#itisi-asimplegay

[shanastoryteller]

happy valentine Shana!!! I can't believe i made it finally jgfcjjcgjgx i would love to see some fma (Sacrifice is free/ed&ling betrothed/What They Expect) or more of Lord Arthur De Bois, or time travel Jiang Cheng/drarry, or Avengers' Three Faced Goddess! (can anyone tell I Cannot choose favourites? They're all so gooood) and if none of those sound appealing, dealer's choice! thank you!!

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It's sort of awkward, because Eden insists on thick tights and long sleeves and keeps her gloves on, but Catherine takes it in stride and doesn't react with anything more than a single raised eyebrow. Maybe she thinks she has some sort of terrible skin condition on her limbs, or something, because she's perfectly fine with plunging necklines and the lacy bras Catherine shoves at her.

She hasn't worn anything besides a sports bra since she's had breasts. They're not exactly comfortable, but compared to the constant, background ache of the automail it doesn't even make a blip on her radar.

Besides. They make her look like a girl, shoving her breasts up front and center, and their size had been an annoyance when passing for a boy and a comfort when she looked at herself naked in the mirror, searching for the girl she was rather than the boy everyone saw, but this is different.

"Wow," Catherine blinks, tilting her head to the side.

Eden flushes and wishes that at any point she'd learned how to talk to pretty girls outside of life or death situations. "I hadn't realized they - I'm not used to wearing, um, girly stuff."

"You look good in it," she says, touching Ed's back and shifting her to face the mirror.

She's in black tights and boots with a chunky heel, taller than the ones she normally wears and sleeker, stopping just below her knees. She's wearing a dark green dress with a deep neckline. She's used to be hard lines and sharp edges, but she looks soft here, her hips and breasts curving out from her waist and the dress somehow minimizing the breadth of her shoulders, or maybe it's just that with all the skin on display in the center, her shoulders just don't get as much attention. She'd had to build them up, to make the automail balanced, to make sure her body could support it, and she'd always hated how masculine it made her look. But looking at herself now, she wonders if that just wasn't in her head.

Green's never been a color she gravitated towards, but the dark color makes the gold of her hair shine, brings out the warmth of her eyes and the pink of her lips.

"You're really good at this," she tells Catherine, throat tight.

Catherine grins. "You are a beautiful canvas, Eden. It was not difficult." Ed's face burns. "Do you have plans for dinner? We could have it at my home. I am, honestly, dying to curl your hair."

Ed hesitates, because her shade of blonde is rather distinctive, then takes a second look at herself in the mirror. No one is going to think she's the Fullmetal Alchemist looking like this. "Okay, yeah. Sure. That'd be great."

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Catherine knows that Eden is military at first glance, seeing her elder sister in the way Eden stands and moves. She looks young, but she can't be that young, not when she has the stance of someone who's been enlisted for years.

She figures that Eden is looking for clothes to wear outside of her uniform for the first time and something in her softens at how insistent Eden is on keeping certain parts of her body covered. Her siblings have scars too.

When they get to their home, Eden seems slightly surprised at the grandness of her home, but gets over it quickly, which Catherine almost expected. She hadn't looked at a single price tag as they'd been shopping and had paid for her bags of purchases with a nonchalance that spoke of a familiarity with money, although that leaves Catherine to wonder how she ended up in the military in the first place. She hadn't gotten a last name out of her, but Catherine is familiar with most military families, and she would have heard if any of their daughters had enlisted.

"Your bedroom is so pretty," Eden says, looking around at her pink, frilly room filled with flowers and clothes and gilded in gold with a soft wistfulness.

Catherine loves her. "Thank you. Here, sit at my vanity, let's play."

Eden laughs and pulls her hair out of the hasty ponytail she'd pulled it into, letting Catherine run her hands through it and carefully brush out every knot. It's gorgeous, thick and silky and the most wonderful shade that Catherine's never seen on anyone else.

People always act so oddly with her because of her family, even those similarly situated looking down at her for her choices, to be neither an officer nor married to one, but that's just not what she wants right now. It's nice to hang out with another girl that just treats her like a friend.

"MY BELOVED SISTER HAS RETURNED!" booms from what sounds like the first floor.

She sighs.

Eden goes rigid in her chair, eyes wide. "What - why-"

"It's just my brother," she says soothingly, concerned with how pale Eden has gotten. "He's harmless, really."

"Brother," Eden repeats. "Fuck. Fuck! I'm so stupid-"

"It's okay," she says in alarm, "Eden, what-"

She gets to her feet, grabbing her hands and looking at her a desperation that Catherine doesn't understand. "He can't know I'm here. Who I am. Do you understand? It's important."

She doesn't understand. "Eden-"

There's the sound of heavy footsteps heading their way and Eden wrenches herself away, bolting for the other side of the room. She claps her hands together, then presses them against the wall, and in flash of light she's disappeared.

Catherine stares. mouth agape.

She's familiar with alchemy. The skill has been passed down her family for generations.

Eden didn't use a circle.

"I HEAR YOU HAVE MADE A FRIEND, DEAR SISTER!" Alex shouts, flinging open her door and flexing in the doorway. "I WISH TO MEET YOUR NEW COMPANION!"

She picks up a pillow from her bed and lobs it at him, hitting him right in his stupid curl. "We're having girl time, go away!"

"Ah, girl time!" he says. "A storied tradition that has been passed down the Armstrong family for many generations!" He looks around, seeing her empty room, and his eyebrows dip together.

She grabs a makeup brush, holding it up threateningly. "You know what else has been passed down our family for generations? The art of knocking! Go bother Momma!"

"Where's," he starts.

Catherine throws the brush, pointy end towards his eyes.

He ducks, retreating to the safety of the hallway and closing the door just in time for the brush to hit it.

She takes a deep breath, calming her racing heart and smoothing her hands down her skirt. She crosses the room, knocking against the wall and whispering, "Eden? He's gone."

There's nothing for a moment and then there's light and heat and she's looking at the the inside of her house, pipes and insulation, and Eden standing there in the center of it, eyes blown wide and lips trembling.

Eden, who won't let her look at her limbs and doesn't know how to wear girly things and uses alchemy without circles and recognizes her brother from his voice alone.

"I'm sorry," Eden whispers, arms wrapped around herself, trying to make herself small. "I just wanted-"

Catherine interrupts her, reaching out to place her hand over the arm Eden had been careful not to let her touch and is unsurprised to feel hard, unyielding metal. "The art of secret keeping had been passed down the Armstrong family for generations."

Eden's eyes snap to hers and Catherine smiles, squeezing her arm and hopes that she can feel it. Slowly, wondrously, Eden returns it.

#girlhood is making promises you don't fully understand in the walls of your childhood home #prompt answers #prompts are closed #itisi-asimplegay #asks #fma

[kazieka]

happy day of birth! I think I'm almost late but maybe not! hope not!

it is still the 23rd for me so I’ll take it!!! thank u lovely!!

#itisi-asimplegay #lindsey shut up #an ask? wtf

[multi-lefaiye]

ooooh fic recs from multi?? 👀👀

omg yes we're doing very serious fic recs in which i am definitely not just recommending the same thing every time /j

anyway hey you should totally read love after life by unstuckintime! it is a saw fic but you don't need to know anything about the movies to enjoy it because it's entirely an au. HOWEVER, knowing about the movies DOES let you get some of the silly little references and okes.

it's the only time i've personally seen the "character falls in love with a ghost" trope done in a way that i enjoyed, and it's so sweet and so sad and the ending rips my heart out in the best way possible.

if you like sad introspective gay people This Is The Place For You!!!

#talk to the bunnykitty #itisi asimplegay #ask game #love after life game #if you want actual fic recs unfortunately you will have to specify because until further notice #im just a love after life shill #but yeah if you want actual fic recs lmk and tell me what you'd be looking for and i will try to provide

[l-live-under-a-rock]

Boop me and my son ever again

@itisi-asimplegay

#כאילו #Don't talk to me or my son ever again #אבל boop #boop #האם אני מצחיקה בכלל #ישראבלר

[banashee]

I got tagged by @undefeatednils

Thanks Friend!

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Rules: post 10 of your favorite comfort movies and then tag 10 people

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1) The Lord Of The Rings (trilogy)

2) The Addams Family (the two 1990s movies )

3) Dracula (30s and 90s, I love them both)

4) Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie films)

5) The Old Guard

6) Sleepy Hollow

7) The Rocky Horror Picture Show

8) What We Do In The Shadows

9) The Craft

10) Marvel Movies as a whole. They have their issues and I have my own issues with some of them, but they're still very much a comfort

I'm tagging you guys if you wanna do this - no pressure though, as always. And if I didn't Tag you but you wanna do this, absolutely feel free

@coffeeaddicted-stark @itisi-asimplegay @lucky-numberme @asamandra @i-am-eurus-holmes @lilolilyr @jomendacium @coulson-is-an-avenger @pocketsizedquasar @lucianinsanity

#Tag game #Long post #Movie Tag game #CW GIF

[inber]

Congratulations to the winners of the One Night in Hartswood audiobook giveaway: @lavendercoded, @haywire-clusterfuck, and @itisi-asimplegay! (I will be in touch to get your details)

One Night in Hartswood is out NOW in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook form! Go support my frogwife, @a-kind-of-merry-war, and get yourself some gay ass forest men action 💖

#hartswood #onih #queer fiction #one night in hartswood #lgbt fiction #queer #lgbt

[artistsfuneral]

@itisi-asimplegay @jjkshi

p. 2 of this

Halfway up the mountain the phone connection cuts off. Before any of his friends can get annoyed by the idea of having no reception for weeks, Jaskier reassures Pris, Essi and Valdo that they'll have a internet and phone connection as soon as they reach the house. Everything will be just fiiiiiiiiine.

It gets quiet in the car, Essi and Priscilla falling asleep while Jaskier takes out a map and quietly navigates Valdo through the forest, the road steadily getting thinner and older until they have to leave the main road and follow a overgrown pebble path further into the wilderness. Jaskier isn't exactly a fan of their situation, he's already getting some horror movie vibes from this but also knows that if he'll adress it, Valdo will joke about him being a scaredy pussy and he really doesn't need to hear that now. So he occupies himself with staring outside, drafting an email in his mind to the local deforestation and garden company.

After a couple of minutes something white suddenly flashes between the pitch black forest and Jaskier lets out a startled sound, "did you see that?" he asks Valdo, who only gives a sarcastic reply in return - he's tired from the long drive and concentrating on the small road in front of him is grinding on his nerves. Jaskier gulps down his fear, it probably was just the tail of a scared dear or something, nothing to worry about, right?

Suddenly Essi, who was awoken by Jaskier's yelp, let's out a loud gasp and a curse - she swears she's seen a man standing in the forest before suddenly disappearing...

#the witcher #artistsfuneral about the witcher #jaskier #witcher #geraskier

[artofbeans]

@itisi-asimplegay: Thank you~! :D

#replies

[sarcasticallyinclined]

10 characters, 10 fandoms, 10 tags :0

(tagged by @terminalthrillness and @anthonyampersand​)

shinsou hitoshi (boku no hero academia)

suzuki shou (mob psycho 100)

nishinoya yuu (haikyuu!!)

gerard keay (the magnus archives)

gueira (promare)

mikoshiba mikoto (gekkan shoujo nozaki kun)

quiche (tokyo mew mew)

karkat vantas (homestuck)

hitachiin kaoru (ouran high school host club)

keith (voltron legendary defender)

hmmmmmm tagging @spyromancy @polyplectron @presszltoturnintoasquid @starsnot @tsuyu-chan-kun @todoroki-shouts @rumi-08 @parasiticghostwasps @sheepwizard @itisi-asimplegay

#jess pretends to have a life #ask memes #its like. not but thats my tag so close enough

[theoestofocs]

WIP ask game: Rules are as follows. post the barebones plot of your wips and let people send you an ask with the title that intrigues them the most and then post a snippet/tell them something about it! then, tag as many people as you have wips! 

Tagged by @journalofimprobablethings 😊 thank u for the tag, friend!!

for the sake of brevity i'll only list the wips i haven't published on ao3. this means that all of my wip titles are basically in code due to my organizational system ("FF - [# signifying fandom] - [# signifying fandom-specific work count] - [Acronym That Means Something Only To Me]") but ! a detangled version of my current wips:

batman

"every battrope i love at once" au (in which there are a multitude of wrongfully presumed deaths, jason & tim and dick & damian and steph & cass & helena-kyle-heiress-to-catwoman are all besties, babs kills the joker, and gotham saves itself)

"oh god i accidentally fell in love with each individual canonical talon, send help" (this feels self-explanatory)

Penumbra Podcast

"love letters" (in which nureyev has slightly more perceptive acumen than a brick, and rita is terrifying)

Magnus Archives

"hey what if jon turned into a mermaid but it sucked" (feat. unnecessarily extensive underwater worldbuilding, mer-stokers, mer-sasha, extremely concerned georgie & martin, and the usual bastard elias)

"this one is just titled 'eyes'" (in which i just think the fandom could make more use of the "magnus steals people's bodies & MAG 193 implies they're still alive the whole time" angst potential. i Just Think)

tagging @inklingofadream @blue-mood-blue @suttttton @pathos-logical & @itisi-asimplegay, and anyone who wants to play!

#tagging game #ask game #wips #linden writes #feel free to drop an ask about any of these! i am always happy to share my opinions and/or spout ominous vagaries about my nonsense

[cuewulfir]

a) for the ask game, 6, 8, 14!

b) hi lmao! :D gmorning 👋

oh hey!! :D gmorning to you too!

6. do you use a watch?

i do! i have a very bulky black watch that i've had for. maybe six years now? tbh i cannot make it through the day without it alksjdflk

8. do you change into specific clothes for the house when you get home?

uhhh not really? most of the time no i guess, but if i've been in like formal wear or an uncomfortable outfit i probably would change into a hoodie and jeans or something when i get home

14. do you think you're dehydrated?

at the moment, no, but in general i probably should be drinking more water xD

#ask games #itisi-asimplegay

[kazieka]

hap birth!!!💕🎉😍

THAMK ✌🏻😁

#ILY MARI!!!!! #lindsey shut up #an ask? wtf #itisi-asimplegay

[multi-lefaiye]

🍓👉👈 (only if u want to tho!💕)

(come get your compliments here besties!!)

aw yes of course!!! y'know, we don't talk that often, but you're a SUPER sweet person and i love seeing you on my dash! your icon also fills me with so much joy, like!!! that's a cool person i know!!!!

#talk to the bunnykitty #itisi asimplegay #also your url is top fuckin notch tbh

[albatris]

them!!!!!!!!!!

zeke, alex, quinn, nat, yvonne

of "a rental car takes a left down rake street and disappears" fame

emjoy <3

tagging my taglist because I'm proud of getting them all done hehe

@transmasc-wizard @saturn-iidae @polyaubergine @tracle0 @goosemixtapes @valence-positive @the-one-who-makes-negative-noise @ambiguousfiction @afoolandathief @softboiled-doomdesire @mecharose @vellichor-virgo @flapuflapu @femme-gerard @multi-lefaiye @writeouswriter @itisi-asimplegay @constellationof0rion @writing-is-a-martial-art @manuscriptsatmidnight @starry-winter-skies @cream-and-tea @gailynovelry @lefttigerobservation @indecentpause

I copied u all out from my phone notes app so apologies if I skipped anyone fdhkdhdd

#thought i'd put them all next to each other so everyone can see #that nat is the shortest #he's just a lil guy #alex is the tallest by far #quinn is not tall quinn just likes heels #anyway!!!!! #they... #a rental car takes a left down rake street and disappears #art adventures with logan

[4x01]

wrapped #42 :D

Little Dark Age by MGMT!

#replies #itisi-asimplegay

[banashee]

URL Song Game

Thanks for tagging me, @asamandra 💜

(for each letter of your URL, name a song that starts with that letter)

B - "Beautiful Day To Die" by Vision Video

A - "Artificial Suicide" by Bad Omens

N - "No One Holds Hands" by Lebanon Hanover

A - "Acid Ocean" by Project Pitchfok

S - "Somebody To Love" by Queen

H - "Hellfire" by The Mechanisms

E - "Easy To Dream" by Vandal Moon

E - "End" by The Cure

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I should get a longer URL. This is fun

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Tagging you Folks if you want to, but as always, no pressure 💜

@lilolilyr @coffeeaddicted-stark @bananaink @undefeatednils @famosoentrescalles @itisi-asimplegay

and anyone who wants to do this

#Tag game #Music Tag game