#darecy

[shu-of-the-wind]

IF THERE'S A CODEPENDENT BATTLE COUPLE IN THE ROOM ALIX IS GONNA FIND THEM AND THEIR FOLLOWERS ARE GONNA SUFFER

[yuutin]

[laireshi]

licanius timeline?

i’m trying to make sense of licanius timeline re: andrael and licanius the sword and aarkein devaed.

so some ~~2900 years before the main timeline of the books, tal’kamar is ordered to destroy dareci. he’s told he can change his name to do it. so he becomes aarkein devaed and commits genocide. and when meldier sees him just after the deed, he doesn’t know of ‘aarkein devaed’ yet.

the venerate fall apart after that. andrael leaves. some 300 years later he meets tal’kamar during the destruction of Silence and calls him ‘kein (a fact which i’m not normal about), which is an established nickname. how. when. did tal randomly tell everyone he was changing his name while (secretly) working on the columns and doing some other stuff in the meantime?

andrael shows him licanius. they haven’t seen each other for 300 years preciously; tal hasn’t known anything about andrael’s experiments with blades. (i am also not normal about andrael killing tysis and yet just telling tal about the sword?? like. it was tal’s actions that made him even forge it in the first place.)

yet at some point caeden remembers andrael showing him Whisper as the prototype for licanius? i mean i guess that could’ve happened later as a ‘hey here look what ELSE i’ve forged while trying to destroy myself and also all of us’. also that one vessel-weapon the venerate ran into when they’d all been happy together, that came before aarkein devaed and before they made the kan signatures. so was it unrelated? it’s said the venerate were already coming apart when aarkein devaed happened to finish tearing them apart, but... idk.

(also how did andrael die. at this point my headcanon is that he killed himself, between meldier’s comments and andrael’s law being a thing and licanius staying with the lyth??)

[extasiswings]

i really love your darcy/matt & foggy law fics !!! your writing is so good i can't imagine they didn't go to columbia together now

A) Thank you SO much! B) Ahhhhhhh I read it and oh my goodness, that would be perfect for them (and of course when Darcy finally finds out she would be so mad because he’s lied to her about the vigilante stuff AND has clearly almost died on a semi-regular basis) but C) I’m not actually writing them right now for a variety of reasons and I’m not sure when/if I’ll go back to them. But thank you again. Those fics do have a special place in my heart and I’m proud of them even if they probably aren’t my best work. And it’s always nice to hear that other people have read them and enjoyed them.

[amusewithaview]

The Dragon of Hell’s Kitchen

IN WHICH @shu-of-the-wind AND I ARE MUTUALLY TERRIBLE AND ENJOY TORTURING MATT MURDOCK MORE THAN IS SAFE, SANE, OR REMOTELY HEALTHY.  Or, when two authors of our particular bent get together, Matt Murdock S U F F E R S.

amusewithaview

OMG YES

i think we've surpassed Dom!Matt and gotten into territorial Dragon!Matt who is hoarding both hell's kitchen and his significant other

shu-of-the-wind

HE /KNOWS/ AND AS SOON AS HE GETS HIS SUB ALONE HE JUST

HANDS EVERYWHERE

AND "WHO DO YOU BELONG TO"

yeah basically he's a dragon xD

This Is My Person Do Not Touch

amusewithaview

YES BASICALLY

matt would be like hi yes these are my people, do not touch and that is MINE, DO NOT TOUCH

shu-of-the-wind

DO! NOT! TOUCH!

DO YOU NOT SEE THE HICKEYS

amusewithaview

like there are a bunch of "MINE"s but there are levels of how fucked up you'll be if you stray over that line

shu-of-the-wind

YUUUUUUUUUUUUP

(consider now: weredragon Matt Murdock

Matt who is half dragon and can't shift and now all his instincts are driven right into This Is My City You Don't Touch)

amusewithaview

I AM CONSIDERING

the dragon of hell's kitchen, half myth and all monster

shu-of-the-wind

(....Matt who maybe has gleaming red scales up his spine from the small of his back to the middle and over one of his shoulders)

amusewithaview

do not go out after dark if you've got mischief on your mind

shu-of-the-wind

He can smell it and he'll scorch it right out of you

amusewithaview

i am grinning the evilest of grins right now

shu-of-the-wind

I'm glad

(also: the horns are real

He shifts when he goes out at night and those horns are /real/)

amusewithaview

i slightly want a crossover with my dragon!darcy fic where they meet and greet and it's very amiable because no overlapping in hoards yes, good

shu-of-the-wind

!!!!!!!!!! Yes omg xD

No overlapping in hoards, all is well

shu-of-the-wind

We will get along fantastically so long as you don't touch my hoard

amusewithaview

OH MAN, YOU KNOW WHO WOULD BE THE BONE OF CONTENTION BETWEEN THEM???

JENNIFER WALTERS

shu-of-the-wind

ABSOLUTELY

Darcy: ....mine.

amusewithaview

because she is bruce's cousin and, while not a scientist, very smart and also hulkified

BUUUUUUUT

shu-of-the-wind

Matt: I FOUND HER /FIRST/

amusewithaview

she's a lawyer and hangs in the kitchen

YES

shu-of-the-wind

Jenn: OH MY GOD BOTH OF YOU /FUCK OFF/ (jk she loves them but being a tug of war toy between two dragons is not fun)

amusewithaview

jen has to deal with two dragons snapping and snarling over her and also OBSESSIVELY TRYING TO CARE FOR HER WHEN SHE GOES ON RESEARCH BINGES HELP BRUCE STOP LAUGHING AT ME

shu-of-the-wind

Skdjdjfhsjbfjed

amusewithaview

bruce: *sips tea darcy has flown in for him from india*

shu-of-the-wind

Matt who will come in to her office with food and /glare/ in his way until she eats it

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tony: shhhhh, just let it happen

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Darcy who turns up without warning and books of English common law she had flown in from Dover

amusewithaview

darcy makes care packages with tea and coffee other assorted nonsense and then makes the saddest most manipulative puppy eyes if they go unused and somehow she always KNOWS

shu-of-the-wind

YUUUUUUUUUUUUP

amusewithaview

matt HATES darcy's little sisters because they like taunting him and they visit REGULARLY

shu-of-the-wind

SNORTS

(she might have set them on him deliberately)

("Darcy says stop stealing from her hoard."

"Stop setting my paperwork on fire.

amusewithaview

darcy totally wouldn't do that, honest, she just pointed out that there was another dragon in the city and that it would be proper to pay respects oh and have you guys met foggy?  YOU SHOULD MEET FOGGY

shu-of-the-wind

SNORTS

BLESS

Foggy who was the first member of Matt's hoard after Jack Murdock died and so he's just like

So used to being fuss over /constantly/

(Matt's hoard is in broad terms Hell's Kitchen but he takes special care of the people closest to him)

amusewithaview

foggy does not realize that darcy's sisters and/or mother are not eyeing him up as potential hoard but as potential MATE

shu-of-the-wind

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Matt /does/ and he doesn't have a clue how to feel about it

amusewithaview

on the one hand MINE and on the other hand he is... oddly proud of foggy?  and also having foggy spawn around for the rest of forever sounds delightful?

MATT IS SO CONFLICTED

WHAT IS HIS LIFE

shu-of-the-wind

....goddamn now I want to do a dragon!Matt au with regular human Darcy whoops

amusewithaview

why do you want regular human darcy (not that i am objecting)

shu-of-the-wind

I'm not good enough at smut to do the BDSM au xD

Mostly to differentiate from your dragon Darcy au xD I think

amusewithaview

I BEG TO DIFFER THANKS

shu-of-the-wind

Although witch!Darcy with dragon!Matt could be super interesting

amusewithaview

YOU DO SOME OF THE BEST SLOW-BURN AND UST IN THE BUSINESS

shu-of-the-wind

sksjdjsjhdjsjdbejd

JEJDJSNFBJSBFJENDNJABFJSJD

LIES

amusewithaview

witch!darcy who totally thinks dragon!matt is warning her away from his territory and doesn't realize he's trying to hoard her until he's neck-deep in her life and she tries to run but WHOOPS, TOO LATE, YOU DONE BEEN BAGGED AND TAGGED GIRL

I ONLY SPEAK THE TRUTH

shu-of-the-wind

Re the dragon thing YUP HE LIIE

HE SMELLS HER WITCHINESS FROM ACROSS THE DAMN CITY AND WHEN SHE SHOWS UP IN THE KITCHEN ONE NIGHT ALL HIS INSTINCTS /SCREECH/

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AND HE JUST STARTS GIVING HER THINGS AND TURNING UP OUT OF NOWHERE AND BEING AWKWARD AND GLOOMY AND HIGHLY DEFENSIVE OF HER FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN TO IRRITATE HER

(or so she thinks)

amusewithaview

witch!darcy slowly acclimating to being part of a dragon's hoard and grumbling all the while, ignoring foggy's shit-eating grin because she's not sure of the source, finally granting that she is being hoarded and bitching about it and foggy spills the: actually he's COURTING you beans and she flips out all over again

shu-of-the-wind

And then WHOOPS

SNORTS

YEAH BASICALLY

amusewithaview

YES PLEASE I LOVE THIS MAKE IT A THING PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE WITH A CHERRY ON TOP I WILL WRITE YOU A RECIPROCAL THING PLEASE

shu-of-the-wind

!!!!!!!!!! DEF CAN DO

I have class at two tomorrow but I can write before that xD

amusewithaview

LOL - no deadline, i am working on a thing i owe emma/waffles now because she wrote me a porn and then requested a pregnancy fic but i gotta rewatch FF: rise of the silver surfer first

shu-of-the-wind

Witch!Darcy who might be able to cast any spell she wants in the technomagical realm but getting a dragon off her back is fucking iMPOSSIBLE

(The first time she does healing magic on him and sees all those scales up his back and all the scars like she realizes she doesn't /want/ him to leave her be, now)

amusewithaview

*snort* and then getting a dragon off her back is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE once he gets a ~taste of her in a physical and not magical way

shu-of-the-wind

Y U P

(dragons bite during mating)

amusewithaview

OF COURSE THEY DO

shu-of-the-wind

Darcy starts getting /very/ proud of the bite marks on her shoulders

amusewithaview

darcy has three or four patches of red scales she has to keep hidden because sometimes when matt bites WITH INTENT it leaves actual permanent marks

shu-of-the-wind

Y u p

amusewithaview

:D

shu-of-the-wind

(the first time /she/ bites /him/ he loses his goddamn mind)

amusewithaview

i just want all of the grumbly matt and reluctant/oblivious darcy while foggy knows EXACTLY what's going on

shu-of-the-wind

Foggy teases the living shit out of Matt when Darcy's not there

amusewithaview

darcy all: I DO NOT NEED A DRAGON IN MY LIFE THANKS BYE

matt: YOU DO AND HIS NAME IS M-A-T-T

shu-of-the-wind

"I don't get why dragons don't just /say/ something instead of all this fussing."

Matt: /growls

amusewithaview

matt: i give you permission to stay in hell's kitchen (dragon translation: if you move into my territory you're MINE)

shu-of-the-wind

YUP

Y U P

consider: Darcy moves out of the tower because she keeps fucking up Tony's equipment by casting spells with it and the first night in her new apartment in Hell's Kitchen the Dragon shows up and just kinda

shu-of-the-wind

Glowers at her for a bit

amusewithaview

foggy: is gleeful but also slightly concerned re darcy because he knows matt's proclivities (that thing with the necromancer's daughter in college was super trippy)

shu-of-the-wind

(Matt's brain, shrieking: MINE! MINE!! MINE!!!!! NOW MINE IN MY HOARD MINE I DON'T CARE IF SHE'S A WITCH AND THUS DANGEROUS M I N E)

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foggy: meets this grumbly witch with colorful knit hats and scarves and suddenly understands why matt is coming home with TONS of skeins of colored yarn

shu-of-the-wind

sjdjrjdjrjd

He leaves it on her fire escape every day until it rains and then he starts leaving it at her doorstep and Darcy just /sighs/

amusewithaview

foggy: sidles up to matt, "those don't even match"

matt: *twitches violently*

shu-of-the-wind

Because does he /have/ to do this with such /nice/ yarn

(Matt who buys yarn purely on feel because it's his dream to have something made by his witch and he couldn't stand it if it were scratchy)

amusewithaview

darcy: dude, stop leaving passive aggressive commentary on my sartorial choices

matt: you mean?  presents? 

darcy: what?

matt: *silently glowers and slinks away without explaining*

foggy: *dies laughing*

shu-of-the-wind

(also, he has a vague idea that softer is better quality)

S N O R T S

Matt is huffy for like a week

Because they were /presents/ goddammit

amusewithaview

matt finally finds a present that darcy WILL accept and spends like a week preening and joyful and then darcy shows up and wards his office to hell and back while he's out (this is where she meets foggy) because she has some harebrained idea that the present confers a DEBT and she knows better than to be indebted to a DRAGON

shu-of-the-wind

Matt who turns up one day with this really gorgeous set of knitting needles and leaves them on her desk and she's just

Is this an apology or????

/wards everywhere

amusewithaview

only it turns out that now she's just surrounded matt's workspace with the scent and taste of her magic so he's literally inundated ALL THE TIME with how talented and awesome she is and HE CANNOT STAND IT

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Matt who has to /walk through her wards/ on his way in and out of the building every day and his knees give out every time

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Matt just /whines/ and Foggy is like

Just write her a love letter or something you psychotic lizard

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(Karen thinks all of this is fucking hilarious)

SJFJDJJFJED DARCY REALIZING KAREN HAS MAGIC AND WINDS UP TAKING HER AS AN APPRENTICE AND MATT'S JUST LIKE

HE'S SO PROUD WHEN KAREN MANAGES TO CAST SPELLS BUT ALSO NO YOU'RE MESSING UP DARCY'S WARDS

NOOOOOO

amusewithaview

matt shows up at her place and just stares at her with intent until she opens her window:  WHAT DO YOU WANT 

matt: *literally just breathing her in*

darcy: *hello, anyone home???*

matt: thank you for the warding, it's giving karen a headache though

darcy:  ???? i need to check on soemthing

darcy: so karen is a budding witch and also she's now my apprentice bye

matt: WHAT.  W H A T. NO

shu-of-the-wind

(Matt winds up being a cunning lil lizard and showing up at her bedroom window every night to "check on Karen's progress"

amusewithaview

karen's first project is putting wards on the office and she layers them with darcy's which is totes cool because since darcy is stealing matt's secretary she OWES him again so she goes and WARDS HIS APARTMENT BUILDING

shu-of-the-wind

Really just to get himself covered in her smells and her magic)

amusewithaview

MATT IS UNDONE

shu-of-the-wind

HE IS THE BIGGESY MESS

The only time he's a bigger mess is when Darcy takes it upon herself to make a protection charm for him

Laid into a cross made out of sterling silver and /drenched/ in her smells

And he's just like

HER MAGIC IS ALL OVER ME ALL THE TIME

amusewithaview

darcy does not realize that she is now part of matt's hoard until some big climactic event hits the city and he FINDS HER and takes her someplace SAFE with foggy and karen and a few others and darcy looks around and puts two and two together and goes NOPE, GOTTA GO VISIT MY GRANDMA OUT OF STATE FOR A WHILE

matt is like a cat wearing a catnip collar

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Y u p

He keeps /playing/ with it

amusewithaview

foggy: "you're gonna go blind...er"

karen: *snorts*

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(Darcy's grandma is just like. Mi amor, you have a dragon willing to do /anything/ for you. Get on that boy.)

amusewithaview

darcy's grandma: honey, you got yourself into this mess, might as well make the best of it.

shu-of-the-wind

Yuuuuuuuuuuuup

amusewithaview

darcy is still in violent denial of matt's fuzzier feelings and only JUST THEN accepts that she is in a hoard and maybe friends with a dragon

the difference between darcy who thinks she is grudgingly allowed in the dragon's space and darcy who realizes she is hoarded and FRIENDS with the dragon is lots of magic.  and hugs. and matt S U F F E R S

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(Matt who /freaks out/ when she comes back into the borders of the Kitchen and basically flies to crash into her and drown in her smells because YOU CAME BACK YOU CAME BACK YOU CAME BAAAAAACK)

shu-of-the-wind

He might possibly bury his face in her hair and breathe as deep as he can each time

amusewithaview

darcy: oh my god are you like this every time somebody leaves and enters your territory?

 matt: no

foggy: YES

karen: *looks at foggy skeptically*

foggy: college was... weird.

shu-of-the-wind

(there was an incident after Foggy went on study abroad that they prefer not to discuss)

amusewithaview

YES

foggy escaped their dorm room eventually, but he was wearing matt's clothes and ONLY matt's clothes for like a week.  MATT IS MUCH SMALLER THAN HIM AND IT WAS AWKWARD

shu-of-the-wind

Sidifueud and Darcy gets used to the idea of being friends and then like. Possibly Kitty Pryde (ironically, a dragon were herself) shows up and is like

Girl that boy has been wooing you for months

Do you have any idea

You're driving him /nuts/

amusewithaview

He has basically done the dragon equivalent of lighting fireworks in the shape of MARRY ME and simultaneously peeing around her in a circle and also literally carving out his heart and presenting it to her

like, he gave her SCALES to use in her spells

HIS SCALES

darcy: ...but i used the scales on wards FOR HIM

shu-of-the-wind

Kitty is /astounded/ when she hears that because oh my /god/ do you have any idea how we /feel/ about our scales

They're chips of our /souls/ basically

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kitty: *sees the wards and HOWLS with laughter because, seriously, that poor boy*

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Darcy: ....but... Matt...no...that's...I'm in his hoard, I'm not... you're--

Kitty: honey that boy would actually throw himself into ice for you and that could kill him

amusewithaview

kitty: next time you see him i want you to put both your hands on his cheeks and hold him and then see what he does

amusewithaview

darcy: whyyyyyyy?

darcy: wait do you think he's gonna... kiss me or something?

shu-of-the-wind

Christ Matt would just fuckin drop into the floor his knees go out so fast

amusewithaview

kitty: i think he's gonna go catatonic

kitty: and it will be HILARIOUS

kitty: i'm gonna take pictures

shu-of-the-wind

Sjdjdjsjdhsjdj Darcy doesn't work up the nerve for the whole day and then she just kinda does it in a joke way but Matt is like

amusewithaview

darcy: *firmly* you're wrong, and i'm gonna prove it

shu-of-the-wind

Suddenly and completely high on life holy shit this is the /best best thing/

amusewithaview

matt just... is completely still but also vibrating so hard darcy's arms shake

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like he's going to burst out of his skin but also he is incandescently HAPPY

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And his eyes are /huge/ and he's just

There's this really slow smile that turns into something huge and brighter than she's ever seen on him

And then /whoops/ her heart's gonna burst

amusewithaview

I KIND OF WANT MORE DARCY DENIAL BECAUSE A RELATIONSHIP WITH A DRAGON IS *FOREVER* AND ALSO HE NEEDS TO DO MORE WOOING NOW THAT SHE REALIZES THAT'S WHAT HE'S DOING, LIKE - DOES HE WANT KIDS?  HOW BIG IS HIS HOARD?  HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN HIS HOARD?

what does it mean for HER and her MAGIC if she mates to a dragon?

shu-of-the-wind

Y U P

amusewithaview

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS, MATT

shu-of-the-wind

Darcy like

Tears her hands away and /bolts/

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Because SHIT IF KITTY IS RIGHT THEN

UM

U M M

amusewithaview

matt is literally too stunned to chase her

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Foggy: ... what'd you do now?

amusewithaview

like he just kind of stands there and SWAYS for a minute

shu-of-the-wind

Matt: ???!???!?!!?!?

Matt who essentially has just had Darcy say "yeah you can court me if you figure your shit out" with her hands and then she panicked and ran away

He's overloaded

amusewithaview

kitty hunts darcy down: you're going to have to talk to him

darcy: i know, that's the mature thing to do -

kitty: well, yeah, that too, but i meant that he's going to hunt you down sooner rather than later and you're gonna wanna be prepared

shu-of-the-wind

Aidjdiej Matt who like

amusewithaview

darcy: hunt... me down?

kitty: if this was a couple centuries ago you would have been stuck in the back of a cave or castle until you didn't smell like anything BUT HIM and then MAYBE you'd get outings sometimes if the wind was right but luckily dragons have grown as a species

shu-of-the-wind

He holds off until Kitty leaves Darcy alone because she's in /his hoard/ but Kitty is also better at breathing fire than him

amusewithaview

darcy: ???!!!!?!!

shu-of-the-wind

Darcy: I will set his tail on fire if he tries that with me.

Kitty: You already have him mostly trained it's fine

amusewithaview

kitty:  oh honey that's encouragement.  use ice if you need to get the point across

shu-of-the-wind

HEJFHHEJDD OKAY BUT

amusewithaview

I HAVE THIS MENTAL IMAGE OF DARCY HURLING ICE CHIPS FROM A CUP AT MATT WHENEVER HE DOES SOMETHING SUPER DUMB

LIKE, JUST, HANDFULS OF ICE

shu-of-the-wind

AFTER THEY GET THEIR SHIT TOGETHER DARCY WILL JUST FORM ICE IN HIS CLOTH WHEN HE'S BEING AN ASSHOLE

AND YUP

Y U P

HANDFULS OF ICE AND SNOW

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and matt is just PAINED like "darcy this melts and gets wet everywhere"

darcy: THEN STOP BEING A DUMBASS

shu-of-the-wind

"STOP BEING A DIPSHIT"

amusewithaview

darcy: I WILL FREEZE EVERYTHING YOU LOVE INCLUDING MYSELF

shu-of-the-wind

Skdjjejdjejdj

amusewithaview

darcy: *encompasses her whole body in a two inch layer of frigid air

shu-of-the-wind

Winter is the worst and best season

shu-of-the-wind

Darcy comes in with snow in her hair

And Matt's just like

amusewithaview

but she also wears lots of knitwear

shu-of-the-wind

I MUST P MY HANDS EVERYWHERE RIGHT FUCKING NOW

*PUT

Darcy, bemused: I have heating spells, you know

Matt: I AM GOING TO BREATHE ON YOU ANYWAY

amusewithaview

matt: *high on darcy smell and darcy feel*  LET ME WARM YOU UP MY WAY

shu-of-the-wind

I'm still just

The first time Darcy bites him Matt loses his fucking mind

amusewithaview

:D

shu-of-the-wind

Like

amusewithaview

it's worse than that time darcy used one of his leftover scales to make herself a protection amulet

shu-of-the-wind

He loses his /fucking mind/ and won't stop making little growly chirpy noises and nipping at her and hands /everywhere/ and Darcy's like

Holy shit that's a thing for you, huh

amusewithaview

matt: *literally beyond speech*

shu-of-the-wind

He can't talk for /hours/

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darcy: *adds play-biting to her repertoire of 'how to drive matt absolutely nuts'*

shu-of-the-wind

It's only after when Darcy kinda rests her fingers to the mark she left like "sorry I bruised you" and Matt is like

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darcy: proceeds to gently nip his fingers in public WHENEVER the opportunity arises

shu-of-the-wind

"You should never ever ever apologize for that"

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matt: both hates and LOVES this

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"Please bite me all the time"

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matt: MORE BRUISES PLZTHX

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MATT IS SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE HE WANTS TO DRAG HER INTO HIM AND NIBBLE AT HER BUT HE /CAN'T/

IT'S NOT HUMAN AND HE HAS TO PRETEND HE'S HUMAN BUT HOLY /CHRIST/

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and darcy just GRINS at him and she is SHOWING HER TEETH and he CAN'T DO ANYTHING

shu-of-the-wind

I'm gonna have to write this in the morning goddamn

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and if she's feeling EXTRA mean, she'll kinda tap at him with her magic too and matt is just: total shutdown, cannot function, has to be guided like he's ACTUALLY FUNCTIONALLY BLIND AND DEAF AND MUTE TO THE WORLD

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Y U P

amusewithaview

I LOVE ALL OF THIS

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She gets frisky on snow days especially and will tap at him with her magic to kinda give him an excuse to cling to her as close as possible

amusewithaview

BUT ALSO I NEED TO GO TO WORK IN THE MORNING SO I NEED TO GO TO SLEEP NOW

shu-of-the-wind

Okay I have to go to bed but please consider:

Darcy: I get to keep my job. And do what I want. I'm not gonna be in the apartment all day.

Matt: *buzzing out of his own skin* Obviously.

amusewithaview

i honestly feel like we should share this entire convo with the world because it's hilarious

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Darcy: You can't growl when people talk to me.

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Matt: sounds fake but okay.

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Matt, through his teeth: Fine.

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Darcy: And you can't bite my neck in public. Or my ears. Or anything really.

Matt: KEJDJEJFHEJDJJWD

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Darcy: You also can't growl when people touch me INNOCENTLY.

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Matt, darkly: No touch is innocent.

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Darcy: YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, DO NOT LAWYER ME HERE.

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Matt: I DON'T LIKE OTHER SMELLS ON YOU.

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Darcy: THEN HELP ME SHOWER THEM OFF.

Matt: ....this is an acceptable compromise.

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Darcy: THEN WHEN I GET HOME AT NIGHT YOU CAN SHOWER WITH ME OR SOMETHING IDK

Matt: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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/snorts

Darcy: ....you don't want me to stop doing magic or anything right because--

Matt: DO ALL THE MAGIC PLEASE OH MY LORD

amusewithaview

Matt: NEVER STOP YOUR MAGIC EVER

Matt: YOU SHOULD MAGIC ALL OF YOUR CLOTHES

Matt: AND MY CLOTHES

shu-of-the-wind

ALL OF THEM

AND THE BLANKETS

AND THE WALLS

AND EVERYTHING

shu-of-the-wind

MAGIC THE FRIDGE

amusewithaview

Matt: AND MAYBE COME REFRESH THE WARDS IN MY OFFICE ONCE A WEEK JUST IN CASE

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I DON'T CARE

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Matt: OR DAILY, DAILY IS FINE

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Darcy: ....but Karen.

Matt: DAILY.

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Matt: SHE NEEDS THE PRACTICE

Matt: YOU'RE ONLY HELPING HER

omg i need to SLEEP NOW

IT IS MIDNIGHT

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Darcy: ....or I could just. Ward you in the morning

amusewithaview

Matt: EVERY DAY?

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I'm sORRY I JUST LOVE THIS SO MUCH

amusewithaview

Darcy: ...sure?

Matt: SOLD.

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Darcy: It takes like ten minutes

Matt: /swoons

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Matt: SHOULD YOU REFRESH IT AT LUNCH TOO?

Darcy:...no.

Matt: *pouts*

shu-of-the-wind

I can't stop laughing oh my god

BDSM turned into dragoncrack I love it

amusewithaview

other dragons cannot decide whether to laugh at him or be jealous of him

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(jealous. Definitely jealous.)

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and darcy has to meet all of the local dragons so matt can show her off and also so he can say HANDS OFF

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SNORTS

Frank Castle, sadly: ....I could use a witch.

Years later: Karen is a fully fledged witch and fond of his dumb ass for some reason.

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darcy: HAAAAAAVE YOU MET KAREN?

karen is like: this is my dragon.  he is an idiot.  and he bruises easy.  i love him.

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frank: *is always holding karen's flower no matter where they go*

frank: *literally has a necklace of flowers that karen made for him as a joke once, and then it turned into an actual protection ward and now he WON'T TAKE IT OFF EVER*

shu-of-the-wind

FRANK LOVES HIS FLOWER NECKLACE

SO MUCH

amusewithaview

it is made of daisies and carnations

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THE TERRIFYING PUNISHER WITH DAISIES AND CARNATIONS AT HIS THROAT

NOBODY DARES COMMENT

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when he has to go into REALLY dangerous situations, karen breaks out the crown

shu-of-the-wind

/clears throat

KEKFJEIFJISJFJS

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Oh My good

(go to beeeeeeeeeed)

amusewithaview

I KNOW

shu-of-the-wind

The flower crown is all daisies and thistles xD

amusewithaview

BUT THIS IS HILARIOUS AND NOW I AM PUNCHDRUNK AND I JUST

DRAGON MATT

WITCH DARCY

I WANT TO SEE HIM SUFFER

like you should literally name this fic "i burn, i pine, i perish"

shu-of-the-wind

I WILL DO THE THING AND SEND YOU SNIPPETS

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O H M Y G O D

amusewithaview

and it should just be like 10,000 words of darcy making matt suffer

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SOLD

I AM SO DOWN

I WILL DO THE THING

amusewithaview

darcy makes matt suffer and foggy is LIVING

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Foggy is overjoyed

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like he is making popcorn for the entire supernaturally aware portion of hell's kitchen

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Foggy, the first time Matt comes back from failing hard at giving Darcy presents: ....new pick not working out?

Matt: Shut up.

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Foggy: ooooooo, feisty

Matt: /growls

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Foggy: What DO you get for the witch who has everything... and wants nothing to do with you?

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Foggy: You don't scare me, gecko boy

Matt: I'M NOT LISTENING

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Foggy: She's on Stark's payroll, pretty sure she could buy and sell us several times over.

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Matt: N O T L I S T E N I N G

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Foggy: Well maybe you should START listening AND using your WORDS.

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Matt slams the door and Foggy is just like

I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME

shu-of-the-wind

USE YOUR WORDS, NOT YOUR NOSE

amusewithaview

Thor, meanwhile, is watching all of this from Stark Tower and COMPLETELY APPROVES of Darcy's new valiant protector.

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Thor shows up one day and is like

I HAVE SLAIN MANY MIGHTY DRAGONS BUT NONE HAVE HAD SO FINE A TASTE AS YOU

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Foggy: Does she smell as suspicious of your intentions as she looks? Because wow.  She thinks you're sketch as fuck, man.

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I AM CONTENT LEAVING MY LIGHTNING SISTER IN YOUR CARE

Foggy is /losing his shit/

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Matt:...*is slightly relieved he doesn't HAVE to fight for Darcy BUT HE WOULD DO IT IN A HEARTBEAT*

shu-of-the-wind

HE WOULD FIGHT AND WIN

DEMIGOD OR NO

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FOR HER

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Darcy, at a distance: STOP MEASURING YOUR DICKS JESUS

Kitty: Honey, no, it's a dragon thing

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Foggy actually receives knitwear from Darcy before Matt does and he actually feels kind of bad about it but Matt just tells him to wear it because it's soft and perfect and ONE of them should get to wear something from her...

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Oh my god Matthew you dramatic child

amusewithaview

Foggy: .... are you... getting high off of my new scarf?

Matt: NO.

Foggy: I'm going to put this in the closet.

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Darcy like

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Foggy wraps the scarf around Matt's stuff because he is a Good Bro and then takes his stuff before Matt so Matt has plausible deniability.

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Eventually starts giving Matt knitwear

And Matt doesn't wear it

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Because he's /hoarding it/

amusewithaview

WHYYYYYYY

OMG YESSSSSSS

it is his pillow

and darcy thinks he doesn't like the pattern or something so she KEEPS TRYING and matt is just like YESSSSSS GIVE ME ALL OF YOUR KNITWEAR

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Matt: IT'S IN MY CLOSET

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Foggy: I'VE SEEN YOUR CLOSET, IT IS NOT IN YOUR CLOSET, YOUR CLOSET IS FULL OF LIES AND SO ARE YOU.

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Darcy eventually confronts him like

Dude if you don't want it I'll stop giving you knitwear

Matt, panicking, shows up the next day wearing gloves and a scarf and a hat

amusewithaview

none of them match even REMOTELY

all of them are weirdly worn out

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(and socks)

amusewithaview

ALSO, I want Matt to be slightly inexpressive in human form because stuff doesn't translate well but he's actually the MOST EMOTIVE DRAGON EVER like other dragons are like Dude, Chill, CONTAIN YOURSELF MATTHEW YOU ARE MAKING US LOOK BAD

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Darcy: ....wut

Matt: MOAR

HE'S THE CUDDLIEST DRAGON

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He like

He's the most expressive lil bean of a red dragon

He wiggles and his tail flicks around and he flares his wings and he has all these cues

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And in human form he's this walking stump

With no ability to express himself

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in dragon form he has an entire MANE of semi-flexible horns that retract and lay flat and puff up and do all sorts of things

and in human form he has fluffy hair

it doesn't translate well

shu-of-the-wind

It really doesn't

Oh my god just

With that in mind

Matt racing to Darcy when she crosses back into his territory

But he's flying and running because dragon form is faster

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And whoops there's a massive horse sized red dragon aiming right for her should she run

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IF SHE RUNS THEN HE HAS TO CHASE HER AND NEITHER OF THEM ARE READY FOR THAT OH SHIT

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Darcy: YOU ARE NOT CRASHING INTO ME WITH CLAWS DUDE

CHASING GAMES OH GOD

MATT LOVES CHASE GAMES

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I HAVE TO GO TO BED

I CANNOT

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IT'S HIS MAIN FLIRTATION MECHANISM THAT ACTUALLY TRANSLATES

amusewithaview

I HAVE WORK AT 8:30AM

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I mean me too xD

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Guh

GO

GO SLEEP

GO

GO

amusewithaview

GOOD NIGHT SHUU

shu-of-the-wind

GO

GO

GO

Gnight :3

amusewithaview

THIS HAS BEEN AWESOME FUN AND GOOD NIGHT!

shu-of-the-wind

I'll send you snippets

amusewithaview

YAAAAAAAS

OKAY GOOD NIGHT

shu-of-the-wind

SLEEP WELL

Today at 4:39 PM

amusewithaview

Honestly want to publish this conversation of dragons on tumblr

May I, please?

shu-of-the-wind

Of course of course

:3

amusewithaview

YAAAAAAAS WILL DO WHEN HOME

[anika-ann]

Question of the Day: What have you learned from writing? About writing, yourself, the world, etc.

Hi again 💕

This is a great question and I'll try my best not to babble too much 😅

I write self-indulgently, I'm totally the kind of a writer (darecI call myself that) whose writing says a lot about them. I tend to idealize people and relationships in my fics and I describe a lot about feelings I think - showing how much a clear channel of communication I often miss in real life.

Well that's heavy.

I also found out that there are people who do enjoy my writing (even if there aren't exactly hundreds of them) and it brings me such joy to share and daydream along with them 🥺🥰

And lastly. There are so many people in the world trying to find their voice and what I love about writing is that it can be exactly what we need - either to have some of the world listen to(read) it or to use it as a stepping stone.

And I rambled. Darn it.

Thank you for reaching out 💕💗

[broadwanime]

It’s time for a sit down. A very specific sort of sit down. One with a couple of mugs of tea, perhaps a cookie or two, and a lot of ranting about how great @shu-of-the-wind is. No, I shan’t put this in a read more bECAUSE I HAVE TO TELL YOU SHE’S GREAT.

I’m calm. I promise. I’m calm. 

I’ve had the pleasure to get to know her as a person and call her my twin (in spirit because age differences and distance BUT WE ARE TWINS), but you – well. You should know her because of her amazing writing.

shu is one of those writers whose work feels effortless. You and I both know there are hours spent behind a laptop screen researching and begging characters to just cooperate already, but that’s not how her work feels. The stories just roll of the page. The characters all feel real and full and the world stretches out around you. There are WORLDS in her stories.

She’s incredibly inventive and clever, and has made me feel things. If you know me, then you know I’m a heartless wench BUT my twin makes me keyboard smash in ways I only used to do for Inuyasha spoilers. Her latest work on tumblr – the beautiful rebelcaptain Rogue One Foster Care AU – is an absolute treasure trove of feelings. Just take this wonderful excerpt from the third part:

“You are more than capable of listening and grading at once.” He takes another fry. “There was an incident with a parent yesterday morning. Apparently a boy in Lumiya’s homeroom accused one of the foster children of theft.”

Cassian nearly puts his pen through the paper. “Don’t call them that, Kei.”

Just – the perfect nonchalance of Kei’s character? And how she doesn’t tell us how Cassian feels, just shows us his reaction – it’s making YOU feel what he feels, right??

Her dialogue has also always been a masterpiece to me. Take this example from the third part of the Rogue One Foster Care AU:

“You saw Finn break open your locker and steal your laptop and you didn’t tell a teacher?” Cassian cocks his head. “Seems counter-intuitive to me.”

Mrs. Hux bristles. Color flushes up her throat, like she’s being filled with boiling water. “I don’t like what you’re implying, whoever you are—”

“Mr. Andor is one of our history teachers,” says Mothma. Jyn could swear the woman is preening, just a little.

The dialogue effortlessly ping-pongs from character to character – and with feeling. Somehow without the use of adverbs, you can hear how each character would say their lines. My twin is the ultimate at saying a lot with very little.

So you’re intrigued, right? At least a little impressed? You should be. I provided tea and cookies, after all. Then you should definitely check out the pantheon of the amazing shuofthewind’s work. Here are some of my favorites:

floating, sinking – Star Wars, Rogue One. Rebelcaptain. I feel this tag describes it best: “Yes It Is A Fix-It Where They All Live Calm Down.” Only you can’t calm down because of feelings.

Season Tickets – MCU, X-Files. Implied Eventual Darecy. So, I know that she has written the quintessential Matt/Darcy fic (which I’ll get to in a hot potato), but this – this story holds an eternal special place in my heart. I love the pacing in this story, and the characterization, and absolutely everything. Read it. Cry with me. I have tissues and pages of meta on Darcy as Mulder.

The Price of War – MCU. Darecy. The quintessential Matt/Darcy story. The quintessential everything that is great about my twin boiled down to a whopping near 300,000 words. I’m not sure what to say about this story that has not already been said. It’s brilliant, it’s heartbreaking, it breaks the Bechdel test a million times over, it features some of my favorite scenes in a fanfic ever… Just. Read it. Read all of it.

Le Monde Solaire – The Hobbit. Kili/fem!Bilbo/Tauriel. DON’T RUN AWAY FROM THE OT3 COME JOIN ME IN THIS PIT OF HELL WE HAVE (A) FANART. I love this series so much you don’t even know. I have somewhere the start of an Elementary AU of this pairing simply because this fic made me ship it. Please. Come. Read. There’s room in this trash can for all of us.

do it all again (think you’re my best friend) – MCU. Darecy. Fake dating AU. If that scenario alone doesn’t pull you in, then you need to read it for the scene where Matt tells off Darcy’s mother. I have read that scene an embarrassing number of times and it is still not enough.

There’s more – there’s so much more here I could’ve talked about it. Her FMA:B fanfic swallows on the beam, her soulmate-identifying-marks MCU AU The Trick to Binary Stars, the Matt/Darcy/Elektra AU of heartbreak between disaster and atrocity… But this is just a taste of the brilliance of my twin. Marvel at her brilliance and tremble. Then read everything she’s ever written and get back to me about how great she is and we can start an endless feedback loop of “I LOVE SHU ISN’T SHE GREAT SHE’S GREAT.” I’ll bake more cookies.

[shu-of-the-wind]

I keep forgetting to do this, but now that I’m going through all the lovely reviews I’ve been left over the last year: 

I am so sorry I am so bad at responding to reviews. It’s an anxiety thing, and I’m really, really bad at freezing up when I get compliments or long reviews or even messages on Tumblr. I sit and look at them for weeks or months or sometimes years and then just....can’t respond, because then it’s terribly awkward. It doesn’t mean I don’t see them, or don’t love them, or don’t want to talk; I just freeze up. 

So, it’s,....me, not you guys. 

[watchestopiacom]

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[shu-of-the-wind]

apparently I’m writing a dragon!Matt witch!Darcy AU for @amusewithaview and I’m so fucking excited this universe is fucking hilarious 

[shu-of-the-wind]

I may be late to this party, but either 33. “You can lie to yourself but don’t lie to me.” or 34. “I wish I couldn’t feel a damn thing.” for XFAU Darecy?

X FIIIIIIIIIIIIIILES YUS

“Lewis, you can’t keep doing this.”

Darcy’s not listening. Her heart’s beating too fast. It’s buzzing like a hummingbird in the skin of his wrists, the office stinking of unwashed hair and sweat and coffee and sunflower seeds. She doesn’t look up from her computer. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“This.” He waves his hands at the room. “Sleeping in the office, not eating, not sleeping, spending all your time–”

“I’m fine, Matt.” 

“You can lie to yourself, but don’t you dare lie to me.” 

“I’m not lying, Jesus–”

“It’s the anniversary in two days,” he says, and Darcy fumbles her pen. She bends to get it, not looking at him. “Of when Jane was taken.”

“That has nothing to do with anything.”

“You have to sleep,” he says. “You have to eat. Jane wouldn’t–”

“You have no idea what Jane would or wouldn’t want, Murdock–” 

“But I can’t lose my partner,” he says. I can’t lose you. “So for God’s sake will you just–go home for six hours and sleep.”

Darcy looks at him in silence. Then, very carefully, she rests her pen on the desk again. 

“At least come out to get food with me,” he says, and he’s coaxing. He can’t remember ever having to coax anybody in his life, not since his father died. “We can go get burritos. Or shawarma or something.”

She blinks. “Are you bribing me with food cart food?”

“Yes.”

“You hate food cart food.” 

“You need to get out of the basement,” he says. “If I can deal with how you smell when you haven’t showered in a week, I can deal with food cart food.” 

She flips him off, but when he offers her coat, she takes it. It’s a win in his book. 

[shu-of-the-wind]

SHUU. A CINDERELLA STORY AU FOR DARECY! WITH STICK AS FIONA! AHAHA

Oh my god XD I barely remember A Cinderella Story but that’d be....a trip...

[shu-of-the-wind]

Shuuuuuuuuuu I love your writing so much. I'd like to request number 1 “If you had asked me to stay, I would’ve.” from the Drabble list for Darecy, but in the AU where they grow up together. ❤️❤️

AKA that time Matt’s date called him out on his hardcore crush on his best friend and he had to wander around for hours to try and process how obvious he is. 

The tap on her window at three-forty in the morning really isn’t all that surprising. Ever since he moved to St. Agnes, Matt’s had the habit of sneaking out to tap on her window at two or three or four in the morning, when he gets bored or when he thinks she needs someone to talk to or when she asks him to, because she’s bored and needs someone to talk to that isn’t Jen. Really, the surprising thing is that he’s doing it tonight.

“I thought you had a date,” she says, when she heaves the window up. Matt shakes rainwater out of his hair like a dog, and slides through. “Remember? There was a double-date thing going on earlier. We all had breadsticks. What are you doing here when you have Naomi Bernstein ready to fling her panties at you?”

Matt pulls a face, and shakes his head again. “Darcy.”

“C’mon, Matt, think of it. Naomi Bernstein. If she swung that way I’d date Naomi Bernstein. She does not swing my way, it’s very upsetting.” Darcy flops back onto the bed, and pokes him in the ribs with her toes. “You ditched Naomi Bernstein?”

“I did not,” Matt says. “I dropped her off at home after walking her back from the restaurant.”

“Did she invite you up?”

“She did, as it happens.” He toes his shoes off. “I said no. Because I have AP calc in four hours.”

“So you’ve just been, what, wandering in the rain since eleven PM?”

“Had to clear my head.”

Darcy goes up on one elbow, and touches his knee. “Matt. Hey. If you had asked me to stay, I would’ve. I didn’t know she made you uncomfortable.”

“She didn’t, no worries, I just–wasn’t feeling it, I guess.” There are raindrops on his square glasses. Darcy rolls onto her side, seizes her shower towel off the floor, dumps it on his head. “You should be asleep, y’know.”

“Eh, shut up.”

[shu-of-the-wind]

I don't fandom terribly well, but you're the Darecy person. It's your thing. It's beautiful and hot and well-written and also such a fun AU (despite that it's usually tearing at heartstrings somehow or other, it's still fun).

;___________________; 

Bless you

What is my reputation in this fandom? Let me know!

[extasiswings]

For the fanfic trope thing: fake dating, coffee shop au, and there is only one bed. :)

I’ll skip coffee shop here because someone else asked for it, but:

Fake dating: I love fake dating, can’t get enough of it, absolutely would write it if I were inspired enough/had less than a few thousand other projects/if @shu-of-the-wind hadn’t already written basically the definitive fake dating Darecy fic (because it would be for Matt and Darcy, almost without a doubt). But that said, I wouldn’t say never ;)

Only one bed: Hoooooo boy, another for the list of Sign Me TF Up. I already wrote this kinda for Lucy/Flynn (although that wasn’t the main point of said fic and Flynn mostly slept on the floor because of course he did). Other ships, hmmm. Matt and Darcy wouldn’t be remotely bothered by it, same with Matt and Elektra, I could maybe have fun with it for Karen and Frank...I probably wouldn’t set out to write more of it but again, wouldn’t say never.

[extasiswings]

otp game

tagged by @qqueenofhades to list my top 5 otps. (Only 5? Well that’s rude)

I have so many and making a list is like asking me to decide between my children (if I had them) so I’m going to cheat a little.

Top 5 (decided primarily by which ones I love enough to actually write fic for):

1. Matt Murdock/Darcy Lewis (Marvel/Daredevil, shhh yes I know it doesn’t make sense but it’s a beautiful canoe of dreams just go with it)

2. Lucy Preston/Garcia Flynn (Timeless. I don’t think I need to explain this one)

3. Frank Castle/Karen Page (Daredevil. Put them side by side with Lucy/Flynn and you may discover that I have a Type)

4. Matt Murdock/Elektra Natchios (Marvel/Daredevil. Look, I cannot even explain how much I stan Elektra so I won’t even try. These two are a disaster and my playlist for them is legit titled Shipwrecked, but gdi they could have so much potential if someone would get off his hypocritical high horse. *Glares in Matt’s general direction*)

5. Steve Rogers/Tony Stark (Marvel/MCU, I am a hardcore Steve multishipper so if you can think of a Steve ship (Steggy is a gorgeous and painful wondership and I also adore them), chances are I probably ship it, but superhusbands has been near the top of my list since...2011? Yeah)

Honorable Mentions (aka things I read fic for and ship like burning but just barely missed the top 5)

1. Deckerstar (Lucifer. Literally #blessed by God, your favs could never)

2. Captain Swan (OuAT. I no longer watch, but hoo boy talk about True Love (TM))

3. Sansa Stark/Willas Tyrell (ASOIAF, shhhh just go with it all I want is for her to be happy)

4. Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth (ASOIAF, do I even need to explain this one as established, I have a Type)

5. Luke Cage/Claire Temple (Luke Cage/Defenders, protect them they are so good and need so much more love than they get) 

I could go on but I’m gonna stop there. Yeah. 

Tagging my partner in Darecy crime @shu-of-the-wind