#<- yep- that’s the aos tag now

[maddiedrawz]

remember like MONTHS ago when i was starting to watch aos and i rant on here about it sometimes? i tagged them as agents of shield but the posts are not there anymore when i searched the tag on my blog?? it’s whatever i’m just saying we’re starting over. anyways-

spoilers warning :))) (also this is gonna be a mess/word vomit like always✨)

currently starting s3ep14 so i’m very fresh off of ep13 so y’all know exactly how i am rn mentally. the tears are not even dry yet i am doing great😃

thank you to whoever told me (pretty sure it was mundie? but idk lol) that ward never dies cuz when he “died” i was like NOPE I DONT BELIEVE YOU like i shouldn’t- this show is giving me more trust issues- and when he came back i wasn’t THAT annoyed i was kinda prepared lol BUT what i wasn’t prepared for was ep13 because WTF????? WHY?????? UGHHH?????

i will not talk about fitzsimmons. i won’t. i will need 3-5 business years to recover thank you-

also super random- but why does daisy have a hundred times more chemistry with jemma or even bobbi than the zappy guy i’m so sorry i forgot your name? LMAO JUST A THOUGHT DONT KILL ME- SKIMMONS FTW WOOP WOOP

my parting thoughts are when is yo-yo coming back (cuz i’ve heard that name before so i know she’s coming back and i love her already)? dove cameron when?? i’m waiting •-• AND lastly, can we leave fitzsimmons alone? pls? they’re tired, i’m tired- can we pls just let them be happy for more than 5 mins?🥲

tagging @likea-black-widow-baby because i blame you >:///

[twinkboimler]

20 Questions for Fic Writers!

Tagged by @m-b-w, thank you!

Questions are answered under the cut!

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

58 works

2) What's your total AO3 word count?

693,141 words

3) What fandoms do you write for?

Right now, only Star Trek; while my focus tends to be on TOS, AOS, and SNW, I'm open to writing for other trek series and will when the inspiration strikes! Previously, I've written a fair amount for MST3K and Anne with an E.

4) Top 5 fics by kudos?

Imagining Something Worthwhile - AWAE Oddly Unexpected, Oddly Charming - AWAE Hush - AWAE Heaven Help The Fool Who Falls In Love - AWAE An Endless Stream of Tomorrows - TOS

(lmao, can you tell I was writing AWAE fic as the show was airing? I think that was the only fandom I've written for while a fandom was at it's peak popularity)

5) Do you respond to comments?

Not always and I do feel bad about that. I try my best when the comment is especially sweet or lengthy, but I've got about 10 unread comments in my inbox right now that I haven't replied to because too much time has passed and it feels like it's too late

6) What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

with trembling hands, my SNW Spock/Pike fic that has a sad ending. Super happy with how angsty that fic ends tbh I really wanted to write a fic for Spock/Pike that tackled how Pike would end their relationship as the radiation stuff was quickly approaching

7) What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I've posted so many fluffy oneshots that it's kinda hard to choose. An Endless Stream of Tomorrows is definitely high on that list

8) Do you get hate on fics?

Not really. The closest I get in the trek fandom are comments correcting me on some lore in my fics. Which, sure, is sometimes nice and useful, but sometimes I don't really need a "um, actually--" on a 1000 word fluff fic

9) Do you write smut?

Yes, and I'm finally at the point where I really 1) enjoy writing smut and 2) think I'm getting good at it

10) Do you write crossovers?

I have one, and I so RARELY get to talk about it because it was written for me and like two friends. Night Shift is my crossover fic: it's Spike from BTVS X Gambit from X-Men (and apparently it has 21 kudos??? who are you people reading this crack ship???). Anyway, Gambit and Spike hook up and through a series of misunderstandings, they end up on a roadtrip/fleeing a murder scene together. Spike thinks Gambit is a demon, and Gambit has no idea Spike is a vampire. I'm realizing I haven't reread this fic since I posted it, which is WILD because this is such a self-indulgent fic, so I'm going to go read that now

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope, but people are free to do so! Just credit the original work :)

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yep! Between You and Me (AWAE) was such an interesting project to work on! There was a group of about 13 of us, and we all had a week to read the previous chapter and write our own chapters to continue the story. I'd love to do something like that again

14) What's your all-time favorite ship?

Spike/Buffy, but funnily enough, I don't have a strong drive to read fic for them. I'm satisfied with how the show handles their relationship arc and haven't really had to resort to reading fic because of that

15) What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you will?

I don't post wips that I don't intend to finish. I've got a few wips in my docs that may never be finished of course, but on AO3 my only wip rn is Place Your Hand In Mine, my AOS academy-era mckirk fic, and I fully intend to finish that one; other fics (trektober, zines fics, etc) just got in the way

16) What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue and smut

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

Still trying to be a more concise writer; I'd love to be able to say more with less words

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language?

I haven't taken a language course in 5+ years. I think if I had to I could write some simple French dialogue, but not without doing a lot of studying to make sure I was saying what I meant

19) First fandom you wrote for?

On AO3, X-Men. IRL? when I was 12 the only person I knew who wrote fic was writing Youtuber fanfic, so I tried that out for a short stint before immediately shifting to Doctor Who

20) Favorite fic you've ever written?

what remains unsaid. I don't think it's my best fic, but it does hit all the beats for what I often look for in fic, so it's doing everything that I want in a story. What really draws me to some of the TOS Movies is how they deal with themes of parenthood and Jim never really fitting into the role of father and being very aware that he doesn't fit that role. I just really love that he's shown as having faults, like yeah, he wasn't a father to David and he knows that. This fic is in a 5+1 Things format exploring Jim's relationship (or lack of) to David. It's not a ship fic; it was just a chance for me to explore those themes and really dive into Jim's head.

TAGGING: @antspaul @ladywaffles @diabeticjedi @gunstreet @borbtrek and anyone else who would like to do it, feel free to say I tagged you!

[apparently-artless]

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better - i was tagged by @kkzz, @princesstooru and @kimdokjas. thank you for tagging me! (〃＾▽＾〃) also adding luna (@todorokistoya) since my answers are pretty much still the same.

Three Ships: hak x yona, bisco x milo, luffy x boa (luhan) [sorry not too familiar if these ships have actual names XD]

First Ever Ship: sakura x shaoran (i mean, come on! i was born in the 90s lol)

Last Song: Perfect Duet (Ed Sheeran feat. Beyonce) [i am currently in radio playlist mode]

Last Movie: We have a Ghost, i watched a non-english film after this, but i forgot the title

Currently Reading: a lot of manga actually (bllk, ao ashi, jjk, bsd, mashle and many more!), as for an actual book, I've yet to finish the first volume of Sabikui Bisco that i bought last year (￣▽￣*)ゞ

Currently Watching: basically almost ongoing winter anime TV series, it's now spring, so some of spring anime series

Currently Consuming: water? XD (yep, still the same)

Currently Craving: sadly, i don't crave anything that much and this has been ongoing since the pandemic, i think? T_T

Tagging: @silversoulsociety, @umidays, @fangrui, @boo-kugo, @thepantunfla57, @hyakkafu, @chifuya, @shykuroo, @tomiokasensei

seriously though, no pressure if you don't want to. i just want to know a few things about you! (´｡• ᵕ •｡`)

[isa-ghost]

Hooby Heeby Time to Watch Mandela Catalogue

THINK

Ah fuck me this weird grainy TTS voice shit always spooks me

But in that way yall JSE followers usually see me being horny for Anti. Its that Good Spooky

Hold the fuck up I gotta grab me some chips n dip we strappin in

OOH WE DOIN SOME DOPPELGANGER SHIT, POGGERS

Tag urself I’m bighead man in the middle

TELL an authority member about your encounter. Hm no I dont think I will, we’re gonna be besties and do crime

Identify the class type?? Ok so this is some SCP shit now

...Wait I’m thinking of Anti bc of that oh.

THE WAY I CRACKED THE FUCK UP AT “KILL YOURSELF” I WASNT EXPECTING THAT LMAOOO

NAH. NAH THAT FACE AT 2:22 IS STRAIGHT UP JUST SOME WALTEN FILES SHIT NAH. I SEE YOU

Type 3: Slender Man

hey not to be rude but fuck that thing in the corner he needs to make like socialism and distribute that tall equally. to me. give me some tall

VOL 1

Gotta say, the patriotic music in the background of this urgent emergency broadcast message is really fucking funny to me

Can’t use psychological warfare on me if I do it to myself already *that What meme music plays as the camera freezes on my dumb face*

T.H.I.N.K. THIS TOWN AINT BIG ENOUGH FOR THE TEW OF US /spits into bucket

Oh fuck yeah we in that analog horror babieeee

Idk Victim 2 kinda hot

Cesar huh 😏

Cesar haunted house poggies

Am I gonna regret jokingly simping

MICHAEL JACKSON??

OH NO GIRL THAT STUTTER BEFORE THE CALL CONTINUED SOUNDED LIKE THAT FREAKY AUDIO FROM THE WALTEN FILES THAT I WAS YELLING ABOUT A WHILE BACK

I have decided I do not like the stairway cam

New gender unlocked: Suddenly Open Door

O NO CESAR TURNED INTO A FOOTPRINT

“It followed me home, Cesar”

Me, chugging my flavored water rn:

I DONT WANT YOUR PRESENT UNLESS ITS A SEXY DEMON OC I CAN SIMP FOR

...I was mindin my business watching and my Discord crashed. When I paused my Discord came back and as soon as I unpaused MC again it crashed again. Hm.

WAIT WHO LAUGHIN LIKE THAT ITS KINDA SEXY 😳

You cant give me unhinged man laughter I just simp

UH OH! YOU MADE A SERIOUS FUCKY W U C K Y. NOW YOU HAVE TO GO IN the forever box.

When am I gonna stop memeing and start shitting in fear

HEY WHATS WITH AO ONI FACE ASS, NUH UH FUCK YOU BRO

But nobody came :)

HEHE ITS THE FUNNY TTS VOICE IN THOSE MEMES

When the caller has an emergency, contact the weewoo wagon

OH MY MANS CAN HOLD A LOW NOTE GO TTS MAN GO

Do not help a caller reporting an alternate encounter?? Bitch that sounds like something that should be your job. >America moment 🙄

“Nothing is worth the wait, nothing is worth the wait” Oh hello that’s getting saved as an idea for my OC shit later

Toddler stress responses?? Oh we in some psychology now, this my major :00 *waits for the horrific shit to happen*

I THOUGHT THE CLICK BETWEEN THE AUDIO PLAYING AND RECORDING RESPONSE TIME WAS A GUN COCKING FLAKSDF DONT SHOOT THE BABY

SHEEPIES :D

There’s a man in the closet? Its 2021, let him come out. He’s valid

Gonna be real with you I paused here for at least 10 min bc my streamer distracted me with a fart video

*sees hooded smiling man* *and then goes to sleep the end!!!!* HM YEP THATS NOT BAD AT ALL

iM SORRY BUT HOODED MANS EYES LOOK GOOFY ASF IM DYIN HIS SUDDEN APPEARANCE COULDNT SCARE ME

Why he look like a drug addict tho. He want sum crack

Curse my Gen Z humor, this is literally so funny to me and for what

OVERTHRONE

OH HEY ITS THE FAITH GAME TTS GUY WASUP DUDE

Hm that whispering’s not very pogchamp

WELL THATS A WHACK ASS MOOD CHANGE END CARD

INTRUDER ALERT

Who is this man, he looks like he did a crime

This TTS voice sounds like a Karen

Me coping with the creepy baby crying by focusing on how that saturated af pic of the crib makes it look like the blanket is just a giant slice of cheddar cheese:

Wtf is this music >_>

Yeah no I expected the hanging whoop there it is

GOD NO I HATE THIS EMERGENCY BLOOPING BECAUSE AS A KID I WAS TERRIFIED OF TORNADOES AND IT’D SCREECH ON THE TV WHEN SHIT GOT RLLY BAD

OVER 3000 CHILDREN MISSING W H A T

Okay how does all of this stuff connect bc I’m gettin interested and my crackhead hours are winding down

M.A.D

Okay the man in the corner boutta catch these fuckin hands

I am ironically so tired after the busy day I had I s2g I’m gonna pass out soon and some weird shit’s gonna go down in my dreams wish me luck

[steeleholtingon]

Fic Writer Review

Thank you @3friesshortofahappymeal and @momentofch-aos for tagging me.

1. How many do you have on Ao3?

62

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count?

1,456,788. (That totally looks like a made up number, but I promise it's not.)

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Remington Steele and Marvel in various flavors.

4. What are your top 5 five by kudos?

Ice and Fire

Flight Ready

Signs/Language of Love

Darcy Lewis: A Cinderella Story

Hidden

5. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Always. I enjoy the connection with the people reading the story.

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

I promise Angst-with-a-Happy-Ending, so I try hard to stick that landing. I didn't finish part 3 of Symbiosis though, and left a synopsis for readers as a conclusion. That one wasn't a happy ending and was the whole reason I couldn't bring myself to write the story.

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I did a Castle/Remington Steele crossover once. That was fun.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Often enough that I have a system for dealing with it. Usually it's the Purity Police attacking me, but sometimes it's a reader who isn't happy with the direction the story is going. I remind readers that the choice to read or not read is theirs. If they can't control themselves, I block them.

9. Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Yes, if it contributes to the plot or character development in the story. I don't have any issues writing explicitly, but I can't write it just to write smut.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yep. Ice and Fire gets posted to other sites all the time. It's exhausting sending take down notices, and there's no way I can catch the translations. I do what I can though.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

With my permission? I've been contacted a couple of times but it's never gone anywhere. I think my stuff is hard to translate because I use a lot of idioms and metaphors that don't always work in other languages. My stories tend to be long, too.

Same deal with podcasts.

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, but I have an amazing beta and a writing group. We bounce around ideas and talk through characterizations and plot.

13. What is your all-time favourite ship?

I can't answer that. I love all my ships. If I don't love it, I can't write it.

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I won't post if I'm not going to finish it. I'm going to finish Strands of Yggdrasil if it kills me. And it might.

15. What are your writing strengths?

Angst. Whole trucks filled with angst back up into my stories and dump their entire load. I have a request for a Daisy Johnson/Daniel Sousa story that I could fulfill in 1000 words and it would be this cute fluffy thing. That's not what the requestor is going to get.

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

Why write a hundred words when you can drag the characters through the valley of angst in a thousand?

For realsies.... I write too fast and drop words all the time.

I can't publish without a beta because it would be incoherent. Is it any wonder that my beta is now a professional editor with a big publishing house? I'm so proud of her.

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I try not to unless I'm absolutely sure on the meaning. Spanish I can dribble in and feel okay. I know like three phrases in Russian, and just enough French to get me in a crap ton of trouble.

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

I was 9 and wrote a fanfic for the Atari game Defender.

My first published fanfic is "Steele Blushing (Part 2)" from the Remington Steele/Laura Holt fandom.

19. What’s your favourite fic you’ve ever written?

Regency Steele and Queen of Steele are my favs from the RS fandom.

Symbiosis, Ice and Fire, Flight Ready, and Stay are such huge stories that I gave up whole years to them. Symbiosis (Jane/Thor) was my first foray back into writing after a years-long hiatus. Ice and Fire (Bucky/Darcy/Steve) just astounds me at its reception. I recently found the original 6 page word doc that turned into the 300K monster, plus all the various stories in that 'Verse. Flight Ready (Darcy/Clint) was the first time I went out on a limb and wrote something really different. Stay (Daisy/Daniel) is a love letter to my SO.

One Year, Flight Plans May Change, Hidden, Ink, and Signs/Language of Love rank up there with my fav stuff.

Ugh. Don't make me choose.

Here's my stuff and you decide:

SteeleHoltingOn at Ao3

20. Tag Yourself

[excavatinglizard]

20 Questions Writer Edition

Thanks for tagging me @jenjiy ! Y’all get to see the deepest depths of my fandom soul (by which I mean Star Trek is my second serious fandom and I hadn’t written fic since I was like 15 until February). I’m definitely more art-focused but I’ve been enjoying writing more often recently!

How many works do you have on AO3

16 (although most are just dumb little one shots)

What’s your total AO3 word count?

53,324

How many fandoms have you written for and what were they?

Are we counting unposted stuff? Because that would be… seven? (Warrior cats, gravity falls, WoF, SPOP, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Star Trek AOS and DSC. Again, please don’t judge baby Lizard they were having fun at the time 😂)

What are your top five fics by kudos?

Passing Thoughts (Spirk AOS)

If You’re So Damn Sure (Mckirk AOS)

Keep On Doing Like You Do (Mckirk AOS)

Unexpected Fowl Should Be Brought To Captain Pike’s Office (Gen AOS)

I Got Dust in my Eyes (Mckirk AOS)

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I always try to respond to comments, and usually pretty quickly since they make me happy! But if it’s just something like ‘aww, kudos!’ I might not because… not much I can say besides ‘thank you!!’ but I appreciate it anyway!

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending

Hmm I don’t think my fics usually have angsty endings, but probably A Conversation. Actually, yep. That one’s more than a little angsty (even if the ending’s supposed to be a bit comforting)

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Hahahaha you ask me, writer solely of fluff, this? I mean, what do you classify as happy? Anyway, that would probably have to be In The Summer Swelter

Do you write crossovers? If yes, what’s the craziest thing you’ve written?

Hmm not really? I mean, I have a couple sort-of-crossover wips, but they’re mostly just rough notes. I guess @ season-ofthe-bitch and I have that AOS Magnus Archives crossover?

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Nope! Amazingly…? I guess my fics are all pretty small and I’m not popular enough to have received hate. Plus the Mckirk fandom seem to be generally lovely people!

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Ha. Haha… my writing is pretty (well, I’d say) family friendly. There may be a couple smut wips on my computer, but nothing that’s ever seeing the light of day.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I mean, not to my knowledge? Again, I’m pretty small and new to fandom so even if someone would steal one of my fics, haven’t really been around long enough I guess. Hoping it stays that way

Have you ever had a fic translated?

No, once again I am fandom baby.

Have you ever co-written a fic?

Surprisingly, yes. My high school ex was actually the one who introduced me to wider fandom, and we wrote a couple things together(this was before we were dating, mind) although I usually don’t count it (I wonder what they’re doing now…)

What’s your all-time favorite ship?

Ahhhhh I haven’t really had any long term ships. I mean, I’ve been neck-deep in Mckirk for almost seven months now??? But before that I was very much a Jonmartin shipper (and that isn’t changing anytime soon).

What’s a wip you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

Probably lighthouse fic (part of which I posted because I liked it but knew I wouldn’t finish) or my First Fifteen Lives Mckirk au

What’s your writing strengths?

Uh so this might sound self deprecating, but I’d say just the fact that I’m writing. I’ve never been a particularly strong writer (English was always my lowest grade. After history…) but I AM writing and editing and posting, so honestly? I’m just pleased that I’ve been able to do as much as I have.

What’s your writing weaknesses?

All of it. Please I am in pain why did no one ever teach me to write fiction???

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in fic?

I’ve never done it myself but I think it’s awesome when done correctly. I adore how much it can add to a fic

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Warrior cats……..

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

Honestly? Like the Sun Upon the Sky. It’s six hundred words and I’ll freely admit to going and reading it when I feel down and just need some sleepy fluff. Write what you need to read, they say, and damn did I do it 😂

Not gonna tag anyone (because most people I know have already been tagged haha) but any of y’all are welcome to do it!

[justlightlysedated]

20 Questions

20 questions, writer's edition, I was tagged by @lambourngb 😊❤❤

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

71! 70 for roswell and one for vagrant queen

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

468, 583!!

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

not entirely sure tbh, but let's count now:

timkon, bandom, glee, specifically pukurt, but some other ships too, merlin, doctor who, torchwood, teen wolf, agents of shield, runaways, the old guard, vagrant queen, and obviously, roswell new mexico

i think there might be more, but i don’t remember rn

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

the cost of greatness, which i cowrote with marlo

a cure i know that soothes the soul (does so impossibly), the first pwp i wrote for this fandom lol

the person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger, which i wrote for marlo

for better or for worse (til death do us part), which i also cowrote with marlo lol

it might be your wound but they’re my sutures, which i also wrote for marlo

so the pattern im sensing here is that my most popular fics were written with/for marlo which sounds about right lol

5. What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

i am not sure tbh, i write some pretty angsty one shots and longer fics, but i TRY to at least give a slightly hopeful ending, tho now that i’m thinking about it, i think the angstiest thing i’ve written was that prompt fill based on the song, for island fires and family, i remember SOBBING the entire time that i wrote it (there is miluca in that one), but ALSO there is the fic i wrote in reaction to the season one finale, which also made me cry, which was called, we both know how this story ends

6. What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

once again i’m not sure, like i said before, i try to give my fics hopeful endings if they’re really angsty, and i love me some hurt/comfort, but i’m not entirely known for writing happy, fluffy fics, tho i do TRY sometimes for certain people

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you've written?

yes!! i do love me some crossovers, and i guess i would have to say the malex, sort of doctor who au, i’m technically still writing for tove

8. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

yes??? but i’m not sure if i could classify it, like i’ll write pretty much anything within reason and if it doesn’t squick me out

9. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

okay, so like don’t hate me, but no, i rarely, if ever respond to comments, i just don’t know what to say at all, like i’m the type of person that really wants every single message to be unique and special, but there are only so many ways to thank someone for reading your fic, so i just tend to post things and then thank everyone for reading afterwards, if there is someone that shows up often on my notifications, or if someone asks me a specific question pertaining to the story, then i will answer, i also answer back if i wrote the fic for someone and they left a comment, and if i’m sent an ask on here about something that i wrote, but i am simultaneously the world's most shy and confident person ever, when it comes to my writing, so i’m so sorry

this doesnt mean that i dont appreciate every comment that i get because i really do, im just super shy and awkward and i may write good-ish, but i do NOT have the same way with words in person

10. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

not really?? if i have i don’t remember it, usually i’m the one who talks the worse about my own writing

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not that i know of

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes, the only kurtbastian fic i’ve ever written was translated into russian

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

yep!! as y’all probably saw from my top five fics up there somewhere, marlo @bestillmyslashyheart is basically my fic writing soulmate, we just really click when it comes to writing

14. What's your all time favourite ship? to write for?

atm it’s malex, which is more than obvious, BUT before they hijacked my brain and made their home within my neurons, it was skimmons!!! i wrote fic for them for YEARS, even after i stopped watching aos

15. What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, i’m just gonna talk about fics that i’ve posted and haven’t updated and not any of the hundreds of wips that have never seen the light of day, my original witch au tbh, i just, roswell made maria and isobel somehow related, and just made me really uncomfortable with the ship, which is the main reason that i’m not gonna finish the fic if i’m being perfectly honest, there is ALSO that au i had where michael’s daughter from the future comes back to the past and she had been raised by alex, because of reasons that are petty, probably my space opera au as well, and only because i just want to write other things MORE

16. What are your writing strengths?

i think i’m good at describing things, especially kisses, i LOVE writing kisses, it’s one of my favorite things, that and my fight scenes are two of the things i pride myself the most on

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

dialogue, sometimes i feel the characters are ridiculously out of character, but then i don’t care because sometimes in canon characters are also ridiculously out of characters, also describing things, because sometimes i just feel like scenes don’t flow right, i am definitely a comma whore, and use dashes and hyphens in places they definitely shouldn’t be used, run-on sentences are my best friends, also english isn't my first language, so, sometimes the way i phrase things just come out wrong

18. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

tbh completely honest, i follow the nora sakavic method where you just write the dialogue in english like, “hey there love,” they said in perfect french, and i only break this rule if i actually know the language because just translating straight from english always makes things sound stilted and weird

19. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

dc comics, i wrote several timkon fics which i posted on livejournal

20. What's your favourite fic you've written?

oh, i know that love is all about the wind, how it can hold me up and kill me in the end (still i loved it), no specific reason why, i just love it with my entire heart!!

and that's it!! im not gonna tag anyone cause I saw that most ppl were already tagged, but if you want to do this just say that I tagged you!!

[bewires]

Fic Writer Interview

Tagged by @tobebbanburg , thank you!! for some reason the tag was being weird but I saw it anyway by virtue of blindly scrolling through tumblr all day

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 105

2. What’s your total AO3 word count? 919688 (maybe I need to have a party when I cross over to a million lol)

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they? 15: Torchwood, Supernatural, High School Musical, The Old Guard, Stranger Things, Harry Potter, Riverdale, The Hobbit, Star Trek (AOS), Stormlight Archives, Sevenwaters Trilogy, Inception, Il Padre d'Italia, Hartenstraat, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? chrysalis, offer no absolutes, incurable, say the word (& I'll be your renaissance man), heavens doth move (all TOG lol)

5. Do you respond to comments, why or why not? I used to never back when I was pretending this is not my fave hobby and also I was kind of a lurker on ao3 for a long time. For about eighteen months, yes, although I am bad at getting to later comments on a fic that I posted a while ago.

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending? um. I don't....do that? I guess a few SPN fics from way back when (aka 2009) are pretty angsty in the end.

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written? Rarely. The craziest one would have to be the SPN/TOG one I did for @theanity

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic? Yes, several times. It was fairly evident it wasn't actually about the fic each time though.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Yes, and in terms of pairing I have written m/m, m/f and f/f, though I hope to write more f/f soon. In terms of kinks I have some hard limits though.

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of, closest thing was the time someone put a quote from a Destiel fic I wrote on their organic candles they were advertising on pinterest with credit but without asking me.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated? I have, although it was ages ago.

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yep excellent experience, highly recommend.

13. What’s your all-time favourite ship? Right now it's Joe/Nicky, although it has changed in the past.

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will? All original works baby, I'm pretty good at finishing fics.

15. What are your writing strengths? I think maybe dialogue? Hard to say about my own writing. I'm told my yearning is good.

16. What are your writing weaknesses? Describing locations and action.

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic? If it's German it feels incredibly self-indulgent because it's just for me by me. If it's other languages....I try to limit myself bc the internet is not trustworthy. See Down For You Always for the time I broke that rule.

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for? Under my current username, Torchwood. Prior to that it was I think Tamora Pierce fanfic?

19. What’s your favourite fic you’ve written? Oof. Anything I've collaborated with @dreamtiwasanarchitect, (don't) blame it on the moonlight for the yearning, and the star trek threesome fic I wrote that one time. Oh, also "under the brine" because I wrote a plot for the first time!

tagging @dreamtiwasanarchitect, @knoepfchen, @raedear

[jenjiy]

20 Questions Writer Edition

I was tagged by @weethreequarter a few days ago and finally got around to doing this. Thank you! My shameful (bandom) past is really gonna bite me in the ass here 😅

How many works do you have on AO3?

41                      

What’s your total AO3 word count?

194,240

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Star Trek (AOS), Marvel, Cyberpunk 2077, The Boys, Bandom (FOB, PATD)

What are your top five fics by kudos?

Brallon Tumblr Drabbles (Bandom, PATD, Brallon) Into You (Star Trek AOS, McKirk) Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind) (Bandom, PATD, Brallon) The Hollow Men (Cyberpunk 2077, SilverV) With My Fingers In Your Hair (Bandom, PATD, Brallon)

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I always try to, yes. But sometimes it takes me some time to catch up on them.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Do I look like I remember my own fics? 😂 But it’s probably The End of All Things (Bandom, PATD, Brallon).

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

I usually write happy endings so almost all of them except for a few drabbles and the one above, I think.

Do you write crossovers? If yes, what’s the craziest thing you’ve written?

Not really, I’ve only done a few AUs.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Not that I can recall.

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Haha yep. Quite a few of my works are smut. And it varies. Some is pretty tame, some rather kinky.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Actually yes, kind of. Someone published a fic once that was almost exactly like one of mine. Someone linked me to it, I called them out. They said they were heavily inspired by my work but yeahhhh... I think it’s deleted by now, I don’t even remember which story it was.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! I’ve had some translations into Russian, Chinese and Korean. The Russian translations actually lead to me now having an author page on a Russian fanfic website.

Have you ever co-written a fic?

Yup, I’m actually still working on a story with @rrrpanda but we’ve been in a slump for a while so it’s kind of on hold rn.

What’s your all time favourite ship?

McKirk is hands down the best ship. But I’m also very fond of a bunch of others. Most notably Drarry, Stucky and a more recent addition - JonMartin.

What’s a WIP you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I’ve had a McKirk Academy era story in the works for literally almost 7 years now. I really like the idea but I just... never really get around to writing more for it.

What’s your writing strengths?

I think I’m pretty good at writing in character and getting dialogue right. And I’m decent at details and like setting a scene, I suppose?

What’s your writing weaknesses?

I’m terrible at writing longer stories and making up enough plot for them. I’m also not the best at inner monologues and character thoughts in general.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in fic?

If it fits the setting I’m all for it and have used it here and there. But I always want to make sure it’s actually correct so I usually stick to the languages I know well enough or those where I have friends that speak it. It should, however, be used sparsely so that it doesn't get disruptive to the story imo

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

The very first was probably for either a Japanese band or InuYasha 😂

What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

oof it’s probably Into You but I also really like The Hollow Men 

I’m tagging (please don’t feel obligated) @rrrpanda @aishahiwatari @lokilenchen @markcampbells @tochaoticallygo @excavatinglizard and everyone who feels like doing this! (Sorry if y’all have been tagged in this before)

[below-average-fangirl]

Would You Rather?

Fandom: Star Trek AOS

Pairing: Leonard McCoy/Reader

Tags: @cuddlememerrick , @billybutchersbae​

Warnings: None, other than a flirty McCoy. That’s a danger to everyone. :-)

Summary: Reader is stuck in the turbo lift with Doctor McCoy. With nothing else to do they end up playing would you rather and learn a few things about one another.

A/N: A big thank you to @dira333 for your input on this story and feedback. It would not be as good without it. xx

Fan Fiction Masterlist

Your 12 hour shift had just finished and you were eager to get to your quarters to remove your boots, they were beginning to pinch. You were shifting from foot to foot to relieve the pressure on your aching feet when you heard a familiar voice behind you.

“Lt?” You turned to see Doctor McCoy walking towards you, looking mildly amused at your shuffling.

“My feet ache.” You said, pained.

He gave you a look of mutual understanding.

As he came and stood alongside you, the doors to the turbo lift opened. You both stepped aside to allow two Ensigns out, then McCoy gestured for you to enter first.

You gave him a nod of thanks and he stepped in behind you, the doors closing as he offered some advice.

“When you get back to your quarters, be sure to get a warm, wet towel, and wrap it around your feet and legs and elevate them for 15-20 minutes. It'll help ease the aches.”

“Thanks for the tip Doctor.” You appreciated his concern.

The lift had only just begun to move when there was a shudder and the lights flickered before going out. The turbo stopped, then the emergency lights came on.

“What the hell?” McCoy groaned.

You went over to the control panel to see if you could get a reading on what was going on. It was dead to your touch, so you removed the cover of the command screen.

“Lt Y/L/N, should you be messing with that?” McCoy asked worried.

You were confused at his questioning. “It is literally my job to mess with stuff like this. Otherwise I'm wearing the wrong colour.”

He looked you up and down, then at your red uniform. “Fair point.” He conceded. 

You shook your head, amused, then focused your attention back on the console, the dimness of the emergency lights were making it hard to assess the situation.

As you worked on the console McCoy started to pace back and forth behind you, mumbling to himself.

You glanced over your shoulder at him. "You okay Doctor McCoy?" 

“Do you think the ship is under attack?”

“Well, were not being thrown about so I don't think anyone is shooting at us.” 

“True, true.” He continued to mull over possibilities. “Maybe it's a raid and someone's disabled the ship to board us?”

“Ah, your good old fashioned space pirates.” You focused your attention back on the console. "I'm sure we would have detected any approaching ships.”

You heard McCoy hum in agreement. He was silent for a while then asked, “We have enough air, right?”

You tried not to laugh. You'd heard about Doctor McCoy's epic catastrophizing , but you'd never witnessed it up close before. You acknowledged his concern and answered. “Yes”, Trying to keep your amusement out of your voice.

McCoy continued pacing vigorously back and forth behind you.

“Careful doctor or you'll wear the floor out and then you might fall through.”

McCoy stood stock still, you could feel his eyes on your back, you looked over your shoulder at him.

“You mocking a senior officer Lt?” His tone implied he was being stern, but he was smiling.

“Never.” Your face was a picture of innocence.

McCoy crossed his arms. “Mmm” He leant against the wall next to you. “Well what's the prognosis then?”

You could see that there was no power running to the console, you wouldn't be able to solve the problem on your end. “That we're stuck.”

McCoy nodded. “And what do you propose we do?”

“Well…” You went to the back wall of the lift and sat down, happy to take the weight off your feet. “This.” You said, looking up at him.

“What, we just…”

“Sit and wait to be rescued. Yep”

“But how long will we be stuck here?” McCoy asked, mildly incredulous.

You shrugged. “No idea.” And patted the space beside you. “Come on, come be a damsel in distress with me.”

McCoy raised an eyebrow at the description, you stifled a laugh, but he came over and sat beside you as he grumbled about God, damn, metal death traps. You tried to stop yourself from grinning.

You'd been on the Enterprise for 3 months now, and in that time you'd only, properly, interacted with Doctor McCoy once, when he'd carried out your physical. After that you'd only had occasional chit-chats when you bumped into one another. That said, you liked Doctor McCoy. You had liked him immediately on your first meeting. You weren't surprised at how highly the crew regarded him. Even if people did consider him a bit a of grump, it was a term of endearment not a criticism.  

You had wanted to get to know him better, but the opportunity had never arisen. As of yet, you hadn’t been on any away missions with him and you mixed in different circles when off duty. So now was as good a time as any, you thought, to get to know him better. 

You broke the silence and asked. “Would you rather lose the ability to read or lose the ability to speak?”

McCoy turned his head, looking at you confused. “I'm sorry, what?”

“Would you rather lose the ability to read or lose the ability to speak?”

McCoy shook his head. It was clear that he still had no idea what you were talking about, so you explained.

“It's a game, you take turns to give a scenario and you state your preference. So, would you rather lose the ability to read or lose the ability to speak?”

He blinked at you.

“Unless you prefer the silence.” You said nonchalantly.

“No, no I'm happy to play along. I just need to take a second to think about it. Reading.” McCoy decided. “If I couldn't verbally express my displeasure, I think my head might explode.”

You nodded. “I got that feeling from the catastrophizing about space pirates.”

“Yeah I know, I know.” McCoy said, rolling his eyes. “I can be a bit dramatic.”

“A bit?”

He gave you a pointed look. “Alright, what about you, what do you pick?”

You took a breath. “Speaking. I don't think I could cope with not being able to curl up on the couch to read my favourite book. Or get lost in reading a new one.”

“The computer can always read to you.” He suggested.

“Mmm” You shook your head. “Not the same experience. I like the solitary nature of reading.” You gently tapped him on the arm. "Now it's your turn to come up with one.”

“Okay.” He thought for a second. “Would you rather lose all of your memories, from birth to now, or lose your ability to make new long-term memories?”

“Oh wow. ” You shifted on the floor to face him. “You're going deep already.”

He shrugged. “Just the kind of man I am.”

You smiled at him, then mulled over the question. “God that's a hard one. What do you pick?”

“Easy, the past. Forget all that heartache. Begin again”

You were taken aback by how sincere and quickly he answered that you had to question him on his reasoning. “No one's past is filled completely with heartache. I think you are purposely ignoring a few happy moments.”

“Are you implying I'm a pessimist?”

You shrugged. “If the shoe fits.”

He did not seem offended by your answer. You had always assumed he knew the kind of man he was. He smiled even, almost as if he was admiring you for not shying away from calling him out of it.

“I mean. You continued. "Think of all the happy memories of loved ones you’d lose.”

“True. But if you can't forge new memories, then you're forever stuck in your past. No matter how good the past may have been, isn't it better to keep moving forward?”

You nodded, appreciating his answer. “Then maybe it is the past you lose?”

“Your turn.” He said.

You were grinning. “Would you rather argue and be wrong or admit you're wrong and tell Spock he's right?”

McCoy scoffed. “I'd rather die before admitting Spock was right, about anything.”

You laughed. “Dying wasn't part of the options, but good to know how strongly you feel about that.”

You were bouncing ideas off each other now.

“Would you rather live near the beach or in a cabin in the woods?” He asked.

“Beach. I love the sea air and looking out at the horizon. Feels like you have infinity stretching out before you.”

“Infinity stretching out before you, huh.” McCoy repeated, looking at you inquisitively. “Is that why you joined Starfleet? All that infinity carrying on, forever, into nothing but darkness and silence.”

You snorted, he was pessimistic, but poetic in it. "But think of all that possibility. All those new worlds to discover and explore, new species to meet...”

“With all those diseases to catch and spread around.” He interrupted morosely. "With nothing but the dark expanse of space all around."

You looked away, shaking your head. “Did they forget to tell you when you joined, that Starfleet was all about space exploration? I mean, if you don’t like space or exploration, what made you join?”

"An empty bottle of bourbon.” 

You laughed, unaware how close to the truth his glib remark was. "Starfleet must be the worst hangover you’ve ever had.”

McCoy scoffed. “You have no idea sweetheart. If the darkness and silence wasn’t enough to send a man over the edge, it's some crackpot trying to blow you out of the sky and kill you.” 

 “So, I’m guessing it would be a cabin in the woods for you. On your own with no people to annoy you or to try and kill you.”

“Actually I’d pick the beach. I'd feel shut in too, if I lived in the woods.”

“Are you claustrophobic?” You asked, placing a hand on his arm, giving it a gentle squeeze to offer reassurance. 

He stole a glance at your hand on his arm. “No. I'm just not a fan of feeling contained.” 

“You're coping alright being stuck in here.”

“Yeah, well.” He gave you his most charming smile, as he placed his hand on top of yours. The warmth of his touch sent a tingle down your spine. “A pretty woman will take my mind off anything.”

You rolled your eyes and groaned, good naturedly at his line. “Ah okay, so it's true what I've heard.”

“What have you heard?” He asked, a boyish grin on his face.

“That you're a bigger flirt than Captain Kirk.”

He tilted his head, looking at you with interest. He then leaned into you and whispered. “It's just part of my southern charm darlin'.”

You felt a flutter of butterflies in your stomach. They increased ten fold as he gave you that soft smile that made his eyes sparkle. Crap, he was so beautiful when he smiled, you thought.

You swallowed, suddenly nervous. “I bet you end up breaking a lot of hearts.”

He shook his head. “Never knowingly.”

You licked your lips. “That's what I thought.”

The air in the lift was charged as you stared keenly at each other. You were completely taken in by those hazel eyes of his. You wondered if you should make the next move when suddenly the emergency lights flickered off and the regular ones came back on. You blinked at the harsh white light. The turbo lift was on the move again and Mr Scott was speaking over the comm.

“Everyone alright in there?”

You hastily stood and pressed the comm to answer him, telling him that you were both okay. He started to explain  what had happened, but you weren't listening, your attention was focused on Doctor McCoy who was still sat on the floor, looking up at you. You suddenly became very aware of how short your dress uniform was.

“Okay. Thank you, Mr Scott” You said absentmindedly, closing the comm link, without realizing Scotty hadn't even finished explaining.

McCoy stood as the lift came to a halt, no one was waiting on the other side of the doors and once again he indicated for you to go first.

You walked through the corridor, side by side, in silence. You felt an urge to lean into him, to allow your hand to brush 'accidentally' against his, but you resisted. Instead you stole little glances at him until you both stopped as your quarters came up first.

“Well, thank you Lt for the interesting game," McCoy said as he faced you, "And for curing me of my fear of small spaces.” 

“You're welcome doctor, I learnt a lot about you.”

“Hope it hasn’t put you off me.” 

You smiled warmly at him.

There was a beat, before you wished each other goodnight and McCoy turned to leave as you opened your door, but he stopped when you called after him.

“Doctor McCoy.”

He faced you. “Yes, Lt.” There was a gentle smile on his face that gave you hope.

You bit your lip, summoning your courage to take a risk, “Would you rather have a kiss goodnight on the cheek or lips?”

McCoy didn’t say anything as he closed the distance between you both, he pretended to think deeply on the question.

You were drowning in the sound of your heartbeat in your ears as you waited for his answer.

“Well given the circumstances and being the epitome of a southern gentleman...It would have to be neither.”

Your face fell slightly, but then McCoy took your hand. 

“Seeing as I haven’t taken you out on a date yet,” He brought your hand to his lips, “I’ll have to leave it at this, for now.” 

You laughed softly and despite your knees turning wobbly you felt emboldened. Standing on your tiptoes you reached up and placed a kiss on his cheek.

You pulled back. "Afraid I'm no southern bell doctor."

McCoy rested his hand against the doorframe just above your head. His eyes were glued to your lips while you kept your eyes fixated on his hazel ones.

You could see what he was thinking and you smiled playfully at him as you stepped backwards into your quarters, but as he moved to follow you put a hand to his chest and gently pushed him backwards.

"But I'll leave it at that. For now." And you closed the door

[nenes-wifey]

Can you write a story about a really cool toaster where the reader is the toaster

A/N: Chloe I am going to end you with my own two hands for this but thank you for the excuse to write this cursed shit ily

A/N #2: Jesus CHRIST this turned out wayyyyy longer than I thought it would

A/N #3: Why is this gonna be the longest thing I’ve written on this blog I hate myself for this

Tagging @sunshine-tendos @hanakokunstories @exhausteddrawer

Toaster bound Hanako-kun

Here you were, being hurriedly carried to school by your “parent” because you slept in late. Again. You can never seem to wake up on time, no matter how loud the alarm is or how many of them you set.

“You’re a robot, a creation of metal, how can you never wake up on time?!” He said to you, already exhausted by his run to your new school. “It’s supposed to be your first day and yet you’re almost late! What am I gonna do with you...”

He walked into the building with you in his arms, chatting idley about how your day will go and lecturing you on what to do and not to do. You would roll your eyes at him if you could, or if you had eyes in the first place, for that matter.

He walked into the classroom and gave a formal apology to the teacher before sitting you down at your desk and wishing you a good day before exiting.

“Well, (y/l/n)-“ the teacher spoke up. “Would you mind introducing yourself for the class? You can stay at your desk”

“Yes!” You said as you tried to sit up taller, even though you were already sitting up as tall as you could, since toasters are not all that tall, as you probably already know.

“My name is (y/l/n) (y/n), I’m (y/a) years old, and as you can see, I’m not exactly human! I hope to be friends with you all!” You smiled, or at least did the toaster equivilant of a smile, at the class in front of you.

Shortly after, people began whispering.

“Is that a toaster?”

“Wait a toaster can be a student??”

“That’s a really cool toaster.”

“Why a toaster? Why not make a robot so they at least look human?”

“How will they even write??”

“Everyone, quiet, class is starting.” The teacher spoke, the entire class shut up almost instantly and so your first day at school started. You would say it was a pretty good day for you.

It had started with a test, which would be distressing, if you weren’t a robot that had access to the internet and all of the answers.

But you’re just a toaster! Some people might be thinking, but toasters are smarter than you might think, or at least can be smart.

You had arms that you could extend out of your body to write or do anything else you needed to do. Who would make a toaster without arms?! That’s ridiculous! Preposterous!

You has flown through any and all questions in your classes without a sweat, much to the amazement (and displease) to some of your fellow classmates.

Once the lunch bell rang, a beautiful girl with purple hair had came up to your desk.

“Hello! You’re the new student, right? If you’d like to, you can come and eat lunch with me and my friend!”

You were ecstatic, a cute girl is asking you to have lunch with her! A new friend! On your first day, too!!

“Of course!! Let me get all my stuff and I’ll be ready!” You told her as you started to organize your things and pack them back into your bag.

After you finished, you extended your legs from your body (of course you had legs, no good inventor makes a robot with an AI have no limbs. Why was your parent carrying you before? Well you’re a bit of a slow walker and if he let you walk then there was a guarantee you were going to be late) and followed the two girls to a large tree outside the school.

“By the way,” The girl with white hair and green tips had started. “How do you eat?”

“Oh, like this!” You opened a panel on your “face” in which you deposited your food. This food would be stored in you until the end of the day where you would empty yourself out. Robots, or toasters specifically, can’t exactly eat food.

You had a pleasent conversation with both the girls, learning that the purple haired girl’s name was Aoi Akane and the white haired girl was Yashiro Nene. As you were all walking back to class, a loud boy with blonde hair ran up to Yashiro and started talking to her. As he was waving his hands around, he glanced at you and froze.

“Is that a toaster...with legs..?” He asked slowly, moving to get a better look at you.

“Hi! My name is-“

“It talks?!?!” He jumped away from you and pulled a strange staff off of his back and pointed it towards you in a threatening manner. “Are you a supernatural?! Why are you hanging out with senpai and her friend?!”

You put your hands up in front of you as you tried to get further from him. “They invited me to eat lunch with them, I’m new here, it’s my first day! And no, I’m not a supernatural, I’m just another student!”

At that sentence, you were given a strange look by all three of them before the blonde boy put his staff away.

“Like I was saying, my name is (y/l/n) (y/n), it’s not so nice to meet you but I hope you’re nicer than this.”

The boy looked down at the floor, seemingly embarrassed by his actions, before speaking up.

“His name is Minamoto Kou, he doesn’t like supernaturals and is brash and loud but he’s a good guy when you get to know him...” Yashiro said, patting him on the back.

Kou said his goodbyes to all of you and you finally arrived back at your classroom, thankfully on time.

The rest of the day passed quickly and smoothly, it was pretty fun for your first class. Of course that wasn’t going to last long, though. The moment you three walked out of the classroom, a voice broke through your conversation.

“Ao-chaaaaaaan!!”

A boy with auburn hair ran up to Aoi and started to talk her ear off.

“Sorry, I have to leave now, see you tomorrow, Yashiro-chan, (y/l/n)-san!” She said as she walked away with the boy following her.

“I have to go too, (y/l/n)-san, see you!” Yashiro said as she started to walk off.

“Wait! Is it fine if I come with you? I don’t need to go home until later and you’re fun to talk to, so if it’s not too much trouble...” You quickly told her before she could leave. She mulled over your words for a moment before nodding.

“You can come with, but you have to promise not to freak out! Okay?”

“Okay!”

You two walked together and talked idely, soon enough you had made your way to the 3rd floor girl’s bathroom.

“Come in here, I’m meeting with some friends.”

You were a bit wary, who meets friends in a girl’s bathroom?

Both of you walked into the bathroom and you saw the blonde boy from before, why was there a boy in here?!, but you ignored it and greeted him instead.

“Oh! It’s you again! (y/l/n)-san, right?”

“Yep yep! I’m glad you remembered!”

“Is that a toaster with limbs?” A new voice asked. You turned around to see who it was, only to see a strange boy floating midair.

What. What. What.

You stood there, staring at him, as you tried to process the situation before you.

“(Y/l/n)-san! This is the friend I always meet with! His name is Hanako-kun!” Yashiro said to you, noticing your obvious confusion.

“He’s...Hanako-san of the toilet, right? Isn’t that legend about a girl usually?”

“You talk? Didn’t think I’d ever see a talking, walking, thinking toaster in my life, and not in death either if I have to be honest.”

“...”

“Yes, I am indeed Hanako-san of the toilet, and no, I will not answer ‘why’ I’m a boy.” He said, exasperated.

“Huh, well, it’s a pleasure to meet you, Hanako-kun, my name is (y/l/n) (y/n), today is my first day of school.”

“How are you liking it? Am I the first supernatural you’ve seen so far?” He asked, a smile on his face.

“There’s more?!” You exclaimed, how were you going to handle knowing more of these people...this might not be as fun as you thought it would be.

“I would explain it but...” Yashiro stated. “You should probably be heading home soon, your dad must be getting worried, (y/l/n)-san.”

“Oh no! Thank you for reminding me, I’ll see you all tomorrow! Thank you for today!” You hurriedly said before quickly exiting the bathroom and starting on your way at home.

As you walked into the door to your home, you were quickly swept up into a hug from your parent who swung you a little bit in the hug.

“Hi hun! How was your first day? You acted good, didn’t you? Did you make any new friends?” He asked you, a smile on his face.

“Yeah! It was super fun and a made a few new friends!! Everyone there is really cool and really nice!”

He sat you back down on the floor and you sat at the table as you ate dinner with him before retreating to your room to get ready to sleep for tonight. You went to sleep giddy for the next day at school, thinking of seeing your new friends again.

[benoitblanc]

OTP PROFILE GAME!

rules: answer the questions about your favorite ship (all time or current) then tag 10 people to do it too!

tagged by @chloexmorningstar (ily Sho!!!) and listen... obviously newtina is my #1 ship ever. i am doing peggysous, even though it’s a lowly #4, because reasons. and apologies to everyone for how goddamn long this got. i have a lot of feelings about these two.

SHIP AND FANDOM: peggysous/agent carter

MOMENTS:

what were their first impressions of each other?

sadly we don’t get the peggysous meet-cute- in fact, i’m just realizing now that most of my favorite ships meet offscreen, which is kind of weird. we do know that they’re each other’s only friend in the workplace, and even more than that they’re on first-name basis, so i like to think that when they met, they both kind of went wow, this one sucks a lot less than every other person that works here!, and then the rest was history.

a moment you think that both/one of them will remember forever about each other:

i mean obviously the rebar incident, but also when peggy had to choose between the literal universe and daniel and chose daniel. everything worked out and the universe was fine, but the fact that peggy “dispassionate, chief, your words” carter even took that chance speaks volumes about how much she loves him, and i think it’s something they’ll both remember for a long time.

a moment you think that both/one of them wishes hadn’t happened:

when i saw this i instantly went, “well obviously peggy’s interrogation was not a high point for them,” and then remembered that peggy asked daniel for a rain check when he asked her out and he took that to mean “i don’t want to see you again ever” and literally moved across the country, so i’d say there were a couple of rough patches lol. conversely, i think that peggy in retrospect is extremely glad she got impaled by that rebar because otherwise they would have just stayed in pining hell forever.

what is their moment for you?

if i'm not allowed to choose “literally all of season 2,” i’m going to say when peggy kidnaps rufus hunt and daniel gets angry not because she committed a felony, but because she committed a felony without him. daniel is a lot more by-the-book than almost every other character on the show, so the fact that that’s the thing he’s mad about really shows how much he’s come to trust and care for peggy. as they both say, they’re a team now.

LIFE QUESTIONS:

marriage? if yes, who proposes?

yep! they get married. avengers endgame never happened. aos will never happen. i’m not sure if i like the idea of peggy or daniel actually proposing better, but daniel definitely buys the ring and agonizes over how to make the perfect proposal, and then of course they actually get engaged on a whim during some messy, high-stakes action sequence.

children? if yes, if one had to stay home with them, who would do it?

we know that peggy and whoever she canonically marries do have two kids, so assuming it’s daniel (which it is), there are definitely kids! neither of them stay home- they’re good parents but obviously very busy at work, especially peggy- but they spend as much time with them as they can, and the jarvises are more than happy to look after the kids when they can’t.

housing? where do they live together?

i have absolutely no idea where the original base of shield was, and i don’t think the ac one-shot is actually canon, so let’s say for argument’s sake, and for the sake of “most of the characters i headcanon as being involved with shield’s creation were located in california in the late 40s anyway,” and for the sake of “as of 1995 there was still a prominent shield base located in l.a.,” that it was near los angeles. in which case i guess peggy could just move in wherever daniel’s living. it looked like a nice enough place. 

pets? do they get a pet together?

i don’t see them as pet people, honestly. i think bernard has put them off that idea.

PERSON A&B…

who would kill/remove the spider and who would leave it under a cup and leave the room?

peggy is definitely terrified of spiders just because i think the “peggy carter, the same woman who fought in the war and took down dottie underwood and punched me in the nose, is afraid of spiders?” “shut up, jack!” conversation would be hilarious. this leaves daniel as the de facto getter-ridder of spiders.

who sings all day long and who gets so used to it they don’t even hear it anymore?

this is not something i'd ever pictured either of them doing; however, i’m absolutely loving the idea of serious, professional daniel singing under his breath while working on case files. peggy thinks this is the cutest thing in the world but figured out very early on that if she comments on it, he stops, so now she just lets it happen without a word.

who can cook a gourmet meal for two and who can maybe use the toaster?

peggy obviously can’t cook to save her life. i think the entire fandom has accepted this as fact. daniel i can see as a decent cook, but i think if for whatever reason they actually need to provide food for anyone other than themselves, peggy calls jarvis in a panic and makes him do it.

who wakes up before the sun rises and who would sleep in until 2pm if they didn’t have an alarm?

neither of them really strike me as early risers (or late risers- they seem to have a reasonable sleep schedule when they aren’t up to spy shenanigans), but peggy definitely gets up before daniel.

who is more affectionate/touchy?

in public i think they’re both usually very professional or at least not blatantly affectionate, but in private or with friends they cannot keep their hands off each other. peggy is usually the worse offender but it’s oftentimes a toss-up. they drive jack crazy. 

who wears the other’s hoodies/shirts?

look i don’t think this is something they’d do, but i’m definitely giggling at the thought of peggy walking around in a fucking hawaiian shirt that’s about two sizes too big for her.

who said “I love you” first?

i like to think that a very exhausted peggy, after daniel did something like bring her coffee when she was working on case files at one in the morning, groaned “daniel sousa, i bloody love you” without really thinking about it and then promptly became so re-engrossed with the files that she nearly missed daniel’s quiet “...love you too, peg.” 

tagging @erumpets @florenepugh @wespers @mollyweasly @nataliarvmanova @romanocff @saralahnce @captleia  @billhaders @wintersoeldiers and anyone else who wants to do it :) 

[bunnykaye]

AoS 7x10 LIVEBLOG

1ST GAP:

> GARRETTTTTTTTT > I MISSED YA BASTARD > OH SHITTTTTTTT > GARRETT IS COCKY AF > THAT TENSION THO > SHITTTTTTTTTTT > THAT LOGO AGAINNNNN > AWWWWW ROXY IS GOING TO THE ACADEMY!!!!! > TRISKELION??? AHEAD OF SCHEDULEEEE??????? > TIMELINE'S COMING APART > SOUSAAAAAAAAA > EVERYTHING IS ANTIQUATED WHILE JEMMA AND DAISY ARE HORRIFIED LMFAO > DID YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? ACTUALLY YES, I DID. > JEMMA OHHHHHHHHHHHHH INCH RESTINGGGGGGGGGG > I NEED FITZ'S BRAIN NOW :(((((((( > FUCKING HELLLLLLLLLLLLL > YOU COULDN'T CONTROL YOURSELF > YOU WERE DEVASTATED. INCONSOLABLE > FUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK > AWWWW DAISY :(((( > THE DRAMA BEGINS > THE FUCK NATHANIEL???????????????? > OH SHITTTTTTTTTTTTT > FUCK THIS IS NOT GOOOOOOOOD > DANGGG JAMES PAXTON'S SMILE IS A LOT LIKE HIS DAD > DISPOSABLE. RECYCLABLE > OH SHITTTTTTT DAISYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. THAT NAME DROP > OH FUCKING HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL > DAUGHTER. YEP. AWKWARDDDDDDDDDDDD

2ND GAP:

> DAMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNN > YEP, SHE WENT THROUGH WITH IT > OH DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN > IF SHE CAN BE SAVED > THIS IS SO FUCKING CREEPYYYYYYYYYY > FUCK, NATHANIEL IS STEALING ALL OF THEIR POWERS. WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK > GORDON, MACK AND COULSON -- AWKWARDDDDDDD > DEKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE > AWWWWWWWWWWWW > DEKENANAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA > DAAAAMMMNNNNNNNNNN > MAYBE IT WAS NEVER WAS > WHY WOULDN'T FITZ HELP US? > UH-OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH > MAYBE IT'S TOO PAINFUL TO REMEMBER. TO WANT TO REMEMBER > FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK > OH DAMN JEMMA > SHIT FUCK SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTT > NOT GORDON :((((((((( > I AM SCARED WITH JEMMA'S LAST LOOK NGL

3RD GAP:

> COULSON'S GONNA SEE GARRETT. YIKES > DIGGING UP OUR GREATEST HITS > LONG-HAIRED CREEPO > THE WAY CLARK AND JAMES HAVE THAT CHEMISTRY THO > FEEEEEEEEEEEEELS > DAISYSOUSSSSSSSSSSSSS > FUCK SOUSA IS GONNA MEET JIAYING > THIS IS META ON SO MANY LEVELS LMAO > THE TIMELINE IS SCREWED > THIS DAISYSOUS SCENE THO > CHAPERONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE > DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN > TARGETTTTTTTTTTTTT????? HER???????????? > CLEAR FOR TAKEOFF?????????

4TH GAP:

> OH SHITTTTTTTTTTTT > SOUSA AND JIAYING MEET > METAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA > AH SHIT > OH SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT > FROM YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU > AT AFTERLIFE IN 30 YEARS > I HAD A FEELING I KNEW YOU > SO FAMILIAR :((((((((((((((( > WERE YOU CLOSE WITH HER??? OH GODDDDDDDDDDDD > THIS CONVERSATION. SWEET LORD > SHE'S LUCKY TO HAVE YOU :(((((((((((( > OH SHITTTTTTTTT THIS HURTS > SOMETIMES TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING COMES OUT ALL WRONG :((((((((((( > OH NO GORDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > GARRETT AND MAY YIKESSSSSSSSS > YAAAAASSSSSSSSSS MAY > GARRETT IS SO COCKY LAWD > QUAKE OFF?????????

5TH GAP:

> BETTER CALL YOYO > LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO > STEWPIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD > OH SHITTTTTTTTTTTTT > NATHANIEL THAT WAS SO RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE > FUCK THIS SHIT > KILL HIM DAISYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY > WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA > YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS > WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK > FUCK THIS SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT > OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO > JEMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA > OOOOOYHHHHHHHHH IT WAS AN ICER > WHERE THE FUCK IS DEKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE > OH NO EARPHONES > FUCKING EARPHONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > THEY'RE STEALING THE ZEPHYR????????????? > THE ZEPHYR'S BEEN HIJACKED

TAG:

> ONE THING IN COMMON > FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

PROMO:

> WHAT THE FUCK

[strangcrdoctor]

name — Kae gender — femaleish star sign — pisces/aeries  height — 5′9″ age — 28 wallpaper on my phone — a clipper ship at sea house — I mean I’d love to think I could be in Command but honestly I’m still probably just a lowly Red Shirt (because Starfleet assignations are my stand-in now) ever crush on a teacher — not really. I liked certain professors but honestly I’ve been teaching for so long that I can’t objectify them anymore because I am now in their shoes. that being said I do not know if I have ever had a student crush on me.  coolest halloween costume — the ones that make the biggest splash are my official Star Trek AOS uniform dresses (with rank added because I, unlike JJ Abrams, do not fuck about)  favorite 90s tv show — The X-Files, because if ya’ll don’t know I’m trash already allow me to remind you last kiss — when I was dating someone last August. over the last 10 years I’ve kissed like... 3 people? Usually at 3-5 year intervals so say hello to my new dry spell. have you ever been stood up — I have actually been stood up on more dates than I have been on dates where people actually showed. my stood-up rate is about 2/3rds. favorite pair of shoes — I have a pair of Born Chelsea boots that are my go-to’s. have you ever been to vegas — yep. I lived there for a summer working as the curator’s intern at the National Atomic Testing Museum. also been to several great concerts there, and Star Trek Vegas multiple times. favorite fruit — it’s a toss-up between watermelon and mango. favorite book — Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman stupidest thing you’ve ever done — being friends with people who denigrated me and then excommunicated me when I broke off from their toxic BS to work toward my goals all time favorite shows —  Star Trek (various), The Witcher, Daredevil & The Defenders, Doctor Who. last movie you saw in theaters — 1917. stolen from — @laughingmagi tagging — you, yes you!

[jj-lynn21]

The Charity- various fandoms & x-reader ch 6

Warnings: Mystery, angst, innuendo, fluff

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As midnight strikes on the hallway clock it seems all the guest reconvene in the living room. It is the only room there large enough for everyone to sit. You sit on the loveseat between Bill and Tom. Your head lays against Bill’s chest as your hand lays on his upper thigh. His hand lays over yours playing with your fingers. His other hand flung lazily over the back of the loveseat. Your feet are up on Tom’s lap. One of his hand gentle messaging your calf as the other holds your hand. Chris Evans stares at the three of you from across the room still dumbfounded why you didn’t choice him instead of them.

You say, “I could use some juice.”

Jumping up Tom says, “I’ll get it love.”

Bill says, “You mind grabbing me a beer while you’re up, Tom?”

Tom says, “No problem, mate.”

Cody and Chris Pine lay against Alex on another love seat his arms around them both. The other Skarsgard’s sit in chairs at a round table drinking where Ellen has joined them mostly because there was a seat there. Scarlett sits in a big comfy chair playing with Colin’s hair as he sits on the ground looking up at her in worship.

Tom comes back and hands you your cup of juice and then hands a beer to Bill. Takes another beer he was carry down the front of his pants out and sits back down. Pulling your legs back on his lap he sits back taking a swig of his drink. The television on the wall clicks on startling everyone.

On the television Vernon says, “It seems a lot of you are still here after the witching hour. Entirely more than I expected at this point. It does seem most of you are enjoying your time here. Maybe some of you enjoying it to much. Seven hours until sunrise.”

The television clicks off.

Evans says, “I’m beginning to think that guy isn’t an assistant, at my public relations firm.”

Scarlett grabs her phone out of her bra. She pulls up the email she got showing it to Evans.

Scarlett says, “Is this the message you got Chris?”

Chris says, “Yeah, that is the exact message I received.”

You say, “Let me see?”

Scarlett shows you the message and you say, “Yep, I got the same one.”

Then everyone else looks at her phone agreeing they received the same message.

Ellen says, “That’s just bat shit crazy. Shit aren’t we missing some people? I thought there was more of us even though I barely paid attention really.”

Colin says, “Where’s Robert and Tom, the other Tom?”

Tom says, “Fuck where are they? The last I saw Robert here he was following Stellan outside for ao after dinner walk. And didn’t Tom hide or seek?”

Stellan says, “I thought he was following me also, but when I was outside he wasn’t with me. nice grounds. Warm pool.”

Alex says, “Hiddleston was a seeker. Maybe he is just lost in the house somewhere and so is Robert. It’s a big place. Maybe there is a clue in what’s going on here by how we know each other. As far as I can figure I’ve had relationships with three people here before tonight. Cody, Pine and Ellan. Of course, I am related to my brothers and father. My father worked with the Avengers crew here. My brother Bill has worked with Tom in a few movies and has played a hero.”

Being a smartass Valter says, “Yeah, for like five minutes. Does Zeitgeist even count?”

Glaring at Valter, Bill says, “Of course it does, you jealous…”

Stellan says, “Bill don’t you finish that statement. Valter all your brothers’ roles count weather they are in something five minutes or in every scene.”

Evans says, “So the only one none of us know very well is Princess over there. You guys sleeping with the enemy?”

Cody says, “Well, that wasn’t what I expected. I thought if anyone was sleeping with the proprietor of this get together it would be me.”

Alex says, “Hush brat. I’m curious to, Princess. You do seem to be the odd person out here.”

They all look at you for an explanation. Bill and Tom look at you stunned.

Evans says, “What’s your story Princess? Where are Robert and Tom?”

Angered they would think you were part of the other actor’s disappearances you say, “Hold on a minute. Just because you don’t know my link to each and everyone of you doesn’t mean I’m the bad guy here.”

Evans says, “Then why the fuck are you here?”

Calmly Alex says, “I think we should let her talk Chris. Go ahead Princess.”

You say, “I’m not sure why I was invited here with all you well known actors. I love watching everyone here in their films and was happy I got to be a part of them in a small way. I’ve been acting in small parts for years. I’ve gotten to hangout at Fangtasia seeing Alex, Run around a lot on various Avengers films, walked through a scene with Chris Pine in wonder woman, Was a background young woman in Vikings, I was in a crowd scene for American Horror Story Apocalypse which Cody wasn’t in  but he was there watching the scene that day, And I worked on cherry in multiple scenes including one with Tom and Bill. The only one I haven’t worked with some capacity is Valter. So, I guess I am as connected to everyone in this room as much as everyone else.”

Tom says, “I thought you looked familiar, but I meet so many people I wasn’t sure if my thought was correct.”

You say, “I was among people you said hi to or good morning to on a few occasions.”

Tom says, “Oh yeah, I do remember the few times now. Sorry, love.”

Bill says, “I would have surely remembered you if I saw you.”

You say, “I was pretty far from your sight so I don’t believe you could have noticed me unless you knew me already.”

Alex says, “I suppose your story explains you being here so there will be no more talk of you not belonging. You are an actor as much as us all. Everyone here me? There is no more looking at her as someone that would bring us here for nefarious reasons. Now we should get to finding Robert and Hiddleston. I suggest we go in small groups. No one goes anywhere alone.”

Evans says, “Holland, Scarlett and her boy toy are with me. I’m not taking any chances with well I don’t take chances.”

Trying to choose a search team wisely you say, “I’m sure Bill, Ellen and Gustaf would be fine coming with me.”

Bill lifts your hand kissing it, “Of course I would come with you anywhere.”

Alex says, “Looks like we have established groups. Dad you and Valter can help me and these two beside me in the search.”

Scarlett says, “I’m going with Princess. Colin you stay to help Chris.”

Colin says, “um, ok Scar.”

Stellan says, “Oh Hell, I’ll go off with Evans and you’ll come with me Valter. No reason for so many people to be with Alex.”

Evens and his group head outside to mount the search for Robert. Alex’s group stick to searching the main floor. Your group head upstairs to search for Hiddleston. 

When you find some stairs in the closet of one of the rooms you all ascend them carefully. Gustaf first, you second, Bill third, Ellen fourth and Scarlett last.

When you get to the top of the stairs you trip on the edge of where the step meets the floor. Gustaf catches you.

Helping you to your feet Gustaf said, “You’re safe with me.”

Bill glares at his brother as he comes up after you. He turns you away from his brother roughly. The move surprises you. You look at him confused. Then you turn away to get out of the way so Ellen and Scarlett can get into the attic. Bill grabs you to pull you around to him again. You gasp as it is so quick it takes your breath away.

You say, “What’s going on that you want me so close to you so quickly baby boy? Are you scared of this musty dimly lit place or scared of something else?”

Bill says, “I’m not scared of the dark. I’m not scared of musty, dirty places. I just don’t want you to disappear next.”

You say, “Yeah?”

Bill said “Yeah, well, I like you, okay? I’m sure my brother means well in wanting to protect you, but I rather be the one you need to protect you.”

Slapping his face lightly, smiling you say, “When I need protecting you will be the first person here I hide behind because I like you to.”

[ayankun]

AoS S2 Rewatch: Thoughts I Forgot

The premise of me, as a human, is

that I love this show so much I rewatch it from the beginning so I’m all caught up to binge the new season when it comes to Netflix or wherever, and

Season 1 was so off-putting, this annual rewatch always starts with Season 2

Because what happens in S1 that’s so important, anyway?  If it was important, then I’d remember it/pick it up through inference.  It saves a lot of time and who needs to wade through old garbage to root around for gems that may not even be there?

So I rewatched S1 for the second time in my life last week, and completely heel-turned my stance on its quality and worth-watchingness.

Here’s a short list of things that makes S2 WORSE because S1 details are fresh in the mind, lolololol

Raina gets completely rewritten.

This is a “worse” in the sense that, always starting from S2, my vague S1 memories is that she’s beautiful and mysterious and self-serving and just generally The Best, and the her vs Skye for magical alien powers battle is an epic one, and she gets what she deserves by having her beautiful outsides and ugly insides get reversed

ok but none of this is set up in S1 and most of it is invented in S2

we never know ANYTHING about her from her S1 actions, other than that she’s loyal to no one but herself.  So, now she’s canonically recognized as a con artist, okay.  But where did she get the man-eater “reputation” she evidently has by 2x5?

Did I miss all the parts in S1 where she hit on the Centipede doctor and Scorch and Edison Po and the Clairvoyant (/Garrett) and Ward to convince them to let her join them?  iirc, she just packages their desires and aspirations and frames herself as someone who can get them there.  Garrett didn’t even meet her in person before he started having her do his dirty work for him so .....it must have been her devilish feminine wiles that did it.  Yep. 

Also the whole con-artist thing in such specificity also comes from this new S2 narrative for her, in that she was a street kid living off her wiles until the Crazy Random Happenstance that she meets Cal.

Which makes her presence in S1 all the wackier.  I mean, everyone’s presense in that season revolves around wanting to stay close to Coulson after Project T.A.H.I.T.I. ... except for Skye, the literal variable in the equation who is just there on accident.  Come the tag scene of S1 into S2, Raina, who all this time has been after the Clairvoyant who has been after Coulson suddenly ALSO has life-changing, Coulson-agnostic ties to Skye of all people ...

Ultimately it’s forgivable because Destiny is also at work here, and Daisy was always going to end up Daisy and here’s the thread of events that causes it to be so.  ... but if I hadn’t have watched S1, it wouldn’t have felt like such an obvious, mercenary re-write.

Because also then S2 Ward is like “I’ve always wanted to tell you about your father.” and it’s like BRUH.  Even if you’re explaining it away as Raina told you when you both worked with Garrett ... you and Raina had about thirty minutes together last season and you didn’t particularly get along.  When, exactly, did she find time to chat you up about the intimate details of your mutual crush frenemy?

Poor Trip.  He has about a full season of episodes under his belt across S1 and S2 and it’s obvious they were just biding their time with him until they could figure out how to write him off.

Especially in S2 where the Team expands to include Mack and Bobbi and Hunter, and all these peeps get personalities and motivations and, like, plots, and Trip just stands there in the back making jokes about how the Koenigs are LMDs.

Watching only S2, it really feels like they needed somebody around to be sacrificed, to make the transition to the Inhuman storyline personal for everybody, but that they didn’t want to give up anyone super critical (just critical enough for everyone to be shocked and sad).

But also -- did they?  Imagine if Trip had just, not joined Team Coulson at the end of S1, we never saw him again, and nobody had to be sacrificed in the caverns ... I mean, Coulson could have been the one to pull the timing pins and fend off Mack and still not make it into the transformation chamber in time ......

we already had Hartley and several civilians to tell us what the Diviner does to non-Inhumans .... I feel like they’re trying to get us to believe that the stakes are This High but they’re really just hiding their need to get rid of a dead-weight character under a veneer of Gravitas.

I’m thinking forward to Framework!Trip where everyone’s So Happy to see him and even then I’m always like “ ... are you, though?  Feels like you barely knew the guy.  Maybe there was S1 stuff I missed”

spoiler alert: there wasn’t

Last one, the mystery of Who Are Bobbi and Mack Working For isn’t as thrilling after you’ve seen it the once, and now after seeing Fury specifically hand SHIELD to Coulson in person at the end of S1 ... the whole “I’m working for SHIELD and you’re working for Coulson” reveal just sort of doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.