#i quite like this chapter tbh.

[skiitter]

Chapter Seven! Din wakes up, Fett asks some questions, and a few acts of service are committed with earnest intent.

[villainedit]

hello to my Taizu lovers.. back like i never left x

in this chapter we see some difficult conversations and more sparring as a love language let’s go

Chapters: 10/12 (or maybe 13 who knows)

Fandom: Blue Eye Samurai (Cartoon)

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Mizu/Taigen (Blue Eye Samurai)

Characters: Mizu (Blue Eye Samurai), Taigen (Blue Eye Samurai), Abijah Fowler (Blue Eye Samurai)

Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Eventually HEA, Eventual Smut, no beta we die like seki, Getting Together, POV Alternating, She/Her Pronouns for Mizu, frenemies to lovers, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Summary: Mizu and Taigen embark on their greatest adventure yet - long haul overseas travel.

After following his sworn enemy on board a ship headed for England, Taigen must reconcile his feelings for Mizu while she tries desperately to ignore her own.

[trensu]

an excerpt of the newest chapter of the halfway house fic based on this past post. Enjoy :)

“Steve, come get your furry little menace! He’s chewing up my laces again,” Robin grumbled.

“Maybe if your laces are ruined, you’ll finally buy a new pair of shoes,” Steve snarked. Steve walked to the living room to find Robin attempting to tie her old Converse only to snatch back her hands every time the kitten took a swipe at the laces in question. “He’s just a baby. He wants to play.”

“He can get his own laces to play with, then. And there’s nothing wrong with my shoes. I’m not going to go buy new shoes when these are perfectly functional. And my favorite color.”

Steve scooped the kitten up even as he kept reaching for the laces and cuddled him to his chest. Steve rubbed gently behind the kitten’s ears until the kitten relaxed into tiny purrs.

“What do you think, Dustin? Should Robin get new shoes? Raise your paw if you agree with me,” Steve said. He lifted the kitten’s right paw and waved it a bit, making the kitten squirm. “See, he agrees with me.”

Robin snorted and rolled her eyes at his teasing smile. “I still can’t believe you named him Dustin.”

The kitten chose that moment to start climbing up Steve’s shirt to reach his shoulder. His tiny claws pricked at Steve’s skin through the thin fabric but they were so small, they barely hurt at all. Steve laughed as the kitten settled on his shoulder and began to mew at the top of his lungs.

“It’s not my fault he looks like a Dustin,” Steve insisted. When he brought the kitten home two days ago, Robin tried to name him something else but Steve put his foot down about it. He found the kitten, and he thought the kitten was a Dustin, so no other name was allowed. 

Dustin let out another mew so loud he nearly toppled over. Steve pulled him off his shoulder with an amused huff. Dustin wriggled incessantly in his hands. Steve lost his grip on him but thankfully he had gotten him close enough to the ground by then that the fall was negligible to a cat.

“Okay, okay, we’ll play for a little while, you needy baby.”

He and Robin were waiting for payday to run to the pet store for more supplies. They were lucky that their neighbor across the hall had an old litter box that her cat had outgrown, and a couple of spare food bowls. She had even given them a few cans of wet food, cooing over the kitten all the while. Dustin, apparently, was a charming little guy. He obviously took after Steve. Robin had punched him on the arm when he said as much.

In the meantime, they were using old bits of string and a little orange ball Robin had stolen back when they worked at a mini-golf place. The kitten seemed to enjoy them well enough but Steve planned on getting him fancier playthings and some catnip. He rolled the ball across the floor and the kitten chased after it. He pounced on it, wobbly, which sent the ball rolling again for another chase. Steve laughed. Robin giggled along with him.

“He’s lucky he’s adorable. Otherwise we’d be having problems, him and I,” Robin said with a grin. Her mischievous demeanor softened slightly. “I’m glad you found him, you big old softie. Now you can stop moping so much.”

Steve ducked away when she reached to ruffle his hair. 

“Yeah, yeah,” Steve said, lightheartedly. “Maybe if I do a good job with him, someone will finally let me have a kid.” 

The kitten had apparently gotten bored of the ball and was attempting to climb up the back of the couch. Steve quickly grabbed him so he would damage the upholstery. He booped the kitten’s nose.

“What do you think, baby? Will I be a good dad? Be honest.”

Dustin grabbed his finger and gnawed at it while making the most precious sounds. A purring mew.  Steve’s heart melted; though from what he had read, he really shouldn’t let Dustin get accustomed to using his hands as playthings.

Steve resigned himself to losing half his paycheck to cat toys.

Continue on Ao3

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[jellysharkbat]

I love the idea of Mycroft protecting Sherlock. Obviously, as he’s grown older this has become more difficult, in part thanks to Sherlock very purposely making it difficult.

But imagine lil’ Sherlock (and Jon) running around in Cordona, getting up to mischief and sometimes they land into very real trouble. Imagine Mycroft storming down to rain hell on whichever idiot dared put their hands on his little brother. He might only be 20 years old, but he’s intimidating. Already he controls far more authority then those his age should, cunning enough to know how to wield it against someone, and enough of a temper (a vice endemic to any Holmes- especially at his young age where it flairs all the more easily) to make his actions hurt for some time to come.

In short, he’s pissed and he’s going to make sure everyone pays for that. To Sherlock, his appearance is a rare source of relief. He might be beginning to butt heads with Mycroft more and more, but for now, he still relies on his big brother. Still needs him to be his big brother. And his big brother is a joy to watch when he appears, absolutely steaming from the ears, face red and fists clenched. Oh sure, Sherlock (and Jon) will get an earful later, probably a knock on the head for being so foolish, and an almost definitely strict curfew for awhile, but that’s it. He’s got no doubt that things will be much, much worse for his assailant. And there’s something maliciously delicious about that.

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

The Saint of Bright Doors

a surreal Sri Lankan fantasy about colonialism, revolution, mixing fantasy with the modern world

follows a man raised by his mother to kill his father, a god-like cult leader

but as an adult he puts aside his life of violence and moves to the city for a quiet life

he becomes fascinated with ‘bright doors’ around the city that never open and have no other side, and joins a group studying them to find out more

and a support group for those with divine heritage that becomes increasingly revolutionary, until the task he was made for reemerges and his life upends

[daisychainsandbowties]

started to actually have time to write star wars au again. i had random pieces, maybe a little less than 3k on monday & now it just hit 10k which is nice but ava please shut up

[bitchfitch]

Another poll because I'm nosy and actively wrestling a bear with "ADHD" spray painted on it.

screen length is just how many full phone screens a post takes up. For example, on my phone this post is roughly 1 screen length. The big beige block under the cut is 3

we're using phone screens bc that's what most tunglr users access the site through, and also bc I can't be fucked to check what it is on desktop.

this text is here to make the read more work yadda yadda ya. and also to show where the readmore was supposed to be since you can't edit a post with a poll on it.(above the first line of this text block)

hi readmore please work I can't edit this post pleaseeeee.

[solvicrafts]

...I just found the Lolth's Warrior excerpt and uh, OOF!

[seyaryminamoto]

aghhh idk if you remember me but I've been binging Gladiator since you reblogged my post where I asked about the point of Sokkla, and I'm aware you've heard it more times than the number of words in the whole fic, but it's SO. GOOD. I know I'll never manage to read the whole thing without taking several months (especially because it's a fanfic, not a printed paper book, and I'm in school). Yep, you've done it. Fully converted me to a Sokkla shipper lmao and that says something as a Tyzula fan (which doesn't work in canon but alas neither does this). I'm absolutely in love with the plot and your writing style sooo... wanted to tell you!!

Well this has been quite the fun story 🤣 I honestly just hoped to show that the ship had more basis than what is initially apparent, I did NOT expect these developments but I'm definitely happy to hear you're enjoying this little ship as much as you are! Thank you very much for letting me know! Also, honestly, I've reached a point where just... who cares if canon won't let my favorite ships happen? Half the fics you can find written by perfectly average fans are more fun than most post-canon content has ever been... 🤣 So just kick back and enjoy the ride, if canon wants to be nice so be it, if it won't, we'll always have our stories!

Thank you soooo much for this ask! Made me laugh quite a bit, haha 🤣

[it-goes-on]

5 times no one realized moshang were together, and one time it was too obvious to miss. also, porn. so much porn.

New chapter is up, only one left to go! Please clap.

[vitiateoriginator]

I'm finally taking a fucking vacation from my job next week

[captainsweet]

This is just going to be me ranting about something that particularly annoys me, so don't take it too seriously, but it drives me up a metaphorical wall.

But, the thing is, I just finished reading some new parts of a Rise fic I really liked, it was funny, and a good story sure, until I saw the word 'twin' be thrown around about five times in one chapter.

I honestly thought I was exaggerating, so I continued, and the word 'twin' just kept on appearing. So I just decided to count how many times it comes up just to see if I was being crazy, y'know?

In the course of a couple of chapters, the word, 'twin' is thrown around 64 different times. Not accounting for any notes, tags, or the latest chapter they posted since it wasn't an official one.

To make this clearer, the word twin, referring to Rise Donnie and Leo specifically, was mentioned 64 different times. One chapter holding 13 mentions of them being twins alone.

Now, I don't know why in the world it needed to be mentioned 64 different times, but hey, it's none of my business. And I really wouldn't be bothered if being twins wasn't their one specific trait, especially around each other.

And it only gets worse in the new chapters. Everytime they mention each other it's like they are incapable of not calling the other their twin, and.. this thing annoys me to my goddamn core.

It doesn't matter, I know that, but it's so annoying to see people make Donnie and Leo being twins their one special thing even though they're not even twins in the dang show. Normally that wouldn't bother me, and it doesn't, but for you to reduce a character to a trait they canonically don't even have is just bizarre.

I'm not gonna mention the writer, and I hate criticizing writers or artists like this in general, but it's so unbelievably mind numbing to see Donnie and Leo get reduced to being twins over and over again as if it actually matters? All it is, is the day they were born. That's it! That's all, yet so many people are obsessed with making it an important factor?

They are so much more than just twins, and have so much more to them than a couple of traits in the show. Yet so many people just, ignore that? Especially in some fics?

Not to mention in the particular story, Raph and Mikey hardly ever appear unless it's for the same couple of jokes, and just leaves me longing for more development on them but nope! Gotta shove some more twin content in there!

I have absolutely no problem with people liking the Disaster Twins, and making stories centered around them, but they are so much more than just twins, and so much more than their relationship with each other. They have other family members too, acknowledge them.

This is not only with this particular author, this has happened multiple times and it's just plain annoying. If you like Leo and Donnie more, just say that. There's no reason you should add their brothers in, and then just discard them to the point they don't even seem like they are siblings anymore. They're just close friends at that point, and it's just angering for me.

I don't see it all that much anymore, but so many people still make Leo and Donnie being 'twins' in Rise this big thing when they aren't even twins, and probably wouldn't mention the fact they are if they weren't explaining their ages because it literally means nothing in the end. They're just brothers that happened to be born on the same day, that's it.

I'm not a twin myself, so I obviously can't speak for actual twins, but even the twins I've known personally hardly mentioned the fact they were twins other than to make a couple of jokes here and then. In no world should them being twins be so important to you that it's mentioned 64 different times. That's just insane.

It is different than simply having a sibling, I get that. Being twins is definitely different in a way, and comes with different experiences, but it should never be that important to the point they mention it 13 TIMES IN ONE CHAPTER.

Skipping past the slightly serious part, 64 different times?? Would they, like, forget if they didn't say it? Fr 13 times in one conversation? I don't think I've even done that with my proclaimed Twin before, because that's, that's just crazy.

[redrattlers]

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[lesbianpegbar]

go read the summer hikaru died go read it right now you want to so so bad you know you want to read it oooooooo

[deacf-coffee-is-a-sin]

LETS GOOOOO

[juniperhillpatient]

funniest part of the sit com narrative framing is that every time it’s basically the craziest shit & wackiest behavior ever packed into twenty minutes with a quick return to the status quo at the end. of course a good sit com has to have some developments & changes but core components like the main friend group have to stay the same & the changes should be gradual for ongoing tensions to build & accumulate & cause more problems which to me is just a fun slow burn storytelling style & also why my favorite sit coms are the most ridiculous ones