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books-in-a-storm · 19 days
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Jackson, my ex, red-faced, doubled over and clutching his berries, while lambasting me for " overreacting" while sprinkling in variations or "bitch" wasn't howl expected our three-year relationship to end.
Now we were the prisoners in the underworld.
-A Touch Of Brimstone, Mckenzie Hunter
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hedgehog-moss · 4 months
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I meant to go admire a frozen waterfall yesterday, but I'm scared of driving on slippery roads so I ended up abandoning my car and my dreams and just wandering about by foot, following random roads.
(These first two photos are a little bit blurry because I took them while walking, but it does give them a certain je ne sais quoi... They look like childhood memories)
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The soles of my boots had zero grip and were therefore great for sliding, so I ended up taking two sticks and using them like cross-country skiing poles to propel myself forward on the iciest portions of the road. It was fun! Pandolf thought I was insane. He was being extremely prudent on the icy patches, testing each step:
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At the beginning of our walk he was prancing as usual but then at one point his front paws slipped forward without warning, turning him into a very long slinky dog. It was pretty funny. I laughed. I admit. He wasn't hurt but definitely a bit vexed.
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We did leave the icy road on numerous occasions, to slip under fences and cross promising pastures (promising = lots of footprints; potential friends.) We met several creatures! Like this adorable shetland pony—I tried to take a photo from afar, with Pandolf nearby for scale, to show how scandalously tiny he was, but that turned out to be impossible because he was too friendly. Every time I took a step back he took two steps forward. Clearly he thought he was even better-looking from up close.
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We also ran into the darling goat I mentioned yesterday, and I was told by several people on here that she looked more like a ewe.
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Sorry for the mistake! But also I tried to look further into this and became more and more confused, as every source that mentioned a foolproof way to tell goats from sheep was disproven by another source—I found one that said sheep had a split upper lip while goats didn't (and my mystery friend didn't), but then another website contradicted it. I ended up with 32 tabs open with photos of goats and sheep of all kinds, some of which looked downright bizarre (what's with the Jar Jar Binks ears), and I began losing my grasp on the concept of animal species altogether. I understood how Darwin must have felt when he tried to figure out the differences between species of barnacles and asked people to send him various specimens and ended up with giant teetering piles of wet smelly boxes full of barnacles in his study that threatened to collapse and bury him alive. Then I closed my 32 tabs.
Honestly ever since learning that some sheep have horns and some goats don't, I've been lost. Not to mention, our mystery girl had a sheep-like tail but a goat-like beard. Are there sheep out there with beards and if yes, how do we make sense of the world? We should be able to point at a mammal with a goatee and say "goat" without doubting ourselves. That's my manifesto.
Whatever she was, the goat-ewe was very sweet, and she baa-ed a lot—at first I thought she was making conversation and I politely baa-ed back, before realising she was calling her horse bodyguards, just in case. Two horses soon showed up from behind a tree, very "What seems to be the problem ma'am?"
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I offered nose scritches to the friendliest of the two and she went to report to the goat like "We've neutralised the threat."
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Let me insert another (blurry) photo of a travelling Pandolf to symbolise the passing of time before moving on to our last encounter:
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... I also had trouble taking photos of this one at first, because she kept coming closer to inspect my scarf—I thought she wanted to explore my pockets for potential treats like Pirlouit often does but no, she was very interested in the smell (texture?) of my scarf specifically.
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The sky had cleared as we went down from 1300 to 1100m, as if we'd slipped under the clouds, so I tried to take a photo of this nice late-afternoon sky, and the horse finally stopped focusing on my scarf and instead started insistently positioning herself between me and my beautiful landscape.
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Look at this lovely golden light in the snow over there which I was almost able to capture!
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Meanwhile her pasture mate was eating a whole broom plant, slowly and thoughtfully, which makes me jealous because my llamas are supposed to eat brooms and they mostly don't, they think they're too good for brooms. They eat the very young ones but not adult brooms, so I have to do the work of three llamas and cut them myself. I wish I could send the Pampses as interns in this pasture, to learn the art of brush-clearing from this wise old horse.
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I tried to take one last landscape photo and gave up when the aspiring model came to pose again.
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Where was Pandolf, you might ask? Pandolf doesn't trust horses, especially large farm horses, and was quietly and insistently trying to convince me to leave. When Model Horse tried to greet him (it looks like she's chasing him but no, she was just stretching her neck to sniff him) he beat a hasty retreat toward the icy road, his former enemy. Some guard dog.
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It may sound like Pandolf didn't have a very fun time on this walk, slipping on ice and running from horses, but don't worry, he found plenty of suitable empty pastures to practise his favourite hobby! Though I think at this point he has moved beyond a hobbyist and is ready to play in professional leagues. He does this thing now where he jumps up a bit to gain momentum; I don't remember him doing this last winter. He's an entirely self-taught dog (in the art of snow diving) and I'm proud of him.
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extraliga-related · 6 months
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With everything that's been going on lately, here's a short non-comprehensive accumulation of things that could be called progress regarding relations between men's hockey and being queer:
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The 🇦🇺 AIHL's Melbourne Mustangs, advocating for trans rights in sports since 2017, and the same team in 2023, donning pride jerseys designed by former goalie (and twin sister of Ty) Tia Wishart who is part of the LGBTQ community.
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Jase Polglase of the AIHL's Central Coast Rhinos who puts pride tape on his stick every single game.
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Robert Dowd and Marc-Olivier Vallerand having a dance after a win with the Sheffield Steelers.
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Starting off with individual efforts, the 🇬🇧 EIHL has since extended their pride event to the duration of a full weekend following a conjoint initiative by the teams' fanbases in 2019.
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Zach Sullivan, one of the few out queer athletes in the sport, felt supported enough by his team to come out as bisexual ahead of the Manchester Storm's pride game in 2020.
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Danish goalie Jon Lee-Olsen came out as gay a year prior and was reportedly supported by his teammates.
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The 🇸🇪 SHL lead the way, awarding the cause a full week since 2019 with elaborate campaigns and getting refs as well as coaches involved. It's a colorful sight.
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While Pride Games are at present not an official part of the schedule, several 🇩🇪 DEL teams are joining in. Augsburg and Köln do their part, Berlin has one of the dedicated queer fanclubs and visibly stands against homophobia since at least 2016.
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As of 2022 the entire league, as well as a growing number of clubs in the tiers below, cooperate with Hockey is Diversity e.V.. So does the Para Ice Hockey National Team, including Jörg Wedde, who also keeps pride tape on his equipment.
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🇫🇮 Liiga's TPS added these stunning jerseys to the mix.
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While all the aforementioned teams already wear the jerseys for at least one full game, IF Kiruna of the Swedish 3rd league stepped it up several notches. In 2014 they've decided to wear rainbow jerseys for a full season in support of the LGBTQ community. Since then they've made the rainbow a permanent fixture in their logo and club identity.
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Plenty of clubs out there hosting events where queer people are given a platform and shown support in a multitude of ways that aren't merely empty words.
And even if it's not part of general discussions within a league, you've got voices who are willing to speak up.
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mizgnomer · 7 months
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We can see the a few goats/crows flying away after Crawly's firebombs supposedly "destroy" them
Good Omens Season 2 - A Companion to Owls
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flimsyzee · 5 months
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At the current moment (Nov 24) On the first and last days Phil and Missa have spoken to each other, the last thing they've said to each other was and currently is
Missa: "Love you"
Phil: "Love you too"
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And that's why she's a Queen
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lunar-years · 3 months
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For the first sentence of a fic thing:
The first time Roy thinks nothing of it; the second he thinks it a coincidence – but the third time, and catching the studied nonchalance on Jamie and Keeley’s faces, he begins to grow suspicious.
The first time Roy thinks nothing of it; the second he thinks it a coincidence – but the third time, and catching the studied nonchalance on Jamie and Keeley’s faces, he begins to grow suspicious. "And neither of you have seen it?" he repeats slowly, staring at each of them in turn with his most intense, patented glare, waiting for one of them to break.
Jamie's face remains completely stoic--impressive, actually. Usually he's first to crack. Keeley shrugs innocently and murmurs, "Guess you must've misplaced it again, babe...."
Roy snorts. Yeah. He'd believed that the first time, when he'd found it buried on Jamie's shelf buried amongst his many, many hair products. Roy must've confused the shelves one night. His eyesight is shit in the dark, after all. Then when he next went to use it, the thing was fucking broken, so okay. Shit happened. Order another, no big deal.
This time, though, the trimmer was brand-fucking-new. And he knows exactly where he placed it once he'd removed it from the packaging. "You know that this is important, right?" he growls. "I've got be at the club in like two hours. Looking professional."
He glances past their heads to catch a sight of himself in the mirror. He meant to get a real haircut, but after a few rounds of putting it off, it's gotten long enough now for the curls to really be coming back, in desperate need of a trim, and his beard looks utterly unruly to match. Altogether, he looks like he's an aspiring caveman instead of the fresh new manager of a Premier League team.
"Your beautiful curls aren't unprofessional," Keeley says crisply, arms crossed and looking all put out like he's offended her talking about his own damn hair. Jesus Christ. "Actually, Jamie found--"
Jamie is instantly at his side, holding out a bottle of curl shampoo. "Bit of this to reduce the frizz, lad, and some beard oil to tame you up a bit in the front...very professional, that. And if it happens to make you look dead sexy, too, well--" He shrugs and exchanges a look with Keeley, who nods encouragingly like he's really selling it. They're both ridiculous.
Roy rolls his eyes. "So you mean to tell me I haven't been able to shave in days because my trimmer keeps disappearing mysteriously, and Jamie just so happened to go shopping for fucking..." he takes the bottle Jamie's holding, "curl-defining shampoo in that same timeframe? By total coincidence?"
"Exactly!" Keeley says cheerfully.
"You know, two hours gives us plenty of time to try it out," Jamie adds nonchalantly, waving the shampoo. His eyes are fucking sparkling. He's gorgeous. He's always so fucking gorgeous. "Probably best if Keeley and I help you out. Gotta really massage it in to get the full effect. It will take all three of us. We should shower together!"
Keeley's heads bobs up and down enthusiastically.
"And my trimmer is--?"
"Oh hush," Keeley says, edging closer, "You can search for that later."
"...or not!" Jamie adds.
Yeah, he thinks, letting Keeley's deft hands work at tugging his shirt over his head. Or fucking not.
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lulu2992 · 9 months
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All my life I've dealt with people like you. People who underestimate sweet, innocent Faith. You see what you want to see: A playful butterfly... A delicate flower... A child with childish thoughts... It's easy to disregard a child. Tracey made the same mistake as you. And while you all ignored me, I walked right through every one of you.
A representation of Faith’s multifacetedness, a quality that, as she explains it herself, can be a powerful weapon if you know how to wield it.
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pineappical · 8 months
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actually yknow what heres what ive been working on in roblox for the past 2 days
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books-in-a-storm · 20 days
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My phone buzzed beside me on my end table.
I love you.
-Dragon Mate, Jen L. Grey
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mxtxfanatic · 22 days
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I don't want to put this in the tags, since people are just having fun, but I figure you probably won't mind hearing my anon-complaints. I'm getting super annoyed by the recent influx of Jiang Chang related SVSSS crossover posts (and fics to a lesser extent).
Seeing JC interact with the PIDW world could be incredibly interesting, but the posts I keep spotting are all about the woobiefied fanon version of JC. JC and YQY are not all that much alike (JC isn't remotely loyal to WWX), and I don't think he'd get along well with LQG. The JC and SJ dynamic actually does seem like it would be fun to read, but with how toxic they both are it would be 'fun' more in the 'watching a car crash in slow motion' sort of way, rather then anything wholesome.
Anyway, mini-rant over!
Fanon: Everyone in svsss would just love Jiang Cheng!
Canon: Shen Qingqiu would take one look at Jiang Cheng and just assume that the natural state of PIDW requires a canon fodder villain to be killed. Assuming he was some previously no-named lackey, after the second time Jiang Cheng attacks Luo Binghe, Shen Qingqiu wouldn’t try to save him, anymore. Nobody else would have even cared to try.
Anyways, I know exactly what posts you’re talking about and exactly which blog keeps making them. Unfortunately for me, tumblr is trying this new thing out called “if the blog you blocked is a jc stan, the block doesn’t count,” so fuck people “having fun” in the tags. If I can’t have fun with canon on my own dash, no one is allowed to have fun with fanon on it, either 😤
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jennicatzies · 2 months
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Can you draw father Garcia and father Allred on a date
ANON IM SO SORRY FOR GETTING TO THIS LATE
ANYWAYS I couldn't. Cook up anything thats like. Them on a date exactly but the implications are there i think
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velaraffricate · 9 months
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so I've been working on my latest conlang, irkan osla (or just osla for short), for a bit now and would like to showcase its writing system in this post! osla has a syllabic alphabet, not too dissimilar to korean hangul, where letters are stacked according to certain rules to make syllable blocks.
osla's syllable structure is (C)(C)V(V)(C), here's how the stacks work for each type of syllable:
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all letters have small, wide, and tall forms depending on their position in the syllable. here are all the letters with their IPA value and romanization:
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and here's an example text! i translated parts of the minecraft end poem into osla. maybe i'll make another post just focusing on the grammar when it's more developed. the poem says in english:
What did this player dream? This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter.
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Does it know that we love it? That the universe is kind? Sometimes, through the noise of its thoughts, it hears the universe, yes.
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this post is getting long, so under the cut you'll find a "sans-serif" version as well as the poem in osla and its gloss if you're also a linguistics nerd and wanna know what's going on under the hood (the roman numerals stand for the 3 noun classes)! thanks for reading!
The way regular people would write something quickly on a piece of paper with a regular pen is an aspect of creating neographies that I feel is often overlooked, so I developed this sans-serif version that people would probably be more likely to use when writing their shopping lists or diary entries:
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And, finally, here's the poem translation:
pak oṇḍul phan wimbakis?
DET.I.SG.PROX play-AGN what dream-PST.3SG.I?
pak oṇḍul lümaṇiuṣerothi han buloni an wimbakis. kaṣkhaothi han nilothi an. wimbakis, run sëmamkis. wimbakis, run xokthakis, han bumxokthakis. zöga an wimbakis.
DET.I.SG.PROX play-AGN sunlight-II.SG.DAT and tree-II.PL.DAT of dream-PST.3SG.I. Fire-II.SG.DAT and water-II.SG.DAT of. dream-PST.3SG.I, that create-PST.3SG.I. dream-PST.3SG.I, that hunt-PST.3SG.I, and PASS-hunt-PST.3SG.I. shelter of dream-PST.3SG.I.
ṭauraka, run kaak samare? run glutsüna flia?
know-NP.3SG.I, that 3SG.I.ABS love-NP.1PL? that universe kind?
imba ethamo, khaṣiŋli an ka’am hu’aŋni pitë, glutsüna ṣaraka, ti.
some time-NOM.III.PL, noise-ACC.II.SG of 3SG.I.GEN thought-NOM.III.PL through, universe hear-NP.3SG.I, yes.
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kingofthering · 3 months
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endless list of random motogp things - dani pedrosa + checking on jorge lorenzo after his crashes
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Several Sentences Sunday
Fanonwriter2023 on AO3
Where CANON and FANON collide!
"Their Firsts, At Last" - A Buddie Future Fanfic Series
Parts 1-11 are available on AO3 and Part 12 will be posted soon.
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Their Firsts, At Last - 163.1K Words; Currently 11 completed works: A multi-part fanfic series about the romantic “firsts” Buck and Eddie share as they journey through life in an established relationship and their lives as a couple will include some of Buck’s individual “firsts” too. It’s filled with the FANON love, romance, fluff and domesticity their relationship should have been allowed to experience in CANON.  The second part of the series title was adapted from the song “At Last” by Etta James.
This series of FANON future speculation fanfics is being written on a continuous timeline that begins with the start of season 7 (if it were to start in September 2023). Each part ends at a specific point in Buck and Eddie’s relationship so the next part can begin with the ending of the previous part. Therefore, parts 1-10 should be read prior to reading part 11 and the series will continue in that manner until it’s complete.
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It's been a few months since I finished Part 11 in this series but I'm working on it again because I want to finish it. My plan is to have it done soon and once the last fic is done, the series will be complete.
In Part 11, Buck and Eddie had just learned Eddie won an all-expenses paid trip to Italy and since they were trying to decide what they were going to do for their honeymoon, this trip came just in time. They'll spend 8 days and 7 nights in Roma, Italia and they're leaving the day after their wedding. Also, Buck's godparents offered to let them use their beach house on Will Rogers state beach for their ceremony and they only have 5 days to get Buck moved out of the loft, buy their suits and invite everyone to the ceremony. Time is of the essence and they're working towards getting everything done before Friday so they can get married.
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Here's a snippet from Part 12 and it's from one of Buck and Eddie's romantically fluffy conversations while they're lying in bed.
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After they climax together, it takes a few moments for their vision to return and for them to come down off their euphoric highs but once they do, Buck collapses on top of Eddie and his head falls onto the pillow right beside his.  A couple of seconds pass then he slowly pulls out but he stays on top of him with both of his legs in between his.
They’re both sweaty and sticky but instead of getting up to take a shower, they continue quietly gazing at each other with their faces mere millimeters apart until Buck leans down, closes the space between them and places a soft kiss onto his fiancé’s lips.  When he pulls back, he takes a moment to look at him like he always does because Eddie’s the most beautiful man he’s ever seen in his life.
He’s absolutely mesmerized by him and even while Eddie’s forehead has beads of sweat on it and his cheeks are flushed and rosy, he’s still gorgeous.  His honey brown eyes have golden flakes in them that sparkle and with his head lying on the pillow that’s covered in a white pillowcase, to him, he looks almost ethereal.
Ever since they met, he’s marveled at his beauty and not long after they agreed to have each other’s backs, he wondered if he would be fortunate enough to call Eddie all his.  To this day being with him still takes his breath way because he never thought he’d be here since his feelings of being abandoned have always been an issue for him.  Every person he thought loved him never did and all they wanted was a good time but deep down in his heart, he knows Eddie will never leave and being with him is everything he’s dreamed of.
Every time he looks at him, it still boggles his mind a little bit because at one point, he was preparing to live a life alone like Red did but that’s not his fate. 
They’re engaged and they’re getting married in five days at a house located on Will Rogers State Beach and the next day they’ll be leaving L.A. traveling to Rome, Italy and he can’t wait to spend all 8 days and 7 nights with his husband and their son.
While looking into those ocean blue eyes he loves so much Eddie’s smiling and enjoying just being this close to him but when he notices Buck has a faraway look in his eyes, he gets concerned.  He lightly traces his fingertips from Buck’s forearms to his shoulders and whispers, “What’s wrong?”
He shakes his head, smiles then he leans down and kisses him once more but this time it’s even softer.  After he breaks it, he talks against them and says, “You’re so beautiful.”
Eddie playfully rolls his eyes and to Buck it’s one of the most adorable things he’s ever seen.
He kisses him again.  “I mean it, Eddie… you’re gorgeous and I love you more than anything”.
Eddie bashfully smiles, lifts his head and kisses his cheek and once his head is resting on the pillow again, he replies, “You’re gorgeous and I love you with every part of me.  You’re my angel Buck”.
He blushes in response then his million-dollar Eddie smile graces his lips. 
“You are and I’ve never seen anyone more beautiful than you.”
They fall silent as the magnitude of their admissions fill the room and while they dreamily look at each other, Buck takes a few seconds to contemplate something he’s been wanting to ask for a month but he’s not sure how to approach it.
Eddie notices and says, “Tell me what’s on your mind my love”.
“I love you and I love everything we do when we make love but…”  He trails off when he sees Eddie’s eyes widen and his eyebrows go up and immediately, he knows he needs to explain so there aren’t any misunderstandings.  He kisses his lips again then continues.  “It’s nothing bad I just… I want to know would you ever, uh… I mean I know we talked about this back in October but do you want to… make love to me sometimes?”
How will Eddie respond to Buck’s question? 👀
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First Love Confession -Buck and Eddie share their first real and meaningful love confession.
First Date - Buck and Eddie go on their first date.
First Kiss - Buck and Eddie share their first kiss.
First Argument - Buck and Eddie have their first argument.
First Couples Therapy Session- Buck and Eddie go to their first couples therapy sessions.
First Time - Eddie and Buck make love for the first-time.
First Morning After - The night after Buck and Eddie make love for the first-time, they spend their first morning after together.
First Relationship Reveal - Buck and Eddie’s first relationship reveal.
First Mourning - Buck and Eddie experience their first mourning after a loss together.
First Marriage Proposal - Eddie and Buck’s first marriage proposal.
First Fiancé Introductions - Buck and Eddie’s first introductions as fiancés.
Part 12 - Will be posted soon.
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Parts 1 - 11 are available on AO3
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sinnerghvst · 2 months
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time to rest for a bit for ghost, no missions for a while.
through the years simon bought a little house in between england and scotland together with johnny, it's their home. there he goes to stay and rest his body - not his mind, though.
every single time he eats something and has to wash the dishes, he washes and dries johnny's plate too. he doesn't care it's clean already, 'cause doing so gives him the illusion his sergeant is still with him. alive.
it's a little while after dinner time that si stands up from the sofa and drags himself to the kitchen to do it once again, and while he's doing it he's thinking about johnny way too hard: how he used to fake help him with the dishes 'cause he hated the sensation of wet crumbs of food touching his hands and he hated wearing disposable gloves too, but he wanted to help si. si, who's been drying johnny's plate for two minutes now and that loses the grip on it letting it fall on the floor without meaning to. and it breaks, and simon's heart breaks with the so beloved, yet so damned plate. all over again.
he wants to throw on the floor the whole china, but he doesn't.
it's just one more reminder johnny's gone, anyway
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