#sneaky snippets

[charmsandtealeaves]

So when I put it to a vote what the title for the Spitting Image sequel should be, this is what we ended up with!

To celebrate actually getting some writing done there's a sneaky snippet from chapter 1 below the cut...

Opening Facebook was a mistake because it came with the nasty habit she’d developed lately of impulsively checking Gregory’s page. What greeted her was nothing short of a sucker punch to the gut on what was all things considered an emotional rollercoaster of a day already. Gregory Evans had updated his cover photo to a picture of himself beaming at his girlfriend - who appeared to be at least a decade younger than himself - in front of an archway of white balloons.

[tales-of-wocdes]

Stealing food with the tail too then our custodian grabs it and is like "no cookies before you finish your dinner"

Or if the tail or wings molts its skin or feathers and someone has to help peel it off

6k browser plays broken :D So a longer snippet as a thank you. I will do the first one. I could see the second one of course being done by Havard but that could be something the twins do... and I am not writing snippets about those interactions in any real detail before the demo officially reaches that far :D

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It has become familiar by now. This ritual of eating. Your hands can't hold the implements properly, though you are getting better. Still, Havard is helping you, like he does every day.

Once not so long ago you would have been content and happy to have this food - mashed potatoes and the liquidy stuff, gravy Havard called it and... whatever the meat is. It tastes good, that is your criteria for eating things. You will of course eat all of it, but you have plans. Sneaky plans that involve a secret.

A secret Lexia and the twins showed you, and it is one of the great secrets of this world. Or so you think.

There is a veritable feast in front of you, yet it is no longer all you desire.  Because you know a secret: there are things that taste even better than food! Like… lemon bars. You have no idea what a lemon is, but you do know this. When fetching your food, Havard also brought lemon bars with him. And they are right there, close by, sitting on a plate. Within reach.

Yellow and inviting, tart and sweet. They will be yours!

It was hard, all the training you did after learning this secret. Now, as Havard focuses on your main food, portioning stuff and making nice bites for you, your tail sneaks towards the lemon bar plate under the table. Your tail dashes out, and you grab a lemon bar! Back under the table your tail goes and success! All the time training your tail was worth it!

When Havard looks at the plate of food and not you, your tail darts to your mouth, and you bite into the lemon bar as fast as you can. Just a mouthful.

Bliss... pure bliss.

The tail retreats quickly. Havard is none the wiser!  He just feeds you a bit of normal food. It is good too, but the lemon bars are still tastier!

So, you repeat your daring feat when Havard looks away. You wait for the burst of sweet tart flavor.... yet nothing comes. What happened?

You feel something on you tail… and glance at your tail... which yes has the lemon bar with one bite taken out if it... why did it stop? Oh, there is a hand holding it. No wonder it stopped.

Don't those robes look familiar? You follow the hand.... and find Havard watching you with a raised eyebrow.

"No lemon bars before you are done with dinner." He says firmly. "But congratulations, your control over your tail is much improved."

Oh... he caught your tail... how? That’s unfair! All your secret training!

 He did also praise you! That felt nice… Still, you want to eat the lemon bars first!

You try your best to make a face Lexia taught you. She called it "puppy dog eyes".

Sadly, it is ineffective on Havard.

[charmfamily]

CORVUS CROSSING: A CHARM FAMILY STORY. CHAPTER I "BOY, YOU'LL BE A MAN REAL SOON." PART XI. Transcript Beneath the Cut.

GREG: I didn't say — Greg Lunvik.

MINERVA: Lunvik…? Why is someone who's as old as the Sages asking me about this? [she points to the picture on his phone with a frown.] You know damn well what a Dispelling Rune looks like and what it's used for; you should have seen plenty of them during the war, so why are you really here? Did Olive send you to be her little errand boy and charge you with the task of persuading me to change my mind?

GREG: I'm not anybody's little errand boy anymore… [he growls through a slightly clenched jaw before forcing himself to rein it back in and calm down.]  I don't know if you know this or not, sweetheart, but those precious Sages of yours don't tend to distribute a whole hell of a lot of knowledge to the grunts on the frontlines if it isn't on a bare-bones need-to-know basis. They told the fuckin' cannon fodder to avoid areas marked with whatever this 'dispelling rune' thing is and that was it — so yeah, I've seen one. Seen plenty, but not in hundreds of years and this one looks too fresh to be a leftover from the war so maybe waste less of my time being a stuck-up little priss and tell me what I came here to find out.

MINERVA: Well if it'll get you off my lawn, here —  it's more commonly called a Null Rune and it does just exactly what it says it does. It dispels and completely nullifies magical energy and makes it impossible for a spellcaster to use any magic within the bounds of an area marked with four of these, one in each cardinal direction. It was, um… [she furrows her brow thoughtfully.] It was a Frankensteined alchemical symbol devised around the start of the war by a group called the Ordo Secundi Mortis, a secret society of Mischief and Untamed Casters that —

GREG: [interrupting] That eventually came to be the fucking leeches we know and despise to this day, yeah, I know who they are. One last question — Forgotten Hollow's right at Ravenwood's doorstep, so are they just trying to keep the neighbors out of their business or have you had someone from the Corvus Coven go missing?

MINERVA: It was years ago but… [she frowns, watching the ravens circling overhead.] … Fuck. We're not discussing this out here, come in. Do you want tea or coffee?

GREG: I wouldn't say no to a nice bottle of that magic wine you were talkin' about — You look like you could use a drink.

MINERVA: If I drank every time I looked like I could use a drink, we'd be operating at a huge loss… [she sighs.] But it has been a hell of a day so … greenhouse it is, follow me.

[penvisions]

dev's wip wednesday 01/15

first wip wednesday of the year!! last week was a little hectic and i didn't particularly have anything set in stone i could share with y'all, but boy do i have some stuff for you today 👀

-> for {zest} things are rapidly changing for our dear couple and i am so excited for the next chapter bc it covers a lot of ground of the plot

-> and for {services requested} we get a little more angst ✨ what on earth could they be talking about, hmm?

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[twincovesgame]

“I spin around at the sound of a new voice.

A man stands at the top of the grand staircase, one hand resting on the polished banister. He's shirtless, his pale skin splattered with something red. It drips down his chest, staining the waistband of his jeans.”

Hmmm… someone sure does like to make a memorable entrance…

[crimsongrimoire]

i need 4.1 to be here faster so i can be insane accurately

[eastwindmlk]

New year and another new snippet? Don't mind if I do! Thank you for the tag @yallthemwitches and how can I not give a little snack-sized moment from a spicy thing I am working on. I am also hoping to get this done somewhere in the coming week or so!

It was a challenge to find something that was not nsfw lol

Downing the rest of her drink, she stretched out to reach for the bottle of wine sitting on the side table. “I am sure things are fine, you know how he gets sometimes.” Sirius encouraged, nudging her with his toe. “We can get started without him,” he suggested, his tongue pressed against the roof of his mouth as he let his gaze glide over her folded together form.  “Relax, love,” he sighed, pushing himself up, turning around to lay on his stomach. His face next to hers where she sat on the carpet in front of him. His fingers stroking the underside of her chin and coaxing her gaze to meet his. “He is fine, and he is going to go mad for it.” His thumb brushed along her jaw, drawing her in for a kiss.  His lips were soft against hers, both new and surprisingly familiar at the same time. The flowery gin, mingled with the cigarette they’d shared before. His fingers burned against her chilled shoulders, fingering the fine strap of her bralette. The delicate thing offering little in terms of support, but then again, she did not expect to be wearing it as long as she had.

I am going to tag... @nena-96 @kay-elle-cee @siriuslychessi and whoever feels called to it

[the-lonelybarricade]

No Take My Hand Wreck My plans update? Will we get one soon? 🥺

Hey anon!! I know I promised we'd get one this week but tragically I ended up working so much overtime it was a miracle I was able to get the We Bleed the Same update out 😭

The chapter is mostly finished and I'm aiming to post it on Monday instead! But maybe enjoy a little snippet to tide you over?

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A polite cough behind Mor’s back prompted the tall blonde to peel herself away from Feyre and pivot to reveal Rhysand. He withdrew his hands from the pockets of his formal black trousers to extend one of them outward. Towards her.

“Pleased to meet you,” he said.

“This is my cousin,” Mor filled in, brown eyes twinkling. “Rhys.”

Tamlin chose that moment to turn to the bar and order two double vodka tonics. Feyre wasn’t sure which struck her with greater panic—how to evade drinking without raising Tamlin’s suspicion, or how to shake Rhysand’s hand without feeling like her whole world was shaking with it.

“Feyre,” she said. Her tongue felt like sandpaper. “It’s good to meet you, too. Thank you for coming.”

[loveandleases]

I know I've been posting so many asks, still working on the demo when I can. Uni is just eating the majority of my days. Getting some writing done, and coding as well. Trying to decide how many options are too many for character creation. Just a lil snippet below ~

[charmsandtealeaves]

Snippet Monday!

Okay, I'm sort of combining a few different snippet/last line tags here because I don't wanna spam everyone with catching up on tag games 😅 Also it's finally been two weeks since @jamesunderwater tagged me so it's actually Monday again. (shout out to @annabtg @eastwindmlk and @kay-elle-cee who've also tagged me for similar things!)

This one is from the upcoming chapter of Nothing Personal

“Can I hit him with my car?” Kingsley didn’t hesitate for a second and asked nonchalantly. “James Potter or Sirius Black?” “Either, should the opportunity present itself.”

Open tag but I do wanna see what @tedwardremus has cooking atm 🤣

[jone3y]

As good as cupcake batter tastes- being scolded is not sweet. We’ll tough it out I promise 😔

[isahorcrux]

Sneaky Snippets

Thank you for the tag @kay-elle-cee ! I've been hard at work working on my Jilytober Rom-Com multi-chapter (hoping to get at least a couple of chapters published this month, if not at least the first one). See if you can guess what rom-com I'm doing (the hint is in the first three lines).

12 Years Earlier James’ 18th Birthday (Most of which he was too drunk to remember) Lily couldn’t remember the last time James had been so happy.  True, he’d had about six shots of Ogden’s finest with no signs of stopping, but it was still nice to see her fellow Head cutting loose.  The winter term had been brutal.  Between the extra course work the professors were assigning before they got into N.E.W.T review, Head duties, not to mention job applications, Lily had found herself getting fewer and fewer hours of sleep.  She had no idea how James was managing with being Quidditch captain on top of all of it; she barely managed to show up on time to their early morning conditioning sessions and had to bail more than one practice during the last month.  Perhaps he’d gotten himself a Time-Turner, or something.

[athenasparrow]

Last Line Game

Thanks @itsjamespotter for the tag 🥰 This is from LAYLOM 👀

James tries to tell himself a lot of things and not one of them is remotely true.

Tagging @liiilyevans @ohmygodshesinsane @harryissuchalittleshit

[penvisions]

stages of devotion {sneakie peek}

got hit with the writing bug - inspired by this post -> here

catch y'all later, x.o dev

[twincovesgame]

My eyebrows shoot up.

"Threatening behavior? What does that even mean?"

Wyatt rubs the back of his neck, his discomfort palpable.

"Someone called in a report of a guy running around the beach with a sword. Wren matched the description."

Yeah. That tracks.

[crimsongrimoire]

no context given because honestly what more do you need. the man is predictable as hell