#theme: meet cute

[aftgficrec]

There’s a newer author who’s recently been posting a lot of Andriel content and I live for it. Their name is BlowingYourMind

Thanks for the rec, @morgiporgie!

There are currently 6 works for Aftg available from this author on Ao3.  You can find them here.  - S

Here’s their most recently updated fic:

The difference between a minor triad and a major mistake (but maybe it’ll work out in the end.) by BlowingYourMind [Not Rated, 63267 words, incomplete, last updated March 2024]

Of course his new neighbor happened to be the same new co-worker that had spilt scalding coffee all over the front of his pants and of course his new neighbor was freakishly attractive. Maybe if Andrew was lucky, he would smother himself in his sleep tonight with his various blankets and pillows and not have to wake up the next morning. Or Andrew, a teacher at Palmetto high school in the middle of bumfuck nowhere, meets the new track coach of their school. It doesn't go well.

tw: panic attacks, tw: vomit

#reader submission #rec #fic #neil josten/andrew minyard #au: teaching #theme: fluff & humour #theme: enemies to lovers #theme: slow burn #theme: pining #theme: meet cute #theme: protectiveness #theme: illness #theme: found families #theme: twinyards bonding #tw: panic attacks #tw: vomit #morgiporgie

[willowser]

i love the idea of young dad, touya, honestly, like i think it could really work for him in a way.

you meet him when he's much older of course, because he comes by the restaurant you work at on his lunch break, and he's always taking over for anyone that tries to give your car an oil change or tire rotation. and he's always talking about his kids ! his daughter and son, the prides of his life, his reasons for living and best friends.

he never shows you any pictures of them, not at the start, and it's not until your relationship takes a more serious turn that you actually meet them — and you're expecting young kids. seven and five or ten and eight or something near there.

you're not expecting thirty-one year old touya to have a fourteen year old daughter, with green-lined braces and acne on her cheeks, or his quiet, glasses-wearing eleven year old boy that looks just like him.

#i just think it's so cute !!! #bc usually i hc him as someone not in his kids life right away right ?? but it's interesting to throw in the dynamic of him being teen dad #and maybe in his early 20s he still get caught up in something and gets sent to jail or something #and his daughter DOES remember that #maybe his son doesnt know him for the first few years of his life #and that's a whole thing he has to deal with #and he's doing his best !! 🥺 #his daughter is entering that phase when she can't stand him and he's losing his mind #and his son is close to hitting puberty and he's losing his mind over that too LOL #and he has to work SO HARD for them #waaahhh i love him 🥺🥺 #you meet his kids and he has a teen and your like OH HELLO ?????? LOL #and she's sweet but — she's touya's kid lmao akfbdjak #cw children #✿ willow writes #✿ thoughts: dabi/touya #✿ theme: dad dabi/touya

[steddieunderdogfics]

For the theme weekend (alternate universes), I'd like to recommend sweet enough on the vine by inairbinad!

sweet enough on the vine by inairbinad

@inairbinad

Rating: Teens and Up

6,623 words, 1/1 chapters

Archive Warning: No Warnings

Tags: Alternate Universe - Flower Shop, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, POV Eddie Munson, Florist Steve Harrington, Tattoo Artist Eddie Munson, Meet-Cute, First Meetings, Strangers to Lovers, First Kiss, Getting Together, Making Out, Grinding, Flirting, Fluff

Summary:

Eddie impatiently drummed his fingers against the countertop beside the register, hoping to make this a quick one and done stop. Even in a hurry, he couldn’t help but notice that he liked watching the way the man’s muscles moved beneath his t-shirt. “Excuse me,” Eddie piped up, probably a little too impatiently. He heard one final snip, and the man finally turned around. Whatever nerves Eddie had to get out of the shop as quickly as possible died on the spot. — A meet-cute where Steve is a florist and Eddie is smitten.

Thanks for the rec!

This rec is a part of Theme Weekend. The theme this weekend is alternate universe.

Know a fic that deserves extra love? Submit through our asks or the submission box!

#steddie #steddie fic recs #steve harrington #eddie munson #steve x eddie #stranger things #theme weekend #alternate universes #flower shop au #tattoo artist au #modern au #meet cute #teen and up #getting together

[torgawl]

this is absolutely killing me *bombastic side eye, criminal offensive side eye playing in the background*

#zhongli probably thinks neuvillette will turn into that one kermit punch meme as soon as he lands eyes on him 😂 #this entire quest was peak humour #i really love genshin sometimes #also neuvi falling for a marketing strategy and ending up buying too much tea on the first time he goes out to another country is so him #there was so much going on during this quest #neuvi explaining an inside joke to wrio... that was so cynoesque ahjsgsjsgshs he's trying his best at fitting in 😭 cute #i love that old man so much #and the ladle?!!!!! picasso 🤌 #furina having a death note moment of reverse physchology trying to understand if zhongli knew who she was was only missing the #l's theme playing in the background #plus clorinde and navia being questionably lesbian in the mountain that was also nice 👍 #but i swear neuvi is so funny #what do you mean that man carried everyone's belongings and went to another country in half a day and managed to scare zhongli without #even trying agsjsh i'm gonna create a monsieur neuvillette fan club #he's the best ever #i need him to meet zhongli for scientific purposes. the world will stop when that day comes 😂 #i need to know what would happen #okay realistically neuvi would probably start wheezing the moment he saw the false vision #but still poking genshin so they give us the content we need they can't just tease us like this

[sphnyspinspin]

OMG, I’VE BEEN WANTING TO SHARE THIS AU FOR A MINUTE—

Meet my Magnificence Reforged AU Connie!

Though Scorponok only ever referred to her as Experiment: A9-2416 (usually in Decepticon dialect).

Her story is that Scorponok created her as an experiment to see what would happen if an organic was able to produce a set of chemicals that are deemed somewhat powerful, yet common, by organic standards but emphasized to a certain degree with the help of Cybertronian technology. Entirely inspired by the mere Earth-Human conceptual myth known as the—

Indomitable Human Spirit.

What Scorponok was able to take away from eight years of properly caring for the experiment is that these chemicals that fuel basic organic functioning can be utilized exponentially to a degree where a full grown one of these things could even rival some of Cybertron’s strongest warriors. Maybe even the galaxy’s toughest warriors wouldn’t be able to stand a chance.

It became labeled as Adrenalineregon.

(dope naming skills I know)

It turned out to be some crazy-powerful stuff once injected into a strong enough specimen.

Now why would Scorponok need to make something like this? Power? Recognition? Fun? All of the above honestly. But it’s also because in this Alternate Universe the Decepticons won the war for Cybertron, and Megatron has already built his perfect Decepticon Army to conquer the rest of the known universe, and he and the Grand Architect thought their Army of Tarn clones needed a little more pep-in-their-step.

You heard me. TARN. CLONE. ARMY.

(this isn’t a specifically cyberverse based timeline I just took the tarn army as inspo)

But what they didn’t expect was for the Tarn clones to go insane and turn on each other when being on mere drops of Adrenalineregon. Resulting in a mass extinction of Tarn Clones, with too many bodies to count, therefore being dropped on top of Scorpnok’s planet sized lab to remind him of the consequences of his actions.

EX: A9-2416 was, at the time, forever curious about the outside world, since she’s never been above the expansive laboratory planet’s surface. It always felt as if some unseen beings were trying to lead her to her escape every day since as long as she can remember. Small sign after small sign, guiding her to even bigger signs that kept getting her closer and closer to the way out. Of course, Scorponok always stopped her from getting too close.

A9-2416 always hated the amount of gruesome tests she had to do afterwards as punishment for misbehaving.

Until on her ninth birthday, A9-2416 finally made it to the exit, and Scorponok got exceptionally pissed off so much that in self-defense A9-2416 grabbed the nearest cannon she knew how to operate and blasted it through his spark. She cried a lot that day.

BUT HEY! Her life didn’t stay too depressing for long, because soon after she committed her very first act of murder, she became good buddies with the little voices in the walls that have been apparently guiding her throughout her life!

THE LOSTBOT BOTBOTS!!

(lol I’m nowhere near finished with every Lost Bot design, I just wanted to finish these couple few and make this post for the AU)

MEET THE LOST BOTS CLAN OF THE BOTBOTS!

They’ve been trapped on Scorponok’s Lab-planet-tory (im so funny) for decades along with the other Botbots who remained in hiding. But this clan was the only one brave enough to get anywhere near Scorponok’s main stomping grounds. What they didn’t expect to find was some weird sentient purple meat-potato in a makeshift industrial cradle. Turns out it was just a baby. And that baby turned out to be A9-2416. Who soon became known as Connie.

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After A9-2416 escaped the inner dwellings of the lab and joined the Lost Bots on their little side quests up on the surface, she later changed her name to Constance, hence her more well-known nickname being Connie. The name change was suggested by her Botbot friends who knew a bit about Earth human culture and used their knowledge to help Connie have the most happy and carefree life that she could ask for.

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Also the TEG Lost Light crew is there because I’m still obsessed with that fic 👍✨

@deepfriedhopesanddreams @viewer-of-many @celestite-caroline @asmoteeth @novafire-is-thinking @dragonsgirl572 @autistic-fool-with-ideas @mysticfoxdesigns @hyp3rfixation-h3ll

#this was honestly a cute side-project for me since I wanted a more angsty / wholesome take on the tf mpreg timeline #also I just liked the world building in TEG while tfp soundwave was there and I thought themes of this and that would fit well together #I also really liked the parallels of the lost bots being semi organic since their transformations were reversed and how their experiences #+ can be implemented into Connie’s newfound understanding of her mind body and soul / spark #and btw they can actually FUSE together like magical girls and precures #the idea that I had to inspire this was what if I combined precure logic into the lost light and that’s it #transformers #maccadam #maccadams #sphny alternates universe (𖦹ㅁ𖦹)•*°⊹ #transformers more than meets the eye #transformers botbots #the echo garden #<-small mention #the firstborn #connie firstborn #lostbots #lore dump #infodump

[here2bbtstrash]

might just be opening up drabble requests soon........... what do we think 👀

#mposting #lmk if y'all would be interested !! #i think it might help me shake the rust off writing wise #and i have a cute lil theme idea ✨ #i need like 2 weeks to take care of some final moving things #so meet me here early december???

[edwardwonghaupepelutivrusky4th]

technically if it's not simmered in the champagne region of france it's a sparkling best boy friend

#you see actually this is an ingeniously relevant caption b/c of the concept of Authentic food tying into the film's main themes re culture #Clearly impeccable lol....anyway here's me using this blog as like a tumblr hosted imgur #also just now in the shower it occurred to me the parallels / overlaps with My Big Fat Greek Wedding. obviously also v different but #so your family & by extension their culture aren't the Normal & your father especially holds on to this distinction #& you don't just want to work at the family business forever & then you meet a nice boy & there's no problem there he's just nice #except then how to reconcile this with your relationship w/your family & your culture & thus also your identity btw.... #anyways how about that uhh #elemental #elemental 2023 #pixar elemental #ember lumen #wade ripple #fanart #always a time & a half trying to decide how to tag these kinds of titles. but somehow i survive #it's really a testament to the so precisely captured Cuteness of wade's design that it's like; trying to just do a shadow of it justice lol #it's So good. definitely went for the like expressive wobbliness...the wavy smile is just thee perfect detail all thee time. ugh #giving both of them that Flow while also ember is pointier & has the whole luminosity element....the chefs are kissing #love the Relationship when it's like yeah it's easy to make it agonizing when it's like ya both people have fun & like each other & enjoy #being together & find the relationship enriching & motivating...you Are a cute couple / again that the conflict isn't really even like ooh #will the won't they as a question of if they really like each other; & Definitely not a question of [these ppl hate each other actually] lo #like me saying i like romcoms sometimes when it Does mostly mean i'll watch mybigfatgreekwedding 500x in a row. it's on youtube btw #then you watch some random other romcom & it's psychological torture. random xmas romcomdram like gave me a headache fr.... #anyways really liked this film really had a great time i'm def gonna see it again soon #i loved both these characters & their relationship & the Elemental manifestation of Culture is really inchtaraesting #plus other metaphorical resonance ppl find...physical disability; queer experiences.... #it was also fun b/c their interacting & their arcs w/each other having that mutual Effect & Change from their dynamic was like #that also just feels like both of them / their relationship = my relationship with myself &/or both how i interact w/the world/anyone #definitely always describing myself in ways like ''i never x except for when i do always; readily'' like Crying for sure lol. I'm Both.... #probably a bit more wade? within Myself; by this point lol. i feel like maybe i'm the wade w/someone i'm more comfortable around #but that otherwise i probably come across more emberesque. usually. except for when it's the opposite except for when it's not lmao etc!!!!

[lesbiancarat]

TWS (투어스) '첫 만남은 계획대로 되지 않아' Official MV

#tws #240122 #p: youtube #debut day!!! #its genuinely so so good #if youre a freshteen fan youll like this its so cute #also love that both the pre release and this are themed around introductions/first meetings like its kinda meta #english title is 'plot twist' btw! #Youtube

[wolfstarshipping]

Berlin Angel by @de-sire-blog (89.679 words) Rating: Explicit Relationships: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

modern muggle AU Summary: Berlin is absolutely miserable in February. Or it’s just Sirius. Alternatively: A story of how Remus Lupin stepped into Sirius’ life, flashed his trademark grin, and reminded him that life is a beautiful thing meant to be enjoyed. No risk, no fun!

Comment: This fic made me miss Berlin SO much, and fall in love with this city and these characters all over again in such a beautiful way. I highly recommend checking this fic out if you haven't already, especially if you're a german speaker or have been/want to go to Berlin. Sirius being the most oblivious person ever is iconic and I just love Berlin Antifa Remus so, so much.

#wolfstar #remus lupin #sirius black #Berlin Angel #de_sire #70k-100k #AU #modern AU #muggle AU #Berlin #Remus: bartender #Sirius: figuring it out #Sirius: oblivious #smut #mental health themes #strangers to lovers #meet cute #Remus: german #strangers to friends to lovers

[sysig]

Oh getting very close now, villainy feels right around the corner (Patreon)

#Doodles #Villainsona #Just Desserts #So you can see - the TVAU floodgates lol #Upon realizing how fun and easy Charm is to draw in the WOY style I was like ''So designing outfits then'' #It's like an inbuilt base maker! This style is perfect for just getting a scribble down and then extrapolating from there! #Surely we've all seen the phenomenon of starting with something simple and expanding and building once the base is established #Like kid drawings being redrawn by professionals :D Or pixel art into fully rendered or Minecraft skins open to interpretation #The urge to Artistic Liberty lol - I just managed to find a style that I can do both in >:3c Create the initial and build from there! Yay!! #Love having that as an option ♪ And like I said she's criminally fun to draw like this lol she's just a cute rectangle #Plus - and this is really the big plus lol - since WOY is so silhouette-based it's a great style to test outfits on #The biggest problem for designing her TVAU outfit for me has been how readable it is with and without the wings #Classic Charm is perfect and that's reflected in her design as well ♪ TVAU is in the image of another hm hm hm #<Already a tag lol - but she is! Classic Charm has the perfect amounts of breaks and rests and interest and design flow I just hhh <3 <3 #And also true for the TVAU! Charm is under pretty direct influence by that point and I want that to be very reflected in her outfit! #I had a bunch of themes I wanted to explore like two months ago but kept coming up empty :P But now that I've had a chanced to simmer :3c #The biggest elements I'm happiest with are her belly showing in the first one - one of the themes was ''forced vulnerability'' so #I'm not sure what to do with the hem of her pants tho I very intentionally didn't design where her shirt and pants meet in Classic lol #The second design is probably my favourite overall :D And not Just because she turned out so cute in the WOY style haha #I mean she also turned out very cute in the JD style hehe - but I kinda forgot that Kaiein started as a dragon! #Turning her spiderweb theme into dragon scales is so just- how did I not think of that before gods what a brilliant idea lol #And I can keep scalloping! Scallops forever dragon scales spider webs sugar candy sweets ♪ My favourite :D #I like that it keeps the shawl as well while still having very uncovered shoulders - feels villainy and still reflective of her design :D #The last one is more building off the previous two - chest window for the vulnerability theme - dragon scale ''train'' like the first's #I think it's decent but it was honestly more for the dark striped leggings since the middle had them light like her Classic design #One of the other themes I was going for was ''coloured over/blotted out'' and having it be ''her'' design while literally coloured out #I think there's something to that :3c #Also *toots own horn* I did a fantastic job reconstructing her leg in that last one >:3c #I bet you'd never know the the entire bottom half of her left leg had to be digitally added after the fact! I even did that with my trackpad #Hehehe ♪♫ Quite pleased :3c

[aftgficrec]

I wanted to recommend this genius author: https://archiveofourown.org/users/alexis_needs_sleep/profile

They are relatively new to the fandom, but their stories are pure gold! I binged most of them in the last couple days

Thanks for reccing this author to us, @lyndiscealin.  As it turns out, we’ve rec’ed one of their fics in a previous ask (find ‘Fire and Ice’ here).  We’ve picked out another of their fics for this submission, the rest can be accessed via their ao3 profile alexis_needs_sleep. - S

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by alexis_needs_sleep [Not Rated, 8279 words complete, 2022]

Neil Josten has everything he could have ever wanted: a permanent name, a job, a cat, and a favorite treadmill at the local gym. His life is good now that he's safe, albeit a bit boring. When a competitive stranger keeps challenging Neil to race him at the gym, Neil thinks it will be good training experience and maybe the start of a friendship. What he doesn't expect to get from the experience is the attention of his competitor's friend, a sarcastic asshole with arms that could crush a watermelon like a grape. Neil doesn't know what to make of these guys, but he knows he looks forward to his gym days a little more than usual.

tw: implied/referenced abuse

#rec #reader submission #Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard #au: different first meeting #theme: fluff & humour #theme: strangers to lovers #theme: meet cute #theme: pining #theme: wagers & bets #theme: getting together #theme: first time #theme: handjobs #tw: implied/referenced abuse #lyndiscealin

[willowser]

katsuki 10000% cries when his baby is born omg he’d bite back a sob or two but he’d cry😭😭 also he’d have an ugly, wrinkly newborn just like he was but that’s okay because it’s HIS AND YOURSSS he was such an adorable BABY

aw aw 🥺 i imagine him holding his lil baby in his arms and like 🥺 gritting his teeth 🥺 trying not to cry 🥺 the nurse is in the room answering some question you have and he's glancing up at her and nodding, like he's listening, but his baby is all bleary eyed and has a big ol chupie 🥺 all wrapped up with a lil hat 🥺 HOW CUTEEEEE he's definitely tearing up 🥺

#how cute lol #and then when his dad meets the baby masuru bawls all over again LOL #just like he did with katsuki ajfhdjsj 🥺🥺🥺 #cw children #✿ ask willow #✿ theme: dad bakugou

[torgawl]

xiao and traveller enjoying lantern rite together is everything to me

#xiao choosing to release a xiao lantern with the traveller instead feels so special when this year's theme is the kite #xiao and traveller all by themselves in the place they always meet... it's just intimate and so so cute #it makes me happy that they always make some space to show how xiao has grown through the years even if this isn't part of the main quest #i wasn't able to screenshot that part but xiao actually gives a little smile when traveller compliments his lantern #i don't care if people see it as romantic or not but their relationship /is/ special and it means the world to me #xiao is such a comfort character to me <3

[waspgrave]

I’ve been in SUCH a state this last month and it’s been really bad, squad ❤️❤️ but thankfully animal crossing exists even if nintendo hates us and doesn’t want to update it anymore

#like guys it’s been so bad lol. anyways I’m going for a cute naturalcore meets farmcore theme #whatevercore that means #everyone get into acnh again #prawn posts

[aethersea]

you think I need other people to push me into this? ha! I can be annoying all on my own! I'll prompt my own damn self!

I rolled a die and got 4, so that's the bridgerton au again. time to chip away at that writer's block with a chisel!

wip wednesday game

“Indeed,” Robin said awkwardly. She bent to pick up her book, which had fallen to the floor somewhere in the middle of all this. Harrington bent to pick up the screen at the same time, and they almost bonked heads. Harrington stumbled back, still crouching, and nearly fell on his ass. Robin stumbled back and did fall on her ass, because the universe was deeply unjust.

#finx writes #hmm I think this au was the first one where I went 'what if we throw romance tropes at robin & steve' #all the aus I've come up since feature a different setting-appropriate romance trope #it's just fun! #toss a meet-cute at them and watch robin lob it right back at you at speed bc she's Too Gay For This Thank You #funny enough it's only afterward that I realized canon is literally already doing this #when I watched s3 the internet had already informed me that robin was a lesbian #so I didn't notice until my most recent rewatch with my sister #where I am carefully avoiding saying anything wrt robin & steve #that the theme of the season is romance drama™ #and robin & steve are absolutely in that theme! the plotline just veers sharply off into an unexpected direction #good for canon tbh that was a great choice

[wolfstarhaven]

🌸FLUFFY FRIDAY #42🌸

This is a warning: your tooth will rot (;

Fine Motor Skills, by @femme--de--lettres (6k)

Sirius Black's car needs work—again. Meanwhile, Remus Lupin is amused to see his favorite customer back at his mechanic's shop.

You know the trope, I know the trope—but what makes this even lovelier is that the roles are switched from what you would expect. In which Remus is the confident mechanic, and Sirius is the awkward one who owns a bookstore. It’s lovely!

Other's Woe, by LadyFaceElena [orphaned] (2k)

Forced to attend a group project meeting for a theology class, Remus thinks his day will be miserable until a gorgeous, grey-eyed stranger plants himself at their table and challenges the archaic thinking of the rest of the group. And in the end, it works out very well for Remus Lupin.

An adorable meet-cute fic, in which bigots are being completely burned. What more is there to ask for?

xx Elliot

#wolfstar #r/s #wolfstar fluff #wolfstar rec #r/s rec #fluffy friday #meet cute #muggle au #university au #themes of religion #mechanic!remus #bookstore owner!sirius