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[sallymew4]

stageplay shouteru is a whole other beast

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[velvetwyrme]

i eat up ur recs with a spoon and have almost gotten to the end of the list!!! do u have any other self insert recs? thank u! u have great taste

MWAH MWAH ILY !! THANK YOU and yes ofc I have more recs (not as many as last time, but it should still be a decent list to sink your teeth into <3)

Take care when reading, and always be sure to check the tags!

Same notation as last time, with STATUS of each fic labelled as such: Finished, Ongoing/Unfinished, Discontinued. (Unless the author specified that the fic is Discontinued or on Indefinite Hiatus, I will mark it as Ongoing/Unfinished. Oneshots are also marked as such.)

Spicy (Explicit) and/or Dark fics have also been labelled if relevant. (I won’t mark ones with just suggestive themes/moments, since I cant guarantee I’ll catch all of them. Similarly, unless there is consistent graphic death or gore I [probably] won’t mark it as dark.)

MULTICHAPTERS

As always, tread carefully while reading and take care of yourselves <3

Edit: Fixed a missing link or two!

These Masks We Wear - Underfell!Papyrus/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

TIME LOOPS BABEY!!!! This reader is a delight from the get go because they have been stuck in a time loop and are... rather impulsive because of it, which lands them in a bit of a mess, because these strange, dangerous monsters have just emerged from the mountain. (I'm screaming and yelling at this fic very intensely)

Resisting the Current - Various/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

If you haven't read this yet please do yourself a favour and read it. The premise was enough to get me irrevocably hooked (anti-harem but the gf is ALSO into you. ALSO SHE'S YOUR EX) and the writing is just FANTASTIC. I'm obsessed with the dialogue and description at every turn. Also, I would very much like to kiss Quinn please and thank you. The plot is beginning to set in now, and it's so good??? I have to cut this short or else I'll talk forever <3

ALSO the same author recently posted the first chapter of Wishbone which has me in a vice grip!!! AHH

Comic Classifieds - Sans/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

*kicks in the door* DID I HEAR... FAKE DATING? Very sweet VERY funny, with an extremely extraordinarily awkward reader. (Who is also "cute in an awkward, baby giraffe kind of way.") It's sooo good please please check it out.

Stolen with Friendship, Captured by Love - Papyrus/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

2016... I still love this fic deeply <3 It's so SWEET and it reminds me of the good days of fic... Papyrus is. a Lot to deal with, but the reader takes it all in stride. He is SO full of energy and I want to sqUISH HIM.

Tough Choices, Tougher Consequences - Underfell!Papyrus/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

I loooooove stories where soldiers get thrust into awful political matters. After you are forcefully removed from the battlefield, the Emperor gifts you his finest gladiator- Papyrus. He intends for the monster to be a toy to you as much as you are a toy to him, but you can't accept that and quickly broker a deal with Papyrus for his freedom.

Already There - Underfell!Sans/Reader - Finished

[Warning: INCREDIBLY SAD AND GOOD]

BURSTS INTO TEARS. Like for real though I adore this fic, it will break you into a hundred million pieces. My beloved son!!!!!!! I can't believe I didn't add this one to my last list it's such an influential piece of my existence like genuinely

There is also a sequel! Which hasn't updated since 2018 BUT STILL IS REALLY GOOD. If you want a slightly less heartbreaking story, the author also has another Sans/Reader; A Tale of Dog and Monster which makes me want to cry but in a happy emotional way instead.

Here's to You, Doll - Mafia!Sans/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

Ah... this one is very fun. You're a scientist who gets accidentally isekai'd into a Mafiatale universe and becomes stranded there. Unfortunately for you, Don Gaster and his brothers think you are a spy, so you're kinda stuck with them. Also Sans is kinda a little freak in this one at times (/appreciative)

Soul Collector - Various/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

The reader (the Soul Collector) gets transported into another universe and has to stay with their alternate, who is the skeleton's terrible neighbour. You look just like her, of course, resulting in a lot of VERY confusing interactions. I wasn't expecting to, but I actually really like Meyer.

Consequences - Papyrus(?)/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

Anti harem, but the reader gets mcfreaking MURDERED (and so does classic Papyrus?!) so now they are both Ghosts. Focus is currently more on platonic relationships and REVENGE but I'm enjoying the twist on the typical anti-harem structure!!

My Soulmate is a Pastel Goth (And Other Concerns) - Underfell!Papyrus/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

Edge is very cute in this and I also feel really bad for him, he's trying so hard but the MC will not give him the time of day ;w;!! I looove me a good tumultuous soulmate fic. (Note: this fic also features Fem!Frisk as Sans’ soulmate in the bg, so if you’re not a fan, that’s something to note ^^! Fr//ans isn’t quite my thing, but tbh I’m really interested in seeing how things turn out here!)

ERROR: Not Found - Error!Sans/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

Error, gets obsessed with the reader and kidnaps them! It's slice of life, so don't expect TOO much hard hitting angst here, it's more about being woo'd by the strange stalkerish entity who knows everything about you <3

When Death isn't an Option - Horror!Sans/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

[Warning: Contains Dark/Heavy Themes]

I'm a sucker for immortal readers, especially ones that get stuck in HORRORTALE of all places. This fic is very fun and plays in the Horrortale sandbox in a fun way- I'm enjoying it a ton so far :]!!!

Additionally... if you liked that or if you're like me and love immortal readers forced to make decisions of extremely dubious morality and sense because of their immortal nature, you should also check out Cadarverous and 𝚎𝚊t. which are both very dark and very compelling.

Babysitting with Extra Morbid Steps - Various/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

[Warning: Contains Dark/Heavy Themes]

So the first thing you need to know is: Papyrus is dead.

... WAIT WAIT WAIT HEAR ME OUT- this is a really brilliantly written fic about like. SO much fucked up shit happening. The reader is Sans' friend, who he has hired/tasked with guarding the various alternates he has. just straight up imprisoned(?!?!). I avoided this for a while because of the aforementioned Papyrus Being Dead thing, but HOT DAMN I'm glad I read it in the end. Delightfully horrifying, but it gets sweet I swear!!! I would say read the tags but those are Spoilery ;)!

Additional note; the comments section often has Really Interesting dissections of characters and their motivations, which if you're into that (like me) then you should read those too!

All You Knead is Loaf - Sans/Reader - Finished

[Warning: Contains Explicit Content.]

Super sweet, VERY punny fic that updated over the course of a month iirc. It's a cute food-centric Sans/Reader!

Like a moth to flame…or a lamp - Mothman Horror!Sans/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

BIG MOTHMAN HORROR!!! He's so sweet and sad this poor man. He has mistaken the reader for his mate and is trying to woo them again...

Those Times I Met His Brother - Sans/Reader - Finished

Essentially you befriend Papyrus and keep getting left with Sans, during which you grow closer. Love Papyrus' not-so-subtle attempts to get them together afjkdfjsf,,

Just Try and Help (Lil Old Hopeless Me) - Various/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

Skeleton reader! Very angy skeleton reader. They do not Want to be here (understandably, considering they were essentially kidnapped) but their former caretaker is gone, and they have nowhere to go.

Lovely House of Bones - Various/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

Six monsters get stranded in a snowstorm, and you help them not freeze to death by inviting them into the house you inherited. I'm really excited to see where this one goes :D!

Maybe In Time, You'll Want To Be Mine - Underfell!Sans/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

More!! Soulmate stuff!!!! SOULMARKS BABEY!! Love it when there are misunderstandings! Love it when there are cuuuuute background character kiddos!! AUGH it's cute! And angsty! But cute!!

No Good Deed - Underfell!Papyrus/Reader - Finished

You volunteer at a local homeless shelter where you meet a strange, less-than-friendly volunteer. Short and sweet!

Nothing but Skin and Bone - Horror!Skelebros/Reader - Finished

[Warning: Contains Dark/Heavy Themes]

MORE Horrortale content! This one only finished last month or so- it goes from angsty to sweet/cute and it's real good!!

If you read that and want EVEN MORE sadness and gore, the author's other work Vivid Blood, Pale Scars (DARK) is very tragic and very fucked up because you get saddled the Horrorfell boys this time. MUCH Hurt and No Comfort!! All the endings hurt me in different ways and none of them are happy. LUCKILY(?) the spinoff/AU where the skelebros and reader from VBPS get pulled into a multiversal skeleton house; Blurred Lines, Opened Wounds has just started!! Surely nothing can go wrong. Surely.

The Princes' Bride - Skelebros/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

What if you got kidnapped by the king to marry his sons. "Why" is a good question. And an even MORE pressing question is: how do you get OUTTA here. (Papyrus is a sweetie, Sans is distrusting, and King Gaster is a mysterious weirdo who is a good dad and bad everything else.)

MorTificaTion - Bad Sanses/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

Reader from Outertale gets yanked into Horrortale! They then have to masquerade as Sans' wife and Aliza's mother, all the while trying to just stay alive. Not to mention the other Sanses running around... really fun premise and I'm excited to see where it all goes >:0!! Also extra kudos to the name of the fic because YAY Murder Time Trio (MTT) mention!

So here's the plan... - Underfell!Papyrus/Reader/Underswap!Papyrus- Finished

[Warning: Contains Explicit Content.]

VERY CUTE!! Love them. Fake dating except there's a third conspirator involved. Each of them was also trying to set the other two up in a couple uwu. Chapter 1 is cute, and chapter 2 is spicy ;)!

Just a Cat - Swapfell!Skelebros/Reader - Finished

The reader is in fact, not just a cat. (He is a shapeshifter, and pretends to be a cat.) Shenanigans ensue.

An Apple a Day Keeps the Asshole Away - Swapfell!Sans/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

Unhinged. When I say unhinged I mean it in the best possible way but it IS unhinged. They're all a bunch of little FREAKS. Please read it, if only to experience the absolute TERROR of Miss Bluebell and also Steve. What the hell (appreciative)

Honey Lemon Tea - ...?/Reader - Discontinued

RAGHHH I'm so sad this was discontinued :(( I loved the set up and the mystery so much... the author did leave an end note with how the plot would have played out though!

Shifting Morals - Sans/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

You go stargazing and have an encounter with a mysterious stranger :0c?! (It's Sans. He's a cool beasty guy, and he is very very sadly Entirely alone.)

Additionally, this fic was suddenly revived 5 years after posting the first chapter which I have immense respect for.

The Key To Freedom - Yandere Buttontale!Papyrus/Reader - Finished

Yandere Papyrus! Not a common sight, but this fic does it particularly well. He mostly wants to eat your soul at first, but then he starts getting... attached. The bittersweet ending!!! AUGH.

Milky Tea and Souls - Various/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

What if you could summon bitty versions of your soulmates!! And oh stars why are there so many- WHAT DO YOU MEAN MORE KEEP APPEARING??? The reader has a handful of skeletons and more to deal with!

The House on Lane 66 - Various/Reader - Finished

[Warning: Contains Explicit Content.]

I feel like legally I have to include this (/lh /j). I finally finished it recently and went "WOAH..."

I stopped reading for a while (because of the length...) BUT I returned to it because I really really enjoy the world building (like holy SHIT!!!) but oh my god that sure is. a Million words now. It is TECHNICALLY finished, but that's only because the next part is in the works(?!?!?!)

Love Grows - Farmtale!Sans/Anomaly!Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

🎵 Love grows where my rosemary goes~

The reader doesn't have a physical body or a way to interact with the world while they watch over Saejun and the rest of the Farmtale characters. They inhabit a scarecrow to have some semblance of personhood, but they remain unable to talk...

Falling - Underswap!Skelebros/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

[Warning: Contains Dark/Heavy Themes]

You are dying. You are dying and all of a sudden your dad is asking you to pick out a fucking slave of all things. The monster does not trust you (fair) and he thinks you are faking your illness for attention (less fair. what the fuck). Really interesting dynamics in this one!

Se Brûler - Grillby/Reader - Finished

[Warning: Contains Explicit Content.]

I reaaaally love this fic! Sweet fluff! Angst! THE DRAMA!!!!! AUAUUUUGH I have too much to say about it just go read it.

Early Bird Special - Sans/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

[Warning: Contains Dark/Heavy Themes]

Old fic that's still updating!!!! Really interesting plot that just keeps getting More Dramatic as time goes on (in a good way). It's a Slavetale AU, in which the reader ends up joining the resistance after a few chance encounters. The author also has a spinoff fic with the same premise but featuring Underfell instead, which results in quiiiiite a lot changing.

nemesis & nike - Various Horrorbros/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

[Warning: Contains Dark/Heavy Themes]

The reader essentially starts off in a zombie apocalypse and then gets transported into an alternate universe where they initially think that the various skeletons they meet are zombies. Turns out they are not in fact, zombies, but like most of them still want to kill the reader so...

Rules to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse - Swapfell!Skelebros/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

[Warning: Contains Dark/Heavy Themes] [Warning: Contains Explicit Content.]

More zombie apocalypse stuff! Except this time you're stuck there with a pair of weird skeletons! You give them nicknames so you don't get attached, but of course you end up getting attached anyway.

To My Horror - Horror!Skelebros/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

Post-surfacing Horrortale fic where the skelebros get to go live their farming dreams. With you! Slice of life with a dash of intimidation and angst.

If you enjoyed the Horrortale/Farmtale fusion, you'll be glad to hear there's also...

The Skeleton Stalks - Horrortale!Sans/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

Another Horror-farm-tale fusion which has just begun recently! You live on a farm and all of a sudden there is this Big Intelligent Dog hanging around. Eventually, your new neighbors are sent to check in on you and your Great(er) Dog, which leads to some sweet interactions.

The Ruse - Swapfell!Sans/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

This is a rework! I read the original fic while it was being originally posted and I ADORED it, and the rework is superb <3 Sans is the Captain of the Royal Guard, who must fight valiantly against the villanous Eclipse, who exists only to spread terror... and you're just some human chilling on the sidelines, posting treasonous Soriel posts on the Undernet.

I'm so so so excited for it to return auauusgfhfhdj THE ORIGINAL FIC IS GONE SO I CAN'T EVEN READ IT TO SATIATE ME...

Almost Alone - Swapfell!Papyrus/Male!Reader - Finished

I love the sleepy, slow atmosphere this fic has- it's so befitting of both SF!Pap and the MC in this. It's soft and sweet and melancholic auauuauauuughgh I LOVE IT... *bursts into tears again*!!!! Also, there is a side fic which follows different POVs throughout the story, which is similarly well written!

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ONESHOTS

Date night Purring - Underfell!Papyrus/Reader - Oneshot

SUPER CUTE (and slightly suggestive)! Also Edge has a feminine body in this which is always fun. Booba <3

Scares and a Sudden Friendship - Horror!Sans/Reader - Oneshot

Reader's shitty boyfriend leaves them behind in the haunted house in which HT!Sans is working as a scare actor. Sweet little meet cute! (Meet spook?)

Fallen Star - Underfell!Gaster/Reader - Oneshot

An ooooold fic but one that never fails to break my heart. Written from the perspective of UF!Gaster recording experiment logs about the newest fallen human.

Birdy -Mafiafell!Sans/Reader - Oneshot

LET THE BIRD FUCK SHIT UP!! I love the way the Avian... siren(?) reader is characterised... there's also another oneshot in the same series which I enjoyed- love me some weird Creature Body Horror!!

I also really enjoyed the author's other fic: Moss & Mycelium, wherein the reader is a skeleton :]!!

Skeleton's Curiosity - FellswapGold!Skelebros/Reader - Oneshot

SUBNAUTICA AUUUUUUUUUUU YEAAHH BABEY!! I love mermaid AUs and I love Subnautica! Real cute!

Chance Encounter - Underfell!Papyrus/Reader - Oneshot

ANOTHER SUBNAUTICA AU :D!! Except it's just UF!Pap this time <33 !!!

Leaving A Mark - Sans/Reader - Oneshot

The twist(?) made me laugh so hard I almost cried. It's VERY cute also.

Nice to Scare You - Various/Reader - Oneshot Series

A fun series of oneshots of the spookier variety! Or more Halloween-y at least. All very good <3

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MISC. / OTHER

The Escort - Lust!Sans/Reader || &Reader - Finished

[Warning: Contains Discussions of Explicit Content.]

No romance! (But lots of kind-of-onscreen fucking.) This fic feels like looking at a bunch of polaroids, seeing a snapshot of existence. Life out of context. And it works SO well. It makes me feel sad and existential and I really love it.

Rubble & Ramparts - (An R&R-Inspired AU Fic) - Various/OC || Various&OC - Ongoing/Unfinished

Not a reader insert, but it's like. An AU of a reader insert so I'm including it here!!! Rubble and Ramparts is of course, inspired by R&R (Rabble & Rampallians), which was on my previous list but is getting linked here again for ease of navigation

ALEXIS my beloved!!!!!!! I am in loooove with the way things are going in this fic. It's so COOL and Alexis is such a freaking DELIGHT. Also I just really love reading all the notes from the Cutting Room floor, which the author has kindly included in a separate fic for your reading pleasure!!

ALSO in writing this I also remembered there is Another Spinoff AU fic which IS a reader insert (that I'm enjoying)...

Perception & Patronage (An R&R Spinoff) - Various/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

Thank the stars I remembered this, it's really fun!! Also judging by the tags there is also plans for. not only Various Sanses/Reader, but also READER/READER, which is such an underrated thing I love it, but I digress. It's a really fun spin on a really fun fic <3

Teen Livin' - Various Skelebros & Reader + Frisk/Reader - Ongoing/Unfinished

[Warning: Contains Dark/Heavy Themes]

Cute and sad! Platonic reader insert. The reader is a troubled teen who befriends Frisk, and gets to meet a bunch of skeletal guardians. The skeletons have a familial/friend's cool cousin vibe with the reader, which is really sweet! The fic is currently going through a Halloween Special which I'm enjoying quite a bit (Haunted dolls! Ghosts! Blood!! Still very sad :[...)

Something Good - Fellswap Gold!Papyrus/Reader(?) || /OC(s) - Ongoing/Unfinished

Technically not a reader insert since Coffee is the MC, but I can forgive it because I'm really really invested in this and I really adore the character dynamics so far <3 Coffee striking it out on his own is always a fun thing to explore, and I'm excited to see more!!

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I love writing up these rec lists- it's such a fun way for me to rediscover fics I've enjoyed, thank you for giving me another opportunity to reread some of my favourite fics and more importantly to share them with you! I hope you enjoy them as much as I did :D!!!

I'll probably leave it here for now or else I'll end up rereading fics forever lolol it's already like 3am I gotta sleep SOMETIME

[michelsens]

pov: you lose in a final against your cooler half brother who your shared dad is less ashamed of and who is somehow dating all your friends (tf?)

[deb-ava]

call me a fool but i really feel like the season is gonna end with deb and ava united and taking on late night it's the most important thing it's more important than ruby and fucking on the contrary it's more important than marcus and qvc and the deborah vance empire ava might feel conflicted about all this CHANGE and marcus moving forward and out of deb's orbit and the COST of getting late night but you're just like ME YOU HAVE TO BE A SHARK THEY GOT LATE NIGHT NOT JUST DEB how did they think this was gonna end i can't see a possiblity where deb doesn't want ava to be her head writer where that isn't ALSO in ava's best interest!!!! give it to me

[midoristeashop]

4, 9, 11 🤸🏽‍♂️

ALSO HNY <3 !!!

HI REN HII

4. Was thinking of my favorite character(s) I’ve drawn for a while now, and then I was drawing my hijack coded ocs and decided this is the perfect excuse to show them off LMAO (besides jack and hic they are all I think about 🥹)

9. New art mediums/Styles

Amazingly enough I’ve tried tons of trad mediums this past year (gouache and ink being the newest!) just anything that has the texture I need to replicate my digital style 😭 and ofc you’ve seen all my spiderverse studies those were so so fun to do <3

I did a trad piece for my portfolio (thats eh but whatever it’s progress) w/ watercolor, ink, colored pencil, etc. so here’s a snippet!

11. Artists that have influenced my style:

Literally tons I could have a whole post dedicated to my inspirations but here are the first that pop in my head…

Ami Thomson, Alberto Mielgo, whoever made that opening sequence to dance central/ love death n robots ice, tomm moore (song of the sea + secret of Kelly’s director!) james r woods, and so so many more!!

[ruvviks]

"Colton and Akiyama have a long and rich history, having worked together for Arasaka since their early twenties— Colton as director of the SERPENT projects and Head of Special Programs, and Akiyama as recruiter and quality control manager across all of the corporation's Night City facilities. The two disliked each other from the start and from an outsider's perspective only rarely saw eye to eye; but if anything their rivalry was a challenge, a way to keep each other sharp, and one of the only ways they could have some fun in the megacorporation's grasp. Years later, the two reunite at Club Bodytalk following the incident in spaceship Elysium and the fall of Cobra Cybernetics. Surrounded by the victims of the projects they once ran, their heads are forcibly turned into the direction of their past mistakes— their guilt connects them and it forges a bond of understanding they can't get with anyone else, and while they cannot erase their past they can ensure that no one else ever has to go through any of that again." ↳ andy belongs to @mojaves, template here [x]

taglist (opt in/out)

@shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @roseeway, @stars-of-the-heart;

@lestatlioncunt, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman;

@celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister;

@killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree;

@kanos, @swordcoasts, @ordinarymaine, @claudiawolf

[sparrowseagles]

surely this has been pointed out before but one of the best ship dynamics is this:

character A sends every email with the "sent from my iPhone" bit at the end. they just don't fkn care, or may not even be aware that it's there.

character B would rather die than send an email from a phone, let alone leave the "sent from my iPhone" sentence

[corvidfeathers]

please tell me reinhard and yang wenli are going to interact again

[superoscars]

i find it fascinating that tim seems to care about gregg more than gregg cares about tim even though in most cases tim is by far the more self-obsessed narcissistic one. gregg is like the ONLY person tim seems to actually care about. it's such a dynamic

yesss definitely there is this very overt element of tim being fixated on gregg in a way he just isnt with anyone else. he even loses interest in toni, who he has the most in common with of all wives, as soon as he starts seeing her as a solution to his financial issues

i of course think gregg does care about tim and cares about what tim thinks of him (wanting tim to see him as an expert and equal especially) but you really get the impression that gregg lives rent free in tim's head. just the comparison of their two separate 8th oscar specials lol. i think gregg mentions tim once meanwhile tim has an entire conspiracy board with pictures of gregg and also ends up begging him to come back with barely any prompting

theres a lot more i could say but also i think deep down tim is probably also a bit mad hes also going to be second to movies in greggs book

[gigglegangster]

I don’t think that booktok is EVIL persay.. but the repackaging of books (that are as heavy as the shit you find in gas stations btw) solely by tropes is very very.. not good.. and i feel like it may cause more problems later down the line with the declining literacy skills in the youth.. but my main point is i hear all these reviewers saying trope buzzwords and I feel like the way that it’s written is very inauthentic .. like if you’re writing a relationship to cookiecutter fit a trope instead of using the trope as a tool to develop the relationship .. or like subvert the trope… it’s a little bit nothingburger. Also disturbing because it feels like fanfiction but you have to pay for it. I’d rather reread the same unfinished novella on ao3.

[leopardmuffinxo]

sad news: fell out of love with my EA Raphaelfucker

happy news: fell in love with a new bby who will ride that devil into the nine hells.

[liesonthefloordramatically]

Black me out I want to piss on the walls of your house I want to chop those brass rings off Your fat fucking fingers As if you were a king-maker As if, as if, as if Black me out

[virginsqq]

say what you will about shen jiu but that man was dedicated. he didnt even enjoy abusing bingbing he was just on that child abuse grind. as opposed to the lazy and spoiled fu er dai shen yuan,

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[jennchecks]

Sending emails back in the day when a large percentage of my job was sending emails was a pain, but it became manageable. Networking and setting up meetings became easier after a while.

Now, five years later...it's torture. I've been trying to just draft four emails all day and I just can't. What the fuck happened???

[twst-beam]

Falling (quite literally)

This is a story of denial, debts, brooms, and love. Who would have known that accidents could bring people closer?

A jeiriu fic recounting how they fell for each other, Everiu's part 😌 Warnings: injury for Everiu's part, falling from brooms, and an overdose of fluff (headpats galore!). 3.6k+ words, i'm so sorry 🥹

The next time Everiu sees Jade, she swears to herself that she is going to kill him. Consequences be damned, that conniving eel and his infuriating smile had to go.

Unfortunately, fate had other plans. Plans that concerned a particular eel, and a particular dorm, and a wind that had no business being that strong.

One could imagine how startled Everiu was when she saw a dirt-covered Jade sitting in the flowerbed.

"Ah, Prefect. Lovely day isn't it?" Jade flashed her a smile, eyes closed, teeth hidden, acting as if there wasn't a mutilated broom on the roof and a broken window pane and sitting down in an appreciated fern garden whilst covered in soil was as normal as breathing.

She resisted the urge to draw Ector right then and there.

A deep breath, an exhale, keep your face composed, Everiu, nothing is gained from irrationality.

"Truly, although why you are sitting in a flowerbed in Ramshackle Dorm covered in soil is an enigma to me," she raises an eyebrow, taking note of and bringing attention to the broken broom on the roof, "have you, perhaps, fallen off your broom?"

Jade considered lying, a smooth monologue of 'of course not dear Prefect, the sports field is too far away for it to be an accident; no, no, I actually flew here and covered myself in dirt' passed through his head, but that was just as absurd as the former, and Everiu was intelligent enough to rebut everything he said; he opted to be gentlemanly instead.

"It seems so, fufufu. I was never someone who had a talent for flying, let alone flying long distances." He feigns regret by shaking his head. His continuation of "I sincerely apologize for the mess, Prefect, but as it seems I haven't broken anything, I'll be going now." is interrupted midway by the window pane crashing onto the ground.

Cinnamon-colored eyes meet mismatched brown-and-gold ones.

Said brown-and-gold ones widen in shock. This was not good. Incurring debts was never good. He, out of all people, knows that; especially after working with Azul for all these years. It's not like Everiu was the type to get back at people for ruining things, but with the way their dynamic was now...

"I can fix that."

Another raised eyebrow.

Jade starts to stand, towering over Everiu, walking with her, putting on his Smart Businessman Attitude and hoping he could get away with it.

"Truly, the glass isn't even cracked, I could get it done within the day; no strings attached, Prefect, I'd just like to make sure everything is taken care of."

They're standing in front of the crash site now, dirt is littered everywhere, and half a broom lies on the ground.

"Are you hurt?"

"- I beg your pardon?"

Everiu holds the broken broom in her hands, posture regal, not facing Jade but looking at him from the corner of her eye.

"I said, are you hurt. Crashes from that height must hurt, don't they?"

Jade is perplexed once again. She's.. not mad? She's prioritizing her technically-rival's wellbeing over an important part of her responsibilities? Over what Crowley might get mad at her about?

"I- no, I'm alright, thank you."

Everiu nods, satisfied.

"Good. Wouldn't want anything to stop you from fixing what you broke."

Ah, there it was.

A walk from Ramshackle to the Hall of Mirrors to the Sports Field would be tiring, they both knew that. NRC's insanely expansive land made sure of that. Jade, who took long hikes in the mountains and could do just fine walking about half an hour just to get back to class, was up for the long walk.

Everiu, who rode horses and walked regally and whose longest walks were from two ends of a castle and didn't have the insane endurance of Jade, was not.

Grim wouldn't mind if they used his magic for a bit, would he?

"Nyaaaaaa? Now why wouldja need me when you got the creepy-smile eel with ya? He can do the magic to get ya off the ground, lemme sleeeeeep."

That was to be expected, Grim was laying in a sunny spot near a still-fixed window, seemingly not even fazed by either crash.

Everiu scoops him up, careful to avoid his flames and wriggling as the said cat-raccoon-thing complained and lamented about the loss of his precious nap.

"Because, Grim, I'd like to show him a trick or two in flying. He's hopeless enough as it is, and I think it'd be good to.. educate him."

Grim looks at Everiu skeptically.

"With no broom?"

Sometimes Grim gets smart. This is one of those times.

Everiu puts him down with a barely repressed groan of annoyance, the cat once again curling up and going to sleep. Lucky.

Jade is brushing soil off his clothes when Everiu steps out of the Ramshackle door.

"Prefect."

"Jade."

"I take it your meeting with Grim didn't end well?"

Everiu subtly shakes her head, closing the door behind her.

"Not at all. I take it you are going to be going now?"

Jade pouts, feigning regret once again. Perhaps he can get a rise out of the usually-guarded Prefect if he tries hard enough; it would certainly be entertaining, and he wasn't in a hurry to get back to flying class.

"You're not gonna accompany me? How harsh. What if I was hurt?"

Everiu lets out a huff, itching to punch Jade in the shoulder and show him that no, he was not hurt in the slightest, so he had better bring his smug self away from her. Civility, Everiu, civility.

She was about to speak when she was interrupted by a scratchy voice, promising death from above.

"Jaaaaaaaade~!"

Ah, the other eel.

Jade looks at his twin calmly as Floyd drops from the sky, expertly maneuvering his broom so that he can flip upside down and still see the two of them.

"Coach Vargas is looking for youuu, he says you can't skip out on class just because you craaashed"

Jade shakes his head, excuse already forming on his lips. He'd say that he crashed in a flowerbed, and had to change clothes, and didn't have enough time to come back to flying class; no need to mention the broken broom, nor the broken window pane, nor the fact that he'd pushed a few shingles off the roof, no need at all, thankyouverymuch.

"Neee, Jade, where's your broom?"

Hmm.

Everiu holds up a broken half of the broom, bristles and all, trying to suppress a smirk; maybe, just maybe, this will teach Jade not to be so pretentious and shady.

"This broom?"

Floyd's eyes light up as Jade's eyes turn frozen with a promise of revenge. Everiu is torn between feeling smug and feeling as though she just made a mistake. She focuses on the former.

"Shrimpy! Is that Jade's broom?? He totaled it!! Jade, why didn't you tell me!"

As Floyd laughs hysterically, Jade keeps up his calm facade. Inwardly, he calculates what to do to get back at Everiu. She knows this. She's slightly regretting it.

"I thought it would be of no interest to you. Now, Floyd, you can go back to class, tell Coach Vargas that I'm going to be changing my clothes and will probably not be back in time."

Floyd pouts at the dismissal, but complies, not seeing the fun in arguing or staying in Ramshackle any longer.

"Fiiiiiiiine."

He starts to turn around and fly away, eager to fly fast and feel the wind whipping past his face. Jade calls out after him.

"And Floyd?"

"What!"

"I presume you won't tell Coach Vargas about the broom?"

Floyd's eyes flick between Jade and the broom, then to Everiu and back to Jade again.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever."

He flies away in a burst of magic and wind, leaving the two staring at the sky to watch as he turns into a speck in the horizon. Jade turns to Everiu.

"You didn't need to do that."

Everiu feigns ignorance.

"Do what?"

Jade's entire demeanor shifts slightly, looking more menacing now despite still being covered in dirt.

"You know perfectly well what I mean, dear Prefect."

Everiu looks at him from the corner of her eye, by all accounts looking unfazed and unimpressed.

"Were you going to tell him otherwise?"

Jade does not understand her reasoning. Of course he would! Did she think he wasn't going to just because it would get him in trouble? Did she think he was going to try and hide it like a body?

Oh.

"Of course, although if you have doubts I'll gladly refute them for you," with her expectant stare, he decides to change the topic. "I could start with the window pane."

Everiu nods, content, and starts walking away.

It is at this moment Jade realizes he does not have the tools to fix anything.

~

Everiu is sitting in the living room embroidering when Jade comes back from his run to Sam's shop.

"Ah, Jade, welcome back. How was the run?"

Jade smoothens his expression, slipping on a calm smile and acting gentlemanly, replying that it was pleasant to walk and feel the air and see the sights he usually didn't get to see from travelling by Mirror.

Everiu wonders how long they'll keep being passive-aggressive with each other. Probably for all time unless he starts acting properly. She tunes him out; whatever he's rambling about now is probably just nonsense, and this particular flower was tricky to stitch-

"- I've also purchased a broom to repair the shingles on the roof, and will work on it now."

Her head snaps up at this, eyes wide and eyebrows furrowed. He couldn't have possibly done that.

"I'm sorry, did you just say you purchased a broom?"

Jade stops mid-ramble, tilting his head to look at her curiously.

"Yes, Prefect, I purchased a broom to levitate me to the roof. I figured it would be easier than hanging onto a balcony or balancing on the roof itself, given the structural integrity of the dorm... is there a problem?"

Everiu can do nothing but stare as she tries to comprehend how someone can simply just buy a broom.. she decides to let it go, shaking her head as she returns to her embroidery.

"None at all, none at all."

Jade nods and turns, heading for the door; Everiu watches him go, still wondering how someone could just casually buy a broom.. weren't those things expensive?

It wasn't even 10 minutes when she heard a thud outside the window, followed by a curse and an exclamation of pain.

Everiu stands up immediately, putting down her work and grabbing Grim by the scruff, interrupting his playing with yarn and eliciting a strangled "Ffna!?"

She rushes out the door, looking around quickly and spotting Jade sitting on the broom, barely off the ground.

"Jade? Jade! Are you alright?"

Oh Sevens, he better be alright. He might be infuriating, but he was a decent fellow, and she didn't know what to do if he was hurt. Was the broom even fast enough to get to the Infirmary? Wait, is he shaking? Is he crying? Had he broken a bone? Why is he-

He's laughing.

She's worried herself into almost tearing the hinges off the fragile door of Ramshackle and he's laughing.

"Fufufufu, I didn't know you cared for me, Prefect, I appreciate the concern."

Infuriating.

"Get off the broom, Leech, clearly you didn't even get off the ground when you fell down; that, or you gripped the banister so quickly to steady yourself that it made a thud loud enough to be mistaken for you falling to the ground."

Everiu climbs atop the broom, Grim in front of her to be the magic input, and starts hovering.

"Either way, you are not getting on a broom to fix anything. For your sanity and mine."

She tosses him a screwdriver, getting a hammer for herself as well.

"We'll have to work together for this one, you can fix the window pane, I'll fix the shingles. After that you will help me restore the fern garden."

She flies up, leaving Jade staring at the screwdriver in his hand. He can do this, no problem, it's not like he can't work a screwdriver, and restoring a fern garden would be easy work.

Right?

~

An hour later and Jade has successfully repaired the window pane. It wasn't that hard.. not really. Truly.

Everiu, on the other hand, was still hammering away on the rooftop, and Jade politely offers to help her.

Said Prefect hollers out a "No, thank you! I wouldn't like to redo all my work should you crash again!" but Grim shows tiredness from consistently putting out magic, and Everiu lands softly on the ground, going back into the dorm to lay Grim on his bed (yes she made him a bed) (no she will not elaborate).

She walks out to a concerned Jade, and lets out a resigned sigh.

"Alright then, Jade, you will have to fly me up. The broom can carry both of us, I think, and there's only a few shingles I'll need to repair. This will only be a few minutes."

Jade sits in front, Everiu at the back, and they ascend.

The ordeal takes 15 minutes. 15 agonizing minutes off the ground for Jade, and 15 terrifying minutes for Everiu, who wondered if they would crash as she hammered shingles onto the roof.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Finally, the last shingle was hammered into place. Everiu straightened up on the broom as she tapped Jade's shoulder, signalling him to go down.

They descended quickly, and Everiu feared that she would be crushed to a pulp when they hit the ground, but they landed abruptly, inertia pushing her face against Jade's back, but she was alive.

A few seconds of silence...

"You are a terrible flier, Jade."

Jade stiffens, retort on his tongue, something about being better than Azul, but Everiu continues.

"Why don't I teach you how to properly fly a broom."

...what.

No, no, never look a gift horse in the mouth, or in this case, a Prefect in the eye. He sincerely doubted how Everiu could teach him what Coach Vargas couldn't, but this was an opportunity, and it could be fun.

"I appreciate your offer, Prefect, thank you."

Everiu nods, getting off the broom and walking to its front end.

"I'll be sitting in front, if you don't mind. You can sit in the back so we can work on your fear of heights."

How did she know?

"You seemed terrified earlier up there, you were all stiff and trying to make yourself look small. Your breathing was also shallow and your heartbeat was fast. You could have told me, you know."

Jade shakes his head at Everiu's sympathetic tone, trying to maintain some semblance of dignity.

"Simply a matter of being off the ground, Prefect, I haven't ever flown that high."

Everiu takes note of his wording; neither confirming nor denying her statement, very sly. She dips her head in acknowledgement, and gets on the broom.

"Close your eyes, Jade, let the magic flow."

~

An hour and a half later, Jade is.. well, it can't be considered zooming, per se, but he's flying properly now, on the front of the broom instead of behind, a few feet off the ground and making steady progress across. This was very good for his confidence.

A bit too good, actually.

And the wind was not helping.

"Jade, Jade slow down. Jade!"

The eel, unperturbed, kept flying in circles, the expression of serious concentration he wore on his face turning into one of smug teasing.

"Fufufu, Prefect, are you afraid?"

Said Prefect grits her teeth, wanting to push him off the broom and get this over with. Why she even offered to help him she didn't know.

"No, Jade, but I am concerned that we're flying too high and the wind is picking up. It would do both of us good if you would slow down."

Jade sighs and shakes his head, complying, the perfect picture of downtrodden and neglected of his chance to be a broom-master as they descended.

Fate really picks its favorites, and toys with them as it sees fit; usually with events that most probably wouldn't have happened if it didn't intervene. Would it really be true if it was toyed with? Does luck strike only on the chosen? And what of sudden events? Is the butterfly that flaps its wings to blame for a storm that approaches the horizon?

The wind picked up from a breeze to a bluster, and the descent, shaky as it was, rushed headlong and forward, startling both broom passengers and turning the lesson into a survival challenge.

Everiu gripped the broom like her life depended on it (which, in this case, it kind of did), and braced for impact as they hurtled through the air and onto the ground, straight into the bushes that lined Ramshackle's front porch.

Everiu thinks, not for the first time, that she should strangle that eel, and world goes dark.

~

Warm... Soft pillow... A few more minutes...

Ow.

She bolts up in her bed, eyes wide, breathing heavy.

Room. Sunlight. Afternoon. Grim on the foot of the bed. Blankets.

Everiu sighs in relief, so it had been a dream, thank the Sevens... But that did not explain the flash of pain she felt earlier, what was that? Had she left a needle lying around? No, she never embroiders on the bed..

Oh.

She looks at the sling her left arm is in, trying to make sense of what happened, why her arm is even in a sling, how she got here..

So it wasn't a dream.

Everiu groans, a rare sight for one so composed, and sits back against the headboard. She sighs.

at least it's not the right arm....

Her lower back hurts too.. not with the stabbing pain of a broken arm but a throbbing that she probably got from falling hard onto the soil.. But if she fell.. and her arm was in a sling.. who brought her to her bed??

"Prefect, you're awake."

Speak of the devil.

Jade glided in with a trolley; a teapot, teacups, sugar, and a mystery dessert atop the wheeled table. Everiu had no idea where he got any of it.

"How long was I unconscious?"

"14 hours."

What.

"Surely you jest... Jade, I can't possibly have been asleep for 14 hours.."

He pours her a cup of tea, what kind, she doesn't know, but it's soothing as she drinks it in, and Jade looks at her with what seems like concern.

"I apologize."

Both eyebrows go up as the cup stills on her lips. Jade.. apologizing. Perish the thought, it seems too unbelievable.. but he's here, sitting on a chair beside her bed, seemingly concerned and worried about her, and apologizing. This could be a trap. The teacup is laid on the trolley, empty save for a few tea leaves, and Everiu side-eyes him skeptically.

"Do you now?"

Jade nods, eyes closed, and deftly organizes the tea tray.

"I do. My hubris brought both of us into trouble, just like you said, and while I thankfully don't have any injuries, you do, and I feel that it is my responsibility to take care of you until that sling is off."

He stands, pushing the trolley away after laying the plate of desserts on the nightstand. Everiu's barely had any time to process his apology when he reminded her, already out of range, that it was Saturday.

Saturday.

The day of the derby.

The derby she was supposed to participate in that she would not be able to participate in anymore because of her injury.

She was going to kill that eel.

Riddle was going to have her head.

~

Okay so maybe two and a half weeks with Jade doting on her like a personal butler was satisfying enough for her to forgive him.

Maybe.

The outrage that sparked with Ace and Deuce could have brought Grim's fires to shame, but it was alright, if not uncomfortable at the times the sling decided to remind her it was there. She was still able to go to classes, study properly, write, the whole package bar embroidery and horseriding, and her delight when it was time for the sling to come off was brighter than the setting sun.

She sits on the couch, testing her arm, careful not to exert it too much, and grins.

"I suppose my debt is now repaid?"

Everiu looks at Jade quizzically, not understanding what 'debt' he meant, until she remembered why there was even a broken roof, window, and arm.

"Maybe. I'm not letting go of my grudges that easily."

Jade beams, smiling genuinely, making Everiu feel something strange, leaning closer to inspect her arm before giving her head a pat, looking into her eyes and smiling softly.

Alright, that's it. He's got to go.

"Oya, isn't your arm still healing? You have to take care of it or it could break again, you know, and I wouldn't want you to be hurt once more."

Everiu, too busy fighting her own internal battle to quip back, keeps pushing him out the building, down the stairs and out the door.

"Thank you very much for the help, Jade, you've been truly kind, but I'm all better and I've got more things to do so you can take your leave now, goodbye!"

Shut.

She breathes in, heart racing, walking hurriedly up the steps to her room before closing the door with a snap, startling Grim and making him mutter something about how sly eels keep making perfectly fine henchhumans malfunction.

She sinks down to the floor, back leaning against the door, slapping her face in rapid succession.

"Breathe in, Everiu, breathe in.. you cannot, faaaaall...."

She screams into a pillow.