#but the GOAL is end of next week

[tashiduncandonaldson]

wip wednesday: untitled fic about art's injury & recovery through tashi's eyes

“Come on.  Let’s get cleaned up and get you back in bed.”

Art scowls. “I don’t want to go back to bed.  I’ve spent too much time in bed already.”

“Fine.  The couch.  How about that?”

Art’s lips purse as he thinks it over, and then he gives a short nod. “Fine.  Couch.”

As Tashi detangles herself from him, her eyes lingering on his sling again.  Her right hand unconsciously drifts down to her knee, and she presses her thumb over the neat slash.  The surgeon assured her Art’s scars would be minimal, hardly noticeable.  Her scar feels so thick and clunky, and no matter how many brands of scar cream she’s tested and applied in vain over the years, it’s never faded or flattened as much as she’s hoped it would.  But Art’s should be ok, and that’s what she reminds herself, even as she feels resentment pull tight like a coiled muscle in her gut.  Bitterness fills her mouth, and she forces herself to stop touching her knee, to stop thinking about what his scar will look like compared to hers.  What his recovery is going to be like compared to hers.  What his career is going to be like once he’s better.  She tears her eyes away from his shoulder, and when she lifts her gaze, she meets Art’s quiet, thoughtful stare.  She doesn’t know how long he’s been watching her, but based on the way his mouth sits at the precipice of a pout, she knows he’s seen enough.

Making the muscles of her mouth curve upward even as her heart sinks down to the floor, Tashi places her palm against his cheek. “Hey.”

“Hey.” He blinks, his face unreadable.

“I love you.”

He blinks again.  Turns his face into the heel of her hand and speaks, voice muffled by the soft skin of her shaving cream-scented palm. “I love you, too.”

[genericpuff]

gonna be a bitch on main for a sec but i always find it really funny when folks say "why does this puff person waste their time and energy and skills making spite fic, they could be making original projects instead of tying themselves down to LO"

and i'm over here like

[bloopitynoot]

me working on my fanfic outline: okay, there's definitely going to be 15 chapters me working on the chapter 14 summary: okay, so there's definitely going to be 16 chapters

[literateowl]

Today I have some hurt Carlos from a fic that I started from @paperstorm's Valentine's prompts from last year and I'm really trying to finish it this month🤞

“Okay, I think you’re allergic to bergamot since that was one of the last chocolates you tried. You're going to be okay.” TK repeats trying to reassure him.

Carlos just nods, taking a slightly wheezy breath, and TK wills the paramedics to get there faster. His fingers never leave Carlos’s pulse point on his wrist and he tracks his fiance’s breathing the whole time.

“Paramedics have arrived, sweetheart.” Grace calls over the speaker phone and TK jumps up.

“Thanks, Grace!” he calls then quickly presses his lips to Carlos’s temple with a whisper. “Gotta let them in. Keep breathing, baby.” Then he runs off to press the front door buzzer and slide open their front door, his socks skidding slightly on the concrete floor.

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Thanks for the tags today @captain-gillian @lemonlyman-dotcom @nisbanisba @carlos-in-glasses

@carlossreaders @whatsintheboxmh

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@heartstringsduet @nancys-braids @tellmegoodbye

[alsaurus-loves-dean]

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[raiiny-bay]

more outtakes

[snickerdoodlles]

Very Important Question about Vegas's Youtube era: how colorful is his cookware? Did Macau and Chay get him pink and green pineapple patterned mini-muffin trays?

Vegas's kitchen is so colorful. his kitchen looks like a cute kitchen pinterest board threw up all over it. nobody can tell if his aesthetic is retro or industrial or countryside or what, because it's this eclectic mishmash of individually cute instagram worthy things thrown together in a way that almost works but doesn't, because a proper pinterest board is always a hot fucking mess when taken in its entirety.

it first begins with items of whimsy. Macau shows Vegas a picture of a dinosaur ladle, Vegas says "what the fuck is that? father would never allow for those" and that alone manifests 12 of them in his shopping cart. feels very weird about it when they arrive and banishes the box of them to the forgotten corner of a cupboard. then Macau buys Pete his first pineapple jar. and like. it's a pineapple. that's all it is. Pete sticks it in Vegas's kitchen and Vegas is stuck staring at a ceramic pineapple that just looks like a pineapple, unable to figure out why it feels weird. Macau gets Pete a second pineapple jar, except this time it's also an owl face, and Vegas can't figure out why he wishes he was looking at that one instead of the regular pineapple one. he wants to hurl both of them at a wall so hard they leave a dent as they shatter. he wants to put them in a window where they'll be framed as the sun rises on them. he buys a spatula with a bee pattern on a whim all by himself and is so on edge about it for the next two weeks he whips welts onto (a very happy) Pete's back.

over the course of time, all of Vegas's kitchen supplies become items you'd expect to find on pinterest. bird salt and pepper shakers. cutely bland patterned jars labeled COFFEE and TEA. an industrial chic spice rack that sits under his cottagecore herb wall. highly specialized mini pans that make foods in special shapes. so many pastel pots and pans. at first Vegas is always saying stuff like "someone got that for me" or "my father would hate it." but it's not about that. later he's defiantly indifferent and daring about owning them at all. but it's not really about any of that either. it's really just...Vegas letting himself have cute things. things that would be called ~girly~ or ~ruin~ his image. there's actually several items he's just neutral about (like the soft pastel colors--not really his thing tbh! but a good pot is a good pot) or even sometimes dislikes (mini muffin trays = yay!, mini pans that only cook one(1) thing = frustration)-- but like. Vegas is allowed to have them. he's even fine to like them if he wants to. it doesn't matter that he has them. the image they paint of him doesn't matter. and that feeling of just owning cutesy, whimsical, or downright weird kitchen shit as he pleases without it being anything else is its own high for Vegas and his traumas ❤

[newtness532]

studying done for tonight, ive written like 250 words so far which is about as much as i can write without rereading what i wrote months ago and finding new sources so lets call it a successful writing session

[lexosaurus]

Back on my writing grind! First of the MUCH needed fic updates happens tomorrow! Woo!

Updating tomorrow: The Phantom Martian

Once again, I didn't mean to go on such an extended delay with updating this fic! But I'm very happy to be back to writing as normal, and I hope that you will enjoy the update!

This weekend, I will be posting the final chapter to The Fog Around Us, and after that I will be focusing on the next chapter of Everything Was White (as well as continuing to pump out TPM chapters!).

[dailybloopy]

very teeny previews of upcoming mini merch drop !! (*´▽`*)

[meownotgood]

50,000 words. 50k words of aki sex. five zero zero zero zero. aki sex.

[taylorrepdetective]

Since you like to say you’re always right, tell us what is next. You say you don’t make predictions, but you actually do, even if you don’t call them that.

Ok so I’m absolutely not always right. There have been some really big things I’ve been wrong about and a lot of small things too. And what I learned from that is to keep an open mind, and when I’m wrong about something, to figure out why I got it wrong and shift my world view in some ways to try to understand and guess better the next time. But it’s not even really about being able to guess. It’s about understanding when things happen. It is fun to be right on a guess though, when that happens.

The biggest thing I’ve learned, and luckily I learned it pretty early on in my time in this space, is that trying to figure out the timing something big will happen is absolutely a fools errand. And another thing to avoid is trying to come up with the exact, specific way Taylor (or others in her cinematic universe) will do something to get a point across. Like I can predict she will try to get a point across (set up a timeline, create a narrative, shore up a brand point) but I cannot predict exactly how or when she’ll do it. I also can predict she’ll set something up but then she never does. That’s because I think of lots of options. Some happen, some don’t. So this is the kind of thing I’m often wrong about. But I see them and always try to present them as options, not predictions. And if one of the options I think of happens, I have already spent time thinking about it, so it already makes sense to me.

I don’t know what’s next. She could drop TS11 at midnight. She could break up with Travis tomorrow, or announce her engagement next week. But I do not think any of those things is likely.

So here’s the closest thing you’ll ever get to me making a specific, timed prediction, because to me it seems quite clear:

What I do think is likely is that her jet will go to KC, ✅she’ll go to the game on Sunday✅, and her jet will then leave KC sometime between next Tuesday✅ and next Thursday. Why? Because it’s a home game, and she likes to go to home games and get the exposure and publicity that comes with that. She is working really hard at becoming an icon in KC, seem like her relationship is very serious for those who want to believe it’s serious, and she wants to shore up that relationship by spending time with him, his family, and his friends (also KC icons - the Mahomes mostly.)✅ All of this is so important to the story she’s creating. However, she won’t stay long ✅because that’s been her pattern. She also seems to be establishing that she also has her own busy, fabulous life✅ (she’s bejeweled and he lets her be✅) and when he’s busy with his football week (generally Tuesday-Sunday) he doesn’t have much time for her and she has her own life.✅This gives her the opposite option of the relationship being very serious. In other words it gives her an easy out for it to end. And Wednesday is her birthday. So she’ll either stay till Tuesday ✅and we’ll see or hear about birthday celebrations Sunday night/Monday, ✅then she’ll head out for further birthday celebrations with her other friends and family✅, or her jet will stay through her birthday, solidifying the seriousness of the relationship. But she will leave KC.✅ And then she’ll probably go to the game on Dec 17 in Boston✅. Why? Because it is a short hop from NYC, she has a huge fanbase there✅ and can expand it and shore it up, the patriots are bad so a win is likely✅, but they are a very popular team, so viewership (publicity) will be high✅. After that? Well she’s likely to spend more time in NYC✅/Nashville. Then she will probably go to the Christmas Day game in KC✅. This is a huge opportunity to “take the relationship to the next level” by spending the holidays together ✅, something the public absolutely loves to see and will further fuel the “engaged by the end of the year, after the Super Bowl at the latest” fire. Hopefully we’ll get something reputation-related for new years❌, so the extra publicity will help with that. Additionally all of this corresponds with the Eras film being released to streaming, another huge money making opportunity for her, and her attendance is an ad for the film.

After the new year, there will be some huge games with high viewership. They will be playing for playoff seeding. Then they almost assuredly will be in the playoffs✅. She will go to those games✅, which have even higher viewership, and will give her more free marketing for reputation and eras movie and anything else we don’t know about. After that, it will depend on how deep they go into the playoffs. They are no longer favored to be in the Super Bowl, but it is still a strong possibility✅. We all now know she can fly across the world after a concert to attend an event (she flew to the US during her time in SA, planned to a second time but couldn’t because of the events in Rio, and flew to London for 24 hrs for bey). The precedent has been set for her to fly from Tokyo to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl. ✅There is no bigger stage than the Super Bowl (outside of the World Cup final, if you’re thinking internationally.) The free marketing potential there is something that would be very hard for her to pass up. And if Travis isn’t playing, Jason’s team might be, and they can go together to support him. Imagine the potential of travlor in a suite together with mama and papa kelce cheering on a retiring Jason❌✅ . And even if neither of them are in the game, they could still all go together and stand in a suite as a big happy family in front of an audience of 115 million Americans. Why wouldn’t she do this?✅

Will all that happen for sure? Of course not. But you can see the logic, right? Will there be other things that happen that I haven’t thought of? Most likely.✅ I don’t actually have a crystal ball. What kinds of things could derail this? Well there’s always the possibility of the black swan, but a more likely scenario is they lose again against a team they should beat✅ and/or Travis has another bad game✅. There is a real danger of people turning on her as a distraction ✅and I think they have their fingers on the pulse of this very closely. As long as KC keeps winning, and there’s a good chance they will win the rest of their games, all will be smooth❌✅.

Also I am not even thinking beyond February. I have one interesting thought about it, but it’s just too speculative to even mention here. But as we move through the next two months, I’ll get clues to be able to guess at what will happen after she goes back on tour after the Super Bowl✅. And if I’m wrong about all of this, which I may very well be because she is notoriously unpredictable sometimes, I will simply take it as a learning opportunity to understand her better.✅

[thelastspeecher]

aaaaaaaa we're finally gonna be sleeping in our house starting on Sunday!!!!

[melk-maid]

in other news finished my shigaraki fic, wrote outline/notes for a megumi fic AND outline/notes for a utahime/shoko/reader fic :)

[seiwas]

wishing everyone a happy end to the week!! 💗

[butchlifeguard]

my family is probably going to start tracking everyone's weight.. hope my brother goes overseas for college lmao