#narkito

[lavvyan]

I was tagged by @kisahawklin, ty bb!

Last song: Drinking Song for the Socially Awkward by The Amazing Devil. Who said in October 2023 that they were in the studio and “more soon” and that was their last post on Instagram so. But it's not like they were ever very active on social media, soooo. Hope dies last.

Fav color: Green, I guess, but I like all the colors. One time I wore a black shirt in the office and my colleague did a double-take and asked wtf I was wearing. I've been trying to crochet a new coat of many colors but progress has been slow because my brain keeps losing interest like, what do you mean we have to make 14 of the same panel?

Last book: Heretical Fishing by Haylock Jobson. I really like isekai stuff as a genre and this book in particular has a few things that actually made me laugh out loud, but I haven't finished it yet.

Last movie: 2019’s Ready or Not. I don't watch many movies, but the second half of that one was so much fun! I laughed, I cried, I was entertained.

Last TV show: Doctor Odyssey. That show has the weirdest pacing I've ever seen, but it's such a sweet mix of earnest and camp. Like one moment someone's head is on fire and the next you get a short monologue on the pitfalls of gender representation in LGBT spaces. The show in general has so much affection for its characters even as it pokes gentle fun at them. I'm enjoying it a lot.

Sweet/savory/spicy: Savory. I used to love spicy but I can't eat it anymore.

Relationship status: Pfffffffffffffffffffffff.

Last thing I googled: Naproxen side effects because I fucked up my shoulder and Ibuprofen didn't cut it. So many side effects. My poor stomach.

Looking forward to: Summer. I get two to three months a year to feel warm and the rest is varying degrees of freezing.

Current obsession: I'm on a Bagginshield fic binge.

Tagging @bgharison, @narkito, @thekristen999, @msbeeinmybonnet, @silvarbelle, @regonym, @madmaudlingoes, @laylainalaska and whoever wants to play

[narkito]

Tagged by @adelaydebclouds thanks! Sorry for answering so late =P

3 Ships: McDanno (H50), Malec (Shadowhunters), Malex (Roswell New Mexico)

First Ever Ship: I'm not really sure, but maybe Harry/Ron? If not, then Hilson (House/Wilson, House MD).

Last Song: I get to love you - Ruelle

Last Movie: Top Gun - Maverick

Currently Reading: Like a thousand fics, I no longer have the attention span to read an actual book.

Currently Watching: re-watching Shadowhunters and Travelers. Watching His Dark Materials, thinking about getting the books.

Currently Consuming: my own worries xDD Naaah, I'm already done with dinner and I'm not hungry just yet.

Currently Craving: dark chocolate. I lost my chance at the supermarket today.

I'm tagging: @magooboo, @runwritegeek, @lechatelierite, @kagekanecavi, @mayastormborn, @lavvyan, @gracecale, @shinodarely, @ivycross, @aussiedevilette, @joeyisourranger, @mattsmithrockstheworld, @ilmare-ilse, and whoever else feels like playing :)

[ilmare-ilse]

List 5 things that make you happy and then pass this on to the last 10 people who reblogged stuff from you! 🥰

1. My Cat

2. My Nieces

3. Singing

4. Travelling to new places

5.Writing

[mymcdanno]

Ask thingy: Here go my guesses!!! age: 32. pronouns and gender: She. zodiac sign: aries. romantic status: single. eye color: hazel. hobbies: reading fanfic. introverted / extroverted: introverted. favorite season: 2. So, how did I do?

ohhh those are good guesses, thank you so much!!!

you got age, zodiac sign and eye color wrong but i see what you did there with the season hahah!! actually s1 would be my fave if we’re talking h50 ✨

guess these things based on how you perceive me

[boazpriestly]

narkito replied to your post: I like writing about people being in love...

I’m the same. Too ace for this. I do “failed” scenes at best. Meaning, they start to go somewhere and then something happens and the Sex goes away. Cue cuddles and good night.

My favorite kind, really. I will actively try to kill the mood because I don't want to put up with horny characters. Cuddles are preferred, but sometimes the characters are like, "No! I need to bang something!" And I'm just like, "Go masturbate in the corner, I don't have time or this."

[cowandcalf]

WIP Tag

Ah, this is different and so special, I love it! Thanks so much to you my dear friend @loyalty2waystreet for tagging me, and also a big thank you to the lovely @narkito for thinking of me. I really enjoy these games.

I have two different posts about that topic. One picks the last sentence from the current WIP and the other one choses the first line. So I take the first line of my current WIP. 

The rules: Include the first line from a WIP and tag as many people as there are words. (This would be anyway too many :-)) So I write tag then three people.

Danny carried the sliced mango carefully on a plate outside. The little clipper stuck in his back pocket of his pants.  

It’s going to be a multi chapter McDanno AU.

Tags: @rickylloverao3 @djordanpadrona @coffeeinallcaps 

Even if you don’t like to attend the game, it’s my way to say ‘hi’ and to let you know that I adore your writing!.Hugs!

[gallusrostromegalus]

narkito reblogged your photo:mgs3: LOOK AT THIS INCREDIBLY GOOD BOY

For a moment I thought you were going to say this was the Wolf dog your family had mistaken for a dog-dog and I was...

Oh gosh no!  Nothing in the world looks quite like a maned wolf, and certainly not any domestic dog I know.

[thewanderingace]

narkito replied to your post “why do people hate aces so much. we’re not hurting anyone. why. i will...”

I dunno what meme you're talking about, just wanted to say I'm sorry this shit's happening, I'm ace too and I don't get hate or anything through tumblr but it is exhausting being constantly put into the position of having to justify my existence as an ace person. So, I'm here for you in case you ever want to chat or something. XOXO

Thank you my dear <3 I really appreciate your message. The meme is “ ‘X character’ is _____ and _____.....dare I say they’re asexual?” and the traits/character they choose are always super negative and gross. It’s just so mean and I don’t understand why they think it’s okay. The ace community has been turning it into a positive but the fact that we have to do that is just so....URGH!!!

I get hate occasionally because I can’t keep my mouth shut and I don’t take shit from people but this is a new low and it’s got me down. You’re right, its fraking exhausting having to justify ourselves ALL THE TIME! I’ve been called homophobic for headcanoning a character as ace (even though their sexuality is not explicit in the show at all). It’s ridiculous. 

*sigh* Thank you for sending me this. I may take you up on that in the future. I’m here for you if you ever want to talk as well.

That goes for all aces out there. I’m here if you wanna talk or if you need a hug, my inbox is open.

[erandri]

Hey! Regarding the questions for writers meme: 2. Favorite part of writing. Thank you! <3

Hey! Sorry it took so long for me to reply to this but I really had to think about my answer.

There are a lot of things that I love about writing but I think the best thing is that it’s been such an avenue of growth for me. I started writing right after a time in my life where, over the course of a few months, I completely changed my social circle. Suddenly I found that I had no idea who I was supposed to be and I used writing as a way to figure it all out.

We all cringe when we see those painfully obvious self-insert Mary Jane fics. Well, I wrote a lot of those fics and yes, it is very painful for me to look back on them but it was great for me. I explored who I was and who I wanted to be through writing and I found friends that I am still best friends with now 12+ years later.

Even now that I’m an adult and not going through puberty and junior high and identity crises writing is still making me be a better person. To be a good writer I need to learn about things that I’ve never had to deal with. I have to put myself in the shoes of characters that I have nothing in common with who deal with situations that I will never have to and every time I do that I grow. Every new story is a new opportunity for me and I sincerely believe that writing fanfiction and becoming a part of this community has made me a better person. That’s why I write and it’s why even when I hate it, I love it.

Ask me a question

[kagekanecavi]

Tagged by @narkito! Thanks!!

3 Ships: Jon/Martin, The Magnus Archives. Rodney/John, Stargate Atlantis. John/Arthur, Malevolent. (did I pick these three ships because they all have a jo(h)n in them??? ... maybe)

First Ever Ship: The first ship I remember reading fanfic for was probably Yami/Yugi from Yu-Gi-Oh, though I undoubtedly shipped stuff before that

Last Song: Walk Through Fire by The EverLove

Last Movie: Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (the 2016 one) ... I think? A couple weekends ago we did a Back to the Future and Ghostbusters marathon and I think Ghostbusters was second

Currently Reading: I just started Paladin’s Hope by T. Kingfisher. Well. I put a bookmark in it to start reading it lol. The last book I finished was Nowhere Else by Felicia Davin

Currently Watching: My parents are watching Murder, She Wrote and my friends are watching Downton Abbey. So those

Currently Consuming: Music and homework? and diet dr pepper. As far as media consumption, I’ve been mostly playing Stardew Valley (modded to hell and back lol) and doing a cross stitch

Currently Craving: Sleep. Salty snackies.

Tagging @crit20lesbian @cloudyjenn @feathered-serpents @nephrysai @dont-offend-the-bees @onemuseleft and anybody else who would like to play!

[narkito]

Mcdanno, #39. Long distance relationship??

Thank you for giving me a prompt!! :D

This story takes place in the “Chosen” universe, but you needn’t have read that to understand this little piece. Hope that’s okay

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Steve scrambles for the phone, jumping over the coffee table and almost landing on one of Charlie’s Lego structures.

“Yes, hello,” he pants into the receiver, as he plops down into the couch, his leg already sore from the exertion. “Hello?”

The line crackles, followed by, “hey, babe.”

Steve sits up, never minding his cramping leg. “Danno! How are you?”

“Better now that I’ve got a hold of you.”

“Awww, you really think that sounds romantic, don’t you? I pity your game.”

“Oi, I have ten minutes to use the phone, you sure you want to use it up insulting me?”

“Maybe?”

“Yeah, kinky, but, how about not.” Steve pouts in response, and Danny continues, “tell me, how are you? How are things? The leg? The kids? My parents? Did Nahele find his lucky socks, did we bring them from Hawaii? How about—

Steve blinks, adjusting to the change of pace. This is not how he envisioned a long-distance relationship with Danny.

“Okay, hold your horses there, more conversation, less interrogation, okay? The kids are fine, or as fine as they can be, your parents are lovely as usual, and absolutely delighted to have the kids around.”

Danny snorts (and it does not sound pretty over the phone).

“You’ve been dumping them with my Ma every week, huh?”

Steve takes a beat before answering, “dumping sounds harsh, it’s more like…”

“Sorry, giving them the opportunity to enjoy the kids on a semi-regular basis.”

“Yeah,” he nods to himself, “much more dignified, that works.”

Danny snorts again. Steve can almost see him shaking his head.

“But in all seriousness, Steve, how’s the leg?”

“It’s fine, Danno, much better than last time we saw each other. I’ve been doing PT and everything.” Steve strokes his thigh as he talks, remembering how it used to be less than a year ago. “Today I walked all the way from the kids’ school to your parents’ house.” Steve wiggles his eyebrows satisfied with his accomplishment.

“Oh, wow, that’s actually a lot more than I expected,” Danny says, a huge smile in his voice. “Congrats for you.”

“Thank you.” Steve answers, satisfied smile of his own dangling from his lips. “So, uhm, how’s your thing going, you adjusting to training well?”

“Uuuuh, yeah, people are, you know, a bunch of average joes for the most part, and a good part of them wash out in the first week, so I’m holding my ground, comparatively I’m okay.”

Oh, that’s code speak for I hate it, Steven, I hate it so much.

“Does that mean you’re objectively a klutz and your drill sergeant hates you?”

“Ha-ha, very funny. Naah, I’m fine, I’m five-oh, we know how to keep it cool and interesting, you know?”

“Riiiight, you bored out of your mind yet?”

“Maybe.” Steve can sense the way Danny shrugs only one shoulder and finds it endearing.

Next to the telephone, there’s a whole wall of salvaged pictures in mismatched frames. There’s a handful of people there he’ll never get to see again, whose voice he’ll never hear again. Some of them were gone way before They came, but some other, he just couldn’t save.

There’s a shift all around him, reality sets in, the strangeness of it. Danny deployed, Steve pining for his boyfriend, unable to help, still convalescent from his various wounds.

“Did they test you already?” Steve blurts out, unable to rein it all in, profoundly aware of how these things go, it is after all what he does as a “hobby” since Danny went; get as much information as he can on the situation. He couldn’t pretend the test wasn’t happening at some point, all people who present the gene and are clearly not wash-outs, are tested. Danny was bound to get tested as soon as the alliance could get their hands on him. His background as a LEO is a huge asset that can’t go ignored.

There’s a small fraction of a second where the line goes silent, and then it connects again.

“Yeah, yeah, no, sure, I mean, yeah. I got tested. A bunch of us did.”

Steve frowns, that’s Danny deflection 101.

“How was it?”

One more time, the line goes silent for less than a second.

“Hmm, uhmm, babe, look, I’m pretty sure this call’s been monitored and as you know we can’t really discuss… the process: it’s classified.”

Steve huffs. He hates that ultimately, he can’t truly know, because he’s not there.

“Sucks been told that, huh?” Steve rolls his eyes, trust Danny to keep grudges alive

for the better part of a decade. “Can’t believe it took a major world-wide disaster to get you back on that one.” Danny tries to keep it light, but even before he says it, Steve knows whatever Danny comments will fall flat.

There’s a short silence where neither of them talks, and Steve can hear the hub dub behind Danny—wherever he is. It sounds familiar in a disorienting way.

On more the one occasion he had told someone from outside to not purposefully make it hard on his team guys. His stomach clenches, and Steve takes a deep breath as he racks his brain for safe topics to talk about.

“How about the food? We can talk about that, right?” He exhales after the last word, ordering his body to relax.

Danny clicks his tongue. He knows what Steve’s up to, and he’s game.

“Oh, yes, we can! I don’t know what’s the deal with these guys, one week everything is delicious and hearty, makes you want to go for seconds and thirds, some seasoning has been so inspired it I use my free time trying to figure out the recipes.”

A distant memory flashes behind Steve’s eyes, Danny cooking back in Pikoii street, barefoot and carefree. Steve sniffs against his will and has to cover his mouth with the back of his hand as to not disturb Danny.

“And then for a few days or a whole week, bland crap, gruel, Steven, veritable gruel—makes me want to go in an involuntary diet. Yuck.”

Steve swallows thickly. “Sounds like regular military experience if you ask me, in fact, above regular, all I ate was gruel for the first four years of my service.”

“Nu-uh! Impossible, I know from a good source you were happy to eat rations in the comfort of your own home when good steak was readily available.”

Steve swallows again, tears spilling over his hands.

“It was Italian food actually,” he croaks.

“Even worse, babe, you’re really not helping your case.”

“What can I say, I get nostalgic sometimes.” He trips mentally on the nostalgia and a sob slips past his tight emotional control.

Danny sighs. Heartbroken as well.

“Babe, babe, Steve. I’m sorry, please don’t cry. I’m sorry.”

“Nothing to be sorry about,” he sniffs.

“I know I just mean…”

“I know, I’m sorry too.”

“Look, I don’t mean to beat you while you’re down…” Danny trails off, but Steve can connect the dots.

“Basic training is extending then? You gonna be a specialist now?”

“Ugh, you’re killing me Steven. It’s cla—no, you know what, fuck this shit, whoever is out there screening my calls, you listen to me you son of a bitch,” Danny yell-whispers to the third party on the line. “I’m talking with my boyfriend right now, who I would have married if not for the giant clusterfuck we are all living through right now, he’s the father of my children and my best friend, so I’ll tell him whatever the fuck I want, you censor this call and I swear I’ll hunt you down and bash your head in, you hear me?!”

Steve chuckles wetly, this is the hothead he loves.

There's a soft clicking sound in the background. It sounds definitive. So, he chooses to believe the censor’s gone.

“You would have married me, huh?”

“Of course.”

“What if I said no.”

“Pfft, please, you were a sure thing.” Steve wants to protest, but Danny keeps talking

over him. “Look, now that the censor is gone. There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you.”

“What?” Steve rushes to ask, fearing the worst.

“I love you.”

“I love you too. What else?”

“I miss you.”

“I miss you more. What else?”

“I already made it through basic and I’m being fast-tracked to pilot.”

Even though he suspected, having confirmation is like a punch to the lungs. No wonder the censor left, a pilot has different privileges, a pilot scares people away, even if they’re being hoisted as the only chance they have left.

“Steve, you there?”

“You’ve never been one to pull your punches.”

“No, I haven’t. Which is why, once I’m done with that I’ll be coming home for a whole month, okay?” Danny pleads, “I got special leave. I’ll be home for Christmas, okay?”

For Steve, it’s like the world’s ending all over again. The future path folding in on itself in front of him, rearranging into a yawning void made of the fearful and the unknown.

Christmas.

Christmas is only two months away. He can foresee his life up until Christmas. He can push through to that.

“Christmas it is.” He sniffles again.

“Yeah, Christmas. Look, I still have about five minutes on the line, why don’t you tell me about the kids, they adjusting well?”

More tears run down his face, but he talks. About homework, about tantrums, about movie nights, about burnt popcorn, about the kids begging to get a dog, about shortages of chocolate and coffee, about going insane with the bickering and the meaningless fights, about never doing so much laundry in his life, the herb garden Charlie and Nahele are doing together as a school project, Grace’s dissertation and newfound interest in nursing. Steve talks and talks, enough to carry Danny home, safe and sound, only two months away.

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*beams* I’ve been wanting to expand this little verse forever, thank you again! :D

[amyreadsandstresses]

AMY'S DAILY FIC REC

Or, the fics I read yesterday. Today featurin BBC Sherlock and Star Wars

*No Light Thing - philalethia

38k, 6/6, Johnlock, BDSM, First Time, Insecurity, Lack of Communication, Happy Ending

John wants a healthy relationship. Sherlock struggles to understand the concept.

*Flickering Light - Soulvaren5555

1k, 1/1, Ahsoka Tano, Mortis Arc, Mind Control, Whump

Amidst the shadows, a small light flickered.

The real Ahsoka was no longer in control, but she wasn’t rendered completely unaware; said awareness was fuzzy when the chaos first swept in. The last of the light was pushed to the very back of her mind, and though surrounded by the Dark, she was still fighting to reach the surface. She clawed at the imposing force keeping her trapped, knowing if she let up for even a second, she would remain in darkness forever.

(Or: What if a small part of Ahsoka resisted the Son's control?)

*Waking is worse than the Nightmare - 221B_Marauder

1k, 1/1, Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, PTSD, Angst, Hurt/Comfort

John always takes care to fall asleep in his own bed, never on the couch or in his chair. One evening, exhausted, he breaks this rule and dozes off, and has a nightmare.

*The Principle´s the Same - Narkito

17k, 6/6, Sherlock Holmes & John Watson, WWII.

Sherlock gets wounded on the battle field and they leave him for dead. John, who's just escaped from captivity finds him. Together they start their journey out of enemy territory.

[ilmare-ilse]

5 AND 6: Share one of your strengths and one of your weaknesses.

Hmmmm... A strenght? I think I’m good at putting myself in someone else’s shoes, so for writing it helps me to imagine how characters would react to different situations.

A weakness. Maybe thinking too much? I rarely follow my first instinct, so all the raw emotion that first comes to mind usually gets a bit squashed in the process, and then I worry that there’s too little emotion, and so on...

[mymcdanno]

Hi, hope this is okay. For the ask meme: 65. Have you ever been suspended from school?" Thanks!

65. Have you ever been suspended from school? of course this is okay!! but no, i have actually never been suspended 😊

ask me questions?

[boazpriestly]

narkito replied to your post: How much screentime did Nahele get in the premiere...

about 30 seconds, no Steve & Nahele interactions

WHAT KIND OF BULLSHIT!

I mean I still have to watch because I love my son, but FUCK LENKOV, HONESTLY.

[milverton]

Another music tag game

I was tagged by the wonderful @mrs-storm-andrews 

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rules: only using song titles from one artist/band, cleverly answer the question and tag 10 people

band/artist: Poets of the Fall

what’s your gender? Miss Impossible how are you feeling? Maybe Tomorrow Is a Better Day if you could go anywhere? The Distance favorite mode of transportation? Gravity your best friend? Someone Special favorite time of the day? 3 AM if your life was a tv show? Dreaming Wide Awake relationship status? Illusion & Dream

I tag the last 11 people who liked a post from me (that I didn’t already tag to another game): @quiescentcastiel, @beaky-o, @camachameleon, @why-am-ievenhere, @irenecastleholmes, @hirikosaunders, @peony-pincup, @crazy0rconfused, @narkito, @flowery-unicorns, @maxtrashpng