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“And here I thought you finally wanted to try one.”
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Butcher never expected to end up tangled in the sheets with his sworn enemy. No, he was going to keep his gaze off of the man sprawled out languidly on his right, tempting as it was to drink in the sight of this dangerous Vought creation, ravished, chest still heaving, cheeks flushed, looking docile and innocent at least for the moment. Out of the corner of his eye, Butcher can see that Homelander is watching him, maybe awaiting a compliment about how good it was. It was good, better than it had any right to be, but Butcher will never admit it out loud and stroke this cunt’s ego.
He lights up instead. He always smokes after sex. Some partners wrinkled their nose, some ignored it, some asked to share. When Homelander reaches over to take the cigarette out of his lips, Butcher makes no protest, curious if he’s about to see America’s poster child take a drag.
No such luck. Homelander puts the cigarette out on his tongue, the orange light at the end snuffed out in a puff of smoke, the innocence in his expression from before gone up in smoke just as quickly.
“And here I thought you finally wanted to try one.”
“Why. They taste as terrible as they smell.”
“No one asked ya to taste that end of it.”
Butcher tries to take the cigarette back, intent on relighting, but Homelander flicks it into the corner of the room.
“A villain through and through,” Butcher grumbles, rolling back on top of the other man, squeezing his throat in his hand, letting himself pretend that it could have any effect.
Homelander just laughs, clearly basking in the attention, meeting Butcher’s mouth eagerly when they lock lips, the flavor of cigarette ash swirling in their kiss.
And because seeing the process is cool and even the draft is so pretty:
About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning
If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:
These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:
But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.
Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.
If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.
Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.
Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.
Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.
We're all familiar with the image of Homelander as a superhero, but what would John look like if Vought had sent him into retirement?
Or if John had left on his own or was hiding from society?
As I like to imagine, he would get a bunch of cats, just collecting them on the street, watch Netflix 24/7, maybe write his biography without Vought supervision.
(In my AU version, he would be puzzled by getting a proper education and would anonymously sponsor a couple of extremely dubious organizations with his savings)
Tumblr Navigation (note I have not shared the prologue here with its premise setup; I’ve only started sharing this twitter threadfic on tumblr starting from the 2nd 🔞 scene): I | II | III | IV | V
Update Schedule: weekly/ biweekly
CW: ⚠️🔞
(You can read the rest of the threadfic update here!)
Keep in mind, all of my AU Butchlander threadfics on Twitter are the unpolished first draft versions of what’ll eventually be polished up into long fics on AO3 under the Shock and Awe series. So you may regard this threadfic as an experimental first prototype and exclusive preview whose contents may or may not be changed in the future final draft version. We’re just loosely playing around with ideas and concepts for now!
If you don’t have a Twitter account, screenshots are provided below the line break so you can read this update on Tumblr as well:
A/N: I'd originally planned on putting this threadfic's first reader interactive poll at the end of this update (y'all can influence the plot direction this threadfic goes with each poll this'll have), but ultimately decided nah it'd fit better in the next update.
In this update, notice how the watch came back into play? It'd been foreshadowed in the earlier updates, where Billy wanders around Homelander's suite and fiddles with the leather strap (*cough*almostlikethere'smaybeaSupeproofspycaminside*cough*). And when he'd disappeared momentarily to HL's living room to fetch the water (guess who might have sneakily slipped the watch between the leather sofa cushion seats). It's referencing a CIA manipulation tactic ("bump") where the agent manufactures a reason to orchestrate a second meeting with the target of interest.
I am, by the way, open to ⚠️🔞 reader suggestions~. I make no promises that I’ll write it, but this threadfic is meant as a shameless excuse to write 🔞 butchlander spice, haha, and provide y’all some content during our butchlander drought. I have one reader suggestion thus far, and it involves candle wax. 🕯️
Tumblr Navigation (note I have not shared the prologue here with its premise setup; I’ve only started sharing this twitter threadfic on tumblr starting from the 2nd 🔞 scene): I | II | III | IV | V
Update Schedule: weekly/ biweekly
CW: ⚠️🔞
(You can read the rest of the threadfic update here!)
Keep in mind, all of my AU Butchlander threadfics on Twitter are the unpolished first draft versions of what’ll eventually be polished up into long fics on AO3 under the Shock and Awe series. So you may regard this threadfic as an experimental first prototype and exclusive preview whose contents may or may not be changed in the future final draft version. We’re just loosely playing around with ideas and concepts for now!
If you don’t have a Twitter account, screenshots are provided below the line break so you can read this update on Tumblr as well:
A/N: I'd originally planned on putting this threadfic's first reader interactive poll at the end of this update (y'all can influence the plot direction this threadfic goes with each poll this'll have), but ultimately decided nah it'd fit better in the next update.
In this update, notice how the watch came back into play? It'd been foreshadowed in the earlier updates, where Billy wanders around Homelander's suite and fiddles with the leather strap (*cough*almostlikethere'smaybeaSupeproofspycaminside*cough*). And when he'd disappeared momentarily to HL's living room to fetch the water (guess who might have sneakily slipped the watch between the leather sofa cushion seats). It's referencing a CIA manipulation tactic ("bump") where the agent manufactures a reason to orchestrate a second meeting with the target of interest.
I am, by the way, open to ⚠️🔞 reader suggestions~. I make no promises that I’ll write it, but this threadfic is meant as a shameless excuse to write 🔞 butchlander spice, haha, and provide y’all some content during our butchlander drought. I have one reader suggestion thus far, and it involves candle wax. 🕯️