y'know.... i kinda do... if i don't i'll probably just keep feeling bummed out
so recently i've been trying to figure out the whole original universe i want to write for Aja, and i nailed down that i want to do a more urban fantasy style setting (specifically a movie about the 20s made in the 80s but put elves in that shit) i'm saying that just to establish an aesthetic for yall to go by
but anyway last night i was struck with inspiration, in the shower of all places, and it started with imagining a romantic little sex scene involving Aja tending Weiss' wounds and washing them in the tub and transformed into a whole scene within this original universe, which involves Aja hiring Weiss to protect him after some less than satisfied and more than a little dangerous customers threaten him for his shady business dealings
i've expanded upon my original idea, and added some very charged romantic moments, but this is before they actually admit to even themselves that they have feelings for each other, but the feelings are definitely there, and i've actually written quite a bit for this idea, and it's actually one specific chunk of dialogue that i keep going back to and thinking "god they are so in love i wish i could just shake them and tell them to talk to each other so they could work shit out and be happy"
“Worrying about me?” Weiss said dryly. “How unlike you.”
“I’m-” He cut himself and sighed. “This is too much trouble for me,” he said, quieter.
“No it’s not,” Weiss replied, equally soft.
it gives a very "It's rotten work." "Not to me, not if it's you." vibe and that just makes me feel so soft and gooey like a microwaved marshmallow
just the whole thing is peppered with shit like this. Aja not wanting to take Weiss to a hospital because he doesn't want them to have to suffer being jostled around by the subway while injured, Aja worrying about injuries as minor as bruises and strained muscles, worrying that if he doesn't ease Weiss' pain now, it'll be worse in the morning (but obviously he doesn't care about them, he's just a healer, it's what he's supposed to do) the nonverbal communication between them, unspoken but still very obvious consent for intimacy
and Weiss, treating Aja gently, despite the fact that they're the one who's been injured, because they know the night has been stressful for him, seeing them stumble into his apartment bruised and bleeding, having to heal their wounds. Aja likes a firm hand, and Weiss knows this, but they also know when he needs to be treated softly
When Weiss seemed to be fully spent, they pulled their fingers from his body, and cradled Aja’s face in their hands, their kisses overflowing with a burning tenderness that affected him more than he would care to admit. They were the injured one, why were they treating him like he might break?
i'm just... feeling very soft about this smut i'm writing, i had a serious squick for genuine love and romance in fiction for a while, more than a squick really, but these two have really reinspired me, and i'm very happy with how this fic is turning out
i like writing about nasty sex where the only emotion involved is lust, that is a safe place for me, but writing about very romantic, quiet, subdued sex is like a warm blanket and a mug of hot chocolate with little marshmallows
basically i'm coming off writing something very fetishy and unromantic (not that fetishy stuff can't be romantic, it very much can) and the whiplash instead of being jarring is very comforting, i'm writing about these two people who love each other, even if they don't know it yet, and it just makes me very happy
had a moment where i wished i was still friends with [redacted] because i need someone to gush with me about Aja and Weiss but then i remembered that every time i brought up Aja in the group chat they would ghost me for reasons i'm still not entirely privy to, so honestly even if they were still in my life i couldn't gush with them
Don't usually share work stuff but I do work in climate policy and nearly every memo I write includes some variation of "government funding for this obscure but necessary area of climate mitigation research has been multiplied (sometimes by like, 1000x) under the Biden Administration" and while I know the oil permitting stuff is much splashier news there's a whole world of work that needs to be done under the surface that Biden is doing. And if he doesn't win in 2024 all that progress goes away and the climate is absolutely fucked
TWO HOURS AGO: an incredible photo taken by a ut austin student capturing something deeply poetic in my opinion, a line of state troopers eagerly waiting to arrest student protesters standing just behind a sign that reads "what starts here changes the world. its starts with you and what you do each day."
so Weiss is a dhampir, they drink blood fairly regularly, in addition to eating human food, searches for "would a vampire's c*m taste bad" and "would drinking blood make your c*m taste bad" yielded absolutely nothing, but then it occurred to me: blood is rich in iron, what else is rich in iron? red meat. i expanded my search, i have an answer, crisis averted, it would taste bad, class dismissed
do i have a really sweet, down to earth moment in this smut where Aja tastes Weiss' stuff in an attempt to be sexy and enticing, but it tastes bad so he immediately regrets it and gets all scrunched up and makes Weiss laugh and it's really cute, or do i have a sexy, charged moment where he likes it and it's boring but more realistic because they have a good diet and stay hydrated and don't smoke and all that jazz
do i have a really sweet, down to earth moment in this smut where Aja tastes Weiss' stuff in an attempt to be sexy and enticing, but it tastes bad so he immediately regrets it and gets all scrunched up and makes Weiss laugh and it's really cute, or do i have a sexy, charged moment where he likes it and it's boring but more realistic because they have a good diet and stay hydrated and don't smoke and all that jazz
There's a cinematic equivalent of "this meeting could have been an email" where you get about two hours into a feature-length blockbuster and it occurs to you that this would have lost nothing meaningful if it had been a ten-minute short film on YouTube.
had a moment where i wished i was still friends with [redacted] because i need someone to gush with me about Aja and Weiss but then i remembered that every time i brought up Aja in the group chat they would ghost me for reasons i'm still not entirely privy to, so honestly even if they were still in my life i couldn't gush with them