#Vic is also just soooo good

[canyouseeher]

The interviewees of Very Important People are absolutely delightful, I love getting to see these absolutely phenomenal improvers in their element, but I ESPECIALLY love getting new Vic the interviewer lore.

[katiesbowlcut]

VICTORIA NEUMAN X ASSISTANT!READER

format: blurb

warnings: nsfw content at the end

word count: 700+

not proofread! y/n used!

- the second you came in for your interview she pretty much decided she was hiring you LMAO

- now i’m not saying she only hired you because of her crush, because your resume genuinely caught her eye, but i’m also not saying it had nothing to do with it 🤷‍♀️

- she definitely asks you to do things she could easily do just as an excuse to see you

- “y/n! can you come here please?”

- “can you pick up this pen i dropped please? i’ve got suchhh a bad back” she’s so dramatic i love her

- you honestly think she’s just being a bitch and she’s messing with you

- that is until one day she comes to you in the morning, saying today she only has one task for you

- “will you eat lunch with me?” and she has the dorkiest smile of all time on her face

- lunch together becomes a regular thing, going from talking about your favourite tv shows to her telling you about her daughter zoe

- she’s so sad when you eventually tell her you thought she was just like every person you’ve ever worked for, just messing with you for the fun of it

- “no no never! i could never do that, especially not to you” OOOOOO it’s blush city for you both

- things are going great! you love your job. that is until something changes, and victoria randomly stops asking you to do things for her

- i mean you’re her assistant, shouldn’t you be getting her coffee? shouldn’t you be organising her files? shouldn’t you be having lunch with her and not hughie?

- to say this has you down is an understatement, you can’t seem to understand why she has randomly shut you out

- it’s not like she’s not speaking to you, she’s still asking you to do things but they’re all tasks that require you to be away from her. you haven’t even been in her office for nearly two weeks now

- after your hurt builds and builds, you can’t hold it in anymore. you storm into her office demanding to know why she’s avoiding you

- she plays it dumb at first but she knows what she’s been doing so she fesses up

- “fuck… i’m sorry, so sorry. it’s not you i promise, it’s me. i- i like you, okay? like a lot and i know it sounds stupid and i know it’s sooo inappropriate because you’re my assist-“ SILENCED BY A KISS WOOOO

- you’re discrete about it at first, sneaking around and making out in the bathroom stalls like you’re high schoolers

- her bringing you lunch everyday<3

- she so leaves post-it notes on her desk with cute lil messages whenever she has to leave for meetings because it’s where she tells you to just relax

- you don’t bother asking why you’re not allowed to meetings that involve voughts CEO, it’s probably just a confidentiality thing right?

- a bit random but whenever you’re standing talking to somebody i feel like she’d just squeeze your butt?

- canon she’s a butt squeezer

- you don’t fight much but oh boy is your schedule full when you do

- she gives you the stupidest tasks she can think of LMAO

- “can you walk someone’s dog please?” “someone’s dog?” “yeah, just go around asking who has a dog that needs walking” “are you being serious, vic?” “yes i most definitely am, it would help me soooo much you have no idea!”

- I LOVE HER SO MUCHHH

- dating your boss can be annoying at times, but you wouldn’t trade it for the world <3

NSFW TIMEEEE

- officesex!officesex!officesex!

- this honestly deserves its own blurb if i'm being honest

- i feel like she's already dominant in bed anyways but because she’s your boss it’s elevated TO THE MAX.

- “i have one really special task for you today, so listen closely”

- you can barely stay stood up with how weak your knees go (real)

- “i need you to be a good girl for me, how does that sound? you think you can do that for me?” in her husky voice im DECEASED

- one time she cleared her desk by pushing everything on the floor, she immediately regretted it when she realised she had broken almost everything

- “i always see people do it in movies and this doesn’t happen” she’s so upset while she’s picking up a broken picture of you both on the beach

- she’s so silly

- she definitely buys you lingerie to wear underneath your work clothes 🤭

- the amount of flirty texts she sends you during the day just to watch you blush uncontrollably is concerning (when is it my turn)

a/n: requests are always open, hope you enjoyed :)

[netherfeildren]

Hi Vic, I just read this very hot Rust Cohle fic and I thought you would enjoy❤️ the vibes are soooo Lana Del Rey + Ethel Cain + southern gothic + troubled older man + lots of appreciation for Rust’s delicious arms and him in a wife beater

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28254372/chapters/69237981

oh my god that looks so good yeah yeah yeah bed time story thanks baby

i just read this one !!!!! it’s so good and a nice substantial length which i enjoyed — i wanted something meaty to sink my teeth into this morning (also a moment to say i really do love a long ass one shot — they’re so fun and interesting to write and build but also so satisfying to read)

[dynamic-k]

Second's Tale MAJOR Spoiler

:3

La la la~

Don't mind me~

Casually dropping a lil' spoiler again because it's funny~

Also somehow chapter 12 of Super Sticks is halfway done, soooo...

XD

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"Ah!" Vic choked out, voice strained. He chuckled nervously. "Jade! Long... time no see?"

The grip tightened and Vic gasped in pain as his chest was locked up in the bright, virus red entity's grasp.

"YOU," Jade's voice thundered in a glitchy tone through the hard light creation he was remotely controlling. His emotions were clearly sarcastic in their tone despite the filtered audio of his speech. "My former boss. I hope you've been enjoying yourself."

"Not as much as you'd assume," Vic answered honestly, wiggling slightly in a futile attempt at escaping the glowing entity's secure grasp. "In fact, I don't plan on holding my position much longer."

"Oh, I know that~" Jade huffed out a laugh. "And that's why I'm here now, to intercept you before you scamper off without facing the consequences of your actions."

"Look, I'm sorry I fired you," Vic started. "It wasn't fair and I shouldn't-"

"Shut up!" Jade yelled. His voice grew angrier and more violent as he went on. "I don't want to hear your stupid excuses! You're not sorry. You're only saying that to save your own skin because I'm in the position of power now."

Vic couldn't say anything, too terrified by the huge creature that held him.

"I poured everything into this company!" Jade continued. "But it wasn't enough. No matter how many missions I completed, nor how flawlessly they were done, you never once thanked me, nor showed me any sort of appreciation. And the ONE time I failed a mission --which, by the way, was only due to my MISINFORMATION on the Dark Lord's supposed death-- YOU FIRED ME!! And now... Heh... Now I'm here. And your tyrannical rule is about to end, for good."

"Are you gonna kill me?" Vic muttered, taking another slow and increasingly desperate intake of air as it was getting harder to breathe normally.

Jade's laugh was a loud, booming noise that echoed throughout the whole room.

"No. I won't..." Jade said with a slight sigh, before his voice shifted into a more sing-song, taunting sort of tone. "But~"

"Really don't like that tone of voice you're using," Vic mumbled with another strained gasp.

"Buuut~" Jade was clearly smiling, Vic could hear it in his tone. "I am going to take my revenge."

"Sounds like a classic villain thing to s-" Vic started to quip before the grip tightened and he yelped.

"YOU'RE THE VILLAIN, HERE!" Jade's voice roared. "Maybe that should have been your name. They both start with V, don't they?"

Vic gasped as the hold loosened just enough for him to get air again, though it was still very near to strangling him.

"But then again, your real name is rather fitting...." Jade's voice dropped several decibels, unnervingly calm. "Victim."

Vic's eyes widened and his face paled. How did-

"I bet you're wondering how I know that," Jade told him while letting out a laugh.

Vic stared silently --shaking involuntarily all the while-- at the slightly transparent creature that Jade was controlling. He couldn't speak. His throat was dry and words eluded him.

victim. victim. victim. victim. victim.

"I was a victim of your oppression, you hockey-stick," Jade growled. "Now you're about to be the victim of me as I tear apart everything you love and worked hard for."

-

[honeybuckin]

sza already won her first grammy tonight !!! im soooo fucking happy . so did vic x2 😭😭 TYLA'S A GRAMMY WINNNNEEERR AND SO IS COCO !!!!! ALL MY GIRLIES WWWOOOONNN *SOBS* i’m also sooo v happy for miss miley and paramore !! 🫶🏾🫶🏾

between this and the nfl all stars . today is my fave day of the year.

one thing the grammys gonna do is play in a bitch’s face over some overhyped yt person🙄🙄 fr pissed me off but yk it’s been a good night for blk women so lemme just remember that and hov was right ‼️‼️

[strangestcase]

Tell us about your brand new Jekyll and Hyde adaptation

OKOKOKOK so it came to me in a dream!!! In the dream I watched a Jekyll and Hyde theatre play that was like, a musical, and clearly for kids, but it was a very good adaptation. It was in Spanish btw. Jekyll was a beanpole with glasses and he looked like the Old Vic Jekyll dance adaptation and wore a yellow outfit, and boy he could dance. He had a solo number in which he pole danced. Hyde however was a stout guy that resembled the musical Hyde but with a long black leather coat instead of a fur coat.

Anyway this adaptation is more lighthearted than my more book-accurate “serious” one. Nobody really dies (well, not really, I’ll explain just know) and the main message is “don’t be afraid of who you are”.

Basically in it London is a colorful musical city in which certain musical or clothing styles get you typecast as the “bad guy” because it follows Disney rules or something. Jekyll is this young-ish, cute, upbeat, dorky sun-themed scientist (he’s also Spanish because I’m projecting) (he has an English name because Trans) who is looking into creating a serum that will turn people into “who they really are”. He tries it on himself and comes out of it the moon-themed Hyde, who is… totally unlike Jekyll. Short, chubby, cranky, moody, and a jerk. Walking gloom and doom, in short, as a stark contrast to the super sunshine Jekyll. At first Jekyll decided to exploit it because he’s never really allowed himself to explore this gloomier facet of himself (insert comment about toxic positivity here), but people are terribly scared of Hyde and rumors start to circulate, which go from trampling a girl (she bumped into him and he threw a yelling fit at her parents) to straight up violent murder (was seen close to the crime scene). It comes to a point in which Jekyll starts to kind of believe those rumors… so it doesn’t help that his best friend aspiring detective Gabrielle Utterson (whom he has a massive crush on) (she also has a crush on him btw) is investigating this suspicious Hyde fellow… to add insult to injury, when his rival, Lanyon, finds out, he freaks out and calls Hyde a monster, so Jekyll locks himself up in his laboratory determined to never let this monster walk free again. Even though Hyde is 1) literally him 2) just some guy.

DONT WORRY THO. It has its happy ending but uuuh. There are Shenanigans involved! And a love triangle… thingy. And I don’t really know the full plot yet because I’m working on it but it’s the good old strange case plus a few bits of extra flavor! I soooo am going to include a masquerade scene.

[gldenhrs]

                               (—) ★ spotted !!   luciana  “ luna “  santiago  on the cover of this week’s most recent tabloid ! many say that the 22 year old looks like cindy kimberly , but i don’t really see it. while the model / socialite  is known for being  passionate  my inside sources say that they have a tendency to be  irresponsible i swear, every time i think of them, i hear the song crazy by aerosmith .

*   ◞  ╰   general   .

full name :   luciana kristiyana santiago .  nicknames :   goes prominently by  luna  , only her dad calls her  moon  . birthdate / zodiac sign :   april 12th / aries .  birthplace :  madrid , spain . sexual orientation :  bisexual / heteroromantic .  family :   victor “ vic “  santiago (  lead singer in Aerosmith )  &  indah prasetya  ( band’s groupie )  languages spoken :   fluent in english  &  spanish , conversational in indonesian . pets :   two cats named freddie purrcury  &   madam meow  occupation :  model / socialite . love language :  physical touch . + traits  :  passionate , adventurous , enchanting , valiant , energetic , optimistic , affectionate  &   honest . - traits  :  dramatic , stubborn , querulous , insecure , irresponsible , impulsive , impatient   &  moody .   aesthetic :  red lipstick on plump lips , freshly baked coffee , spontaneous dance parties , strawberry lemonade on hot summer nights , heart shaped sunglasses , pigmented eyelids , european music festivals , setting off firecrackers at midnight , laughter floating through a room , missed calls at 2am , ripped bralettes , bare chest in the mornings .   muse inspo :   fran fine ( the nanny ) , francesca farago ( too hot to handle ) , kelly taylor ( 90210 ) , rachel green ( friends ) , jackie buckhart ( that 70s show  ) , hanna marin  ( pretty little liars ) ,  phoebe halliwell ( charmed ) , kiara ( outer banks ) , gabrielle solis ( desperate housewives ) , caroline forbes ( the vampire diaries ) , stassi schroder ( vanderpump rules ) ,  maddie perez ( euphoria ) .

*   ◞  ╰   quick history   .

victor  “ vic “   santiago  (  aka luna’s dad  )  is a  famous lead singer in a rock band .  think steven tyler from aerosmith ! !  so basically , growing up she’s been constantly surrounded by  GOOD  80s rock music  &  being on the road which definitely shaped her personality .

luna’s mother  ,  a groupie  ,  is someone who followed the band around on the road for numerous years , but vic never took her seriously  (  only took them to bed )   &  the only reason she even got pregnant with luna is because vic wanted a child , knowing he would most likely never marry .

soooo , incomes luciana “ luna “ santiago ,  his pride  &  joy  , his  MOON .  yes , he actually calls her that bc he’s always had an obsession with the stars   &  constellations .  tbh luna’s been the love / light of vic’s life from the moment she was born , adored by not only her dad , but the band , team  &  fans too !

as for her mother * cough *  , who knows where she is now , she doesn’t stay in touch tbh , only comes in town every couple of years to  “  see her “  aka  “  ask for money “ .  

with the better part of early years where she was home schooled due to her dad’s insane tour schedule , luna was always an insanely energetic  &  menace of a child , constantly running around , causing trouble , etc !  

at some point , she realized just how much she  LOVES  traveling , nature  &  being barefoot .  yes , kind of a wanderer but who can blame her when she grew up with 80s rock legends ? ?  so , she spend almost every waking moment traveling to exotic places , going to music festivals , walking bare chested in the mornings , painting landscapes  (  SHE’S V TALENTED ) , having spontaneous dance parties at 3am , etc !

as far as doing things outside of being a socialite / a nepo baby go ,  she’s been in her dad’s music videos since she was 15  (  think liv tyler in crazy  )  ,  and in many others , which naturally resulted in a numerous calls for modeling gigs , tv shows …. she took some modeling jobs out of fun  &  recently also out of pure fun , went to a famous tv show called  “ too hot to handle “   (  think francesca farago here’s inspo hehe :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rUY_xAF0T0  )  .  in a way , the only reason she went to that show was to show the world she can be something other than vic santiago’s daughter , so here she is ! !

*   ◞  ╰   personality & dating life   .

luna’s a bit of a spoiled brat which is a given ,  &  while she does come across a textbook example of a nepo baby with no real world problems , she’s really not bc she never cared much about the fame she just likes having  FUN  .

v v enchanting  &  can charm her way out of any bad situation  &  make u swoon .  tbh 10/10  she’ll annoy the living shit out of u or u’ll find her irresistible lol .

given her spanish roots , she can be hella’ dramatic just like her fav characters in telenovelas , but beside that she’s a truly good person with a good heart ok ! !   she just has a flair for dramatics , throwing fits , pouting   &   making puppy eyed faces whenever things don’t go her way .

can be hella hella flirtatious to a point she doesn’t even realize the effect she has on other people  &  more often than not she leads people on ? ?   she regrets it later but eh .

loves to party , drink , dance , wear skimpy outfits  &  kiss on the lips but also wear mickey mouse pajamas while someone softly combs through her hair ? ?   yeah , she needs to grow up . also kind of  LIVES  for summer  &  music festivals where she can just dress in glitter  &  fall in love with a different person every night !

v fun to be around bc she hates being bored  &  is impatient af !  she can’t stand being in one place for too long soooo catch her doing v dumb , impulsive decisions while bored like jumping on her father’s private jet to pet a koala in australia , go bungee jumping or snapping u a nude bc she’s bored at home jfnerjfgjsrgf .

some cute headcanons ? ?  ok , here we go ! !   to this day loves watching telenovelas  &  she might cancel her plans with u to binge watch them (  like rebelde , rubí ,  pasion de gavilanes , la reina del sur … ) , still cries like a baby when mufada dies or miguel  &  mia break up ,  very childish  &  dumb at times but will also surprise u with some random wisdom at 2am , will react if someone offends her or her friends best believe she’ll throw a dramatic telenovela shit in public  &  call u  “ un desgraciado “ lmao .

*   ◞  ╰   connections  .

she could use a squad  ?  like PLS .  i want her to have a squad of friends she can party with and overall do dumb shit lmao . 

also her  BFFS .  the thelma to her louise , the cassie to her maddie ! !   overall just two muses who are her family  &  they’re always tagging along w her , like vic probably treats them like his children too ! 

someone she’s  dating  atm but it’s nothing too serious , maybe he’ll end up breaking up with her or she’ll break up with him we’ll see but main thing is they WON’t last bc they’re messy af   &   luna’s heart isn’t 100% in this .

a  close friend  who party  &   hookup with other people when they’re out but always end up going home together  &  having this super open friendship where they have no problem hooking up with each other 6/7 days of the week ? ?

also gimme  caleb fuck buddies  that everyone ships  &  one of them is in love with the other while the other seems them just as a good time ?  ewfjwesbf.

also also gimme  a messy ex  plot where they are constantly on / off  &  the fans love em but they’re just so fucking toxic ? ?  maybe bc they’re too alike  &  won’t admit it’s love   &  just won’t settle down  (  like imagine cheating scandals , public fights caught by tmz ... but also cute ass insta posts when they’re in a good place )  just think of nate  &  maddie from euphoria or  francesca  &  harry ! ! 

a plot where luna  uses them  to make someone jealous but they don’t know  &  actually think it’s a  legit  relationship ? ?   then obvi they find out luna was just using them  &  y’know  :  drama .  

family friends ! !  someone who could know  EVERYTHING  about her life n be there for her like pls .

someone who is her  HOME .  it doesn’t have to be potentially romantic just someone who makes her feel completely safe , warm  &  protected  ? ?    they can also just…talk, and make each other laugh  &   smile, because they feel comfortable enough in themselves  &   with each other to be vulnerable in that way ? ?  some fluff never hurt nobody .  

someone who’s using her bc of her dad ? ?   YES .  gimme fake friends .

tbh exes she cheated on , exes that cheated on her , fwb of all kinds , crushes , childhood friends , good / bad influence on her dumb ass would be good , gossip queens n kings , party friends , enemies for whatever reason , etc ! !  

[winderlylandchime]

*points to tv* ‘look its Justin and Brian. Dude, it’s early morning and he’s going to the baths? LOOK AT THEM KISSING GOODBYE! Did you see that cute shit! Adorable. Oh Brian..you can find hotter places to fuck at than this dump..JEN! THATS MY BABY JEN! WHAT IS GOING ON? this is his office? FINALLY I AM GETTING MY BUDDY EPISODE! Aw he took a picture of Jen, why the fuck didn’t it show it? I wanna see my girl! My two favorite people being best friends! I am so happy!’ ‘Ted IS A SINGER! Oh as a waiter? *smacks his chest with his fist* respect! Been there, done that, tough shit. *pauses tv and looks at me* Did you know when i first started as a waiter, i didnt know what cappuccino is made of so when people ordered it, i told them we ran out of it. I got fired 4 days later’ ‘i feel bad for Emmett. I get they want to support him but Emy also needs support. Damn it this is bad. But i also *takes a deep breath* feel bad for Mike.’ ‘AWWW Vic and Rodney are gonna live together! Finally Vic gets something more in his life than just hiv and sister. GOOD FOR YOU VICKY BOY! LIVE THAT LONG HAPPY LIFE BABY!’ ‘How in the holy hell, did they convince Brian to go to this restaurant. Id get if Justin was there but he isnt, so HOW? Oh he came along to laugh. Okay, makes sense’ the scene where Pink Posse walks down the street is up and he paused the tv and started laughing. I did not expect him to have these reactions. ‘They look like a gay boyband. Backstreet Gays. Look at them on their way to fight people with their pink shirts. I am trying so hard to be chill with this but what is this? They look like a low budget cult. (The car/fight scene happens) Justin.. violence for violence is not cute. Nothing about this is cute. I am trying to get it cause of prom but WHY IS THIS HAPPENING NOW?’ ‘Look at Brian once again waiting for him. Is he late? A vigilante with a curfew. Thats new. Soooo he’s now hopped up on adrenaline ready to fuck. Cool cool cool. Look how fast Brian’s plans can change when it involves Justin. Or sex. But Brian when youre done, we need to talk to Buzz lightyear about his dangerous activities’ ‘WHY IS MIKE BEING A BITCH TO BLAKE?! He is a sweet guy who hasn’t done shit wrong. Be nice to him!’ ‘Im glad theyre finally giving Vic some fucking story line. Sometimes it felt like they forgot he was there *turns to me all serious* which one am I, Deb or Vic?’ The Britin scene comes up ‘YOURE TELLING ME FOR ONCE THEYRE NOT SHOWERING TOGETHER? see! Brian is worried, scared and annoyed at this pink pussy movement. And so am I! Now come on Brian, go and yell at Cody, like only you can. Why is Justin being so angry at Brian? Since when is he so angry? Brian! Do something!‘ ‘oh Brian is not having Emmetts shit. Look at him being a friend. *pauses tv* i really like this Brian. Something feels different, i fuck with it. he is full of advices lately!’ And we are back to Justin and Cody and he just groaned loudly and slid on the floor from the coach ‘this zack and cody spin off needs to end. Blondie is being forced to be angry and have a horrible haircut. Unless if they give me Brian yelling at this wannabe Captain America, make it stop. Justin he is literally telling you he wants to search for fights, why is my blondie so dumb at times?- damn I actually really feel bad for Mike in this episode, that is a first.’ The scene with Cody and Justin at the restaurant or whatever is up ‘what the fuck is this bullshit? JUSTIN WE HAVE A RULE! WHY THE FUCK IS HE BREAKING A RULE IN EVERY FUCKING SEASON?! DUDE- what..Justin for fucks sake walk away from this shit, at what point will you realize youre in too deep? WHAT THE FUCK KINDA ENDING WAS THAT?!’ *gets up and grabs his cigarettes* ‘great now Brian isn’t the only one stressed, worried and annoyed’ He is now outside walking up and down and talking to our mom all angry about how Justin is risking his life and being an idiot and then he just randomly went ‘but at least brian is looking really good this season. I feel like this might be his season where he finally thrives’ …safe to say he is wrong.

Brian really does look so good in the bathhouse scene. Also let's note Justin being happy to leave Brian there - this is not a kid who suddenly wants monogamy and marriage a year later, okay?

GOOD FOR YOU VICKY BOY! LIVE THAT LONG HAPPY LIFE BABY!

Oh Anon, oh dear sweet anon.... you're going to need to get some tissues for your brother.

That shower scene is so good. Brian is worried and pissed. He didn't scrap Justin off the parking garage floor just for him to risk his life being stupid.

i really like this Brian. Something feels different, i fuck with it. he is full of advices lately! CHARACTER GROWTH!

‘but at least brian is looking really good this season. I feel like this might be his season where he finally thrives’ …safe to say he is wrong. I mean he does look good the whole season, but yeah there's that whole cancer thing... Poor brother.

[tempobrucera]

Golden Hour or I'll Kiss You Again? You can pick 💓

Hello, hello. Thank you for the ask nonnie :)

How about I do both? I think Golden Hour is underrated and I'll Kiss You Again was one of the first stories I liked that got some notes (after Laura @oro-e-diamanti reblogged it, hahaha).

Let's do Golden Hour first:

A lot of people, also here, know that I own a lot (and I mean a looooooot) of analogue cameras and that I love photographing. So it was really self indulgent to be honest to combine it with writing about it and taking Thomas as a character for it

I kind of wanted it to advance, the dynamic, over the whole fic. Like it escalating further and further. In the sense of what goes and what doesn't go pic wise. I wanted Thomas to be more confident in the end than in the beginning, I wanted him to be nervous about it - because what if someone finds those pics of him? Or of them together but it kind of advances to oh, I'll take the risk. So those the little play with Vic

"“I probably- I probably look fucked.” He does." -> Make of that what you want, but if it was catching your eye before, you're probably right, lol

I wanted the first photo to be so hilarously innocent that Thomas can't do anything but laugh

"You become obsessed with his body in a different way than before." -> I just wanted to show that Reader obviously was obsessed and loving his body before already but that it accelerates after starting to take photos of him. There's so much details you look for, that you don't notice that deliberately in your daily life usually

And that's how I tried to write it, there are soooo many details in this fic between the bigger chunks, so many descriptions of photos

I don't know why Thomas ends up with an exhibitionism kink often with me - sorry. I mean, he is on stage and there are some videos where he definitely knows what he's doing. So maybe that's why

"You think he’s going to whimper but he full on growls at you." -> Nothing to say, I have a thing for men who whimper and for men who growl and especially for men that do both <3

I just think washing someones hair is really intimidate and I wanted to write it into a fic for a while and I thought there wasn't any fic more perfect for it

"“I’m pretty sure there’s already footage of my ass on the internet which I can’t delete either,” he says." -> Well, I guess kinda, yes.

"Rome’s evening sun hitting Thomas’ face, still leaving you speechless now every time you look at Thomas in the golden hour light. The moment you took it and thought to yourself that maybe, maybe you’re in love." -> I would absolutely change nothing about this paragraph, it also made it into the story because of the name of the fic. You know when you look at someone and you think, fuck, I'm in love, I think and I have no clue how I ended up here but that person means so much to me and is the most beautiful human being? It's exactly that feeling

"It’s too aesthetically pleasing somehow to call it a dick pic. But it clearly is. His dick." -> Sometimes you just have to experiment with sentences. If I would have written it as a normal sentence instead of breaking it up the impact of reading it would have been a lot smaller

"Backstreets of Rome; the backseat of his car." -> I love that sentence sososososo much. I just love playing around with words, when I can take a word and change it into something else. When words change meaning from one sentence to the other. It takes time but it's one of my favourite things to do

The scene in Ethan's bathroom, I wanted to show that Thomas isn't only submissive in this and that there aren't certain roles and everything is more fluid between them

Honestly, I don't know why but phone sex has some element that definitely isn't for everyone and it's definitely not for those two. And I wanted to show that you can also try something and agree that it was good to try but wanting to do it again. It happens. And that there can be deep feelings of love but there are still reasons to let a person go so they can do what makes them happy more easily and not because you don't love the person. And also that came from personal experience

That scene with Vic, I literally wrote five different scenarios for that one. One without Thomas coming, two with Thomas coming differently, with more sex. But I settled on this one in the end because I kind of found it interesting how a really little thing in the right moment can set him off like that

"And you ask yourself, if you could forget what his hugs feel like. This feeling of falling out of love hunting you down." -> I think people often forget how much work a long distance relationship is, with one being constantly away that's what it is. And it's easy to be like, maybe I'm falling out of it but you don't want to and then you try but sometimes even that doesn't feel enough

I have a feeling that Ethan and Vic would be the people who would clean up after Thomas when he does something stupid because they love him

"“I sometimes worry about life, about time. How much of it I’ll have, have left and that I do everything wrong with it.”" -> Cannot find it right now but there was this one interview recently that completely kicked me in the ass because he said something similiar enough to this (not as extreme but still)

"Film rolls change from pink skies to falling leaves. From grey sky and Christmas markets to cherry blossoms. Even when he’s not there." -> You know there's some things in life that you pick up mostly because of someone but it still stays with you when that person is gone or completely gone from your life

"But then there’s the Polaroid of confetti in Thomas’ hair you take after the last gig of tour. And you fall in love all over; again." -> I really wanted to give this fic a happy ending because I had the feeling it deserved one and it did. Even with Thomas coming and going and that obviously being a problem in that relationship here, I wanted it to work. Because the thing is Thomas is always coming back home, he might be stupid, but he is and at the end of the day both can share what happened in the other's abscence and be excited to see each other and you know fall in love with the same person again, but maybe also with some new parts

Okay, and I’ll kiss you again

This came about from a prompt I got and was something I wrote as a fluff Valentines fic, and I'm really in love with the "we find love notes on accident" scenario from the prompt list I had

I kind of liked the idea that they both find something with the same pattern or something that is really similiar to each other and that they both fall in love with it

The poor cashier ... Hahaha, when I wrote it, I didn't realise what I put her through. But also ... In the first draft the cashier was actually a little bit magical (like leading Reader to that box, getting them to buy it and in the end they wanted to thank her that she got them to but no one has ever heard of her when they go back to the store). I decided against it, and went with, okay just regular plot without magic

Thomas and the girlfriend situation. Here I also had different drafts. In some of them they were still together, in some of them they had a fight, in some of them Thomas already broke up but didn't mention it, in some of them Thomas and Gianna were on off. But in all these scenarios Thomas always broke off because of Reader. That's why he said, he doesn't want to hurt more people, he knows Reader is keen on him and he loves Gianna enough to be fair to her because he knows that his heart is somewhere else

I fucking love describing food, I'm so sorry everyone

"You remember Thomas staying over after drinking too much, sleeping on your couch, one night between Christmas and New Year’s." -> And there's the short ice cream story and Thomas laughing and ice cream on noses and in my head Thomas broke up with Gianna just after that

Thomas really wants to get drunk, that's why he brought so much alcohol. If that ends him up in someone's bed, or at least lets him forget or anything inbetween ... So be it.

"He shouldn’t look at you when he bites into one of the chocolate hearts. And your heart shouldn’t do these stupid cartwheels watching him." -> I said it before but I love words that kind of change meaning from one sentence to another and it's always interesting to see where to put it in and where to take it out

God, I love some gentle handholding and I was so happy that this was part of the prompt

"You liked it but it didn’t stick out to you, except for Thomas taking it and not letting go off it after you read it." -> I just loved the idea of Thomas holding on to that note because it gave him so much hope, so yep, he's holding onto it because he's holding on to hope

I wanted them to have had those little moments together already before the fic, why there was this longer passage about kisses from before and Reader thought Thomas did that as a joke but Thomas didn't and it just dawns on him that he might has been misunderstood the whole time and that he never wanted Reader to feel about him in this way

"but you were so busy with your photo assignment from work" -> In my head Reader always has a backstory in my head. Always. Like here Reader is working as a photographing assistent and Thomas and them actually met at a photoshoot (in another story Reader was a patisserie chef btw - yes, Reader baked in that one, and in another one Reader is an Art major at university - and yes, it's the longer Thomas x Reader x Vic fic)

"“I don’t know? I went to Gianna’s to get something I left at hers but I …”, he stops talking - it doesn’t matter - he’s there with you now. You pull him closer to your body, “and the next morning I woke up crying into Bidet’s fur and Damiano making breakfast he said I don’t deserve." -> Okay, they fucked, okay, that's what happened that night and Thomas was feeling awful about it because he planned on telling Reader that he loves them and instead ended up in his exe's bed because he also couldn't be alone. And Reader gets that when he stammers around but it doesn't matter because he didn't do anything wrong

I needed the little bit of angst at the end, hahaha

It was fun to come up with all the messages they all wrote to Reader

" How the fuck did you fall for him?" -> I honestly believe that this is something Vic would ask someone who has a crush on Thomas, no joke

That note was honestly such a pain to write. Even happier I am now how it turned out. And yes, it was based really loose on the love note Alex Turner wrote for Alexa Chung

And reading it again now, I actually really like the ending I gave to this, coming back to the love notes and making up stories for it and that maybe someday will find Thomas' note and you know, when you read that note, it can also be read as sad but maybe not everything that reads sad actually is

[oro-e-diamanti]

Soooo yep I just got back. I was RIGHT NEXT TO VIC WHEN SHE CROWD SURFED. I have amazing photos and videos and it was genuinely so awesome. The crowd was pretty cool, and I can’t wait until I see them again. Also I have insane videos of Vic’s bass solos and then lots of pictures from the end when she is completely topless and I am absolutely falling apart. I felt so bad for Dami though because he hurt his shoulder. -🦢

My dear swan anon, I'm so sorry I didn't get to it sooner but ~mental health~ ya know haha. But oh my god I am so so happy you had such a good time, that sounds amazing, and that you were so close to Vic too!!! That must have been gorgeous ahhhh and the fact that she was completely topless haha just as a little treat eh ;) But oh man I'm so happy for you, feel free to come back and spam me with all your thoughts and pictures if you want!!

[southieparkie]

SPOILER WARNING: SP POST COVIDE: RETURN OF COVID!!!!!!!

Okay soooo there’s a lot to unpack here.

- First of all, the four boys chanting “Let’s go Nuggets” at the beginning made my heart so happy omg.

- OMFG STAN BURN FARM AND SHELLY FUNERAL WE SAW IT ALL YOU GUYS HHHHHHHH (SHARON’S VA ATE THAT FUNERAL SCENE UP THE REALISM HAD ME CRYINGGGG)

- the fight scene with token was so random and unexpected but i stg it may have been the second greatest thing in this special lmao

- tweek standing up and saying that he’ll do whatever he can to help stop covid just…it’s great. like, yes nervous blond man, you go find that tin foil with ur husband

- the whole anne frank reference they did with menorah was okay ig

- the scene where craig n those guys realize they need tin foil and connecting the dots as to who victor chaos really is was fucking brilliant. we as an audience already figured out that vic is actually butters wayy before this special even aired, the beauty of it all is that the audience knows, but the characters dont. so seeing them put the pieces together and letting the mystery reveal itself was not only satisfying to watch but also really clever. like, wendy and token and all those guys didn’t say what they were thinking, but we KNEW what they were thinking. (i suck at analyzing things dont come for me pls i just think its neat :( )

- BUTERS!’dnsjskxkw

- wait no VIC

- butters being an NFT salesman is the LAST thing i predicted for this special but ykw? i’m nOT mad at it

- BUTTERS CALLED KENNY “KEN” DID YOU GUYS HEAR HIM.

- why did we have to see his penis tho

- and we saw kenny’s dead penis in the last special like omg stop i can’t keep defending u guys, matt n trey

- CRAIG N TWEEK GOT KNOCKED TF OUT PLEASEEEEEEE

- Tweek pointing and screaming when Craig got his shit rocked is so him

- kyle having an alexa and being scared shitless from said alexa going bonkers was a good laugh

- clyde’s villian origin story was definitely something

- the scene where stan is comforting wendy with the wet rag after the whole NFT attack thingy butters did was so wholesome i was smiling through the whole thing

- THE PART WHERE KYLE STARTED WIPING TOKEN’S PHONE WITH THE RAG TOOK ME OUT

- speaking of that cartman taking butters to the lab KNOWING that butters’ NFT shtick can cause major chaos (see what i did there) was pretty smart

- IKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- let’s talk about the fight between eric and kyle cause y’all already know that kyman shippers will use the clip of eric rocking kyle’s shit to prove that kyle is indeed a submissive uwu boy and cartman is a big dom. maybe im over exaggerating, but there are people out there who think like this still and its dumb

- we’ll save that convo for another day. anyways, the two alexas kicking butters’ ass in the pews made me snort

- eric’s baby is a little shit

- clyde’s dramatic walk he does when he’s about to k-word kyle in the past is freaking hilarious to me.

- WHY DID CLYDE HAVE TO D!3 WTH IS WRONG WITH YALL LET HIM LIVE

- stan, kyle, ken, and eric on the jumbotron at the nuggets game is probably the exact moment in which the south park fandom’s hope for the broship/future episodes was restored

- the letter stan wrote to randy made me SOBBB. HE SAID I LOVE U HNNNNNN

- okay so about the ending

- IKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- STAN IS AN ASTRONAUT OR SOMETHING IM NOT RLLY SURE WHAT HE IS BUT HE ISNT AN ALSCHOHOLIC YES

- uhh….so uh……we all agree that kyle and stan have adopted kids together and that they call him uncle stan just cause they’re confused, yes?? stan and kyle are together and they have children?? do they not?????

- no?? k

- STENDY. WHAT ARE THEY GONNA DO ON NEW YEARS?????? MAKE OUT PERHAPS???????????

- if they accidentally reproduce that night and sam marsh becoms canon im gonna drag my teeth against hot concrete

- kenny didn’t get any speaking lines what the fuck matt & trey u had one job

- yall was tweek drinking wine?? material gworl????

- TIMMY OH MY GOD

- TIMMY MY BOY THERE HE GO ON THE SCREEN

- rating: 9.5/10

- bring on the NFT butters/Mad Scientist kenny fanart cowards idc if you suck at rendering or whatever

- AND fanfics don’t forget the fanfics

[stuckyxren]

Day 1 Stucky fic: High Blood Pressure

Authors note: I don’t own the MCU. ALSO, read my previous post for an explanation and back story.

Summary: At a follow up appointment, you find out you are starting to have high blood pressure issues. You attempt to go about your day after the appointment, but the boys have other ideas.

Warnings: Talks to blood pressure issues, anxiety, very slight cursing. FLUFF.

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You just recently got over the flu. Even though Steve is fully immune to everything and has a faster metabolism, your body is still the same. The serum heightened the manly things in Steve, but you were also sickly and the serum seemed to give you a regular immunity. You still have the muscle mass and metabolism of a super soldier though.

Bucky and Steve had Bruce convince you to visit him for a full check up. Your asthma issues flare when your sick and the flu had no mercy on you. The boys were constantly hovering. Humidifiers, vics, soup, medicine, and WATER were given to you. SOOOO much water. They took care of every need and monitored you very closely.

Today, you finally felt close to normal. Bruce wanted to check your lungs and make sure that they sounded good before clearing you for work and light duty with the avengers.

Sitting down on a comfy chair in the med bay, Bruce got to work with checking your vitals. Steve and Bucky sat in either side of you and waited patiently for Bruce to get started with checking on your lungs.

After the blood pressure cuff deflated, Bruce pulled his glasses to the bridge of his nose and looked at the screen. “Huh.” He mumbled, turning to grab a smaller cuff and place it on your wrist.

“What is it?” You asked, trying your hardest not to squirm.

“Huh?” Bruce asked, chewing on the top of his pen as he waited for the results. “Oh. Your blood pressure is pretty high. I’m just rechecking it.” He explained, just as the cuff deflated again. “Hmm. “ Bruce wrote down the number and took off the cuff. He remained silent as he tapped the pen on the desk and pulled up your charts to have a look.

“Banner. What is it?” Bucky asked, getting on edge. He didn’t like not knowing and he could tell that Bruce was worried about something that he saw on that screen.

“Her blood pressure is very high.” He said. “Like, very high. From her charts, it looks like her blood pressure is normally high the first time I take it, but lowers to a normal level after the appointment. So, I’ll check it again when we get finished up here.”

We all nodded and let Bruce go about the exam. After listening to your heart and lungs, Bruce concluded that you were on the mend and out of the woods, so you just needed to take it easy so you don’t backslide. Then, Bruce asked for some blood work. It seemed that he didn’t have any current blood work on file. You had successfully avoided it for 3 years. The last set they have is from when you got hurt during the civil war and you were unconscious.

You have a huge fear of needles, but you never let anyone know. Your fear stems from the super soldier serum injection. You had a slight fear before the experiment, but nothing like the fear you have now.

“Before that, let me check your blood pressure again.“Bruce said.

Hooking the cuff on your wrist, Bruce stepped back and leaned against his desk. Unbeknownst to him, you were trying to think calming thoughts as the machine went to work.

When the machine went off, Bruce’s eyes got wide. “Umm, that’s higher than before.”

The air got thick. The boys were now on high alert on either side of you. Sweat broke out on the back of your neck and under your lip. You could see the worry all over Bruce’s face and that scared the shit out of you.

You leaned back as you started feeling the room get hot. The air seemed too think to breathe in. Your ears started ringing and your hands began to shake. The thought of the impending bloodwork and the knowledge that something was wrong with you that had Bruce worried was too much. Your brain couldn’t cope.

While Steve was questioning Bruce about what was going on and the possible causes, Bucky was watching you. He saw the change in your mood immediately. The flash of panic that crossed your face was quick, but the signs were there. Bucky reached for your shaky hands.

“Hey sweetheart. You okay?” He asked, attempting to draw your attention. He watched you carefully, but he could tell you didn’t hear him. “Steve.” Bucky said sharply, catching your other partner’s attention.

Steve turned and quickly realized what was happening. “Doll.” Steve called, touching your elbow.

You yelped at his touch. It was too close to where they normally draw your blood and your brain was on high alert. You slammed into the side of the chair closest to Bucky, hitting your rib cage on the arm rest. The air was sucked out of you.

Bucky was quick to pull you out of the chair and push the small row away as he lowered you to the ground. Bruce stepped back, along with a guilty looking Steve, as they both observed the situation.

“Hey. Hey. Shhhhh.” Bucky called, using one hand to cover yours over the achy injury and the other to tilt your face to meet his. “Breathe. It was Steve.”

“You are in the med bay at Avengers tower.” Steve started the mantra, kneeling behind Bucky. “You are safe. Bucky and I are here. Bruce is here. You are safe.” He repeated it over and over to you, grounding you.

Eventually, you started repeating it and finally calmed down, allowing Bucky to pull you into his arms. While you had your head buried into his neck, Bruce asked if you would feel more comfortable getting your blood work done right there. Once you nodded, Bruce made quick work of getting all the blood he needed from you. Bucky held you close the whole time and Steve ran his hand through your hair and whispered to you as Bruce worked.

Once Bruce was finished, he asked Steve to check your blood pressure for a couple weeks and report back if anything was wrong. Then, Steve took you from Bucky and they thanked Bruce as you guys left.

“Wanna take a nap doll?” Steve asked you gently. He knows you love your naps.

“Cuddles?” You whispered in reply.

“Yes. Cuddles.” Steve chuckled, earning a snort from Bucky.

“We gotta get something in your belly first.” Bucky pipped up. “How about a protein shake?”

You nodded sleepily into Steve’s neck, throwing a lazy thumbs up over his shoulder. Both boys chuckled as they entered the apartment. Steve sat you on the kitchen counter as Bucky rummaged through the fridge for one of your shakes. Steve stood between your legs and ate a quick snack while you snuggled into his embrace.

Once Steve was finished, he took the protein shake from Bucky, stuck a straw in it, and held it up for your half asleep form while Bucky had his own snack. Once you were all satisfied, Steve carried you to the bedroom.

Bucky grabbed your clothes and the boys helped you change. They got you undressed and put Bucky’s red Henley on you and threw your pj pants (aka Steve’s boxers) on the dresser. The boys stripped down to their boxers and got in bed with you.

Bucky cuddled from behind, winding his metal arm around your waist to keep you cool. Steve cuddled you firmly to his chest and played with your hair while he stared at the ceiling.

“Jarvis. Close the black out curtains.” You mumbled into Steve’s chest.

“As you wish my lady.” The AI replied.

Once the room was swept into total darkness, you easily drifted to sleep in the arms of your boys. All worries forgotten for now and saved for later. You are safe. You are in Avengers tower. Bucky and Steve are here. You are safe.

[jchnmcdonough]

More OC asks! What is John and Lizzy's relationship like?

well I love angst and slow burns soooo 🤪

PRE-RELATIONSHIP

When they first meet it’s at the celebration being thrown for him and his expansion deeper into the Financial District. He doesn’t get to talk to her much, if at all, and when he first sees her it’s very much this 

Piper introduces them a bit when at the party, but much of the conversation was centered on some business between her and john. lizzy does watch him throughout the party though and decides to leave DC to go find work in Goodneighbor (which is encouraged by Pipes who tells her the only way she’ll thrive in Boston is by having connections to john). 

their first actual meeting is when she shows up to the state house asking for work...which she can’t even do because queen can’t work a gun and has never collected debts before LOL. fahr thinks she’s useless from the gecko, but our dear john has a lil crush and decides to introduce her to Daisy (who runs a thrift / cafe-esque in this universe xx) whom she then starts to work for by helping with the cleaning/cooking. to ensure she doesn’t leave, john sweetens the deal by letting her stay at the rexford for free until she has enough caps saved up to move into the waterstreet aprts. 

from there it’s sort of a slow progression. john is busy doing john things and lizzy is busy doing lizzy things. he does eventually make his way back to her through the form of showing her around all of goodneighbor and this allows her to see how respected he is among the city. also allows for them getting to know each other (which is really just lizzy boldly asking about his life and to confirm or deny the rumors she’s heard about him in DC lol). 

they don’t start a romantic relationship until after she sees him during a vulnerable moment. it’s at this point where she realizes that john and hancock are two separate entities and that he’s carrying much weight on his shoulders in the name of protecting people who look to him for guidance n safety. a lil savior complex with lots of guilt over what happened during the anti ghoul movement and vic’s rule over GN

POST RELATIONSHIP

when they do get together, he’s pretty protective over her and even a bit possessive. likes to spoil her, givin very much ‘worship the ground she walks on” gets heated whenever the less than savory men in GN look at her. edward deegan is an ever present thorn in john’s side. will take her with him during his less hazardous travels (such as the slog) so she can see more of the commonwealth. 

plans a lot of little things for them to do together such as walking the boston commons, cooking, listening to records, etc. both liking watching the other sleep? lol. lizzy doesn’t mind his drug usage, but after a particularly rough night where he got plastered she doesn’t condone his drinking. not to say he drinks often, but she’s recovering from her addition and being around alcohol isn’t a good combo. john. makes it a point to only drink when he’s out for business or when she isn’t a around

butt heads occasionally as they’re both stubborn af and don’t like admitting when they’re wrong. john is the first to apologize because lizzy has no issue giving him space/not talking if they’re fighting and he despises it. 

tons of tender moments. john is a sucker for hand holding and makes it a point to always be touching her in some way.

[cryptozoologymp3]

fave rdgn match/es, fave shane match/es, and fave rdr2 moment/s

wracking my last braincell for it all so i will b forgetting some that WILL seem obvious later but i love them <3 these r unranked and it got a little long

rdgn matches: the first one is ranked actually bc it means so much to me but rdgn vs darby allin and matt cross its just one of my fave matches of theirs and always will be bc it was one of the FIRST matches i saw of theirs <3 every time splitters match. thee wk9 4 way. vs the american wolves final battle 2012!!! vs the briscoes for their first tag titles win specifically bc they showed up and Chose to be bitches :heart eyes: vs the revival in nxt my beloved we deserved a full feud. vs adam + roddy also has a special place in my heart. just for fun the match where they were The Boys <3 i just like them so much THE tag team of all time they mean a lot to me!!

shane matches: vs adam from the 2019 worlds collide thing needs 2 b said first actually for the sheer energy of it. both of his matches w bronson in nxt. vs roddy even tho thats when he busted his knee and immediately did not do anything about it and went months on end without doing anything about it until it was unusable -_- (the match was good but hes a dumbass said lovingly). the handful of main event (show) matches he had were good its just that nobody watches that one :// vs curt stallion from the year he got to win more than one match <3 team vic vs team wa from epw state of origin 2012. the first proper tmdk tag match at reawakening 8 (not a great match tbh but i like them soooo). theres a couple vs mikey nicholls in njpw that r rlly and one very fun noah house show that had shane/jonah vs mikey/zsj but they swapped gear styles/character personalities w their partners the video quality is NOT good but its cute tmdk good AND NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN. tmdk + zsj vs roddy bobby and gallows. honorable mention to the one that got away the one that seems to have simply vanished but i would pay my real money to get a copy of it: kensuke office vs shane + bobby. it still drives me crazy that i cant find it Anywhere. @ noah can we please dig through the video archives and see whats in there

rdr2 moments: every time i get to hang out with charles and sadie my best friends charles and sadie. the final fight specifically with high honour :( it hits. it makes me go stupid. its a perfect end. every time u have arthur interact w an animal and hes like hi baby :) i also rlly like his interactions w albert and ms macguiness (sorry i never found all the bones maam). i still think its funny that i missed an entire soundtrack sequence bc i didnt take that horse after the island???? the cinematics for blood feuds ancient and modern are so..... yeah. thats in my head forever now. id need to replay it to have a more concrete list but thats the Basics i think!!

[equestrianwritingsstuff]

Here's a daily ounce of cuteness because I don't think I will be able to any writing posted tonight. Two should be out tomorrow (don't quote me on this... it may only be one) including Drowning Part 5 and another snippet with a... well, its a surprise and I'm sure you guys will like it even though it is shorter than normal.

Anyway this is Alice or "Ali" or "Aloo". Every single one of my pets have lots of nicknames.

This video was taken in May. Just a little background on this nightmare in the body of an angel.

We got her and her friend Victoria "Vikki" last October (yes, they are tiny and both yearlings, but Highlands are slow, slow growth but they are TALL for Highlands and have good frames. Vikki will be tinier, but she is a red soooo. Anyway, back to Alice's story).

The second day home, she escaped. I mean slipped through the fence and RAN AWAY. Ran away. I found her in the neighboring field and chase her back. We, now this is our fault #1, attempted to put her in a calf pen to ensure this didn't happen again.

She escaped. Again.

Our neighbors and us looked for her well into the night and the ground was covered in snow. As in, there was a foot of snow on the ground and cold.

She was missing for 24 hours. A full day. A full day of me worrying constantly. Just a small fact about me, I am immensely protective of my animals. Like you don't touch them without my consent or we have an issue kind of protective.

Mother put out a facebook notice and it spread (embassing, I know). Our friend whose bull bred my baby Brown Swiss, Junie, texted us to see if we needed help. Anyway, we found her a quarter mile away at another small farm.

Chasing and herding her until it was dark, and in the cold, we finally got her caught and in the trailer.

Little bitch was stuck in the trailer for four days. Haha.

I swear I don't abuse my babies, but she was FERAL and it was the safest thing for everyone. After we got her in a calf pen (she escaped, of course) she finally accepted the herd.

She escaped many times after that, but stuck around. We found out that the electric fence didn't work *sigh* I love my other cows (and her, I practically adore her).

She is still the timidest thing ever! Her friend Vikki is ready to he halter broke already and I can't even touch her! I actually, for the record, have three heifers to halter break (one is mildly started, but she is half Hereford so the struggle is real) and have to retrain my Brown Swiss (the 1000 pound dear almost pulled my arm off today).

Anyway this video taken months ago is still valid because this is still how our interactions go.

Oh and I did say that my darling is an angel right? I wasn't kidding...

Here is the list of my cow's names. Ivy and Rocky are for butcher *internally sobbing* but for the most part each have their own story and I would love to share them if people are interested!

They are also in order of my favorite to least favorite (they all have more nicknames, but these are the currently used ones!):

Juniper Ann "Junie"

Gypsy "The Wee"

Alice Renee "Aloo"

Rocky "Rocco"

Victoria Lee "Vic-key, Vic-key"

Ivy Anne "the little Ivy"

Skylar Rae "the beach"

Lucille Elizabeth "Lucy" (but mostly I call her swear words)

Anways, please send me a name and I will write their story up (rocky doesn't have much, nor skylar, and ivy is all fluff and mama bear stuff)

[banshee-cheekbones]

i loved your recent fic about snyder cut!barry allen, would you ever write a shipfic with that barry allen/iris west? their meetcute in the snyder cut was soooo cute

hey nonny! I loved this prompt and took a crack at it! I ended up going with nonbinary Barry again, using they/them pronouns. please enjoy!

also used for the fluff square on my @transbingo card. 

~1800 words, on ao3 here.

second chance at a first impression.

At first, when Barry steps into the coffee shop at the edge of campus, they don’t notice anything out of the ordinary.

It’s just a normal coffee shop, part of a chain with two dozen locations spread across the city. Most of the tables are occupied by students, surrounded by textbooks and papers and laptops. While most of the customers are wearing headphones, there’s still a steady murmur of conversation filling the air, weaving perfectly with the lo-fi music playing over the speakers. The place smells absolutely decadent, like fresh roasted beans and sugar and chocolate, and even though they ate a full pizza for breakfast (after going for a quick run to Gotham and back in the hopes of burning off some of the nervous energy fluttering through their body), Barry's stomach still rumbles loudly.

It’s unlikely that eating anything other than the full contents of the glass display case lining the counter is going to have any impact on their hunger, but at the very least, maybe it’ll keep them satiated long enough to keep their stomach from interrupting their first class of the semester.

They get into line, absently glancing down at the time on their phone, only barely aware that there are a handful of people queued up in front of them. They still have half an hour before they have to get to class – plenty of time to get some coffee and enjoy a muffin (or three). Realistically, it could be a minute before class and they’d still have time to eat and end up in a front row seat, but they want to avoid using their powers on campus if possible. It’s probably not completely possible to keep their two identities separate, to keep The Flash from bleeding into Barry Allen, college student, but if they don’t try, then they’ll regret it.

They make a note to ask Clark about it, the next time they have a League meeting. They’re closest with Arthur, but seeing as he doesn’t give two shits about his secret identity being known, Barry doesn’t think he’s the best person to consult in this case.

Once they’ve decided on which three muffins to get, they turn their attention to the intimidating drink menu hanging above the counter. By the time they parse through the options and settle on something that sounds packed to the gills with sugar, they’re second in line, and they lower their eyes from the menu just in time for the person standing directly in front of them to turn around.

Barry’s stomach drops to the floor, but this time, it has nothing to do with hunger.

Standing in front of them, eyes wide, mouth partially open, dark curls spiraling away from her face, is the woman. The one that they saved a mere month ago (although, with everything that happened after that, with them resurrecting Clark and saving the world from Steppenwolf and discovering that, if they run enough, they can completely destroy the flow of time, it feels more like a year has passed since that day). The one that Barry has thought about almost every day. The one that they thought they would never see again – Central City may be small compared to Gotham or Metropolis, but it’s still a damn city, big enough that Barry has a hard enough time running into people they actually know, let alone people they’ve encountered for a handful of seconds.

They were long seconds, though. Long enough that Barry noticed how beautiful the woman’s dark eyes were, noticed how the smile that spread across her mouth once she was out of harm’s way lit up her round face, noticed how soft her hair was when they moved it away from her eyes.

They may have been mere seconds, and Barry may not have found out her name, but that hasn’t stopped them from thinking about her.

And now, here she is. Standing right in front of them.

Barry is faintly aware of the barista speaking to them, probably asking them to move forward and order, but for the first time in years, even though their brain is screaming at them to do something, to move, they feel physically rooted to the spot.

They don’t know what the chances of meeting like this are, but they’re sure that, if they asked Vic to run the math, his answer would be something like astronomically low.

They need to move. Not only because they’re holding up the line, but because this has to be weird for the woman. They only had a few seconds together, and Barry would be surprised if she remembers them in any real detail, which means that she’s probably wondering why she’s being openly stared at by some weirdo when she just wanted to get some breakfast.

And yet, despite the energy they can feel flickering through their body, Barry can’t move. They can’t get over the sheer unlikeliness of the situation, can’t stop themselves from flicking from one what-if situation to the next.

If they had decided to skip coffee and a snack, if they had decided to wait until the last minute and then bolt across the city straight to class, if they had been delayed for any reason, then this wouldn’t be happening.

Why is the universe so unfathomably strange?

Just when they think that the only way to move forward is to give into the Speed Force, shoot through the plate glass window at the front of the shop and hope that the crash causes enough of a distraction that everyone in the nearby vicinity forgets that they were there in the first place, the woman speaks.

“It’s you.” Her voice is soft, influenced by the smile curling her mouth, nearly as bright as the gold, silk scarf tied around her neck. She steps away from the line, over to the small counter stocked with sweeteners and lids and stir sticks, and Barry automatically follows her. Even though they're definitely moving, it still feels like they’re walking through molasses, like time hasn’t fallen back to its regular pace yet.

“You remember me?” they ask, still not entirely convinced that this isn’t some wild kind of fever dream or vision. Maybe they lost their concentration on the way to campus and got mowed down by a truck, and this is a last gift from their brain to make up for the whole dying thing.

If that’s the case, it might be the nicest gift Barry has ever received.

The woman nods. “I do. You saved my life.”

She’s right – Barry may be full of self-deprecation, but even they know that their abilities are the only thing that saved her from certain death. But still, hearing her say it so frankly, so gratefully, makes them feel off-balance, like the world is tilting right underneath their normally so sure feet.

“I was just in the right place at the right time,” they manage to stammer, seizing one of the pronoun pins decorating the front of their black denim jacket and twisting it back and forth, trying to keep their fingers moving at normal human speed. It’s a poor substitution for running, but for the time being, it’ll have to do. “Sorry I couldn’t save your car. It, um, looked like a nice one. I think. I don’t really know much about cars.” Instinctively, they wince at their own words – it may be a true statement (they've never been a car person, even before they gained their powers), but still, it being the truth doesn’t make it any less embarrassing.

Thankfully, the woman just shrugs.

“It was a nice car. But that’s what insurance is for. I have a better one now.” She waves out the window at a yellow convertible, long and blocky and definitely older than Barry is, parked outside the shop, before she says, “I looked for you, afterwards.” As someone approaches the counter, she takes a step forward, so that she’s out of their way. It puts her close enough to Barry that they can smell her citrus perfume, see the flecks of gold glitter mixed into her burgundy eye shadow. “I wanted to thank you. But it was like you disappeared into thin air.”

Close enough, Barry thinks.

“Sorry about that. I… I had to run.” It’s a lame excuse, but it’s not an entirely inaccurate one - they had unfinished business with the dog groomer after all.

(Even if their business didn’t end with a job offer, they got to feed the dogs some sausage from the vendor whose cart got destroyed, which was, frankly, almost as good as landing a job.)

“Well, it’s not too late.” The woman’s full lips turn up into another smile. “Could I buy you a drink? If you have time, I mean. I don’t want to keep you if there’s somewhere you need to be.”

Barry’s heart stutters as they glance at the clock behind the barista counter and confirm that there’s still plenty of time until they’re supposed to get to class. Not that it matters, really - even if they’re late, it’s only the first class. They probably aren’t going to miss anything more exciting than the instructor reading through the syllabus, which is something they can do later (not to mention faster.

They don’t intend on slacking off on their degree – they want to make their dad proud – but they’re pretty sure that the universe has given them a pass for today.

“Okay,” they say, feeling their own lips curl up into a smile that mirrors her. “Yeah, I’d, um, I’d really like that.”

“Me too,” she replies. Waving at the lineup, she says, “After you.”

The line has grown while they were talking, reaches almost all the way to the entrance now, but Barry is more than happy to wait – not only because they’ve completely forgotten what drink they planned on ordering and need to look at the menu again, but also because it means they get to spend a few more minutes with the woman.

Whose name they still don’t know.

“Hey,” they say, looking away from the menu, all thoughts of coffee forgotten for the time being. She’s a few inches shorter than they are, and when she tilts her head up to look at them, they lose their train of thought for a few seconds. Thankfully, they’re able to snatch the train before it completely leaves the station and ask, “What’s your name?”

“Iris.” She shifts her coffee and the bag containing a muffin into one hand and holds out the other. “And you?”

“Barry.” They take her hand and quickly shake it, trying not to notice how soft her skin is, how glossy her deep orange nail polish is.

“It’s nice to properly meet you.” Fingers trailing across their palm as she lets go, she says, with a teasing glint in her eyes, “Don’t run off on me again. Not before I can buy you a coffee at least.”

“Don’t worry,” they reply. Their stomach is fluttering again, but this time, it’s less from hunger and more from the butterflies swarming through it, butterflies that aren’t going to go away anytime soon. “I won’t.”