#liz writes stuff

[banigarubug]

warning ;; david’s attempt

consider:

sarah, a college student home for the summer, is hospitalized after falling ill

& ellie who was seriously injured while running away from a foster placement and is placed in the bed next door

they click instantly. sarah is a sweetheart who gets along with anyone and ellie is eager to please a cool college student like any 14 year old would want to

joel and ellie … not so much

ellie gets a kick out of pissing joel off almost as much as sarah gets a kick out of witnessing it .. so ellie amps it up a notch over the course of a few days to really drive joel crazy and make sarah’s time in the hospital better

one of the nurses tells ellie laughter is the best medicine and that’s what sarah deserves. sarah is probably the first person to be nice to ellie like this. to just… accept her with a fond smile. (except maybe riley. but she’s gone now. sometimes ellie thinks sarah looks like her, just a little bit.)

but then ellie is discharged and has to go right back to the place she ran from. her social worker says no one else will take her. of course they wouldn’t.

ellie doesn’t have a phone, but sarah gives her her and joel’s numbers anyways. makes her promise to call if she wants to run again. that way sarah can keep her safe

ellie uses the elusive payphones and stranger’s cells to call sarah sporadically so she knows ellie’s alive, but other than that, it’s inconsistent contact at best. but her birthday is coming up and sarah doesn’t want a gift this year. instead she asks joel to get ellie a phone.. and he says yes. next time ellie calls sarah, it’s 3 days before her birthday, and sarah gets ellie’s address. gets joel to sign her out of the hospital to drive her there and deliver the gift in person. its the most expensive thing ellie’s ever seen and she cries and hugs sarah and then hugs joel

and joel realizes, really, that ellie’s just a kid

she’s a spitfire with a sharp tongue and a huge ego to make up for how small she really is but she’s also just some kid who has never been shown love before

so joel decides to take ellie in, a little bit

not as a foster parent - he and sarah have their hands full, she’s dropping out and the hospital bills are piling up, and ellie’s foster parents are fine anyways, just old and weird - but takes her to visit sarah once a week for a meal together - sarah calls it family dinner, behind ellie’s back but straight to joel’s face - and whenever else sarah wants the company

and maybe he brings sarah to ellie’s school once or twice to pick her up and take her to lunch … or cuz ellie was in an art gallery and the featured piece of the whole exhibit was something she made … or sometimes without sarah when she cuts class and wont tell him why so he just gets her a milkshake and listens to facts about dinosaurs until she agrees to catch the last periodd

christmas is coming up soon and ellie’s excited because she’s gotten them both gifts . for sarah its a couple things - handmade friendship bracelets and a pair of earrings she skipped a week and a half of school lunches for and she painted sarah’s pennyboard with butterflies and crashing waves and a little white moth beside a purple emperor

for joel a huge framed painting of sarah and joel with sarahs grandmother/joels mom who died when sarah was little. joel cooks all her recipes and talks about how much he misses her and says stuff like “she woulda loved you, ellie” so she’s confident he’ll love it and she knows sarah will too

but ellie gets into a fight at school. it’s not really a bad one by any means but it’s the worst her newest placement has seen and they decide she’s too complicated for them. she cant leave the state but she can leave the city, and she’s out of boston with little to no warning, moved all the way out to a “home for troubled kids” in a shitty town called silver lake all the way in berkshire county and only has enough time to frantically tell joel where to find the gifts — in a garbage bag that her art teacher agreed to hold onto

this new placement is way worse than the old people. at most they’d been neglectful. this home is … freaky . a weird religious cult, some branch of christianity that ellie’s never heard of, and all the kids living there treat the director guy, david, like he’s — well. like hes god.

ellie wants to run away again, but this time, she can call sarah! right? except she’s not supposed to have the phone and david finds that thing immediately, sniffs it out like a bloodhound and takes it from her. he makes a deal with her. if she’s good, she use it once a day to call sarah. if she’s really good she can get it back - but she cant tell any of the other girls. david says ellie is special.

ellie’s… never been special before. its gross, a little, the way david says it, but she cant complain much. he feeds her and none of her foster siblings are violent even though shes the smallest by far. she figures david will want her to do chores or handy work, some free labor and she’ll get to call sarah & joel every day. it’s no big deal

within just 5 days of living there, ellie realizes that is not what david meant when he said to be good.

at first its just the lingering touches. a hand a little too high or too low . staring in that weird too-long way .. he tucks a strand of her hair behind her ear and she feels the dirt on his fingers for hours.

and then. it’s christmas eve and she’s planning her escape (she knows where the phone is, and she’ll make a break for it. her bag is packed and she’s quick) when david brings her into his prayer-room for something.

u can infer what happens, right?

and when she’s on the ground and his hands are on her jeans she sees some metal shining as she thrashes around and something shining catches her eye and she reaches out and grabs it and its some bowl with a heavy weight at the bottom so ellie bashes it into davids skull

over

and over

and over again

until he falls on the ground and she hits him a few more times for good measure

it’s the middle of the night and snowing like a bitch but ellie wanders outside anyway and just sits on the front porch step under the falling snow

she doesnt know how much time has passed before the time the sun starts rising. but when it does she sees a very familiar big grey truck barreling towards her and ellie thinks she must be dead or dying

but sarah is out of the car before it’s even stopped and joel’s yelling at her for it and ellie’s covered in blood thats not her own so she just stands and walks to the car in a trance and figures its either the gates of heaven or actually fucking joel and sarah

(“you didnt call me all day,” sarah says later, when ellie asks about it, “i knew something was wrong.” and her phone had gps and joel had a gut feeling and her social worker had a few too many missed calls so they took it into their own damn hands and showed up for her)

ellie trips and falls and lands in joel’s open arms and sarah hugs her from the side, crowding her until the phantom touches david left behind on her skin are completely invisible

joel applies for guardianship and it is shockingly easy

sarah’s been getting better, too. transfers to the community college so she can stay in the house and ellie’s being homeschooled for a while so they spend even more time together

running out of steam i might come back to this but i was only thinking abt it all bc sarah and ellie being siblings is SOOO important to me … big sister sarah ykwim ….

#tlou #ellie williams #the last of us #joel miller #tlou fanfiction #the last of us fanfiction #liz writes stuff #sarah miller #sarah tlou #joel tlou #ellie tlou #tlou drabble #joel lives #tommy miller #tlou hbo #tlou2 #the last of us au #the last of us drabble

[winxwannabe]

Mostly on track to release the new thing on Halloween, but if not take this sneak peek and wonder what fun and devastating context I purposely left out!

“Are you always so charming?” 

The word is dripping with malice, which Baltor pointedly ignores. “I’ve been called worse.”

He lifts his hand again, this time hovering it over the burns on Bloom’s arm. Even some inches away, he feels the heat radiating off them. “These look troublesome. Let me help you.”

“Don’t -” she starts, then hisses as Baltor’s hand makes contact with her shoulder. He focuses his powers on the wounds, leaving a line of freshly healed skin where he trails his hand down her arm. Bloom watches with wide eyes, the pain melting from her face and leaving her with an unreadable look.

He works up and down her arm for several minutes until there isn’t a hint of rawness or blistering. Bloom stays perfectly still, reminiscent of a wild animal caught in a light spell, even after Baltor withdraws his hand. He smirks, satisfied at the reaction. “Any lingering pain?”

The question seems to startle her back to reality. She looks down at her arm, carefully bending and twisting it to check its mobility. “...Neat trick.” She mutters instead of addressing his question.

#BtC #sparxshipping #liz writes stuff

[timeloop-liz]

Stanley is in the Zend room and Stanley just asks the Narrator why he thought Stanley would like this room

The Narrator saying something about how he read about night skirs and the stars and how beautiful they are. How they are like “twinkling bringing light to a dark sky” or something. Then it dawns n Stanley that the Narrator has never seen the night sky. The Narrator has never seen the stars. This room is the Narrators understanding of what stars look like!

No no that cant be right. Theres no way the Narrator doesnt know what stars look like. Stanley shakes the idea away (literally) and the movement gets the Narrators attention. So he asks whats wrong. Stanley just jokingly says something about his stupid idea of he thought the Narrator had never actually seen a night sky. Crazy right hehe. The Narrator goes a little too far on saying “oh yes quite crazy Stanley of course i have seen the night sky and stars!” To which Stanley actually believe more now that the Narrator hasnt seen a night sky. Wow thats kinda sad. Even Stanley can remember those.

Woops he said that out loud and now the narrator is getting defensive “well its not like i have any choice stanley! Its not like i have ever been anywhere but the Parable. No need to be so rude!”

#wtf am i doing its one am and im trying to write some dumb fucking fanfiction or something #i just wanted to say the narrator hasnt actually ever bene outside #i just couldnt stop typing but im forcing myself to now because this is gwtting to out of hand #tsp #the stanley parable #liz writes stuff #not reslly #liz prompts #makin it a prompt because it can be taken as one

[edenfalling]

[Fic] “Chance and Change” - Greenwing & Dart

21. For lasthaven, in response to the prompt: Any, any, bank robber au, written 1/30/22

Chance and Change (175 words)

Fandom = Greenwing & Dart

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At Morrowlea, all students are equals and are therefore forbidden to reveal details of their background; nonetheless, one can often determine certain broad outlines of a friend's life (for instance, Hal's uncertainty at dressing himself made his noble origins obvious, though I naturally refrained from pursuing the details). Sometimes circumstances conspire to reveal slightly more personal information, as when I reminisced about various trails in the vicinity of Ragnor Bella and Red Myrta put that geography together with my uncommon name and drew me aside to ask, point blank, if I were Mad Jack Greenwing's son.

"I ask because my mother has been trying to learn who blackened his name and exact vengeance for years," she said while I stood speechless in surprise; "If you don't mind the wild lay, we'd be more than happy to have you lend your name and your sword to our efforts."

Thus it was that I returned home some years later as a bandit rather than a young gentleman of declining fortune.

Worlds turn on such small, unforeseen events.

#three sentence ficathon #liz writes stuff #greenwing and dart #victoria goddard #nine worlds #jemis greenwing #red myrta

[weapon13whitefang]

So I normally try not to write OC inserts that end up with a main character but fuck it. I wanna write for myself for awhile.

#liz writes stuff #writing #fanfiction #self indulgence time

[thegeminisage]

i'm just going to go ahead and make this its own post. when kirk teases spock he is SO GENTLE. "why mister spock are you feeling emotion?" and he lets spock do the vulcan equivalent of giggling and kicking his feet and going "haha nooo silly i'm a VULCAN i don't do that!!" and kirk's like "oh my apologies mister spock of COURSE not" and then they make consensual loving eyecontact with one another while smiling. when BONES senses blood in the water (spock having an emotion) he will grab spock by the scruff of his fucking neck and shake until dead. like a dog with a squirrel.

#personal #star trek blogging #tos lb #SPIRK #SPONES #in both instances this is romance btw. #liz's star trek stuff #liz writes meta

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

the horrible thing about if ted lasso eventually comes back for a surprise fourth season is that i'm going to bounce right back to believing that tedbecca is the endgame plan despite the show creators literally saying multiple times that tedbecca was never the endgame plan 🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭

#'well maybe it wasn't before but it definitely is NOW!' #'finally we'll really get to dive into this soulmates stuff! finally they'll find out!' #my brain will scream as i'm forced to watch rebecca and boat guy's wedding and ted and michelle's wedding 2.0 before my very eyes #dollsome's deep thoughts #tedbecca #ted x rebecca #sometimes the story you are writing simply knows better than you do despite your best efforts to push it in a certain direction!!! #@ ted lasso writers room #i'd like to state that i would be cool (or at least sort of cool) with them staying platonic if they got to be -- like -- #jack donaghy and liz lemon platonic #give! them! some! shared! screentime!!! develop! that! friendship!!!!!

[sailor-aviator]

Writing this next Fool's Fare update with @goldenseresinretriever serving as my soundboard, and gotta say...

WE'RE BACK IN SHOWLIZ BABY

#liz writes #liz says stuff #fool's fare #ff #this chapter is going to be sooooooo good y'all

[annoying--moth]

Anyone else have this one OC that has a pretty cool design and concept, and you never planned to take them out of you mind, but you end up drawing them and talking about them and liking them a lot, and they don't really fit into any of your current universes so they just kinda become like a mascot for you, or is it just me?

#ocs #oc stuff #original character #drawing #writing #Mine's name is Liz

[imdoingsortagay]

My complete masterlist! Happy reading !!!

Agatha Harkness -

Complete Masterlist here

Brunhilde/Valkyrie -

Being with Vaklyrie Headcanons -

What it’s like being with New Asgard’s king

Costume Shopping with King!Valkyrie-

you got costume shopping with the king of New Asgard, even if you have to drag her out of the office yourself

Going to one of New Asgards Weekend Parties -

As your designated tour guide for New Asgard, Jane decides to invite you to one of the towns weekly traditions.

Opposites - 

Valkyrie and Wanda leave you alone for the day while they attend to their separate duties, what’s the worst that could happen

Carol Danvers-

The Halloween Party-

Your Boss Miss Potts, invites you to one of the Avenger’s very famous Halloween parties, what’s the worst that could happen?

Claire Debella -

Complete Masterlist here!

Eternals - 

Complete masterlist here ! 

Eve Fletcher -

Masterlist here !

Jane Foster -

Going to one of New Asgard’s weekend parties

- As your designated tour guide for New Asgard, Jane decides to invite you to one of the town's weekly traditions.

Jennifer Barkley-

I wont say ( i'm in love )

-Jen surprises her friend when she talks about wanting to plan a romantic dinner for you when most of the time the woman she fucks never seem to stick

Jennifer Walters-

Complete Masterlist here !!!

Kate Bishop - 

Complete masterlist here ! 

May Parker -

Let’s get physical

- What was supposed to be a way to spend more time with may and exercise, ends up better than you expected

Love Grows (where my Rosemary goes)

- Where you end up falling in love with something you never expected to , May Parker

May Parker Headcannons

- what it’s like dating May Parker

Maria Hill -

Bring your girlfriend to work day

- Your girlfriends deciding to bring you into the office as a way to help their coworkers unwind from their stressful jobs

Overtime Au

- Masterlist here !

Natasha Romanoff- 

Full masterlist here 

Pepper Potts - 

Overtime au masterlist 

Wanda Maximoff -

Complete Masterlist here!

Yelena Belova -

Complete masterlist here!

#navigation #lizs writing #writing stuff #writing masterlist

[banigarubug]

WOOOHOOOO A WIP!!!!

a new installation of the bug rewrites all of tlou canon just bc i fuckin wanna series! im excited abt this one bc its different from anything i’ve ever written before<3

new updates coming hopefully later this week!! plus check out the spotify playlist i’m working on for this fic - song of the hour is adam’s ribs by jensen mcrae bc it fucked me UP!!!

#tlou #ellie williams #the last of us #joel miller #tlou fanfiction #the last of us fanfiction #tommy miller #ellie tlou #joel tlou #liz writes stuff #abby anderson #fireflies tlou

[winxwannabe]

The question has been asked before: who gets the upper hand in this ship? Because Bloom has raw energy for days and will always do her best to bring evil to the side of good, but Baltor is Baltor. Who's on top? How do you choose? 

I'm here to propose a compromise: what if neither of them are?

(my goal is for the people who read the sneak peek to go into this fic and have the first sentence hit them like a baseball bat. really hope i accomplished that, at least.)

#sparxshipping #liz writes stuff #btc #welcome to whatever this turns into! #no i cannot pick a single project and i will not be stopped!

[edenfalling]

[Fic] “And Taxes” - The Hands of the Emperor

30. For topaz_eyes, in response to the prompt: Any, any, the skin around every city looks the same, written 2/8/22

And Taxes (180 words)

Fandom = The Hands of the Emperor

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Every city is fundamentally the same upon approach: wilderness and pasture give way to grain fields and tended forests, which give way to market gardens and little blots of houses, which give way to walls and narrow streets and buildings reaching skyward for lack of space to sprawl. People need food and fuel, and transportation is expensive; these concentric rings are the inevitable collision of those truths, with only occasional exceptions for fishing fleets or long-distance water-based grain trade.

Cliopher rides into Astandalas the Golden in the back of a vegetable wagon magically sped along the imperial highway from a hundred miles away, and doubts the evidence of his own eyes when he sees the sharp delineation between the city of roses and the gorgeous, wasteful, parks outside its walls. The power to shape an entire region to serve aesthetic whims rather than human needs is earthshaking, and the mindset that would make that trade is beyond his comprehension.

Of course the Empire fell. No society can balance on such a narrow edge forever; one day, the debt comes due.

#three sentence ficathon #three sentence fic #liz writes stuff #the hands of the emperor #victoria goddard #nine worlds #cliopher mdang #worldbuilding

[taintandviolent]

this james fic is getting long so rip to those who don't like long fics but i promise it's sooooo worth it

#liz shitposting #writing stuff #texty

[thegeminisage]

difference between tos spock and aos spock is that tos spock found out love is real before he found out death is real. aos spock found out death was real before he found out love was real. in both cases this was traumatizing

#personal #star trek blogging #tos lb #spock #star trek #tos #aos #whats my fucking meta tags again... #liz writes meta #liz makes stuff #liz's star trek stuff #i thought about this all day yesterday.

[draculagerard]

hey I'm seeing paramore soon but I've never been big into them, what do I listen to and what do I wear? (I kno ur a Hayley Williams stan so I figured I'd ask u) <3

Oh my god?? Woah holy shit have fun! and hmm I'm really the last person to come to when asking for outfit choices lmao. not very good at that. but I can help you with the listening part though for sure!

my advice for people getting into paramore is always the same: start with the Riot! album and then listen to whatever songs you feel like listening to. Riot! is great and also a classic lol.

However if youre asking in a live-show sense, I think you should definitely listen to This Is Why, too, since it IS the theme of the tour kinda. being the newest album and all. also i think it shouldnt be hard to find a 2023 setlist playlist for paramore just to get an idea of what songs they've been playing !!

#hope this is coherent cause im writing this while being very dizzy so i dont know if i phrased stuff right kjsfkjwf #moose asks #liz