#since they shared this publicly it is now my duty to post it. this is the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT MOMENT OF PROJECT SEKAI SO FAR

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Venom 🎀🎨

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✶ Apples in February | werewolf au | fluff, smut

↠ Jin was the type to make you feel good, to show you all your worth. Always understanding of another, you accept the fate of being his mate.

✶ Cherry Topper | idiots/friends to lovers au | fluff, smut

↠ Seokjin is a busy man with a full schedule on his plate at all times. He’s getting through it so he can finally have you though.

✶ The Imminent | demon au | royalty au | smut, horror

↠ A princess from a royal family buys assistance from a witch in the woods to seek out a yellow-eyed demon who can save your ill-fated father, the King.

✶ Winter Whiskey | established relationship au | fluff, smut

↠ Taking your annual friendcation with your loving boyfriend, Jin, the two of you share heartwarming memories together while resting and relaxing.

✶ Again | vampire au | smut

↠ History with a vampire, you think I’d be over it by now. Yoongi comes and goes as he pleases. But why does he keep coming back?

✶ Cut Shot | boyfriend au | fluff, smut

↠ Summer vacation has many moments of fun loving gestures, even when Yoongi goes out of his way to pick up the sport you love playing.

✶ Get Jinxed | cyberpunk au | angst, smut

↠ You battle with the decision between the justice of the law and the rogue ex cop who has you wrapped around his finger.

✶ The Little Things | boyfriend au | fluff, smut

↠ When the present isn’t exactly enough for you right now, Yoongi is here for you through it all.

✶ Tiger Layer | royalty au | smut

↠ You are here to serve your king. In any way he pleases.

✶ Welcome Home | marriage au | fluff, smut

↠ After picking up your husband at the airport, you greet him with what any lonely wife would in the comfort of your shared bedroom.

✶ Crosscurrents | mermaid au, royal au | soft, fluff, fantasy

↠ A bittersweet scaly tale about a lovely mer-prince who falls for a beautiful land princess.

✶ Protecting the Bloodline | vampire au | smut

↠ Understanding the role you were given by the Church you took on your duty of serving the one Prince you choose with ultimate pride.

✶ South Side | gang au, bad boy au | strangers to lovers | smut

↠ You’re too curious about the alluring, dangerous bad boy down in the south side of the city.

✶ Atmosphere | celebrity/boyfriend au | smut, fluff

↠ Namjoon and you have been dating for a few years now, fully aware of the worries a relationship with a celebrity would be like.

✶ Mishap | relationship au | smut, slight angst

↠ You wonder what path you’re heading down when you keep finding yourself in his bed.

✶ Caught Elvesdropping | christmas au | smut, fluff, pining

↠ This Christmas season you find yourself caught in a consistent magnetic attraction to the most handsome North Pole Elf ever.

✶ My Princess | vampire au | smut

↠ An event to celebrate the possible new world of coexisting among the supernatural. you were reluctant at first, not wanting to indulge yourself back into this type of life. But a silver-haired man from a royal family ended up changing your mind.

✶ Shake Shack | strangers to lovers au | fluff, smut

↠ Crushing on a man ever since high school, you failed time and time again to actively talk to him. Until one sweaty summer day, you finally developed the courage to ask him out on a date.  

✶Strictly Confidential | slice of life au | smut

↠ How did you find yourself messing around with him when he’s publicly with someone else? I guess what’s what makes a secret relationship... well, a secret.

✶ 00:00 (Zero O’clock) | slice of life au | super fluff, smut

↠ A night full of movies and intimate conversations with the love of your life and his fluffy dog whom you love more than anything leads into something more.

✶ Aberrant | hybrid au | fluff, smut

↠ Meeting a handsome and rare fox hybrid was the last thing you had expected in a world of coexisting hybrids.

✶ Baddie | situationship au | smut

↠ The bad boy in your life, Kim Taehyung, comes visiting once again for his basic needs to be met.

✶ Down Bad | boyfriend au | ft. yoongi | poly, smut

↠ To spice up your sex life even more, your boyfriend, Taehyung, suggests a brand-new offer to you. One that includes another piece of Daegu that is extremely hard to resist.

✶ Dream | boyfriend au | fluff, smut

↠ Your subconscious was messing with you a little too much, leaving you restless, nervous, and weary. Taehyung is here to reassure you though.

✶ Game Point | volleyball au | smut

↠ TBA!

✶ Let’s Try Again | slice of life au | smut

↠ Taehyung, your husband and father of your child(ren), continues to lead a teasing game which consists of persistence, dedication, dirty talk, and more.

✶ Northdows Forest | faerie au | smut

↠ A lovely interaction with a newfound magical creature who has round peculiar eyes, wispy red hair, and beautiful silk wings.

✶ Playful Dominance | werewolf au | smut

↠ As a werewolf, being separated from your mate is hard, it takes a toll on your emotional, mental, and physical being. You’re sad, you’re lonely, and you’re horny.

✶ Tanzanite Treasures | mermaid au | fluff, smut

↠ You’re met with a handsome man who hands you back your missing necklace given to you by your late grandmother. What you didn’t know is that the necklace holds such a powerful secret about life under the sea.

✶ The Sheets | idol au | smut

↠ On your night out with the gals you get hit up by the one and only, Kim Taehyung, who’s been eyeing all of your Instagram stories. It’s no shocker that he attempts to get you back to his place once you finally decide to leave the club because this isn’t your first rodeo with the determined and insanely hot, fuckboy.

✶ Welcome to Woodsboro | scream au | smut, crack

↠ One generation’s tragedy is the next one’s joke as two horror enthusiasts set out to visit California’s most infamous murder site, Woodsboro.

Series:

✤ Black Ravens m.list : | vampire au | s2l, smut, angst, romance ↠   ❝What the world has to offer is much greater than you could ever imagine. Your life turns upside down when the captivating establishment, Black Ravens, grants you the unthinkable.❞  

✤ 2 Player Games m.list : | established relationship | fluff, smut ↠   ❝Your extremely, effortlessly attractive gamer boyfriend ends up being a bit too playful in a series of videogame ways!❞  

✶ BlueKooBerry | streamer au | fluff, smut

↠ He’s your lovely, most amazing, streamer boyfriend one could ask for.

✶ Long Time No See | werewolf au | angst, smut

↠ Jungkook shows up at the apartment door filled with animosity and unanswered questions. Where did he go? Why did he leave?

✶ Lucky, Lucky Girl | roommates au | pwp, smut

↠ The joy of Jungkook having a grand ol’ time with his own personal karaoke night causes you, his roommate, to grow more and more annoyed.

✶ Office Santa | office christmas party au | smut

↠ On the verge of leaving the office Christmas party, you find a reason to stay just a little bit longer.    

✶ Piquant | vampire au | angst, smut

↠ Jungkook is your awesome roommate who also happens to be a vampire. What could go wrong?

✶ To Find the Sheep | werewolf au | fairytale, angst, smut

↠ TBA!

✶ Christmas with Bangtan: Secret Santa | chrismas au  ⏤    ❝This holiday season we have a surprise in our own ways; seven gifts for seven days! A tasteful present from us to you, these seven lovely senders have tales and stories of seven men you wish you knew.❞  

✶ Be My Bangtanvine | valentine’s au  ⏤     ❝Featuring seven beautiful rose petal authors, we gift to you seven delectable stories in honor of this romantic holiday full of love and affection. From sour war-heads to the overly sweet chocolate hearts, we hope you enjoy our twists of fics!❞  

✶ The Last Splash | mermaid au  ⏤     ❝Surfs up dudes! Or, swim with some of those little fishies! To draw in the last bits of summer, seven authors have gathered together to give you that one last hoorah to end it off!❞    

✶ Briarwood Manor | vampire au  ⏤     ❝For the prince you come in favor for, you are endlessly indebted to them and only them for the rest of your days. You will be their property, for them to take and to use you to their liking as they give back security, safety, and shelter. You are born to provide the prince of your selection, raised on the purities of the world around you, a clean human offered under the blood moon.❞    

✶ Bangtan Cinema: Horror Night | movie au  ⏤     ❝Come watch read some haunted themes being featured at the Bangtan Cinemas! All stories based in a universe of a special horror-related movie! Isn’t that spook-tacular? So come on down, grab a couple of your friendly goons, some buttery popcorn, and enjoy 7 movies fics directed written by amazing and horrific authors!❞

✶ Paw Prints Academy | dog trainer au ⏤     ❝Welcome to the Paw Prints Academy for Dog Training and Behavior Program! Thank you for taking part in our community of puppy adoration and love. Seven authors have come to participate in telling a brand new story for you all; confidently trained by the best dog trainers PPA has to offer! We will continue to support and resource you with the softest, fluffiest, and wholesome interactions as you venture deeper into your program! We strive to give you the best dog training (fics) experience possible!❞

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Jikook and Coming Out

This is a tiny think-piece about Jikook and the hypothetical event of them publicly disclosing their relationship.

This post is comprised primarily of my own thoughts and opinions, and might be too speculative for some, which I respect completely. Other perspectives are very welcome, so feel free to share your thoughts.

Starting off with my current impression of JK. To me, he’s the type of person that wears their heart on their sleeve, and proudly so. In his Vlives he’s candid and open, and occasionally vulnerable to an admirable degree. Especially recently he seems to want to show himself, his full authentic self, with very little room left for pretence.

(Not to sound cheesy but all those times JK has sat there not speaking, just looking into the camera or seemingly lost deep in thought (first observed in his birthday greeting to Jimin, and several times since in his Vlives), I always had the feeling that those silences were filled with things he wants to say but can’t, at least not for now).

Then there’s Jimin. To me, Jimin is much harder to read, as far as his true emotions and intentions go. I believe he’s as kind and lovely and loving and lovable as he appears. I simply think he keeps a lot hidden. We know he’s a private person, very guarded and in control of how he presents himself —I believe there’s a distance between Jimin the individual and Jimin the idol; maybe a protective distance necessitated by the constant vitriol that he’s had to endure for so long and is unfortunately still subjected to.

And with the type of conscientious, dutiful person Jimin is, paired with him living in a collectivistic society, he might struggle with the notion of disappointing anyone, whether it be his fans or his nation. I hope this isn’t a great concern of his, but I think it could play a role.

With their different personalities, different experiences, and perhaps different expectations they have for themselves (whether internally or externally motivated) I think that Jimin and JK relate to the topic of coming out differently, and of the two I think JK is far less apprehensive. Were he to come out, I’d actually expect him to have almost a devil-may-care attitude, like, utterly unapologetic.

Again, this is just my opinion, but I don’t think JK is too concerned with the consequences revealing their relationship would have for himself personally, if he holds any concerns they would be for Jimin.

In the event of a public ‘coming out’ I have the feeling that the backlash would be bigger for Jimin than for JK, whether it’s done individually or as a couple. This despite Jimin being the one who most of the general public would probably assume to not be straight, just based on stereotypes (alternatively, it could be precisely due to stereotypes and prejudices regarding gender and sexuality that he is generally judged more harshly by some —but that’s a topic for another day).

Regardless, Jimin is pretty much always unfairly criticised no matter what he does and seems to be held to a higher standard, people expecting perfection from him at all times; and unfortunately, in some misguided people’s eyes, homosexuality is a flaw in itself.

And coming out would be difficult, of course it would. That being said, I think we sometimes put too much weight on the negatives —the inevitable hate, the possible social ostracisation— leading many to conclude that Jikook will probably never publicly reveal their sexualities and/or their relationship.

But IMO one must also take into consideration the value of being able to be yourself, fully and openly. To not be constantly, ignorantly or purposefully misunderstood.

So yes, them being public figures complicates things. And yes, there is a lot at stake. But Jikook —being extremely wealthy and famous with a dedicated fanbase— are in a very privileged position, and they hold a lot of power.

Furthermore, the LGBT+ climate in South Korea does seem to be changing slowly but surely, especially for the younger generations. Should they want to, Jikook could not only be a part of this change but a significant driving force. Whether or not that’s something they would want is a different question though, one only they can answer. And if they wish to never publically come out, indidually or together, then that is not better or worse than the alternative. Only they have the right to decide what is best for them and their future.

In any case, these musings don’t really become relevant until after the completion of BTS’ military service. At which point, as far as Jikook are concerned, I have a feeling things will be very, very ‘loud.’

[justdrawingcatsandotherstuff]

(I will post more fan Abomination content, but for now - check out what a family tree I made just a few seconds ago!)

(topics of death will be down there, they follow all my stories👌)

These are my OCs, all of them are. The main ones are the bottom 3. Jones is my big favourite, and his son Chase. And Lilian is interesting, and didn't have a name for a whole year if not more.

Jones is a warrior of justice, but at the end gets too carried away and creates an apocalypse instead of something that fixes justice issue in his world. _ He was alive, then did a big oopsie and was k*lled for it. Then he came back (William, it's you?) but couldn't interact with the world, so he was communicating with his son since he was the only person who could see him. Fortunately, his son shared his mentality. Or he was brainwashed, 50/50.

Chase. Son of Jones, for the most part was supposed to be the main character until I created an AU where Jones was it, and it was more interesting to me bc Jones is more fun. So he was a proxy villain, and in the end realised he was fooled and changed sides. His fight, like his father's, had cost him his life. And a body bc his father possesed it to come back the second time and prove that their little win did nothing. And I have no canon ending for this AU, all of them are random interpretations depending on my mood. In other words - you can choose whether he'd win or not. Chase remains as a ghost around his mother after that. And when he was alive he was a cult leader, fulfilling Jones' policy. A prophet I think. Also they were a cult of .. well .. they ate some meat, but guess where they got it. Btw I now have a good explanation for that. As I figured out a year later - their town had almost or no forest area, which means that they got all food from trading. And what trading do you except when the country is in war? Btw it my stories each town is it's own country bc it's easier to imagine. So yeah, probably hunger made them do that. But then Idk about the rest of their population that wasn't the cult. Mortality was high, but not for all of them. ... Guess they got some little creatures or whatever in this small area. Btw they are omnivorous, they can eat both fruits and meat, but prefer meat bc cats by nature.

Oof, Idk if I can fit info about Lilian in here, but I hope so. When everything was yet usual she was on a stroll and saw one of the soldiers that regularly patrolled the town. (And this was the only one who actually cared for his duties) And she got a crush on him, so started communicating with him. He never had any communication that was friendly, so he agreed. They were meeting for a while and then decided to become a family. Idk how any documentation works there, perhaps through the plot hole. But they became a family and Lilian gave birth to his son. When he came home she asked how to name him and Jones said "Chase. So he would chase the great goals" ("like I do") but he didn't say the thing in braces. And son was named Chase. _ Then one day Jones came back to suddenly reveal that he's leaving his family and perhaps will never come back like ever. They had a fight about that bc Lilian was not only sad that Jones' leaving, but also concerned for his life. He probably was saying he's going to die. (Btw he left them only so they won't be executed if he fails. He loved them still.) Then the next morning people were gathered on "the main street"(?) and someone was publicly executed. Guess who — Jones. It broke poor Lilian and she ran home to cry, didn't even lock the door behind herself. And her son didn't understand why she's so sad. Then he looks back and sees a ghost who was hopeless in trying to comfort his family while being intangible. ... Many years later Chase is showing pretty much the same abnormal behaviour that caused Jones' execution, so his mom does her best to try to quiet him about that and make people to not take his behaviour that seriously. Bc she didn't want him to meet the same fate. Meanwhile Chase took it as his mom being too much of a coward to help him fight for the good. And their relationship wasn't good bc of that. She even went so far that tried to get Chase a prescription of some pills that would keep him calm to not act out. Chase found out and hated it. And never trusted his mother again. ... Later in life he became a doctor, I forgot why. Whenever he came home he didn't talk to his mother much despite her trying to ask him how he's been. She wasn't stupid and understood why he behaved this way, but couldn't tell him the truth who his father was bc it would be dangerous. Either he would say about that out loud to others or he would be even bolder in his abnormal behaviour. Oof. _ Then happens the main lore and she realises all her efforts were in vain. And despite how she feared for her own life she wasn't hurt during the so called "sorting" (basically an act of g*n*cide). And even more time later she found out her dead husband was behind all the world falling apart and was livid, and dedicated the second part of her life to fighting him off. (He was hurt by that and whined to anyone who would listen. After his death he changed in character a bit btw. Probable reason - no physical body to control emotions. He was more dramatic and more, super even, impulsive. Especially in anger). Jones was fought off by his wife once, and it had cost their son's life. Yet again Lilian was devastated. (Poor Lilian)

Yes I want to write a book some day 👍. And this story is called "cult of the white star". The first canon story has an explanation why the start is involved. The second one has it too, but this star is physical. Also probably serves as Jones' surname, I'm unsure 👀

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Masterful

(Disclaimer: This post is strictly my thoughts and opinions.)

William's simply worded statement brought tears more than anything I've watched or read since the Queen's passing...Her Majesty did so very well with her grandson.

William wrote this, talked it over with Catherine who added her two cents to it. It's not too sweet, not flowery or formal. There have been some wonderful, beautiful, even regal tributes from around the world. This from William is noble. You get a sense of "Thank you from the depths of my heart, Granny. The Cornwall-Cambridges will never forget you. You can rest now, I've reported for duty."

With this one simple sentence he identifies with the British/Commonwealth people, lets them know he shares their grief...that it's natural to mourn her, and things will be alright: "All of the sadness we will feel in the coming weeks will be testament to the love we felt for our extraordinary Queen."

Part of the beauty of this statement from William is in what it does not say...what it spells out without specifically saying so. Read it and you have a prioritized list of the things most important in William's life, spoken so as to reveal his thoughts while always honoring his grandmother.

First, he claims what he considers his most cherished heritage: Queen Elizabeth II's wisdom imparted to her heir-in-waiting.

Second, in describing his gratitude for QEII's kindness toward his family he lists who/what is his primary concern in order of importance to him: his wife, his children, the people he serves as Prince, his King.

William will not be jumping ship; if his father holds it together long enough, William will be king. He will always have his grandmother's voice in his ear as a trusted advisor. He is, however, his own man. He will take what he's learned from his grandmother, grandfather, mother, father, and others and pay it forward to his own son, George.

First up, publicly dealing with his brother and brother's wife. William puts into practice his decades of watching/learning from Granny...

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Observation: It's too bad Charles' accession was overtaken in headlines by the Wales and Sussex walkabout. William correctly waited on Charles to first address the nation and take care of official accession. Realistically, he/Catherine/Sussexes were the last royals remaining to be seen in public after QEII's death, and I'm not sure when would have been a better time looking ahead. The body is enroute, much to do with dignitaries and massive state funeral looming, etc. Also, if true that Harry's wife is in frequent contact with Oprah while in England, who knows what the Sussexes had brewing that William headed off.

[4-nomalie]

A rant post

Today honestly became one of the messiest days I've ever been through

Had to resign from my job bcus got a better offer elsewhere (that's normal, right?)

But since my office shared the same building as my sis, the HR people from my (ex) company decided to be petty and made fun of me and my sister publicly (bcus i resigned, yes, how professional of them, right?)

Then i caught cold and tomorrow i have to report for duty at new place

Everything's going too fast and my anxiety has been acting up

Trying to talk my family to bring me to psychiatrist but haha silly me, why did i thought that was a good idea 😀

And now my sleep deprived kicks in and i can't sleep god damnit :')

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Birthentine’s Bit #3

Last one of these for @funkypoacher​ from this post (thank you!!!).

This is Alistair & Anora/Zevran (mostly Alistair & Zevran) with @14daysdalovers​‘ Day 4 A Favor (there are a couple favors happening here...and some not).

Zevran came shuffling out onto the balcony in some heavy, oversized robe from Alistair’s closet, his footsteps lazy and unmuted, which Alistair couldn’t help smiling at. He felt a warm fondness blooming in his chest, and he was sure it came from more than just the bottle of Antivan brandy they’d shared in celebration — Zevran could be comfortable here with them.

“Will you be joining us tonight?” Zevran asked him, placing his elbows on the railing next to Alistair and peering up at him beseechingly with his chin in his hands.

“Yeah…sorry. I was just thinking about…things.”

“I have also been thinking…”

“Oh?”

“Mmhm.” Zevran sleepily looped his arm around Alistair’s elbow. “Mostly about how long it has been since I last got to use you as a pillow.”

Alistair chuckled. “Too long, I take it?”

“Far too long.” He nodded. “I am in desperate need of some good rest after my journey here, my friend. And your wife…”

“She works too hard. I know.”

“Hmmm…yes.”

“But have you ever tried telling her that? I swear it only makes her want to work harder!”

“I can take care of distracting her from her work, of course,” Zevran said with a wave of his hand like it was so easy. One thwarted assassination attempt, and a couple of rounds of Wicked Grace, and Anora had fallen head-over-heels for him. “But I will need you to take on more of the heavier lifting when it comes to ruling your kingdom, whether she gives it up willingly or not. At least until the baby comes, and then…”

“I know…” Alistair groaned. “Morrigan, of all people, has already scolded me about running off to fight other people’s battles in order to escape my duties and obligations at home. If this most recent ‘adventure’ helped me realize anything, it’s that I’m more like Maric than I ever imagined, at least in this.”

“And Anora may be more like her father than she would ever care to admit, as well. But you both are doing your best not to repeat their mistakes, and that is, I think, what matters.”

“Thank you. That is incredibly generous of you. And also! Because I haven’t said it yet, thank you for…” Alistair motioned toward Anora, who was already fast asleep in their bed. “Well…everything you’ve done for us.”

“I do not do any of this just as a favor to you.”

“Right. Well, then…still. I mean I know what it’s like to have a child you can’t publicly claim as your own.”

“And just as you have found many ways to stay involved in Kieran’s life,” Zevran looked up at him now with an earnestness in his eyes that was rare and formidable. “I will remain a part of this child’s life, as well.”

“I hope you don’t think that I meant — ”

“My dear Alistair…” His eyes softened again, and Alistair noticed the new, more pronounced wrinkles at the corners of them. He withheld the comment that immediately sprung to mind about crow’s feet on a former Crow, because this too flooded Alistair with warm fuzzy feelings.

“I know you would never intentionally make me feel unwelcome here,” Zevran continued, squeezing his arm. “But I still feel it’s important to declare these things out loud, no? Just so we are all aware of each other’s expectations and intentions.”

“Well then, speaking of declaring things…Anora and I were thinking we could give you a title. If you’d like?”

“A title?”

“Yeah, like, Head of the Palace Guard or Master of Royal Security or something? Just to make your place here ‘official’ so there’s never any question that you…uh, belong?”

“I see.”

“That’s the wrong word. Of course you belong. But um…I told Anora this was weird. It is weird, isn’t it? Like, we’re hiring you for a job or something. But that’s not it. I promise that’s not it at all. We just don’t want you to feel like you need to sneak in or out or…be a secret or anything. I mean…like, you don’t need to hide. You know?”

Zevran nodded with an amused smile. He and Anora had already discussed the possibility of him moving in with them more permanently as their spymaster once he’d accomplished what he wanted to in Antiva. But that didn’t mean he didn’t enjoy Alistair blundering his way through his own sort of proposal.

“What I mean is that you’re a part of this family. And we want you here. If you want to be. It doesn’t have to be all the time. You can obviously come and go as you like, but…”

“Alistair, please,” he laughed drowsily. “I understand.”

“...just if you want.”

“Thank you.”

“Good. Yeah…no pressure or anything. I mean, well, there’s some pressure, I guess. Because of the baby, but…”

“Yes…” Zevran’s gentle laughter eased into a trepidatious sigh. “I find that impending parenthood has me suddenly feeling a weight upon my shoulders, the likes of which I’ve never experienced before.”

“Oh. Yeah. That…doesn’t go away,” Alistair laughed.

“Then I am happy to have you to share it with.” Zevran yawned. He slid his arm around the back of Alistair’s waist, and let his head fall heavy against him, closing his eyes.

“Are you really going to fall asleep like that?”

“I find your bed more comfortable, but if you insist on staying out here all night…”

“Come on…” Alistair began to tug him inside.

But Zevran slouched all the way down to his knees and murmured, “I think I need to be carried…”

“Maker, I almost forgot what a pain in the ass you could be!” Alistair groaned, bending down and heaving him up over his shoulder.

“You adore me.”

“I do.”

[emotions-ew]

A Collection of Queer Country Artists and Songs for anyone who doesn’t feel like there’s country music they can relate to...

There is this idea that country music is like just Republican men singing about beer, and trucks and also Jesus,  and that is kind of fair because loads of it is but there are some cool as hell queer/lgbtq+ country artists. Finding those and finding that representation in a genre of music I was literally raised on kind of changed my life in a tiny way and I wanted to share that.

(This is by no means a comprehensive list and also I’m basing the “Country” part of this sometimes on my subjective opinion/limited music knowledge so yuh please don’t hate me if I get some wrong)

Also link below for a Spotify playlist of my favourite gay/gayish country music, some mentioned in this post some not, (with a title that isn’t obviously gay for anyone who can’t openly listen to gay stuff on their public accounts for whatever reason) so feel free to skip the massive essay and just jump straight to that. And pretty please repost if I missed anyone/ any songs you love.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7KB6PmUxnpkU7lih8Bysvw

Artists To Follow:

Chely Wright

- Right off the bat, Chely Wright is a legend and I’m in love with her. So, in the 90′s Chely Wright was kind of a huge deal. She started her career as a singer/songwriter and released her first album in ‘94, which was critically acclaimed although never reached the commercial success of her later works. By ‘97 she was really hitting her stride, dropping her breakout hit “Shut up and Drive” (a personal favourite of mine) followed two years later by the biggest hit of her career “Single White Female”. Throughout all that Chely Wright was, to the world, a good old fashioned, heterosexual southern gal. Privately it was a bit of a different story. She had public relationships with male country artists, all while pursuing a secret decade long relationship with a woman. 

I hadn’t ever really heard a Chely Wright song until a few years ago so I never knew about her music or career pre-coming out but I do know that even though by the time she came out in 2010 she was by no means at the height of her fame Chely Wright is kind of one of the biggest names in country music to be out and proud (in my opinion) and I love her like an insane amount. I literally play her music in my car when I have passengers just so I can be like “fun fact this singer is actually gay-” and then subject them to a lengthy explanation of her entire career. She came out with an album and a memoir and the album is my favourite of her work because it’s so fucking raw and because I relate to most of it immensely. Anyways Chely Wright went fucking through it in her journey to being her authentic self and now she’s out and proud and married to a woman and they have a family together and I’m a fucking sucker for a happy ending and y’all should add her to every playlist you have. And on top of that her music is genuinely good. Coming out undoubtedly damaged her career but I think that

Brandi Carlile 

- As far as I can tell Brandi Carlile has been out her whole career. I feel like this list is just going to be me saying “I’m in love with her” about a bunch of women old enough to be my mother but in my defence, I am honestly in love with her. She’s been making music since she was like, seventeen, and has had a bunch of massive hits, as a singer, songwriter, and producer. If you want to cry kind of happy tears listen to her performance of “Bring my Flowers Now” with Tanya Tucker. She’s won Grammy’s and CMT awards and she’s done it all as an out Queer woman. She’s also a founding member of The Highwomen, an all-female country music group who released their first album in 2019, comprised of Carlile, Marren Morris, Natalie Hemby and Amanda Shires. I really love this band because they’re four artists who are immensely successfully in their own right collabing, much like the Highwaymen, and their music is phenomenal while also being a fuck you to mainstream country music and their inability to properly represent women in country music spaces. 

She’s been married to a woman (smoking hot and also brilliant) since 2012 and they have two kids together and if you want to cry (again) then you have to listen to her song “Mother” about her eldest daughter. A queer country artist absolutely worth adding to all your playlists. 

Brooke Eden

- As I understand it Eden came out publicly in January of this year. She’s engaged to Hilary Hoover, who she’s been dating since 2015 apparently. I can’t even imagine the pressure that must be on a person and how stressful it would be to keep a relationship secret from the whole world for years and personally I think they’re a cute as hell couple and I wish them literally all the happiness in the world. 

Brooke Eden has a few older songs that I think are really good, my favourite being “Act Like You Don’t”, and while her new stuff isn’t my usual country vibe I am a sucker for literally anything gay and it is legally my gay duty to stream any song that she releases to support my fellow queer. It’s quite different to anything Wright or Carlile sing but I actually kind of love that because it shows that country music of all different shapes and sizes and styles can be sung by queer artists. 

Amythyst Kiah

- Okay so I am a very new listener to Amythyst Kiah, but her music is literally so beautiful it would be a straight up sin to not include her on this list. Her music is country-blues-roots esq (more roots than country, I think?) and her voice is so unique. She grew up in Chattanooga and has been playing music since childhood. She recently made her Opry debut which is fucking awesome. She also belongs to a band called Our Native Daughters, described as “A supergroup of Black women in traditional music”. Their debut album “Songs of Our Native Daughters” did numbers and I haven’t listened to the whole thing but my favourite so far are “Black Myself” and “I Knew I Could Fly” so y’all add that to your playlists along with “Wild Turkey” by Amythyst Kiah because holy hell her voice on that will blow your mind.

Steve Grand

-        The first man to make this list, he should frankly be honoured. Grand has been an out and proud gay man making country music since like 2013, and I have so much respect for an artist who chose to simply never be in, choosing instead to simply write gay ass songs about being in love with men and letting the chips fall where they man. His music is always going to have a special place in my heart and, he’s cute so if you’re into men and music by men give him a google. add him to your playlists, his All-American Boy album is literally just a dozen songs that are perfect to yell-sing along to.

Katie Pruitt

-        Not hugely knowledgeable on Katie Pruitt but her music makes me feel crazy intense emotions and is absolutely gay

 Honorable Mention Artists I haven’t Really Listened to But Who I Know to be gay thanks to google and might be your thing so totally check them out:

Brandy Clark

Ty Herndon

Shelly Fairchild

Lavendar Country

Trixie Mattel

Cameron Hawthorn

Drop any other names of artists or songs you know of 

 Specific Songs That Make Me Fucking Cry or (in good and bad ways (but always in a gay way)) or basically are just gay as hell:

If She Ever Leaves Me; The Highwomen

- So, this album came out about a week before my first (and only) girlfriend broke up with me. The general gist of the song is a woman singing about how her loved isn’t ever going to leave her but if she does it sure as hell won’t be for a creepy man in a bar. A little ironic that I felt I related to it so intensely, considering she did in fact leave me. There’s this one lyric that goes “I’ve loved her in secret/I’ve lover here out loud/the sky hasn’t always been blue” and my girlfriend and I were crazy deep in the closet so I drew her a cute little picture of a grey cloud and on the back I wrote that lyric and I gave it to her and to me it was kind of a promise that one day I’d get a chance to love her out loud and even though I never actually did this song is forever going to make me cry because of the little bit of hope that lyric gave me and the way it’s inclusion on this overwhelmingly mainstream country album made me feel like acceptance was just that little bit closer. 

 All American Boy; Steve Grand

- Definitely one of the first gay country songs I ever heard, and Steve Grand didn’t once sacrifice a scrap of country for the gay. It’s beautiful, it’s a little sad, it’s hopeful. It’s forever going to hold a special place in my heart and the music videos is kind of one of my favourites ever. I found this song before I found myself and the way it made my heart warm should have been a stronger sign than I took it to be. 

Like Me; Chely Wright

- When you love someone you kind of make it your mission to know them in a way that no one else can. This song by Chely Wright is sort of an ode to that, and how even once you lost someone, you’re still going to know every little thing about them. On top of that it sort of speaks to the idea that all these things Wright learned about this woman, she learned in secret and she knew her and loved her in secret and now that they’re gone from each other she’s left with all of this knowledge and all of these questions and no one to answer them. I love the way it’s so slow and the melody and her voice, the way it’s low and a little raspy, make this one of my favourite Chely Wright songs.

The Mother; Brandi Carlile

-        Sorry but a song about being a mother by a queer woman is going to make me cry every time and actually I’m not that sorry. It’s quite a simple song, if any song written by Brandi Carlile can ever be described as ‘simple’, it’s an ode to her daughter. My favourite line is “you are not an accident/where no one thought it through” because it speaks to the fact that in order for queer women to have a kid together they have to want it so damn bad and also I just like the way her voice sounds on that line. This song is also the perfect thing to listen to if you ever for a second feel like being gay/queer is going to stand in the way of you having a family because it absolutely doesn’t have to and if that’s something you want, you can have it. Don’t let people try and convince you otherwise.

Loving Her; Katie Pruitt

-        Unapologetic gay love. Opening a song with “If loving hers a sin, I don’t wanna go to heaven” is a fucking baller move and she went there. The lyrics are beautiful, and her voice is phenomenal. It could be a sad song, about confronting religious repression and grappling with what that means for your love, but instead its triumphant. Katie Pruitt doesn’t give a fuck if you have a problem because she’s going to write songs for her lover.

Jesus From Texas; Semler

-        Not actually totally sure this is a country song, but it has the words ‘Jesus’ and ‘Texas’ in the title so I feel safe including it in this list. Honestly, I don’t really know why I relate so hard to this song. Like, I wasn’t really raised with religion, so I don’t know what it is about this funky little tune that makes me want to sob but there’s something about this tune that makes me want to do whatever the opposite of get up and dance is, but like, in a good way.

Lovin’ Again; Steve Grand

-        Breakup song that ends kind of positively? So good to sing along to at high, high volumes. The idea that losing someone doesn’t have to mean losing yourself and just because you can’t love them doesn’t mean you’re not ever going to love again. But also kind of about how it’s hard to get over someone, I don’t know it’s just good.

Cryin’ These Cocksucking Tears; Lavender Country

-        Jesus christ if this isn’t the coolest shit I’ve ever heard in my life. Sorry but a gay country group formed in 1972 who dropped possibly the first gay themed country album, and this was the title of one of the songs. God I am in love.

 Songs that (to me) are a little fruity or that I just relate to in a gay way:

Picket Fences; Chely Wright

-          Chely Wright is gay but this song came out long before she did and when she wrote it, it wasn’t supposed to be gay which is why it’s in this section and not the previous. The reason it’s included at all is because frankly ma’am, Mrs Wright, it’s a little fruity. And I feel a little bad for joking because honestly to me, the way I hear this song and knowing the context (that Wright was deeply closeted at the time she wrote and released it), it’s kind of just sad. The general gist of the song is Wright asking what’s so great about a traditional lifestyle anyways. It could be read as a woman genuinely questioning why we push that expectation that she’ll have two kids and a husband and a picket fence lifestyle, or even could be read as a woman who’s trying to deflect how much she does in fact want that, you have to listen and form your own opinion. But to me, it feels like a woman who’s desperately trying to justify why she doesn’t want that life not because she can’t have it, but she knows it will never be right for her. I don’t know it’s hard to explain I just feel like this song is a little bit gay even though I’m sure she didn’t intend that.

Sinning with You; Sam Hunt

-          Sorry but this song is gay. Sorry but you can’t write the lines “I never felt like I was sinning with you/Always felt like I could talk to God in the morning” and “if it’s so wrong why did it feel so right” and “But I never felt shame, never felt sorry/Never felt guilty touching your body” and not to mention the opening line of “raised in the first pew/praises for yeshua/case of a small town repression”, and expect to not sit in my car sobbing as I realised that while I never felt like what we did was a sin she absolutely did, and wishing I could have told her that I was sorry for making her carry the weight of both our souls but also that it wasn’t a sin and nothing in the world could feel that good and be that bad and it isn’t right that she had to be so ashamed of something that was just so good. Sam Hunt actually said after he wrote the song that while it was reflection on his own relationship with faith he genuinely hopes that people in the lgbtq community can like find comfort or whatever in his words and like go off king, we stan an ally.

  How do I Get There; Deana Carter

-          This ones easy, it’s about falling in love with your best friend and suddenly realising you want more than just friendship with them. Sorry Deana, that’s gay. In my Deana Carter of like Year 10 I played this song on repeat and screamed along to the lyrics as though singing it hard enough would make her like me back.

[margridarnauds]

Hello! I discovered your blog through this post and (as someone new to and interested in Irish history) am Intrigued. Do you share your work anywhere, or is it private?

Hi!

I almost never talk about it, but I've been working on a retelling of two mythological prose tales: Cath Muighe Tuired Conga (The First Battle of Moytura) and Cath Maige Tuired (also known as The Second Battle of Moytura) for about...God, the last ten years now, essentially taking the bare bones of the two texts and then focusing on two characters. 99% of the time, I write fanfiction, because it's easier to get out, more feedback, more rewarding in that sense, and I do write fanfiction for medieval Irish/medieval Welsh texts, but this one is basically the one thing of mine that I want to see published...one day. Maybe when I'm an octogenarian, at this rate, but one day. I...don't think I've ever actually publicly posted a snippet from it, since I tend to play it so close to my chest.

First of the viewpoint characters is Bres mac Elathan, a fatherless boy who grows up attached to his mother, coddled by the women of the tribe as their son, but overlooked and unaccepted by the men. When his tribe, the Tuatha Dé, finally arrive in the land that their ancestors vacated, they burn their ships on the shore, determined to either settle or die. Bres' king sends him out to meet with the champion of the people currently living in Ireland, the Fir Bolg, to negotiate for a sharing of the land, but Bres has no idea that his acceptance will kick into gear a series of events that will have him questioning everything he knows. The cost of losing is complete and utter annihilation, however the cost of winning will also prove high, especially when the Tuatha Dé will be forced to contend with the invaders from the North, who are very interested in their new holdings...and have an even more vested interest in Bres.

Second is Sreng Mac Sengainn, a young man who grows up hearing stories of his father, one of five brothers who fled slavery in Greece, killing every man they could lay hands on and stealing the king of Greece's own ships to make their escape. But times have changed since the days of Sengann and the other sons of Dela, and Sreng has never known stability in his life, his early years marked by fear after his father's murder while Sreng was still in the womb. His brother takes the throne, avenging their father's death, but he too falls to the dynastic politics that have plagued the descendants of the sons of Dela. Raised by his brother's killer, Sreng has the eye of his entire tribe on him from an early age, and he sets out to make himself indispensable as a warrior in order to avoid an early death. When his land is invaded, and he is sent out to interview the invaders, he has no idea that he will be sent on a path that will shake the limits of his loyalty, as he realizes that, if they want to have any chance at surviving, they will have to choose between the past and the future of his tribe...even if it might mean defying the will of his king.

Both of them find a kindred spirit in the other, an instant connection formed, but tribal politics threaten to interfere, and both of them will be forced to choose, time after time again, between their duties and their hearts, as they try to figure out, once and for all, where their place truly lies.

CMT is a ninth century text, written at the time of the Viking invasions in Ireland, even though it's allegedly set about 2000 years before that, and so I decided, when writing a retelling, to stick as closely to a ninth century setting as best as I can, which is why I say "vaguely" 9th century. It was actually what made me become a Celticist -- I wanted to get the research as right as I could...which somehow led to me taking up a MA program in Ireland that ended up launching me into a PhD program and now I'm somehow considering conference papers and dissertation topics.

[kumoriyami-xiuzhen]

Hakuoki Comforting Soldier - Okita ・ Saito-hen English Translation

This is my last post of the month, so I’ll end by asking you to please support me if you can through my ko-fi, and paypal or patreon which provides access to my hakuoki blog translations and early access to my postings. Also, please let me know if you have any hakuoki drama cds that you’d be willing to share that are on my Lookout List since i either do not have audio for those cds or do not have audio that I can share.... and if you are able to remove watermarks from a video, please contact me.  

Anyway, this translation is from “薄桜鬼 WEBラジオ 新選組通信録 第八集 特典CD 慰めされ隊士 沖田・斎藤編,“ which I kept on referring to as the “Web Drama 8.” I actually have two tls for this.... tho some parts vastly differ from one another or use different punctuation. final edits will be done later as always... not sure if i’ll post the subtitle video for this publicly (will be delayed regardless due to being busy with school).

Hakuoki Comforting Soldier - Okita ・ Saito-hen

Translation by KumoriYami

Souji: Hakuoki Web Radio Shinsengumi Communication Record, Episode 8

Saito: Comforting Soldier - Okita ・ Saito-hen

Souji: (yawns) The weather is nice today. The skies are clear, and there aren't any clouds around.  Who is in charge of breakfast today? I wonder if  it's ready yet/ Is breakfast ready?

(door opens)

Souji: Good morning, is breakfast ready?

Saito: Souji.

Souji: Areh? Is Hajime-kun in charge of making breakfast today?

Saito: No, the person on duty is over there......

Souji: Nn? Ah, it's you. What's wrong? You look like you just got harshly scolded/Why are you cowering over there [check audio]?

Saito: That isn't the problem!/What's wrong? The miso soup's degree of saltiness is incorrect/The miso soup they cooked doesn't taste right!

Soji: Haha, Hajime-kun you're really strict in that aspect.

Saito: The issue of meals is important. If the body isn't healthy enough, there will no way to fight the enemy. Additionally, when there is too much salt put in, that is detrimental to one's health. [reword later]

Souji: yesyes.

Saito: We must ensure the chief and vice-commander stay in good health, in order to achieve this, I have already spoken the others in the troop several times about this.

Souji: Right right. Ah, has it been finished yet? Don't bring it over slowly, come on, you need to quickly bring it to the large room [im assuming the main/common room]. If it's late, Sano-san /Sano-san and Shinpachi who like/s to worry a lot, will say something about it. Hurry hurry.

Saito: Ah... I've said too much./Did I say too much/was I nagging too much?

Souji: There's no problem. That's because Hajime-kun is a serious person/is persistent, so you can't help but be strict while you speak/you can't help yourself.

Saito: Souji...

Souji: It's fine, I'll serve it myself, Hajime-kun you also need to quickly go, otherwise the food will get cold/if you don't go the common room quickly, the food will get cold.

Saito: Nn, that's right/Ah, okay.

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Souji: Then, should I got on patrol today? Ah, the weather is still nice. Though it is a bit warmer [now?].

Saito: Souji: where are you going?

Souji: What do you mean going where? Today is the first division's turn to patrol.

Saito: switch with me today.

Souuji: What? Why does Hajime-kun need to go?

Saito: Your complexion today does not look so good. Also you didn't eat much at breakfast.

Souji: Really? I'm fine [though]/I'm feeling fine [though].

Saito: No, you should still stay at headquarters and rest/it would be better for you to rest, also it's very hot today. What happens if you get heatstroke?/It's extremely hot today, and that could have a negative impact on your body.

Souji: Good grief/Eh, I'm telling you Hajime-kun, you've become more like Hijikata-san recently.

Saito: What do you mean?

Souji: Hijikata-san recently told me the same thing "It's seems that it's very hot today, so you should stay at headquarters to rest"/"It's too hot today, go and rest."

Saito: That is to say, despite what the Vice-Commander told you, you're not listening to him and are insisting on going out/Despite how the Vice-Commander said that, you still plan on going out?

Souji: But this is a trivial matter that shouldn't be of any importance/But... it really is fine. Everyone is just worrying too much.

Saito: Souji...

Souji: What?

Saito: In order to stop everyone from worrying about you, you should stay at headquarters and rest today. If something happens to you, what will the First Division do?

Souji: That won't happen...

Saito: The chief is very worried about you.

Souji: Eh.... Fine, I know. To go as far as to use Kondou-san's name, you really are despicable/ You really are sly to bring out Kondou-san's name.

Saito: Although I may not be as capable as you are, for today, leave it to me/I hope that you'll leave today's patrol to me

Souji: I obviously don't think that/What lack of capability. Alright, I'll do as you say. I'll leave today's patrol to you/ Alright. I'll leave it you today.

Saito: That's good/Okay, I'll be going then.

Souji: Eh.... this is really boring.

-------

Souji: Nn? Ah, did I fall asleep?/I overslept! The sky's already dark now/The sky's so dark now, I wonder if dinner has ended/is dinner over too? Well, forget it.

Saito: Souji? Are you awake?

Souji: Hajime-kun, it's fine, come in.

Saito: Excuse me.

Souji: Nn, what is it?

Saito: I've brought you dinner. (aside) You can come in/Come in.

Souji: Areh? You were the one in charge of breakfast?

Saito: Yes. That person agreed to make dinner.

Souji: ah? is that so?

Saito: Souji, anyway, you need to eat something. If you don't eat anything, your body will.../have something. If you don't eat, it won’t be good for your body...

Souji: Okay, okay, I know, I know. I'll eat properly. Nn? Isn't this delicious? This was cooked very well.

Saito: Right? I feel the same way.

Souji: I'm telling you, this is very good/You did very well. Few people can earn Hajime-kun's praise/It's rare for Hajime-kun to give such praise.

Saito: (aside) Ah, you can leave first.

(other person leaves)

Souji: Nn... but this really is delicious.

Saito: That's great.

Souji: Having said that, how was patrol today?

Saito: Nothing happened today, and it was quite peaceful.

Souji: Nn? So it was like that. That being said, it was quiet at headquarters today.

Saito: Indeed it was like that, not that you mention it/That's true. Perhaps everyone was also resting/resting and relaxing.

Souji: Is that so? That's great then.

Saito: Take your time eating/You can eat slowly, things can be tidied up later/I'll have someone clean up after. Then, I'll be going first.

Souji: Hajime-kun.

Saito: What/what is it?

Souji: Thank you. Ah... for dinner/I'm talking about for dinner.

Sait: I undersand. Souji, take care of your health. The chief and vice-commander depend on you a lot.

Souji: I understand.

Saito: That's good.

Souji: Goodd night, Hajime-kun.

Saito: Nn. Then, see you tomorrow.

[westerosoliviapope]

I Believe I Do

(A Scandal Westeros Flashback)

Photo by ZHENYU LUO on Unsplash

The Royal Palace at Dragonstone 1985 A.C.

“I will not be miserable.”

The strength in his betrothed’s voice takes him back a bit. As she toured Dragonstone throughout the day, she spoke gently, smiled easily, carried her petite body with all the grace of a future queen-in-waiting.

Deferent when required, expectant when appropriate. Delicate, all the way.

In his parlor, over tea, they share their last moments alone before Prince Rhaegar Targaryen formally asks Princess Elia Martell of Dorne to be his wife and the future Queen of Westeros. After which, they will take engagement photos in the Gardens of Queen Alysanne at the gazebo that was built where his ancestors Jahaerys and Alysanne Targaryen wed centuries ago.

But the woman who sits before him now is not the blushing maiden he’s publicly courted for the last six months.

Her spine is straight, her dark-eyed gaze is firm. Gone is the warm, subtle Dornish drawl she uses in public; now, her tone is hot, the vowels and consonants less distinguishable. Like this, the two years between them are evident when usually she appears to be younger than him.

“I will do my duty to you, to your family, to Westeros,” she says. “You will not lie to me, nor I to you. And I will not be miserable.”

Rhaegar leans back in his chair, letting her words and change in demeanor wash over him. “Are you implying that marrying me will make you miserable?”

“You? I don’t think so. You’re kind, good company, albeit a little brooding.” Her lips quirk into a smile. “As long as we’re honest with each other, I believe we can have a productive, companionable marriage.”

Productive. Companionable.

Strange terms for a marriage, but honest. Far better than the bitterness and resentment he witnessed between his parents.

“I have a lover.”

“I beg your pardon?”

Rhaegar is accustomed to intimidating people when his voice goes distant, but Elia proceeds unaffected. “I have loved him since I was 18. Or maybe all my life, if I’m honest. He is the one thing in my life that I do for myself and myself alone and I will not give him up.”

“Now, wait one bloody minute, Elia. If you think I’ll allow you to come into my home and make a cuckold of m—“

She raises a hand. “I mean to do my duty. An heir and a spare. There will be no question of their paternity. I can provide details on how I’ll ensure that if you like?”

“This is madness. Utter madness. If my mother expects me to marry a...”

“... a partner, Prince Rhaegar. Who’ll be as invested in your joy as I am in mine. I’ll never deny you your private pleasures and you won’t have to waste energy pretending not to have any.”

That stops him in his tracks.

Was she…?

“You’ll ‘let’ me have a mistress, will you?”

“You’re a crown prince and a future king. You’ll do exactly as you please. I simply refuse to waste time worrying about it.”

Not knowing what to do with himself, Rhaegar stands and paces the room, running a hand over his clean-shaven face.

Too many things are happening at once.

Princess Elia Martell is not at all who he thought she was.

His future wife—because Rhaegar is a realist, and the crown is too invested in their marriage for it to not go on as planned—refuses to give up her lover and is openly advocating for him to have one as well.

What had he expected? To be madly in love? To be faithful until his dying day? To be a cad, as his father had been, disregarding his queen’s happiness in his youth and becoming the primary source of her pain and misery as they aged?

He hadn’t thought of it. He’d merely thought it would be what the first 23 years of his life have been: work.

Wouldn’t an honest relationship with his wife make their work easier?

Elia appears next to him, brandishing a glass of caramel-colored liquid.

“Brandy from the Reach,” she says. “I’m told you take it neat.”

He accepts the offering, his brow raised in surprise.

“Dutiful as promised, Your Highness.”

They sip together in silence, staring out at the rocky cliffs trailing down to the eastern shores of the Blackwater.

Finally, Rhaegar speaks. “He’ll have a vasectomy.”

Elia doesn’t react.

“I trust your methods have worked thus far—“

“—I’ve never been pregnant if that’s what you’re—“

“—but for my peace of mind, your… He’ll have a vasectomy. Bring anything of his into my bed—child or otherwise—that’s the end of it.”

Her jaw tenses and she takes a deep draw from her glass of brandy. “Fair.”

“I expect you to please me. I won’t endure fucking my wife for the sake of heirs. You can expect to be pleased in return.”

Elia’s face breaks into a broad smile. “Prince Rhaegar, did you just say ‘fuck’?”

Despite himself and the absurdity of the conversation, he smiles back. “You’ll find I say it often in closed company.”

“That won’t be a problem.” She steps back and makes a show of drinking in his appearance. “Nor will pleasing you, I don’t think. Do you have someone?”

Rhaegar shakes his head. “Nothing as serious as your arrangement.”

“You will. You’re a romantic. You won’t be able to help yourself.”

He puts a hand in his pants pocket and takes another sip. “I suppose time will tell.”

“Rhaegar,” she says, her tone suddenly serious. “Look at me.”

Standing nearly a foot taller than her, he looks down and sees Elia Martell for the first time. He still sees a princess’s elegance, but now he sees cleverness sparkling in her dark eyes and the graceful strength his mother only developed after his father’s death. More than the picture-perfect queen-in-waiting, she’s a Princess of Dorne. Formidable. Shrewd. What passes between them as his indigo eyes meet her black pair is nothing as electric as passion or infatuation.

It’s respect.

She raises her glass. “No lies. No public embarrassments. No bastards.”

“No lies,” he promises, raising his glass. “No public embarrassments. No bastards.”

Once they clink glasses and finish their drinks, she asks, “Do you want to know who he is?”

“No,” Rhaegar answers. “But I reserve the right to change my mind.”

“Well, then. I believe you have something to ask me, Prince Rhaegar?”

“Yes, Princess Elia. I believe I do.”

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This story was originally posted on AO3.

For more from the Scandal Westeros Universe (a modern take on ASOIAF in a "Scandal" setting with Sarella Sand as Westeros's "Olivia Pope"), check out the following links:

Scandal: Westeros on AO3 Scandal: Westeros (Bonus Cuts) on AO3

[killemwithkawaii]

Smutty yandere Travis HCs pls?

TRIGGER WARING: ABUSE, SELF-HARM, HOMOPHOBIA, OBJECTIFICATION, KIDNAPPING, ETC ETC ETC (It's yan!Travis people, you know where this is going so be sure to buckle up)

NS/FW yan!Travis headcanons-

>Being attracted to the same sex in a highly religious and homophobic home meant that this man was just emotionally fucked and set up for yandere tendencies from the get-go

>Probably had passing thoughts about how the near-nude depictions of Jesus on the cross, though bruised, bleeding, and obviously suffering, was... kind of hot

> Of course, this meant Travis had to punish himself for such 'vile, unholy thoughts', as he was taught to do by cult doctrine- whipping himself with a belt or using the candles he lit for prayer to drip scalding wax on himself wasn't an uncommon tactic to try and dissuade his mind from wandering to the obscene, but that just ended up mixing the feelings of arousal, pain, and shame, which lead to Travis becoming a masochist 

>He began experiencing schadenfreude at a young age, usually when other children in the cult were publicly berated and punished for 'sinful' behavior. Knowing he was above them in the eyes of god and seeing them suffer for being lesser, along with the praise he received from his father when he resisted temptation when others didn't or succeeded in luring an outsider to the church, lead to Travis becoming a sadist as well

>Picking fights with his darling is a great way to indulge both of these tastes- being able to taunt, intimidate, and possibly cause physical harm to the object of his affections his target, and also taking the (very good) chance that they will retaliate and do the same to him? It's a sick bliss he hates himself for craving and initiating without forethought, but sometimes [darling] is just begging for it (and he has to take all this out on someone)

>Since he sees [darling] as a lesser being, he has almost no qualm over stealing or destroying their things. Unlike Love-Sick Sally, who usually takes discarded items or things that can be easily replaced, yandere Travis likes to take what he knows his darling will miss the most, so that they'll notice its absence right away and panic

>The way [darling] begs Travis to have mercy on them and for their sentimental items to be returned in-tact really gets him off, and he just might return it (eventually) if their groveling is satisfactory, but not before he damages it in some permanent way- he knows they'll keep it because it's so important, but now [darling] will have to think of him every time they look at it...

>I mentioned in the previous Yan!Travis post that he's the isolating/kidnapping type- once he has [darling] all to himself and had (forcibly) indoctrinated them into the cult, he would lock them up somewhere in the church (his bedroom or the dungeons, depending on their behavior) and make them memorize and recite holy texts under the threat of food and sleep deprivation

>This will not only help to slowly brainwash his [darling] into being completely dependent on him and live by the word of his god, but is a win-win scenario for his sadistic cravings- if [darling] gets a passage wrong or answers a question incorrectly, it gives Travis the opportunity to punish them as he sees fit and he can enjoy their anguish up close. If they get it right, it means he's succeeded in bending them to his superior will and in making his darling see him as someone to both fear and obey. 

>Success in memorizing and parroting their required reading and otherwise doing whatever else Travis tells them to do will result in [darling] getting small rewards- better food and sleeping arrangements, being allowed to wear robes that are typical attire for cult members instead of tattered rags, and perhaps even being allowed to sleep in Travis' bed- at the foot, of course.

>However, this comes with its own risks- having his now Stockholm-syndrome-riddled darling sharing his bed can be too great a temptation to resist. He will do all kinds of mental gymnastics to excuse indulging his sexual desire for his darling and his homoerotic thoughts in general: 

"[darling] is not a person, but an object. They are simply a hole to fuck, and thus having sex with them is akin to masturbation- a much lesser sin than being gay."

"I am aroused because sharing a bed with a warm body is inherently arousing, not because im physically attracted to [darling]." 

"I am a man of god and my desires for the flesh must be extinguished- it is better to let off some steam on a lesser being than to abandon my faith and be an abomination," 

etc, etc

>This doesn't stop Travis from feeling guilty and disgusted with himself- there are only so many excuses you can give before the whole charade begins to fall apart at the seams, and, of course, his catharsis is found in punishing his darling for tempting him in the first place

>it is an endless cycle- [darling]s best bet is to just go along with whatever he says, do their readings and whatever other ‘duties’ he assigns them, and pray to whatever deities will listen that the whole place will come crumbling down on them one day. 

>There is simply no escape- not from the church, not from the cult, and certainly not from a yandere Travis Phelps.

[anika-ann]

Errare Humanum Est - Pt.3

What’s in a Name?

Type: series, soulmate AU series  (part 1, part 2)   x Supernatural

Pairing: Steve Rogers x reader (past?)    Word count: 1850

Summary: When angel grace fails to deal with an amnesiac, the human ways will have to do. Too bad they are rather slow.

Warnings: swearing, amnesia, Team Free Will being themselves, alcohol

The briefest guide to SPN characters of Team Free Will (at the end of the post)

Story masterlist

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An ominous silence fell on the room, until an annoyed voice cut the air.

“Awesome. Is it like… a black nothing? White nothing? Or…?”

Castiel grimaced at Dean’s wry questions.

“It’s… it’s like a really tight knot, to be honest. The memories, I can feel them there, but… there’s nothing I can do about it. I’m sorry. I couldn’t even get a glimpse. I’m sorry, Natasha. I wish I could be more help.”

Tears gathered in Natasha’s eyes, but she cautiously rose to her feet as if she didn’t trust her strength and took Castiel’s hands in hers.

“It’s alright, Castiel. Thank you for trying,” she whispered weakly, her smile forced. She turned to the brothers then, tugging at the shirt she was wearing. “I… can I keep those, please?”

“Yeaaah?” Sam answered unsurely, not following where she was going with that. “Why would you ask that?”

“I… I think I should go. Thank you-“

That had them all lunging forward, Sam speaking up first.

“Whoa! We’ve been over this. You… we can’t exactly keep you here by force, but you have nowhere to go. No money to live on. Your memory… is not okay. Castiel couldn’t find anything at the moment, but we’ll figure out a way to help you.”

“I don’t want to-to impose. I’ve- I have already-“ she stuttered, but was interrupted by Dean’s sigh.

“Look. I’m not gonna lie, I ain’t happy about babysitting you,” he announced honestly, rising from his seat, gesturing towards her with his beer as he spoke. Sam really hoped he was going somewhere with that talk, because so far, it sounded like he wanted to support Natasha’s decision to leave. “But we had much bigger problems at our hands and much more annoying too. Helping people is kinda what we do. It’s in the family.”

Her eyes were wide as she was watching the hunters and their angel, attentive and observant. She was clearly considering her options, wondering if Dean was being honest. Sam was pleasantly surprised by Dean’s speech to say at least.

She gulped before speaking up, her gaze falling on the floor. “…okay. Thank you. I’ll… I promise to repay you when I can.”

“I’m sure you will,” Sam hurried before Dean could tell something that would creep her out – like ‘having a few ideas about that’. Though Sam was most impressed by Dean’s earlier words.

“Can I just ask you something, Dean?” she quirked up then, the corners of her lips inconspicuously rising.

“Yeah?”

“…do angels count as your family?”

“You-“ the older brother started, only to shut up and realize he didn’t know how to finish. So he only pointed a finger at her in pretended warning.

Sam snorted a laugh. “I think we’ll get along just fine.”

“If you must know, for us, family don’t end with blood,” Dean finally managed to reply and Sam couldn’t help but smile sadly at the memory of Bobby, a man who was an uncle to them, if not a father too. “It’s about the family you choose.”

An honest smile lighted up Natasha’s face, her eyes soft. “That’s nice…. So, where do we start?”

“Well, I should go,” Castiel announced swiftly, casting a glance at Dean, ever dutiful to the righteous man. “I’ll… see if I can find anything on the subject of soulmates I don’t already know.”

“Okay. See ya, Cas.”

“Bye,” Sam hummed absently, his mind already racing, wondering about their next steps.

With a sound of a flutter of wings, the angel was gone. Natasha stared blankly where he had been standing just a second ago.

“…oh,” she huffed, clearly caught off guard. “I didn’t see that coming. I didn’t even say goodbye.”

Sam only laughed at that – she seemed confused, sure, taken aback, definitely, but she was processing everything remarkably well considering what a mess she had woken up into.

“You’ll get used to it. We’re really tired, so we would catch few hours. I was thinking I could lend you my tablet?” the younger hunter offered, pulling it out of his bag and holding it out to her. She eyed it curiously and Sam realized where the problem might be. “I’ll show you how to operate it-“

“I… think I might know, actually,” Natasha admitted sheepishly, biting her lip as if ashamed. Sam couldn’t help the rise of his eyebrows.

“That you remember? You don’t know your name, but you know how to work with this thing?” Dean questioned, his eyebrows high as well. She only shrugged helplessly. Dean spun to Sam then, his face saying just how done he was with this situation. “Brains are weird, man.”

“More so when angels and resurrections are involved,” Sam added, grimacing wryly. Oh, he would know, wouldn’t he? They all would.

“Not wrong there.”

Sam turned his attention back to the woman then, seeing she already turned it on, the screen lit up. Huh. Okay then.

“I just thought you might wanna… look up things. Anything that comes to your mind.”

“Like unhuman things?” she asked half-bitter, half-curious.

“Oh, you don’t wanna look for those. You might find Twilight and Teen Wolf and stuff like that. Not to be trusted.”

Natasha tilted her head to side, not understanding what Dean was referring to, naturally, and Sam rolled his eyes. She reminded him of Castiel for a moment and a new idea struck his mind.

“Natasha, can I take a picture? I’ll run facial recognition… just to see if anyone reported you missing, okay?”

She hesitated, shifting her weight from one foot to the other, but nodded. “…Okay. Thank you, Sam.”

Sam led her to a wall, switching on more lights for better illumination of her face. He snapped a quick photo of her face and started the trace. Dean had managed to tuck himself in already.

“That was… fast. I promise to be quiet.”

“Thanks. Goodnight, Natasha. If you’re tired, just wake up one of us and we’ll leave you a bed, okay?” Sam offered, internally cringing at the idea of trying to fit onto the tiny-ass sofa.

Natasha glanced at the piece of furniture, then back at Sam and at Dean, her eyebrow slowly rising, probably thinking the same thing.

“Sure. Goodnight, Sam. Goodnight, Dean.”

The only reply she got was Dean’s snort. She giggled and Sam rolled his eyes, laying down to his bed, finding a comfortable position – as comfortable as one could find on a motel room bed. He was out in no time.

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Trying to research resurrections would have probably been a good idea. Or ‘how to cure amnesia’ or something like that. But no. Not for you.

The very first thing you wrote down – and really, could anyone blame you since Sam had specifically told you to look up whatever came to your mind – was the word ‘soulmate’.

It led you straight to a world of wonder. There was everything; it started with a definition, mostly matching what Sam, Dean and Castiel had told you.

Then the photos of soulmarks appeared. Some were funny and specific, like ‘Excuse me, but I believe that the dog that just ate my snack was yours,’ or ‘I’m afraid I’m in the wrong class, ‘cause I sure didn’t sign up for Greek mythology’. Others were annoying and general, something between the lines of ‘Can I borrow your pen?’ or ‘Is this seat taken?’. There were few that broke your heart: ‘Please, don’t leave,’ ‘I just got you, you can’t do this to me.’

You weren’t sure in which category your words would fall into; probably very specific and weird for both the crossed ones and the plain ones.

People were looking for their soulmates too. Either via forums, attempting to guess what comeback they would throw when hearing the words on their skin; another option was a few agencies that claimed to be able to find the match; that felt a bit like cheating and you doubted it worked anyway.

What took your breath away and made your heart ache were links to counselling for those who lost their soulmate. It made your chest tight for a very obvious reason, yet so irrational. You might have lost your soulmate, but you didn’t remember it; on the other hand, your other half could be suffering indescribable pain for their loved one, the one they had been destined to spent their life with. For that only, you felt tears gather in your eyes.

Then again, you could have been wrong. As far as you were concerned, you had never had to meet in the first place, and they only had their words crossed out just like yours, left with a dull ache and strange sense of longing.

There were brighter sides to soulmates too – many and many people shared their meet-cute with their destined partner, photos radiating love and adoration, with the subtlest shade of hate in the comments from people who no doubt didn’t have a soulmate to begin with. Because apparently, that was a thing as well; not everyone was bound to have a soulmate, not in the literal sense of the word. The world was a truly strange place.

You didn’t even realize you had started to rub your collarbone, your mind escaping elsewhere. What was your soulmate like? You believed with your whole heart he was one and the same person, saying both of the lines written on you.

Was he sweet? Polite? Or a bad boy? Tall or shorter than you, scrawny or built like a mountain? What colour were his eyes, his hair? Did he have a nice smile, warm and welcoming, or was a grumpy man? An extrovert, an introvert? Was he willing to show affection publicly or was he shy and private? What did he enjoy doing?

What was he doing now? And more importantly… where was he?

You sighed, sinking deeper into the couch. You could wonder, but it would be no help. You needed to pull yourself together, look up things that might be actually useful to you as a human being with amnesia and deal with daydreaming later.

You wanted to remember. You wanted to know your soulmate, but you needed to know your own persona first.

Hell, you didn’t even know your name.

For some reason you had chosen Natasha, but the motivation behind your actions slipped through your fingers, the truth burning on your tongue, leaving a bitter aftertaste as you couldn’t grasp it.

Alright. For now, you would be Natasha. You trusted your instinct on that one, choosing the name despite feeling it wasn’t your own, but still with a purpose.

Figuring out your last name was the next logical step. You couldn’t recall it either, so you just wrote down ‘American last names’ to the browser, waiting for results to pop up. You surfed through them for a minute, your fingers freezing on one particular name.

The name struck something in you, a spark lighting up like a flare in your chest and you knew this was the one you should pick.

You had been brought back from death. And until your true self and your mind would be resurrected, a new person had to be born.

That person happened to be Natasha Rogers.

“Natasha Rogers…” you whispered, barely audible and a smile spread on your lips involuntarily. You liked the sound of that. “That will do.”

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Part 4

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[exdraghunt]

Fic Writer Interview

- nobody tagged me, but I wanted to do this anyway so-

Name(s): Ed

Fandom(s): Current: Transformers, Brave Police J-Decker (coming soon). In the past, possibly again in the future: Starlight Express, LazyTown, Steam Powered Giraffe, Knight Rider, Ghost Rider, Thomas the Tank Engine

Where you post: Archive of our Own

Most popular one-shot (by kudos): That would be Sweaters , with 345 kudos. It was the second of my Lazytown Christmas-specials, which I wrote in one go on Christmas Eve.

Most popular multi-chap (also by kudos): Wings at 853 kudos. My "Robbie Rotten but if he had wings" Robbie/Sportacus fic. I might get around to actually finishing the sequel at some point. Was not expecting this one to beat my TF fics!.

Favorite story you've written so far: Hmm. In terms of "this is incredibly self-indulgent and I'm writing it to cater to every single one of my kinks" I'd have to say Drop To Drink. (AKA: the Titty!AU)

IN terms of fics I'm rather proud of sharing with other people, Last of the Wild Cabooses. . I put a lot of research into railroad history to write this fic, and then did a shit-ton of worldbuilding on top of that.

Fics you were nervous to post: High Tide . My first time ever posting an mpreg fic publicly. I was terrified of the reaction I'd get. Fortunately, it was nothing but positive!

On a similar note, I was nervous about getting flames on my Thomas the Tank Engine ship fics (especially when I wrote TTTE mpreg) but that never materialized. Now, I've stopped giving a shit and will post just about anything.

How do you choose your titles: Gonna be honest, I usually choose song lyrics (eg. Behind Blue Optics, Runner in the Night, Midnight Run, No Days for Knights, Marching Inland). Sometimes it's a reference to something (Drop to Drink, comes from the Knight Rider episode 'Not a Drop To Drink' which has nothing to do with the fic). Sometimes, it's just a phrase that works well. (When the Bomb Drops, A Winglord's Duty)

Do you outline?: Not really. I do tend to daydream/fantasize the entire fic before I actually sit down and write it, though, so I know where the fic is going. I just don't bother to write it down. I spend a lot of time on the bus, or lying in bed, just. Planning out the next scenes for my fics.

Complete: Quite a few, I'm proud to say. All my Thomas the Tank Engine fics (6), my TUGS fics (5), my Knight Rider fics (2) (except for one not posting to Ao3 yet), several Starlight Express fics (5), (3) Lazytown fics, (2) Steam Powered Giraffe fics, and (3) Transformers fics.

In-progress: Too many. . . The Lazytown fics are on hiatus until I feel like finishing them. Might not ever get back to the StEx stuff, we'll see.

In progress that I'm actually working on are my Transformers fics (Pearl of Polyhex, When the Bomb Drops, Drop to Drink, and Behind Blue Optics)

Coming soon: Next up on the list will be a Brave Police J-Decker fic (working title: To Weather the Storm), and another Transformers J/P fic (working title: the Carrying Class AU)

Not started: So many. A basic idea of what's rattling around in my brain

the aforementioned BPJD fic (introducing my OC and bringing back Kagerou), plus a sequel (a mechpreg fic, with Deckerd and Gunmax, because I am extremely predictable)

Brainwashing!AU (dark Tumbler/Prowl, misuse of mnemosurgery, serial killer investigation, and Jazz figuring out that something is very very wrong.)

Prompts? I don't normally write from prompts, since I have enough going on in my head, I don't need the extra stimulus. The only prompt challenge I've done was Thirst Trap April (Bruised Spark) which was, admittedly, a lot of fun. Pearl of Polyhex came out of a series of asks, so I guess that's close?

Upcoming work you're most excited about: I am excited about all my upcoming projects. But, if pressed, I'd say the Carrying Class!AU. There's a lot of scenes in there I'm really excited to write, and some fun worldbuilding too.