#i’m gonna do it for the first couple of chapter of bc then just stop if i notice it’s not useful

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So it goes: Chapter 30 - MI x OC

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Summary: Babysitting a rebel baby and some snuggles leads two silly godparents to realize they're ready to give a little step forward in their relationship.

Pairing: Michael Italiano x fem!OC

Warnings: Mentions of smut, Maggie being an anxious mess and snuggles all over the place.

Word count: 5.8k

A/N: HI! I’m still sick and I still feel like I’m dying but if I could handle 8 hours of work I can handle being in front of my computer for ten minutes. Gonna keep it short cause I still feel like dying. Hope you’re happy after you read this one. Let me know what u think? Also please keep sending me anons talking about Michael and Blake bc u make my day! Okay, thanks for the love and likes and all. See you soon🫰🏻

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Chapter 30 - Lego house. 

Michael asked her to not think about the whole McLaren subject for the weekend, and she did it. She tried to keep all those problems away from her head on her sister’s big day, but as soon as the slight hangover was overcome it all came again.

Daniel always said that the best solution for a hangover was some slow sweet lovemaking in the morning and Maggie normally hated to say Daniel was right about something, but he was. Waking up with the feeling of Michael slowly spreading her legs was something Maggie never took for granted. His lips peppered the skin of her thighs with kisses and then the feeling of his mouth doing magic as he got lost between her legs was all she needed to forget how terrible idea it was to mix so much wine, champagne, and then some tequila.

The all-time nerd Michael always joked and said -secretly and just to her- his favorite way to help with her migraines was to increment her dopamine level and there was no better way to do it than orgasms. Even if she didn’t have a terrible migraine, that morning wasn’t different and Michael took care of removing all traces of pain from her head, first with his mouth, second fucking her nice and slow, and one last time with his fingers as he was still buried deep inside her.

He also took care of keeping both of them as quiet as possible, shushing her with his hands and fingers, but also with kisses and words. He repeated how beautiful she was, how incredible she felt, and especially how good she was for taking him after all the mess they made the previous night. And he was nothing but right because if it wasn’t enough with their little hiding game in the middle of the party, they went back to their room to a second round with Maggie riding him as they were still wearing their clothes. He was absolutely obsessed with how breathtaking she looked in her dress and shoes and Maggie was still not over how incredibly hot he looked in his suit, so they didn’t even take the time to get rid of their clothes. The only thing Maggie did was move his pants and boxers down and out of the way and unbutton his shirt completely as Michael moved the straps of her dress out of her shoulders, making the upper part of it fall enough for him to play with her breasts as much as he wanted. That’s how they spent the early morning and then the morning, wrapped around each other as they started and celebrated their third anniversary in the best possible way.

Between ‘Happy anniversary, mo grá’, ‘Best three years of my life, sweetheart’, ‘Why do we have to get out of bed?’, ‘Your moans will wake everyone up and I’m oddly fine with that’, ‘At least let's try to keep it quiet’, and uncountable ‘I love yous’, millions of compliments more and so many giggles that could wake everyone in the residence, Maggie tried to ignore everything.

For moments it worked. When they were having breakfast with all her family, when she heard Olivia giggling uncontrollably, when she saw her happily married favorite couple, and especially when she saw her boyfriend with their niece, all the problems went away.

But as they drove back to the city and into reality, she couldn’t stop thinking. She was still mad about Andreas breaking the news about Daniel’s replacement right there in Hungary when Mclaren ruined his race. She was still furious, she was still wanting to burn the MTC to the ground and she still wanted to destroy Andreas and Zak with her bare hands, but adobe all, she was still sad. They were taking the Sunday off to go back home and recompose after the party, but the next day it was back to negotiations and phone calls. And even if Maggie couldn’t do anything to help, -and not even Michael could do much-, she was worried.

The whole drive back to her apartment Maggie was lost somewhere inside her head, holding Michael’s hand while she looked nowhere outside the windows, not even paying attention to the music that was playing and not even making jokes about how Michael didn’t like to drive. The only thing that brought her back to reality was Michael’s lifting their joined hands to his lips to kiss her knuckles from time to time or his soft voice singing quietly along with one or another song that was playing.

Even when they were back home she felt off, so Michael took it as his task to bring her back to reality, make her switch off for the rest of the afternoon and night, and especially make her forget about her worries. He started with making her favorite tea, putting on one of her favorite playlists with old music, and filling the tube with hot water and her favorite things to put into the water to help her relax.

When everything was set and done, Michael took Maggie to the bathroom, help her undress, took off his clothes, and then they both got into the water. Like some kind of magic, it felt like all her worries disappeared into the water. It was that and the smell of her favorite bath salts that helped her relax, but more than anything, it was her boyfriend.

While their right hands were laced over her stomach, her left hand just moved over his arm, but Michael’s left hand just stroked her head, knowing that always made her relax. Added to his kisses over her temple and her back against his chest, Maggie was in her little piece of heaven. Between soft and loving kisses, and even more compliments than that morning, they spent their time in the water talking about nothing and everything, but one particular thing stuck with Maggie that day.

They were talking about how they needed to be back in London in a couple of days and between jokes Maggie said something as silly as ‘I could simply just stay there forever’ to which Michael answered with a very chill and simple ‘What would be so bad about it?’. But like a bad movie with very bad timing, his phone interrupted them. Even when Michael decided to not pick up because his phone was somewhere in the living room and he wasn’t going to disrupt their peace, the conversation changed it, leaving Maggie with more questions than when she got into the water.

They didn’t talk about it when the phone stopped ringing. They didn’t talk about it either when they got out of the water, or when they dried out and made her lay down in bed to give her a massage so she would relax. Michael didn’t mention it when they were talking about what should they order for dinner or even during dinner. And Maggie didn’t say a thing when they went to bed. She knew having a little pillow talk about it would fix more than one question inside her head, but she was too tired. They were so tired that they just fall asleep before they could say much about anything.

By lunchtime, there was a double preoccupation inside her head, but Maggie didn’t have much time. On Monday everyone was going back to their lives, which included her parents going back to work, Joe and Grace flying back to Perth, and Daniel and Michael back to training. But Michael and Maggie insisted to Jas and Daniel take a day off as parents to enjoy being a newly married couple even if just for a day, so after their session, Michael came back with Olivia in his arms. To say she melted every time she saw them together was an understatement, but to see them together coming home in Dublin somehow made it more special. She couldn’t explain it, but as soon as she got her niece and her boyfriend in her arms, she forgot what she was even thinking about.

Once in a while during the morning one of those goddamn questions would jump into her mind, but they would automatically be erased with something silly or funny Olivia would do. But suddenly it all was interrupted by something as terrible as Olivia not wanting to eat. Maggie tried everything and all the techniques always worked, but somehow this time it was impossible. Olivia would turn around her face with a pout on her lips, saying something in her own baby language and ignoring Maggie in such a way that would make her feel nothing but awful. It made her feel like she has a fifteen years old niece instead of seven months old one.

“I know you miss mom and dad, póirín, but if you eat the whole thing I promise you I’ll tell you a story for nap time. I’ll tell you about the Irish queen and the Aussie king defeating the evil American CEO. How about that?” Maggie asked, faking the excitement to see if she would get any reaction from Olivia. But all Maggie got was even more illogical mumbling from the baby in front of her. “Yeah, you don’t understand shit about what I’m saying. Mike, I need backup, babe!”

The last thing Maggie wanted was to bother Michael while he was making lunch, especially when she was supposed to do something as simple as feeding Olivia the fruit purée Michael made for her. But desperate time needed desperate measures and nobody could beat Michael at convincing Olivia to eat.

“Coming!” he yelled from the kitchen and in no time, he was with his hands on Maggie’s shoulders, kissing the top of her head. “What’s up?”

“Práta doesn’t want to eat and clearly I’m the worst aunt in the universe” Maggie breathed, leaving the tiny lavender spoon right on the plate that was over the table.

“That's not true” Michael insisted, kissing Maggie’s head once again. In no time he grabbed another chair, sitting right beside Maggie and in front of Olivia’s high chair. “C’mon, teeny, we don’t want a frown on auntie’s forehead. Can you eat this for uncle and auntie?”

And just like magic, Olivia opened her mouth as soon as Michael put the tiny spoon in front of her mouth, eating the whole thing with a smile on her face. There was no need to make any car sound, any airplane movement, or any game, she just eat it like it was nothing. “I can’t blame her, y'know? I can’t say no to your face either”

“You know how she is. It's the Irish gen inside her. And you’re exactly the same” he affirmed, kissing her shoulder before he grabbed another spoon to feed her. “You two look the same but she has curls”

“That’s cause we both look like Jas. Then people ask us if she’s our baby”

Maggie wasn’t joking when she said people always thought Olivia was hers and Michael’s daughter. Every time they went out the three of them, someone would make a comment and they would automatically assume she was theirs. Ninety percent of the time they would explain that she was their niece, but more than once Michael would just play along. Just like that day in Surrey where he lied to the old lady in the restaurant saying that Maggie was his wife while they weren’t even officially dating, Michael would just joke around not correcting them as they would say some compliment about how adorable and beautiful their daughter was. Most of the time Maggie would play along too, joking with him and whoever was talking with them, but some other times she just elbowed him, trying to not laugh as she insisted that one day he would get them in trouble.

As Michael kept himself busy with his task, Maggie just left her head resting against his shoulder with her eyes closed. But no time passed before she felt his lips over her head again, peppering her skin with kisses. “It's gonna be alright, Mags. Dan will find out a solution. You know it’ll be fine, your cards said so. And he has the crystal you gave him, so you shouldn’t worry” he whispered against her head, making her smile slightly.

It wasn’t just the fact that Michael knew she was worried about their friend, but the fact that he mentioned the cards. Being the niece of a tarot reader, Maggie grew fascinated with everything related to that. But that fascination not only showed in her tattoos and the books in her library but also in the tarot decks in her home and her suitcase. Aunt Mimi taught her a thing or two about reading tarot cards and she spent her teen years practicing, but then between work and college, she left it aside. But once Maggie found herself having too much time to spare with all the traveling and coming and going, she decided to start reading books and practicing again.

That’s how one morning Michael came back from training in the gym of one of the hotels where they were staying, all to find Maggie sitting in the middle of the bed, with a couple of cards sprayed on the bed in front of her. She explained that she was asking to the cards in Daniel’s name, but that she used it more as a reflection tool. She explained that it wasn’t about looking at the future or the past but more about an interpretation. It was about a feeling and she could feel that somehow things were going to be okay. There was a change, there was somehow something he needed to let go and there was some kind of rebirth, but adobe all she could see was some calmness that came with all of it. She had no idea if all that came from a new team or a sabbatical, but she could feel things were going to be fine. But even with that, Maggie was worried. She could see how stressed Daniel was. She could see how it was affecting him. She knew it was something Daniel would normally discuss just with Jas or the boys and how he would try to hide it under a smile. She knew he wanted to be his normal self again not only for himself but especially for his wife and his daughter. But adobe all, Maggie knew he was hurting. She have know Daniel for four years and she knew behind that big shiny smile he was hurting, that’s why she did something as silly as giving him a crystal. It was just a tiny amethyst in a black bracelet made with black glass beads, and it was far from fancy or expensive, but Maggie begged him to wear it. ‘I know you don’t believe in all this shit, but it won’t harm you to keep it with you’ she insisted, and a puppy eyes look was all she needed to convince Daniel to wear it on his wrist.

On the other side was Michael who knew Maggie believed in those things, so instead of brushing it away he sat there by her side and listened to ever she had to say. Time after time he just paid attention to her, and she could even see how he was trying to memorize some of those words because it was important to her, so each time Maggie gave him a tight hug and whispered a little ‘Thank you’ in his ear.

That was exactly what was happening this time, but not even his eternal optimism could do much. “Mike, I love how much you love me and believe in me but it's not precisely science, babe. Damn, you’re a man of science so you should know better”

“All I know is I trust you. Period” he insisted, kissing her head once more before his full attention went back to Olivia and her dirty cheeks full of food. “You, little missy with those cute curls and that toothless smile, stop stressing your auntie. She doesn’t need more on her plate right now, but you need way less food on your plate” he smiled, giving her another small amount of food.

“She doesn’t understand what you say, grá” Maggie whispered, still with her eyes closed, trying not to think about the issue that had her head like a mess and how that issue could be fixed.

“She does. Right, Oli? Of course you do!”

Maggie opened her eyes at the exact perfect moment to see Michael with the biggest smile on his face as Oli looked at him, giggling at absolutely nothing. Maggie knew it was probably for the taste of the food and trying a new taste in her purée, but none of them say anything, acting like she was smiling because of what Michael said and because their niece understood their words. And as she looked at the two persons she loved more than anything in the world, Maggie couldn’t help but smile too, even if just a bit. “Twenty” she whispered out of nowhere, her voice so softly she doubted Michael even heard her.

“Twenty what?” Michael asked, but then she could see how it clicked inside his head. He was a natural with all the baby stuff. He was a natural with everything that has to do with Olivia. It all looked easy when he was doing it. Even if Olivia wasn’t a difficult baby, Michael make it all look even easier. She would magically fall asleep in no time when Michael put her in bed or when he had her in his arms. She would eat or drink her bottle in no time, even when she was in a grumpy mood. Damn, he would make her giggle uncontrollably even when she was all grumpy. He would always make tummy time funnier and would even master changing diapers way better than her. He was a natural, and to see him every day with their niece just made Maggie’s heart get warmer and melt. It made her want to have twenty babies with him, especially knowing they would probably be as amazing as him. Twenty babies with that big smile, those shiny eyes, and that huge heart didn’t sound bad at all. “Oh! I don’t know if twenty, but I remember we said three” he smiled as soon as he remembered that crazy night at Lily’s apartment where there was too much tequila and champagne to say anything logical at all.

“Mmm nop. Two. That’s it”

“We’ll see about that” he smiled, giving Olivia her last spoon and cleaning her face with a napkin, trying to fix the mess of purée in her cute chubby cheeks and teeny mouth. “See? It wasn’t that hard. There was no reason to make auntie Mags feel bad, you little thing”

“The evil gen also comes from my side of the family. Sorry about that” Maggie joked, placing her arms around his waist as she got closer to kiss his cheek. “You smell so fucking good, it's not fair” she murmured, nuzzling her face into the crook of his neck and getting lost for a second in his smell and warmth.

“You’re not evil. You’re too good to be true, actually” he corrected her, moving away from her only enough to take Olivia out of her chair. Once he had her, Michael turned to the side of his chair so he would be able to look at Maggie while he held Olivia standing on his legs. “We made a deal, remember? Not bottling things up inside you, babe. I can’t read minds. And don’t you dare deny it or say you’re sleepy. I know you are but this is something else” he stated, looking from their niece to Maggie’s eyes.

Of course he knew something else was in her mind.

“In my defense, I’m not a morning person and you know it. You promised to love me no matter what” she smiled, stroking Olivia’s head as she looked at Michael. But clearly, the bad joke didn’t help, because Michael didn’t say a thing, he just waited for her to talk. “I was just thinking about that thing you said yesterday”

“You gotta be more specific, sweetheart. Yesterday was long and we said too many things”

Maggie knew he was right. They said too many things, but especially they made too many promises. From not breaking up ever again -even if t wasn’t technically a breakup- to talk about everything and not bottling up anything or not keeping things from each other, they promised to do everything in their power to make it work. But besides that, they just joked -especially when they were slightly tipsy at the party- about how many dogs and babies they would have one day because Olivia needed more cousins besides Isabella and Issac. Michael even joked saying he loved Maggie so damn much that he would go back to civil engineering just for once to design and build the green house that Maggie always wanted and always draw when she was a little kid. Michael insisted he was ready to make it just like she always wanted it, with the flowers outside, the tree right there in the left part of the entrance, the chocolate dog, the cute red car, and the white picket fence. Maggie laughed her ass off when she heard all that, insisting that he didn’t need to do any of that, especially since he didn’t need to go back to engineering or do anything for her to love him more than anything in the world. But all jokes aside, they said again and again and again how much they loved each other and how they were the love of each other’s lives. That was the only important thing after the terrible months they spent apart. That was everything they needed to hear to know it was going to be alright.

“You said ‘What would be so bad about it?’ when I was joking about staying at your place forever” she explained, playing with the hem of Olivia’s shirt as she looked down at her hand while her brain kept yelling how it was such a terrible idea to bring that up.

“So that was eating your brain. I knew something was bothering you” he smiled, holding Olivia with one arm as he extended his free hand for Maggie to grab. “C’mere with us, c’mon”

“You always know when something is bothering me. It's one of your superpowers” Maggie murmured, grabbing his hand and going straight to sit on his lap facing Olivia and holding her little hand as Michael hugged her waist. “I just- I wanted to know if you mean it. Nothing else. And yes, you can say I’m stupid”

“You’re not stupid, Mags. And yes, I mean it. It's been three years. I think it's about damn time for us to stop running in circles” he affirmed, kissing her cheek and then Olivia’s cheek, making the baby giggle and make the most adorable sound in the world. “You want your aunt Mags to live with me? Is that giggle a yes? You want that?” he asked Olivia, as he kept kissing her cheek, and also tickled her tummy, which only made her laugh even harder.

“So you… You want me to live with you? Like permanent? Because it's fine if you don’t… It's really fine” she whispered, placing her hands around his waist and tracing imaginary lines over his back.

The question was stupid. It was more than stupid. They spent time living together while they were in lockdown in Perth and then again in London and Dublin, but it was never an official thing. It was never an 'I live with my boyfriend' and more like 'I’m staying at my boyfriend’s'. Even if Michael insisted his apartment was hers too and if she had the keys, and even when he had the keys to her apartment, it was never their place. But the question felt even more stupid considering the amount of time they spent together and how they shared hotel rooms week after week. It was stupid because every single weekend they were away in some city, Michael would kiss her forehead and say ‘Let’s go home’ as he would grab their bags to leave and go back to whenever they were going. It was stupid because Maggie knew ‘home’ could be his place or hers or Perth or Dublin or London, but Michael was simply talking about being with her. Home was whenever their favorite cups were. Home was whenever they could lay down and snuggle for a while as a record played in the back. Home was them together, and the rest could be fixed, but somehow, Maggie was dying to live with him.

“Sweetheart, we kind of live together already. We spent the last three years sharing hotel rooms. When we’re not traveling we’re together one way or another. Your things are at my place. Half of the closest is yours already” he explained, trying to keep himself from smiling as he mentioned the last part.

“Bullshit! You’ve more clothes than I do!” she exclaimed as she slapped his chest, making Olivia giggle as she looked at her uncle and aunt laughing. “But you’re right, we kind of live together” Maggie affirmed, taking a deep breath as she looked at him. It took just one look at his favorite pair of brown eyes to know he was right. Between hotel rooms and his place, they lived together, so there was no difference. “We’re not gonna blow it up again, right? I mean, if we do it. Cause I can’t lose you” she finally confessed, smiling sadly as she stroked his cheek.

“Sit here one second, baby” he whispered to Olivia, making her sit right over Maggie’s lap, to which Maggie took care of holding her with one arm around her tiny body. And as soon as his hands were free, they were on her face, holding her carefully as he stroked her cheeks with his thumbs., making Maggie look right into his eyes again. “Move in with me. I promise nothing bad is gonna happen. I promise it’ll be alright, Mags. It's just gonna get better. I know you’re scared but we’re not gonna blow it up. I’m not allowing it. This is just another step and I really wanna make it with you. I know we can make it work”

It was the way Michael said it that made Maggie melt. It was the way his brown eyes looked at her that made her believe he was right. It was just another step and it was right to do it. It was the most normal thing in the world and there was nothing she wanted more, so she couldn’t let all her fears ruin it. Not when part of that fear kept them apart for months. Not when part of that fear was responsible for all the bad things that happened to them.

She took a long breath before she placed her forehead against his, being as careful as to not crush Olivia in the middle of them.

“I’m yours and you’re mine, so fuck the rest, right?” she whispered, stealing a soft, loving peck from his lips, which only made Michael smile like a happy man. “You know how to convince your girlfriend to move with you. You do know. Your uncle’s a smart man, Oli” Maggie smiled, moving away from Michael to place a kiss over Olivia’s head, who automatically yawned, rubbing her right eye with her tiny hand. “Come here, munchkin. It's time for a nap nap?” Maggie spoke to Olivia while she grabbed her, carried her small body in her arms, and made her rest against her chest.

Then the room became silent except for the music playing in the back, to which Maggie was singing softly for Olivia. It was almost a whisper in the baby’s ear, but it was enough to make her fall asleep in some minutes. Jas always said aunt Maggie singing some lullaby and uncle Mike’s cuddles were like magic to make Olivia fall asleep, and it was true. As Maggie sang, Michael stroked carefully Olivia’s small back and in no time she was sleeping peacefully in her godparents’ arms.

“Works every single time. I mean, I fall asleep in a second too when I use you as a pillow and you sing, so I get it” Michael whispered, stroking Olivia’s chubby pink cheeks with his thumb, being as careful as possible to not wake her up. What she also got from her mother’s side -and from her aunt in some sort of way- was the grumpiness if someone interrupted her naps, so nobody wanted to deal with it.

“It's my superpower. I’m like a Pokémon. Tiny and with powers. Basically like Jigglypuff, making people sleep when they sing” she joked and could see Michael trying to hide the smile that was trying to appear on his face. “What? I loved Pokemon. You know it”

“I do know” he nodded, eyes locked with hers. “Fuck, I’m so in love with you that I can’t even explain it”

Maggie couldn’t help but lean against his hand and kiss his palm when Michael went from stroking Olivia’s back to touching Maggie’s face. She couldn’t help but kiss his skin as many times as possible as she smiled because she understood perfectly the feeling. She couldn’t even put into words the way she felt about Michael. It was something beyond love. It was love but also adoration, devotion, need, passion, and a commitment so deep that she knew they would do anything for each other. She knew it was the kind of love people would die to have and the kind that people write stories and songs about. It was the kind that Maggie dreamt of her whole life. “It's like an ‘I’m so obsessed with you that I’d do anything for you and I can’t understand what the fuck are you doing with me but thank God you are with me other way I don’t know how I would survive’ kind of stuff? Cause I get it. Happens to me all the time. Especially when I see your face” she affirmed.

“That’s the exact word. I’m fucking obsessed with you. And I see you like this with her and I just- I really really love you so much, Mags. I really do” Michael insisted, getting closer to kiss her lips as softly and carefully as possible. But this time, he didn’t move away from her, he just nuzzled his face into the crook of her neck, all without bothering Olivia who was all comfortable resting on the other side of Maggie’s chest.

“I know you do. Nobody else would ever handle my shit the way you do. That’s why I say I’m the luckiest. Besides you’re fucking handsome. The biggest heart and hot as hell. You don’t find all that in a guy that easily” she whispered, resting her head over his.

“Like a legendary Pokémon?”

“And he’s also smart”

And then again, that’s how they stayed for longer than they should have, almost forgetting about lunch and whatever Michael was preparing. Maggie didn’t care at all if she was hungry, not when right there by her side was her whole world. Sleeping against her right shoulder was her niece with one of her little hands resting on Maggie’s chest. And on the other side was Michael, who Maggie knew wasn’t asleep, but who was taking a minute off with his favorite girls, ignoring everything around them. But Maggie thought she could explode out of love when Michael grabbed Olivia’s hand resting both of them over her chest. That was all she ever needed. That was all she ever wanted.

“Are you still there?” she whispered, rubbing her face slowly over his.

“Five minutes more?”

“I give you ten”

“Let's just spend the day here” he proposed, and that was an offer that didn’t come from Michael often, so Maggie was more than tempted to say yes and forget about whatever plan he made for them. Nobody needed a walk in the park when Dublin was all cloudy and rainy.

“Don’t tempt me”

The way Michael suddenly tightened his grip around her waist was the easiest way to let Maggie know that maybe he mean it when he said he wanted to stay in. It happened counted times in the four years she have been knowing him and especially in the three years they had been together, so maybe taking the offer was the best thing to do. “Are you sick? Do you have a fever? My laziness is finally contagious? Cause that’s the only way to make you want to stay home” she joked, kissing his cheek as better as she could, but with it, she also took her chance to check if his face wasn’t warm. “No, but really, I’m not kidding. Are you okay?”

“I’m alright” he insisted, taking a deep breath as he moved his hand under her shirt to draw invisible lines in her skin. “Don’t move or you’ll wake her up” he whispered in her ear, stroking Olivia’s hand. But in the middle of it, still sleeping Olivia grabbed his thumb with her tiny hand, not letting Michael move his hand anymore.

“Mike, babe, look at me. What’s going on?” Maggie wondered again.

“Please tell me you’re moving with me. Please. I’m ready to get on my knees and beg for you to say yes” he murmured, covering her neck with kisses, making it impossible for her to say something else that wasn’t yes. “Please, say yes, love”

“I’ve conditions before I say yes, but we can talk about the first now and then leave the rest for later” Maggie started, trying to sound as serious as possible as Michael simply nodded in agreement. “Tell me you love me?”

It was the most stupid and ridiculous thing in the whole universe, and Maggie knew it. She knew how much Michael loved her and he didn’t need to say a thing for her to know, but she just wanted to see his face when he heard that stupid condition. And she wasn’t disappointed when he finally raised his head to look at her, because when he did, there was the biggest smile he could offer.

“I love you more than anything or anyone in the universe, Margaret” Michael affirmed. There was not a single doubt in his brown eyes. That was all Maggie needed. That was all she wanted, but even after that, she was planning to invent another silly condition, especially if that meant Michael smiling at her.

“Good. Then I’m moving” she shrugged and she was surprised Olivia didn’t wake up with the way Michael kissed Maggie at that moment. And even if Olivia woke up all grumpy and crying, it was absolutely fine because there was nothing they couldn’t fix if they were together.

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Interstellar Ian - gallavich kid’s show au

i can’t find a discord server to ramble about a gallavich-centric au i’m working on so i’m gonna ramble about the concept here. I am writing a fic for it so I’m not gonna go in depth on the specific plot points, just the idea/background/set up

if you are interested in specifics, though, i’ve already posted a few excerpts from chapter one on this blog under the tag ‘Interstellar Ian AU’. 

so seriously hear me out here

ian gallagher is the host of a kid’s show in the same vein as Lazy Town, Blues Clues, etc. He serves as the host who takes the viewers through adventures in a space setting in a show he scored when he was fifteen: Interstellar Ian. it’s on PBS Kids, which is a educational kid’s channel here in the US that is publicly broadcasted and easily available to everyone for free via libraries and youtube and such. shows like Arthur and Sid the Science Kid aired there. it’s actually a really good resource for low-income families with kids but that’s a rant for another day. ian’s show is on their roster!

Frank scammed his way into getting Ian one of his first minor roles when he was fifteen but from there, it was all Ian working his way up. Being an actor screws with all of Ian’s plotlines/erases them even down to the earliest episodes in season one, but most of the rest of the show’s canon still plays out the same except the family’s financial strain isn’t as high for a couple years while fiona uses his income for the household. 

it kinda evens back out once ian is an adult and moves into a little apartment closer to set and becomes independent. Ian continues hosting this show into his early adulthood, even though it’s starting to become evident by season eight of Interstellar Ian that they are starting to run out of fresh content and maybe should’ve wrapped it up a few years ago. 

Instead of dating Mickey first, Ian actually meets Trevor (trans guy from around season six/seven) FIRST bc he costars on the show during some of the earlier seasons. they have a secret relationship and it eventually goes public, drama, drama, drama, and oops Trevor isn’t an actor anymore and he goes on to open his shelter/queer youth program. Ian and Trevor are on good terms by the main timeline of the fic though 

ian remains host of the show and after the initial drama, he becomes well known as a queer icon/actor, especially for young ppl who watch the show/grew up watching it

During the filming of season seven of interstellar ian, Ian also messes around with the new director on set: Caleb the ex firefighter. They don’t get caught or anything but there is still drama and they decide to step back and Not Do That Anymore 

Ian has a Thing(tm) for messing around with cute guys on the set of his show and he swears off of it forever. 

forever lasts until there is a new electrician hired to the set, reformed criminal!mickey milkovich

in this universe, mickey decided to stop being a major nuisance to the world because mandy got custody of their half-sister from earlier in the show, Molly, and he wants to be able to help them out or at least not cause more problems for them. so he took a course and is a certified electrician who signs a contract with the show because he needs long term + stable work. 

Ian can’t drive. he just doesn’t have a car, he never got a license because he got caught up in the acting thing gig around the age that he should’ve gotten it and now he has too much pride to do it. so he leaves the set an hour or two later than basically everyone else. everyone knows this, he was even given a key to the warehouse they film the show in because of it

so, when mickey starts showing up as the actors and crew are leaving to fix flickering lights and switch around wiring, the star of the show is still just There. because despite being famous and rich, his main form of transportation is the public kind and that’s inconsistent 

ian and mickey meet due to this overlap in schedules and ian spends the first chunk of the fic struggling because he doesn’t wanna mess around with another guy from set and cause unneeded drama, while mickey seems to like him- but not because he’s an actor/minor celebrity, just because he’s “pretty or whatever” 

that’s the general gist of what’s going on, but some other cool details include: svetlana stars as ian’s hairstylist/makeup artist who faked her way there with a forged cosmetology certification, mickey has one pierced ear and maybe a cat, ian takes care of franny a lot + mickey steps up for his younger half sister: molly (so you get like, familial/dad-like gallavich at a few different points), the fic is ian centric and in his pov, and there is a multi-chapter gap in the fic where gallavich “aren’t dating” but are basically in a relationship and I know some of you guys love that trope based off of most of the fics i’ve read in this fandom 

I think that’s all I wanna reveal but if you have questions or thoughts, feel free to reblog/send me an ask with them! the plot plan for this thing includes 15 chapters total and i’ve written 4 of them in their entirety. I’m thinking i’ll write all/most of the fic before I start posting it, but we’ll see what happens!

if you wanna know when this fic goes up, make sure you follow this blog. I’ll be using the specific tag ‘Interstellar Ian AU’ to organize information on this, as well. thanks <3

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[trashcanwithsprinkles]

when ur spouse says “i love you” but Ajax Tartaglia Childe 11th Harbinger of the Fatui quite literally:

met the love of his life in another reality, decided he didn’t want him to suffer or see his pseudo-sister/best friend die so he hatched a plan to prevent an eon long war thatd kill thousands of gods, MULTIPLE of which were Moraxs allies, successfully entered the abyss and found his master in another reality and recruited her to the cause, fought of a shade, held hands with morax after that (just a touch of affection for a treat), saved zhihao from the dream evil god guy, saved moraxs future son xiao which is now ajax and moraxs son that i guess they co parent with guizhong, then ajax proceeds to travel to snezhnaya and beat the shit out of celestial gods and get ANOTHER child and three random siblings that are actually his in another universe, bring them back to morax, make morax (unknowingly) fall in love with him, obtain cryo powers, then RETURN to snezhnaya with a kiss on the forehead, make it up to celestia after zephar threw a fit, get stuck up there, start a riot, then the Avengers of Teyvat come back him up (including his soon to be husband and basically sister in law (wait i cant remember if gui was there or not), as well as his kinda master), and they win that battle. AND MIGHT I ADD AFTER THAT, they then travel back to ajax’s own world to prevent Celestias attack on his world and inevitably the archon war as well, HE THEN REUNITWS WITH HIS REAL MASTER, TSARITSA, COWORKERS AND HIS BITCHADD FAMILY AND PROCEEDS TO KILL GOD,??? and then they all go back home.

and he does all this so morax doesn’t have to suffer the emotional turmoil of losing his friends. ajax did this for what he knew as a FICTIONAL character in a video game. bruh stopped an armageddon for his husband and didn’t think morax was gonna fall in love with him this man is denser than a metal ball i cannttttt 😭😭😭

anywYs super good chapter!!! i always laugh about this specific fic bc compared to the soulmate chili fic u posted it took like nearly 400k words to get them to realize they’re in love with eachother but it took like 130k ish in the soulmate one 💀💀 i’m so stoked for the next chapter. can’t wait for what ur cooking up!!!

you're right lmao 😭

i think the reason why things went so comparatively faster in itysg is bc zhongli was already 6000+ and childe was kind of faced with the idea that zhongli might want to marry him like- straight-up from the first couple of chapters, so like,,,,,,, coupled with the fact they know they're soulmates from the get-go, i think that kind of expedites his crisis to the next step hahah;;

and also bc in cyanide they spend most of the fic doing literally anything else so there's no time to question feelings lmao

but it's still very funny indeed;; i think cyanide is the longest i could possibly write it bc of all the shit they have to do that keeps them from thinking about it. you'd have to have an even longer plot or start their relationship from scratch (no interesting first impressions and no 'i know you from the game' ordeal, or even have them start as like- enemies, and slowly worky your way to friendship and then love)

but i really don't plan to write that, cyanide is i think on the longest spectrum of what i'm willing to go 💀

(catch me writing 600k next time, given my track record of not controlling what i write)

aaaa anyway thank you!! happy you're enjoying it!

#ily <3

[youthofpandas]

Kris year in review (in which i talk about everything i remember that i watched and played and read) bc I like to talk about things . this is so incredibly long do not feel like you have to look at this okay guys. okay. I already wrote this up so im just gonna post it

Games I played:

AI: The Somnium Files - a fantastic game I highly recommend if you like weird characters and stories and are a fan of visual novels/adventure games <3 super fun

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - AMAZING cast of characters and fun gameplay I didn’t want to stop playing, great plot I will be thinking about forever…

Bugsnax - very funny and cute and I loved catching every bugsnax and the fun characters I want to play the 2nd one when it comes out

Psyconauts - a cult classic for a reason. Loved it’s style but the final level is so bad I would not wish it upon my worst enemy. Looking forward to finishing 2 one day

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - I haven’t gotten to finish this one yet (I got 80 hours in okay??) but I’m incredibly excited to get back to it. GOTY BABY!!! GAME OF ALL TIME!!

Nier Automata - ALSO THE GAME OF ALL TIME this is a must play it broke me it healed me it made me see the beauty of art and story telling that games are capable of it’s really just fantastic. for the love of god do not stop after ending A. Love this game so much.

Ongoing Manga I am currently reading

Chainsaw Man - starting off with the best one. CSM is so incredibly important to me and one of the best stories I have ever read. if you have talked to me at ALL you know how I cannot shut up about Denji and i AM NOT SORRY!!!

I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly I Could Die - fantastic supernatural/horror themed romance and one of my favorite romances I read this year

Black Clover - made me realize how truly trash bnha is at writing women lmao. Good battle shonen but nothing overwhelming special about it. It understands the basics and does them all well

D Gray Man - didn’t catch up on this one yet but it’s got great characters and some of the worst action paneling I’ve ever seen.

Dungeon Meshi - y’all were right it’s funny and can be very touching at time

A Condition Called Love - I can fix him romance but make it not feel toxic the manga. Super cute I love them.

Toilet Bound Hanako-kun - I feel like I started this last year but I know that can’t be true… supernatural + romance + cute art. It’s made me cry.

Jujutsu Kaisen - loved this baby and then I caught up to the current arc and it was the worst shit of all time. Megumi my depressed king.

Frieren Beyond Journeys End - fantastic please read it I love these bitches so much

Spy x Family - it’s SxF it’s good we all know this

Manga I finished reading

Cardcaptor Sakura - I think this is my first CLAMP manga I finished. LOVED sakura and shaoran they are so small. so many good aspects to this series and then all of the age gap bullshit is there so IDK hard to recommend but I enjoyed reading all of the parts that weren't about horrible relationships

Horimiya - CUTE I love romance where you get to follow them as a couple <3 there were a few bad spots in it (miyamura's piercings being compared to self harm in that one chapter.......???????) but over all a good read

Astra: Lost in Space - fun scifi adventure with good characters. pretty short and easy read. its fun

You Got Me, Senpai - SO CUTE one of the best relationships I've read in a manga. adorable.

Drowning Love - verrry good and complex, a mature story with darker elements (check out trigger warnings for it) and a very engaging coming of age story about two kinda horrible kids with too much attention pointed their way living in a small town. anime adaptation WHEN

Wake Up, Sleeping Beauty - super cute romance, supernatural elements. loved it

Orange - think this would be a perfect read if the time travel element wasn't explained like That and also Suwa >>> Kakeru and what they did to his character in that bonus story was just mean

Goodbye, Eri - everyone should read this. beautiful, stays with you. fantastic exploration on what arts purpose is

A Kiss, For Real - it was cute. the summary makes it sound more romance focused than it actually is, there is a lot of focus on the MCs journey of growth and what she wants to do with her life. Romance was cute but not exceptionally so

Takopi's Original Sin - overhyped as hell. depressing outlook on life. thought some of it was fine but it is overall too cruel to say i enjoyed it, especially with a cast this young

The Girl From The Other Side - I actually 100% cannot remember if I read this last year or not. anyways. BEAUTIFUL art, great characters, compelling mysteries

Junji Ito's Dissolving Classroom - not his best work by far, but it is one of his earliest so I don't care too much.

Spotless Love: This Love Cannot Be Any More Beautiful. - I haven't been adding the ones that aren't popular unless I really enjoyed them, but idk this one is just so wild I felt the need to throw it on here. girl who loves to clean x child assassin is certainly a relationship dynamic. they're funny

Anime I watched <3 THIS SECTION WILL BE LONG SORRY

Akiba Maid War - this is not very good but it is entertaining so...

Ano Hana - rewatched this one finally! still one of the best dramas of all time. did you know childe and jintan have the same english VA bc I know. I know this now.

BNA - the plot point about how the furries were victims in the literal real world holocaust made me kind of hate this I won't lie. also the best friend fox girl Nazuna is one of the most unbearable characters ever. when you lead a cult pretending to be an important religious figure to a culture you are not part of because you like attention i guess?? it is not a good look in a show that already deals so heavily in antisemetic themes & imagery for it's villains.... sorry to whoever recommended this to me :( great animation

Dance Dance Danseur - did not like the MC but I did like the FMC and Rival character, good animation. I read the authors shoujo title Drowning Love this year and it should've gotten the adaptation TBH but this was fine, last few episodes carried

Death Parade - rewatched this one this year and it is still amazing. OP is still one of the best out there.

Do It Yourself!! - not incredibly remarkable yuri bait with a fantastic art style. its fine if you like cute girls doing cute things while being gay genre

Erased - for a mystery story the culprit is laughably obvious. the rest of it is pretty good though. oh lol other than the weird jokes about the protags taste in girls but it never followed through on anything so compared to other series im too tired to care

Keep Your Hand's Off Eizouken - starts off strong but I couldn't keep caring by the end tbh. it does not help I started it and then stopped for like 7 months and then finally finished the show so that's probably rly affecting my feelings

Today's Menu for the Emiya Family - certified apron boy moment

Fire Force - do NOT fucking watch this show is is so actually bad. However. Arthur is so funny I have to finish the series

Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works - rin best girl. maybe fate isn't so bad after all.

Fruits Basket (2019) all seasons - LOVE ME SOME SHOUJO!!!! it slays everyone needs to watch this NOW

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 - fantastic movie i need to watch it again

Kaguya-sama Love is War - only watched the first season but it's fun, not the best without breaks. the people saying this is the best animanga romance need to read more shoujo though

Mob Psycho 100 s3 - I cried. It's beautiful. I don't need to say anything else

NGE - this was a rewatch a long time coming. Truly didn't understand shit watching this as a teenager lol. it's better than I could've imagined and a lot of the criticisms i used to have were actually stupid and a byproduct of not understanding what it was doing

Sarazanmai - 10/10 gay kappa connections cycles trauma love mafia boxes cops otters I WANT TO CONNECT, but.........

spy x family s1 - its good its sxf

Zombieland Saga + Revenge - first idol anime I watched. the main girl was way too relatable for comfort. good time.

Movies I watched (I am bad at talking about movies sorry)

Turning Red - super good loved the everything I can’t believe it came out this year. I’ve watched it 3 times.

Scream (the entire movie series) - it’s scream baby idk what else to say. First one is fantastic the rest are okay I guess but man… that first one is just sooo good it’s hard to live up to it

The Sea Beast - fun movie! Almost forgot I watched it

Monster High: The Movie - perfection 10/10 high art it should’ve been called Monster High: The Film

Skinamarink - loooove me a horror movie that says fuck doing what other movies do I am doing my own thing. Did not actually love the thing it did but it’s definitely not a bad movie

Wendell & Wild - STOP MOTION SWEEP !!!! Great movie I will return to on future Halloweens. Think the plot got a bit too big for the movies runtime or whatever but I really don’t care bc it was good so whatever

Disney’s ZOMBIES trilogy - bad.

Disney’s Descendants trilogy - bisexual. Less bad than zombies

The VelociPastor - a masterpiece baby!!

Glass Onion - absolutely fantastic, words can’t describe how fun this movie is

Pinocchio - stunning stop motion and a beautiful story that brought me to tears. icon.

#kris actually talks #posting this at 4am hoping nobody will notice it

[antiloreolympus]

5 Anti LO Asks

1. 191 spoilers: so Hebe basically grew into Hera 2.0, Persephone basically said nothing was her fault when a lot of it really was her fault, she thinks her green hands are a turn off (can she stop being hypersexual for one minute please), and she lives in a treehouse now??

What the fuck happened in that four month hiatus, seriously

2. Reading episode 191 was somehow rage-inducing and depressing at the same time.

We're still on the "Persephone did nothing wrong and shouldn't be punished"-train. Everyone, including the narrative, gives Zeus crap for doing what every sensible authority figure in his stead would have done. We're somehow supposed to pity Persephone for....being sent to a safe environment with supportive friends to clean up the mess she made and refused to fess up about until literally being forced too.

Like jfc Peresphone isn't even doing any work??? The first time we see her she's creepily hitting on an inanimate object and hiding away from her responsibilities??? The bare fucking minimum and she's too lazy and self-absorbed to do even that???

Oh, and we get zero news about how Demeter's feeling or doing meanwhile, because who gives a shit about her, she was just there in the first place to be an obstacle for hxp to overcome.

3. How come nobody's eyebrows are ever normal in LO. Why are they always pitch black blobs

4. The new chapter is just confusing . Hebe is a Hera clone. Like I was literally so confused why Zeus and Hera would on decent terms. I get she’s older to show time has passed, so why right now is Zeus thinking Persephone? What’s special about today? She still hasn’t done any of her tasks, so why after so long would we even question it?

Flash back to the trial: I’m sorta confused what the importance was to the freak out. Are they freaking out because they can’t go to the mortal realm, losing Demeter to a less qualified goddess to handle her job, or as Poseidon puts it “you lost the closest thing to the queen of the underworld” (are we forgetting that hades planned on proposing to Minthe but never got the chance)

Persephone: “hey guys I’ve been banished for a long ass time, but at least my ears as pierced am I right??”   I also hate how she goes “some of it’s my fault but not all of it.” She’s had 0 growth I feel, she killed a bunch of people and she’s more focused on the whole “well if my mom was just cool about my fertility powers/if I was just zeus’ kid he would have let me off the hook”

Is that nymph Daphne? Persephone was able to save her tree form but not Minthe? Or is Persephone just choosing not to save Minthe as a whole “I don’t need to help out the people who’ve hurt me” idk

Artemis, Thanatos, Eris: aren’t they not allowed to see Persephone or have any contact with her or they’d be heavily punished.

Why is Helios there? He’s been pretty indifferent about Persephone.

Prediction: the next couple chapters is gonna be a failed meeting with Zeus and then a flash back catching everyone up to speed, but it’s gonna take so long at first to get there.

-----FP Spoilers/Mention-----

5. Okay so I read the new chapters bc why not and tbh I was pleasantly surprised with how the characters were drawn in the premiere. Idk but they felt like they had more time put into them and their hands especially were really nice and looked like they came from a reference. That all changed in the next chapters tho ofc.:/

Fast Past Spoiler:

The time skip in itself is not bad, but oh my god it feels like none of the characters have actually changed except Artemis’ relationship with Zeus. Like they’re all the same characters just grown up a bit, but only characters like hebe actually show that. And of course everyone is so up in arms over Persephones punishment. I can get why Hades would be mad and why Poseidon would be upset because his brother won’t talk to him anymore, but everyone else is wayyy too upset over some random girl. Like everyone but Artemis hates Zeus rn and EVERYONE loves Persephone. And god the whole Minthe and Daphne thing? The point of their stories were that they were the victims of a tragic circumstance. In the case of Minthe, because of her own doing, and Daphne, because of Apollo. It’s like there are no consequences for anyone who Persephone likes. Daphne and Minthe should’ve stayed as plants. It would be the end of their stories and would equate to actual loss for Persephone. I see Rachel hasn’t gotten any better at writing. So much wasted potential to turn the story into a chance for growth in both the characters and writing. The only thing I liked out of the four new episodes was the touching moment between Zeus and Artemis. Why has their relationship grown  and changed but no one else’s? This story feels more about Zeus and his actions and consequences and growth than Persephones tbh.

#anti lo #anti lore olympus #lo critical #lore olympus critical

[psychangels]

didn't do wip wednesday yesterday bc of the update (figured everyone would be busy playing the game, so i didn't see much point in doing it) so! thwip thursday

here's some of chapter 4 now that i've reworked it!

When he jogs into the next room, he heads for the stairs, running up them as he grapples to the metal grates under the walkways above. Chai uses his momentum to swing up, onto the path. He almost falls over, but manages to catch himself on the railing. He takes a moment to breathe. Then he makes his way over to the vending machine. Selecting Over Charge, he gives the machine a good smack with his prosthetic hand. A couple of cans fall into the dropbox. As he kneels down to grab them, Chai suddenly gets the feeling that someone is watching him. But no one else is in here. Well, aside from the OL-404 that works the desk. She’s too busy to be paying any attention to him, though. He can hear the clicking of her keyboard. Each clack adds to the familiar song that always plays when he comes down here. The static crackles, distorting the music. He frowns. Something nudging his side brings a stop to…whatever that was. Turning to look, he finds himself face-to-face with a…wolf? A very robotic wolf. Its glowing green eyes bore into him. As the hissing fades out, Chai realizes that a new song is playing. “Uh, hi,” Chai says. It woofs in response. “Are you one of the bots I’m here to help test out?” It tilts its head, blinking at him. The sound of doors opening catches both of their attention. The robo-wolf hurries towards the test room. Chai stands up to peek around the corner. Sunny is walking down the stairs and doing something on his tablet. His LEO-031, Spice, is to his right. Sugar, his LEN-N31, is on his left side. Behind him, standing in the doorway, is a huge version of the robo-wolf. The sight of it sends a staticky prickle down his spine. The first robo-wolf leaps over them, towards the bigger one. It disappears into the mass of metal. Chai’s eyes pop out of his head. What the— Sugar suddenly almost knocking him to the ground distracts him from whatever the hell that was. He laughs as she rubs her face against his neck. She purrs, her whole body rumbling. Her mane fluffs up, the fur getting in his face. This is definitely not helping with his sweatiness. ”Sugar, get off of him, you're gonna suffocate the poor dude!“ Sunny runs over, effortlessly picking her up. Chai already feels much cooler, despite the fur all over him. He thinks he got some in his mouth. “You know better than to jump on people,” Sunny says. She keeps purring, leaning up to lick his cheek. He shakes his head, a smile on his face, as he sets her down. Then, he turns his attention to Chai. “Chai, my man!“ ”Sup, Sunny?“ They fistbump with their prosthetic hands. Then, with their flesh ones. That's followed up by them high-fiving with both. “Nothin' much. Just finished up some testing,” he replies. Chai's brow furrows. ”You did it without me?“ Sunny glances away from him. Then, he moves to drape his arm over Chai's shoulders. They don't actually touch, though. He hovers an inch or so just above him. ”Oh, yeah, just this one. Can't run one test and call it a day, bro,“ he replies with a grin. This time, when he looks away, Chai follows his gaze to the OL-404 at the desk. She doesn't seem to be paying them any mind. She's busy typing away at her computer. ”Can't talk here,“ Sunny whispers as he leans closer. ”I'll explain on the way to my office.” He moves away, heading back towards the testing room.  Sugar and Spice are quick to follow. “C'mon, let's get moving! We got a lotta work to do, man.”

#chai hi fi rush #hi fi rush oc #escapism au #angelwrites.txt #hi fi rush

[sunnydaleherald]

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[sukirichi]

HEY SUKI! im the 💳 anon fidkgskaia i actually sent ask a few times after i asked you about the gojo fic but i forgot to out the card emoji at the end LMAO BUT i hope you're doing great!

I just read dusk til dawn and i am hurt????? its depressing dijdhakahbaakia. BUT BUT BUT I ABSOLUTELY LOVEEEEEEEE HOW YOU WROTE Y/N???? i love female lead like that bcs i am that kind of woman and our wrath after being hurt constantly is just 🙏😇 pray for yourself lmao or should i say suna and iris should pray harder? Fidkkahaka

NO BECAUSE I WANT TO BEAT THEM SO BAD?????? its so annoying how iris had the audacity to say the crown prince wants her to be pregnant to like miss????? thats my husband??? you're so stupid wtf 😂

but the fact that iris had an inkling about how y/n might know about their forbidden relationship and suna deny it just shows that suna is just equally stupid as her fkifksbaoaokab irisuna = stupid dumb ass couple 😍

you certainly made a great job on writing this story(and your other story too) because the anger and sadness i felt when i read is just... 💀

I LOVE KITA SO MUCH 😭 i hope we get to see y/n interact with kita soon. and the smut scene between suna and iris before the wedding is so hot 💔 it breaks my heart bcs its not y/n but still you make them look hot.

but iris is not a royalty.. right? i mean princess maiko said that she is just someone who grew up in the castle but she isnt a royalty. hmmm

i like y/n and oikawa's interaction in chapter 5!! makes me happy that she is enjoying her hunt with him!! and the last scene 💀💀💀 its too early for iris to be dead lmao y/n is just playing 😍 so true queen

and i cant wait to see what will suna say to her odudmahsiska and i hope y/n just strikes some mean words back at him or something bcs the chat on his phone with iris is disgusting 😭 poor y/n

BUT i remember he said that he would absolutely would fall for y/n if iris wasnt in the picture.... and the fact that he doesnt mind about spending his life with y/n gives me hope... BUT y/n's happiness are much more important!

ok this is getting too ling i shall stop. i cant wait for the next update hehehe love you suki.

- 💳

anon, hello!!

and aww thank you so much, i’m happy to hear you enjoy dtd and love the YN! tbh, when i first pictured how dtd would go, i always imagined her as someone who was loving and kind but eventually had to turn insensitive and maybe even cruel but like there will be moments where you can tell that she’s still a good person yknow?

oh iris didn’t say that suna wanted to get her pregnant 👀 she’s married to kiyoomi, and to make it seem like they had a happy marriage, she was lying about how she and kiyoomi are “trying” and they want to have a kid so bad but also she was provoking YN 😭

also WHOA i made iris and suna look hot??? that’s a compliment thank you! and YEAH i can’t wait for kita and yn interactions too, they’re gonna be my favorite non biological siblings duo here <33 and yeah, princess iris is not royalty nor did she come from a noble family. she’s an itachiyama citizen by birth but became a refugee in inarizaki when she was a little girl, so she grew up more with inarizaki’s culture and customs. her background will remain a mystery for now, but it’s safe to assume iris is the most odd one out of everyone in the royal family.

I LOVE OIKAWA AND YN INTERACTIONS. oikawa finds entertainment in people’s misery and somehow makes any situation enjoyable for him, with the exception of his marriage because he’s always in a sour mood around maiko. and i agree, sending a dick pic to iris was horrible like it even made me feel soooo uncomfortable and disgusted 💀

and yes, yes! suna does like the idea of spending a lifetime with us. he genuinely enjoys our company and like us as a person, and if only he hadn’t met iris first, he would’ve fallen head over heels for us. suna can be saying some mean things but we’re actually his type 😌

i love you too, anon, thank you so much for reading dtd and taking the time to send me your thoughts about it! i appreciate it a lot <33

#asks with naoya's trophy wife #series: dusk till dawn #anon:💳 #long ask

[chitsangenthusiast]

18, 27, 29 for the ao3 wrapped if you haven’t answered them yet! 👀👀👀

helloooooo beloved ash <3

18. The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

a hilarious reverse to the question i just got from shan lmao but it was a pretty equal split between zuko and sokka in mallrat chpt 5, purely bc i know that if i had written in the direction that they wanted to go in then i was going to have to add on chapters and throw off the loose 5+1 structure that the fic is already just barely clinging to. so i refused them <3

(the argument was originally going to cause a bigger rift that would've needed more time to heal, bc mallrat is nothing if not dramatic. the entire scene is actually written out, squirreled away to be picked at for other future fics lol)

27. What do you listen to while writing?

LOVE this question just like i LOVE procrastinating on writing to make playlists for nearly every wip i have!!!

my mooncusser playlist gets played when i need to write serious/angsty scenes, nsfw wips get a vaguely-sensual playlist when i don't feel like rummaging for raunchier ones. and mallrat technically has an official playlist but i've also built out a specific one for chpt 6 that's just full of schoompy songs and vibes as i write very schoompy for this last chapter lol

29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

ohhh oh okay forgive me i'm gonna give a couple bc i've published so little this year and looking through the things i've written for this is actually helping the writer's block lift a little lmao so! this bit from mallrat chpt 5:

Zuko had stayed, waited. Hoped, maybe, that he would come back, and Sokka may be sinking in some sorrowful quicksand, but that alone makes him feel like he can still touch the earth below. It’s soft, tenuous, pushing his toes down too hard could have him falling right through—and yet, if he can figure out the right weight distribution of his feet, then maybe he can regain his footing. Take those steps through the doors of the tea shop, meet Zuko where he’s at, and pray that he at least hesitates in kicking him back out. If he can keep his head up long enough to breathe through the fog, in through the nose, out through the mouth, then maybe the words will return. Zuko will look at him—he likes looking at him—and he’ll glare, he’ll probably interrupt the entire time, but there’s still the odds that he’ll listen. Hear out Sokka’s explanations, entertain his apologies.

from in time's arrow bc it was very fun to write lol:

“I wasn’t lying—” a second battle of the legs, another deadlock. Sokka huffs, then screws his face up when it accidentally syncs with Zuko’s. “I’m just trying to do my job here, Sokka. The whole point of us being in this sub—” “This isn’t a sub,” he cuts in. The combination of quiet exasperation from the speakers and Zuko’s dramatic eyeroll aren’t nearly as good as cries of mercy after a (masterful) pun, but he still turns to the now empty rockbed satisfied. “This is a bathyscaphe.” Zuko groans loudly, and in his periphery Sokka can see him lean forward—barely, able to move only mere inches before stopping just short of hovering over his shoulder. “Then tell me the difference between those two! Pretend like you’re explaining it to the people who’ll be watching this, if you have to, but at some point you have to answer my questions instead of spouting off puns every five minutes!” “Well, whalecome to what it’s like working with me,” Sokka snarks. He punctuates his point with a stabbing finger, then quickly reels it back when it comes closer to Zuko’s chest than intended. “And like I said after the first time, if you’re gonna have a fish-ue with it then you better kelp that to yourself—” There’s a fleeting twitch to Zuko’s nose, a hint of a smile that’s smothered a touch too slowly, and Sokka’s brows fly up. He knows what a choked down laugh sounds and looks like, and close enough like this, Zuko can’t hide. Even with his mouth obscured, Sokka can read his mirth elsewhere, in his crinkled eyes and partially-exposed dimple, the awkward throat clearing and minute quivering of those well-defined shoulders.

#thank you ash <333 #and thank you for allowing me to use your art for the mallrat playlist it really fills my heart with joy to see it <3 #was gonna share a lil passage from the steamy fics before realizing that those. should probably go on my twitter lmaoooo alas #ask

[abigail-nicole]

tgcf liveread 10

part ten of my livereading of TGCF, Heaven Official's Blessing, which you should buy officially in english to support gays and great novels. and danmei and chinese gay fantasy. listen when I grew up we didn't even DREAM about having official licensed translations of gay niche content. anyway let's start book Four on today's recap:

"I can’t think of anything this story doesn’t have, except for a functional straight couple" -me, reading Heaven Official's Blessing, April 2020

originally tweeted 4/2/2020

Book 4 starting with a literal Xie Lian Suicide Nightmare!!!! This book is gonna Go Like That Huh!!!!

reading xie lian poor & starving is giving me Anxieties & Flashbacks

& now desperation drinking oh no

I know there are Bai Wuxiang/Xie Lian shippers out there

this is some fucking psychological horror

Absolutely people ship these two, beauty & the beast style, 50 shades style but where she left him after the first book and they didn’t get back together i stopped reading after that

I mean right now bai wuxiang is the most interesting thing happening in xie lian’s beginning of book 4 tragedy life so

Hella TW CW violence on these but OH MY GOD THIS IS SOME HORROR

ahhhhh i cant tweet anything about this chapter it’s really too much. Except for The Birth of a Ghost at the end

I KNOW SOME PEOPLE SHIP THIS

I understand why, & it’s because attraction is a form of power and power is often a root of attraction and clearly there’s some fucked up power dynamics here

IS THIS RUOYE

I feel like mxtx just came to my house and stabbed ME, PERSONALLY,

dianxia about to qi deviate

WHAT THE FJCK EXCUSE ME MOM & DAD

I WASNT PREPARED FOR THIS

WHERES MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT SCARF WEAPON PET

oh there it is. Hi ruoye <3<3<3<3<3 i needed a good thing in this narrative rn <3<3<3<3

A) this is Badass I Love someone turning really evil OBVIOUSLY

B) Wei Wuxian?!!!?!!? Is this The Burial Mounds??? What did you do with Xie Lian?!? This isn’t your book

There’s a Lot happening here and I’m kinda.....really into Black Lady Evil Magical Girl Dianxia

Chapter 192 is SO GOOD oh my god

This is an extremely Hua Cheng moment. “You’re already dead”????!!!!!!!!

mxtx, probably: ....too much soft boyfriends....this could use some more body horror

okay I didn’t realize when Xie Lian entered the Kiln that he was ALREADY A GHOST KING

he can’t kill himself & become a ghost and then kill bai wuxiang and emerge from the Kiln as a Ghost King....because he already tried that once

Is it like him from the future or something bc this is getting fucked up???? I mean i trust mxtx’s plotting

nope nope nope

even when this is like Evil Version Xie Lian it’s still incredible & I’m cheering for him to be Really Evil

(i dont want wuming to be hua cheng tho let him have other friends)

Oh that’s the second ascension huh

ascension 1: fighting bridge demon thing. ascension 2: stopping the human face plague. ascension 3: being daddy's favorite

Jun Wu’s like “But please don’t do that though”

okay i got through book 4 and that was a lot more & also shorter than i expected

Now it’s a Crown Prince-off in the Kiln tonight, fine scholars

......um? this got very Mecha huh

CALLED OUT BY MU QING

i’m glad shi qingxuan is back i missed them!!!

There’s a lot more plot-wrap-up than I thought there was gonna be, honestly

This actually makes the most sense as a plot explanation

WAIT DAD NO!!!! JUN WU!!!!!!!!!

just like a real dad, I feel very betrayed

I Still Love Ruoye The Most

This is a very classical Action Movie wrapup so far

Ah yes, Solve The Problem By Injuring Myself: a Classic mxtx protagonist move

another little side dish of horror for our Evil Crown Prince and the human face disease

some hua cheng backstory!!!!!! Crumbs of it!!!! I cling to it!!!!!!!!!!

This novel is so interestingly not like mdzs? Much more comprehensive, longer, bigger scope, more of an adventure story. Also probably a better-written novel, though translation being what it is, i can only speak to plot & planning & pacing

Im trying to think of other books this long and immersive i wanted to eat recently & really only came up with the wheel of time (less like this) & the baroque cycle (more like this, less romance)

XIE LIAN OUT OF THE CLOSET AT LAST!!!!!

I can’t think of anything this story doesn’t have, except for a functional straight couple

I also purposefully didn’t emotionally engage much with book four brcause torture & suicide cw tw real hard & i can read it but....i’m not gonna sit here & live out those scenes in my head like I do for the rest

This ‘bringing your boyfriend home to uncle’ scene with uncle bing like “JUST DON’T DATE THAT HORRIBLY UNFORTUNATE BOY DOWN THE STREET” & Hua Cheng staring him down

IT’S NOT AN AFFAIR THEYRE ENGAGED xie lian just doesn’t realize it yet

Omg the DIANXIA GUNDAM is BACK

wait the heavenly city moves???!!!!! This is suddenly very big budget action movie (or some truly atrocious c-drama SFX)

This is a HELL OF A BOSS FIGHT....or should I say a HEAVEN of a boss fight......

“He owes me money” i died. i love hua cheng

TGCF Goes Gundam continued on tgcf liveread part 11!

#tgcf liveread #tgcf

[embossross]

I wanted to comment on the chapter 2 oh TDOTGITM but i can’t and idk why so I’m gonna leave my mark here.. lessgo.

FIRST OF ALL YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MANY TIMES I CHECKED YOUR ACCOUNT LIKE A CREEPY STALKER FOR AN UPDATE !

*coughs*

Well, I have to do a review. You have to know that I literally shook all the way through my reading, I would have been so nervous in Yasuko's place.

« When you brush your hair after a shower or laugh at a meme, you imagine his violet eyes are watching. » this. My very definition of having a huge crush on someone, to the point where that person becomes an obsession (and how can you not be obsessed with Haitani Rindou ?) We littaraly saw them everywhere with us, watching us, talking with us.

Poor Yasuko, certain that he can't possibly be a yakuza... I can't wait to find out what her reaction will be when she learns it (if she learns it, but I guess so).

The discussion that starts almost timidly, when both parties are sizing each other up and discovering each other, then being more confiant, I live for that.

The way Rin talks about Ran, and the memories he shares with her, I've said it before, but I would die for their interactions in the first chapter.

« Sometimes, I think every good thing I have is bound to collapse, and that I should just submit to it, so maybe I find that resistance inspiring » I MEAN, CAN I STEAL THAT TOO ???

« We aren't going to be friends. » oh the way I giggled like a schoolgirl, I think I even BLUSHED.

WHY DOESN'T THIS MAN ACTUALLY EXIST ?

I won't even talk about the part where he asks her to follow him into the storeroom and for what was next, that was just 🤌🏻 I'm wordless.

Now I'm going to calm down, stop stalking your Tumblr for at least a week (but I'll still follow your Hanma's story closely hihi)

Anyway, funny, i have Kitchen in my book-to-read list !

Thank you, thank you, for imagining this universe, this Rin, Yasuko. I hope i’m not too annoying and I'll see you at the next review !

wow so much to say, i think i need bullets lol

this is the first time i'm seeing an acronym for this story & i am horrified. why are my titles so long?!?! 😑 i chose the title as a couple literary references but god

i can't believe tumblr is being this difficult. it must be because of the mature tagging? because someone else mentioned issues with reblogging? idk but i am SOOOOOOO grateful that you're sharing your thoughts here instead because i love them 💖

when do i find the time / energy / inspiration to write the rin/ran tag team that i frankly deserve? bc you are so right, their interactions are everything!

SQUEALING at the call out to the resistance line! because that's like the theme work i'm doing. i'm a sucker for theme & the tension between rindou & reader on this subject is the inspiration behind this whole story!! you CAN use it however you like!

honestly just every one of your call outs - so grateful!!

do you want me to tag you in things so you don't have to stalk the blog? i'd be happy to. probably no update next week. my parents are in town lol

and kitchen is great! a wonderful rumination on grief and love. i have a quotes doc for this story and like half were pulled from kitchen & snow country. i'm gonna have to control myself!

#p.s. did you know yasuko's name from the kakucho fic? #or did i #accidentally share it somewhere else? #because it is her name! #but i never know if i should keep names under wraps for the reader #dyanmic lol #thank you so so so much again #this is an amazing review #🥰 #asks

[wishful-soda]

Buckle up bc this is waay longer than I thought 🙃

First of all THAAAANK YOU FOR THIS CHAPTER.. When I tell you that this chapter was an emotional ride but in a good way.. AHHHH I don't know where to start

Few days ago I was rereading some chapters and i was thinking how we all forgot about the fact that Dan knows her coffee order and I felt that was like personal thing right? But now knowing he knows about cherries allergy just confirms that our boy knows so much stuff about her..all this time he was paying attention to her, to EVERYTHING SHE DOES 🤭🤭

JEALOUS DANIEL OMG 🥵🥵🥵 hot I knew he would struggle big time with all of this. But the way you wrote that is just chefs kiss. You really nailed that. Jelausy mixed with overthinking, is that real or are the just acting? Is there something going on? From wanting to punch Charles to being so smitten with her 🥰 our boy is long gone I'm afraid.

I KNEW THAT HICKEY WAS TOWARDS CHARLES you are maybe with her in public but she's all MINE!!

I have to give to you Charles is the perfect fake boyfriend. I also get Daniel cause at some moments I was like is Charles just acting or he has some feeling for her?? 🤔  "What if I do enjoy having my hands on her?" I GASPED WHO WOULD THINK THAT CHARLES CAN PLAY DIRTY

Also Daniel being like "not enjoying sharing and being jealous are two different things". Umm who's gonna tell him???? 😂😂🤦🏻‍♀️

“Next time you’re feeling really cocky about being the one that gets to put their hands all over her, remember that I’m the one that gets to be inside her.”  WHEN I TELL YOU I SCREAAMED 🥵🥵🥵  i was like tell him Danny

Daniel being so fucking obvious that even Max figured it out ohh my god. But I can help to notice that Max had calmer reaction..Like when reader was telling Max how she's dating someone he was like 'uh I thought it would be Daniel thank god it's not' but with Dan he was "I'm sorry that she's with Charles"🤔🤔 . Also Max being sneeky little bitch HAHHAHA he's the one that made them sing that love song to prove a point to Daniel no? 🤭🤭🤭

I feel like this chapter really showed us how they evolved slowly but perfectly not to much but cleary it's time for both of them to be a little more vulnerable and open with each other

Both of them being so obvious?? She's literally leaning on Daniel. She wants to speak with him.. poor Charles had to stop her multiple times but nope hahahha. This got me thinking I can totally see Max seeing reader has feeling for Dan.. he already called her out for not acting like couple.. and now with knowledge that Dan has feeling for her he'll definitely start paying more attention to them so I can see him figuring out that she also has feeling for him 👀 👀

THEM BEING SO CUTE IN THAT ALLEY ACTING LIKE BOYFRIEND AND GIRLFRIEND LIKE HOW BLIND ARE THEY????

“You’re harder to hate than you think you are.”  I- SPEECHLESS.. I CANT BELIEVE HE ADMITTED THIS TO HER BRO JUST TELL HER THAT YOU LOVE HER IT'S SOO OBVIOUS 🤭🤭

We can really see how they progressed with their relationship. Cause few months ago she would do anything to stop Daniel finding out about picture or the fact that she loves backwards hat Danny. and now? She's comfortable with him. She knows he'll tease her but she's eager for it. She doesn't care. Also I was waiting for that picture to come back hahahaha

“I’ve wanted to do that all fucking night.” baby this is obvi not just sleeping with your enemy if you wanted to kiss her all night

WHEN I IMAGINED THEM HAVING SEX IN RBHQ IT WASN'T LIKE THIS AND FOR SURE IT WASN'T IN HORNERS OFFICE BUT OH MY GOSHHHH IT'S BETTER THAN I'VE EVER IMAGINED 😍😍😍😍 also um not to ruin the moment but aren't there cameras???

“For what happened right outside this office. Two years ago.” I ALMOST CRIED this is basically him saying i have feelings for you without him saying it.. I feel like he knows something is up he just hasn't admitted to himself yet and when he does oh boy

“You don’t even realize I’ve broken down your first level of defense.”  this line also BROKE ME the way she'll be all panicky now because if there isn't a reason to hate him that means she can like him? She's gonna be holding on that article but for how long?? 🤭 only a matter of time before that is resolved and then nothing is stopping her.. 😏

This ended up being waaaay longer than I thought. I just cant stop talking about it and I KNOW I missed some parts that I love so maybe I'm gonna come back and talk about them later 😗 takee caree babyy ❤❤❤

-introverted little bitch

HI BABE

Okay; you’re right on. The coffee order was a hint and so were the cherries. Just little signs he’s actually been paying attention to her all this time 😍 Our boy was tied up right away, never stood a chance 😭

I’m glad that you liked the way the jealousy was written! It wasn’t as angry and violent this time, but I felt like it just wouldn’t be because he did have the knowledge that it isn’t real and he does know she doesn’t reciprocate the feelings. BUT he doesn’t get a lot of reassurance from her (at least not outwardly or in public) so he’s doubting everything he knows 😭 He knows she’s good at acting, but then it makes him wonder if HE can even tell when she is or what she’s actually feeling…

YES THE HICKEY WAS INTENTIONAL YOU KNEW BBY

Okay Charles is supposed to confuse you and make you go “where the hell does this dude stand” because THAT’S HOW DANIEL FEELS. So I don’t want to say anything definitively about his feelings or intentions or what he’s up to, because I want it to come to light for you guys at the same moment it comes to light for Daniel. You’re in the thick of it with him babes. Who knows what this LeClerc dude is doing….😉

When I came up with that line I screamed ok, I was like oh man this is peak cocky jealous chaos monster Danny, WE LOVE IT. 

Max’s reaction was gentler yes…but is that because he thinks Daniel’s feelings aren’t reciprocated? He’s not worried because it’s one sided and he knows she hates his guts so it’s not going to happen. So maybe he’s gentle because his friend is pining over something he’ll never have??? 😉😈

Finally we have her showing him she actually wants him (even tho it’s small and barely counts) right? She’s so much more honest when she’s drunk, and if she needs to touch Danny she’s going TO TOUCH DANNY OK SHARL. Tell me why I have the image in my head of like when two people call a dog and see who it comes to? It’s a test, who does drunk reader go to 😂

DINGDINGDING YES. ‘SHE’S COMFORTABLE WITH HIM’ Exactly! She’s ready for him to tease her, then she’ll get to tease him back. She’s warming up to him without even realizing how warm she already is. 

There ARE cameras yes, but Danny has addressed this, you’ll see at the beginning of chapter 16 (he may or may not have paid off a security guard) 

HE IS ADMITTING HE SCREWED UP. That’s huge for SotD Dan. HUGE. Look at the progress our little idiots are making 😭

Also never apologize for sending these long messages in because I live for them and you can ALWAYS come back and add more. I’m so happy that you loved it and that you’re catching all the subtle things I’m trying to make come actress because I worry that I’m the only one those are subtle for and they’re invisible to everyone else 😅

ILYSM bby THANK YOU FOR THIS 😍😘😘😘😘

#introverted little bitch #sotd spoilers #speak of the devil spoilers

[sunflowersandscreams]

i hope ur doing ok

Written for @solangeloweek ​ Day 3: WIP dump

this is a deleted scene from my christmas fic! this is only a short scene i wrote before i had to scrap the little plotline due to lack of space. I regret not developing Nico’s and (especially) Will’s relationships with their families more, and barely mentioning will’s life at all lmao. this is mostly unedited and not super developed so enjoy this little wip :) I won’t be continuing or adding onto this obv bc it's a deleted scene.

read on ao3

context and the actual fic are under the cut:

title from a text my friend sent me while i was having a breakdown everyone say thank u lori’s friend

supposed to take place end of chapter 6/start of chapter 7

CONTEXT: Kayla, Austin, Solía (my OC haha), and Gracie are his half-siblings by Apollo. Michael and Lee were Will’s older brothers that were killed in an accident (I never figured out how, just some sort of violent incident). in the fic Will was super run down and exhausted and he and Nico were gonna go on a whole shopping trip for his siblings’ christmas presents. at the end he collapses and breaks down and he and nico connect about their dead siblings. anyway it never got included but it was a cool plotline that i kinda wish i'd kept. but writing is an eternal process and i am constantly improving so! things to think about for my next multichap :))

The day was mostly warm so far. Nico liked it; sure, he tended to dress in tight, black clothes all the time, but a little bit of sun could do him some good. Sometimes winter just got too cold for him, so Nico relished the moments of warmth when he could.

Someone knocked on the door. By the specific force, speed, and rhythm of the knocking, Nico could figure out who it was and that he should be quick. He scurried to the door and unlocked it, finding Will hovering on the doorstep panicking.

“Nico!” Will cried, hands shaking just slightly. “Are you free right now?”

“For the next few hours, yeah,” Nico replied, frowning. “Is everything…?”

“Are you good at buying Christmas gifts for people?”

“Am I what?” Nico was thrown for a loop. He hadn’t expected Will to ask this.

“Christmas is in, like, a week, and I haven’t gotten anything for my siblings, and I need to ship the gifts because they live elsewhere, and I’m panicking, so… what do I do?” Will looked to be in despair. “Please, you’re my last hope.”

“I… okay,” Nico said, already pulling Will inside. “First, a plan.”

Nico made Will sit down at his kitchen table and write a list of his siblings’ interests, possible gifts for them, and where they could go together to buy something. By the time Nico was ready to leave, Will had completed a list.

Nico ran his finger down the page, counting the number of people. “Kayla… Austin… Gracie… Solía… Lee and Michael?” Nico stopped, coming to a couple of names that haven’t come up in conversation between him and Will before. There was only one bullet point under each of their names; Michael’s said a replacement figurine and Lee’s said leather bracelet.

“Oh,” Will stopped. “I… I didn’t- I didn’t need to put them on there, I’ve already got their gifts.”

Nico tilted his head at Will, who still wouldn’t quite meet his eyes. “…Okay. Well, we can focus on the other four. It looks like we could get this all at the local shopping center, so should we head there?”

“That sounds good.” Will swallowed, looking like he was biting his tongue. He released some tension, and his posture melted back into something more relaxed. “Yeah. I, um, just realized I have something else I need to do today. Can we go tomorrow?”

Will looked uncertain of himself, which… it wasn’t unusual for when Nico had first met him, but Will’s confidence had seemed to be growing. Nico just hoped he was okay. “Yeah, that’s totally fine. Are you sure everything’s okay?”

Will smiled brightly, running a hand through his hair. “Totally. Just tired. I should go take care of the something else, so, uh… I’ll see you tomorrow?”

“Yeah, I’ll see you tomorrow,” Nico responded automatically, still puzzled by Will’s slightly volatile behaviour. He didn’t know what Will was upset by, but he knew Will would come to him when (if) he was ready.

Will got up, almost tripping over his own feet. Nico left the house keys and wallet he’d collected in preparation for their outing on the table, letting Will out the door.

Before he left, Nico caught Will’s hand and pulled him into a quick hug. “I don’t know what’s bothering you, but I hope you’re okay. Or that you’re going to be.” Nico released Will with one final squeeze.

Somehow, Will looked more shaken than before. “Uh. Thanks. Th-thank you.”

Nico watched with a crease in his forehead as Will stumbled back to his own house. Something was obviously troubling Will, but he didn’t know what, and it worried him.

#lori writes #solangelo week #solangelo week 2022 #solangeloweek2022

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

ariariairari!!! first of all.. me being the godparent of the knight!sugu fic..🤚😔 there is truly not a higher honor than that IM HONESTLY. STILL THINKING ABOUT THAT FIC. I THINKA BOUT IT ALL THE TIME.

BUT OMG!! i loved who made me a princess so much 😭😭 I ATE THAT UP SO FAST AND RAELIANA TOOOOO a manhwa lover AND a gojo lover... you are a true person of taste 🙏 i have so many manhwa recs i've been fiending so hard lately they have been my only source of happiness for the past couple weeks!!! bc of uni 😔 beware of the villainess and melody of the deadwood are classics in the feel-good department!! but for that yum yum familial angst i'd recommend the strongest characters in the world are obsessed with me, death is the only ending for a villainess, and my personal favorite: i will change the genre!!! let me know how you like them if you ever do end up reading them !!!

I WOULD KILL FOR KNIGHT!NANAMI I'M SO SORRY i feel like knight!nanami and knight!sugu love u in different ways and i just... jfdkfjkdfjk.....

also you've NEVER seen avatar?? :0000 it's so good i'd recommend it!!! i personally think korra (the sequel) is better but that's definitely a hot take but they're both amazing!! i honestly get it though i didn't watch them until like a year and a half ago LMAO

BUT THANK YOU FOR THE QUESADILLA PLEASE ASSASSINATE MY PROF I CANT DO THIS ANYMORE

(i hope you're doing well <333 hugging u so hard ari <33 the weather is finally looking up in my area and i feel a happiness that's been lost to me for MONTHS... woke up and the sun was shining and i was like!! maybe life is worth living!! anyways i hope exam szn goes well for u AND I HAVE UR GOJO FIC IN MY TBR IM SCREAMINGGGGG)

ALEXIS IN MY INBOX…….. i’m kissing you and booping you so lovingly <333333

YOU ARE THE GODPARENT!!! i couldn’t have done it without you…. always remember that you’re the Founder of that fic i’m just the delivery guy <33 BUT YES FELLOW MANWAH FAN I LOVE YOU SO BAD. it’s been such a long time since i read a good ol otome isekai webtoon……. I ALSO FORGOT TO MENTION THE BEST ONE :(((( my next life as a villainess: all routes lead to doom!! i adoreee the mc she’s so good. silly little guy.

BUT TYSM FOR THE RECSSSS i’ve heard of/read a bit of most of them i think :0 i had a period where i’d just read the first chapter of every isekai manga i could find LMAO….. trust that i WILL be jotting all your recs down for future reference + breaking into your inbox whenever i check them out 🙏🙏

AND KNIGHT!NANAMI LMAOOO yes…. i rlly do think they love you differently. knight!nami is such a sweet boy and knight!sugu is a bucket full of Doom waiting to explode (but he loves you very tenderly)…. i just feel like you’ll always be a bit of a sidehoe to his moral code :’3 bro is married to his job unfortunately. kento would quit just for you <3

I’VE BEEN MEANING TO WATCH AVATAR but i haven’t yet….. T_T i’ve heard nothing but good things tho. and i’ve heard good things abt korra goo i think!!! will let you know whenever i watch it…. it’s just intimidating getting into such a long old series i think 😭😭😭

I’M MAKING YOU ALL THE QUESADILLAS IN THE WORLD BTWWWWW and don’t ever worry abt it sweetheart i have a guy on the case 😇😇 your prof WILL be stopped.

^ guy on the case

BUT WAHHHHH ILY ALEXIS 🥺🥺🥺 i’m so glad it’s getting sunnier and warmer where you are!!! it’s crazy how a tiny bit of sun will solve your whole life….. i’m gonna threaten the sun into shining just for u 🙏🙏 PLS HANG IN THEREEE OK it’s almost summer vacay… kind of….. assuming your school system is similar to mine…… we’re gonna survive we’re gonna do great

#I’M HUGGING YOU SO TIGHT 🫂🫂🫂 my belovedest of all time #AND THE GOJO FIC….. i hope you enjoy it personally i think bfb!gojo is my most attractive gojo yet but that’s just Me… #anyway. I LOVE YOUUUUU i hope you have the nicest day/night!!!! 🥺 i’m cheering you on always always #ask tag ✩ #alexis !! ✩

[eurydicees]

6, 9, 11 and 12 for the ask game!! :D

hello hello hello !!! here’s the q’s for anyone interested!! under the cut bc boy did this get out of hand

6. Describe what you do and your feelings after posting a chapter. (For example: When do you usually post a fic/chapter update? How do you celebrate a posting? Are you the type to refresh constantly?, etc.)

nervous. 

like. so nervous. i get so scared that people who liked prev chps or prev works will hate this one, and so every time i post, i get incredibly anxious that this is gonna be the one. this is gonna be the fic that ruins it and makes everyone hate my writing. which, like, god, that’s so fucking dramatic. but knowing that it’s dramatic has yet to stop me from being nervous every time i post. so yeah… i post and then immediately refresh every half hour to see if anyone has read it. which is not great bc i tend to post at weird times, so people generally don’t read every half hour after posting. rip. 

9. What inspired you to write your first fic?

ok we gonna unlock some deep fucking eurydicees lore. *western cowboy voice* fanfic and i go way back. 

so the first first first fic i ever wrote was a percy jackson fanfic when i was, like, somewhere around 8-10yrs old. it was absolutely terrible, but that’s irrelevant. i wrote it bc i was so deeply obsessed with pjo that i HAD to get my thoughts out somewhere. this was probably around the time lost hero came out? probably a little earlier bc i was Anticipating it. i had read a lot of ffn.net pjo fics and written a lot of original short stories and novels (also absolutely terrible, but also irrelevant), so i figured i might as well try my hand at it. shoutout to the pjo truth or dare percico/perachel/percabeth fics written in ~2010 for being an inspiration there. 

now, fast forward to middle school / freshman yr of high school age-ish. just. like. as i say this, please please please know that i have a lot of shame and have very much grown as a human being. anyways, i started reading certain terrible fics on wattpad and got really annoyed when the little pop up that was like “make an account and keep reading” would come up and stop me from going. so i made an account lol. and then i was like. ok……. these fics are pretty good. i bet i can do that. and then i did. and then i kept doing that for a Long time. yikes. so these were the first fics i published, and it was mostly inspired by other wattpad folks. the first ever wattpad fic i wrote was inspired by this song by troye sivan, though, if we’re gettin’ real specific. 

ok and now first fics on ao3… i signed up to do the pjo/hoo big bang back in 2019, and that was what inspired me to make my ao3 account. goddamn it rly does all come full circle to percy jackson. rick riordan how does it feel to run my life. this being said, the first fic i actually published on ao3 was mcu, and it was entirely inspired by endgame, because i thought that movie was prime material for making bucky barnes suffer, and also i hated it.

anyways. this has been your crash course in eurydicees history. i hope you enjoyed. there will be an exam. 

11. Who is your favorite character(s) to write about and why?

ok so i’m gonna do a couple bc i have a complete inability to choose favorite anythings: 

ohshc: tamaki and kyoya 100%. i’m so obsessed with both of them. i think tamaki is super fun to settle into bc he is, all at once, so stupid and so smart and so loving and so oblivious and so so so so. it’s just so much fun to get into his headspace and rly figure out what makes him work as a person, and how i can make that into a story. kyoya is also really fun to write bc like, i get to wax poetics about tamaki suoh, and this is one of my all time favorite activities. he’s also really different from a lot of other characters i write, so it’s cool to branch out! 

haikyuu: kuroo and atsumu! they’re both such subtly complex characters and i love drawing those complexities out and rly making them prominent. they also both have really interesting interpersonal dynamics that are SO fun to look at and really pull apart. i’m a very character-focused writer, so it’s really fun to be able to look at a character and have so much to work with already, but neither are necessarily the leading protags (kuroo arguably is a protag, but not in the way someone like hinata is) so it’s also fun to be able to add on my own little bullshit headcanons without anything to contradict me. bipolar!atsumu and biracial!kuroo my beloveds, no one can tell me u aren’t real. also they’re both just so fun to clown on lmfao 

12. What is your favorite theme/subject matter/trope/ship to write about? Why?

ahhhh this one is Hard. ok. again, i’m incapable of doing favorites, so i’m gonna just talk abt a couple things. 

1 .i love doing canon compliant character studies, particularly ones that involve taking a tiny aspect of something and making it deeply important 2. i also just love internalized homophobia and coming out fics, which is probably a sign of some internalized shit but i don’t know and i don’t care to! 3. soulmate fics, enough said there. i’ve written six thousand of them (i have a series w three ~40k word long parts coming soon probably, and the tamakyo one also in progress)  4. just in general, i like writing lots of pining and lots of angst w/ a happy ending :)

ty for the ask!!

#ask #these questions are funnnnnn

[tomdutch]

Btw, I have a question, how do you make tag lists?

if you mean the forms, i just open a google form and add questions there like “what is your url?” and “are you 18+” if there’s smut. then when i’m ready to post, i copy paste the urls on a google doc for the formatting since tumblr is ass then i paste that in a reblog of the post and click on each url individually to make sure it’ll tag. unfortunately 99% of the time it doesn’t stick on the first try and it’s a very time-consuming thing so 😀 with the way more than half the ppl on a taglist never even interact with a post, no wonder a lot of fellow writers have thrown away taglists altogether

#i’m gonna do it for the first couple of chapter of bc then just stop if i notice it’s not useful #masked vigilante #answered