#i've toyed with the idea of a qpr

[bloggingboutburgers]

Hi, kinda random, but I could really use some advice. I really wanna write a qpr but feel like I dunno much about it- uh- so yeah! Just wanting to ask how I should do it- like, how do I do it?? How do I represent this while being accurate and respectful?? I know the theory but like addhhbbkjt

Sorry if I am being weird I dont really know how to phrase this Q_Q

...OK so this is gonna sound funny (or not) but... I've been toying with the idea of developing a story involving a fictional QPR as well recently and... I have no idea how to go about it either. Despite being in one!! I actually have trouble explaining what a QPR means to most people honestly TwT

But I'll do my best to give a few pointers from my experience:

Needless to say, kinda, but a QPR is NOT a romantic relationship. It may LOOK like it on paper but I guess the way I see it, there's a lot less... Grandiosity and possessiveness than with romance. It's a lot more chill, I guess I could say. It's not like "this person is my whole life and I would die without them" or something, it's more like "this person is pretty great to experience life with and it'd be pretty cool if this lasted as long as we both vibe."

A QPR is NOT inferior to a romantic relationship NOR is it superior to a friendship, in my opinion. I see no scale of value of the sort. Each of these things are their own thing is all.

Considering it's quite the particular situation, no two QPRs will be the same, I think. So you can at least rest easy considering there can be quite a lot of variety in this type of relationship.

What I mean by that is, not everybody who's in a QPR will be comfortable will the same things. For example my partner and I may give each other lip pecks (never any tongue), but it took us years to be comfortable with the idea, and it doesn't necessarily mean everybody in a QPR will be at ease with that. And conversely other people in a QPR may be comfortable with a level of intimacy we may not be comfortable with.

What that implies is, in my experience at least, a QPR means a LOT of communication. My partner and I constantly have heart-to-hearts about what works or what doesn't for us, and are both aware some things may change over time.

As an aromantic, I value being in a QPR deeply because it responds to some issues that I think a lot of fellow aromantics probably face: the first is needing human connection, like any person, but having to struggle with the fact that you'll always come second after your friends' romantic partners and kids (if they have any), and the fear of abandonment that comes with that; the second is wanting human contact and affection, like any person, but having to worry that if you seek affection from or give affection to a person, they'll catch romantic or sexual feelings for you and it'll turn ugly for you, kinda. Being in a QPR responds to both those needs while negating these fears. If I ever wrote a fictional QPR personally, I think that last point would be what I would wanna emphasize the most, in my own voice. Because it's so key.

As usual I suck at being succinct and all, but I hope these were helpful! TwT And I hope nothing I said here misrepresented other people in QPRs out there

[drowninginredink]

WIP List

I always like it when people talk about their WIPs. I live for that. So it's my turn. But I am a one-shot writer at heart with way, way too many ideas, so here is a list of everything I'm toying with. For the record, some of these don't even have a single word written yet, and none are that far along, so don't get your hopes up too high.

Smosh One-Shots

"Feelings are so fragile" — Platonic Shaymien thing where I project really hard onto Damien. (Yes it's for the aro collection)

"Most euphoric I've ever been" — A spetney fic based the fact that yes, they're technically a m/f couple... But like, no. Put them together, you've got nonbinary lesbian vibes. Sorry Spencer, you're getting your gender transed because there's no way you and Courtney are straight.

"But what's a home?" — A Damian QPR fic. Damien/Ian is already such an interesting rarepair and then you make it a QPR and it's like... They end up living together just temporarily because Damien's housing falls through and turns out they both really miss when they used to be living with their best friends and look I know everyone likes romance but do you know how good QPR fics can be? I love the idea of them as a QPR so much?

A thing for @aro-soulmates-fest about Anthony getting all his tattoos to hide the fact that he doesn't have a soulmate one.

A murderverse one shot about Arasha because God I fucking love gang AU!Arasha

A vampire!Spencer fic where Shayne plays the role of Johnathan Harker

"And I lie like the right thing to do" — me taking @generaltrashshecox 's whole "Anthony sleeping with Damien to cope with unrequited feelings for Ian thing that I love so much and just doing my own version of it where I lean into the angst so hard. With permission from bun, don't worry

A (platonic) nintendogs fic where I decide to do a little bit of own voices stuff on the fact that The Chosen is suuuuuuuuper schizo-coded

I bought a new ray and it's time to use it. Let's make Ian aplatonic this time.

"Then it's done." Killing off Spencer. Very one-sided Spommy.

A lil smut based on Anthony asking Tommy to choke him.

Hey @generaltrashshecox infected me again and now aro4aro Antmien needs to exist

This post into a real fic

Smosh not a one shot but also kind of a one shot?

14. "Once in twenty lifetimes" — A no smosh AU that's going to go through all the different ways Ian and Anthony could have ended, choose-your-own-adventure style. And as the title suggests, only one of them is the reunion. Most are things falling apart. And also to fit the title, it's going to be in twenty chapters (although that does not mean 20 endings. I don't hate myself.). So it's multichapter, but also it'll all be posted at once so it'll basically be a one-shot. It's going to end up as kind of an epic and God I hope it turns out as good as it is in my head. Inspiration for the good endings is "Cardigan" by Taylor Swift, and for the bad endings and a lot along the way is "San Cristobal" by Mal Blum.

15. Partners (in crime) — my Changela QPR fic that was supposed to be a one-shot right up until I wrote the thing, and actually wrote a chapter one. Not sure how long that's going to be, but I like it so far.

Smosh Multichapter

(The fact that my very one-shot oriented self has multiple of these is such a problem)

16. "Puppy Love" — I don't need to say anything about this. There are already 5 chapters on AO3. Either it's extremely your shit or you're wondering what the hell I'm doing and why I'm writing this extremely specific concept. If you're wondering why I still haven't posted chapter 6, it's because that has sex in it and I fucking hate writing sex scenes so I'm procrastinating really hard.

17. "I'll use you as a warning sign" (aka the evil fic, so named because chu-tea thinks I'm evil for coming up with the plot) — yeah so what I planned for PL was just a straightforward kind of fluffy ianthony piece. And then a certain friend of mine (*cough* chu *cough*) accidentally inspired me to think of a different ending that is such hardcore angst and hurt that I absolutely needed to make it happen and have been obsessed. It's interesting when you've already made the bad decision to start a long project and then oops, now you just really want the next 6 chapters to be done already so you can write the alternate ending. This one will *really* not be everyone's shit because I will rip your heart out in 6 different ways. But God I'm obsessed. Anyway, if you want details... I'll just say "major character death" and leave it at that. Oh and rarepair.

18. "I've come back changed and I can feel it in my bones" — an AU where "what if Anthony left because he got psychosis." Basically very hardcore projection on my part. This is on the back burner for a while because obviously when I have projects that aren't going to be emotionally gutting to write, I'd much rather work on them.

Non Smosh Stuff

(I'll be honest, I'm so deep in the smosh obsession that you should not get too excited about any of these. I know myself, so I know the smosh flame will eventually burn out but these are based on things I will be obsessed with until I die. So I know they'll happen. But not for a long time)

19. A Phantom of the Opera one-shot for @aro-soulmates-fest. This is the one thing I will actually write within a reasonable amount of time, because it's due March 17.

20. "Baby, please don't bore me" — A Series of Unfortunate Events — Sunny (well, Sorrel in this version because oops I transed their gender) teams up with Olaf to find their siblings after years of separation. I find them to be a very interesting chaotic, morally gray, bantery duo.

21. "Because the same night awaits us all" — ASOUE — A Klaus/Lemony fic that I swear I will write someday. Very morally gray, very much a codependent relationship, very leaning into the age gap. Basically they're together because they do not have anyone else in the world. It's just so delicious a dynamic that I will explore I swear.

22. ASOUE — I'm still not entirely convinced I'll ever be bothered to actually write this one, but I might do a Kit/Fernald FWB thing. I'm not sure where on earth the idea of that came from, but it's been living in my head for a long time now. Long enough that there's an early one-shot version of it that I don't really like anymore on *gasp* fanfiction.net

If anyone actually bothered to read all the way to the end of this long-ass post, you deserve a medal.

[tiny-tokunaga]

Tag Time!

Thanks for the tag, @sunlightfeeling 😘😘😘

Name: Becca

Pronouns: she/her!

Star sign: Capricorn ♑

# of siblings/fun fact about them (if any): one sibling, an older brother. Let's see... The fun fact is he's the father of my best friend ever, my beautiful darling niece that I'm obsessed with LMFAOOOO

# of pets and their names: 1 pet! A "red" toy poodle named Lexi! (I use "red loosely because she faded, but she's not quite an apricot?? We call her a caramel LOL) obligatory picture of my baby:

Fandoms: SMAP (and its individual members) is really the only one I'd consider myself a part of, because that's the only one I'm active in? If you want just like. My favorite media in general, then SMAP, pokemon, RGG, persona, LOZ, etc.

Favorite color: 🌸🩷🎀

Favorite song: Leftovers by Kimura Takuya!!! (Shameless self plug, you can watch a video of it with my translations right here if you'd like 👀)

Favorite author (of anything readable- books, fanfics, zines, webtoons, whatever): I HOPE YOU ALL DON'T MIND ME TAGGING YOU, I'm gonna shout out my fav fanfic authors I follow here!!! @woundedheartwithin for amazing Judgment fics, especially the delicious Yagashi 👌 (also just for being a rad person overall 😎) @themarydragon Calm Waters Run Deep is one of those life changing fics for me, HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend for LOZ fans!!! @cant-icle for fantastic Persona 5 fics and the best characterization for Akiren I've seen!!! @makapedia for some amazing Akatsuki no Yona fics, I normally don't go for modern AUs but if my heart's a grenade is SO GOOD. And then I'm sure about tumblr accounts for the following, but TokuSwag has such creative and fun SMAP fics (Captain Kazama's Thief especially has me in a chokehold, we should've gotten an ex-criminal Goro in Kyojo 0 😩) and tsuristyle has a bunch of insanely good SMAP fics!!!!

Hope you don't mind the tags, I may not have read some of these fics in a while due to changing interests, but they still hold a place in my heart!!!

Favorite fic type: I prefer in universe fics, and I'm a sucker for romance. But I'm pretty open to most genres! I don't personally care for omegaverse or intensely graphic violence, though (And minor squicks here and there that I just avoid).

Favorite holiday: Christmas!

Do you have a partner (romantic, qpr, anything!)?: Nope!

Hobbies: crochet, playing videos games, English to Japanese translation

Fun facts about you: let's see... Apparently I taught myself to read and my parents had no idea until I found a receipt that had toys they bought for me for Christmas on it and I asked where they were LMFAO. My earliest memory of being able to read was when I was 4 reading a Junie B. Jones book!

Tagging: NO PRESSURE AS ALWAYS, if any of the aforementioned tagged people wanna do this, go for it!!! I'm also gonna throw in @darinyan @littlechibs @offhandway @lunar-gl1tch @skajador and @hyenatron if you all haven't been tagged already!!!

[aroaceconfessions]

This is not just an asexual thing but in this case it's connected and I really want to get it off my chest: Sometimes, you can watch yourself do the most stupid things, relationship-wise, like from the outside, fully aware but unable to stop yourself and it's the absolute WORST.

In highschool I had a bad fallout with one of the absolute best friends I've ever had because he fell for me and I, aroace but not 100% sure about it then, gave it a shot against my insecurities and feelings of discomfort. Needless to say, I shouldn't have, and despite him very clearly (in hindsight) gaslighting me into doing things I didn't want to, the blame is also on me. I miss him a lot, but because of what happened back then I lost his friendship and have been living without it for four years, still feeling the empty space in my life very intensely at times.

Now, another friend of mine is showing the signs, huge romantic gestures and all. And until he did that, I was toying with the idea of coming out to him and seeing if he was up for a qpr (he's very likely queer so I was hoping there'd be more understanding than from the average person), but now the desire to do it, finally allow someone in, has all but vanished into thin air. I can see myself pushing him away and I hate myself for it. I really don't want to ruin our friendship, but I feel uncomfortable with his attention all of a sudden, although I know that it all really is about how we would define these gestures, and, truth be told, he'd been giving this type of attention to me all the time, it just took me so long to figure it out.

Now I'm starting to think that even platonically, anything that is more exclusive than friendship is something that sounds great in theory but is impossible and horrifying for me in practice. I know there is a label for it that I cannot think of right now, but I don't really want to go there because it would make things feel so final.

Anyway, this whole confession is all over the place but if you want to - cross your fingers that I find a way to salvage this and not ruin an important relationship again.

[unrestrainedbalderdash]

twenty!

Which fandom you’ve been in was the most aro-friendly?

Not sure if it counts as me being in the fandom because all I do is just reblog and get excited with @ponfarrtimeatthevulcannightclub but Koisenu Futari, it's about two aroaces, and it makes me feel so happy! And I love just seeing it on the dash when it gets reblogged by the aspec blogs. I think it won the QPR competition? I swear I'm going to finish watching Koisenu Futari at some point my brain is being my brain.

I've also got some wonderful aro and aspec mutuals in the Batman Rogues/Riddler fandom, although there's a lot of shipping so it's a little hard for romance-repulsed people (especially when you do kind of ship a ship but it's in a very specific way so you don't block the tag but do still see all the allo regular shipoing (going on a tangent to say that I think Riddler loves Batman but it would never be reciprocated (also toying with the idea that he loves him non-romantically since it's just about an intellectual equal))) (this feels like algebra with how many layers of brackets I'm using) As a sidenote (as if I didn't already just do a massive sidenote), I guess I'm not 100% romance-repulsed, I'm kind of 70% repulsed but also more romance-exhausted, since there was an exhausting level of shipping before I started doing all the things to curate Tumblr experience like blocking tags and unfollowing people.

Haven't really been active in other fandoms (apart from Eurovision, and I'd like to say that it avoids triggering any romance-repulsion because people don't ship real life people... although people are shipping Käärijä and one of the guys from Joker Out 😕)

All of the people I've interacted with in fandom have been lovely, and I don't think I've encountered any arophobia in them! Maybe the classic amatonomativity that plagues fandom is a bit unfriendly for someone who is so tired of it all, but I've never had any negative experiences regarding being aro :)

(also as a sidenote I can't wait to read more Grishaverse because you seem to be following/mutuals with so many aspec Six of Crows fans)

[daintyduck99]

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Happy Saturday!

Happy Saturday! ❤️

Ask Me Things

👀 What’s an idea you had for a fic that you never did anything with?

I've toyed with the idea of doing a marching band au...but my mind never bothers to come up with much plot 🤣 I mostly have vibes and who'd play what instrument:

Julie: piccolo/flute, I could also see her becoming Drum Major

Flynn: trumpet of course 😌

Alex: the quad drums

Luke: also trumpet (which would put him in conflict with Julie as drum major as he's much less by the book than she is)

Reggie: the guy who goes where he's needed because he plays just about everything, he gets thrown in the pit a lot

Willie: trombone or color guard

Carrie: color guard captain

Kayla: color guard (but she plays flute during concert season)

Nick: clarinet

😮 Anything you included in your fic that you didn’t expect people to like?

There were a lot of things in the QPR Rulie fic...mostly because QPRs tend to be portrayed quite chastely in this Fandom. Which is valid! Many QPRs are! But not all of them are. And while one person did complain in my messages and mislabel them as romantic, most of the response I got was actually really positive and wonderful.

🪜 Tell us a random fact about any fic!

Because I'm already thinking about I Don't Want You Like A Best Friend 😆 Julie and Bobby's little friendship subplot wasn't planned. It slipped its way into the story. Also, that version of Crooked Teeth is the second I've written (the first was for a friend who intended to write a fic where Reggie’s insecure about getting braces in high school)

[aro-culture-is]

I actually have a question? I've known for a while that im aro-ace but do you think you could tell me what mspec aro oriented is? google and sites similar aren't exactly always accurate and i think that i am mspec oriented, im in a qpr right now with a woman and i wouldn't have a preference for if it was a man or a woman and I've toyed with the idea of being aroallo but im not interested in much other than a non-sexual relationship; i don't really know but im still trying to figure myself out, if you could help that would be really nice, and if not that's fine too :-)

hi! i'm gonna point you to the coining post i had made for oriented aro identities on @just-aro. basically, the idea is that you are aro, and can't or don't want to identify a specific type of attraction you feel aligned with in some form. this could be any m-spec orientation!

i hope this helps!

[se7ens-oc-heaven]

Ok so I was going through my legendkeepers tag, I think I've mentioned this offhandedly but a really important note for anyone who goes through certain character tags:

I toyed with the idea of Rex and Ritsu being cousins for a while as I began fleshing out their story. I have since retconned this entirely.

I may write or reference them in either more qpr or romantic connotations going forward so I HAVE to make it clear that I'm not writing them with the old ties.

Reasons/development of why I have done this, if anyone for some reason wants to know:

I made Ritsu as a standalone character in middle school, years before Rex.

Likewise, Rex was originally just my trainer name in my Shield file, eventually given character and personality organically and independently.

As such, neither character was made with the intent of being related, I did not think of them this way for a while.

I had the idea they could be related due to visual similarities. However, these similarities were derived from my avatar customization, when I was making a point of making the character look more like me. It's a specific combination of colors and traits I feel would be really unusual to see repeated so I was trying to retroactively justify the similarities by making them related.

As I fleshed out their stories more, I found Rex's feelings towards Ritsu were very strong - on the one hand, it's important to tell stories where family is the most important. On the other hand, I wasn't entirely comfortable with the concept of people interpreting things wrong out of context. This was not a likely scenario but if I am posting the story online, in bits and scraps, it's not impossible either.

However, a key deciding factor was something I rewrote for Ritsu's side of things as well - namely his rescue team partner during his PMD arc.

On the original pmd file and backstory for Ritsu up to this point, his partner has always been a pikachu I named Avery. I always had a general vibe for Avery, how they got along etc, but for some reason I never felt like I had a handle on the character even after all these years, no matter how hard I tried to develop them. Things always felt too vague, or generic, or flat, like something was missing.

On a whim, partway through ironing out the Rex/Ritsu combined story, I took a pmd quiz for Rex, curious what results he'd get (mostly for an excuse to develop a roleswap au, for fun) - and Rex got Pikachu.

The following idea clicked things into place for the pmd partner as an individual, and also provided Ritsu's story a lot more closure and stability than it had before - what if an au version of Rex had been the partner this whole time?

This way I had a strong idea of the character, and also while Ritsu is forced to leave the rescue team behind, he isn't stuck feeling like he's lost it all forever - and when human Rex finds him in Hisui, it gives Ritsu motivation to trust and bond with this guy claiming to be a childhood friend from a lifetime long forgotten.

All in all, it smoothed over a lot of lumps in the road I kept tripping over as I fleshed out stories, and helped me feel happier with the story I was telling.

But, between Rex's strong attachment to Ritsu - and how I always framed Ritsu's relationship to the pmd partner as a qpr in my head; combined with the fact that both characters were made related as a Huge afterthought in both cases's stages of development... I ultimately decided to retcon them being cousins. It only complicated things at the end of the day, and even if their dynamic ends up entirely platonic it just didn't feel like a necessary element to their dynamic to have to tiptoe around and worry over.

Essentially, It did not make me happy to write it that way, and it was a grafted on element to both characters and their backstories so it never felt fully natural to how I see them, individually or together.

Did I need to write all of this out to explain myself? Probably not. But on the offchance someone noticed and decided to call attention to it, I wanted to put a clear explanation as to what happened and why I handled things the way I did. I'm sure I won't entirely avoid questions or comments on it, but this way I've pre-empted any attention on the subject and made it clear where I'm coming from with all of this.

So tl;dr - Rex and Ritsu are not related, and I will never write them in an incestuous fashion, nor would I ever aim for or support that sort of thing.

This was an odd turn of events in the developmental stages of my writing that has been captured in snapshots on my blog posts that, rather than fully scrub out of existence, I wanted to clarify how things turned out the way they did.

I have taken to crossing out text in the post body where I can that references Ritsu and Rex as cousins, but I can't and don't feel like trying to erase traces of it in uneditable tags and preserved reblogged states.

[pirateboy]

hate that I was originally like. hah ed is aro because he likes green. but now I'm so invested in this hc arospec ed is so real and so true

[linguisticparadox]

@bronweathanharthad I'm answering this as a new post because tumblr's ask-answering format is shit on mobile

So for Sam (presumably Gamgee :3):

Headcanon A:  realistic

Sam is autistic, or at least has some form of learning disability. He's once described as having a "slow but shrewd mind." And he's canonically clumsy, and super into Elves. Like. Come on.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

Man how can I improve on actual canon? Sam is the most wholesomely funny character I've ever seen in my life.

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

Ok I know we all love the Gaffer and we love that Sam loves the Gaffer but...I mean I wouldn't go so far as to say he's abusive...but he really seems to have fucked up Sam's sense of self-worth with all the "nowt but a ninnyhammer" talk. I guess it came from a place of "tough love", like the Gaffer was like "Okay Sam you are not exactly bright and you were born into the working class so I need to make sure you do okay in life and that means getting in good with the Bagginses."

Which is probably a big part of what made Sam so fiercely protective and lbr fiercely servile towards Frodo. The movies glossed over the latter and that I think has affected the wider fanon interpretations (possibly for the better tbh), but in the book we have stuff like Sam begging to wait on Frodo at the feast in Rivendell. But also, Tolkien said in one letter that Sam was "deep-down very conceited" but this was transformed by his love for Frodo.

So it's like...I think the Gaffer got it ingrained in Sam that "all you're good for is to serve your betters" so Sam was like "fuck yeah I'm gonna serve the SHIT out of Mr. Frodo, I'm gonna be the best servant EVER" but then fortunately Frodo (like Bilbo before him) was a genuinely good person (remember when Sam fell asleep on watch I think and Frodo told him not to think of any of his Gaffer's hard names?) and so it became less "I'm gonna be the best servant because I'm awesome and so my dad will be proud of me" and more "I'm gonna be the best servant because Mr. Frodo is wonderful and deserves to be cared for and protected."

Uh this got a little off-track but basically I don't think Sam's relationship with the Gaffer was all that healthy and it gave him kind of a Complex and thank Eru for Frodo honestly.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

My own headcanon for FrodoxSam is that over the course of the Quest they grow into a qpr, probably by the time of the beautiful little "I love him whether or no" scene, because I get a vibe from Sam there that's like "Idk what exactly I'm feeling rn but it's definitely some kind of love and that's good enough for me." Also I hc Frodo as aroace, for a lot of different reasons including but not limited to "it's a free country and I wanna see the a-spec side of me in a hero I love." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But I also think it's more than reasonable to think Sam had a huge hero-worship blush-inducing ridiculous crush on Frodo at the beginning of the book, before they got closer during the Quest and their feelings for each other shifted and synced up into qpr territory. Merry (I think?) says something like "Sam would jump down a dragon's throat to save you, Frodo, if he didn't trip over his own feet," and that's when they're still in the Shire (and that goes well beyond just being a good servant honestly, whatever excuse Sam himself might give)!

So even if Frodo is aroace and even if their relationship ended up as a qpr I do think Sam is bi or pan (even leaving aside alterous attraction). Idk about split-attraction model specifics like demiromantic or asexual but Sam is definitely into women (Rosie mostly) and into men (unless Frodo's nb which is a hc I toy with sometimes, but regardless Sam's into multiple genders).

Ofc if Sam and Frodo are romantically (and/or sexually) involved then I quite like the idea of poly Frodo/Sam/Rosie, with or without anything going on between Frodo and Rosie. Sam/Rosie is too adorable and pure to write off as a cover-up and Sam has 2 hands.

Of course the main reason this all falls under Unrealistic is because I have no idea how Tolkien would have felt about all this Queer Nonsense. Given he was a Catholic I'm not too hopeful for a more positive reaction than "wow well that sure is a theory and you have every right to it even though it's not what I was really going for." I've heard he apparently knew queer people and thought highly of some queer literature, but there's a difference between that and actually writing queer characters or accepting queer interpretations of your own characters.

I'm actually really curious what might come out over the years, as Tolkien's immediate relatives die off and his writings are left in the hands of more distant relatives and scholars. God knows Christopher Tolkien seems to have been keen on publishing and thoroughly analyzing every scrap of his father's writing, but who knows what he might have held back, or what his father might have hidden away from him (eg extra chapters with lots of smooches)? So, I'm hopeful, but not really expecting too much.

[daintyduck99]

fic asks E (lucky enough to love you now, recency bias lol) and M

E: If you wrote a sequel to lucky enough to love you now, what would it be about?

So I've toyed with the idea of Luke eventually returning because he got sick or injured and had nowhere else to go. Reggie and Julie take him in, which he'd feel bad about even if they didn't have a baby to take care of--he never meant to impose, she's simply the only landline he's clung to for years, and he gets so intently focused that he hadn't once thought--of course she's moved on and they're too kind to send him away.

It should be awkward, but it--isn't? Not really? And he adores their baby, and he finds himself integrating into their--everything, and everyone seems to adore him right back and it's bizarrely easy and he understands, finally, why some people let themselves become tethered to a town like this.

He should have given into that pull the first time, but little Rosie Peters-Molina has him wrapped around her finger, and so does her father, so he can't really regret any of the choices that led them here too much.

M: Got any premises on the back burner that you’d care to share?

I was so sure I'd told you about all of them, but I opened my docs and found one I'd forgotten about!

At some point, I started writing a sequel to I Don't Want You Like A Best Friend / the QPR Rulie fic. I didn't include any notes so maybe I was simply inspired, but I really like what I have, even though it's just Julie realizing that something is wrong and Reggie admitting that his mom thinks she's his girlfriend. If I give that one some real thought, I could probably do something with it!

Here's some of what I have in case it's the only time it ever sees the light of day lol

She fumbles for his hands and finds them dancing along her sides, catching them and lacing her fingers through his. She leans on him a little more, hoping he'll relax into her pillows, and catches the swell of his lip with deliberate care, lingering and slowing their momentum. She starts a silent conversation.

What's wrong?

He exhales shakishly through his nose.

Their mouths make a smacking sound when he breaks the kiss, a messy and abrupt end that she'd be embarrassed about if he was anyone else, even Carrie.

He squeezes Julie's hands and she opens her mouth to ask out loud when he blurts—

"My mom thinks you're my girlfriend."

[daintyduck99]

Hey love, for the writer ask game: 💭, 💻, 😏

Hello again love! 🥰❤🥰

💭- any ideas for a possible wip?

An idea that I haven't really mentioned yet or technically started 🤔 I've been toying with the idea of writing a longer fic based on the Rulie Cowboy ficlet, although at the moment it would just be smut (I'm still tempted to write it though I feel like it has the potential to be more)

💻- three works of yours that are must reads

This was such a hard question (when did I write 27 things for jatp alone!?!), but I think I finally narrowed it down to It Was Only A Pick, The Reckless Songbird, and Backpack Cuddles.

IWOAP is one of my favorite of my Peterpatter fics, and it has a sprinkle of angst in all of the fluff and the metaphors (and a song that the lovely @psyduckappears wrote a melody and a piano line for ❤).

Reckless Songbird is heavily inspired by my own experiences with dropping everything to write poetry (with bonus flustered Alex and Reggie because it's Polyphantoms).

Backpack Cuddles is a ficlet that I love because it encapsulates my love of writing short fluff pieces (specifically Rulie fluff) and I'm really happy with how the QPR aspect turned out! Also cuddles 🥰 Need I say more lol

😏- your most risky line

You know I had to go with something from I Wanna See And Stop Thinking because there were a lot of risqué lines in that one:

“You’d like to be in Luke’s position, too, wouldn’t you, corazón? You want him to fuck you while I put your pretty mouth to work? Or maybe,” Julie purrs, leaning forward so her lips brush against Reggie’s, “you want me to fuck you while you choke on Luke’s cock.”