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10, 16, and 17 for the fic asks! 💖💖💖

please you’re the best, you know that?

10. Do you ever put any of your own traits or personality into any of your characters? Which?

Literally all of the time?? DOPS Scarlet is very me and I draw a lot on my own idiot behaviors. And When the Sun Sets on Us Yvie laying on the floor trying to figure out her feelings is some shit I’ve pulled. And that au’s Vanjie is me @ my friends about their love lives. 

16. Are there any ideas you are currently playing around with that you would like to write sooner or later?

Ooh I have a few ideas floating around but the one I most want to get to the redo of DOPS. After that it’s Girlfriends without Benefits AU, my scyvie fake-dating au. 

17. Favorite fic that is not written by you?

okay okay wow this is hard (and it doesn’t help that I haven’t had time to read a lot recently because of working on my master’s degree, writing my own fics, general anxiety, u know the deal) but I’ll give you some I consistently return to, in no specific order: 

-  everything touched by @scarletenvynyc of course: What We’ve Become, eastbound, homebound, having you her way, and of course This Time Around and Lust For Life (in collaboration with Miss. Bianca)

- Sweet and Wicked (by readwriterepeat on AO3, not sure if they have a tumblr), which is some very good m/m smut.

- the broken hearts club by @pink-grapefruit-cafe (who will be a Repeat on this list because I also love summer lovin’ and I would like more of this in my life if possible because I am a messy american and i love British drama reality tv). Also, if we have each other is extra soft and lovely and a real feel good fic.

- malamente by @formercongressman. it’s very goodbye earl and it makes me want a lil scene of B and V making strawberry jam and selling Tennessee ham

- Artemis by @youre-a-kite. I love this and the whole concept and I’m fully here for anything to come with this au. 

- How Far I’ll Go. By @janssports and @mia-ugly. It’s beautiful and I’m so excited for more. I love these two so so much. 

- Elastic Heart by @mia-ugly. This may be one of the first branjie fics I’ve read but it’s definitely the one that’s stuck with me the longest. Such a fantastic read. 

- Powerless and Overpowered by @buffywhovianpotterlock great group fic. Such a great job juggling all the side characters while still maintaining focus on branjie.

- soft like lavender, warm like honey by @momsthetic (writworm42). It’s just cute and calm and sometimes you just have to read about some farm lesbians.

- also i feel like I should start reading @artificialortega‘s Strictly fic despite not knowing anything about dancing or this show at all besides that Michelle Visage was on it? I don’t know please @ everyone inform me more about this thank you.

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I’m so proud of my baby for writing this amazing, soft, and heart breaking fic. This first chapter will make you feel a roller coaster of emotions, all conveyed so skillfully, and with just enough attention to detail. Also it’s funny!! Right from the beginning, there’s so much poking fun and humor bursting from this piece. For all these reasons and more, it’s quickly become my comfort fic. Go give it a read, a kudos, and a comment. I promise it’s absolutely worth your time!!

Object Permanence

“Just kidding, darling, the first thing she told me about you was that she could see you balancing me out.”

“It’s more that my crazy and your crazy mesh together pretty good,” Arthur says to the ceiling.

“Isn’t that what balancing each other out means, though?” Eames says, almost rhetorical, and burrows closer to Arthur, folding his legs beneath him and grabbing the remote.

Arthur swallows and tightens his hold on Eames, rolls his head to press his cheek to the top of Eames’, instead, and says, “I guess.”

Pippa’s tiny snores can be heard through the crackling of the baby monitor; Eames is warm and solid glued to Arthur’s side, thumbing the label of his beer bottle and channel surfing mindlessly. And for a moment, Arthur lets himself pretend that this, right here, is what he always wanted, realised.

Or, Arthur, Eames, and Philippa form an unlikely family.

In which they hate each other and love her, until life, as they know it, crumbles all around them and changes everything.

Arthur/Eames • Life As We Know It AU • 33.4K words Read on AO3 !

this is my piece for this years @inceptionbigbang, created in collaboration with @ea-stofnar ! happy inceptiversary everyone <3

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This is so good!! Honestly can’t even be mad at myself for taking so much time to get back to this because then I read it again and enjoy the shit out of the way you write these two morons all over again! The concept of these two college professors being so obviously smitten, Yvie breaking her own rules for Scarlet because Scarlet is just that special, just trying to hold off on sleeping with her because Scarlet’s clearly not sober—I loved reading this so much. I love this flirting little banter these two have, how they tow the line between being highly intelligent, well studied academics in such a particular subject with all this ambition, and Yvie not being able to adequately express her feelings and Scarlet being preciously heavy-handed with how much she likes Yvie, practically throwing herself all over her. 

I’d love to see more of this if you’d be willing to write it hun!

You know what I’m not done I just gotta say how much I love Yvie saying she’s more of a third date lady, as though she hasn’t been hanging out with Scarlet at least three times, and with the level they’re flirting, neither of them wouldn’t think it’s a date like Dr. Yvie, please, you’re not looking respectfully 👀

Hi hun! Could I request 35+M for scyvie? Thanks! 🌞

i literally just read ‘daybreak over manhattan’ and then i ran to go write this for you because that fic was truly miraculous. i would DIE for you. also, this is absolutely not me pushing my paleontologist/jurassic park scyvie dream on yall. not at all

35 - “I’m not being nice because I want to sleep with you, but I definitely do want to sleep with you.”

M - In Vino Veritas

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Yvie, as a rule, does hang out with work friends outside of work.

College professors aren’t a lot of fun to go out with. ‘Going out’ means sitting at a bar, getting drunk on whiskey and cocktails, and whining about students and grading and research. Yvie would rather sit at home with her cat and leftover takeout - watching The Shining for the millionth time will always be more entertaining than Nina’s students violating her late policy.

Scarlet, though - Scarlet’s different. 

Scarlet is new to the university, a recent graduate from a doctoral program somewhere on the Pacific Coast. Yvie hadn’t bothered to investigate any further than that, too engrossed in trying to get the grant she wants for her dig proposal and dealing with students that don’t seem to understand that, but she’d appreciated the beaming smiles she got in the mornings, passing by one of Scarlet’s classrooms on her way to her office. 

It was that same smile that convinced her to break her rule, Scarlet clearly expecting Yvie to agree to her invitation for drinks and already grinning in anticipation. Yvie was not going to be the one that made it fall. And besides - maybe Scarlet’s a little more fun than the others. She is from California, after all.

After around five consecutive weekends out with this woman, Yvie thinks she can safely say that she was right. Scarlet is so fun. She’s also maybe the best person Yvie’s ever met, but that’s an issue for a later date.

“Girl, what is that?” Yvie cackles, as the bartender slides Scarlet another deep purple shot. A ‘purple nurple’, is what the bartender called it. “Your fifth one?”

“Sixth!” Scarlet hoots, and her voice is a little slurred. Her nose is flushed pink. Yvie has the sudden urge to kiss it, and the thought is suddenly sobering, her own three purple nurples running a little less warm in her veins. “And don’t call me ‘girl’.’

Yvie laughs at her, shaking off the feeling. She’s just drunk. Developing feelings for someone this quickly - no. She’s definitely just drunk. “Why not?”

“Because I graduated,” Scarlet explains, raising her eyebrows drunkenly, and Yvie thinks she might be the only person she knows who can make her own eyebrows look toasted. “With honors. I’m a woman now, Yves.”

Yvie pretends her heart doesn’t flutter at the nickname, instead snorting at the way Scarlet is trying to look at her severely. “Yeah, of course,” she says, smiling to show she’s teasing. “The true mark of womanhood: a dissertation on the pack instinct of Hadrosaurids.”

“Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus,” Scarlet corrects, not even stumbling across the eleven syllables, and Yvie raises her hands up in surrender. 

“Of course,” she says, and Scarlet gives a short nod. She then downs her purple nurple, and when she looks back at Yvie, her teeth are a little purple. She looks adorable.

“I bet you graduated with honors,” she says, and Yvie raises her eyebrows. “You’re so smart.”

“Am I?” Yvie jokes, but Scarlet doesn’t laugh, instead widening her eyes earnestly. She leans forward, grabbing Yvie's arm gently. Yvie’s heartbeat picks up as she looks back at Scarlet, fighting the blush that wants to creep into her cheeks.

“You’re so smart,” Scarlet tells her, eyes stern. “And so talented. And so wonderful.”

“I haven’t even had my own dig yet,” Yvie laughs, and she’s certain that her face is bright red. She’s giggling, a little, which is horrifying. Yvie shouldn’t be giggling around her brand new coworker, no matter how hot and sweet and funny she is.

“You’re about to!” Scarlet exclaims, squeezing Yvie’s arm a little tighter and shaking her, a little. “You’re going to get that grant, because you’re the best and you know what you’re doing! And then you’re going to find so many velociraptors that you won’t even know what to do with them all!”

Scarlet is drunk. She is so, so drunk, drunker than Yvie, but that doesn’t stop Yvie from leaning a little closer, from letting it go to her head, a little. And maybe to other places. “Flattery isn’t going to get me to sleep with you,” she jokes, grinning. “I’m more of a third date kind of woman.”

Scarlet makes a shocked expression so exaggerated that Yvie almost thinks it’s fake. “No!” Scarlet says, and Yvie’s heart drops into her stomach. “No, Yvie! I’m not being nice because I want to sleep with you,” she leans in even closer, waggling her eyebrows, “but I definitely do want to sleep with you.”

Yvie’s mouth goes dry. “Why, then?” she asks faintly, because she doesn’t know how to interpret the relief rushing through her, as well as the anxiety. 

Scarlet shakes her head. “Because you’re so pretty,” she slurs, and Yvie is reminded of just how hammered she is. “And nice. And hot. And perfect.”

“I’m a little less than perfect,” Yvie says, laughing awkwardly. 

“Well, you’re perfect to me. You’re marriage material.”

Yvie stands up so suddenly her stool nearly falls over, her face burning and her heart stammering in her chest. “Alright!” she says abruptly, taking Scarlet’s hand and pulling her off of her stool. “We should get you home before you get alcohol poisoning.”

“Really?” Scarlet pouts, and Yvie wants to tell her no. Wants to sit at the bar and flirt back and maybe make out with her in the alleyway. But she’s a little too sober and a little too professional, so she says yes, and drags Scarlet outside to call a cab.

Scarlet snuggles her in the back of the taxi the entire way to her apartment. Yvie doesn’t know what’s she’s done to make God so upset with her, but it must have been truly horrible. 

Scarlet continues to cling to her as when she walks her back up to her apartment. Yvie pretends not to be enjoying it, instead managing to maintain a relatively straight face when she leads Scarlet back to where her bedroom is, after some guesswork. She lets Scarlet fall onto the bed, ready to yank off the little heels she’s wearing, bring her a glass of water, and call it a night, but Scarlet clearly has other plans.

She yanks Yvie into bed with her, her hands curled around Yvie’s wrists, and Yvie lands on top of her with an oof. There’s a long pause in which they just stare at each other, Yvie shocked and Scarlet smug, before Scarlet leans her head back with a sigh.

 “This is nice,” she says, pleased, and Yvie pushes herself off of her and back into the floor, her ears burning. 

“Scarlet, I’m going to just--”

Scarlet sits back up, propping herself onto her elbows. She looks hurt, and Yvie’s heart skips a beat. “Can’t you stay?” she asks. “Please?”

Yvie looks at her for a long time, debating. She and Scarlet have grown close in the last month, laughing and bonding over a different drink each outing, so this shouldn’t be weird. She should be able to stay over at Scarlet’s without a second thought, pleased to have a new friend, especially in the sea of dullness that mainly occupies her social circle.

On the other hand: there’s no way Yvie will survive sleeping in the same bed as Scarlet without spontaneously combusting.

“Please?” Scarlet repeats, sticking her lip out a little, and Yvie is tempted to call her a brat. She would, if the circumstances were a little different. Instead, she relents with a sigh.

“Alright,” she says. “I’ll take the couch.”

Scarlet’s bright grin makes it worth it.

Yvie can only hope that it’s still worth it in the morning, when Scarlet is sober and less touchy-feely. 

Yvie can only hope that this wasn’t her only shot.

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In the words of the great Alaska: if you’re not reading N19F, you’re not doing drag. I love a group fic and N19F is really the standard to me. Ortega packs so much joy into each chapter that it’s impossible to finish reading without feeling that joy yourself. I loved all the christmas meal antics, the opening of a new Branjie plot point, and of course new developments in the Scyvie relationship. It’s amazingly written, quick witted, and depicts university life (at least through my American college student perspective) super well. Definitely give it a read and some love- I guarantee you’ll fall in love with this work. Such an incredible job-per usual!!!

Not Nineteen Forever (10) (Branjie/Scyvie)- Ortega

a/n: are we all ready to read a chapter about Christmas on this day of our Lord August 3rd 2019? here’s chapter 10 of the wild ride that is n19f!! please please please if u love this fic then let me know, i’m starting work again soon so my motivation is going to be basically on the floor, so i need u lot to let me know u miss it and love it to give me the kick up the bum i need! enjoy xo

please note: this fic contains young adults often behaving in irresponsible/unadvisable ways with regards to alcohol, drugs and sex. if you are someone who feels as if they could be heavily influenced by fic and incorporate what happens in the plot into ur own life, pls steer clear!

summary: Brooke, Yvie and Nina are three flatmates who forged a friendship in their first year of university and picked up some other waifs and strays along the way. Now in their final year, there are feelings that need to be unravelled and confessions to be made whilst navigating drunk nights, hungover mornings, takeaways, group chats, library meetups, cafe gossiping, and the small matter of getting a degree.

last chapter: Brooke and Vanessa admitted their feelings for each other, and everyone’s favourite set of flatmates all made up.

this chapter: it’s the annual big festive gathering before everyone goes home for the holidays. will Secret Santa gifts be a hit or a miss? will the Christmas dinner be edible? will Nina ever stop singing songs from Nativity?

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Oh good gosh this is so incredibly cute!!

Hey, if you're still taking question prompts, can you do something for scyvie + "am i doing this right?" ?

Thank u sm for waiting so long for me to do these, i hope you like it! It’s set in my parenting au and i think it is v cute oops

“Am I doing it right?”

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Okay this is one of the softest sharing a bed tropes I’ve read! (And of course I love the face mask)

17 and Scyvie? Doesn't it sound lovely? 💙

it so is! sorry for the wait luv, here you go :) drag names are used but he/him pronouns. ❤

17. “I can’t sleep, can I stay here?”

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God this is so good? And so hot? My investment in the croissants got me more invested in the smut? Beautiful work!

Beauty in the Sheets - Chapter 2 - (Branjie) - Thankyoumissvanjie

A/N: YOU GUYYYYYS! All these comments and all the sweet words are making me blush. Thank you for engage with it, it really made the difference. So here you have 5k words of these messy little shits.

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In my personal opinion everyone everywhere should stop everything to read this. The descriptions are so beautiful and soft, so wonderfully juxtaposing Brooke’s purpose as the provider of evil and the hurt she had to bring to those lovers toward the beginning. I loved the turn to comedy with Vanjie’s introduction to the scene. Anyone reading this can tell so much work was put into this fic and it really pays off. Absolutely incredible!!

Amoretto - Chapter 1 - (Branjie) - dreamyunicorngirl

A/N: So here I am, long time reader and first time writer! A big thank you to Meggie and Charlotte for betaing this chapter and for all the love and encouragement! You are the best! Also thanks Imposter Zoe for answering all of my questions regarding roman mythology. I hope y'all enjoy this one!

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This is so good I can’t wait for more!

(treat me nice) never let me go [branjie] 4/15 - pinkgrapefruit

chapter 4. listen to my voice it’s my disguise

previous chapters 1. 2. 3.

A/N - Heya! Welcome back to Pretty Woman branjie style - in chapter three, exciting shit went down and Vanessa was, well, excited. Thanks to Frey, Meggie and Linda for making sure this isn’t (that much of) a mess, I don’t know what I’d do without you. A little heads up, if you have a problem with the way I write my movie AU - don’t read it. Let me know what you guys think and Enjoy!

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This is quickly becoming one of my favorite fics! I love the cute scyvie backstory, the introduction of that weirdo, Katya, and Vanjie’s continued frustration about not being able to perform yet. I’m so excited for the next chapter!

To New Hytes (Group fic) 3/? - Mac

AN: Again, bless Meggie for betaing this! I literally could not do any of this without her. She is a literal angel.

Summary: Vanessa is pissed, Brooke doesn’t care, Kameron is most probably falling in love, and Trixie meets an interesting woman at the bar.

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This is so good! I love the addition of Blair, Kameron, and a touch of Ninex! I’m so excited to see where the next chapter takes us with this cast of characters. Awesome job, per usual!!!

To New Hytes (Group fic) 2/? - Mac

AN: Again, this entire work would not be possible without my lovely betas Meggie and Grapefruit. You girls keep me young!

Summary: Blair and Kameron find themselves bonding over their respective passions, Brooke loses her cool at Vanessa, and Nina and Monet think they all should just make out.

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Okay so I had to take a minute to compose myself after reading this but wow Mac. Wow. You filled so may feelings out of me in a singular chapter and honestly now I’m invested in ninex? It was so cute and tense? And Vanjie and Brooke? I loved this chapter so much and I’m waiting in anticipation for more

To New Hytes (Group fic) 4/? - Mac

AN: I cannot sing the praises of Meggie or grapefruit enough for everything they do. They talk me off the ledge with this fic practically on the daily. They are tremendously kind and supportive and hard on me when I need it. Bless those idiots, they try so hard.

Summary: Nina and Monet blur the lines of their friendship, Brooke and Vanessa banter, and Kameron’s muscled arms are surprisingly comfortable.

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Gosh this made me feel so soft and warm while reading it! I loved the part where the kind of tried to imitate each other’s accent in a teasing way- really everything was super cute. This was an amazing chapter and I’m so excited to read more!

grand slam (7) - scyvie lesbian au - cupid

A/n; Sorry for not updating in forever. There are a couple reasons why but I can tell you I have been super busy. This chapter was supposed to be longer but it isn’t really. I feel bad about not writing long enough chapters so I am trying to change that. I hope it was worth the wait! <3

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Oh boy I feel like there’s going to be some Conflict soon!!! I really enjoyed the cute date and all their soft touchiness throughout the chapter and can’t wait to see how they ha duke tbe media! I’m so excited for the next chapter!

grand slam (8) - scyvie lesbian au - cupid

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This is super cute! I love the idea of these two cats causing all this commotion and Brooke completely ignoring the protests of Vanessa in favor of her little cats. Also unrelated but I cracked up at Henry and Apollo Hytes in the tags. Go read this guys it’ll make you feel soft and happy!

Pet-Sitting (No ship) -ImposterZoe

AN: Mistress is an awesome Beta! This is Apollo and Henry destroying Yvie and Vanjie. Enjoy! IZ

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Sleeping next to someone is one of the softest, most intimate things I can imagine and this fic brings all that intimacy in varied, yet consistently compelling ways. Each snippet has well fleshed out relationships- such an incredible job of making every word count. Its definitely worth reading the whole way through, not just for your favorite queens. I especially loved the scyvie snippet. Such incredible work!

In Your Sleep (Multi) - ImposterZoe

AN: This has 10 different ships. I used real names (except for Trixya because Brian) and each ship is separated. Hope you enjoy! IZ

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