#thanks for asking Anon!

[zeroducks-2]

💕 or 🧡 sladick?

💕 kissing somewhere other than lips

(I answered 🧡 already, it's here! You can consider this one a sequel lol)

Dick is pretending to sleep but that damn beard tickles. He's smiling into the pillow at this point, twitching here and there with his skin tingling, and Slade pretends not to have noticed anything and keeps kissing along his side.

And since he likes this game, Dick decides to stay there and see what the other will do - which is, he finds not even one minute later, pulling his underwear down and bite his asscheek.

The squeal Dick makes is the most undignified he's ever heard himself producing, but despite the way he jolts out the bed he gets pulled back and held down, feeling even more outraged at the way the other is openly cackling.

«Why?!» He yelps, not really trying to squirm away anymore and opting to look offended instead.

«Because you deserve it.» Slade replies while planting a kiss on Dick's temple, then another on his hairline. And likely he means the fact that Dick has been consistently waking him up before their alarm goes off in the morning, just because he finds it hilarious that he comes to his senses earlier than the world's deadliest mercenary.

He's been teasing Slade about it for a while, and surprisingly enough the man doesn't really take offense and looks like he's having fun instead.

«What?» Slade asks. He stopped to hold Dick down in favor or caressing his hair instead. «What got you to smile like this, sweetheart?»

He realizes to be in fact smiling, even if he has no clue what Slade means with "like this". Dick supposes he's just happy to see him happy. It's not like it happens often anyway.

«Nothing.» He shrugs and traces the side of the man's face with the tip of his fingers. «I like it that you're keeping your hair long. I think it suits you.»

Slade rolls his eye and Dick snorts, pulling him down for another kiss.

kiss ask game here!

[skepsiss]

Can you please recommend your favorite Steddie fics? One that you wrote one that someone else wrote?

Oh! Sure! I have to admit that I am very bad at reading fics because it is difficult for me to read off screens so I have a short attention span for fics. I have however read some great ones, but I'll highlight one. Fav of someone else's fic:

No Regrets by @strangersteddierthings

Loved it so much that I made a graphic for it! (That Jess now uses as a banner for the fic!!! /flattered). I really enjoy the concept, and I'm a sucker for Steve feeling guilty about things out of his control and then trying to do something about it.

As a summary, "No Regrets" is about Steve finding a way to go back in time to change the events of Season 4 Stranger Things. He can affect things marginally and then sees how much has changed in the "present day" through those actions. Essentially retrospectively stopping the apocalypse and trying to save everyone.

My favourite fic that I've written in the steddie verse is probably:

Because I want you

It's on my Ao3 account and definitely isn't a popular fic of mine, but I feel like I really captured Eddie's raw emotions so well here. The fic is just an excerpt of a bigger idea. It's a very self-indulgent fic because it's a "far in the future" AU where Eddie becomes a "Wraith" and Steve and him end up in a relationship. Only for that relationship to fall apart in their mid-twenties because of Eddie's addictions. This fic takes place AFTER all of that (their early/mid-30s), when they're both dads, and they're trying to rekindle their relationship.

Eddie has a lot of guilt surrounding their breakup and he struggles a lot with forgiving himself. His emotions are so incredibly raw and he is so vulnerable here, but I think Eddie's mindset is really relatable to anyone who has ever harboured guilt over their actions--big or small. I know guilt is an extremely visceral emotion for me, and when I've hurt someone I feel that so incredibly deeply.

Anyway! I made Eddie suffer a lot, but in the end Steve is always his biggest supporter.

[tinned-beef]

does five interact with anyone else or is it mainly lila?

there’s a whole ton of family scenes this episode! but as for one on one scenes,,,, yeah, mostly lila. as a five and lila friendship truther i am VERY happy, but i am also a five and his siblings truther so 😔

he does have a really good conversation with ben though! i’m holding out hope that we’ll get more talks with his siblings, especially as he goes on this apparent emotional arc

[kaeyachi]

Any theories on Kaeya’s light stand of hair?

I do have several! Here's a quick list of them because going into detail will make me go insane!

One is that Khaenri'ah tried to make an artificial archon (may or may not have failed) and that was Kaeya

Another is that it is just a family trait (not from the Alberich side but from the other) that is indicative of...well, dare I say the Khaenri'ahn royal family hehe

Crack theory of Kaeya actually being the Tsaritsa's son and thus the hair strands OR him being next in line for cryo archon status

Another crack theory where Kaeya went to a salon to have that done because he thinks it would look cool and Diluc, absolute menace, convinced him to do it (Crepus smacked their heads after)

A theory that Kaeya may be doing an Elsa and Anna from frozen where he is actually freezing his own heart (oof)

A theory that that is the real indication of the curse affecting him (and the more knowledge of the truth he knows, the worse it gets)

Finally, maybe he's just born with it? (maybe its Maybelline?)

[caitylove]

"Who is she?" Brenda x Sharon

As she nursed that dangerous third glass of merlot, Brenda's eyes lingered on Sharon from across the room, the distance between them seeming insurmountable despite the festive atmosphere of the annual LAPD Christmas party. The celebration faded into the background as she watched Sharon, bend over at the waist, laughing with a carefree abandon that Brenda hadn’t seen in a long time while the nearby twinkling lights from a Christmas tree lit Sharon's face in a soft glow, making her look as radiant as the angels she adored.

Or maybe Sharon really was just an angel.

But then, a tall, statuesque blonde—everything Brenda knew she would never be—leaned in close, whispering something into Sharon's ear. The sight of Sharon blushing a deep crimson in response twisted Brenda's heart painfully, as if someone had physically reached into her chest and torn it apart.

It felt as though she had been fed through the LAPD’s confidential paper shredder, her emotions sliced into a million tiny pieces. She tried to swallow the lump forming in her throat, but it only seemed to grow as she watched the two of them together. The room suddenly felt too warm, the air much too thick, and she let out a slow, agonizing breath, trying to keep her composure.

Unable to bear it any longer, she waved over Provenza, pulling him away from the spinach-artichoke dip.

"Lieutenant..." Brenda whispered, surrendering to the green-eyed monster in her heart. "Who is she?"

[ekingston]

any fic ideas u are working on atm?

always! entirely against my usual principles i am actually (eek) juggling a handful at once. there’s:

- the multi-chapter Lena POV cowboy Kara AU (TFOT) that i’ve fully outlined and partially drafted. i’m not quite ready to fully commit to it until life settles down some, but i do sneak small bites of it from time to time;

- the foodie oneshot i figured i’d fit in in the meantime, which has morphed overnight into something very different and much more elaborate than i was counting on (funny how that happens), and likely won't remain a oneshot;

- the bodyguard oneshot (that will absolutely remain a oneshot), currently consisting of just over 2.5k words of duct taped dialogue and question marks (fingers crossed for this one)

- the frankly frightening 5k word long stream-of-consciousness fever dream that’s Red K Kara AU;

- the huntsman and the wolf fairytale AU (Rootbound) which has continued to refuse to come together the way i want it to (fantasy is officially not where my talents lie).

i’m still waiting for one of them to definitively take over my brain, which i hope will happen before january. in the meantime please keep sending me kind comments and interested anons and coffee, they're a wonderful boost while these works are on their way!

[lilyrizzy]

What fic are you writing?

a hockey rpf fic where Jack goes home to Switzerland with Nico for the summer and things are…complicated 😉

[wxxderbxrr]

nyo piri? it's always interesting to see artist's variation of countires with no official nyos

her eyes shine like the sun

[wholoveseggs]

Learning that you watch House of the dragon, and of course already knowing of your love for TVD/TO, I wondered if you liked any other shows I also love! Do you watch Bridgerton?

Hi Darling Anon!

Yes, I have watched Bridgerton, but I haven't seen season three yet! Because... I'm really not that attracted to Colin, and I canceled my Netflix subscription a while back.. lol.. But I will watch it eventually.

Have you ever watched a show, really enjoy it, but once you are done you never return to it again? I am a binge-watcher, so I am usually very quick to watch everything in a show's run. But here is a list of shows I've watched over and over and are imprinted on my soul:

For Comedy? Fleabag and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. {It's my entire sense of humor in a nutshell} IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED FLEABAG DO IT!!!! YOU WILL SOB AND LAUGH AND SOB AGAIN. And Sunny is... insane. But in the best fucking way.

For Drama? Sharp Objects {Devastaing}, Breaking Bad {No Notes, If you have watched it, you know...}, Chernobyl {When you need to feel pain, watch this and weep}, Succession {Hilarious, FUCKED, best writing ever, you can't make a tomlettle without breaking some gregs}, Six Feet Under {perfect from start to finish} & the Bear {If you have ever worked in a kitchen like me... watching the bear feels personal lol}

For Fantasy / Sci-Fi? Game of Thrones {Seasons 1 to 4 only ~lol}, Westworld {The first two seasons are literally perfect television}, The Witcher {Season 1 ONLY ~ I LOVE the games and the books & the show is meh, but Henry is perf}, Andor {Absolutely surprised me by how good it was}, Watchmen {Mini-Series}, The Last of Us {Pedro <3}, The Expanse {It's the perfect space show, IT'S SO UNDERRATED & PERFECT AND SO ARE THE BOOKS!!!!} & of course the Originals!!!

Some honorable mentions are Stranger Things, Outlander {only the first few seasons}, Vikings Valhalla {Harald Sigurdsson can come get it}, The Boys, Loki {The ending sent me into a comatose state, it was sooo goood}, Fallout, Dexter & True Blood.

I could probably go on, but I will end it here, because this is long as shit lol.

Thanks for asking!

[tiredsurvivoronmain]

Sorry if you have already written about that but I wanna ask how you think STARS and RE5 Wesker would react if they met Re8 Chris? XD

Omg I'm so sorry for taking so long to reply!! ;A;

STARS Wesker might not recognise him at first glance because of how drastically different Chris looks in build, height, outfit, facial hair, hair style, his change in personality and ofc he's twice the age of STARS Chris, however I believe he would recognise him by his eyes and the way he looks at Wesker. (if he saw him smoking that would also confirm that it was Chris). He would certainly have many questions, one of them I imagine would be "What happened to you?". Confusion and curiosity would be his main reactions; curious as to what drove Chris to become stronger and what has happened in his life that made him this serious and melancholy. He may even be a slightly intimidated and cautious; this wasn't the young and gangly Chris he's worked with for 2 years, this was a combat veteran with experience and reputation who knows all about Wesker and Umbrella and has had to put up with his shit over the course of 10 years.

RE5 Wesker would be intrigued; Chris is still built like a tank yet that fiery youth is long gone and it's obvious this Chris is older and tired but can still fight. Like with STARS Wesker he would know all about him and what to expect. RE5 Chris was on edge with Wesker (seeing how he flinched when Wesker threw the sunglasses at him and made him cower when Wesker was about to kill him), older Chris wouldn't do that all now. He may be haunted by Wesker since his demise but that won't stop him from confronting him head on. This lack of fear and experience would make RE5 Wesker more wary and careful (he won't know what he'll be dealing with) but he would continue the playful attitude with him, complimenting him and being intrigued by his strength. Of course when he finds out that Chris knows all his tricks, attacks, plans and weaknesses right off the bat he would inwardly panic and become more desperate, perhaps retreating. It's possible this Chris could overpower him singlehandedly more easily than before.

I'm not sure which version of Wesker he'd be more angry at, though I reckon it might be STARS Wesker because that's the version that started the mess and betrayed him and STARS. However, STARS Wesker would also be the one that would be easier could talk to and attempt to reason with and get him to explain everything. He'd be angry and consider killing him, but I think he wouldn't be able to go through with it. As for RE5 Wesker he's too far gone.

[flowerparrish]

I always see your podfics pop up and I always wondered, if it's okay to ask, what inspired you to start creating them?

Hi, definitely!

It's kind of an unusual one, maybe, but when I was a teenager I had really bad insomnia. I used to listen to music, because I'd often wake up in the middle of the night having panic attacks, and the music helped calm me down / ground me. BUT then it started giving me weirder dreams, so I needed a different solution. I had an old Kindle and used to make it TTS read really long fics to me, and that worked pretty well, but right around that time I discovered podfics, which felt MAGICAL. Actual people reading me my favorite fics? It quickly became one of my main coping skills for anxiety as well as insomnia--I would just put on headphones and vibe to podfic to calm down. (Certain voices can still work better than literal anxiety meds on my system, it's WILD.)

I wanted to make podfics back then, but I didn't quite have the skills and then I went to college and didn't have the quiet space / time. But finally around 2019 I had gotten back into writing, and I was bored over a long break, and I decided: why not try again? My specific inciting incident was that I left a comment on one of my favorite podfics--one of many, I like to go back every few months and be like "hey, me again, still listening to this regularly and so glad you made it"--and the podficcer went and found one of my old 2013 podfics and left a really lovely comment. And I was like, y'know what? Maybe I do want to try that again!

So I did, and then @voiceteam happened in May of 2020, and suddenly I was part of a community of really lovely people who I could ask for help / advice / just vibe with, and it was amazing, and my podficcing went from "something I do sometimes" to "this is my main hobby and my favorite thing to do in my free time"

And now I'm here! ~700 podfics later and I still have a lot to learn, but I'm really proud of the skills I've developed and the friendships I've built. <3

[zeroducks-2]

💖eobarry💖

💖 rough kiss / hot and heavy / making out

(Omegaverse, Omega!Eobard and Alpha!Barry for a change. Sort of anyway. Mostly SFW, just slightly suggestive)

Hot fangs nip at his lower lip, then the kiss deepens again and Eobard gets lost in it for a long second. The scent of this Barry is so thick he can smell it even through the patch he’s surely wearing under his suit. It makes his hands feel clammy and his cheeks so warm he can’t think properly.

Small bolts of lightning zap between them, sparking as they hit the floor, expressing Eobard’s frustration as he pulls away from the kiss to pant and swallow, even if he doesn’t really need to do any of these things. 

«I’m sorry.» Barry says, sounding so apologetic that Eobard can picture him frowning even if he’s not looking at him. «I didn’t realize you were…»

«Shut up.» He barks, or at least he tries. He isn’t sure when he started to hold on Barry’s shoulder to keep balance, he must have though, because he’s half hugging him now, and trying to fight the urge to nose for his scent gland. «If you just let me get away, we wouldn’t be here…»

«I didn’t even know you were an Omega.» Barry shifts uncomfortably at that. He grabs Eobard's waist anyway, pulling him closer, and he can’t hold a quiet moan at his lower belly pressing against the other’s crotch.

He wants to say that he isn’t exactly an Omega, that it’s not that simple, but he doesn’t have the words to express it and it’s not like it would change anything anyway. 

This Barry is older than his Barry, Eobard decides once he’s allowed to pull back his cowl. He’s met with short blond hair and kind, sympathetic blue eyes, and he likes to think that his Barry would look at him the same way, in the same situation.

Maybe he would, or maybe this Barry didn’t have his mother killed. Maybe Eobard was a better person in this timeline. 

«I didn’t let you get away because I thought you were up to something. I didn’t think...» Barry says apologetically, leaning to kiss his cheek and then his lips, which jumbles Eobard’s train of thoughts. He’s being held close and very carefully. He elects to ignore how warm it’s making him feel, ascribing it to the pre-heat. 

«But you are…» Barry insists, pulling back his cowl in return. At this point they’re both purring, a breath away from nosing and nuzzling each other. «There’s something different…» 

«Shut up, Barry.» He cuts it short. «Just shut up and make up for it.»

They kiss again, and Eobard is not sure who started it this time.

kiss ask game here!

[lyranova]

Soz if this is a silly question but i was wondering if u & laura are actually married or just really close friend?s

Hiya anon 🥰, This isn’t a silly question at all no worries!

So Laura @thoughtfullyrainynightmare and I are not actually married, we’re just very close friends and mutuals 😁! The tag “wifey” started from another close friend and mutual of ours @simpingforthisonedeer , and it just kind of…caught on in our friend group. I call another mutual of mine @eme-eleff “mi amor” which means my love, and i had other mutuals who are no longer on tumblr whom I’ve called wifey before!

It’s just a cute little nickname we’ve given each other, Laura has become a very close and dear friend of mine and I’m very glad to call her my platonic “wifey” on tumbly 🥰!!

[animatedjen]

If you ever get the chance in your wide screen gif making/screencapture journeys, could you check to see if Kata is still laying on the ground* when Cal shoots Bode? No pressure!

(*I've always been curious if the devs had some idea as to what they wanted that scene to be even if they didn't show it or I fully am prepared she's standing in T-pose off screen because they didn't think anyone would be curious enough to check. 😂)

Finally got a chance to check this tonight, and Kata's character model disappears after the following two shots in the cutscene. She also swaps to a low-poly version when she's just barely visible behind Merrin in the original camera angle. She reappears briefly for the matching wide shot when Bode drops Merrin / Merrin throws knife. Then she's gone for the rest of the scene, as that section of the room isn't seen on-camera again.

In general, if a character isn't on screen they'll either A) receive super limited animation, B) a static model placeholder, or C) disappear completely. B and C are most common, and it gets pretty funny when expressionless character models are vibing just off-screen. #gamedesign

It'd be fun to find an exception though! I'll keep you posted ✌️

[tiltedsyllogism]

Ground Crew for the WIP Meme?

(in re this fic ask meme)

This one is literally the first FAM fic I ever started writing (which would have been probably late October of '22) and it's a S1-era Karen-PoV fic about her very intense attachment to Tracy (romantic/sexual? unclear!!) and how Tracy's trajectory through NASA both puts their relationship under strain and focalizes a lot of the discontents that Karen is feeling in her own life but cannot yet come close to naming.

I've got almost 7k words on this one, and I do have something of an arc sketched out -- it's not yet fully satisfying, but I'm 99% sure this one will get finished eventually!

Excerpt below the cut. Karen and Ed have just gotten home after a celebratory dinner at the Slaytons' in honor of Tracy getting her silver pin.

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“I mean,” Karen said slowly, “what did you think about. You know.” She waved one hand uselessly in the dark. “This whole thing. The women astronauts.”

Ed folded his arms. Karen could hear him smiling in the dark. “You mean Tracy.”

“I mean all of them,” Karen said sharply. 

“Well, Tracy’s one hell of a pilot,” he said. “Not quite on the level with Molly or Ellen, but she’s a steady flyer, and she’s worked hard.”

Karen stared out at the lawn. The grass needed cutting, badly. Ed should have done something about it days ago. Karen should have noticed and asked him. Not that he wasn’t perfectly capable of noticing himself.

She folded her arms.

“You’ve worked pretty hard too,” she said. “Getting them ready. It’s cost you plenty of your own training time.”

“Eh, don’t worry about me,” Ed said, shaking his head. “I could do those sims in my sleep at this point.”

“I certainly hope so,” Karen replied. “I don’t think it was very responsible of Deke, asking you to take on all that risk.”

“Deke knew I could handle it. Getting shorted on sim time, I mean,” he added. “Though you know what.” Ed leaned back and tipped his head up – as if he was trying to look at the stars through the roof of the car. “For all the bitching and moaning I did about it along the way… it actually feels pretty good to see them make it through. See them succeed. Y��know? Knowing I was a part of that.”

It was too much, suddenly. Karen had spent the whole evening pretending to be happy: for Tracy, for Deke, for poor Gordo. And suddenly, she was done.

“Well I’m glad you can look on the bright side, at least,” she snapped, opening the car door.

[fiotrethewey]

How did you come up with Narvin’s House Name?

ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT TRANSFERENCE

SPOILERS BELOW!

Okay, so Witforge was actually not my initial suggestion! On this project I've been working Matt Fitton as he was our script editor (and honestly the nicest human ever!) and I was thinking about Romana's last name and wanted the name to feel like they were from the same world, and a friend of mine in passing had suggested the idea Mindsengine. Which would then be like the mirror to Romana's Heartshaven. I shared this idea with Matt but he thought it might be too on the nose, so we started to think about other words for mind and engine Matt suggested Witforge in a list, and I chose it - as it sounded the most right out of that section and it grew on me the more I read it. So that's how we now have: Narvinectralonum of the House of Witforge