cuddlesandcarbs

[fischiee]

ok actually i don't think i'll ever forgive @favvnsongs for making me ship washilon bc now i am all consumed that the fact that wash DIDN'T KNOW epsilon survived the implantation process LIKE

and the SECOND that he found out that he was alive he rebelled from pfl and took off to go save him with the intention of sacrificing himself in order for epsilon to survive i cannot with these two

[lululawrence]

Hi! I just got done reading No One Likes to be Alone and I loved it! You mention at the beginning that you love nesting fics so if you don't mind sharing I would love to know what your favorite nesting fics are.

ahhhhhhhh thank youuuuu! and YES I SURE DO!!! oh there are some excellent ones out there. let’s see... favorites are hard for me, but here’s the best I can do for you (i’m grouping them by pairing, because most are larry, but not all... and please know that my absolute favorite nesting fic of all isn’t on this list because it was deleted and i CRY):

Larry

There's No Other Place by @nikogda - I LOVE THIS FIC VERY MUCH A LOT. i mean... hybrid a/b/o nesting. perfection! the entire world building in this fic is so incredibly detailed and cool and the VIBE is amazing. everything is fleshed out and so unique and interesting, but the incredibly personal vibe of the nesting!!!! i cannot even explain how much i love it. louis thinks he’s being SO SNEAKY and he is NOT but that’s okay. haha anyway, a great fic for sure and while the nesting isn’t the most important aspect, it’s definitely more than just a minor detail.

When Tomorrow Comes by @jacaranda-bloom - ALPHA. NESTING. ALPHA NESTING. HOW BRILLIANT???? i honestly could NOT believe i had struck gold when i saw this post hahaha i’d never even considered??? the WORLDS this fic opened for me, and it was done so so brilliantly. niall is sooooo shady, and poor harry doesn’t have a clue it’s even happening, and omg i just... this fic is amazing and it’s because of dee that i’m going to be exploring alpha nesting in at least two of my nesting series fics that i’ll be writing at some point lol highest honors and five gold stars to dee.

We Both Got Nothing to Hide by @chloehl10 - A SECRET NEST. oh gosh louis is SO ASHAMED. and harry’s shit just keeps going missing. but louis NEEDS HIS NEST. a;sdkgha;sdlkfjas zayn of course is the one who figures it out, cause he’s smart like that, but oh gosh the emotions connected to nesting in this one and the complex kind of... shame almost? it’s a suuuuper interesting worldbuilding detail that i really enjoyed exploring in this fic

Do Not Falter (There's a Star Ahead) by @londonfoginacup​ - christmas eve desperate cuddles and nesting!!! i looooove how louis doesn’t even think twice, he just lets it happen and... sigh. yes. this one is just so soft, i love it.

The Nearness of You by @rockstarlouis - established relationship SUUUUPER PREGNANT nesting!!! there are a few fics on this list that immediately came to mind when you asked about my favs, and this is one of those. i rarely like to read established relationship fics for whatever reason, but this fic??? SO SOFT. SO LOVELY. AND THE DYNAMIC IS SO PERFECT. i just love how careful louis is with the nest. it is so wonderful. i adore.

Tastes like Strawberries by @sadaveniren - THE STRESSED NESTING! that turns into SO much more than harry expected and it’s just WONDERFUL. i love this fic so much, from the start of it to the way things go a bit differently from how they maybe traditionally do in omegaverse. it’s a really fun fic with some a+ nesting smut. hahaha

Safety Nest by @lululawrence - I KNOW i’m sorry i’m including myself haha but this was my first attempt at nesting, and i still love it very much a lot. my drabbles don’t get much attention or love (outside of emmu, because this one was written for her haha), so i just wanted to put it out there as a fic with some nesting. hehe so thank you for indulging me here

Ziam

If you let me be your man by @lightwoodsmagic​ - ooooomg this fic has me giggling just remembering how great it is. it’s got an aspect of embarrassment, because zayn is just SO out of it already and he doesn’t even realize it, and liam is so soft and lovely and more than willing to help him safely get home, but the misunderstanding! and zayn just wants liam in his nest so badly. it is SO VERY SWEET! but also silly and gahhhhh i might have to reread this one tonight, actually haha

Narry

a little tenderness by @disgruntledkittenface - listen, the impossible has been done. i now love narry, and it’s because of this fic. all i’m gonna say is ace alpha harry needs to help recently broken up omega niall through depri, and OHHHHH it’s soooo soft and perfect and i just screamed at her most of the time i was reading. It really is just absolute perfection and niall’s nest is just *chef’s kiss*

these are not in any way the only nesting fics out there, nor the only great ones. i did my best to only list favorites. i would also like to point you to a nesting rec that @londonfoginacup made, because she is my cohort in the quest for more nesting fics in this fandom. lollll you can find her wonderful rec here. and don’t forget to leave the authors kudos and nice comments to show appreciation for their hard work!

[purekesseltrash]

Okay referring to one of your reblogs here’s my favorite lines from BTD ‘cause it was one of my favorite fanfics of all time (I’m serious)

Non-serious one, : “The scarring was still awful though, he was never going to be able to get past that. But not actively breaking out… that was a good step.” GOD OKAY, I’ve struggled and am still struggling with acne for years now, and that just.. hit home man, the days where your not getting NEW acne and just the old ones you just couldn’t hack being the most prominent make or break your day

Serious one, : “Mezou’s body was a collection of tools that had somehow never seems adequate or correct, despite having been honed for a singular purpose since he had been little.” AHHHHHHHH, this line fucked me up, once again I’m mentioning my background with gymnastics, in gymnastics your body is all you have, sure you have equipment to land on but judges and coaches focus on your body and how it looks, and as someone who had horrendous lack of self esteem being put into a spandex leotard and having to have someone purposely look at you and critique you broke me, sure gymnastics was my passion but it broke me, so safe to say, you struck gold with that one. I’m pretty sure I blocked out all of gymnastics until I was age twelve when I rejoined cause I legit only have two memories of it, and one of the m was when I was refusing to go, so, yea, being good at sports when your young fucks you up, I missed this, sending you a big fucking ask revolving around BTD

Precious worm assssssssssssk! I have missed these too, lol. Ngl, I've been rereading this all day.

I actually never had awful acne, I just have TURRIBAD executive dysfunction so washing my face didn't happen for a long time until I started hyperfocusing on skincare stuff. So it was not great but my own fault. When I was deep in my skincare fixation though, I definitely would have days where the way that my skin looked could make or break me. Which frankly is likely not healthy buuuut it was what it was.

I thought for a LONG time about what I wanted to do with Shouji’s face to make him hate it. I thought about him having had an accident but Bury Them Deep is supposed to feel pretty real and down to earth. Plus I've had so many friends with super bad cystic acne that have reeeeally struggled with their self image because of it, so it felt right. I only thought to make his teeth bad later on and I wish I'd thought of it sooner as I could have worked it in sooner. I've actually based a decent amount of stuff from his upbringing from my partner's and braces were very much so not going to be in the picture for him. It's legit though how much something as simple as bad teeth can make you feel like an outcast.

Brooooo, I'm so glad it connected with you like that! That paragraph is legit one of my favorites in the fic because it really nails the 'nothing in my life feels like it belongs to me, even my body' mood that I was going for. I did get a part of that line from Ken Dryden's book, The Game. In it he describes his body as a collection of parts and it just SLAMMED into my brain when I was relistening to the audio book. I also like it because it feels like a way to tie in the canon aspects of Shouji and 'a collection of tools' is a very good way to describe his quirk. I added in other stuff as a reference to his quirk too, like his intense appetite, how he noticed really fine details and how he heard the car coming up at the car party.

You honestly might like reading 'The Game'. Ken talks a LOT about having been A Unique Talent at a young age and what it ended up meaning for him. He specifically talks alot about how he never really felt like he was apart of anything because he was always the youngest and always the best and how he never really sought that out, it just kinda... happened. He's an extremely good writer and was an incredible hockey player. I had to bring him up in the fic.

I did also want to talk about how we treat prodigies in the fic because yeah man, what you describe is disturbingly common. I've read a lot about the lives of early generational talents and it's fucking brutal how much pressure is being put on kids at such an early age. Sidney Crosby, for instance, would legit have parents scream at him in games from the stands.... in games where he was ten years old and already playing with kids that were bigger, faster and stronger than him. He full on had things thrown at him, like pop and food. And he never really got time off, it was just hockey hockey hockey all the time. I'm sure that he would say that it was worth it but as a society, we have a nasty habit of holding up children that have been made to make horrible sacrifices and we go, 'this is the pinnacle of what we can achieve'.

No. It isn't. It's sad but people's egos and dreams get in the way when they start to put that on children. Man, Hizashi’s little speech must have been a lot for you.

(Also if this is too personal and you want me to delete, I will. <3. I miss your worm asks you are ALWAYS welcome to send them)