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agentwashingcat · 1 year
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Scars
I have no idea where this Andromeda fic came from but here it is. Featuring Jaal and Scott Ryder it’s mostly fluff with some sap cause Scott is a hopeless romantic lmao
Cross posted on ao3!
“Jaal, are you staring at my tits?”
Scott, in the midst of towel drying his hair, had found Jaal watching him from the doorway of the crew quarters. And considering Scott was currently only wearing pants, it was a logical assumption that Jaal was staring at his tits.
Obviously.
Jaal chuckled, shaking his head. “Can I not admire my partner’s body?”
Scott felt his cheeks flush, but kept it together. “I’m sure we can think of more inventive things for you to do.”
Nailed it.
“Hmm, I’m sure we can.” Jaal’s eyes swept over him once more, landing on his chest. “I had a question, if that is alright?”
Scott blinked, not expecting the abrupt change in topic. “Sure, Jaal, what’s on your mind?”
“You have markings on your chest where Liam does not. Is that typical?”
Scott looked down at his chest and then looked back up. “Wait, have you seen Liam naked?” He wasn’t sure how he felt about that.
Jaal waved a hand like it was nothing. “We were learning about each other’s species by asking weird questions we could not ask others.”
“And you had to be naked for that?”
“You’re avoiding my question.” Jaal titled his head. “Was it offensive? I apologize if that is the case.”
“No! Well, I mean, maybe, depending on the person. People don’t always like to talk about their scars.”
“Oh! I did not realize they were scars. They are very well healed.”
“Thank you I worked really hard at that.” Scott was only half kidding. Scar care was important and he had been very diligent about it to minimize the scarring after surgery. “I honestly don’t know how to word this so I’m just gonna go for it. Do y’all have transgender people?”
Jaal frowned. “Trans gender? That word did not translate.”
Off to a great start. “People who are born one gender but realize they’re a different gender.”
Jaal brightened. “Oh, yes, we have many, many genders. Children are encouraged to explore and find an identity that is correct for them.”
Alright, that was promising. “I’m not sure how much it matters for Angara, but humans who are a different gender will sometimes change things about their body so that they feel more comfortable in it. So that’s why the scars.” Scott paused. “Lexi also gives me a hormone shot once a week, so you’re not allowed to strand me anywhere.”
“I would never strand you, dearest one,” Jaal said, laughing. He moved towards Scott, pulling him in by the waist and resting their foreheads together. “I appreciate your candor with me.”
Scott felt the tension slip out of his shoulders. “I try. Humans aren’t always… accepting of people who are different from them. Makes it hard to know who’s safe to come out to.”
Jaal furrowed his brow. “But our differences should be acknowledged and celebrated!”
“You’re preaching to the choir, man.” 
Jaal’s brow only furrowed deeper. “What does that mean?”
“Oh, uh-” Idioms not translating properly was a real pain in the ass. “Just that I understand what you mean, I suppose.”
“Ah, I see.” Jaal kissed him gently, bringing a hand up to cradle Scott’s face. Scott leaned into him, eyes sliding closed as he melted against Jaal. They hadn’t known each other for long, but if anyone asked, he would have said Jaal was the other half of his soul. Which was crazy, since they had come all the way from the Milky Way, but it felt true. Despite everything, they fit together in a way Scott had never felt before.
When they broke apart, Scott gave Jaal a dopey smile. “I love you.” He felt the blood drain from his face. Oh god, that was supposed to stay in his head. “I, uh, fuck, was that, I didn’t mean to say that.”
A large smile broke out over Jaal’s face, his eyes sparkling brightly. “I love you as well, dearest one.”
The blood rushed back to his face instantly, and he was sure his cheeks were burning red. Jaal’s openness was still something he was getting used to. “Good. Great! Uh, oh no, I’m failing, I’m doing so bad right now.”
Jaal looked concerned, cupping Scott’s face with both hands. “You are perfect, dear one. Never forget that.”
Scott didn’t think his face could get any redder. “Right, right, okay, sure.” This was, actually, he wasn’t sure if this was going well or not. He could barely think straight at the best of times, nevermind when Jaal was telling him he loved him and he was perfect. It was like something out of one of his fantasies.
“Scott, are you alright?” Jaal asked.
“I’m spiraling a little, not gonna lie.”
“Spiraling?”
“Overthinking, I think.” If that wasn’t proof that he was overthinking he didn’t know what was. “I’m not… used to this, yet.”
Jaal blinked. “To what?”
Scott almost laughed at Jaal’s confusion. It must seem so simple to him. “The overabundance of affection, I suppose.” Scott knew that part of it was his own fault. He kept people at arm's length. Him and Sara were affectionate of course, but sibling affection was a lot different than this. This was exhilarating and intoxicating.
“You deserve all the affection in this galaxy and yours, my heart.” Jaal was looking at him so sincerely, with such bright eyes that it made his head spin.
“God I really do love you,” Scott managed to get out after a moment.
Jaal chuckled, kissing him again. “And I you.” After a moment he spoke again. “Next time we are on Aya, there is a place I want to show you.”
“Oh? What place?”
“It’s a surprise.”
Scott pouted, putting on his best puppy dog eyes. “But I wanna know.”
“Do not, what did you call it, use your dog eyes on me,” Jaal admonished, laughing. “It’s a surprise.”
Scott stuck his tongue out at him. “Fine. Be that way.”
“You’ll know soon enough, dearest one, I promise.”
“I will because I’m gonna tell Sara to set a course for Aya asap.” No one ever accused Scott of having patience.
“A S A P?”
Scott grinned. “As soon as possible.”
Jaal rolled his eyes. “You are a menace.” 
“But I’m your menace.”
Jaal’s face softened as he looked at him. “That you are.”
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faeriekit · 5 months
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"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick
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jortsbian · 4 months
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the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again
#yeehaw#1k#5k#10k#posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours?#also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that!#unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference#edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense#also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags#1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now#he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic#2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign#like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock#3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing#it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is#extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once#it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life#i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about#Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect#if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it#aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week
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yeehawpim · 7 months
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a comic about fix-it fanfics
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ursulaklegay · 6 months
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its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%
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sylvies-kablooie · 2 months
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i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.
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I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.
Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.
just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?
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whatkindofnameisella · 2 months
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can you believe that we have fanfiction. that we have websites dedicated to fanfiction. that there is a place that you can go and read tens, hundreds, thousands and thousands of pieces of writing that strangers have made. people who are not "writers". people who come home at the end of the day and have feelings and say, i am going to put that into words. i am going to share those words. short, long, sweet, sad, horny, funny, wonderful words. we are all just human and we all love to make and remake and share that with others. can you believe that.
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flowergrenades · 1 year
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*through gritted teeth* you are not a child taking a test with the purpose of getting the highest score, you are an adult trying new things and finding ways to enjoy your life, make mistakes, be a beginner, be mediocre, be where you need to be, be unlikeable, just. be.
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catmask · 5 months
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when u go to write a mentally ill person in ur story you are presented two options. the first option is to write your mental illness realistically as you actually experience it with all the ups and downs and people who are like you will resonate with it and feel seen. except every person who reads instagram infographics on mental health that uses the phrase narcicisst for anyone who does anything that crosses them and unironically call themself a dark empath will call you scary and tell you that youre demonizing mentally ill people
the second option is to lie and write inspiration porn for those people to get hard to
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i love graffiti. "comics and jazz are the only american art forms" you forgot graffiti. did you remember graffiti? That art form birthed in Philly and NYC in the early 70s by poor Black kids. that art form that spread all over the world and influenced so many. that's used without irony in commercials when they're trying to appeal to a "young urban" customer.
did you forget graffiti? that racism broken windows theory victim? that reach the establishment takes claiming that it's exclusively violent gang members throwing up those full-color pieces and wildstyle tags in the middle of the night outsmarting fifty security cameras because the billboard was ugly anyway. as if, even if it was, it wouldn't be impressive as all hell. risking brutality and fall damage so your art can occupy the space a gentrified condo named something like "Coluumna" took away from you. proving that despite only assholes affording to live here anymore there's still a soul beneath it. an animal with dripping stripes and teeth that go clack-clack tsssss
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nonebinary-leftbeef · 9 months
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DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one
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linipikk · 7 months
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Aziraphale shielding Crowley from water
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and Crowley shielding Aziraphale from fire
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excavatinglizard · 5 months
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Shoutout to my dad for being the funniest person I know
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aropride · 8 months
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nonbinary-arsonists · 5 months
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I will take that rabbit and give him found family whether he LIKES IT or NOT.
Click for higher quality + alt text :)
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