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breeeliss · 5 years

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*bursts into your inbox* WEDDING!!! We could all use a nice allurance wedding snippet 💖💙

//allurance

“lance what are human weddings like?”

he was just on the edge of sleep when allura asked, the hand stroking his hair having stopped a while ago when his breathing deepened. but her whispered question pulled him awake as he tightened the arm around her waist. “mmwha was tha’?”

“weddings,” allura giggled. “tell me about weddings.”

lance craned his neck to stare at the clock on his bedside table. “now? naked in bed at two in the morning?”

allura walked her fingers across his pectorals. “i can’t sleep. i’m still trembling from earlier.”

“really? that good, huh?”

she gently smacked his shoulder as his whole body shook with laughter. “oh shut up. i’m not the one who fell asleep right afterwards. tired you out, did i?”

“never. i’ll always have enough energy for you. and i did not fall asleep, i was just catching my breath. i’m a healthy virile young man, thank you very much.”

allura snorted. “you’re a pussycat, lance. scratch behind your ears just the right way and you’ll melt. you’re very easy to please.”

“how dare. so rude.”

she kissed him on the tip of his nose before settling in between his legs and resting her chin on his chest. “you’re avoiding my question.”

“i mean there are a lot of different types of human weddings. culturally different, you know? you have to be more specific.”

“alright, cuban weddings then.”

“are you doing research for anything i should know about?”

allura nibbled on her lip. “nothing specific, i just…well i don’t know. i just got to thinking that when we got married – ”

“when?” lance grinned. “not ‘if’?”

she averted her gaze, but not before he pressed two quick kisses to her embarrassed smile. “you know what i mean! stop teasing.”

“i’m not teasing. it just makes me happy hearing you talk about our wedding as a thing that’ll definitely happen as opposed to something that might happen.”

“well of course. obviously not now, but i like the thought of us eventually doing it. it feels like such a natural next breath for the two of us. but we’re talking a multispecies wedding, so some thought should be put into it. it’s never too early for that.”

lance smiled. “well i’ve been thinking about our wedding since the day you agreed to go out with me.”

allura winked. “of course you have. now come on! weddings!”

“be more specific! what do you want to know?”

“how do engagements work? do you exchange tokens?”

lance nodded and ran finger down her left ring finger. “we do rings. so during a proposal you would kneel in front of the person you’re proposing to, present them the ring, and hope they say yes. it’s supposed to be a really spontaneous thing. the point is to surprise the person you’re proposing to. but that’s just the engagement ring. during a wedding ceremony, you both exchange weddings bands on top of that.”

allura held her left hand out in front of her. “we don’t exchange anything physical. we do tattoos.”

“like permanent ones?”

“yes. so you have to actually plan a proposal and tell the person in advance. it definitely isn’t spontaneous. you have to agree on a mark that you feel represents your relationship. some people choose old altean symbols, some people do pictures, some do sayings or words, it all depends. each of you tattoo half that mark in the inside of your right wrists to complete the engagement ceremony. then during the wedding ceremony, you complete each other’s marks in front of witnesses.”

lance’s brows went up. “that’s intense. what happens if you separate?”

“we’re encouraged to marry for life, but if a separation happens you just get the marks removed. it’s a bit of a laborious process though.”

lance curled a piece of allura’s hair around his finger. “i actually like that more than the ring. it’s more personal and doesn’t involve shelling out a ridiculous amount of money. you ever put any thought into what you’d want your mark to be?”

“not really. marriage was never on my mind until now. i’ve always thought having a picture as an engagement mark and having a quote being the finishing touch during a wedding ceremony would be nice. it’d sort of leave some anticipation leading up to the actual marriage. but who knows?”

“what are altean wedding ceremonies like?” lance asked.

“well, both the bride and the groom wear blue to symbolize their unending loyalty to each other. they stand before a room of witnesses and a wedding officiant and recite their vows to one another. then the tattooing ceremony. after that it’s different depending on what part of altea you’re from. i’m from the south of the main continent so there we do the hourglass ceremony.”

“and what’s that?”

allura took lance’s hand and gently laid hers on top of his. “so we both pour different colored vials of sand into an empty hourglass and let it run all the way to the bottom. the point is that no matter how many times the sand runs out, the grains will never be separated. it’s meant to show how your love isn’t contained within the bounds of time. it’s limitless. as all love should be.”

lance closed his fingers around her hand and pressed kisses to the knuckles. “that’s gorgeous. i don’t think we do anything nearly that intimate.”

“are human ceremonies different?”

lance squinted at the ceiling and started tracing shapes on her bare back. “well, brides wear white dresses and the grooms wear black tuxes. ah, that’s formal wear for men,” he explained when allura tilted her head. “you typically have a wedding party filled with friends and family that are there for you during the ceremony. the groom stands at the front with the wedding officiant and waits for the bride to enter, usually with her father, brother, or some other important male figure. then when the ceremony starts, the bride and groom recite their vows, exchange weddings rings, kiss, and then that’s it.”

“why white and black for the bride and groom?”

“brides used to wear white to symbolize their virginity, but i think it’s just done for tradition nowadays. definitely not a requirement.”

allura wrinkled her nose. “that’s so distasteful!”

“i mean the reason fathers typically walk their brides down the aisle is because it’s meant to symbolize giving their daughters away. because daughters used to be the property of their fathers up until they got married and became the property of their husbands.”

“lance that’s positively primitive and completely sexist. you do that for tradition’s sake?”

“i mean not everyone does. my family tends to be pretty traditional about that sort of thing. but i also had a cousin who walked herself down the aisle and wore a champagne dress. you can pretty much do whatever you want for your wedding. what matters is the ceremony part. you know, the vows and stuff. your promises to each other in life and in death. everything else is just fluff.”

“i do like that we have that in common,” she conceded. “preparing your own vows of commitment to each other.”

“look at that, we decided on one thing,” lance laughed. “i like the idea of the tattoos and the hourglass ceremony. we should do that. that’s part of your culture and i want to celebrate that with you. i’ll probably still get you a ring though. i’ve been dreaming of buying a girl her engagement ring since i was a kid.”

allura blushed. “i mean i wouldn’t complain about that. i also don’t mind you wearing human formal wear. but i’d love to at least wear a blue dress.”

“of course! you in a blue wedding dress would be damn stunning.”

allura perked up. “ooh! do you celebrate afterwards? what does that look like?”

lance cackled. “oh god, it’s like one huge party. we’re cuban so we invite as many people as physically possible. there’s always a crap ton of cuban food and a huge wedding cake. lots of music and drinking and dancing. you always have one aunt from somewhere that starts the rueda at weddings. we also do this really fun thing where any man who gets to dance with the bride has to pin money to her dress to help with wedding expenses. oh, and they go until super late too and everyone always goes home drunk.”

“is a rueda a kind of dance?”

“yeah, it’s basically a form of salsa. sorry, if you’re gonna marry me, you need to learn salsa. that’s a requirement.”

“alright, fair enough,” allura said. “but then you have to learn altean ballroom dancing.”

“only if you teach me.”

“oh no, i don’t know how the male parts of the dance work. you should get coran to teach you.”

lance frowned. “what? why? if i’m teaching you salsa why does coran have to each me altean ballroom?”

“because i don’t know how to lead and you’d have to be taught how to lead. i only know how to dance the girl parts.”

“aw, allura! that totally sucks! you have to teach me otherwise it won’t be any fun. coran is probably gonna be so extra about it.”

“i mean true but at least you’ll be in good hands. and i’ll be on the sidelines cheering you on and staying very far away from you both!”

lance dig his fingers into allura’s sides and tickled her until she started laughing into the crook of his neck. “you’re the worst.”

she kissed his neck and whispered against the shell of his ear. “you love me.”

“so much it hurts,” he agreed.

allura relaxed against him, staring out at the windows that they’d left open to let in the evening summer breeze. “we’re disgustingly compatible, that was far too easy. we have to argue about something. what cake flavors do you want?”

“it’d have to be earth flavors, so whichever one you wanted.”

“color scheme?”

“up to you.”

“party favors for guests?”

“you can pick.”

allura flicked him on the nose and smiled through her complaint. “lance stop deferring to me!”

“what?” he chuckled. “i don’t care what our wedding looks like so long as you’re the one i’m marrying. you know that.”

allura hid behind her hair. “stop being adorable, i’m trying to plan a wedding.”

“i’m not impeding you from doing that! i’m serious, have full reign. i’ll taste and look at every suggestion you come up with, but we can do whatever you want. start writing things down so we don’t forget and we’ll take it a step at a time.”

“so….we’re really planning this?”

lance shrugged with a dopey smile on his face. “i mean doesn’t hurt to be prepared, right?”

allura matched the smile and learned in for another kiss, this one lingering and lasting long enough to warm her body all the way down to her toes. “right you are.”

lance sighed against her lips. “i feel like i’m dreaming.”

“hold onto that feeling while you still can. wedding planning will quickly turn into a nightmare.”

“no, learning ballroom dancing from coran will be a nightmare.”

“you’re doing it lance.”

“i really think you could teach me if you just tried – ”

“lance i’m not doing it!”

“please?”

“i’m telling coran you have no faith in him.”

“feel free, i stand by my choice, i want you teaching me!”

“i don’t know how, i’m sorry!”

“allura, come on!”

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sp4c3-0ddity · 6 years

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tagged by @hailkuvira and @amillionsmiles. thanks!! <3

tagging uhhhh who have i somewhat interacted with that writes and hasn’t been tagged already uh @magical-merlance, @cosmicdusttrails, @tiredgaykeith, @rueitae, @elby9001, @ anyone else that wrote fic this year and wants to take a stab at it??

STATS:

Fics posted: they’re all...VLD

Tumblr exclusives: my fic tag for your viewing pleasure. but here’s a list of everything (i think) that i didn’t also post on ao3 (with the exception of a few that will be posted probably within the next week):

Misnomer, a crack fic

a euphoric plance kiss that i just wrote on a text post i reblogged

a Cupid AU plance ficlet i also wrote based on a text post

ficlet about Acxa, Ezor, and Zethrid after Lotor escapes them

Pidge getting Love Advice from Lance, also an addition to someone else’s text post

How I think Hunk learned Pidge is a girl, with a teeny tiny bit of plance because it’s a section of a plance fic i meant to finish that i’ve since lost this is why you save/back up your work often

Outtakes from ‘Howl at the Moon’

A The Wizard of Oz AU (honestly bless the anon that prompted this)

A shallura hurt/comfort prompt fill

Whatever the hell this is, all i know is that it’s gen but still involves kissing and is kinda a crack fic

FF.Net: N/A

Archive of Our Own: i’ll just go with oldest first like i did in the last section

Give a Little (5859 words), fake dating, my first posted plance fic

Ship to Wreck (3544 words), gen (despite the title hehe), sailor/age of (western) exploration-type Pidge-centric AU

Spectrum (9562 words), gen, a Wheel of Time/fantasy AU

Winging It (2187 words), gen, fun canon-verse fic where they race paper airplanes

A Slip of the Thumb (18697 words), plance, wrong number/text modern AU

Break a Leg and Other Cliches (29293 words), plance, modern ballroom dance competition AU

Incompatible Schedules (1025 words), plance, canon-verse fluff

All’s Fair in Love and Gaming (653 words), plance, canon-verse fluff

Be Gentle (4881 words), plance, canon-verse body swap AU

If Wishes Were Fishes (1167 words), plance, canon-verse vaguely bittersweet beach fic

Lightning Round (3003 words), plance, canon-verse battle couple in training fic

Build on Shaky Ground (3337 words), gen/plance (platonic), kinda angsty Garrison era

Unknowable (562 words), plance, canon-verse philosophical fluff

Wisdom of Hindsight (1344 words), plance, canon-verse angst

Caught (2727 words), plance, canon-verse lovebug AU

In Time (724 words), pallura, canon-verse hurt/comfort

The Art of Seduction (2075 words), plance, canon-verse fluff

Falling’s Not the Problem (26179 words), plance, future canon angst with a happy ending sorta thing

Smuggle Your Heart (21931 words), plance, Star Wars-ish AU

Pocket of Space (6203 words), kallura, a Vorkosigan Saga-ish AU that’s kinda...languishing at the moment

Howl at the Moon (10271 words), plance, future canon undercover fake marriage thing

Failure to Launch (1740 words), gen, Sam & Coran hurt/comfort and feels in general

Specter (18325 words), plance, future canon AU, and, um, major character death fic

What Not to Do in Chemistry Lab (2458 words), gen, modern/college AU with my chemist Hunk headcanons

Search and Rescue (1684 words), gen, pre-canon baby Holts fluff

Shopping for Disaster (6108 words), gen, canon-verse Allura & Pidge bonding-gone-wrong fic

Ink on a Page (8807 words*), gen, Pidge-centric Inkheart AU

In the Making (8184 words), plance, canon-verse/future canon ~over the years~ kinda thing

Strangeness and Charm (73407 words*), plance, a collection of prompts cross-posted from tumblr so they’re really a bunch of individual fics but i’ll count them as one for now

*word count not entirely accurate because subsequent chapters are complete but not posted

Total number: 39 (counting S&C as one fic) Total word count: 288,132 part of me wishes i was making this up

Ship/Character breakdown: Ship breakdown: plance, undoubtedly, wins; gen stuff takes second place. then there’s the odd shallura/kallura/pallura stuff (i like all Allura ships so) Character breakdown: hmm. Pidge and Lance dominate, obviously. Pidge also tends to dominate by gen stuff, with Allura possibly coming in second. Poor Shiro and Keith (though i still love them) kinda......lose

Characters that had the main focus: Pidge in much of my plance and gen stuff, Lance in much of my plance stuff, Allura in a decent amount of my gen stuff as well as in that languishing kallura fic

Specifics:

Best/worst title? Best title: None really jump out at me, but I think‘Build on Shaky Ground’. Also before i suffer some serious post-posting (hehe) embarrassment, I’ve titled this brand-spanking new fic ‘The Start of Something New?’ (the question mark is compulsory) and i’m way too proud of myself for that reference to HSM at the moment. Honorable mention to ‘Search and Rescue’ for sounding more serious than the fic’s plot actually is

Worst title: I’m actually displeased with most, but only ‘Smuggle Your Heart’ makes me cringe every time I see it

Best/worst first line? Best: not sure but as i look now the first line from this fic gave me a good laugh:

Lance thought that after two years in space fighting furry purple aliens while flying a sentient robot lion that merged with four other sentient robot lions to form one large robot man nothing could possible surprise him.

Worst: if i actually took the time to look through all my fics, i’d probably find so many awful first lines, but i’m too lazy so this one is a weak first line from my one and only shallura fic:

Shiro had never seen Matt and Pidge happier.

Best/worst last line? Best: uh to be honest i think they’re all kinda bad but here are a couple funny ones (from this and this) that don’t require much work on my part sorry i’m lazy:

Lance watched him go for a tic, shrugged, and went off in search of someone else to bother, preferably someone he would not mind kissing.

“It was strange enough that I actually don’t want to forget, so listen closely, because I won’t tell it twice.”

Worst: point at any one of my fics. i’m never happy with the Last Line. but here from Shopping for Disaster (it makes sense in context):

He still wrote the ticket.

General questions:

Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?

I wrote...way more

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?

definitely VLD in general, because i was still...hesitant to get into it?? i didn’t watch it till spring of this year 2017 a few months after season 2 came out, i think What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.

There’s this one (named ‘Siren Song’) that has yet to be posted into my collection on ao3 and it’s a concept i very much want to expand into a fully fledged long fic. and, to be honest, i thought it would get more notes than it did

Okay, NOW your most popular story.

By tumblr notes, this one ('A Sticky Situation’ on ao3) takes the cake with 168 notes

By kudos/bookmarks/comments on ao3, that would be A Slip of the Thumb with 225 kudos and 31 bookmarks

Story most underappreciated by the universe?

Me, constantly: I write gen fic too guys (in all seriousness, my Inkheart AU is going to be great)

Story that could have been better?

Can i say all of them?? No?? Okay, taking recent fic into account (because i do think i’ve improved overall even in the last few months), i wish i’d spent more time and put more effort into ‘Shopping for Disaster’, especially with making the action scenes more plausible, making the Druid scarier (because i want to get better at writing horror, believe it or not), etc. Pro tip though: don’t write while you have a headache

And actually now that i think of it, I would scrap all of ‘Wisdom of Hindsight’ because it’s awful and uses a trope i really hate

Sexiest story?

sex?? in my fanfic??

but anyway!! hmm...’The Art of Seduction’ probably had the most graphic (except also not really) makeout scene. ‘Propriety’ (part of the collection) was almost definitely the most suggestive. ‘Howl at the Moon’ had the double whammy of a fakeout makeout and a fake marriage along with the kiss at the very end of the fic. so i dunno, i guess it’s in the eye of the beholder??

as far as vibe is concerned though, i actually think ‘Smuggle Your Heart’ is kinda...sexy?? *shrugs* Saddest story?

‘Specter’ without a doubt. *cue evil laughter* Most fun?

‘Smuggle Your Heart’ was actually wildly fun to write. i was really into action scenes at the time

Story with single sweetest moment?

not sure, but in my humble opinion it would the majority of ‘Burnout’ (also from the collection), particularly this sizeable bit:

Pidge would never admit it to anyone - except to Lance himself, maybe - but she liked it when he clung to her like this, or when she latched herself onto him. There was just something soothing about having another human body pressed against hers, a balm for the mind and a relaxant for the muscles.

Some of the tension trickled out of her as she leaned back into Lance, and his arms tightened around her, sensing her need.

“Guess what?” Lance said, voice soft and close to her ear.

“…did Coran get his hand stuck in something weird again?”

Lance rubbed his nose - scratching, probably - against the side of her head, then chuckled, the vibration reverberating from his chest into her back. “No,” he said. “Try again.”

“Hunk figured out a way to imitate peanut butter?”

“All right, you get one more guess before I tell you.”

Pidge rolled her eyes but said, “Did you finally find out how to swim in the upside down pool?”

“Oh, ha ha, very funny, Pidge,” Lance grumbled.

For some reason, that made her giggle, if only because the image of Lance’s last pitiful attempt to swim laps in the Castle’s pool cheered her.

“So…what?” Pidge said, turning her head slightly so that Lance could see her frown. Of course he would dangle a mystery in front of her without giving her a chance to solve it…

“I love you,” he said, pressing a doting kiss to her forehead.

Pidge’s face flushed, pleased and embarrassed all at the same time, her worries dissolving as easily as sugar in hot tea. “So?” she said, trying to show him how unaffected she was. “I love you too, so it’s not that special.”

“But you are, Pidge,” Lance said. He buried his face in her hair. “You’re special, and smart, and confident, and we wouldn’t be able to function without you. And anytime you’re faced with a challenge, it bows down to you, its queen - wait, no, it’s empress.”

Pidge laughed and rubbed her face. “Oh my God, Lance,” she said. “That’s the cheesiest thing you’ve ever said to me.”

“But it’s true,” Lance insisted. “And I know for a fact you love being praised.”

“Well…”

Lance let go of her and moved away, and Pidge missed him instantly…at least until he knelt on the floor next to her, putting him at below eye level in relation to her. He cupped her face, gently, and made sure she met his eyes. “You’re amazing, Pidge, and when you crack this code, we’ll all sing your praises.”

Pidge rested her forehead against his, reaching behind him to bury her hands in his hair. “But especially you, right?”

He smirked. “I’ll be the loudest one.”

Lance then kissed her, so softly it wasn’t much more than a warm brush of lips, and he pulled back before her eyes even closed. “Also,” he added, with a slow, sly smile, “it wouldn’t hurt to take a break, right?”

Hardest story to write?

This borderline crack fic that had a shippy premise but the prompter challenged me to write gen for it. i succeeded (i think), but was it worth it?? probably

Easiest/most fun story to write?

They’re all fun to a certain degree, but this The Wizard of Oz AU was great fun once I hit my stride. also honorable mention to ‘Smuggle Your Heart’, of which i wrote about 17k words in one day in a hyperfocusing haze (i didn’t sleep till 3 AM that day and i would’ve skipped dinner if my parents hadn’t reminded me).

(i haven’t had a day so productive yet inefficient since)

Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters?

I actually....disliked Lance until i started shipping plance, and then my love for him only grew the more i wrote him lol. even season 1 Lance can be fun to write now, if only because he’s so ridiculous

Most overdue story?

hmm, perhaps something like ‘Failure to Launch’ because there’s a lot to explore in the adultier adults important to Team Voltron, particularly what Sam - the dad - might feel about his pretty young children getting sucked into a fight like this. but *shrugs*

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?

not really?? i...kinda played it safe?? perhaps ‘Ink on a Page’ is my riskiest venture to date because it’s a long fic and i have a poor track record with long fic that i start posting before finishing. hopefully i’m learning discipline and like actually finishing things

also i think ‘Specter’ was pretty risky, as would be writing anything i really have very little experience in feeling, plus people tend to feel very strongly about major character deaths and i was unsure how people (particularly people i interact with) would receive it. and i guess i learned that it’s okay to take risks?? i was pleased with the way the fic turned out (even if it broke my heart to write it), and it was sorta begging me to be written (you know that itch you get when a story wants out??). and ultimately i’m writing for myself...but it’s still nice when other people like your writing too

What are your fic writing goals for next year?

Finish ‘Ink on a Page’

Finish and post my definitely unconventional The Holiday AU that’s currently languishing as a Word doc of about 20k words

Write something amazing for the plance zine

Expand/write my sailor AU (of which ‘Siren Song’ is the prelude)

Write a slow burn plance fic (to be fair, The Holiday AU and the sailor AU are looking to be slow burn, of sorts)

Maybe...not write so much by the seat of my pants, be less impulsive and more thoughtful, outline more but remain flexible, be more efficient so i don’t burnout, push myself to write even when i’m not feeling ‘inspired’

Not compare myself to other writers (sad but true)

write for a different fandom/pairing?? who even knows at this point

#this got really long whoops #qna #thank you for the tags though!!#this was so much fun #but God i'm still only just understanding how disorganized i am #and the fact that i forget so much of what i write is kinda sad #so answers may not be entirely accurate #reem writes fic #plance #because let's face it that's mostly what i write

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