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@pscentral​ event 40: typography / quotes

You give people hope. So, get back out there and be Alex. [in/sp]

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Schitt's Creek Photo of the Day 194 of ???

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On This Day in Schitt's Creek: July 18

2019

Completely Booked [david/patrick, E, 24,639] by @letteredlettered

Patrick has a calendar. He puts David on it. They keep their appointments. Then they do more scheduling.

I've got the feeling you're the right thing after all [david/patrick, T, 5,072] by JessX2231

Once they arrived at the drive-in, Patrick insisted they get more comfortable in the backseat. He knew there was no way to offer that without sounding suggestive, but he took it all in stride. “And what are we going to do back there that we can’t do here?” David asked. “I don’t know, David,” Patrick said with a telling grin. “Why don’t you join me and we’ll find out?” Or, Patrick takes David on their second date.

language of love (like you know what it means) [david/patrick, T, 3,496] by sunshine_butch

David doesn’t always say it the same way, but that didn’t mean he means it any less. He says, “My parents are hosting another barbeque, because the last one went so well, if you’d like to come. Tomorrow.” or Love languages, because I’m sappy and their relationship is all I’ve thought about for *checks watch* two months and fifteen days

let the rain come down (make a brand new ground)... [david/patrick, M, 2,520] by @startswithhope

After Jocelyn's baby shower, David and Patrick end up back at the store as storm rolls through and they sit together to watch, drink wine and talk about important things. And then stop talking for a while to do other things, that are equally important.

No Hands Below the Waist [david/patrick, M, 2,710] by @picascribit

"So …" said David a moment later, slightly out of breath, "how are we defining 'things' and 'slowly'?" "'Slowly' means when I'm ready, you'll be the first to know. And as for 'things' —" Patrick's cheeks flushed a delightful shade of red. "Let's just say … for tonight, pants stay on, and no hands below the waist. All right?" David cocked his head, a smile curling the corner of his mouth. "I can work with that."

2020

beach boys [david/patrick, G, 125] by @enablelove

"I told you we shouldn't have gone to the beach."

Blessings [david/patrick, G, 1,590] by @pageoftowers

How I imagine Patrick would ask Stevie for her blessing.

David Rose's Husband [david/patrick, T, 352] by @streetlampsunset

The first time Patrick hears David call him his husband.

from a free point of view [david/patrick, E, 8,707] by etben

“Okay, so.” David blinks, his heart rate slowing. “So, just to clarify, you’re saying that you haven’t spent the past three weeks secretly stewing about this.” “I mean.” Patrick fidgets. “Not in a bad way?” (In a sexy way)

Give a Little, Get a Little [david/patrick, T, 1,676] by bigficenergy

A kiss to cheer David up leads to more.

i'm gonna make this place your home [david/patrick, T, 2,494] by @staystrange

Who knew that when his dad had bought David this town as a joke, he’d actually bought him the life he’d always dreamed of but never thought he could possibly have? -or- David and Patrick visit the house, tour the house, and move into the house.

More than words is all you have to do to make it real [david/patrick, T, 2,700] by @kiwiana-writes

5(+1) times Patrick said "I love you" without actually saying it, set between 4.06 and 4.12.

Nice Move [david/patrick, T, 1,373] by @spiffymittens

David finds himself surprisingly sympathetic about Ray's business worries. Patrick notices.

Something Viable [ray/oc, T, 618] by @lastchancecafe13

Ray Butani loves a first date. Like launching a new business venture, there is something addictive about the prospect of starting something new.

Spotlight [david/patrick, E, 5,933] by anonymous

Patrick likes to put on a show. David helps.

Sunrise Bae - S02E54 [gen, t, 1,706] by @adspexi

Moira Rose has had a long, storied career. Dani and Mel have a long, storied podcast following it.

Thanks for Choosing Bagged! [david/patrick, T, 8,053] by @dinnfameron

"Ok I love you, now please thanks wine." As soon as David hit send and saw the message migrate from the draft box to the text conversation, he felt the bottom drop out of his stomach. Shit. He'd sent it to the customer. He'd sent it to Patrick. Did that seriously just happen?

What the leather jacket saw... [david/patrick, NR, poem] by @cheesecurdsgravyandfries

A inexplicable free verse poem.SO out of my wheelhouse, but this is where my brain went with this idea. Surely, David's leather jacket witnessed one hell of a trajectory. For Olive31, who mentioned the leather jacket in comments for Home, Sweet Home. While I'm at it, please check out my Choose Your Own Adventure fic, a Coda to Pregnancy Test, Episode 4.02 . It was a buttload of work and I'm super proud of it, and I'm working on another one for release in a few weeks. Oh, god, it randomly ended up exactly 300 words. It must be a sign.

2021

Fill 'Er Up [Tumblr Prompt Fills] [david/patrick, E, 5,895] by @asoftplacetoland

A collection of tumblr prompt fills ranging from cloyingly sweet to too filthy to read in public because that's just what ends up happening most of the time when I write. Ratings and content warnings marked in the beginning of each chapter.

2022

[Art: I Scream, You Scream] [david/patrick, G, fanart] by mallpretzles

Patrick is a troll while David eats ice cream during Housewarming and The MVP.

[Art: In Business & In Love] [david/patrick, G, fanart] by mallpretzles

Alexis flirtatiously bosses Patrick into throwing a massive, last minute event during Singles Week.

A Ray of Light [patrick & ray, NR, 1,476] by @tyfinn

Patrick needs a change, and contacts Ray Butani about a job.

What I'd Give [david/patrick, M, 2,149] by mallpretzles

Stevie stays at Patrick’s apartment the night before the wedding and realizes he’s still harboring some insecurities.

2023

and i could try to lie, i could try to bluff (or i could try to dance with you instead) [david/patrick, T, 40,656] by @hyper-fix-ate

“David, what are you doing?” David slumps back down onto the step and sighs, “I need coffee.” “It’s five o’clock in the morning,” Patrick says. He takes the last few stairs on the rickety staircase that leads to his apartment above Cafe Tropical and approaches David like one might approach a wild animal. “Make coffee at the motel.” “I did. I drank it all.” “You drank all the coffee at the motel before five in the morning?” “Big gulps,” David confirms, nodding his head just once. “Lots of sugar.” Or, the one where I follow the plot of S4E20 - S5E3 of Gilmore Girls, but make it David and Patrick instead of Lorelai and Luke. In this universe Ted & Alexis are about to get married, Patrick moved to Schitt's Creek before the Roses and helps with the financial stuff but is less involved in the day-to-day of RA, which is about to open, and we ignore the fact that Rory and any of her plot points exist because even I am not so chaotic as to give David Rose a teenage daughter.

2024

Changes - Part 2 [david/patrick, E, 23,459] by JZD

Moving on to Part 2 of Changes. During the following two years, Patrick struggled with his loss, building the business and, sheerly by a series of chance events, developed a side hustle in pop music. Meanwhile, David found it difficult to gain traction in pursuit of his new career. He began to rethink the decisions he made over the previous two years.

Stats:

No fanworks for 2017 or 2018 2019: 5 fics/38,437 words 2020: 13 fanworks (12 fics, 1 poem)/35,627 words 2021: 1 fic/5,895 words 2022: 4 fanworks (2 fics, 2 fanart)/3,625 words 2023: 1 fic/40,656 words 2024: 1 fic/23,459 words Total: 25 fanworks (22 fics, 2 fanart, 1 poem)/147,699 words

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no one talks about how draining it is when your mood is constantly switching between "its okay, i don't care. l'll be okay" and "I don't know how much more I can take"

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I'm really worried for all of us. I want us to be as well as possible and for that to be the case we really gotta stay informed:

(resources compiled by sp0receress and agitpropandabsurdity on IG, I just copied em to share here)

best way to protect yourself is to wear a mask (n95 or kn95) wherever possible and do social events outside if you're not gonna mask. though the latter isn't foolproof, I read a case study of a jogger infecting a bunch of people in a park. it can happen.

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people misunderstand what ‘gifted kid’ actually means but it’s ok it’s fine it’s cool it’s good

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"mirror mirror on my phone, who's the baddest?

✨ us, hello? ✨"

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I think a lot of autistic taking-things-literally goes under the radar because what the diagnostic tests and shit ask about is not what that generally looks like in an adult and often not in kids either and much more importantly it’s not what generally actually causes problems in real life instead of being irritating for caretakers or funny to bullies or easy to diagnose

I have absolutely no issues understanding metaphors or idioms. When someone says their heart is on their sleeve they mean they’re emotionally expressive and openly display their feelings, not that they have a chunk of cardiac tissue on their shirt. I very rarely have issues with sarcasm. I sometimes have issues telling when someone who’s said something mean is about to say “just kidding”, but tbh I think that’s more on them than me.

BUT

My grandmother asked me “Do you know when the trash was taken out last?” and I said “I think Eliot took it out yesterday” and a few hours later she yelled at me for “not taking out the trash when I asked you to” and I was like???? You didn’t ask me????

I dread filling out forms and am crap at filling out diagnostic tests or personality quizzes because there are always questions I don’t know the exact answers to (how am I supposed to know what day I got dental surgery seven years ago?) or don’t understand exactly what they’re asking or the wording’s unclear and they could mean this or the wording says this but I’m pretty sure what they actually meant was this and should I answer what they said or what they meant, and how does everyone else just whip through the form when surely they can’t know all the answers either? Does everyone else remember the day they got dental surgery seven years ago?

I get tangled up by bureaucracy because the rules on the website say that for this you need that and for that you need the other and for the other you need something else for which you need the first thing, and I go in circles for hours or days or weeks or months or years because their stated rules say there is no way to get what I need, and when I talk to somebody else they’re like “just call them?” and I’m like “how could that help? the rules say that what I’m trying to do is impossible”

And all of that? That’s how “taking things literally” ACTUALLY affects your life as an adult. It’s not “haha you think ‘getting under your skin’ means parasites”. It’s “you have real difficulty functioning in the world because everyone else is conveying things through implication and assuming that you know that rules are flexible and questions are approximate and you’re supposed to lie on job applications, and you don’t”.

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"they're a stranger online!!" to you. to me they're my everything

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Schitt's Creek Photo of the Day 185 of ???

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#accurate

The Good Place – 2.04: Existential Crisis

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On This Day in Schitt's Creek: July 17

2019

adorable, sexy, and thoughtful [david/patrick, G, 526] by @enablelove

Patrick makes David breakfast.

spinning on that dizzy edge [david/patrick, T, 4,110] by @thegrayness

“You don’t seem to be freaking out,” David said. OR David has tentacles and, well, maybe they play matchmaker.

when the lights go out you give me a spark [david/patrick, T, 558] by @thegrayness

“Don’t look!” “I’m not looking, David!”

Yellow Moon on the Rise [david/patrick, T, 10,504] by @patrickredactedbrewer

“David was about to take his chances again when he looked up at the next float and saw the kissing booth boy, waving genially in a blue button down and slacks, with a plastic crown and a sash that said, unbelievably, ‘Corn Crown Prince.’” Or, Stevie and Alexis drag David to Elm Grove’s 4th Annual Corn Festival, where Patrick is working their college baseball team’s kissing booth fundraiser.

2020

[art] alexis.rose.comms [stevie/alexis, G, fanart] by @onlylostphysics

A snapshot from Alexis' instagram when she visits Schitt's Creek. (Or, there's only one person who can convince Stevie to wear a flower in her hair.)

[Podfic] What’s Cookin’, Good Lookin’? [david/patrick, E, podfic] by @delilah-mcmuffin

“In here!” David’s voice called out from the direction of the kitchen. Patrick frowned and braced himself. The thought of David alone in the kitchen all day was both terrifying and adorable. He frequently spent his days off cooking things for Patrick, deep diving on Pinterest for recipes he thought would make Patrick’s mouth water. And Patrick appreciated the thought, he really did. It was just that sometimes, after a day spent in the kitchen, all that David had to show for his efforts was the thought. And some kind of lumpy, burnt thing that was supposedly a pot roast or maybe banana bread. Podfic of my story, What’s Cookin’, Good Lookin’?

Coffee (With The Right Amount of Sugar) How You Like It [david/patrick, T, 2,600] by @streetlampsunset

“Did you know Patrick has magic?” “Um, yes, obviously, David,” Alexis said without glancing up from her phone. “Uh, excuse you,” David said, holding up a Rick Owens for consideration, before deciding against it. “What do you mean, obviously?” “We talk witchy things literally all the time,” Alexis said. She waved her hand in his direction, “He uses little hedge spells to keep your clothes from getting all wrinkly and your hair from looking sad.” Alexis tilted her head and scrunched up her nose. “You can’t feel them?”

glad to be your one shot pleasure (or more) [david/patrick, E, 12,729] by @hullomoon

When Patrick meets his friends at the bar he hadn't planned on hooking up with anybody, that all changes when he meets David.

Heart Skips a Beat [david/patrick, T, 6,118] by @colorofmymindposts

Stevie doesn't give into David's demands to let him stay at her place when Alexis has lice. So Patrick offered. Patrick Brewer with the straight leg denim. Patrick Brewer with the awful taste in decor and who loves poking fun at David. Patrick Brewer with all the help and business advice David needs to not run this store into the ground before it even starts. Patrick, who David is starting to warm up to despite his best intentions not to.

In Every Color [david/patrick, G, 1,304] by @maxbegone

“Green’s a good color on you.” David stops in his tracks. He should say “thank you” and take the compliment, but the mild hilarity of the moment overshadows it. — Or, David wears something a little outside of his comfort zone, Patrick wears something a little outside of his normal color choices, and there’s talk about self-expression.

My Skin Is Begging You Please [david/patrick, E, 2,366] by @owltranslator

Patrick wants more.

Pool Party [david/patrick, T, 1,953] by @thefirstmrshummel

The first summer in their new home, David longs for a pool. Patrick, perhaps predictably, tries to follow through on his promise to make David happy.

Railed and Derailed [david/patrick, E, 1,177] by @kiranerys42

David tries to fuck Patrick, but he gets distracted.

Why waste a drop of the wine [david/patrick, T, 610] by @kiwiana-writes

But none of that stops the air from being sucked out of his chest when he gets to the Capitol and sees Patrick ready to go on as the Emcee.

2021

PDA: Public Displays of Anxiety [david/patrick, T, 6,355] by @delilah-mcmuffin

“Maybe I don’t want to go out with you guys if you’re going to be disgusting and gooey all night.” Patrick holds up his hands in surrender. “If I promise not to be gooey, will you still come?” “You can promise all you like,” Stevie chimes in from where she’s lounging on David’s bed, scrolling listlessly on her phone. “It won’t stop David from being gooey all over you.” Patrick feels himself blushing. Are they really that bad? Does the way he and David interact in public make people uncomfortable? Or: Patrick gets all up in his head about how much PDA is too much. Things go about as well as you'd expect.

Rags Lombard's Food + Drink [david/patrick, T, 2,998] by @blackandwhiteandrose

“There will be plenty of time for kissing la-” Patrick stopped talking, his eyes catching on someone looking intently at him. “Shit.” “What?” David's head swiveled back and forth, trying to figure out the source of his displeasure. “It is you! Paddy-O!” A voice far too loud for the environment called out. ------- On a trip to Patrick's hometown, he and David visit a restaurant where some of major life moments have occurred ... and have a run-in with two guys he'd have been happy to never see again.

Tell Me When You Know [david/patrick, M, 12,771] by @maxbegone

“No restaurant proposals,” Patrick adds aloud, ticking it off on his fingers as he goes. “No scavenger hunts, champagne is a yes, but the ring has to not be in it...Nowhere there could be a hidden photographer standing by, although it might be nice...” Rachel hums down the line. “God forbid David isn’t put together for once,” she jokes. “So nothing cheesy. Or public.” “No.” “Kinda hard when you’re proposing."___ There are five times in which Patrick nearly proposes to David, several conversations about it, and one time where he actually does.

2022

comparison is killing me slowly [david/patrick, T, 2,196] by @patrckbrewer

The bottle lands on Patrick. “Okay, I think we’ve had enough of this game!” he yells. Everyone is staring at him and he knows he’s ruining the party, but the anxiety that has taken over his brain doesn’t really give a shit. “Ugh, David, stop ruining the fun,” Alexis says, patting a very confused Ted on the shoulder and moving out of the way so he has easier access to Patrick. David’s Patrick. or: the one where ted kisses patrick instead of david

2023

DON'T PANIC! [david/patrick, T, 24,624] by OneForTheDame

David wakes up in an unfamiliar bedroom.Alone. Luckily, there's a note explaining everything. Chaos ensues.

Ease [david/patrick, G, 100] by @ramonaflow

100 words based on the Tumblr prompt: Ease

Stats:

No fanworks for 2017, 2018, or 2024 2019: 4 fics/15,698 words 2020: 10 fanworks (8 fics, 1 podfic, 1 fanart)/28,889 words 2021: 3 fics/22,124 words 2022: 1 fic/2,196 words 2023: 2 fics/24,724 words Total: 20 fanworks (18 fics, 1 podfic, 1 fanart)/93,631 words

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About Me

Thanks to @mostlyinthemorning and @milklovexoxo for the tag!

favorite color: red, but also green and blue. and black. all colors are great actually.

currently watching: Surreal Estate, or, "hey, that was that one guy in that one schitt's creek episode"

currently reading: Greywaren by Maggie Stiefvater, the last in the Dreamer triology

last song: February - Dar Williams (I'm going through it, what can I say)

last film: KPop Demon Hunters, which was frankly delightful

coffee or tea: tea, though I have been drinking a lot of coffee lately

last series: Leverage Redemption

last song you sang out loud: Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins (current voice lesson repertoire)

currently craving: stability and a fucking break

sweet/salty/savory: It depends, but often sweet

earbuds/headphones: Earbuds, but I hate them. < prev same, they hurt less than wearing headphones with glasses

last place you went to other than home: grocery store? I think? I should probably leave the house more

favorite chips: Salt and vinegar

color that looks good on you: I hope it's black because that's mostly what I wear

working on: ...work. and psyching myself up to open up one of the wips

np tagging @rosedavid @roseapothecary @kiwiana-writes @hippolotamus @grapehyasynth @jettestar