#yes hello it's vanity hour from your mod

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Vanity X blood part 19

Blood? Blood? "Vanity walked around the castle, getting greeted by the kids, and then his brother came up from hell." Hello, surprise, hello Miss Vanity, what's up? Surprise? I came to tell you my brother is in the hospital after a fight we had. oh, a fight. I see now. Wait, WHAT!! The hospital! Yes, we were battling for control o er the realms. Sadly, I lost, but he should be back soon. "Vanity was mad at surprise for putting blood in the hospital," so where my boyfriend at surprise? "Vanity cracked her claws, getting more mad." look miss vanity I don't want to fight you or hurt you."Vanity then punched surprise in his nose, breaking it." I deserved that. Now, where is my blood at? Hey babe, I'm home. blood! "Vanity tackled blood kissing him." Are you hurt or in pain?"Blood blushed." I'm good, babe, but can you get off me, please, my brother is here oh no bro, I'm enjoying the show your girlfriend is doing to you knock him down a few pegs my dear vanity.

"Vanity dragged blood by his hair upstairs to their room." Haha, that's my brother "surprise jr teleported away." now blood your getting something special for winning the realm battle, huh? Oh no, babe, I'm f-fine, babe. Y-you don't ha-ave to im already a blushed blood red awwww, but you need some stress relief from your body tho I'm here to help you with that "blood was trying to get out of vanity magic grip she had on him" b-babe please im fi-ine I promise. oh, come on, babe, you have so much stress, and I hate seeing you stressed out. "Blood looked away." Fine, do your magic, babe. "Vanity clapped her claws in joy, so she started to kiss blood, and then she sucked on his neck, making him moan"

~a few hours have passed~

"Blood and Vanity were smoking a medical dark matter weed blunt after" better, babe? "Blood blushed, looking away." Thank you, babe

Mod pie: So far, good. i didn't put the naughty stuff in this story. I don't know if i ever will gotta talk to Snake mod on that part, part 20, in progress soon

Tag: @vanitythevantropist

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Get-To-Know-Me: @shireness-says

We’re excited to introduce the authors and artists who will have signed up for this event! Stay tuned in September, and make sure to give them lots of love.

Tumblr/Ao3 handle: @shireness-says/shireness

How long have you been involved in fandom? I've been writing since 2017 and lurking for another couple years before that. Gosh, time flies!

What draws you to this event? Well, you know, I just thought "someone out there has such a brilliant idea to put this together, I ought to go show my support --" 

 It's me. It's my event. I'm greedy and I want more historical fics and the least I can do is participate, you know? At least get folks a new chapter of one of my historic WIPs. 

Do you have a favorite historical period to learn or read about? Reading, I've always been such a sucker for those cheesy regency romances. Call it cliche. Learning, I bounce around a bit more - I definitely had an Egypt phase as a kid, and I got really into bronze/iron age bog bodies for a while. Recently, I've had an itch to learn more about the Renaissance. Ask me again next week and we'll see what happens. 

Why do you like historical fics? PINING. Pining. I like enormous amounts of feelings having to be condensed into tiny gestures. I'm weak for that stuff. 

Beyond that... well, it’s interesting, you know? Historical fics have these built-in boundaries that writers have to work around when crafting their fics, by virtue of the time period and all the societal stuff that comes along with that. It’s fascinating to see the ways authors view our beloved characters fitting into those circumstances. 

What is the inspiration behind your story? I’ll be bringing you all a new chapter of A Fate Woven in Thread and Ink (with more art by the excellent @eirabach!). I really want to finish one of my MCs this year, and while I want to support our wonderful authors in this event by throwing in my own two cents, I don’t have the time to commit to anything new. I hope you’re all excited all the same! 

Do you have a sneak preview or summary you'd like to share?

Killian has imagined this moment so many times over the years: the things he’d say, the things she’d say if things were ever out in the open between them.

None of them had ever involved an umbrella. 

All the same, the moment feels right in a way that Killian can’t describe, like things were always leading to this. Fate has brought them to this moment, and now, the universe can finally exhale. 

“It’s you,” Miss Swan finally says. Other women might have whispered it, or breathed it, or some other melodramatic gesture, but the circus’ magician has, ironically, always been made of more practical stuff. When Miss Swan speaks, the words are acceptance, the last action needed to fully recalibrate the world as she knows it. 

“Indeed,” he finally says. Any scripts have been thrown out the proverbial window as they stand here under identical umbrellas.

“How long have you known?”

“Since the beginning,” he admits without pause. There’s no point to obscuring or lying deflecting. “Since your audition. You were… different. The things you were doing were real, even if they were so obviously different from my own efforts. It wasn’t hard to put the pieces together.”

“I see.” 

A silence stretches between them, though it is somehow not uncomfortable. It feels like she’s sizing him up, perhaps trying to piece together their previous encounters with this new information. He would not blame her; he’d be doing the same in her shoes. It’s been over a decade that he’s known, after all. 

“May I interest you in a drink? A chance to talk this over?” Killian offers as a last resort.

And then - she smiles.

“No, I don’t think you can. Not right now.” And with a nod and a crisp sweep of her skirts, she continues on her merry way, as if they’d never met. 

Killian watches her walk back into the rain. The whole thing should discourage him, he thinks, should encourage him to keep his distance and not seek to learn more about the woman he has always struggled to view as merely his competitor. Instead, his fascination only deepens. They have time - and Killian is willing to wait however long it takes to have that conversation.

(It is only as he turns back into the rain, some minutes later, that he realizes - 

She never did return the umbrella.)

@shireness-says is the mod for this event, and I’m going to stop talking in the 3rd person because it’s getting real weird. 

My fic will be dropping on Friday, September 24th.