Here it is: the big guns. The magnum opus of this series. The fic that started it all and is also somehow the one I've most recently updated. The holy grail slow-burn poly-shipping mutual-pining Soulmate AU and the longest fic in this series by a long shot (if only due to the fact that I stopped updating the Ziggy/Scott one, and even that was not a slow burn). I left y'all on tenterhooks for MONTHS as I updated this thing and whenever I want inspiration for writing slow-burns I come back to this fic. It meant so much to get to write asexual Riley and his soulmates' supportive reactions as well as Kaylee's aromantic journey, too!
Also, apparently it's the most kudosed one in the Dino Charge fandom? And the second-most viewed? So thank y'all so much! Once again, I cannot believe that these passion project rarepair fics have spoken so well to the good people of the power rangers fandom. I started this series when I was eighteen (I wrote the vast majority of it at eighteen) and a freshman in college and I got so much joy from writing all of these traumatized idiots sitting within stories that were just begging for a bit of tweaking/exploring. Thank you all so much for coming along this journey with me over the years- it means more than I can say!
Idk why but this song just gave me big Limoreau vibes:
(Song is: Woke The F*ck Up - by Jon Bellion - Acoustic)
Just imagine Jordan playing this song for Marie (Maybe they're covering it, or maybe they wrote it about them in this world idk. Just work with me here). Like, I really wouldn't be surprised if Jordan knew how to play the piano bc they were probably forced to take lessons as a kid. And maybe they actually had an affinity with it, but never did anything with it to spite their parents for making them learn it in the first place. But yeah, they just surprise Marie with the song one day and she is just shocked at how well they sing and play piano.
Anyways, I'm gonna stop now before I end up analyzing the lyrics and drawing the parallels to their relationship, (I mean, I could if you guys wanted that kind of thing. But I'll leave it for now)
Seriously tho, just give the song a listen and theater of the mind that shit. It's all I do.
guys help I’m making a playlist of songs that are just like. so incredibly human. like the human experience but in song form. idk how exactly to explain it but songs that just feel like r a w existence?? that’s the best way I can put it.
Here’s some songs already on it plssss send more if you have any I’d love to hear them
After watching Nimona I cant help but think this movie is the closest we'll ever get to ever watching something that looks SIMILAR to Jon Bellion's Glory Sound Prep animated series, he wanted so badly to make a Pixar-tier movie and that never went through, but idk, most of The Human Condition might as well be a good soundtrack to Nimona if it wasnt metal:
-He is The Same is about people seeing Ballister as a commoner despite everything he did
-All Time Low is literally just about Ballister after the queen's death
-The Good in Me is about his now-strained relationship with Ambrosius
-Overwhelming is a love song but you could also see it as his "parenting" song as Nimona's totally-not-dad
-Weight of the World is about Nimona and Glorieth I think this is obvious
-Morning in America might be about the Insitute and how society is unable to change for the better
Come on you cant deny I'm headed somewhere with this-
Sleep on me, feel the rhythm in my chest, just breathe
I will stay so the lantern in your heart won't fade
The secrets you tell me I'll take to my grave
There's bones in my closet, but you hang stuff anyway
And if you have nightmares, we'll dance on the bed
I know that you love me, love me
Even when I lose my head
-Jon Bellion, Guillotine
The first nightmare occurs Olu's second night on the ship. He wakes to Jim shuddering in his arms, gasps heaving through their body without sound. His mind snaps to attention, seeking a way to soothe Jim, but he finds a strange but welcome sight.
Archie is already awake and turned around to face Jim. She knows what to do, it becomes instantly clear. She taps his hand, silently guiding it to hold Jim tight around the waist, then takes Jim’s face in her hands and presses their foreheads together. Though no words pass between them, Olu listens as Jim’s breathing evens out, falling in line with Archie’s.
When Jim murmurs, “Tell me you’re alive,” he doesn’t ask them any questions.
When Archie responds, voice tight, “We’re both here, mate,” he doesn’t request any of her answers.
Olu only says, “We’re not leaving you, Jim,” into the back of Jim’s neck, feeling them relax beneath him, and for this moment, at least, he at least gets the comfort of knowing that Jim is able to relax, to fucking breathe, when between the two of them.
-aletterinthenameofsanity, you are still alive when I look to the sky in the night
I know that this isn't the first fic in the series about them, but it is my favorite fic in the series so far! It covers Olu's POV on the gap btw Seasons 1 and 2 and the developing relationship between the three of them in the early parts of this 'verse. Absolutely gorgeous. I ship them so much and I definitely plan to make them each their own moodboards soon enough!
And now we get into the various venjix!Ziggy AUs (alright, there's only two of them, but I've got playlists for both, so strap on in). First up is the first RPM fic I actually wrote, which ft. Ziggy getting captured late in the season and made into a Venjix attack bot ala Tenaya. Not only did it set up a lot of conventions for how my RPM stories would play out (like how Venjix memory wipes work and how dead Soulmates are handled), it also ft. trans!Ziggy, his twin sister Meredith (possibly my favorite OC in this series), and remarkably little focus on the romance in favor of exploring the implications of amnesia, mind control, and sibling love.
It was made 10pm something. I don't know why I thought making something like this would be a funny response to @you-ren-emy asking me if “Waiting on a Miracle” by Post Malone was an Encanto cover done by him. I guess this is sort of a way for me to show what I listen to? Just not including Juice WRLD and XXXTENTACION in the picture for Aku Aku knows what. No idea why I'm posting it here on Tumblr of all things either. It's not funny looking back at it, but I guess someone else might find it funny still.
(Popia being Bruno makes so much sense according to @beelzielbub in which I could not tag for some reason)