Wow extra strong appreciation for all fan creators today! Writers, gifers, artists, blog runners <3 thank you for making this fandom so special! I hope we'll be sailing together for a long time to come 🥲🏴☠️💔
Beatrice purses her lips, staring blankly at Camila over her glass of water. “You make that joke every time and it’s never once been funny.”
“I respectfully disagree,” Camila says with a wide grin that forces Beatrice to roll her eyes and look away before she breaks into one of her own.
“You’re going to spend the whole day here cooking?”
Camila nods as she pulls more groceries out of the many many bags she brought along with her from the market. “Yep! Ava wants to learn some fun dishes to make and we sorted out a few things to work on - which include breakfast, lunch and dinner. We’re making a day out of it.”
An uncomfortable wash of frustration passes through her. She lets it settle in and pass before saying anything because she knows it’s ridiculous. She just didn’t know Camila and Ava were that close. “You planned all of this with her?”
“Oh yeah,” Camila starts digging out various pans and putting them on the stove in preparation. “Among other things, we decided on some meals and I helped her deal with her date and-”
“Wait, what?”
Camila grimaces. “Oh right, I probably shouldn't have mentioned that. It’s not my place.”
Beatrice feels a pit in her stomach. “I - I didn’t hear about her date. She was working with Suzanne all day yesterday and…I heard JC leave when he dropped her off. It wasn't that late”
“Bea, it’s not my place.”
“Right,” Beatrice nods and lets it go. It’s not her place either. She shouldn't care. She doesn’t - why should she? Ava is her own person and a very desirable one at that.
JC is a smart man for taking a chance.
Perhaps smart is a stretch, but he has more courage than her.
It doesn’t matter, Ava is a friend and that’s enough.
Rated E for not everyone, although there's no smut in this bit.
Just some burns et al. So if that squicks you, dun read it.
James T. Kirk is the Sub-commander of the Ti'Mur, serving under his commanding officer Captain Spock. An attack by Klingon raiders brings unintended consequences, further entwining the lives of both.
The idea was all @flippyspoon, not mine. I just ran away with it.
Hey, friends. Just wanted to say bye for now. I'm tired of fighting to no avail. If I can fix the computer eventually, then yay. But I'm tired of hours of research, hours of repair, all to seem like it worked and then something else crashes. For example, Steam/Halo has been working fine this whole time then tonight, it went absolutely nuts. Steam started updating in the middle of my Halo game. Then it wouldn't stop updating even after rebooting. Then it crashed every time I tried to load it again. I spent a LONG time reading debugging logs, tracking down key phrases and words, all to eventually come around to... Other people have had that happen but nobody seems to know why. All my drivers are updated. I've tested for program conflicts. Windows passed all of its tests. The computer hardware passed all of its tests. I'm just stumped.
Then as suddenly as this storm of blue screens (5 of them just tonight) came on, they stopped. I can launch and play Halo fine. For now.
I've had honestly had enough, so I'm going to take an offline vacation for however long I need to. I'm still writing the next chapter of "15 Minutes" but just by hand because it's too nerve-wracking to try and write on a device that suddenly BAM is dead and you never know when it's going to happen or if you managed to save what you just wrote in time.
That's another thing, I put all 7 drafts of this chapter on this computer from my backups, I started writing the 8th and went back to continue it... and the last 6 drafts are just gone. I mean, I looked everywhere. I cannot for the life of me figure out what caused them to vanish. I didn't do anything to roll the computer back that should've done that. Fortunately, I'd copied that last 8th draft into a Google doc so was able to get a new copy and didn't lose half the chapter. But now I feel so stressed writing, like... Will it be here when I get back? Will something eat it again? What ate it in the first place?
Eventually, if I can finish it, I'll transcribe it up and hopefully get to post it. I also hope to be back to enjoy the new season of Halo with y'all in Feb. That would be cool but I don't know if it's meant to be or not.
Anyway, feel free to still @ me and message if you'd like but I don't know when I'll be able to check in, so please forgive me if I seem to not respond for an unusual amount of time. I'll miss you. I miss you already. Sending you much love and well wishes. Hope to see you again before long.
with summer around the corner, i know the pressure of needing to feel you look a certain way. everyone praises the "hot summer body" narrative, but i just want you to remember the body you're in now is the hot summer body narrative. not what is promoted to society.
i say this because this week has been an emotional rollercoaster for me in the way i view myself. it isn't like this everyday, but i know girls and guys can relate with having these weak moments of self doubt, especially given the summer time being around the corner.
i am fucking beautiful. and so are you. strut the body you have now because believe me, you're hot as fuck.
// Trawling back through the X and XI tag for nostalgia. We all made some amazing memories here and I'm stunned and so grateful for how many of you came along for the ride to enjoy our weirdo off-the-rails versions of the Doctor. Thank you 😭😭😭
Ava can feel it, the way Bea is too upright, too rigid. She’s tense and worrying. They still have thirteen hours to go on this train, but Beatrice is poised like Mother Superion is about to walk into their train car.
She isn’t, and maybe Ava’s a little concerned that the never ending sexual adventures of the halo bearer and her nun girlfriend are about to severely slow down in the coming weeks, so she has an itch to find some fun.
So much so that Ava is currently plotting. They have some privacy here, there’s no one else in this particular section with them, who the fuck is traveling across country at five in the morning?
It’s a tricky proposition though, they are, technically, in public - they don’t have the entire train to themselves, but Ava’s sneaky and if anyone sees them she’ll just halo blind them.
Ava feels Bea take a breath and when she presses into her, Beatrice exhales, her muscles loosening a little.
Okay, she has to, she wants to take the pressure off Bea’s mind a little.
It’s slow at first, Ava looks to the entryway of their car and sees no one around, she’s not about to strip naked, but Bea’s got pretty loose pants on and Ava can work a button blind in a pinch.
So she lays her hand on Beatrice’s thigh, just letting it rest there for a second. It’s an intimate gesture, and when Beatrice not only allows it, but seems to push her leg closer to Ava to make the reach easier, it only pushes her to want more.
Carefully, Ava inches her hand up Beatrice’s leg, feeling her fingertips pressing into her lap and feeling the cool metal of a button.
When her fingers start to push on it, slip it out of the loop, Ava feels Beatrice shift. She expects resistance, a chiding remark or to have her hand swatted away.
Instead, she hears Beatrice sigh and swallow loudly. “Ava,” she whispers, that tone where that little angel on her shoulder is trying to tell her to stop, but is in a losing battle.
“I can be discreet, Bea. If you can be quiet.” The button pops open and Beatrice exhales. Ava’s still waiting for permission. “Do you want it?”
“Ava,” she tries, like she’s trying to right her slowly cracking resolve.
I just wanna ask when you're going to add a new chapter your She Lit A Fire story?
(I'm sorry if I sound pushy, just genuinely curious about its status cause I've been waiting for it for months now)(You don't need to answer if you don't want to!)
Thank you for at least reading! Get some rest, eat good, and don't forget to drink water!
Hey Nonny,
I wish I had a more concrete answer for you but at this point, I just don’t know. I have it written but it’s choppy at best and no where close to actually being finished.
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t expect it anytime soon. Work is keeping me very busy and I’ve had some things arise in my personal life that have made focusing on writing incredibly difficult. I do want to finish it though and I plan to. That story specifically I hold very dear to my heart.
Realistically, I’m hoping to get it posted some time around the New Year. If it’s before that, it’ll just be a happy surprise, I hope.
If you’d like to come off anon though I’d be happy to add you to the tag list so you’ll be notified when it is posted.