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I’ve Got My Love (and Blankets) to Keep Me Warm

Some things. 1. This fic is for @atomicjuniper for @aftgexchange 2. This is the first fic I've written in a very very long time and I'm not sure how I feel about it. But here it is. 3. I am procrastinating my finals to do this. Because I am dumb and procrastinated doing this. College is great. 4. I know Dan is supposed to immediately go into coaching, but I decided I wanted her to play professionally for a lil bit and then head into coaching okay. Just go with it. 5. I also have no idea how the professional exy season works and while I could probably figure it out, I'd rather just ignore facts and act like Dan is not busy. It's a fluffy fic. Let it be. 6. As I said, I wrote this in last minute procrastination. It's not proofread. It's not beta'd. I might come back in a week and completely change it. Or I won't. idk

Word Count: 1163

Summary: 

“Mmmmm bed’s warm, you’re warm, outside’s cold.” “The pizza place will also be warm,” she said as if she was truly arguing with him, as if she had any intention of leaving the bed anytime soon, as if she wasn’t also wiggling her way deeper into the covers. “Yes, but we’d have to face the cold to get there. And get dressed. And move.” He made very good points. Good enough, in fact, to pressure Dan into pulling out her phone to text her new teammates that something had come up, and she and Matt were regretfully not going to make it to their pizza date. Then she curled back into her very warm boyfriend and began to drift back off to sleep, cozy and content.

Dan and Matt have a lazy day, Christmas style. It's just cozy y'all.

Read it on Ao3

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FUCK DO YALL THINK PIDGE RAN AWAY BC SHE MENTIONED TO “SHIRO” SHE HAD A LEAD ON MATT AND HE DISMISSED IT AND THATS WHEN SHE REALIZED HE WAS A FAKE

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kevin day (disdainfully): lacrosse

Kevin and Neil HATE lacrosse more than life itself

Once, Andrew calls Exy ‘stickball’ and lacrosse ‘stickball on grass’

Kevin isn’t sure what he’s angrier at: the fact that Andrew called it stickball, or the fact that Andrew insinuated that lacrosse was the same as Exy when it obviously isn’t

Kevin criticizes the new Foxes by telling them they would be B-list lacrosse players. One boy bursts into tears.

In one memorable interview, Neil calls Riko the lead attacker of Edgar Allen’s lax team

Wymack is furious. Nicky is ecstatic

A lacrosse player: “I hope making fun of us makes you freaks feel better about your shitty lives and shitty team”

Neil: “I am sorry that you are stuck playing for a less exciting, less popular wannabe version of Exy. I am also sorry that your daddy wasted lots of money on Exy tutors trying to make you less horrible. It obviously failed, because you’re stuck with this pathetic excuse for a sport, and could never hope to be even a quarter the players we were. Clearly you’re projecting your bitterness on your own lack of talent, but that doesn’t give you an excuse to bad-mouth my team. You can kiss my ass and my championship trophy.”

Neil, on twitter, keeps liking and retweeting articles about why Exy is better than lacrosse. His PR team has given up trying to get him to stop

One brave reporter asks Kevin what will happen if his daughter doesn’t like Exy. Unfortunately, Kevin has had several stressful games and a couple of nightmares about the Nest; he’s too tired to control himself, so he says, “As long as she isn’t a lacrosse fan, we’ll figure something out.”

On some late-night practices, the lacrosse team swears they see a figure watching from the top of the bleachers, a black trench coat fluttering in the wind and a chess piece tattoo on his left cheekbone.

He watches scornfully for a few minutes before turning away.

“Sometimes, when I feel bad about myself as a striker, I like to watch them practice. Then I realize that I could be much, much worse,” he tells Jean in one video call.

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Here we have the Raven!Kevin meta I’ve been talking about for weeks. It basically comes from the fact that I noticed the inconsistency in the books that Kevin says he didn’t have it as bad, but Riko says he enjoys hurting Kevin. So basically, Kevin isn’t a reliable narrator about his trauma.

This post explores Kevin’s time in the Raven’s Nest. It talks about physical and emotional abuse, as well as depression and panic attacks. It ends happy, but if these things upset you, maybe stay clear? It’s also written in second person ((you pronouns)), so if that’ll upset you, same deal.

Under the cut because it’s almost 2.8k

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sad 15 year olds 

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My piece for the  @giveyourbacktome-zine !

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I sometimes have to re-educate myself on the terms and service of a consistent art style.

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Practicing expressions with Hunk

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The Paladins as Things Tumblr Users Do

Lance: suddEN CAPITALISATION

Shiro: passive :) aggressive :) smiley faces :))

Keith: using,,,,,commas as ellipses,,,,,,

Hunk: lots of question marks???? after things that aren’t necessarily questions???

Pidge: when you’re talking about something you’re passionate about and end up never using punctuation ever not even one comma so before you know it you have a whole run on paragraph and don’t stop until you’re forced to

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ok, so i was watching escape from beta traz a few days ago. and i realized something. Lance never misses.

here he is, shooting the warden. if those metal arms weren’t there, the shots would be hitting him right in the face. it’s already impressive that every shot is hitting its target, but it’s ALSO implied that for most of those shots, lance was running and aiming simultaneously

and then there is THIS scene. i think lance was overshadowed by shiro here because shiro does some pretty crazy shit! but lance does some pretty crazy shit too.

theres this little screencap, which i love, because it shows lance being serious and concentrating which isnt something we get to see very much.

the two sentries in this photo were taken down by lance in the first few seconds of the conflict. Shiro does some cool fighting shit, using his environment to his advantage, it looks really cool. He then takes down a sentry that Lance, admittedly, DID have. I’m not bitter about it, but Lance is, and that’s why I mention it.

also look at laika shes so cute

but anyway. at this point, the warden and pidge both show up. the REAL fight begins.

lance takes on the big guy asap. again, if not for those metal arms, the warden would be toast. but it doesnt stop there, no. to avoid one of the wardens attacks, lance propels himself in the air and continues to shoot.

and still doesnt miss!! what a badass!!

and, of course, we have the sharpshooter scene. but thats been analyzed already, so i wont go into it.

“but how can you know that this is intentional?”

easy. everything in animation has to be intentional. both keith and hunk also operate guns in the series at some point. hunk, who has little experiencce with guns, has sporadic shots that sometimes do not meet their targets, or take multiple shots in order to do so. In season 2, episode 12, keith shoots at some galra sentries. but not all of his shots hit them either.

These are some screen shots of that particular scene. Keith hits the walls too, not just the sentries. Meanwhile, Lance is making the target with every shot. And I’ve only examined this one episode, so who knows how much i’ve missed.

Anyways, it’s intentional. Super intentional.

TL;DR: Lance is an expert marksman and sharpshooting is his thing. The others just haven’t realized it yet because his talent isn’t as flashy or as obvious as the others and often gets overshadowed

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why can’t they just VISIT earth is my question?? allura can make portals..? why can’t they just drop by and tell their families they’re not dead?

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Can I have HCs about the gang having to blend in on a planet that only communicates through song

the most important things that come out of this are as follows:

keith and lance going at it by singing “Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better”

lance (making a competition out of who can snarf down the most alien food before they get yelled at by a more responsible team member) “♫Awnythif yu canf do iw can dow bettfr!!♫”

keith (instantly shoving an entire plate into his mouth) “♫Noh yuf cantf♫”

Shiro’s rendition of “Hello Darkness My Old Friend” when he gets inevitably separated from the group and has to fight for his life on his own while the rest of the gang is off singing like, High School Musical 2 with the locals on the beach or something

pidge literally just sits there and types everything she wants to say into that ditty.it app from the “cat no banana” video 

hunk has the voice of an angel and spends the entire time singing lines from Disney songs. there are lot of tears shed. 75% of them by lance.

coran tries to pick up “the earth skill of beatboxing!” it goes about as well as one would expect (that is to say, very)

allura can’t sing. like at all. and the whole team knows it. so in attempt not to offend the locals they’ve all mutually agreed that they can’t let allura talk the entire time. chaos ensues. allura is pissed she keeps getting interrupted and by the end of it all she ends up making a grand horribly off-key sing-song speech about teamwork and hope and the team is just. “well everyone we tried it was nice knowing you looks like this is one alliance we’ll have to forgo forever.”

plot twist: the locals love allura’s voice and want her to stay and essentially rule over the entire planet.

there is a collective agreement to never even try to stop allura from doing whatever the hell she wants ever again

coran continues to utilize his beatboxing skills to “pass the time on the ship just like on those earth roadtrips you were telling me about!”

a collective groan passes through the ship followed immediately by a 80′s record scratch and an echo of coran saying the word “funky” until the screen fades to black

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lance takes keith to the mall of america one time for a date because “malls are the bomb dot com, now get in the car. thirteen hours in the car with me is gonna go by so fast”

also, lance knows that keith doesn’t handle crowded spaces very well. so he makes sure to research the quietest day of the year for their trip, and goes near closing hours

keith is skeptical of this whole adventure until he sees how big the mall’s forever 21 is. ripped jeans for miles. entire crates of black nail polish. flannel boyfriend shirts 

and keith expects lance to hurry him out after a bit bc that’s what the rest of the group does, but lance just kisses keith on the cheek:

lance: “dude, we have nowhere else to be. now go do some sexy modeling for me.”

and keith tries on all sorts of outfits and lance is super supportive of everything and laughs with keith and takes selfies of the two of them sneaking into the dressing room, then selfies of the two of them making out in said dressing room

they find the ragstock and lance like. teleports over to the plastic metallic skinny pants in the year-round halloween costume section. you know the ones.

keith: “lance, these are twenty dollars a pair.”

lance: “I’m buying them.”

keith: “you just told me last week your debit card was almost empty.”

lance takes keith by the shoulders and stares into his eyes: “keith. my man. my almost main bro–”

keith: “I’m not your main bro?”

lance: “hunk’s my main bro. but keith, I love you. and I respect your choices, so please respect that this is just something i have to do.”

keith sighs but then smiles when lance pecks him on the lips and mumbles “lance, people are watching” 

and lance grins like a little imp. “what? people are watching??” he swoons into keith’s arms. “oh, my darling boyfriend, the eye of the public is upon us!”

“lance stop” keith is blushing super hard. lance is now collapsed into his arms. and shouting.

“kiss me keith! breathe life back into my dainty limbs!” and lance drags them both to the floor and they’re both laughing super hard until lance sobers up in a flash:

“no but seriously I’m buying these pants.”

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i’m not crying you’re crying 

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the shirt was pidge’s idea (redraw)

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hes making everyone matching bracelets :9

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but what if they were teal & rose gold…….