#but i plan to start them soon anyways so

[maochira]

Thank you for the tag @truegoist hihi

MAKE A POLL OF UR WIPS AND WRITE ONE SENTENCE FOR EACH VOTE THE WINNER GETS

Tagging no one because I'm SHY but if you're my mutual and wanna do this let's pretend I tagged you

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives by Sarah Williams Goldhagen.

[klanced]

katie your lawyer au tags have me on my knees I never thought guys in suits doing stuff would seem interesting but wow…wow. your mind

Thank u Anon this AU is incredibly indulgent for me.......... ok time 4 more world-building.

I think @heynhay's original idea of Keith & Lance working together at the same firm is best. For both plot reasons but also for my own morale LOL

So everyone works at a fairly large private firm that splits its practice and has some of its associates doing profit-driven law (i.e. corporate or finance) which subsidizes the public interest/service work that the other associates do.

The firm is like "Altea & Daibazaal LLP" or something. Yes I am implying that the firm was started by Alfor and Zarkon. Yes I am implying that Allura and Lotor are nepo babies.

I know I originally said that Keith and Lance were law school rivals but I've changed my mind... (RIP to the law school rivalry dynamics

Instead I'm making it so that Keith and Lance are the same age but Lance has been practicing longer because he went straight into law school after college. Whereas Keith started working after college and got like a Master's degree in Social Work or something before deciding on law school at 26. (I just think Keith is the kind of person who goes to law school later in life.)

Okay onto the specific Klance dynamics... Keith and Lance are both pushing 30 and are also literally lawyers so they are professional and serious about their work... But there is wiggle room for them to still be rivals :p

Lance and Keith are both junior associates at the firm. Lance has seniority because he's been at the firm longer but he's still a year or so away from formally becoming a senior associate.

Lance really, REALLY wants to make partner and he sees Keith as his biggest threat/rival because Keith is Shiro's little brother, and Shiro recently made partner at the firm, so Lance thinks Keith might be a nepo hire. Also some of the senior associates recently left the firm so now Lance is stuck showing Keith the ropes and he's lowkey super bitter about it.

Basically TLDR Lance starts off Not Liking Keith at all for various real or imagined reasons and begins a work rivalry with him. Keith doesn't actually GAF about making partner because he's only planning on working at the firm for a few years to help pay off his student loans, but Lance doesn't know that. However, Keith is a naturally very competitive person, and he also likes having Lance's attention, so Keith immediately goes all in on the rivalry.

Lance, internally: "This Fucking Guy."

Keith, internally: "I am so good at flirting."

The first few months are rough between them. However both are also incredibly productive in their work.

The romcom part of the AU kicks in once the two of them have to start working together on a huge high stakes civil case and they're both like wow.... *twirls hair* he's so competent.............. <3

Anyway misc. things:

TBH I have no idea what kind of law Keith and Lance might private practice... I'm also really torn on what Shiro, Allura, and Hunk would practice hdjsksdhedf

Pidge is hired on a fellowship for either environmental law or data security/privacy law.

Coran does employment law.

Keith went into law school planning on going into public interest/not-for-profit legal aid and swore he would never, ever do corporate law but then he saw his student loans and was like. Hm. Okay maybe some Biglaw is okay. And that's how he ended up at the firm.

Keith:

[keeps-ache]

i don't wanna take over the world, it sounds like a lot. but you know, laying siege to a golf course sounds really nice sometimes

[nerdgirlnarrates]

Found out I matched on Monday (🥳), but now waiting till Friday to find out where is KILLING me. The match has felt like this distant, looming horror for so long, and it's finally become real, and it's actually happy, and now I'm desperate to know where I'm going.

[smolsix]

so more LN III thoughts (not as many at least, read more is just for users who are avoiding altogether)

I keep thinking abt how the single player you'll be playing with an AI like LN II, and I think the game would offer a lot of replay ability if you can choose which kid you play as as they both do different things (the wrench kid has the wrench for puzzles and breaking things, and the masked kid has the slingshot). in multiplayer it makes enough sense you can pick which one to play as, but if you can choose in single I think it'd make the game have a lot more play value and that's super cool.

the fact it has online co-op can mean so much for cool additional things, and i do hope character customisation is still there (LN with Six's masks/hats and LN II with Monos also) even if you have to unlock it which would also still offer replay ability.

[solvicrafts]

I want everyone to know that when I start making plush again and get around to making one of Drizzt, I am going to be absolutely insufferable

[solarisgod]

Good morning to our starlights here and to our little stars there 💖🌟

[databent]

siiiiighs. curse of everything costs money all the time

[niko-jpeg]

sighs heavily. I purchased a Shadow plushie.

[guinevereslancelot]

sitting in a blooming garden would fix me

[xcziel]

wow they decided to copy yoongi almost exactly: concert lovefest for army and then dip

[sovamurka]

Not me suddenly feeling the urge to make a second Bayana playlist on yt.

[meerlichtz]

I’ve never talked abt the Vessel on here before have I. Well they’re my babychild and one day I will write that fanfic abt them and Berdly. Berdly, you ask? Yes. That guy. He needs friends. So does the Vessel. This is the obvious conclusion

[winchesternova-k]

i hit 80k words today bitches!!!

[marciego]

Have you thought about writing a new Leonetta one shot?

yes! i've actually been dying to start writing one for the last week or so but i just have no time at all 😭 like i've been wanting to experiment with different kinds of writing i'm less used to and got ideas for quite a lot of ships but one specific leonetta idea stuck with me and now i simply Cannot Stop Thinking

i really really hope i'll get to it soon, but as you might have noticed i'm a pretty damn slow writer, i still have drabbles in my drafts from november 😭 that being said, some of those drabbles are also leonetta related (one half written specifically and maybe others too i forgot by now) so!!! leonetta content WILL be coming, the big ass question is when