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[balrogballs]

I'm still sad about this heartwarming and mildly amusing little section where feral adolescent Aragorn brings some joy to Maedhros in his unhinged little way, which I had to cut out of Cast in Stone for structural reasons, especially as I had gone to the trouble of illustrating it!

But I realised it reads perfectly fine standalone, so you guys can have my crumb of Maedhros-joy instead. No context required: Maedhros and Maglor are temporarily staying in the Shire during the late Third Age, Maedhros had a horrible night of traumatic dreams and was being maudlin — until young Aragorn, aka Elros II and the bane of his life, turns up like a bad penny, as he often does. Enjoy!

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"You look unhappy," said Estel, sitting down before Maedhros, legs crossed. "Does your hand hurt? Surely it can't be as bad as when it got chopped off, can it?"

"No, but leave me be, Estel, I have —"

"All right, but let me ask just one question. I promise, then I'll go away. I just remembered something from my lessons, and every time I ask Ada he looks up at the sky and asks the Valar where he went wrong in raising me," Estel moved closer, looking around for eavesdroppers. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to. But I would like to know."

Maedhros frowned, swallowed the lump in his throat and dragged in a breath. "What?"

"Fingon rescued you on one of those enormous eagles, didn't he? On that mountain with Morgoth and all of that. It was one of those, right? Manwë's Eagles."

"Yes. He did. I do not wish to answer any further questions on the matter, clear off."

"And it was quite a long journey, wasn't it?"

Maedhros grunted.

"I've always had a question about it… and again, you don't have to tell me if it's too traumatising," Estel's eyes shone, as though he were about to hear a state secret. "And I promise I won't tell anyone."

"Spit it out, boy, or leave me now. I am in the mood for neither company nor memory."

"Did it… you know…?"

"If you're trying to ask me if losing the hand hurt, yes it did," Maedhros snapped. "Now leave me alone, I've had enough reminiscing for a damned century. Get off home, now!"

"Oh, shut up, I wasn't asking about your stupid hand, I don't understand why you think everyone sits around thinking about your hand," Estel scowled, pursuing his lips, before deciding his quest for scientific knowledge was more important than whatever had crawled up Maedhros' arsehole and died. He widened his eyes conspiratorily, looked around again. "My question has nothing to do with that! I just wanted to know, did the eagle… you know?"

"Estel, I am not going to repeat this, get out of my sight right this —"

"Did it take a shit?"

"Did… what?"

"Did it take a shit?" Estel flushed as he said the word, Elrond's parental touch finally taking hold, though in a predictably useless manner. "And if it did, how big was it? As in, was it normal bird crap, or was it, you know — like a bucketload of it?"

Maedhros blinked. Estel held his hands out to demonstrate.

"I've always wanted to know that about them, you know," the boy continued, stroking his chin like a philosopher. "Manwe's eagles, that is. Surely if they're big enough to carry two people, one being a towering beast like you, their droppings must be massive."

"What…?" Maedhros couldn't formulate words, a state of being Estel clearly had no familiarity with. "Their… what?"

"And yes, I know they're divine, all of that, but surely they can't be toilet trained, can they? I just don't see Manwë having enough time to toilet train an eagle, you know. Could you imagine just… going about your day, and having this massive tub of birdshite fall on your head? Oh, it could drown a person, I'm sure of it!" Estel grinned, as if said occurrence would be the best day of his life, had it happened to him. "So, did it? And if it did, did you see if it went on someone?"

Maedhros sat there blinking at the boy in complete silence before rising quietly, taking the now-extremely-familiar ear, and slowly — like he were a corpse — leading Estel to the village gate. He didn't say a word, only gestured weakly and put up three fingers, a signal the now sulky boy was very used to.

And as Estel, muttering darkly all the while, neared the completion of his first punishment-lap of three around the village green, he heard something that sounded like a donkey in immense pain. It was a sound so tremendous and unexpected that it brought Maglor running from the house, gaping at the source, having not heard such a thing in centuries. It was no donkey, but Maedhros in complete hysterics, sitting on the ground exactly where he was when he beckoned Estel to run, sobbing with laughter, actual tears pouring down his face, which itself was screwed up and flushed so pink he looked like he'd been badly sunburned. He was trying to explain the situation to Maglor (who had been glaring at Estel as if he had personally killed his brother, and now looked upon him like he was Iluvatar himself) but Maedhros was howling too hard to even stand, let alone form coherent words.

Estel pretended not to notice, and started on his second lap. Though objectively speaking, the laugh itself sounded like something between a foghorn, a pig and whatever noise he imagined Ungoliant would make — there was something rather lovely about it that brought an inexplicable little smile to his face.

[hemi-demi]

Day 9 of JonMartin week: Free Day/AU

Gotta have some Dragon!Jon for AU day! My lil cuties ❤️

This was my first @jonmartinweek and it was a lot of fun! (And exhausting, but fun!)

Final fic for the day:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64496380

And the full series for anyone who wants to catch up!

https://archiveofourown.org/series/4734916

Love you all!

[junipvelt]

"Centricide the VN" will be coming out sometime next month! (exact date TBD)

stats for the current build v

I would apologize for it taking a year to make but at this point I'm just glad it might be finished during my lifetime.

[locria-writes]

mc is just straight up not having a good time at all

[rxttenfish]

Caecilian Ch. 6: Belly of the Whale

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: Monster Prom (Visual Novel) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Aaravi the Slayer/Miranda Vanderbilt, Bellanda Vanderbilt & Miranda Vanderbilt, Aaravi the Slayer & Bellanda Vanderbilt Characters: Aaravi the Slayer (Monster Prom), Miranda Vanderbilt, Bellanda Vanderbilt, Amanda Vanderbilt, Laudanda Vanderbilt, Valerie Oberlin Additional Tags: Cultural Differences, merfolk culture, Speculative Evolution, Worldbuilding, Meeting the Family, Horror, Abuse, Imperialism, Gore, More tags to be added as they come up, Fictional Holidays, Body Horror, Emetophobia, Biohorror, Culture Shock, Merkingdom Politics, Political Intrigue, Merkingdom lore, merfolk lore, These are two very different things, Established Relationship, Rarepair Chapter Summary: Aaravi meets Amanda for the first time.

Chapter 6 is up! This is a very short chapter (for me and for Caecilian, anyways) and thus, as a rare treat, is getting uploaded very early. Mostly it's because what was going to be this chapter ended up getting split in two, so Chapter 7 will include the rest that was going to originally be all Chapter 6.

Anyhow, with this, finally all the characters that I've actually tagged this as having have shown up! Maybe I'll eventually find some tag for the King, but for now, this is all of the main players.

[johnslittlespoon]

Tough And Sweet (Like You And Me)

Ch. 10/? – 'Is It Casual Now?'

[WC: 147K | Gale Cleven/John Egan, College AU, The Bikeriders AU, Age Gap, Emotional Slowburn, Hurt/Comfort, Porn With Plot, Set in 2005]

College student John Egan ends up in an old pub on the other side of his small town, where he has a chance encounter with biker and mechanic Gale Cleven. Unconventional circumstances be damned, John is a lovesick fool.

[AO3 LINK]

[alligaytorswamp]

i dont think they gonna take him seriously

[chokopoppo]

Fandom: Band of Brothers (TV 2001) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lynn "Buck" Compton/Donald Malarkey Additional Tags: Post-War, Character Study, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Substance Abuse, Sharing a Bed, Compulsory Heterosexuality

So, they move to New York.

At the time, it feels much more complicated than that. At the time, they spend dinner talking about what it really means to move, to live together, and how long the train ride is, and how light you have to pack. And the expense, and what it costs to get an apartment, and to furnish an apartment, since you can’t take your furniture with you.

At the time, they don’t have the big picture, which is that the two of them, together, are no longer alone. They don’t understand, in 1947, that the complexity and the details that fit around this fact are semantics.

[ckret2]

Axolotl chapter, early July: 5,600 words

"That's a little long but not too bad, hopefully i'll only need to make slight tweaks after tbob comes out and then it'll be ready to go"

Axolotl chapter, October: 25,000 words and counting

[oh-no-its-bird]

Fugaku ignored him, too busy staring into the home through an open window with a sudden grimace. "Oh sage, she's here." "Who?" Kakashi tried to think of the kind of person who he might be upset to run into. "Your rival?" "Worse," Fugaku despaired. "My fiancé." (Kakashi continues to get into fights with people more than twice his age. And also just twice his age, but Obito hardly counts in his book.)

Chapter 5 of chasing shadows is !! Now !! Up !!!! Ft. dysfunctional Fugaku and Mikoto who, despite being engaged, don't seem to like each other very much; Shisui being a literal toddler; And Obito and Kakashi never failing to prove that they bring out the worst in each other every time they interact

[lynnearlington]

Would you be willing to share any outtakes/deleted scenes from hcwbl or a sneak peek of the new chapter? I’m so obsessed with your writing. One of my favorite all time authors that I go back to consistently.

Yeah for sure! Here, have a tiny tiny tiny tidbit of the next chapter:

“I think I’m dying again,” Kara whines miserably. If Lena were capable of not kicking her again on the way off the bed she might try to avoid it, but she’s barely got a hold of her own faculties. Her leg gets stuck in the comforter as she tries to leverage her way over Kara’s body.

“This is your fault,” Lena groans. Her head hurts. Just opening her eyes and trying to focus on the blurry shapes around her makes her want to cry. She nearly falls off the bed then, but despite her misery, Kara manages to reach out and catch her at the waist. Her strong hold stabilizes Lena enough that her slip turns into a much more dignified slide to her feet. Lena would say thanks, maybe, but she’s trying to swallow and clear her throat but it’s dry and for some reason that’s making her think she might puke.

“How is this my fault? We were with your friends,” Kara points out, letting out a pained little noise as Lena scrambles for the fridge. A glance in her direction reveals Kara in a rumpled t-shirt pulling the blankets high up on her shoulders and turning to nose into her pillow like if she presses her head down hard enough she’ll stop being hungover. 

[satancopilotsmytardis]

Happy birthday, Shiggy! This year, I'm not going to put your cat in the hospital!

[guacamolleee]

1-2-3-4-5 Tag Game

Tagged by the lovely @thequeenofthewinter. Thank you so much <3

Rules: Give us the links to your fic with the most hits, second most kudos, third most comments, fourth most bookmarks, fifth most words, and fic with the least words (feel free to interpret however you would like; if not on AO3, can be on Tumblr or FFNET, etc!).

I've been writing for a while, but I only started posting like May of last year to AO3 lol. First for Stardew Valley (I really like Rasmodius) and then Dragon Age (I really like Emmrich. I'm sure all of you are all too aware lol)

Most Hits: and the union is carved from stone that is not to be halved (Stardew Valley) 4,951 hits

2nd Most Kudos: you are the blood in all my poems (Veilguard) 196 kudos

3rd Most Comments: make space for me behind your ribs (Veilguard) 17 comment threads (35 comments in total)

4th Most Bookmarks: pure enough to breathe (it's liquid gold) (Veilguard) 38 total bookmarks (22 public)

5th Most Words: my whole soul at the edge of my lips (Veilguard) 6,561 words

Least Words: velleity (Veilguard) 427 words

tagging (if you wanna, no pressure!) @the-bear-and-his-sunbird @broodwoof @caughtnyact @theyearningghoul @draco-illius-noctis @veil-song @thedissonantverses and anyone else that wants to do this 💖💖💖

[citrusrei]

okay people, i have a 25k word fic about farmhand! joel miller x reader in my arsenal and i'm wondering if i should post it all as one?! or should it be two parts ?? pls help :')

[mariyekos]

NEXT CHAPTER OF WITHIN A FOREST DARK DROPS TOMORROW. JUST NEED TO PROOFREAD AND MAKE SOME MINOR TONE REVISIONS AND WE'RE GOOD TO GO. THE DREADED CHAPTER 6 WILL FINALLY SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY!!!!!!!!

[kugiscki]

every time ao3 goes down when it’s time to lay in my bed and read gay fanfic, one hundred angels lose their wings.