you blushing bright pink. Oh God, is that what the bare minimum does to you now? "Yeah, I'm fine," you insist, leaning in closer. "I just get ticklish down there sometimes."

He's leaning in closer too, but he stops when you say that. "...Your cooch is ticklish?" he asks, flabbergasted.

"Uh, yeah? Sometimes?"

"That's a first, I think. That, and trying to hold a conversation while receiving oral."

"Hey, you told me to talk!"

"Guilty," he says, laughing before he finally closes the distance between you two. A soft sigh escapes your lips as you melt against him.

You don't get carried away, however, and before long you gently push him until his back is against the mattress and he has a look of curiosity in his eyes. You plant soft kisses trailing down his body, taking the time to nip at each of his nipples again, before you go past his navel, past his happy trail.

The curious look in his eyes is replaced with excitement as you place a soft kiss on the tip of his dick, licking your lips to remove the precum that had landed on them. It's salty and bitter, not that you expected otherwise.

"Normally I eat pineapple before a hookup," he states, "but you said you're allergic last time, so I didn't wanna risk it... in case... the pineapple got into my sperm, or something."

You gaze at him from beneath your lashes, ass in the air as you press your face to the base of his penis. "How considerate," you say right before licking a long stripe up.

His hips jerk upwards, throwing you temporarily off balance before you fix your stance. You take the mushroom-esque head in your mouth, swirling your tongue around it and revelling in his quiet gasps as you take more of him in your mouth.

His hands find your hair, entangling themselves in your locks, but he doesn't push down. Once again, you are blown away by Tsukishima Kei doing the bare minimum (not forcing you to deepthroat his dong). You can feel the appendage hardening even more in your mouth as you bob up and down, and opening your eyes reveals Tsukishima's thighs shaking with constraint -- perhaps restraining himself from thrusting. His head is thrown back against the pillows, and the quiet noises emanating from him are almost drowned out by the wet noises from your throat. You hope your brain is recording those noises of his, because they are divine.

You gag as you accidentally take too much of him at once, and he instantly lifts your head off his penis. "Don't choke, baby," he says in a mock-scolding tone.

"I'm fine, I can keep going," you retort, removing his hands from your hair with your own and beginning to reassume your position.

He shifts so he's sitting on his knees, pulling his lower half away from you. "As much as I loved you giving me head, that's not what I meant when I say 'I wanna be inside you.'"

"When did you say--" you begin, but he cuts you off by manhandling your position until you're laying on your back, legs spread, with him between them.

"Just now, I think," he says as he leans over the edge of the bed, gripping one of your thighs for support as he rustles through something on the floor. Within a few seconds, he straightens up and reveals the purplish-black packaging of a condom. He tears it with ease and slides it onto his leaking shaft.

"You're a Skyn guy?" you ask as he lines his dick up with your entrance.

He makes eye contact with you, a question in his gaze. You nod and gasp as he begins to push in. "Skyn's great. I feel everything."

"R-really?" you manage, "I feel like everyone prefers... prefers... Durex?"

"Nah, they haven't tried Skyn then." He, yet again, doesn't give you a chance to respond before pushing the rest of himself in. "God, I forgot how fucking tight you are."

You can't bring yourself to babble anything out, too lost in the delicious stretch and pleasure he's dragging in and out of your walls. His pace is fast, but not ruthless -- his tip kisses your cervix each time, but doesn't smash into it. He leans over you as he thrusts, lifting one of your legs over his shoulder so he can get in deeper. You raise your head so your lips can meet.

The kiss is fiery and full of passion and groans as he speeds up his pace, his hips snapping against yours. "Fuck," he moans into your mouth, breaking the contact to rest his forehead against yours.

"You must... be in peak physical condition," you manage to say between gasps.

"I play volleyball," he responds as he wastes no time in flipping you over so he's railing into you from behind.

"Y-you do!?" you exclaim.

He lets out a breathy laugh. "Baby, I'm on the Sendai Frogs."

"What's that?"

His next thrust is a little harsher than before, ripping a moan from your throat and causing your head to fall into the pillows. "Shit, sorry." He places a hand on your back and draws soothing circles with his fingertips, a complete opposite to the fucking he's giving you. "It's a volleyball team."

"I got that, but... Oh my fucking God, Tsukishima," you pant out. "I can't... can't fucking talk when you're railing me so good."

Your words of praise seem to spur him on because the soothing circles stop, instead replaced by the feeling of his chest pressing to your back. "Yeah? I'm fucking you good?" he asks in a low, sultry tone.

"So... so good, please don't stop."

He keeps his pace up until it begins to grow jerky and erratic. "Shit, I'm gonna cum," he whispers against the back of your neck.

"For me? Cum for me?" you ask in an innocent tone, despite the act you're engaging in.

He groans against your skin, and you feel his fingers dig into the soft skin just above your hips. "Fuck, yeah, baby, I'll cum for you."

His pace slows as he spills into the condom, and you wonder if he thanks whoever invented contraceptives whenever he finishes inside. Soon, it stops completely and he flops onto you, flattening you against the bed. "That was phenomenal."

You squeak from beneath him, his weight simultaneously comforting and a little bit suffocating. "Tsukishima... can't move!"

He laughs and gets off you, once again sorting through your stuff to find proper aftercare tools. "Sorry."

You feel the soft towel against your inner thighs as he cleans you up, before the material of your underwear slides up your legs. "I don't think I'll be able to walk tomorrow," you groan, feeling that familiar soreness begin to sprout between your legs.

"My fault," he replies drily. You watch as he procures fresh underwear from his backpack -- an overnight bag? -- and puts it on. He walks over to the bed after doing so. "Scoot."

"Telling me to scoot in my own room should be criminal," you grumble before scooting over. He gets in the bed beside you, laying on his back. It doesn't take him much effort to move you around so your head is on his chest and your body is draped over his. He traces shapes on your skin again, and you listen to his heartbeat. "Wanna stay the night?" you offer after a few minutes of comfortable silence.

"That'd be awesome," is what you hear as your eyes begin to flutter shut, despite the lamp next to your bed still being on. The room plunges into darkness as Tsukishima turns it off, however, and the last thing you note is him saying, "Goodnight princess."

[tealgoat]

Back in the blinding building!!!

Third time's the charm au by @wonder-of-the-stars !!!

[lavend-ler]

🤩 Who is your favorite character to write?

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

🤩 Who is your favorite character to write?

damn again it's gotta be Timothy Lawrence, u know? going inside his head and writing how he would react to certain things in life and how he would embrace the world and heal is so important to me. it's always a delight to write him and his turbulent thoughts

I know I've written him far less but also I have to mention Soundwave! god, writing him is suuuuch a pleasure to go with, I swear. there's so much to his character from his own preconcieved notions abt himself and fighting with emotions that he wants to keep hidden. as well as his loyalty and his putting others and the cause before himself AH he's perfect I swear

other than that I do enjoy writing characters with very unique talking quirks! they're so fun to get right, it's almost as if the text is jumping at u hehe

👀 Tell me about an up and coming wip please!

my very next fic is a gift for my dear friend Ryz (Ryz, if ure reading this hi :3) so unfortunately I cannot spoil anything abt this for them!

my next next fic is most likely chapter 2 of Third Time's The Charm and I gotta tell u that tag I put there abt discussions of depression? this will be surely apparent in this one. exploring Norma as a character more and more had been a very interesting task. Once-ler takes a lil bit of a backseat in this fic but I want his optimistic personality to shine through here so despite Norma being the sun and Once-ler being the moon, this fic will be a reversal and it'll be very apparent in this chapter!

later on dang, the sky is the limit honestly. I love having fic plans but they always can change lol I sooo wanna write an Earthspark-verse fic for Soundwave & Starscream bc they're bffs. and I have a fic + art collab with my friend coming up! not saying anything else but it'll be SoundRod <3 and then I truly have too many ideas to count. I wanna write a new Windstream fic, a Deadceptor fic, Blurr/Smokescreen, Chromehide family (I was just thinking of them today aaaa), maybe MegOPlita and abt a thousand of SoundRod ideas. truly the sky is the limit :D

[tunaababee]

Hi! Can you share your five favourite ACOTAR fics?

ah!! hello beautiful anon!! i am blowing you so many kisses but also this is SUCH a difficult question. there are so many i absolutely adore each and every one is unique in its own way! these are not ordered in any particular way, and i love all my fellow authors <3 ur all stars fr.

while its not all feysand, i will admit that most of it is because mommy?? sorry. daddy?? sorry.

one i ALWAYS come back to is Good Luck Charm and the sequel, Third Time's The Charm by the STUNNING @whatishowedyouinthedark. GLC and TTTC are such comfort fics for me and the writing on rhys and feyre as well as the cast surrounding them is SO fun. these count as one to me - you cant have one without the other!!

Lover Like Me by mmvalentine was one of the earlier fics i read when i started in the fandom and it has also lived in my head rent free ever since!! cute and a little unhinged in perfect balance <3

Madam Librarian by faerielibraryofthings was a nessian fic that caught me completely off guard but in the best way. that shit made me CRY. very beautifully written arc and such a sweet story!!

Time can (never) break your heart by @littedidyouknow was one of the best gifts i have ever received in my life. sci-fi-ish is not normally something i read, but by GOD did sophie knock it out of the fucking park. she is so talented and was the BEST secret santa!! it's an In Time AU and it was so so SO fun and had me on the edge of my seat every chapter.

The Thief And The Rake by the beautiful @popjunkie42 is ongoing but PERFECTLYYYY scratches my consistent itch for regency feysand. every chapter feels like a little treat spoonfed directly into my mouth.

of course, these are just what's on my mind at the moment! i genuinely couldnt make a list of my proper top fics if i tried because there are so SO many talented people that i struggle to narrow anything down. this fandom truly has some top quality writers that i have been so blessed to both read and get to know!

some other personal recommendations of mine include, but definitely aren't limited to:

Queen of Thieves by @the-lonelybarricade

Your Eyes Whisper Have We Met by @climbthemountain2020

darling.exe by @damedechance

listen through the wall by @shardminds

Red Earth & Pouring Rain and also Don't Blame Me by @separatist-apologist

Whiskey Over Wine by @shadowriel

shaking, pacing (i just need you) by @rosanna-writer

Know You Better Now by @belabellissima

The Velaris Memorial Hospital series by Violetasteracademic

i could name like fifty billion others but this is primarily off the dome. please read through these authors and their back catalogues!! there is so much good stuff!!

thank you so much for this question!!! i love talking about my fave fics and my beloved fellow authors and friends <3

[the-bitter-ocean]

In Cycles and Cessation Fanworks Masterpost

Hi everyone! This is essentially for organizational purposes so I can keep track of all the lovely creations people have made for my au that I wish to share with everyone!

If you wish to see the official masterpost for icac that has all of my art, writing and questions answered on how the Au works specifically you can go here. Both of these will be updated as time goes on in the future. You can find any work I make for this Au by looking in the #in cycles and cessation tag on tumblr! All of the links to the different fanworks will be under the cut. (FULL GAME SPOILERS + A6SE/ “2HATS” & SASASAP SPOILERS APPLY TO THIS AU) Also for clarification for the future posts instead of calling each individual section “ACTS” it will be called “ARCS”.

(ICAC Canon)

Your Heart Is A Muscle The Size Of Your Fist (art by @/basilpaste)

Stay Positive! ( art by @/eurydice-pens)

Mirabelle the Smiler (art by @/eurydice-pens)

Mirabelle (art by @/paroxysmaljune)

Lagtrain (art by @/tealgoat)

Mira Blast! (Art by @/tealgoat)

Nailed It (Art by @/tealgoat)

ICAC! Au Mirabelle Sprite Edits (Edits by @/anch0-a)

(ARC 3 SPOILERS) Be Careful, Everyone! (writing by @/kadethecat)

(ARC 3 SPOILERS) Siffrin Friend Quest ( art and writing by @/llilyrose )

(ARC 3/4 SPOILERS) When The Cycle Was Cessation (art by @/daily-odile )

(ARC 3/4 SPOILERS) Change God’s Favorite Hater (art by @/eurydice-pens)

(ARC 3/4 SPOILERS) Ur So Silly UwU (art by @/eurydice-pens)

(ARC 3/4 SPOILERS) In Cycles & Cessation Silliness (art by @/eurydice-pens)

(ARC 3/4 SPOILERS) You Are Loved! (art by @/eurydice-pens)

(ARC 3/4 SPOILERS) I Got It! (art by @/harunefrog)

(ARC 3/ACT 4 SPOILERS) Riri Hangout (Art/ screencap edits by @/ tealgoat)

(ARC 4 SPOILERS) Sus Run (writing by @/winterstorm032802)

(ARC 4 SPOILERS) You’re Incapable Of Change, Hero (art by @/eurydice-pens)

(ARC 5 SPOILERS) Siffrin Friend Quest Speedrun (art by @/sqirtle )

(ARC 5 SPOILERS) You’ll Never Be Able To Protect Anyone (art by @/pixxyofice)

(ARC 5 SPOILERS) L’ÉLU (art by @/llilyrose )

(ARC 5 SPOILERS/ A6SE SPOILERS) Mirabelle & Rewind Doodles (art by @/mobblespsycho100)

(ARC 5 SPOILERS) You Are Loved, Mirabelle! art by @/coffeeean

(ARC 6 SPOILERS) Euphrasie & Mirabelle Hug (art by @/eurydice-pens)

(A6SE SPOILERS) Riri (art by @/tealgoat)

(A6SE SPOILERS) Overture (art by @/tealgoat)

(A6SE SPOILERS) A Lost Thing, Just Like You ( art by @/eurydice-pens)

(A6SE SPOILERS) Rewind & Mira (art by @/anch0-a)

(A6SE SPOILERS) Here’s Riri! (art by @/eurydice-pens)

(A6SE SPOILERS) Two’s Company, Three’s A Crowd (art by @/curiouscomet)

(CROSSOVER AU FANWORKS)

ICAC! Au Mirabelle Meets Forgotten Vaugarde Au Mirabelle ( art by @/eurydice-pens)

(ARC 3/6 SPOILERS) You Lost An Eye Too? ( art by @/pixxyofice)

(ARC 4/6 SPOILERS) Change God Jumpscare (art by @/pixxyofice)

(ARC 6 SPOILERS) Looperz (Art by @/wonder-of-the-stars)

(ARC 6 SPOILERS) The Smilers (Art by @/tealgoat)

(ARC 6 SPOILERS) Timeloop Support Group Shitposts (memes by @/tealgoat)

(ARC 6 SPOILERS) Family Time (art by @/startagainaprologue)

(ARC 6 SPOILERS) Timeloop Support Group Memes (memes by @/pixxyofice)

(ARC 6 SPOILERS) Timeloop Support Group Doodles ( art by @/pixxyofice)

(ARC 6 SPOILERS) Shoulder Touch ( art by @/pixxyofice)

(ARC 6 SPOILERS) OSIS! Au Isabeau Meets ICAC! Au Mirabelle In Therapy (writing by @/basilpaste)

(ARC 6 SPOILERS) ITOT! Au Odile meets ICAC! Mirabelle (art by @/tealgoat)

(A6SE SPOILERS) In Loops & Rewinds (art by @/wonder-of-the-stars)

(A6SE SPOILERS) TTTC! Au Loop meets Rewind (art by @/wonder-of-the-stars)

(FULL GAME + A6SE SPOILERS) The Love Persists Through It All (writing by @/pixxyofice )

(ARC 6 + A6SE SPOILERS) Timeloop Support Group Hug ( art by @/pixxyofice)

(ARC 6 + A6SE SPOILERS) Who is Loop? ( art by @/pixxyofice)

[tulipsys]

King and the Collector in the Human Realm, from chapter 4 of my fic Third Time's the Charm!

That catches my Tumblr up to the latest chapter of TTTC that's been uploaded :D I would've liked to get chapter 5 out this week buuut unfortunately got whisked away by the holidays lol. I'll try my best to get it out next week on wednesday instead, so stayed tuned for that as well! Chapter 5 is perhaps my favorite chapter yet!!! I can't wait to share it with you all ^^

[asukiess]

..top five books

so. I read maybe. 2 books or so in 2022, 4 in 2023, and this year I've read close to 20? anyway. that's all to say I have a limited selection to pick from because I only recently was inspired to kick those numbers up <3

Well of Loneliness. I talk about it so much. I think about it so much. there was so much that was surprising to me about this book, but also the way Radclyffe describes Stephen's emotions is sooooo incredibly visceral, and the situations are so. AUGH!!!! stephen's early life and her struggles with gender identity, her feelings of otherness, her realization of her queerness, how she always feels "too big" and too much like a man and how others comment on her body/abilities/preferences, how she feels so different from her childhood girl "friend" (I forget her name, violet?), how Roger picks on her, how Radclyffe painted a picture of being an introspective, othered child is absolutely astounding. and then!!!! literally everything else that happens to stephen!!!! AUGH the family lineage, her dating world, the way it talks about the divide of lesbians vs. gay men and how stephen and mary view being queer and UGH!!!!!!!!!! UGH!!!!! I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!! and it's written so gorgeously.

Bunny. I don't really need to say more than what we've discussed at length. Before my next book, I think this was legit my most annotated book. they also look like the ramblings of a mad woman. I was obsessed. I think the ideas about creativity are really, really interesting and have stuck with me. No one does the slight abject horror and magical realism like Mona!!!! 🙏🫶😵‍💫

Upstream (by Mary Oliver). I've moved this from the bookshelf to my bedside/desk. it has become somewhat of a daily devotional book to me.

For Whom the Bell Tolls (and much in the same vein, The Things They Carried). I grouped these together because I read them around the same time and they also had incredible similarities and have both stuck with me. When I read TTTC, I was constantly underlining and just annotating "FWTBT" ajddbsj. For as much as I read about Hemingway's "rugged, closed-interior" man, Robert Jordan was surprisingly open and fun to read and there was a part near the end that suddenly brought tears to my eyes. His and Anselmo's "you musn't take pleasure in the killing", the matador descriptions by Pablo's wife, the WHOLE chapter where it describes the public executions..... that was seriously an elevation on a spiritual level for me idk. insane chapter and the ideas of mob mentality etc etc.

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. don't exactly want to delve into politics on a fandom blog, but this was an illuminating read for me, and I plan to check out her other books as well, esp the Shock Doctrine.

[iotasage]

Hello, everyone! Sorry for the radio silence, it has been quite a journey:

- I immigrated to Japan for about 8 months.

- I immigrated back home.

- I enrolled in training with TTTC! My PC isn't strong enough for TTTC, so I'm opening commissions again.

I charge $18 USD an hour. Comes with time lapse

[fuckimrowan]

please please say things about “speaking of courage”. it was my favorite chapter in the novel, and

hi anon ABSOLUTELY this was my favourite too. we singled out this short story for my lit class, actually, and it's the reason i ended up reading tttc by myself. (which also means might've taken this ask as a reason to, like, almost analyse it... i'm so sorry.) i had that entire chapter annotated it but lost the print-out :/ BUT i still remember everything i need to. lol.

keeping this under the cut because it got too long lmao:

so. speaking of courage is objectively a fucking masterpiece. to me, it's about exactly what the real norman bowker expressed in his letter for o'brien: that sense of sudden lack of purpose. like, okay. the war's over. we survived. what's next? this? where do we go now? where do we go?

so, norman bowker goes in circles. the circle thing is pretty fantastically done. the story, the structure—it brings you back, and then away, and then all of that just to bring you back again. and then it happens, again, slightly different but it's really just the same.

it's a pleasant day. the lake is in the center of everything. there's nowhere to go and norman bowker is driving. in another world he would've been able to say this or that or would've had someone listen to this or understand that. norman bowker rolls the windows down or turns up his music and takes a turn of his dad's chevy. the world is moving around him and he keeps driving. locked away in this metal box with windows. driving.

on a broad level, that same structure just goes on the entire story. it's so beautifully done. and i believe it's literally the language lending to that too? the lake and town and weather is "smooth" and "flat" and the houses are "handsome" and these descriptors remain the same throughout.

there's this line i really like, about a sprinkler scattering water on a garden. and it's described to be doing it, like: hopelessly. round and round. it's a brief on-the-nose symbolism and i love it.

and there's another layer beneath that all, obviously. with kiowa & the silver star, and really it's the war. and just... peeling away any analysis or whatever right now, the story itself is disgusting if you imagine yourself in there. it's shit. the way it's written just. you think you're brave? could you jump in front of a bullet? could you take this? could you sit and wait? if you've had courage in the hardest of times could you have the type of courage you don't get a say in, at all? could you just be?

that line. "he knew shit. It was his specialty. the smell, in particular, but also the numerous varieties of texture and taste." maybe i'm thinking about this too vividly—but that's objectively horrifying to me. sinking in shit. objectively, you could say that "oh, it's better than facing the threat of being gunned down to death," but... let's be so fucking real. think about it: imagine yourself there.

from an analysis perspective, the ending is what gets me, most of the time. it's such a traditionally happy ending, has all the good symbolism points. gets out of the car, dips his head in the river—which, you know, cleansing, rebirth, all that bullshit (ha)—he watches the fire works for the 4th of july and yeah, it's a nice scene.

and then he says it's a pretty good show. that word pretty changes the entire fucking thing! and he's been doing this throughout, hasn't he? objective comments about the weather -- it's nice -- the town -- it's clean, sanitary -- and that's all he does. he's very carefully detached from the meaning of july 4th, too. the colours of the fireworks are pretty much identical to the colours of the flares from the night kiowa died in that shit field.

in a way, norman sort of died then too. with kiowa. the stupid analysis stuff, cleansing, rebirth, whatever—all of it, but inversed. it wasn't the water, it was the goddamn waste. instead of clean it makes you feel dirty—and norman's feeling of "dirty" means so many things. the guilt of kiowa. the distance from the town, the handsome, neat town who doesn't want the dirty war stories. the general view of the vietnam war. how he's completely clung onto all that this "dirty" means because he's still stuck in the war. my favourite description(s): the place looked as if it had been hit by nerve gas.

i have so much to say about that lake too. there's a really fucking oomph factor about the lake, you know? it's the lake where his old friend died. i wish i could explain this bit properly but god, i dunno, i just feel like there's some sort of parallel between the lake and the shit field. he tastes the water too. they're both described as flat bodies of water. there's something about that scene.

the ending isn't depressing, just because that word's too harsh, but it's... not happy. the way i see it, norman's attempting to achieve what the water is meant to symbolise. cleansing, just trying to wash it off of him again. all that shit. the waste of the war, of his guilt, of—and it leaves him disconnected, because that's a part of him and the only way to get rid of it is cutting it off. he doesn't talk about it, doesn't have anyone to talk to. it's not that he doesn't want to talk about it—he desperately wants to, so much that it genuinely breaks my heart. "want to hear about the silver star i almost won?" he whispers it at one point: the more times i read that, the more i feel his quiet anguish. he shouldn't have to be so disconnected, but he is because they don't want to listen. the place could only blink and shrug.

anyway i just think there's so much to take away from this story in particular. yeah, if you analyse it in that classroom style there's the repetition, that lost quality, the idea of being unable to speak. but more importantly there's the gross reality of it -- it was a shit field and he lost his friend and no one wants to hear about it. because it's shit and that's not what we want to hear of war. because norman wasn't able to save him and where's the good ending to that? we want to hear nothing about war that is war, really.

my thoughts on this will never end btw. there is so much more i have that is unsaid. there's just so many angles to this story -- on a literal sense, as a standalone, connected to the rest of the novel,

and it isn't norman's fault he can't speak. because since this isn't a pretty story, since there isn't a moral or point to it, there's just no one who'll fucking listen.

[rurugumi]

yo no way???? did i stumble into a gold mine via your ao3 profile to your blog only to find it empty???????? is it brand spanking new and i somehow managed this timing??? i just wanted to rant about TTtC and HI,B! but now im thrown off my game tbh (not bad, just surprised!).

ANYWAYS ONTO IT AHCHJSHDNXJDJDJDJDNDJ DUDE I REALLY ENJOYED THIRD TIMES THE CHARM AND I LOVED HOW YOU MANAGED TO FIT JASON BEING AWARE OF THE FUTURE INTO HIS OLD SELF WITHOUT BEING BOTH TOO OBVIOUS OR TOO LACK THEREOF. LIKE SUBTLE ENOUGH THAT ROY IN THE MISSING SCENES JUST SAID BRO WAS LONELY. AND YOURENOT WRONG BUT IT WAS STILL FUNNY. AND I THINK it’d BE FUNNY IF ROY WAS ALSO FROM THE FUTURE WITH THE WAY YOU WORDED HIS BIT BC I THINK IF JASON AND ROY MET UP JN THE PAST THAT WOULD BE HELLA ICONIC TBF.

n-e-ways! your series had me giggling out loud tonight fr ! i hope your pillow is cold, your pores are clean, and your crops be watered!! hope you have a good night/day rurugumi :) <3

Omg hi!! I wasn't really expecting anyone here for a while but!!! Thanks!!! I'm really glad you liked my stories!!

About Roy, I kinda may have accidentally made him a time traveller too??? djksjsks like, when I was writing HI, B I wrote that line about Jason needing someone to see him for who he really is and then I was like "... did I just make Roy a time traveller? Yeah, sure I guess?? I mean why not???" And I had already planned to mention Roy and Jay being friends again in a future work in this series soo, it all worked out! But since it was a very last minute idea I've been thinking™ about why Roy didn't intervene sooner, or more directly. I was coming here to finish editing a post about that when I saw your ask, actually! So I'm going to go post that now :)) (and there may or may not be a Roy-centric drabble in my drafts... seriously, this series keeps getting away from me too easily)

Anyways, hope you have a nice day/night too, anon! c:

[breaniebree]

I'm mad at you.

First, you said there won't be any Luna+Rolf in TTTC. Fine, I got over that somehow, I don't know how, if I was a teen I would've needed therapy for that. You gave so many hints about it and then...nothing 😭

Next, you kill Zee. But you don't really kill her. Or you do kill her but she's not dead? It's like Schrodinger's cat at this point.

And then, to top it all off, you break up Ron and Hermione. One of my fav couples. It made me so sad I had to go re-read ASC and now I can't wait to get to the part where they get together. I hope they get back together soon and there better be so much fluff and smut there, I'll be crying my eyes out and blushing at the same time. Please. I need something good at this point.

Also, love your writing. Just the fact that I get so emotional about your characters and the story says a lot. Right now I can't even get back to reading the original HP because your story is so much better.

Also, if @seriouslysam8 put you up to break up Romione, I'm extra mad. I love them together, I always saw so much of myself in Hermione and the fact that she gets so much hate is so sad to me 😭

Hi, @anyagpotter

I'm sorry to hear you're mad at me. We will see some Luna and Rolf, but it will not be a huge part of the story and won't be any time soon since they haven't even met yet. As to Zee, that story is still playing out...

Ron and Hermione are a couple I've always loved so maybe you should trust me. SeriouslySam did not have anything to do with my breaking up of Ron and Hermione, pretty sure she's not even reading this story and definitely has had zero in put on my evil plans (outside of the idea of Sirius/Zee), so all of that is on me. I'm the evil one. Ron and Hermione have broken up. I've broken up Hinny before too. It doesn't mean it's permanent and since I've said on multiple occasions that Ron and Hermione are one of my favourite couples, it makes no sense why you think I wouldn't bring them back together. I'm sorry it's made you so emotional, but if you've read ASC than you should know to trust me by now.

I'm only a little evil and a hopeless romantic.

[katrina407]

Another fumigation (2 dates before July 29th 2024

wen fine but the Staff did not say i could go back in to claim my "stuff etc

The second was Aug 13th Monday,,the time i arrived 3pm we where all locke dout am]nd a Big Wait too They also said they where going to give Pay Pal TTTC passes they did not

Now another one,,,The Ms banshee is a Problem, ( am getting so damn tired cleaning her Mess

as she eaTS GROSS in the Public stalls

The if sh does,nt Yell scream at you

She is hiding in the shower too,,She does this to little me, Well i can,t understand what she is saying half the time.

She can read But her speaking in "foreigner Language"

She does,nt care for random acts of kindess either ,,

Also i wonder if she is in there illegally,,But

She is not my problem let the Secuirty or staff handle her

You see i really (despite the stress in the Building Shelter) I liked it better in the west side I shall return i was feeling kind of sick//all that cleanign stuff THATs why i can,t eat even be back soon

[wickawick]

got my pen back time for enrichment

[polzkadotz]

Chapter 3/4 of the Harry Potter AU | Forced Bond is up!

16k | Their second week together begins, and Neil has a hard  time acknowledging that, unfortunately, he has feelings. That sometimes needed to be dealt with. Also, their Bond comes to an end.

[thatanonwiththeoc]

Did I just start planning something for Ladrien June in the middle of Marichat May? Yes

Did I think this through before I dedicated myself and completely immersed myself into another story? No

someone please tell me to control myself

[dailydegurechaff]

God i love your blog so much! You made me get back into Tanya and have got me rewatching the anime and the manga, maybe the light novel too if i can get my hands on it. also the fanfics.

I saw your rec list a bit ago and was wondering if you've tried "Third Times the Charm" or "The chronicles of Tanya the fuehrer", both are on Ao3 and pretty good from what i remeber. im trying to catch back up on TCTF rn tho so cant say how its changed. And TTtC is a KonoSuba crossover, so very entertaining.

Keep up the good work! Thank you!

Thank u!!! <3 You do not know how excited it makes me to know i am dragging people back into this fandom

As for your fic recs! I recall I definitely started Tanya the Fuhrer but I cant remember how far I got into it. I think I had too many tabs open at some point and lost track of it;; I've been intending to get back to it eventually, so this is as good of an excuse as any.

As for Third Times the Charm, up to now, I've seen it on Ao3 but I never picked it up bc I haven't actually watched konosuba. Your ask got me curious tho, so I decided I would read a chapter or two... and then i got caught up in reading it. oops. Thank you for recommending it! Im enjoying it so far :)

And again, thank you for the kind words. They are great motivation to keep going!