#talkin' malarky

[ace-malarky]

twine this is like. the worst message you could give me whyyy

(anyway it had only lost two letters and a question mark so twine's just being really dramatic)

Also? straight up can't get rid of it. Like that thing is just staying there. At least it's not staying on top of everything but still.

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#the fucking panic I had when that flashed up let me tell you #talkin' malarky

[currahee-gal]

Hi Alice, this is the first time I've ever requested a fanfic ever. If at all possible, may I request a first hug with Malarkey? Thanks for opening your requests c:

Oh my gosh I feel so honored! I tried my best, I hope you like it! I love Don so this one was a great start. Thanks for requesting!!

Playing Favorites

Pairing: Donald Malarkey x Reader

Warnings: Fluff, fluff, and fluff

Word count: 816

“Y/N!”

You spun around to be face to face with none other than Donald Malarkey in all his glory. The smile on his tar covered face was something refreshing given the anxious circumstances. You were about to leave England and make the jump into Normandy. Still, no matter, you smiled.

“If it isn’t my favorite ginger.” You grinned as you waddled towards him. All the gear on your body made it a little bit difficult to move.

“I thought I was just your favorite.” He quipped, meeting you halfway. You shrugged, crossing your arms over your chest.

“Jury is still out on that one.”

“Oh, I see.” He laughed.

You and Don had been friends since the start of training. You both bonded over the fact you were both from Oregon, even though your family moved away to San Francisco when you were sixteen. Before you knew it, you were running up Currahee together, sharing the so-called food at meal times, and reminiscing about home. He was the person you’ve gotten the closest too at Toccoa.

“Which bird are you gonna to be in?” He asked.

“I’m with Lipon and Buck. You?”

“I’m with Winters.” He said in an even tone, his face falling a little. You smiled softly and pat him on the shoulder.

“Try not to worry too much, alright Don? Everything will turn out just fine.” You tried to reassure him. As nervous as you were, you knew that you had to keep as calm as possible to keep a clear head. Plus, seeing Don upset only made you upset.

“Malarkey! Fall in, come on.”

“Guess I gotta go.” Malarky sighed, giving you a tight smile.

“Guess you do.” You started to back away. You raised your hand and waved. “See you later, Malark.”

“See ya.” He waved back, turned and started walking towards his plane. You found yourself rooted to the ground as you watched him walk away.

“Hey Don!” You called out before you could stop yourself. He whipped around, his eyes wide and expecting.

“Yeah?”

“I-um…” you stuttered. You weren’t exactly sure why you stopped him. Maybe it was just to see his face again. “I’ll hook up with you when we get there. At the DZ.” You nodded at your own words. He smiled.

“I’m countin’ on it, doll. I’ll see you down there.” He chuckled as he threw a wink at you in a moment of courage. You tried to push down the heat that was creeping up your neck. With that, you parted. He went to his plane and you to yours.

-

When Malarkey finally made it back, his first thought was you. He watched all the planes go down on the initial drop and he couldn’t stop worrying about you. He found himself running into camp, trying to find people from her plane.

“Buck!” he cried as he pushed his way through the crowd to get to his superior. “Buck, have you seen Y/N? I’ve been lookin all over and I can’t find her. Did you link up with her on your way to camp? Did you-”

“Malark, slow down. She’s fine, she’s talkin’ with Guarnere over there.” Buck nods his head behind him.

And there you were. You and Bill were sitting on a dirt mound, Bill rubbing your back soothingly. Your helmet was in one hand as ran your other hand through your hair. Don could feel himself relax as he ran toward you.

“Y/N!” His voice made you perk up, your eyes wide as a smile breaks across your face.

“Donny!” You practically squealed as you jumped to your feet. When you reached each other, you threw your arms around his neck.

“Don, oh my god, you’re okay. I was so worried! I got dropped in the middle of the forest with not a soul around. But I found my way back! And I was thinkin’ that you’d be here when I got here but you weren’t. None of your plane was here when I got here and people were saying that you guys might have gotten shot down. I thought I lost you.” You rambled as you clung to your friend as tightly as you could.

“I was worried too.” Don whispered into your hair. He let out a breath he didn’t realize he was holding in. “The entire time I was trekking through the night and running into krauts with some guys from Easy, all I could think about is that you could be facing all of this alone. Are you alright?”

“Right as rain.” You smiled as you looked up at his brown eyes. “What would I do without my favorite guy.”

“What happened to me just being your favorite ginger?” He quirked an eyebrow.

“Well maybe you’re just my favorite, so stop complaining before I demote you back to being just my favorite ginger.”

“Yes ma’am.”

#request #donald malarkey #donald malarkey imagine #band of brothers #band of brothers imagine #fluff #don malarkey #malarkey #malarkey imagine #don malarkey imagine #bob #bob imagine

[ace-malarky]

Ok @sprokat has (very lovingly lmao) reminded me that I was going to set into a wip weekend game!

It was created by @rottingfern - I'll reblog their post in a minute so you'll probably have seen it first for the better explanation - to uh. Give us a friendly nudge into working on our wips? Hell yeah love that for us

*with the caveat of actually i am on holiday so limited computer access (aka my phone) and definitely going places this afternoon at least*

Anyway hell yeah gonna be good

The WIPs

Shapeshifter wip (Syn/Halliel, fantasy, star crossed lovers)

Soul of the Party (fantasy, light detective shenanigans)

DnD (specific characters are; Maverick, Tem, Chant/Luci/Makaria, Razmatazz, Tosh, Karo, Phorg)

Dorks 'n' Disasters (fate based ttrpg currently in edits. Full first arc draft can be seen at @dorksndisasters)

But hey listen if you want to ask about any of the others, go crazy go wild

The Games

Three by Threes: The OG WIP Wednesday game. For each filename you receive in your ask box, reply to the ask with 3 NEW sentences on that WIP.

Lore Corner: Answer questions about your WIP. It can be anything from headcanons to backstory that you have for your WIP that don't even make it into the fic. Askers - get creative with your questions! (If you are playing Lore Corner, please give a single-sentence description of each of your WIPs so askers have some context)

#talkin' malarky #weekend wip game #I will remake this once I'm back lmao but this shall do for now #i think the og was fic actually but we can and will repurpose for whatever suits don't'cha know #anyway i am going to go drink some fucking water #ya boi's a thirsty bitch

[ace-malarky]

hm. I appear to have lost my notifications bar? so that's fun

love just scrolling and not being able to check like. anything. who needs drafts/inbox/queue and all that jazz certainly not I

#I don't know if this is an xkit-interacting-weirdly thing or something got broke somewhere but like. it'd be nice to have back! #talkin' malarky #that thing was kinda useful actually

[ace-malarky]

oh beans I knew there was another reason I went on here lmao anyway

running out of time before I go to work but y'all know I'm gonna be kicking about at work bc uhhh yeeah. well.

Anyway weekend game? same stuff as last weekend! Except I'm in my own flat this time!

The WIPs

Shapeshifter wip (Syn/Halliel, fantasy, star crossed lovers (fun little shapeshifter spy dude and the War that is Coming))

Soul of the Party (fantasy, light detective shenanigans)

DnD (specific characters are; Maverick, Tem, Chant/Luci/Makaria, Razmatazz, Tosh, Karo, Phorg (specific file names; Dumb of Ass, Snake of Tits; The Life and Lies of Makaria Chant; Always Yearned to be a Concert Pianist. Raz/Tosh/Karo/Tem don't have specific titles yet jsksks))

Dorks 'n' Disasters (fate based ttrpg currently in edits. Full first arc draft can be seen at @dorksndisasters)

But hey listen if you want to ask about any of the others, go crazy go wild

The Games

Three by Threes: For each filename you receive in your ask box, reply to the ask with 3+ NEW sentences on that WIP.

Lore Corner: Answer questions about your WIP. It can be anything from headcanons to backstory that you have for your WIP that don't even make it into the fic. Askers - get creative with your questions! (If you are playing Lore Corner, please give a single-sentence description of each of your WIPs so askers have some context)

#talkin' malarky #weekend wip game #so obviously me saying I was going to remake this pretty when I got back was a lie #maybe next week ahahaha no I'm away again #what is my life #I should probably go for that tram now actually #considering I still need to throw stuff in my bag #meant to do this last night; didn't. flatmate was back so I had Things to Say #and also cooking. and then bg3 you know how it goes #if you're asking dnd and don't specify chances are it'll be maverick or tem #anyway yeah I gotta go!! #smooches see ya

[ace-malarky]

The fact that I've already finished three of the five prompt pieces that I normally take two months to do is uhhh

Well. Interesting? Fun? Work's been riveting, I assure you

But like yeah actually kinda digging how nice it's been this month

Almost suspiciously nice but uhhh we're not gonna poke that

#fuck knows what I'm going to do in may #the editing stuff is so much more to carry around lmao #talkin' malarky #i could probably just start on the next set but i was going to take the summer off for the mildly-inevitable burn out and travelling hijinks #chances are also high i will finish the fourth one today #what then. pick up the unfinished scenes? what a wild concept #not a bad one tho lmao #i think not travelling about so much has helped #may and june both have trips planned so idk #I'll take the smaller notebook i think #which is way more of a mess than this one but I'm gonna get it filled and then we can start again haha #it's been going since 2017 i think i saw?? #i do not write notes in it very often these days evidently

[ace-malarky]

Y'all ever get a story idea that you know is gonna fuck you up on account of where you are mentally and also as a person

And like I know I should probably let it lie and it was half a joke anyway because it was somewhere past midnight and Spro was also drunk

But like

Man

Sure ain't leaving me alone, I've already written two separate half scenes and some more ideas

#talkin' malarky #this bad boy can fit so much pining into it #also whump. maybe some comfort #no one ever say star crossed friends to lovers slowburn to me again I'm a glutton for ounishment #*punishment #anyway that's just. that's a thing. #it's also tied itself to new favourite song which is just excellent #ahaha work is going to be distracting #it's fiiine #... i probably meant work is going to be distracted. both can be true. #me; ''i don't write romance'' #also me; ''how about i - known aromantic - write some romance what could possibly go wrong''

[ace-malarky]

spent a lot of yesterday convinced the post-nano burnout was hitting already but like

apparently that was just Lack of Human Contact (and also possibly "hey you're fucking tired") speaking lmao

Which doesn't exactly explain why I woke up at like quarter to six today but whatever

#talkin' malarky #nanowrimo #feeling a little more confident about finishing off the two campaign sessions #the sheep oneshot is not getting finished but also I only found the notes for it like last thursday #I'll do that and presents in December

[ace-malarky]

what are we, like a week out from the end of November? horrific.

Somehow I have written every single day this month. I'm in shock, I'm in awe, I'm unstoppable

this is not going to last, I assume I will probably crash the minute it hits December

or will I

anyhow, we're a little over 41k and I go back to work tomorrow so my carefully hoarded lead is going to vanish, probably.

I have to do bookbug tomorrow which is. it's going to be interesting. I forgot words and numbers and bookbug himself last time I had to do this.

anyhow. irrelevant.

Excerpts under the cut!

No One is Living This Down (Mercenary Mages)

“Llinos!” Kaua yelled, sounding like a warning. Llinos spun on her paws and blinked as someone raced by her, only realising afterwards that it was Kitty, which meant that they’d reached the copse that was their halfway marker. She bolted towards where Jasper and Kaua were amongst the trees. Jasper was still holding Kaua. Llinos took a moment to press her forehead against Kaua’s and then pulled back, turning to raise her bow. She fired and fired again, feeling a growing sense of satisfaction as, one by one, their pursuers dropped. “You can definitely put me down now,” Kaua said to Jasper. “And we’re never mentioning this again.”

The Haunted Hedge

There was a hedge on the ridge of the hill. Ordinarily, this wouldn’t be anything much to comment on. There had been a lot of hedges on the ridge. Had been. Now there was just the one. The others had been knocked about by the surge of storms, or cut down in the clean up after. Now there was this one alone. “Isn’t it just like a scotty dog?” “What? No, a deer, surely. There, it has antlers, see?” “Those are just its ears.” “Sure, disagree them.” The remarks on its shape are made and they move on. The hedge remains, growing a little bit ragged around the edges. The hedge remains.

#nanowrimo 2023 #nano 2023 #nanowrimo #writing pieces #talkin' malarky #mist worlds

[ace-malarky]

small nano update; finished one of the dnd things that was my focus for the month!! heck ye

just got another three to go lmao

#talkin' malarky #I transcribed seven hours of video sksjs #it's about 15k words #which is a little over half the nano doc currently heck

[ace-malarky]

oh god I'm consolidating like all of my world building file stuff into one place and ok it'll be great in the long run not to have to swap between everywhere but at what cost

there's so much here. why have I done this to myself

#talkin' malarky #and yes I am very much doing this instead of writing lmao #when my laptop runs low I will stop maybe #considering the charger is on the other side of the room #but also I should probably do other things maybe #but alas. the overriding urge to have everything sorted in one place

[ace-malarky]

just found like a whole bunch of half page character summaries that I'd evidently been writing to put up here but like obviously haven't yet

like I'd put up the ones for EtF because that was what I was focused on but I also have... oh, most of the guardians, some of the superheroes, and a scattering of backstory/myth/travellers from the Mist Worlds as well

Maybe I will, once I uhhhh work out how accurate these still are lmao

#talkin' malarky #halfway through the work day now #currently on my break #not that I wouldn't be doing this at the desk anyway #I'm going to assume a lot of these are accurate because I haven't touched some of these stories in like. a Long Time

[ace-malarky]

oh my god whyyyyy did I make the romance here like. a romance. Why is it a focus. What have I done to myself

#talkin' malarky #I have been sitting here for most of an hour #I have not written much #I'm just - I keep restarting this scene and actually I've skipped some but it's fine #It's the confession/start dating of Kari and Jade and I. wow. I do not know what's going on #it's highly possible this is because I don't know Jade that well yet #but uh. yeah. romance. #I'll get there it's fine #can't edit an empty page etc #but jfc this empty page is. intimidating.

[ace-malarky]

god ok I'm just

I'm pulling together refs for a present my friend is doing for me bc this is what we do every year and like

hot shit I have written some good stuff. like not to blow my own horn or whatever but like

 The antlers and white fur were a cap, a headdress, a crown; the person below was human, dressed in leathers and patchwork fur, her red hair cut in a ragged bob just touching her jawline. Freckles spread across her sharp cheeks like the path between the stars.

 And though Gwen knew she was human, there was something wolf-like in the way she smiled, predatory in the way it never reached her eyes as anything other than cold satisfaction.

this whole piece mostly but just Red Scarlet I am screaming I love you

#sometimes I remember I wrote these pieces and I'm like #fuck yeah there is hope yet #god the year I was writing these fair folk?? #best year honestly #I'm gonna finish sotp and then head back to these bad bitches I think #talkin' malarky #like is it. idk I realise I'm sitting here going ''ah yes my writing is fucking stellar'' #but like. I'm still so fucking proud of this piece

[ace-malarky]

ahaha apparently my fuck up month came like. two months early.

love that for me.

I am attempting to be nice to myself about it but oh christ do I just want to uh

honestly not entirely sure. Somewhere between sleep for eternity and disappear into the hills and also sprawl in the sunlight until that fixes things?

I miss being able to see further than the next street over lmao

#talkin' malarky #I may have to go climb a fucken hill on Thursday #I think I have time before/after my appointment? #idk we'll see #anyway. yeah. without wanting to go into too much; #(wild for me but I'm trying not to overshare quite so much) #impending mortality is a bitch!! #there is far too much going on at work and I know very little of it #but hey. new tattoo. that's v fun. #third of my book ones!! I should get more book tattoos maybe #I have at least one more on the list but hmmm #I'm sure I could think of more given the chance #anyhow. yeah. that's a thing. so many things. #in which wanting to see more than a street over is both very literal and also a metaphor #gross I'm gonna maybe go back to making bracelets. maybe finish this scene #shit being able to edit tags easily is a wild concept what the fuck #hello have some nonsequitor thoughts ok I'm out of here #byeeee xx

[ace-malarky]

This whole scene is just me gritting my teeth and going it doesn't have to be good it just has to be written over and over again lmao

Who knew my dislike of endings would extend to things I'd planned not to last lmao

#talkin' malarky #also I am behind on word count again and still not finished the first arc lmao #it's going so well guys. so well.