#something borrowed something blue

[holy-loki]

the color blue in velvet goldmine (1998) 

#velvet goldmine #something borrowed something blue #no one asked me but i think it's supposed to allude to the 'find something and make it yours' theme #that is so incredibly prevalent in this film #first take your pain - make it yours like jack fairy #or take the stage and make it yours (since it's all you know) - like maxwell #find a lover and make them yours - like brian #find another and make him yours !! like curt and brian

[nyandereneko]

Stranger

Word Count: 604 Summary: “The trio of fantastical strangers found themselves stupefied in the wake of the devastating strength of the bond that’d formed between them in the breadth of a breath, but their collective confusion had no bearing on the enduring—and steadily intensifying—status of said bond.” Author’s Note: I know I'm posting this fairly late but I found a promptober list and I wanted to attempt at least some of the prompts. I probably won’t be able to keep up with every day because I’m still working (and building Gen$hin charas) most of the month, but I’m certainly going to try to do a couple of these!! If nothing else I just want to try to get into the mood of writing again, and I really enjoyed working on this piece, so thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy!!

*****

Neither man knew quite what to do with himself as he was unexpectedly struck by the woman’s peculiar presence. She fell over them like a shower of late spring rain, or perhaps she was more like autumn, tinged with a chill that drew their warmth to the surface rather than stripping it away. Inexplicable and extraordinary.

She was as devastating as a comet, and as inspiring as the flash of a falling star, imbued with the essence of a wish in the depths of her very being.

She was a stranger in every sense of the word, even as their wandering gazes tripped over her that first time. They were drawn to her just as the sun is drawn beneath the distant horizon; a predictable comfort at the end of a long and arduous day. The man forged from gold and the man carved from ocean torrents orbited the star that blazed across their skies with instinctive finesse, an overwhelming impulse that prickled through their veins like a swelling storm. Her acknowledgement was the sole balm that could soothe their restless hearts. Her influence was impossible to ignore, although the idea that they’d even want to was the last thing on their minds.

Not when their minds were already so full of her.

A dazzling star that reflected the celestial radiance of the cosmos in her fragile visage, she directly contradicted her own distinguished luster in her habits, seemingly determined to conceal it at all costs. Muted, insignificant, more preoccupied with shrinking into the shadows of the darkest corner she could find than exchanging pleasantries in most meaningful social capacities…and yet. And yet, in the midst of a crowded room, there was still no doubt in their minds as to her precise position. Her very essence was a beacon to them both, a lure set with rare and mysterious bait, seemingly unremarkable while still managing to catch and hold the attention of not one but two nigh mythological beings.

The trio of fantastical strangers found themselves stupefied in the wake of the devastating strength of the bond that’d formed between them in the breadth of a breath, but their collective confusion had no bearing on the enduring—and steadily intensifying—status of said bond. In short, there was nothing a single one of them could do to divert from the path they’d stumbled upon, and there was likewise no way for them to know if that inscrutable path was the right one, the one they were always meant to find. Each of them had already tread so many different paths on their own, set off on so many journeys and wandered so many twisting alleyways and avenues of life with only their shadows—and unreliable shadows at that—as fickle company.

For Zhongli and Neuvillette, the encroaching woe of embracing a lonely future was eased by her arrival. For Nova, the swelling wave of despair and doubt that threatened to engulf her in its roiling depths broke against their very beings, dispelling any immediate danger to her fragile composure. They were each other’s remedies before they’d even said hello, forming anchors to various eras of time that passed in whirling blurs of friends and foes alike. So many years passed together in simple bliss, and just as many terrors and trials reared their heads to displace the joys of simpler times.

Nova was their constant until she wasn’t. The duo served as her shelter until she was cruelly whisked away. An untenable circumstance each of them was determined to right at any cost—though the tangled strands of fate never intended for them to be forced apart for long.

#self insert #selfship #selfshipping #oc x canon #self insert fic #self insert fanfiction #selfship fic #selfship fanfiction #self insert writing #my writing #ck writes #my self insert #my self insert writing #glitter and gold #something borrowed something blue #glitter and gold writing #something borrowed something blue writing #sorry for a novel already in the tags #yeah i love neuvillette in need to update stuff sorry he's like hydro zhongli #not legitimately ofc but like they're literally law and order okay #i'm losing my mind #also not entirely sold on his ship tag yet but i wanted something color theme to kind of match the other genshin ones #anyway thanks i wrote this in a post migraine fugue state now i'm gonna go watch a halloween movie #happy first day of halloween!!!!!!!!! #oh and yeah it seems tragic bcuz zhongli and nova and neuvillette all get together and then get separated and then find each other again #zhongli and neuvillette yearning for nova while she gets brainwashed and tortured yeehaw we love the drama #promptober 2023

[cobaltkicks]

Hi! I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed reading “Something Borrowed, Something Blue” I want to ask this without putting pressure on you (I know how life gets) but I was wondering if you have any recent plans to continue the story. Again, if life just happens and you aren’t writing it anymore I totally understand but I really love the story and what you’re doing with the characters so I though I’d ask <3

hi! thanks so much for your message, it means the world to me. it makes me so happy that you enjoyed the story! because of the strange twists and turns of life, i wasn't able to work on it for a long time but i've recently started writing again.

SBSB is my forever girl. before i even started SBSB i had been planning to write it for five years! the first draft is from 2015. so i know that it's been a really, really long time since i updated but i want you to know that this story is very close to my heart and i'm going to finish it come hell or high water (and both those have come in the last couple of years!).

#my writing #something borrowed something blue

[nadiaofazeroth]

I have COMPLETELY forgotten to update here, which I apologize for, but I want to let you all know that Part 17 and Part 18 are now LIVE on our pages for Something Borrowed, Something Blue!!

I’ve linked it to Archive of Our Own because FanFiction has been glitching and broken for email notifications and such for a month (also, if you follow on FF, be sure that your email opt in is on because they turn it off every 6 months apparently).

Thank you for your patience so much everyone!

Part 17: https://archiveofourown.org/works/7589713/chapters/126661831

Part 18: https://archiveofourown.org/works/7589713/chapters/128038774

#world of warcraft #nadia ravenscroft #fan fiction #fanfiction #wow writing #wow fanfic #wow fanfiction #writing update #fanfic #something borrowed something blue #warcraft fic #warcraft oc

[cuckoosnestblog]

Placebo - Every You Every Me (Official Audio)

My heart's a tart, your body's rent

#no other box I choose to use #i know I'm selfish I'm unkind #there's nothing here but what here's mine #something borrowed something blue

[riverstardis]

something borrowed, something blue:

cal and taylor all loved up… but not for long!

taylor telling him that the child’s surgery is on thanks to his donation and cal saying he’ll cook her dinner later to celebrate. that ain’t gonna happen i’m afraid bestie

ethan getting called by his bank about the 15k😬 idk what cal thought was gonna happen did he think ethan just wouldn’t notice or what??

he asks cal to cover for him while he goes to talk to the bank’s fraud department and the police and cal’s like “what if it was someone you know? someone like… your brother?”

cal telling ethan he’s going to propose to taylor and ethan’s like “you’ve known her for about five minutes?”

“look, the problem is, if i ask for the money back now she’s gonna—“ “of course, she’ll realise that you’re a devious manipulator who can’t be trusted. at all”

he says he’s even got the spiel prepared and he’s even got the ring and he shows ethan the ring and it’s their mum’s engagement ring which she left specifically for ethan and he’s like “just when i thought you couldn’t sink any lower”

cal has the audacity to ask ethan to cut him some slack?!?! and “don’t you want me to be happy?” WTF MAN ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW you just stole his money and his ring and you want him to cut YOU some slack?!?!?!?!

ethan asking robyn if there’s a way you can look up registered charities

“ethan! i need you to cover my patients” “in case you’ve forgotten, i hate you right now” skdkfkf

some guys found taylor’s phone

cal tries ringing taylor’s office from her phone but it doesn’t go through so he goes to visit and it’s all cleared out and the phone disconnected

ethan tells cal he looked up taylor’s charity and it doesn’t exists and cal tells him about the office and that he went to her flat and her neighbours said she moved out that morning but he still insists that what they had was real

“cal, come on, she’s played you. she’s gone, along with my life savings”

cal still believes taylor’s gonna turn up to dinner

unsurprisingly, she does not turn up

poor cal :( i mean yeah he’s a dickhead but he’s genuinely heart broken

#in which cal is an arsehole #i realise now i did not say anything about any of the other storylines in the ep lol #classic casualty #something borrowed something blue

[inspiteallthedanger]

WEDDING STORY WEDDING STORY!!!!! i hope u can post it soonn i am so psyched <3

Ha! Thank you my lovely. I’m currently working on it on this train up north and my hope is to get the second draft mostly done by the end of the journey back tomorrow. So… maybe later in the week, depending on how it goes. I reckon it’ll end up at 25k, so three chapters?

Thank you SO MUCH for you interest. It means a lot to me :-)

#something borrowed something blue

[scazrelet]

Something Borrowed, Something Blue. 2011. Model is Zillah Dryke. A practice in white on white in the studio. His "dress" is entirely an illusion created by some actual clothes but mostly layers of tablecloth and dollar store baubles. I actually had to Photoshop out his tattoos for these images.

#art #artwork #photography #studio photography #lighting #white on white #something borrowed something blue #drag #gender #gender roles #gender swap #gender anarchy #my art #artists on tumblr

[nymphoneko]

Hoyoverse men are on another level I just wanna kiss my f/os and spend time with them and enjoy their company aaaaaaaa

#nya.txt #free for all #but also specifically #glitter and gold #something borrowed something blue #blood and tears #cat nap #LOVE THEM LOVE THEM LOVE THEM LOVE THEM AAAAAAAAAA #want to shower Zhongli and Neuvillette and Pantalone and Jing Yuan in all of my adoration and affection and love #WANNA VISIT PENACONY W/ JING YUAN AND QIAOYING W/ ZHONGLI AND NEUVILLETTE AAAAAAAAAAA #I LOVE YOU PLZ!!!!!!

[thorns-ofthe-thistle]

Something Borrowed, Something Blue [Flashback] . [Whistle]

In which Thistle and Wendy make preparations for their wedding…[takes place: throughout 2019]

@my-lost-darling

[tw – some paranoia and thoughts of torture, kind of stalking from the queen @ wendy]

[read the rest of the elfhame chronicles]

[link here]

#swynwendy #whistle #something borrowed something blue #elfhame chronicles #flashback #ughhhhh #whistle are so precious to me

[purkinje-effect]

WIP Wednesday

A little snippet from Anatomy 89, "Something Borrowed, Something Blue," in reassurance that I am still making steady progress. CWs for the discussion of methods to draw blood, and implied chem use. Under a read more bc the description has a possibility of being graphic in a SH way.

Sticks murmurs, counting on his fingers.

"Wait, you dullard. Your math is bad. Only three every eight weeks? That's not once a week."

'Choly pushes down pesky worries and lets his gentle, glassy gaze impart reassurance.

"Good. You follow me, then. Let me continue explaining. Like I said, I've thought about this extensively already. I don't have an autoclave or phlebotomy equipment. There's that fridge where you've been keeping the RadRoach meat, but without perfectly sterile implements, the blood must be processed immediately after drawing it. And without a cannula, we'll have to use a knife."

Sticks has been eyeing his arms in thought, but stops because 'Choly is watching.

"If you're trying to spook me out of sticking to my request, it's not working."

"I'm trying to provide you with everything I can so you can decide for yourself whether you're actually okay with this arrangement. I want your input, too. Your thoughts. That's all. Now, to get an entire pint of blood at once, with a knife, the cut must be somewhat deep. Some arteries will be safer for this than others. This is another reason I can't reliably self-draw. Without proper phlebotomy implements, I could exsanguinate."

"How am I any different? Tch! If you can't Stimpak yourself, I couldn't Stimpak myself either!"

A smile quivers on 'Choly's face, small at first, but widening to tense the corners of his mouth and crease his cheeks. He leans to hold Sticks by the jaw with a tender touch.

"You're a ghoul." ...

#anatomy spoilers #the anatomy of melancholy #wip wednesday #something borrowed something blue #anatomy 89 #put it under a read more because i realize in hindsight it might read like implied SH too uh. oops #six sentence someday

[nyandereneko]

Break the Ice

Word Count: 479 Summary: “It was the beginning of a new chapter for both of them, for all of the individual’s present, one long awaited that relied on the gaps in understanding that had laid claim to each of them in one form or another.” Author’s Note: A short drabble based on the idea of how startled Nova and Neuvillette found themselves when Furina first found/recruited Nova to her cause in the present and subsequently introduced/reunited them. Of course, everyone’s still oblivious as to the true nature of everyone else’s identities at this point, so there’s plenty of confusion to go around. Thank you for reading as always!

*****

“Have we…met somewhere before?”

It was an interesting way to break the ice, to be sure. Nova didn’t quite know how to respond, or if she was even supposed to take his seemingly innocuous inquiry seriously. She blinked a few times, her expression bemused but otherwise pleasant as she combed through her mind for even a faint recollection of the esteemed gentleman. Surely the renowned Iudex of Fontaine wasn’t prone to such juvenile antics as trying to make a fool of her, and even if he was, he wouldn’t be forward enough to tease her before they’d even properly met? 

Neuvillette’s voice felt thick in his throat, so thick he wasn’t sure the words were going to be able to extricate themselves from the mire of his emotion. To a certain extent they almost seemed to dig themselves into his flesh in protest, torn free against their will as they drifted harmlessly into the open air. The starlist visage standing before him clouded the Iudex’s jumbled mind like the first mists of morning coalescing on the water’s surface. He was bathed in a wave of perplexing familiarity as his startled eyes fell upon her, a bone numbing chill racing down his spine as a dull ache bloomed in his sharply constricting chest. 

It wasn’t a wholly unpleasant sensation, but it wasn’t exactly comforting, either. Neuvillette found himself turned to stone as his liege and the acquaintance she’d brought along to meet him this afternoon appraised his peculiar agitation with curious eyes. He needed to be careful not to stare into the latter’s for too long, lest he be ensnared by the temptation of her mesmerizing radiance. 

Nova wrestled with much the same internal conflicts herself, even if they happened to stem from separate sources, as the syrupy haze of obfuscation that almost seemed to horde some portion of her memories wavered in her mind. The Iudex’s words, his appearance, his mere presence were all more than enough to rattle her to her core in much the same way her oblivious smile had lanced his vulnerable heart. The crux of their shared astonishment resided in the overwhelming sense of deja vu that seared through their veins like poison, a curse that only seemed to intensify the longer their shared stare persisted.

Impossible to look away, just as impossible to hold each other’s mystified gaze. Nova was trembling and she didn’t know why. Neuvillette’s heart was racing, but in a way he’d certainly never experienced before. Not that he could recall. It was the beginning of a new chapter for both of them, for all of the individual’s present, one long awaited that relied on the gaps in understanding that had laid claim to each of them in one form or another. 

How they chose to tackle and overcome those unknowns would no doubt serve to seal their already prophesied fates.

#self insert #selfship #selfshipping #oc x canon #self insert fic #self insert fanfiction #selfship fic #selfship fanfiction #self insert writing #my writing #ck writes #my self insert #my self insert writing #something borrowed something blue #something borrowed something blue writing #would like to expand on this idea in the future but i'm fairly proud of how this drabble turned out #i rly enjoyed writing it

[be-an-echo]

watch the world burn

@seethesunny this is for you

#something old something new something borrowed and something blue #their wedding wouldn't look different #ellie helped maria embroider the dress so she adds a little something #raiders attacked Jackson and they couldn't care less about their attire #the dress survived tho #afterwards they returned to tipsy bison and finally had their dance #someone played “i don't want to set the world on fire” as a joke but it was actually very romantic #at least for Tess and Joel #of course everyone got drunk #it was a good day #i would say very memorable #now i realised it gives Dawn of the Wolf poster vibes #vane you are the greatest!!! #tessjoel #tess servopoulos #joel miller #joel x tess

[nadiaofazeroth]

A bit of an update for everyone out there:

I know I’ve been VERY and unacceptably quiet on all fronts for a while, but I’ve gotten a new job this past year and am currently in the process of moving into a new place. I have not abandoned Something Borrowed, Something Blue by any means, and have plans to return to updating and writing during the fall!

I want to thank everyone for their patience with me, and I am looking forward to sharing more soon and getting back to writing! ✨✨

#something borrowed something blue

[achievementofthemajority]

Okay, can I get a hell yeah for bi Buck!! Not trying to step on his moment to make it about Buddie BUT I thought about something this morning and I have to get it out. It's about the interview where Ryan says, “There’s something new for both of us (coming up this season)". Eddie must be very involved in this plot line, otherwise it wouldn’t be something new for Ryan as an actor. If he’s just being a supportive bff, that’s nothing new for Eddie/Ryan. The way he phrased it is sus. You combine that with how they said Tommy would be around for only a little while, and I'm thinking we're getting Buddie sooner than some people think. Those who don't think of this as a stepping stone for Buddie, please, remove head from ass. It's definitely happening, and soon.

#I also keep thinking about the ‘something new’ phrasing #normal phrase so I don’t think Ryan meant anything subliminal about it #but what if it happens at the madney wedding #and instead of her having physical objects for her ‘something old something new something borrowed something blue’ #instead she has people or situations #and Buck and Eddie are the ‘something new’ on her wedding day #writers hire me please! #wouldn’t that be cute? #911 #9-1-1 #911 spoilers #buddie #madney wedding #season 7 spec #bi buck is real

[i-am-church-the-cat]

i don't have the energy to write it or even think of a plot but sargebon australia 24 fic based on the "something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue" wedding tradition

#just #something borrowed and something blue would be a great fic title #sargebon #lolex