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mochiwrites · 1 year

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M O C H I I AM IN YOUR INBOX AND I AM HEAR TO SHOUT I HAVE THE CHAPTER PULLED UP I HAVE COFFEE I HAVE NOT MEDICATED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Who gave you the RIGHT

That FRAME and CANVAS metaphor my HEART. How DARE. God. Giant hole where Grian is. I knew what was coming, sort of. I had a lot of suspicions confirmed. I AM SHAKING YOU. THE WAY YOU TWISTED THAT FAMILY FOLDER TOO???? That mumbo DIDNT click on it but Scar did only to have it be. MMMMMMMMMM WHAT I WAS??????? SHAKING YOU

The GB. The way they've infiltrated the town right under everyone's noses. Oh goddddddddddddddddd I am so FULL of dread. And then to introduce them through Martyn AND JIMMY AHHHH I KNEW IT AND also introduce the listeners in that way??? I am vibrating.

I have so many thoughts about Martyn, Grian, and Jimmy I'm. MMMMMMMM. The self-hatred of the fact that they blame themselves for Grian's disappearance where in reality they would have probably been taken too. Listening to the two of them be so full of guilt when Scar and Mumbo are feeling guilty for doing all of this behind Grian's back [THE PARALLELS]. The fact that Scott and Ren are also involved to varying degrees is driving me insane too like. Ren is mostly here because Martyn knows a lot but Scott is here because HE knows a lot and that being mirrored across the table onto Scar and Mumbo who have the closest connection to the watchers but the least amount of info IM

GOD 'You aren't genuine. No one ever is' AND NOW NO ONE CAN BE SURE IF GRIAN IS, INCLUDING GRIAN HIMSELF IM GONNA GO MAD. The way we're connecting back to something at the beginning of the story i am CHOMPING at the BIT

And I KNEW the second we saw Grian by himself nothing good was gonna be happening. This is why I sent 'biting you' btw. This whole scene with helen made the hair on the back of neck stand up. The way it has even Grian himself doubting himself is INSANE. AUGH. g o d I hope I can write like this some day.

And then to have him go home and Scar and Mumbo just got back from a meeting where they defended Grian and swore he couldn't possibly be WORKING with the watchers and he only JUST got pearl back and now NO ONE can know if Grian is actually working with them AND! AND!!!! THERE'S ALSO THE CHANCE THAT THEY'VE DONE THE SAME THING TO PEARL AGGGGGH. I am SCREAMING. GOD.

Well done. I am still shaking you.

EHEHEHEHE~ I’m using your ask as an excuse to ramble about certain things in the new fic ty <3

RIGHT SO. THE FRAME & CANVAS METAPHOR — I had so much fun writing that, esp because it works so well as a metaphor??? scar has just enough information for this bare bones skeleton of a theory. he doesn’t have all of the pieces together, but he’s trying so hard to create an image with the things he’s got (which isn’t a lot). so boom. the perfect metaphor <3

and ehehe, it was so funny seeing people freaking out over the folder — esp when I knew from the start what was going to be inside it :>

GOD MARTYN AND JIMMY. THEY. OKAY??? THEY MAKE ME SOOOOOOO. they knew the old grian. they’re the last pieces of grian’s past. they’ve been through fucking hell. they feel guilty. martyn even more so. he’s the oldest of the trio. he feels like he failed grian, as well as jimmy.

martyn looks at himself as the older brother. and yet he failed to protect both grian and jim. he feels like it’s his fault he and jimmy ended up with the listeners. and so when martyn spoke about them… it wasn’t just guilt for grian he was feeling.

and then enter ren and scott and… oof. scott was absolutely involved because he has information, but also he was there to be a rock for jimmy. as for ren… ren’s been involved since the very beginning. see, when the cops busted the listeners, jimmy had a family to come home to (lizzie). but martyn? he had no one.

the night the listeners were broken up, martyn found himself at a restaurant. and the owner of that restaurant became his world.

but it drives me insane, how close scar and mumbo are to the watchers because of their connection to grian. and yet… they know next to nothing. it’s almost kind of fun though. because you as the reader get to connect the pieces alongside them :>

as for that scene with grian, MAN was that a blast to write :D stel and I have had that one planned since like. June lmao. it was literally written in my notes “grian gets gaslit” but so!! that whole exchange took a bit of work to hit the way I wanted it to, esp with grian doubting himself as well. but that’s the thing about memories, yeah?

enough time goes by and well… the details start to seem a bit hazy :)

but that ending… I almost didn’t write it. I almost ended the one shot with helen’s little “we’ve got work to do” line. but then I thought against it and threw in that little thing at the end there.

so you get this like… almost tender moment between the three of them as their whole world starts to come crashing down around them.

anyways yeah !!! this one was a ton of fun to write :3 it was definitely a long time coming, and I hope the answers satisfied a lot of questions that crime enjoyers have had since the start <3

#mochi speaks #good crimes asks

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anakinthetrashking · 3 years

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yo! you just read the queen's thief series? :0 i am a long-time fan and would LOVE to hear any of your feelings about it (also, have you seen the discord server bc its pretty active and fans always love more fans if discord servers are your thing :)

So, you'll have to forgive how LATE this reply is, it's been a mixture of busy-school-semester-quarantine-social-burnout and tumblr deleting my replies when I tried to save them to continue writing later!! But it's now 3am and my brain won't stop thinking about Queen's Thief, so it's the best time to reply, really! (But I really do appreciate you sending in this ask to let me rant about TQT!!!!! AHFKSISJ replying is just hard sometimes lol)

So because I'm terribly long winded and because spoilers!!! For a few people who follow me who haven't read it/or haven't finished reading it, the rest is under the readmore!

Where to begin. So my blog says I just read it but I realized that's a little bit of a lie now? I read the first five books for the first time at the end of Dec 2019, and the beginning of January 2020! I had seen the name of the series around before, around Tumblr bc of a few people I'm following, in regards to a Batfam fic by lurkinglurkerwholurks, ( this one: Breathing )who is ALSO a longtime TQT fan! I reread her Batfam fic after reading the Queen's Thief series and it hit SOOOOOOOOO much harder. Really brilliant. But that last straw was getting an email saying that one of my other all time fav fic writers was writing a fic for TQT. I saw that email and basically immediately downloaded The Thief on my library app 😂 (i needed to be able to read the fic!!! And I'm soooooo glad I: a) read the series before reading the fic, therefore not spoiling anything and b) was able to read the fic because holy cow does it live rent free in my brain. It's Ere by audreycritter btw)

Anyhow, I absolutely DEVOURED the books. I read one after another and then ended up rereading the first three again more slowly over the course of that spring semester. I started drawing again, listened to a good amount the Attolian Archives podcast, reblogged and MADE!! ART!! and m e m es, died when MWT REBLOGGED ONE OF MY MEMES AND SAID IT MADE HER LAUGH, recommended the series to a bunch of people and got several to at least *start* reading the series! I haven't gotten seratonin from books like this since early high school ten years ago! 🤣

Plus the fandom is SO SWEET!!!! And MWT is so engaging!!!! I love that she lets us play in her sandbox! It's like she made a fully furnished dollhouse complete with dolls but she lets us continue to decorate it and build on it and move the dolls around, and then she comes up and gives us compliments on the little things we've done!!! 🥺😭💞

Oh but the books themselves!!! They dig their spots in my heart deeper everytime I read them!!! I don't think Ive ever read a series that I enjoy more every time I reread it. I'm looking forward to rereading this last book, bc I know that the only one that I was obsessed with the first read through was QoA. All the others I liked the first time I read it, but I wasn't in LOVE with them, you know? But when I went back to read them a second time I LOVED THEM. Its like a riptide that you kick around in the shallows the first time around, and then the next time suddenly you're sucked out to sea???

It feels like the pages hold secrets that need to be teased out. The dialogue is SO FUN. It has suspense but not so much that you're stressed. It's so balanced. It has lines that make you put the book down and have to just, do a lap.around the block because they really said that. THEY REALLY SAID THAT. "Diplomacy, in my own name." SHE REALLY SAID THAT. The symbolism, the foreshadowing, I'm OBSESSED! THE CHARACTERS!!!! THE LOYALTY!!!!! What i wouldn't do to have that sort of loyalty written into some of the other fandoms that I'm in. And the TEnderNESS. The way Gen interacts with others??? The way he loves so.wholly? With his entire self??? The way that it's sorta slowburn found family before tumbling into found family all at once in a way that isn't slowburn at all?? I'm pulled in by Gens tricks every time. The storytwists surprised me but made sense. The writing was enjoyable to get lost in. I think of the way that Gen sits at Irene's feet and looks up at her with eyes full of love, how he sits like a printers apprentice in a chair but sits like a king while sick/hurt in his bed, I think about the way he pushed Relius's hair back and kissed him on the forehead, how Relius said he would still crawl back to his Queen and Gen said me too, the difference between my Queen and my King and your Majesty 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 the way Helen says that Sophos basically has Gens heart in his hands, the way that all four of them are entwined together. I think about these books and I'm filled with YEARNING

Uh, No thoughts, head empty except for squeeing about TQT. This isn't even like,,,,,, idk a quarter of it??? There's so much more but it's all so hard to put into words, a lot of it is just me yelling incoherently because I'm overwhelmed! And when I string words together it's, well. All over the place! 😂

As for the discord thing, I've seen the link around! I'm uh, Not Great(tm) at being social, and so the discord is a leeeeetle daunting, haha. But I have considered it, especially because I have an... Interesting fic idea that I wanted to drop into the pool of other TQT fans to see their reactions. It's... a little bit evil...

Thanks again for the ask!

#tqt #the queen's thief #queen's thief #i would hand him my heart on a toothpick if he asked 🥺#an appropriate tag for this!#ive been feeling unnecessarily guilty about this unanswered ask for months RIP #ive WANTED to answer it!!! but my brain kept latching onto other things bc ADHD and also anxiety keeps me from doing most things lol #excuses excuses #i did enjoy writing this all out tho!#ive been waiting on like 4 different friends to get further in the books (aka past a CERTAIN POINT) so i could scream about stuff with them #so i totally am for wanting to hear the thoughts of someone new to it and if i think of more later ill add more #uh does that make any sense..? it was trying to be thank you for letting me rant about my new obsession and i get where youre coming from in #wanting to hear someone new rant about your old obsession???#ok maybe i need to sleep now #im so 🥺😭💞🥺😭💞🥺😭💞🥺 about TQT tho #mwt #megan whalen turner

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zontiky · 4 years

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Okay but au where they're not all related and five is a mysterious orphan Diego keeps running into at odd hours of the night and then him just being like "fuck it he's like 13 he can't be out alone at night" and then just takes him home like a godamn stray and five is THRIVING under the positive attention he never had I beg of you please feed my soul. Also sorry if this doesn't make sense I've had 2 hours of sleep and like 8 coffees today

i think i’ve read a fic similar to this but FUCK YEAH let’s do this (sorry im so late btw i havent been feeling bullet points lately fksjdfks) ALSO HEY OP PLEASE DON’T DIE I HOPE YOU’RE OK???

so diego is still a cop and he’s patrolling or doing whatever it is that cops do, and then he sees a kid sitting in an alley

obviously he pulls over like “hey kid you okay?” and the kid is like “shut up go away bootlicker” and diego is instantly “okay then come on im taking you to get food”

the kid doesn’t want to go but at the same time diego can tell he knows that there’s really no better options. this child looks hungry

so the kid and diego go to griddy’s and the kid says his name is five when asked

“that’s not a name”

“is too”

diego+fam have a long history of trauma and reginald called them by number which was their birth order or something? idk OH SHIT WAIT YOU SAID NOT ALL RELATED OK OK COOL SO

luther is a mechanic who diego knows because he’s the dude who’s often the one repairing his car, they’re on pretty good terms and go out for coffee sometimes because luther hates alcohol and diego’s body is a temple so he doesn’t drink

diego is diego he’s a cop but he’s highkey broke and i really don’t know how much cops get paid? hm

ok google says from 34.6k - 89.4k a year and numbers mean nothing to me so lets say he’s just a gremlin who lives in a boiler room because it’s efficient

OR he’s still dating eudora and lives with her

you know what that’s probably the better option i’m gonna go with that. they don’t have as much childhood trauma even though none of the “siblings” come from exactly good homes? but none of them were raised by reggie mcfuckface so it’s less like,,, bad even though they’re all fucked up

WAIT DO THEY HAVE THEIR POWERS

HELL YEAH THEY HAVE THEIR POWERS

ok ok so luther is a mechanic who uses his super strength and endurance to just fucking carry cars around his garage and i know NOTHING about mechanics as a profession but but but luther is good at what he does

diego is a cop who lives with eudora and throws knives like a boss. he also throws tennis balls really hard because stabbing people on duty isn’t advised

you know what? i’m gonna say allison ISNT a movie star, shes a smaller actress with minor roles here and there because she’s a mom and spends time with claire. she doesn’t use her rumor as much because honestly she doesn’t see a reason to? like sometimes she’ll go “i heard a rumor you gave me a free shot of coffee” and like,,, that’s it shfskd

her and patrick are still divorced but that’s because they did it the healthy way. they knew they were drifting apart but instead of rumoring him they broke it off mutually and they still meet up for coffee. they’re friends ok. claire loves her parents

klaus! klaus has problems but because im a soft bitch dave is here in 2019. he’s… also a mechanic…. they all know eachother but dave knows luther and diego pretty well. luther via work and diego via luther

yes klaus! so klaus has a history of drugs and addiction, because while he wasn’t shoved into a mausoleum ghosts screaming at you all the fucking time doesn’t help with staying sober

but because he has a support network he can fall back on he’s doing well, he’s a barista in a coffee shop that allison and patrick & diego and luther frequent

shoutout to klaus

five is an orphan he’s 13 and small and kind of a genius? fuck what if as a kid five accidentally time-traveled to 2019 and thaT’S HOW HE BECAME AN ORPHAN

galaxy brain

so five is this kid in the wrong time living on the streets not knowing how things work

i mean he does obviously because he catches on quick and he’s smart but really he doesn’t know how some shit works ok. he’s clueless when it comes to technology and pop culture and shit

ben!! ben is alive!! he’s a part time writer and a full time librarian!! he knows klaus because during his homeless days klaus stuck around the library because free bathrooms and also reading to take his mind off the ghosts. they become really close and ben gets klaus to move in with him and then he’s trying to get sober and then ben’s car crashes and that’s how they meet luther and dave OHHHH

additionally: klaus illustrates some of ben’s books because he knows how to draw yay

vanya! she’s first chair in the orchestra and she’s dating helen cho because i say so

so vanya kicks ass at violin, she’s being gay teaching lessons all that good shit what more is there to say

harold isn’t here because there was never an umbrella academy

hmmm back to the,,, actual plot,,, im sorry sksfhdjsk

SO DIEGO FINDS FIVE RIGHT

AND HE’S LIKE “oh no this child is awakening my paternal instincts oh no i have to take him home with me now”

eudora opening the door to see her husband boyfriend with an angry looking teenager at his side: dear god what did you do this time

eudora instantly bonds with five and i mean INSTANTLY like she lays eyes on him and goes “child?? small?? looks lonely?? must protect” and five looks at her like “badass looking lady she probably knows what shes doing might as well ask for info and stuff” but hes actually thinking “oh dang she looks like she knows what she’s doing RESPECT” and yeah ksdjhsdkf

then five expects them to be mean or just get tired of him and kick him out but?? they dont??? wack

diego is instantly like “kid where do you live”

‘um’

“you live somewhere right???”

‘UM’

they find out he’s legally dead and thats another can of worms entirely

so they register and foster five

diego and eudora are registered foster parents you cannot change my mind alright

then five is introduced to luther and dave, and also ben and klaus because theyre hanging around the shop bc it’s their off day

so five instantly has 4 more people giving him instant love and validation and he’s like “woah”

THEN ALLISON AND PATRICK

claire too,, claire immediately adopts five as her older brother

this entire time five is like “i can’t stay im gonna leave soon you all know this right” and eveybody is “yep ok sure” but they all know hes gonna stay

hhHHHH GAME NIGHTS

five beats everybody at scrabble

diego beats everybody at darts, even though everybody calls him out for cheating

vanya beats everybody at musical chairs. she levitates the chairs so nobody can sit down

luther beats everybody at outdoor games. do not play tag with this man you might not make it out alive

allison is the QUEEN of blurt!

ben is so good at charades it’s unfair

klaus honestly sucks at board games, but he always wins uno and nobody knows how (its the ghosts skfhsdkf)

five is so confused because its obvious all of them are cheating but??? nobody cares?? what

“it’s because it’s fun nobody is actually upset”

whaaaaaaat

so they have to explain to him that they dont play to win they play to have fun and its just a fun thing they do to spend time together and bond

five: mind blown

THEY TAKE HIM TO AN AQUARIUM

BEN JUST CHILLS WITH THE OCTOPI THE ENTIRE TIME

FIVE BONDS WITH CRABS

THEY ALL LOVE SEALS

five gets exposed to modern culture!! klaus and ben teach him memes is what i’m saying

five goes to school!!! he makes friends!!!! they have nice sleepovers and diego and eudora make them cookies :’)

i want to say. okay so.

reginald exists and he had made grace eariler as preparation for the children he was going to adopt, but he died before he could buy any babies

so grace exists! and!! she knows the “siblings”!!!

so five has a grandma because im not going to lie grace is basically all of their’s mom

she lives in the mansion but she can go outside and DO THINGS and she makes them COOKIES and she LOVES HER KIDS and GRANDKIDS and five ADORES her ok

basically five is happy with his pseudo family that’s it thank you for your time

wait no actually he figures out how to time travel safely and he does go back and forth

sometimes he pops in and he’s like “hey we ran out of milk” and then a second later he’s like “for the love of god wait until tomorrow to get milk dont ask why you dont wanna know” and its obvious that he came back from the future and HHHHHH YES

the commission can’t do shit because found family love is simply too strong

hazel and agnes are the nice couple who run griddys and birdwatch

five is fond of them too honestly like he just loves going to griddys because it has so many happy memories for him and its where he met diego (sorta) and also yay hazel and agnes!!

SO YEAH BASICALLY: FIVE IS HAPPY AND THIS AU IS GOD TIER THANK YOU

THIS IS A GOOD ONE I LIKE THIS AU THANK YOU

#asks #tinky-wink #tua #aus #hcs #rambles #stray au #team zero

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aurumacadicus · 7 years

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Hey so about regency au I was thinking, what if TONY gets hit with post pregnancy depression? (I don't know if this is the correct English term) but you Peter is married and is away and Harley is trying to find a mate and Maria is sick and yeah.... I don't know I just have a lot of feelings! Btw your blog seriously gives me life whenever I feel down I read something that you wrote and it literally always makes me feel better! Especially the angst fics with happy ending😍 love you!

(Aw, thanks, hon! I love you too!)

Part of the reason Tony struggles so much with Harley is actually because of his PPD. Part of his PPD is because of the normal hormone craziness after having a baby but part of it is also because he struggled so much more during his pregnancy with Harley and he feels kind of like a failure for it and it just makes the depression so much worse.

The first week after he has Harley he can barely get out of bed, and the only reason he manages to feed Harley is because Bucky haltingly mentions that they can get a wet nurse for him. Tony would feel like even more of a failure if they had to do that so he drags himself out of bed to feed his baby.

Then Harley is a difficult baby and Tony feels even worse. Peter was so easy, such a quiet and gentle baby. Tony doesn’t know how Harley isn’t hoarse from all his screaming. He doesn’t sleep, he doesn’t settle–he only quiets when he’s attached to Tony’s tit and even then he fusses. Steve and Bucky try to help but Harley won’t settle for them but for a few minutes at a time. They find a reprieve with Peter but they feel guilty making their own young son make his baby brother settle.

For a moment Tony wishes he was back in the Stark kingdom under Obadiah if only he could get away from Harley and the thought makes him bawl because he loves his baby, he really does, and he would never actually want to be under Obadiah’s thumb again. But he’s just so miserable. He’s so tired but he can’t sleep, and his husbands keep trying to help him but they can’t, and Tony wishes he could just sleep and never wake up again.

After the incident where Tony misses his medicine and takes a header into a wooden chair arm, Bruce and Helen finally find a midwife with experience in this kind of thing, because they hadn’t realized how bad it was until a beta servant had burst into the infirmary bellowing for help, clutching Tony’s limp body to her chest. (Although to be fair, Tony had tried his hardest to soldier through.)

She stays with Tony for a few weeks, helping him to find ways to take care of Harley that work, and only leaves once she feels Tony is ready. He’s still depressed but things are getting better; he’s out of the thick of it now.

(“I wish my mother were here,” Tony whispers tearfully, staring down at Harley in his lap. “Maybe she would have helped me.” The midwife doesn’t say anything that people would normally say to try to seem helpful, like he couldn’t know that Maria would help or that wishing wouldn’t make him feel better; she just reaches out and silently holds his hand, a quiet comfort.

Tony grips back so tightly his knuckles turn white, and he’s certain he must be hurting her, but she never lets go, just lets him hold onto her and cry, and he thinks this may be the first time he’s truly gotten to mourn that his mother wasn’t there to see his children, to–to see him, as an adult.)

((Tony wakes up feeling fully rested for the first time since he got pregnant and he blurts out, “I’m a failure and Harley has died.”

“He just slept through the night Tony oh my god,” Steve exclaims from changing Harley’s diaper.

Harley finally becoming a good baby takes some… getting used to.))

#aurumacadicus answers #anon #regency au #anonymous

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billykcaplan · 6 years

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the face that launched a thousand texts

i accidentally wrote a fic set in @kendrasaunders and @icedvulpix lot college au?? i read a bunch of that au last night and felt inspired. (if you’re reading this, i hope you don’t mind.)

here’s a fic with my attempt at college au helen of troy.

this is my first time publishing a fic on this website, so this is terrifying. please enjoy under the cut.

word count: 898

“Who is that?”

Sara glances up from her dance history textbook to look at Ray. She follows his gaze to see a very pretty girl sitting alone across the quad. “How should I know,” she replies flatly.

“She’s so. Pretty?” Ray says, not letting it go. “She looks kind of like… Kendra?”

Sara feels a lump forming in her throat. “I don’t see it,” she grumbles. Sara had been trying not to think about Kendra. Even though she was only studying abroad, it felt to Sara like she was on another planet, lost forever. The girl Ray seemed infatuated with sure was pretty, but she was no Kendra Saunders.

Ray shakes his head in response. “Not exactly like Kendra. But if you look closely, it’s in her eyes.”

Sara frowns. “It’s in her eyes? How can you possibly see anything in her eyes?” she says, only slightly annoyed. “She’s like 200 feet away.” No response. Sara looks up again to see Ray still staring. Rolling her eyes, she says, “If you think she’s that pretty, go say hi.”

“Go say hi to who?” asks Zari’s voice behind them, causing both Sara and Ray to flinch. Seeing her friends’ reactions, she smirks. “Sorry guys. Who are we talking about?”

Sara gestures towards the girl. “That hot girl across the quad. Palmer won’t stop staring.”

“Oh Helen?” Zari replies, with familiarity. Recognizing the looks on her friends’ faces, “That’s Helen Troy. She’s in my intro to comp sci class. She’s really nice.”

“Wait. You know her?” Ray asks, one part excited, one part terrified.

Zari looks at him and smiles awkwardly. “Yeah. We’re kind of friends?” She turns to shout to Helen across the quad. “Hey Helen! Come over here!”

Helen looks over, sees Zari, flashes a smile, and stands to come over to them. Ray makes a noise that can only be described as a yelp, reaches to grab his bag, and falls off the bench onto the ground.

Zari looks at Ray, turns to Sara, and says, “What is his problem.”

Sara grins mischievously and singsongs, “Palmer’s got a c-r-u-s-h.”

“Oh,” says Zari. Her eyes widen and she smiles, again saying, “Oh.” Sara looks at Zari with a question in her eyes, but it’s too late because standing in front of the three of them is Helen Troy.

“Hello Zari. How are you today?” she says. Her voice is smooth and light, with a hint of an accent none of them can quite trace. Now that she sees Helen up close, Sara can almost see what Ray was talking about. There was something about Helen that reminded her of her former roommate.

“I’m fine,” Zari replies, bringing Sara out of her reverie. “I’m fine. I just got out of my chem lab and I was about to grab some lunch when I saw these two losers sitting out here.” She gestures to her losers.

“Oh,” Helen purrs. She looks down at Ray and Sara as if she is just now seeing them. “Are these your friends?”

Ray mumbles from the ground something that sounds like “Yeah. Friendship.” and Sara stands to greet Helen. “I’m Sara and the guy sitting on the ground is Ray. He forgets how to speak coherently sometimes. It’s fine.”

Helen furrows her brow. “Oh, that’s… interesting?” She lays a hand on Sara’s shoulder and says, “I love this sweatshirt you’re wearing.”

Sara beams. “Thanks, I stole it from an ex.”

Ray, finally managing to stand up, says eagerly, “Helen, that bag looks heavy. Do you want me to hold it for you?”

Helen smiles in his direction, “No, thank you.”

Sara grins and says to Helen, “So you’re in Zari’s computers class? Are you a computer science major?”

Turning back to Sara, Helen replies, “No, I’m undeclared. During my younger years, I didn’t have much control over my life, so I’ve never really been sure about what I’d want to be when I grew up. So when I went to college, I decided I’d explore different things before I chose a major.”

“That sounds fascinating,” Sara says with a smile. She looks at Ray, and back at Helen. “Would you want to discuss that more over a cup of coffee?”

Helen’s eyes brighten and she grins. “Yes, I would love to!” She turns to Zari and says, “You were getting lunch, you said?”

Zari nods and replies, “Yeah, maybe we can go together?”

“Sounds perfect,” Sara says with a smile. She turns to Ray. “Don’t you have physics in 15?”

“Uhh I-” is all Ray manages to come up with as a reply before Sara jumps in with, “Well, I guess it’ll just be the three of us.” And with that, the three ladies turn to walk away. “Seeya, Palmer,” Sara calls over her shoulder with a wink.

Ray watches the three of them walk away from him. He looks down and sees that Sara left her textbook sitting on the bench. “Wait, you have your dance history class in 15 minutes?” he says to her, not meant to be a question, but they’re out of earshot. Ray picks up Sara’s book and crams it in his backpack. He sighs, “You’re welcome.”

Ray feels his phone buzz in his front pocket. He pulls it out to check his messages.

TEXT FROM: THE BEST MUSLIM HACKTIVIST YOU KNOW

TO: ME

Helen’s a huge lesbian btw

so yeah that’s it. if you liked this (or even if you didn’t like this) go to read rachel and ari’s college au. you’ll probably like theirs more.

#icedvulpix #userkendrasaunders #tv: legends of tomorrow #sara lance #zari tomaz #ray palmer #helen of troy #dc #lot au #college au #my fic #lot fic #*#i hope people like this omg #this is terrifying

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irishforjane · 7 years

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my frenemy @wesminski tagged me to answer these hella hard questions. and idk who to tag rip i always tag the same people i swear someone’s gonna get fed up with me soon but i lowkey want this tag to circulate so i’m tagging @pynchfluff @@moonwitche and @lxntsov

interesting questions and not very interesting answers under the cut. ^_^ (prepare for lots of question marks and hmmms and repetitive answers)

i. which character are you most similar to?

hmm i think i’m part cath (from fangirl), part ari (from ari & dante), and part molly (from the upside of unrequited)

ii. which character are you most dissimilar to?

the wild ones. take from that what you will.

iii. if you were in a zombie apocalypse, which character would you bring with you?

i’d want to be w all the badass (see also kinda ruthless) characters for guaranteed survival. ie kaz brekker, andrew minyard, lila bard

iv. what is your favourite au?

i dunnoooo O.O T_T

v. what trope did you suspect a character would fall into but proved you wrong?

hmm inej ghafa?? i thought she’d be one of those characters with kickass skillszsz but have self doubt of epic proportions or whatever, like not confident and self deprecating and all that. but she’s not. and i love it.

vi. what is your favourite genre?

fantasy. definitely.

vii. if you could write a book, how would you describe it in five words?

spoiler alert: it’s so bad

viii. describe your favourite book in five words

everything is aesthetic as fck; dreamthieving asshole has a crush; coca-cola shirt is a bamf; spoiler alert: president cellphone dies

ix. do you prefer guarded or open characters?

guarded characters.. i think

x. which three songs suit your favourite character(s)?

young volcanoes - fall out boy

sinister kid - the black keys

renegades - x ambassadors

xi. what fics do you wish there were more of?

hmm i don’t actively look for fics; i read them when they’re on my dash or somebody recommends one. but idk, i’d like to see more bluesey??

xii. what’s your favourite line?

duh impossible to answer

xiii. what line made you laugh?

what doesn’t make me laugh?? i’ll give you this tho: “Man, don’t SAT at me. Here’s what’s up. The Ronan you know is no more. He’s having a coming-of-age moment. A - a - bildungsroman. Goddamn me! SAT that, Dick-dick-dick.” (I thought of this bc of ‘fuckweasel’)

xiv. if you were paired up in a group project, who would you want to be with?

i say adam parrish as well bc i have no originality and bc adam

xv. if you could turn your favourite book(s) into a different genre, what would it be and why?

ohmygod genre-wise idk?? but setting-wise, it’ll be cool to see trc set in an earlier time? like 70′s maybe? so gansey’ll have to have a much older aesthetic af car.. or soc set in our world?? why? bc it just seems fun?? i’m useless. i know.

xvi. which character would you be best friends with?

binch i wanna be bffs with matt too. T_T also, jesper llewellyn fahey

xvii. which character(s) would you:

• go on a road trip with?

henry cheng and kuwei yul-bo. i’ll take my under appreciated boys on a fun, fun trip (loljk henry’ll drive bc i can’t)

• venture into the woods with?

the gangsey ofc!!

• go on late-night escapades with?

probs nikolai lantsov. or wesley ayers. or levi

• cause trouble and get away with it with?

kaz brekker DUH

• share a mixtape under the stars with?

hmm.. something tells me simon spier has excellent taste in music so him. or kevin day bc classical music? under the stars? seems pretentious af but also FCKING GIVE IT TO ME (noah is an A+ choice btw)

• fight to the death

all the shitty characters. the shitty fathers the shitty mothers the shitty ex lovers?

• give up your entire mortal existence for?

don’t make me choose i’d die for ALL my childruuun

• go on a heist with and succeed?

doOOod the dregs?????

• be in a gang with?

a girl gang sounds good so inej ghafa, nina zenik, blue sargent, puck connolly, karou and zuzana, kizzy shao, helene aquila. all the badass girls!!

• have a dorky handshake with?

henry cheng. totes

• bring home to the family?

richard campbell gansey the third my pride and joy light of my life solution to all my problems

• bake with?

nicky hemmick. i kind of hc him to be really good in the kitchen idk why

• fall in love with? (platonic/romantic/sexual, depending on your sexuality)

in case you missed it, gansey for all of the above OKAYY????

• sit on a roof at 2am in peaceful company with?

neil josten my boy

• bring into a different book and explore with?

all my kids ofc and binch i swear i didn’t copy you i recently finished the book and space seems so cool and terrifying and my children are all adrenaline junkies so we’re going to ‘the long way to a small angry planet’ world

#this was so hard i crii #interesting interesting stuff tho #tags

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