#lw lainey

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Stargazing

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Finally finished my first like, full art piece that took me a month to complete!! And is a present for my dearest friend @persephotea <3 who is an amazing storyteller and talented artist and awesome friend who I love creating with! Happy Late Birthday? Merry Late Christmas?

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Albums/EPs: Lainey Wilson (2016 - 2022)

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THE FIRST SENTINEL AU -- MASTERPOST

They claim that Elder Sarah Lyons fell in combat, that she succumbed to a final, fatal mistake at the height of her power. But stories in the wasteland never end so clearly, so cleanly, and in 2287 -- ten years after the Capital Wasteland was changed forever -- the tides in the Commonwealth are turning. Deadly foes may linger in shadowed ruins or murky swamps, but some things can’t die until everything’s square... and Sarah’s got a lot to settle with the faction she once bled for.

A Fallout 3//4 AU that follows Sarah Lyons on a quest to regain all she ever lost, hell or high water. It’s also Sarah Lyons/non-binary!Lone Wanderer, because I’m gay and I said so. If you’ve not seen one of my masterposts before, welcome to this mess! I’ll be collating all of the content for this AU in one spot for easy access and cross-linkage.

FICS (full length):

Sarah Lyons: The First Sentinel (coming soon)

kissed the girls and made them cry

FICS (short length):

Batter Up

Proved You Right

California Dreamin’

Double Triple Bossy Deluxe

Dogmeat Me, Dogmeat You

ART:

2277 vs. 2287: Outfit References

Sarah and Rookie: Portraits

Rookie doodle

Dreams Worth Dying For

Three Dog’s Siren Song (or: the 6am shift)

Hazardous to Health, Well-Being, and Life-Span

Like Fine Wine

MSPaint Rooksy Reeves

Three Dog’s Siren Song - The Thrilling Sequel

They’re Rude Now

Sarah doodle, i

Sarah doodle, ii

Lyon’s Mane

Something To Fight For

Mom and Pops

Go For The Face

Lightning Strike-Out

Sarah doodle, iii

A Brighter Past, Overground (2078 AU)

Dawn Dusk (and her long ongoing hair feud)

The Final Inning

You Have Unleashed Your Own Undoing!

Sarah Doodle, iii

Sarah Doodle, iv

Monday Morning, Roosevelt Academy (2078 AU)

MISC. STUFF:

art tag

writing tag

sarah/rookie ship meme

The First Sentinel -- Side Stories (AO3)

who the hell is Ryan Young anyway? (sarah’s mom headcanon)

sarah/rookie ship meme II

TESTIMONIALS:

‘how dare u’ -- EdarZhar 

‘rookie thats QUEER, ALL OF THIS IS SUPER QUEER’ -- everyonesbeau

‘sarah loading her laser rifle: we can’t expect god to do all the work’ -- lainey

‘The way you write your characters makes them feel so alive n dynamic and I. Am here for it. And for the massive amount of queer content in your writing.’ -- sleepyginger

NOTES:

In this AU, Sarah is a ?non-binary? woman (she/her), and Rookie is agender (they/them). This AU features a lot of them kissing, given it’s Sarah Lyons/NB!LW, but it also features explicit violence, swearing, use of drugs, drinking, and potentially mild sexual content. All fics will be tagged with the appropriate content warnings within, or on a per-chapter basis, depending on the context.

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@persephotea are just thinking about the Girls(TM) this week and it’s both so much fun and allows Amy to have a character arc that doesn’t end in tragedy in an AU

But also just… hammers home why her story is a tragedy. There is no Lainey in Steelheart canon, no person who is stubbornly by her side for everything, and Butch gets there too late.

She’s already cracked. Already broken in a way he doesn’t know how- and doesn’t really should know how- to fix. And then it gets worse.

She doesn’t get a lot of gentle buffers, but with Lainey she does.

Sunshine will always be the heart of my soul, but the more I developed Amy the longer it hurt my heart she never really got to Get Healthy. To be her entirely own realized person.

But for the first time I’m actually starting to wonder, who is that person? What does is she like? What does true happiness look like for her?

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🛌 take a nap with yours

(I totally reblogged this with no idea of how this ask game works so take this! Also, for the sake of some fun drama and actual narrative the Dads die in the purifier still.)

Amy had always hated naps. From preschool to graduation, Amy had refused naps no matter how exhausted she was and it'd been the bane of everyone's existence. She couldn't help it, she just didn't get it. She'd even fought her dad on bedtime up until she was eleven-years-old when she got good at pretending to listen to him. Sleep and Amy had never gotten along. Which was why she was embarrassed to admit how easily she'd been corralled into snuggles and nap time with Lainey as nineteen-year-old young adult.

Amy had tried to put up a fight, brush Lainey off and tell her everything was fine, but the shorter girl was just as stubborn and twice as cute. What was Amy supposed to do? Say no? When Lainey was doing that pout that made Amy's head short circuit. The one that Lainey had unknowingly been using their entire lives to wrap Amy around her pretty little finger? Amy was exhausted from days of not sleeping and when Lainey dragged her into the shower for a totally-platonic-and-not-sexually-charged-scrub down she was melting into the other girls touch. Like sweet electricity on her skin. Water washing away the blood, grime, and sins of her wasteland travels- travels she'd kept Lainey out of the loop of. She could see she wanted to ask about the scars and scrapes. About which blood was Amy's and if not hers then whos- but even if Lainey's eyes wandered her big mouth stayed blessedly shut. It was only temporary. Amy knew that, but she'd take the little mercies.

Lainey wrapped her up in their fluffiest towel and combed out Amy's wild mange of hair, and when Amy was nodding off under her touch, Lainey pulled her into a tight snuggle. She buried Amy's face in her chest and stroked her hair, and Amy was too tired for her face to burn. She drank in the sweet cinnamon of her best friend and let herself finally sleep.

Amy woke up in a dreamy haze, starlight peaking through in pinpricks through the skylight above, the desk fan whirred lazily while radio played softly in the other room. Lainey's arms were curled protectively around Amy, even as she snored. Was it wrong to stare while she was sleeping? Could it really hurt?

Amy had come to terms with her feelings only recently, only when Lainey was there to help pick up pieces of their life with her and keep Amy from diving off the deep end, but it felt as natural as breathing. She loved Lainey. She'd always loved Lainey. Through the dumb fights and late night giggles, the two of them had always had each other's backs no matter what, so how couldn't she love her?

Her stomach was full of butterflies and her heart beating hard but full in her chest as she took in every little scar, freckle, and detail of her best friend's face. It was dangerous to be this close, to allow herself this little selfishness, because Amy knew that the longer she looked the more she wanted her. And she couldn't- there was no way Lainey felt the same. She was in love with Butch, Amy's other best friend, and it was going to be the two of them as soon as Butch came out of the vault. Amy had no right to want Lainey like this.

Memories of stolen kisses in a dark closet, the safety and courage that it brought, surface to the front of her mind. Her faze flickered over those chapped pink lips and her heart hammered harder.

'Could I...?'

Lainey snorted loudly in her sleep and Amy buried her face in the pillow. Maybe she should just go back to sleep.

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Felt like I was in a mood to think about how Amy would feel about the growing romance between Butch & Lainey in our LW wanderer AU <3 @persephotea take this small silly treat

Amy was bouncing her leg hard enough that her desk was starting to rattle. Mr. Brotch looked back at her a couple times with an arch brow, but something on her face made him keep his thoughts to himself. Amata - and Freddie - didn't feel so charitable. She tried to stop, really, she did, but anytime she saw Butch giving Lainey those big ol' doe eyes when he thought no one was looking it made her want to snap her pencil.

When Lainey had started tutoring him she'd been worried. Not the Butch would try anything weird, but that he'd be a dipshit. Now Lainey was looking at him like blushy cheeks and baby doll eyes and- and she wasn't saying a word to Amy about it. Both her and Amata kept asking, but Lainey's lips were sealed.

Amy dug her pencil onto the page of the essay and tried really really hard to not be pissed off about it. What Lainey did on her own time was none of her damn business and Lainey wanted to keep secrets now than whoop-di-fucking doo. Good for her.

Someone tapped her shoulder and Amy turned to fund a marker being handed to her, big brown eyes that smiled at the corners. Lainey had leaned over, smelling like cinnamon & coffee, and her heart skipped a bit Amy looked at it warily.

"Brotch still hasn't given you the colors back?"

Amy was scowling back (she knew she shouldn't, she could hear her Dad reprimanding her) but took the marker anyway, "I'm on a two-week probation. Apparently 'the bard's work isn't for doodling'." Amy rolled her eyes, "I don't get what's so great about Romeo and Juliet anyway-"

A ruler rapped against her desk, "Lockhart, Watson. Care to share with the class?"

They both straightened up in their seat instinctively, but Amy's mouth was faster than her brain, "I mean I could, but I don't think you'd like it." She bit her tongue.

'Damn it.' She could hear Butch and the other snakes snickering on the other side of class and it made her want to punch something.

"Please, go ahead."

If it had been any other day she would've shut her mouth and apologized (probably), but having all these eyes on her made her skin crawl and she was so tired of Butch's shit. "I don't see what's so great about Romeo and Juliet."

"Lockhart-"

"Why is the best love story ever written? They don't love each other- they barely know each other! Romeo was in love with someone else at the start of the story, whose to say he would've been any better to Juliet had they actually lived? It's just sad, not romantic. It shouldn't be seen as a love story, but instead what happens when-"

Brotch cut her off, "I'm glad to see you were actually paying attention to some of the lecture, but next time-" he plucked the marker out of her hand, "-try applying that to your behavior, please."

Amy slumped into her seat and propped her chin in her hand feeling all of those hot sparks flying and nowhere to put it. She zoned out the rest of the lecture feeling like moments from flying off the handle, and was going to stalk off to practice when a warm hand grabbed hers.

"Amy! Wait up!"

Cinnamon and coffee.

She felt her cheeks ignite.

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You KNOW I'm gonna send Lainey in >:)

You know it!!!

Laimey <3

Send my character a ★ and I’ll bold everything they feel toward your character.

I like you // I love you // You’re one of my best friends // You’re like family // You are family // I dislike you // I hate you // I’d kill you if I got the chance // I want you to like me // I’m scared of you // I would adopt you // I’d date you // I’d sleep with you // I’d marry you // I’m worried about you // You confuse me // You’re annoying // I pity you // I respect you // I trust you // I feel protective of you // I’d invite you with me to parties // I’d lend you my money // I’d borrow your money // You’re good-looking // I’m suspicious of you // I’m hiding something from you // You’re fun // You’re boring // I’m upset with you // You’re nice // You’re mean // I’m envious of you // You’re smart // You’re stupid // I look up to you // I think you’re a better person than me // I think I’m a better person than you // I want to apologize to you // I wish I’d never met you // I never want to forget you // I want to get to know you better

One of these hurts me more than the other :^)

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Absolutely CANNOT tell you where the companion piece to @persephotea art went!!! Don’t know where I wrote it or where it ended up, but managed to unearth what was the start to the shenanigans that lead to that art pieces to celebrate the unofficial Laimey Yearning Week!

Amy wrapped her arms around Lainey's waist and pulled her in close, burying her head in the crook of the other girl's neck. Her throat ached, a swollen lump lodged in it, rendering her silent aside from haggard breaths. She could feel the heat coming off of the Lainey's face, but she couldn't even relish in her pink cheeks.

Lainey's breath hitched as Amy's breath fanned over her neck, "Ames I'm okay-"

"I thought I'd lost you." Amy struggled through the lump in her throat, tears falling flatly on the other girl's shirt. Amy squeezed her tighter, trying to anchor herself to Lainey, her shoulders shaking. "Please. Please don't do that again."

She couldn't see Lainey's face, but she squeezed back and kissed Amy's head sweetly, "I'm right here, Amy. I'm right here."

I am going to keep fucking digging for whatever was linked in that post SO HELP ME.

Take this for now!!

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Tougher by Lainey Wilson Release Date: April 8, 2016

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Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin’ by Lainey Wilson Release Date: February 19, 2021

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Lainey Wilson by Lainey Wilson Release Date: April 13, 2018

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Bell Bottom Country by Lainey Wilson Release Date: November 28, 2022