#gay interlude

[red-flagging]

💛 seb/lewis :-)

(kiss fic prompts!)

a little epilogue to rabbits are chasing :)

Lewis's flight lands at 8:02PM, which means that by 7:31PM, Seb is parked outside the airport arrivals door, drumming his fingers against the steering wheel and scanning the sky for approaching planes.

It's quite silly, getting here so early, but it's not as if there's much left to do at home. There's roast vegetables waiting in the oven, the cauliflower steaks that he started marinating earlier this morning chilling in the fridge. Mina and Ellie are safely ensconced in their duck coop with the heater turned on for the night. The sheets on the guest bed are freshly washed.

The car parked behind him starts up. Its headlights illuminate Seb's cabin. For a moment, he catches a glimpse of himself, harried and too-bright, in the rearview mirror. He scrubs his hands down his face. Christ. Get it together, Sebastian. He is a full 39 years old. Far too old to be getting the same jitters that he did the first time he invited a girl over at age 17, agonizing about what album to have playing when they came back to his room. Lewis is far too old for Seb to be doing all this. Lewis might not even be gay.

His phone buzzes. Seb nearly jumps out of his seat.

Lewis

just landed

getting my luggage now

hows it so freaking cold here

The inside of the car is already fogging up. When he'd asked Lewis to send dates he could come visit and Lewis had said just so you know the next few months are kind of crazy for me, Seb had expected late fall, maybe the holidays. Not the middle of slush season, when all the roads up the mountain have a 50/50 chance of being so muddy that they're undriveable.

Sebastian

I'm outside, in the blue Infiniti :)

He glances back up at himself in the mirror. The scab from where a wood chip caught the corner of his eyebrow while he was sanding the new planter box is almost healed over. His hair looks as good as it's ever going to. If Lewis asks whether he's been using conditioner, he's fucked.

It shouldn't feel like this. Seb beat Lewis to Senna's record, and Lewis still laughed at all his jokes the next season. Lewis watched Seb DNF twice in five races and still said in the media pen that he was waiting for the day Seb would be back up on the podium with him. When they inevitably auction off Lewis's Le Mans racesuit, it'll have to be with Seb's snot all over the front of it, because Lewis let Seb sob all over him and then laughed as he wiped sweat off of Seb's cheek with the sleeve. After all that – the fact that he's about to be in Seb's house for the next week shouldn't make Seb feel like he's standing in front of Lewis naked, without even the promise of a fast car or a good competition to distract Lewis from looking right at him.

His phone buzzes again.

Lewis

outside i think

Seb peers through the windscreen. Lewis – or rather, the blurry figure lugging a giant suitcase behind him that he assumes is Lewis – waves at him from the sidewalk. Seb flashes his lights at him twice.

The back door opens and Lewis's head, along with a burst of cold night air, pops in. "Hey," he says, a little breathlessly. "I don't think this is going to fit in the back."

It does, eventually, but not without a fight that involves Seb having to climb into the trunk alongside Lewis's suitcase and physically wrestle it into place while Lewis shoves from behind. They're both out of breath by the time they finally climb back in the front and slam the doors shut.

"You know, there are beds at the farm," Seb points out. "You didn't have to pack your own."

Lewis shakes his head, tugging off his gloves. His coat collar is turned up around his neck. He's wearing an an ear warmer headband, held in place by two butterfly pins. Every other bit of uncovered skin is pink, even with the heat in the car up at full blast. Lewis shoves his fingers in front of the vents and sighs with relief, closing his eyes. "Ugh, thank God," he says. He sounds exhausted. "Listen, you're lucky I fit everything into one." It sounds far less like a joke than Seb would hope. The fact that the fondness in Seb's chest still manages to outweigh the exasperation is probably a sign that Seb's beyond salvation.

"Next time I'll bring a trailer so you can fit your bathtub and toilet, too," he says, reaching for the keys. The engine purrs to life as he flicks the lights back on, then leans forward to scrub the worst of the fog off the windscreen. The thermometer on the dash says it's still 3 degrees outside. They might still be able to make it back before the slush freezes over. "Okay," he says, sitting back down and twisting around to reach for his seatbelt. "Ready to go?"

Lewis doesn't say anything. When Seb looks over, he's staring out the front window, playing with one of his rings.

"Lewis?" Seb asks.

Lewis's head jerks around. "Hm?" he says. "Oh. Yeah." He doesn't move to put on his seatbelt.

Seb frowns. Kills the engine so he can properly turn in his seat. "Lewis," he says. "Is everything –"

Lewis leans across the console and kisses him.

It's barely half a second. Seb still hasn't moved by the time Lewis sits back down on his side of the car.

"Uh," Lewis says, after a second. He clears his throat. "Sorry. I just – Shit. Sorry. The whole way over, all I could think about was – I had to get it over with before I chickened out."

He's fiddling with his rings again, but his eyes stay fixed on Seb's. His jaw is set. He still looks half-ready to bolt through the door behind him, out into the night.

"Well, you don't have to make it sound like taking your medicine, Christ," Seb says hoarsely, and drags Lewis back across the console to kiss him properly.

Lewis's lips are still cold. When Seb opens his mouth, Lewis sighs, pressing in closer with a soft sound that makes Seb want to go twenty years back in time and kick himself for not figuring out how to make Lewis make that noise sooner. His hands settle on Seb's wrists, holding him in place. Seb slides his own hands up, cradling the back of Lewis's head, to return the favor.

When he finally pulls away just far enough to catch his breath, Lewis follows him, close enough that their noses bump. His eyes are wide. This close up, Seb can see the dark circles under them more clearly.

He closes his eyes. Lewis is still there when he opens them.

"How long have you been awake?" he asks.

Lewis blinks. "What," he says. "Are you talking about."

"Sleep deprivation," Seb says. His heart is pounding hard enough that he feels it in his throat. "People start to get delirious when they're tired enough –"

"I was awake for 24 hours and I didn't kiss you at the end," Lewis interrupts, his eyes sharp and bright. "I'm not making the same mistake twice."

Seb opens his mouth and nothing comes out. He tries again. Still nothing.

"Fuck," he says, closing his eyes. "Okay. Okay." He drags himself back upright and reaches for the keys. "We can – tomorrow. But we should – you need to shower. And sleep." Lewis's hand settles on his leg. Seb rests his own on top of it; after a second, he squeezes Lewis's fingers gently. Lewis flips his hand over and laces their fingers together.

"Yeah," Lewis says. His thumb traces over Seb's knuckles. "That – tomorrow sounds good."

The slush crackles under the tires when Seb starts to move. Ahead of them, the headlights carve a path through the darkness. Lewis's hand is a solid, steady weight against his leg. "Okay," Seb says, to himself, to both of them, to no one. Lewis hums softly from his side of the car. He squeezes Seb's knee gently.

Seb closes his eyes for a second. "Okay," he says quietly. "Yeah. Let's go home."

#my fic #collarboen #rpf #sorry to possibly?? retcon the fade to black kiss at the end of rabbits are chasing and be like PSYCH it took 9 months after that...but in #my heart this has always* been the truth #*i came up with it ten minutes into brainstorming this prompt but now i'm attached to it and have accepted it into my heart and home #the post-retirement post-gay awakening post-journey of self acceptance slow burn slash anxiety spiral #that happened over the 9 month interlude on lewis's end is left as a thought experiment for the reader :) #thank u for giving me an excuse to write this autumn :) #i am slowly making my way through the rest of these lol ty to everyone who has sent them in they've been so fun!! #you are welcome to send in more but just be warned that the next batch will probably take. much longer lol. but i will keep doing my best 🫡

[alicentsgf]

enid having such a similar energetic energy to uncle fester is so funny because fester is literally wednesdays favourite person in the world but she pretends to be adverse to enid's unapologetically enthusiastic and caring personality when its pretty clear from the way she consistently and very uncharacteristically considers enid's feelings that she finds it all kind of endearing. it probably reminds her of someone... like you cannot tell me enid would not have also picked the cute dalmatian themed motorbike.

#anyways. just a brief interlude i'll be back to talking about my toxic gay ships in a minute #wednesday netflix #wednesday addams #enid sinclair #wenclair #i like to pick the doomed ones dont i #uncle fester

[wimbledon2008]

having hate sex with your rival with benefits is all fun and games until you're asking him to stay the night and making him a tuna melt

#A TUNA MELT #that's such an unsexy food brother you are in L O V E #we're entering the husbands era and i fear i'm going to be unwell #he asked him if his ginger ale was cold enough 😩 #yes i'm reading thee gay hockey book from goodreads and unfortunately it does slap #heated rivalry #game changers #rachel reid #book rec #do NOT judge me if you go and look it up i do not control the book cover #eta: I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY'RE FUCKING AFTER EATING TUNA MELTS WITH NO TEETH BRUSHING INTERLUDE. FOUL.

[grailknightmonty]

sonja hadn’t expected anything when she made it her mission to bring capsize back from the dead- properly this time. nothing good comes out of trying to play god, martha had told her so many times, ianites already tried, she's gone for good. to be completely honest, there was a point sonja had started to wonder if she was right. if pouring over thaumian texts for countless restless nights, experimenting with necromancy in hiding, if none of it would be worth it in the end. however, she never could have expected that in the time of the two getting reacquainted with one another when she finally was successful, that she would find herself, washed in the pastel pinks, oranges and subtle blues of twilight with the pirate captain's sweet lips pressed against hers, the setting sun through the pillars of mianite's temple glowing softly on them. it was a feeling of home she couldn't quite describe, but it was one she knows she hadn't felt in a long time.

Happy Post-canon for @mcyt-yuri-week Day 2 :D Just a little snippet from my mianite post-canon Gays on a Boat, the interlude sequences from post-Isles and pre-Aitheaca that focuses on character healing, the meaning of love and themes of home within a plot centering about the multiverse <3

#mcytyuriweek2023 #foxxsize #drops this and runs #mianite #mianite fanart #sonja omgitsfirefoxx #captain capsize #gkm arts #digital art #illustration #mcyt fanart #lafakiwi draws #artists on tumblr #mianite: gays on a boat #i have no current plans to write out the entirety of this fic but i have it storyboarded in my head if anyone wants to know and give it a g #xD /nf #this interlude is based off the playlist i made titled 'fire and gold in our eyes' btw hheheehe #i'll link the playlist once ive done reordering the songs its nearly done #part of the reason this took my #i know its the 8th. erm #in all fairness. its cc Sonja’s fault she posted a new photo and my brain went WAOGH bc the palette eats so hard #so yeah. extra time so my ass could tender #tender?? render a background help

[nguyenfinity]

guess who racked up 11-12 hours on genshin today

#and 9 hours yesterday #i'm not new just. behind #like. i literally just did kazuha's second story quest yesterday #and caught up on scara's interlude quest and did the entire summer event story today #i really do like genshin as a game i just have a gripe here and there with some design and qol stuff #contrary to popular belief i actually am into stuff other than gay idols. #actually i miss talking about genshin. the story and small details are just so fascinating #before getting into en/stars i was the lore gremlin #my favorite npcs are indarias (fire yaksha) and chiyo (raiden's oni friend) #bonanus (hydro yaksha) is also cool i like her claws (yes i remember the yaksha names off the top of my head.) #favorite lore of the regions uhhhhhh hard toss up between the 5 yakshas and tsurumi island #after kaveh i kinda lost interest in the characters they were rolling out and i'm kinda on the fence about fontaine rn #but chlorinde and navia are interesting enough to me #i am not immune to strong pretty women #magic pretzel #comic #i should post comics more

[rox-reads]

oh my god alec this is so embarrassing. i'm gonna bet it's true but it's still so fucking embarrassing

#worm #parahumans #worm lb #worm31 #interlude 10 #i said before they gave me gay vibes i'm just assuming alec read them

[fitzrove]

Akflflg hot take. The most annoying kind of reaction to media is when people assume that depicting prejudice (lampshading it!) is the same thing as being prejudiced. No, D*nna T*rtt writing about elitism and racism doesn't mean she's advocating for it - in TSH she is picking apart a privileged academic culture for all to see and pointing out that people who contribute to that kinda suck actually. No, Em*rald F*nnell portraying rape culture and violence against women (and men [almost] going "unpunished") on screen doesn't mean she advocates for those things, it just means she's making a comment on the kind of society we live in. No, Michael Kunze portraying explicit antisemitism on stage doesn't mean he's an antisemite - if people looked at the framing of Hass for even one second they would Get The Point (= hey guys did you know that the late 19th century wasn't a fairytale time to live in because it actively led up to the 20th, and did you know that this kind of rhetoric is still common today and yet many people are "blind and mute" to it and don't care enough to work to stop it). I do understand criticisms of the number (ie. it being triggering) and I don't mean to speak over people who are discomforted by it (or feel that it's tokenizing oppression etc - valid points to be made, and as the number is not about prejudice against my background, I will defer to ppl more affected than me), but I truly think that for people not personally affected by the prejudice portrayed in it, there's a responsibility to see it and reflect. You don't get to clean it up to make the show more family-friendly or comforting. It's not intended to be a feel-good escapist experience even though the marketing masquerades it as one.

Also separate rant that I go on every month or so. Like omfg I just really dislike Conspiracy. It makes Rudolf a useless hack 😂💀 Like I'm sure Hungarians irl enjoy their independence but it's not the point of the show akflpdkgpel. If Die Schatten werden länger (reprise) is not explicitly about the anxiety brought on by the seemingly unstoppable rise of fascism that nobody else seems to care to stop it, I don't want it and it's pointless. And that's what it was about originally...

Portraying evil/oppression/prejudice - especially evil things that people tend to shrug off and minimize in their daily lives because it feels too insidious and widespread for them to bother to fight it - is a pretty central thing in art that has a message, and it's honestly such a dumb take to go "omg why would they write about that, that's so [type of prejudice]" in cases where the CENTRAL THESIS OF THE WORK is "x is bad, it's real and exists in the world we live in, and the general public isn't doing enough to stop it". That kind of reaction shows that you just legit can't read and would rather have random "Good Representation" (which can also be important! But while representation has its place, it's not enough to just have random unaddressed diversity if you want to change people's mindsets) than a work that actually criticises the status quo, points out unaddressed privileges and prejudices, and makes a meaningful point.

#inspired by annoying posts i've seen on tumblr especially from ppl who claim to be big tsh fans #😂💀💀💀 i'm such a mean hater #rant #like as much as i rant about heterosexualization in media - in elisabeth the antif*scism is more important than the homosexuality sorry #like musical rudolf has two (2) personality traits which are 1) gay 2) anti-authoritarian/anti-oppression. remove one and he loses purpose #and the way rudolf's motivations are shown is the contextualizing songs: hass & streit vater und sohn (and sometimes conspiracy....) #and you shouldnt put conspiracy cos it adds this bizarre historically inaccurate nationalist interlude #aokfpsg anyway rant over #😂

[etherealse]

stream flower 🌸 and all eyes on me

#blackpink #fyp #kpop #ily ❤️ #blackpink icons #jisoo moodboard #jisoo headers #jisoo icons #jisoo #kim jisoo #jisoo layouts #bp ot4 #bp jisoo #bp moodboard #etherealse #eternal #ethereal #lana del gay #stargirl interlude

[goatsandgangsters]

the good news is that I finished a book and it got me out of my reading slump where I would start things, not finish, switch to something else, not finish

the bad news is that "yes daddy" by jonathan parks-ramage is one of the worst written books I've read in a whiiiile. bland expositiony prose, flat characters, a bunch of weird plot detours. Written like a 200-page Wikipedia summary instead of an actual book

the worst news is that it has such intensely favorable gushing reviews on goodreads, and the people who hated it mostly hated it for a different reason, and so I'm left alone like oKAY BUT THE PROSE WAS SHIT, HOW DO YOU NOT SEE THIS

#the writing is LAUGHABLY BAD you guys. how did people like this booooook #but most of the bad reviews are like 'I hated this book because it had too many rape scenes and lots of bad things happen' #BUT MY PROBLEM IS it's so badly written that it's like reading the wikipedia of a horror movie where it flatly tells you the grisly bits #very 'and then four grown men lived in a garden shed as waiters/sex slaves. one of them tripped and hit his head. he's dead now.' #just no emotional impact whatsoever bc this guy cannot write and the characters are all made of cardboard #it bills itself as a gothic/thriller but it has NO grasp of any of the conventions of that genre #there's a weird interlude where the protag becomes evangelical?? and starts going on about The Evils of Gay Sex?? #he gets inspiration to commit arson by READING GOOP? AND THIS IS PLAYED AS SERIOUS AFTER HIS FRIEND'S SUICIDE?? #how did ANYONE take this book seriously let alone enjoy it #it's SO awful. this guy CANNOT write his way out of a paperbag #it's even worse too bc the main character is supposed to be a professional writer with an MFA and the book is the character's memoir #which I consider tantamount to a plot hole BECAUSE THE WRITING IS SO SO BAD #the sketchy rich old guy and his butler/ex call him Rebecca and he doesn't get the reference?? he has an MFA in playwriting and yet! #it's been a while since I got to write a REALLY scathing 1-star goodreads review so that's cathartic at least

[kiwibirdlafayette]

im itching to infodump about the songs in the syndisparklez playlist again bc cats post got me thinkin about the delicious little bit of “behind the scenes” story between capsize, tom and jordan i wrote in my head to talk too much by COIN and violet by bad suns that is exactly the whole bit about capsize being jordan’s scapegoat (loving her bc he was in denial about tom) and tom’s side of it being absolutely fucking pissed and seeing right through it all

#its a plot i admittedly dont talk about a lot but its very much there in chaos and balance #i still havent found the song that’s capsize’s pov but. surely one day #like removing that from the canon takes away one of the best conversation in that whole episode #capsize calling tom’s bluff and her just like violently shaking jordan like ‘OPEN YOUR FUCKING EYES YE WANKER’ #deadass ‘holee fok m8 just go be with your stupid ass bf and leave me the FUCK alone’ #mianite by a gay man #for ref- talk too much is jordan’s voice; violet is Tom’s #i can describe in vivid detail (aka the animatic in my head) how it’s the scenes of the whole affair with that its quite fun actually #the ‘BTS’ of it is the ‘offscreen conversations between jordan and sonja where she’s trying to slap some sense into him. interludes you coul #could call. it (stares in TH roleswap)

[quatregats]

Beloved mutual experiencing the pain of CS Forester writing things about Spain and I am relieving every single moment of reading Ship of the Line in vivid detail

#*disinters cs forester from his grave just to start shaking him vigorously* DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHERE SPAIN IS SIR #god. if he had not managed to create the worst-adjusted most genderful weird little gay guy i would be a straight-out hater #as it is i am still mostly a hater but hornblower has me in a death grasp and i can't escape #i do start wriggling with rage every time i think about sotl though. and the ferrol interlude as well #things that were wasted on this fool. *I* would have known what to do with ferrol #there are also like 5 stages of specifically cs forester writing about spain grief that are apparently the same for everyone shdfjsdf #glad if you guys didn't take psychological damage from reading that book but it still haunts my every waking hour #perce rambles #percy yells at cecil scott

[lakesbian]

just found out chastity shows up in riley alone. why didn't someone tell me this shit earlier it would have made me get around to reading it so much faster

#desperate pleasures is in the 'objectively high-quality subjectively not me-bait' genre so i Have been intending to read riley alone #because i do like bonesaw. big fan of the bonesaw interlude. she's fun. highly probable me-bait #but man would someone telling me 'it put chastity in there. And made her gay.' have sped the process of me reading it the FUCK up #love chastity. love to make things up about her in my mind. That girl is a dyke. #scarf don't look #i will do anything for a scooby snack (the heartbroken)

[lizzygrantmybeloved]

#lana del rey #lana del ray aka lizzy grant #lizzy grant #lana del gay #lana del ray icons #lana del rey icons #may jailer #lizzie grant #did you know that there’s a tunnel under ocean blvd #dykttatuob #stargirl #stargirl interlude #the weeknd #Spotify

[ariapmdeol]

sleepy shinatou,,

#CellOfEmpireo #細胞神曲 #세포신곡 #cell of empireo #haruki atou #eiji shinano #shinatou #rpgmaker horror #shinano eiji #atou haruki #atoushinano #my art #aria draws #THEY ARE THE OTP #ft magical boy dita on shinanos shirt #he can wear merch of his fav show alright he deserves it <3 #anyways shinatou sweep #at some point i will also draw the canonical gay ppl but thats for another time #bc i havent played interlude idk the lore yet

[endermaans]

just finished the Chasm quest with dainsleif (not the other one, I didn't realize that the one with dainsleif was so soon) and.

do you guys think dainsleif knows what homosexuality means

#genshin impact #dainsleif #halfdan #yes this is in reference to that cutscene with halfdan #im just sayin. IM JUST SAYING. IT WAS A LITTLE SMTH SMTH (coughs it was gay) #also i still havent finished exploring the chasm i gotta do that before i can do the interlude chapter #am i going to bawl like a fucking baby? yes. yes i am. #just watching the cutscene gets me emotional #but its 1 am i need to go to bed

[kierans-interlude]

"Is a salad without dressing naked? Is dressing its dress? Is salad a girl?"

#kieransthoughts #kieransinterlude #elon musk #deep thinking #deep thoughts #deep #tumblr diary #diary #it doesnt have to be a girl #i mean boys can #like #wear dresses ig #retro #ryan reynolds #Kieran supports gay rights #spilled thoughts #insprirational #interlude #science #space #snapchat #tumblr #tiktok #youtube #twitter #facebook #harry styles #harry styles dress #harry styles vogue #larry stylinson