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Thanks so much for the tag, @insomniamamma !! It really and truly made my day!! (Also, our answers are verrrrrrry similar!)

coffee shop or flower girl | au or fix-it | enemies to lovers or childhood friends | angst or fluff | love at first sight or pining | modern au or historical au | break up & make up or proposal & wedding | get together or established relationship | soulmates or unrequited | fake dating or secret dating | obvious pining or domestic fluff | hurt/comfort or crack | meet the parents or meet cute

No pressure, all fun tags: @artemiseamoon @secretelephanttattoo @writeforfandoms @jessthebaker @trulybetty @sixhours & you!

PICK YOUR TROPES

Thank you, @qunariagenda and @maggiemayhemnj for tagging me, dear ones!!! 💚

coffee shop or flower girl | au or fix-it | enemies to lovers or childhood friends | angst or fluff | love at first sight or pining | modern au or historical au | break up & make up or proposal & wedding | get together or established relationship | soulmates or unrequited | fake dating or secret dating | obvious pining or domestic fluff | hurt/comfort or crack | meet the parents or meet cute

Tagging @insomniamamma @katareyoudrilling @missredherring @bergamote-catsandbooks @writeforfandoms @trulybetty

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Husbands. 🤌🏻

GAH! This is everything I want for Dieter. He’s happy. He’s healthy. He found his passion for acting again. And best of all? He’s so, so loved. I’d read about these two doing laundry together or going grocery shopping because I just know it would leave me grinning ear to ear. I love them.

Thank you for this sweet slice of domestic paradise!! 💙💙

morning, morning, love of mine

Dieter Bravo x OMC

Words: 800

Tags/warnings: references to past drug use, references to sex, married dieter and his big teddy bear husband 🥹 just something short and sweet.

Early morning shoots had never been his favourite.

Those 5am wakeup calls, the shitty canteen coffee and rushed breakfasts and too many people in his face far too early after another late night bender. He’d grumble through the whole thing, bitch to whoever was doing his hair that day, snort a line before call time and then rush to reread the pages for the day.

A few years ago he was complacent in his work. Coasting by on easy jobs that paid just enough, b-movies that went straight to streaming and sequels for long dead franchises no one cared about any more. There were always good drugs on those kind of sets, and people didn’t care what he did as long as the film got made and everyone got paid. Soulless, lifeless, lacking in art. No love, no care, nothing to be invested in on those sets.

It was easy, he didn’t have to care.

Now, though…

It’s 4:30am and Dieter is teetering on the edge of awake as light starts to brighten the room. His eyes open slowly, and he stifles a yawn. Next to him, Theo is still sleeping; his chest rising and falling, Dieter’s arm slung over him, front pressed close to back. They’d gone to bed at 9:30pm after an evening of catching up on their shows whilst they cuddled on the couch. Dieter had bemoaned being old, but he went to sleep with a smile on his face, wrapped around Theo.

Blinking slowly, Dieter half sits up propped against his pillow. He runs a hand over the stubble on his chin as he gazes down at the sleeping form besides him. Theo was...well to Dieter he was everything. Not only was he handsome to a fault with his sparkling hazel eyes and a mess of reddish brown hair, with a beard to match. He was tall and big, well, everywhere. And to top that all off he was funny, smart, successful and humble despite being the best director working. And he put up with Dieter even on the bad days. Everything Dieter needed in one big, cuddly package.

He leans down and begins to pepper Theo's face in gentle kisses, trying to rouse the other man carefully.

“Hey, husband” Dieter whispers with a smile, squeezing the larger mans soft middle. In his dreams he’d been kissing that belly.

Theo groans and turns slightly, angling his face away from Dieter’s kisses, but there’s a smile playing on his lips that makes Dieter’s own brighter.

“I thought I had a husband, not a needy puppy who licks my face every morning” Theo grumbles out in his rough, deep voice that Dieter could listen to all day long. In fact, he does.

“You got both” Dieter grins, purposefully placing one sloppy, wet kiss to the other mans cheek before finally pulling away.

“Alright, down boy” Theo mutters and both men laugh sleepily. Theo turns on to his other side to blink up at Dieter.

He looks at the clock, nearly 5am. Nearly time to start the day.

“Big day today” Dieter says softly, tone changing from playful to anxious.

“You nervous?” Theo, ever the protective husband, takes Dieters hand in his and holds it tight, thumb swiping over the skin in a calming pattern.

“No...not...not nervous, so much. Excited. Too much energy. I, uh, used to do something- take something to take the edge off a big shoot day, a first day”

Theo frowns and slowly sits himself up. He knows. He’s seen Dieter at his worst, he’s seen it all. It makes seeing him now, at his best, all the sweeter. He loved him then, loves him now.

“C’mere” The older man pulls Dieter into a crushing hug, and Dieter sighs, lets himself go limp. No other rush feels as good as this, as good as love, “You’re gonna do great”

“Well, I hear the directors a real hottie” Dieter mumbles, back to playful now he’s smushed up in his big mans embrace, “Maybe if I get too het up he’ll let me blow him in the trailer til I calm down”

“Is that so? Guess you’ll have to find out, hm?” Theo huffs out a laugh and kisses Dieter on the top of his head before letting him go, not wanting to suffocate his husband on the first day of their first movie together.

The alarm blares 5am as they’re both gazing at each other, barely hearing it as they contemplate a feeling that neither knew existed before they found the other.

“You’re gonna do great, you know” Theo says quietly. all gentle, all love.

“Promise? ” Dieter mumbles, nuzzling against Theo's cheek.

“Yeah”

For a second they’re frozen in time. The beep of the alarm forgotten. Dieter kisses Theo, and pulls back with a shaky breath.

“C’mon husband, let’s go make a movie”

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Next day reblog & tagging a few lovelies who expressed interest in this story on wip posts (or who might be interested, sorry if I guessed wrong!) :

@grogusmum @maggiemayhemnj @artemiseamoon @sp00kymulderr @ohforficsake

@littlemisspascal @oonajaeadira @sixhours @trulybetty

The Mist on Mulholland

PART ONE: NOW

Summary: What's next for Dieter Bravo? After decades of trying to outrun that question, he finally has an answer that he feels good about. But in order to move forward with it he'll need to look to his past and dig up things that have been buried for years. Will it clear the way for him to find happiness and stability in the future, or will it just pour salt in old wounds all over again? Only one way to find out.

This story was inspired by Mulholland Drive by The Gaslight Anthem. It's my first M/M story - ever - and I am equal parts nervous and excited to share it.

Series warnings: implied/ referenced drug use, alcohol, marijuana use, infidelity, addiction - warnings to be updated as the series unfolds

READ ON AO3

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Absofuckinglutely.

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The Mist on Mulholland

PART ONE: NOW

Summary: What's next for Dieter Bravo? After decades of trying to outrun that question, he finally has an answer that he feels good about. But in order to move forward with it he'll need to look to his past and dig up things that have been buried for years. Will it clear the way for him to find happiness and stability in the future, or will it just pour salt in old wounds all over again? Only one way to find out.

This story was inspired by Mulholland Drive by The Gaslight Anthem. It's my first M/M story - ever - and I am equal parts nervous and excited to share it.

Series warnings: implied/ referenced drug use, alcohol, marijuana use, infidelity, addiction - warnings to be updated as the series unfolds

READ ON AO3

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Happy Friday, friends!!

First off, I hope everyone’s weekend is getting off to a good, safe, fun start!

Secondly, I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything BUT I’m trying like heck to change that and hoping like crazy that I’ll have something to share on Sunday for my very first ever m/m story! Its Dieter Bravo x OMC, friends to lovers to ???, multiple timelines, angst/fluff/smut, and I am equal parts stoked and scared to release it into the world!

If you’d like a tag please let me know, but otherwise just check back here later this weekend if you’re interested! Little snippet under the cut:

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me @ myself in the mirror every day of my life

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🎧 I want to know what song(s) you’d include in your writing playlist and what fic they remind you of 🎧

Thanks so much for the (high pressure!) tag, @secretelephanttattoo!! This is a fun one!

Dark Horse - Lera Lynn - Point of No Return

In the Beginning - Fahrenhaidt - Angelfish

Three Seed - Silversun Pickups - Recall

Hold You In My Arms - Ray LaMontagne - Survivor Blues

My Boy Builds Coffins - Florence and the Machine - The Contractor

In This House - San Fermin - A Clumsy Romance

Stay Vicious - The Gaslight Anthem - Literally anything for Frankie

Sugarcube - Yo La Tengo - The Mist on Mulholland (WIP)

Bonus: all of these were written for specific songs. this one, too.

tagging a few who might want to share - sorry if you've already been tagged!! - but also open to anyone and everyone: @insomniamamma @grogusmum @oonajaeadira @writeforfandoms @sixhours @trulybetty

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7 CDs

You just got a kind of shitty old car, and it doesn’t have bluetooth. you can only buy 7 CDs and you can’t repeat an artist. What are you getting?

Thanks for the tags, loveliest of lovelies!! @grogusmum @jolapeno & @secretelephanttattoo

Fun fact: My first car did in fact have a 7 cd changer, but it was too bulky to fit in the dash so it had to be installed in my trunk.

1 - Ceremonials- Florence + the Machine 2 - Handwritten - The Gaslight Anthem 3 - Hollywood Park - The Airborne Toxic Event 4 - Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen 5 - A Hundred Million Suns - Snow Patrol 6 - Dear Miss Lonely Hearts - Cold War Kids 7 - Rumors - Fleetwood Mac

no pressure tagging: @practicalghost @valkblue @pheedraws @artemiseamoon @maggiemayhemnj @trulybetty @ladamedusoif & anyone else who wants to play!!

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El, I’m so honored to be on this list with all these gems!! Thank you so much for reading and reccing and being so rad!! 🤘🏻

New from me

Road Trip Blues (Marcus Pike x reader) was my submission for the Magic Number Challenge.

Fic Recs

I haven't read very much by my usual standards, but I hope you find something on this list that you enjoy! Please remember to give your writer pals some love.

Clint Flood

Home Remedies by @goodwithcheese

Summary: Clint takes care of his wife.

The Little Blue Cottage by @nathanbatemanfucker

Summary: Clint and his daughter find a chance at love again with the neighbor across the street.

Against All Odds by @lovesbiggerthanpride

Summary: tags/notee: inspired by a scene in the movie, spoiler-ish, au-ish, established relationship, in my Clint feels and already love him. he’s such a loverboy who deserves everything good. literally after I figured out the title, i thought of the Phil Collins song.

This House Still Creaks by @trulybetty

summary: Clint returns to the house you both once shared. Some ghosts still linger no matter how much you move on.

Marcus Pike

So Quite New A Thing by @katareyoudrilling

Summary: Your best friend's younger brother has returned to your hometown after a difficult break-up. He was so annoying when you were growing up, but have things changed since then?

Ezra

Dagger by @the-blind-assassin-12

Summary: Ezra had told Cee quite a lot about you - that the two of you had been partners, lovers, that you'd been separated by the currents of fate - enough for her to know that he was still, even 12 years later, deeply in love with you. After everything he'd done for her following their return from the Green - taking her in as his own kin, helping her pursue an education, giving her the stability that she'd never had before - she knew that if there was something she could do to help reunite him with you, she would. Consequences be damned.

Kermit (LOL)

Stargazing by @maggiemayhemnj

Amnesia trope for the @jolacheese B&B (check out the blog for lots of fun stuff!)

Dieter Bravo

I Think Of You All Of The Time by @schnarfer

Summary: Childhood best friends - we meet Dieter and reader at 17 but follow them over the years as they can’t get their shit together, begins in 2002. Emotional torment, Soulmates & Best friends to toxic lovers.

Golden Girl by @whocaresstillthelouvre

Summary: What happens when you discover your husband has been cheating on you? You call his best friend to help comfort you. Is his companionship and support the reason why you feel okay?

Joel Miller

Practice by @tinytinymenace

Summary: Joel makes his case for you moving in.

Frankie Morales

Begin Again by @sawymredfox

summary: The night looks beyond repair, or perhaps not.

Javi G x Ezra x F!reader

Beneath The Glow by @maggiemayhemnj

Summary: Fate leads you to a new and different - and wholly satisfying - relationship. Your Dynamic Trio takes an anniversary getaway to indulge in your surroundings, and each other.

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one is one hundred percent more abbys than the preferred amount.

“we have one abby” yeah and i wish we had one less

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do you think ellie ever goes back to that museum? she lays in that rocket with her helmet on that she stole so many years ago. she puts that tape he gave her in the walkman and closes her eyes. maybe she hesitates to open them when the recording is over. maybe she turns her head to the side and slowly peeks out of one eye, hoping against the odds to see his grinning face, but it's just the empty shuttle.

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Six Song Soundtrack —

Rules: If you're tagged, make a post with links to music and/or lyrics describing six things / events about your OC/story.

Thank you so much @valkblue for the tag! I Love sharing story soundtracks!

I'm gonna go with the soundtrack for The Mist on Mulholland, my Dieter Bravo x M!OC wip, because I'm very partial to this playlist (it ranges from the early 90s to current) and these characters.

1- Event that defines your character's past:

Pictures of You by The Cure - The whole premise of this story is that Dieter has decided to write a memoir about the time in his life that he considers the most formative - when he grew into himself and found his people and found out things about himself and formed bonds that got him through the hard times. Of course, at the heart of all of it is a love story that never quite took off but absolutely never went anywhere. The whole song works, but none of it quite as well as the closing lines:

There was nothing in the world That I ever wanted more Than to feel you deep in my heart There was nothing in the world That I ever wanted more Than to never feel the breaking apart Of these pictures of you

Throughout the story, as he's looking back and writing about these moments and these people, we see flashbacks of Dieter and Lake (and May, of course) falling in love and breaking each other's hearts but never fully letting go.

2- How your character sees themselves:

True. by The Airborne Toxic Event - A little self-depreciating, but very honest, this song feels like it would be how Dieter sees himself as he's looking back and revisiting memories. Once again, the whole song is relevant, but the very first verse stands out to me:

It sure seems clear to me As far as I can see How the highest life brought the lowest out of me Eventually

The rest of the song is sort of a thank you/ apology to someone that has been hurt by the singer's actions and decisions but who stuck by their side and always will.

Their closest relationships (romantic and platonic):

I love that this one includes both romantic and platonic, because as much as this is a Dieter/M!OC (Lake) story, it's also a story about the friendship between the two main characters and May, their third musketeer.

3- Romantic: What Does It Mean? by VHS Collection - This song is on the playlist for the tentative, unsure, "gosh I hope we both want the same things" vibes that keep both characters - Dieter and Lake - coming back for more. Specifically the bridge:

And I see you Only in yesterday Hoping that you would stay Are we dreaming? Was it a big mistake, Throwing it all away?

This corresponds to a point in the story midway between the two main timelines, when the characters are reunited after a long separation, and they're questioning whether or not they made the right call to not be together. Little bit of a rose colored glasses situation, but still, the questions need to be asked. And answered.

4- Platonic: Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs - OBVIOUSLY the "they don't love you like I love you" line works suuuuper well here, because Dieter, Lake and May form a friendship that is so solid that no one ever really knows any of them the way they all know each other. But even more relevant to their relationship, I think, is :

Don't stray My kind's your kind I'll stay the same

These three define found family. They are quite literally what is meant when you hear the phrase "you just have to find your people". They're the collective loves of each other's lives.

A major fight scene:

Every You Every Me by Placebo - This story is going to be a constant rollercoaster of ups and downs, and when it gets rocky it really gets rocky. This song is perfect for one of the rockiest moments, when emotions are raw and tensions are high, especially these lines:

Sucker love, I always find Someone to bruise and leave behind All alone in space and time There's nothing here, but what's here's mine Something borrowed, something blue Every me and every you

This represents one of the lowest/darkest points in the story, where Dieter focuses too much on his mistakes and beats himself up a bit (a lot) for not being able to give Lake what he deserved.

End credits song:

Mulholland Drive by The Gaslight Anthem - This is the song I was listening to when the idea for this story first came to me, and it has been acting as the cornerstone for the whole thing. Every single word of it is relevant to key parts of the story, but if I had to choose just one section it would be this one: I can still recall the hour when you first let down your walls And I thought I might've died right there, floating up above it all But it scared you love, to need someone, so you killed it all instead But in the mist up on Mulholland, I could've sworn I heard you say Oh that I would just die if you ever took your love away

A big part of this story is about public vs private personas and how managing both can affect relationships. This song is about a secret love that one person wants to remain secret while the other is hoping to bring it out of the shadows and give it some legitimacy. It's just a matter of how long that person is willing to wait to see if the other will ever be ready to acknowledge what they have.

** If anyone wants to know what other songs are currently on the playlist, my inbox is open and I'd love to share!**

tagging a few who might want to share some tunes: @artemiseamoon @maggiemayhemnj @grogusmum @secretelephanttattoo @jolapeno @oonajaeadira & anyone else who wants to play!

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Happy Friday! Random word for your wip search: coffee ☕️ because I really want one but it’s way too late for caffeine 🤣

Happy writing! ✍️

Hi Betty! Happy Friday Saturday! I hope your weekend is going swimmingly and that you have since indulged in some coffee!

Thank you so much for popping in with this, I'm so sorry I didn't get to it last night. As a fellow caffeine lover, of course the word coffee is going to appear in my wips. Of the few that have been in recent rotation, though, I thought I was going to find coffee in Unfinished- my Marcus Pike ghost story, because there's a breakfast scene in the next part, but when I looked it dawned on me that said breakfast scene still only exists in my brain and not actually in the document, so it was back to the search.

My next thought was that if it was coffee I was looking for, Joel was a good person to ask, so I hopped over to a still unposted Joel x FOC wip called Kiss Me & Smile for me, and low and behold, Joel came through with the hot bean water.

Snippet under the cut:

“Dude, you got to go up in the sky.” 

She turned to shoot him a glare that said “don’t fucking downplay it”, like it was inconceivable to her that he was so casual about having had the chance to fly before mankind became grounded by the outbreak. Before aviation ended in smoke and flame and debris. 

A twenty year old screw turned in his chest, its rusty threading boring deeper into his heart. 

“Kiss me and smile for me.” The gentle press of lips to his shoulder. “Tell me that you’ll wait for me.” A soft voice lifting him out of sleep, reaching him when his alarm had failed to do so. “Hold me like you’ll never let me go.” A pair of bare arms winding around his midsection, his own locking over them to secure the embrace for as long as he could. 

Fuck. 

It had been years since he let himself think of that particular morning. Years since he let himself think of her. 

Her, and the way that the early morning sunlight would push through the curtains in his bedroom to play in her hair. Her, and the way her warm skin was always welcome against his, even in the sweltering heat of a Texan summer. Her, and the way that his sheets soaked up the scent of her shampoo. Her, and the way that she looked in the kitchen, wearing just his t-shirt and handing him a cup of coffee. 

Emma. 

Frown twitching downwards, he stamped out those thoughts before they grew. Can’t go down that road right now. Tossing a solemn nod at the wreckage, he responded. “Yeah, well, so did they.” With that he walked on, the girl trailing behind. 

“Grim,” she mused at his back. 

“It's just the truth,” he shot over his shoulder.

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This one is actually taking 6 million years to write but like all of my twisted piles of metal and tears that I call wips, it's also constantly on my mind, so... idk maybe someday it will see the light of day. I hope so, because Joel & Emma* are so very important to me.

*Emma was Sarah's very first soccer coach and Joel had such a big crush on her it was embarrassing so he did what he does best and hid his feelings from the world for years <3

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it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

IT MAY TAKE ME A MONTH TO PUT OUT A CHAPTER BUT AT LEAST IM NOT USING AI TO WRITE IT

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Happy Friday 💗🌟 I'm working on a fight scene for my Pero wip which is currently tackling me harder than I'm tackling it lol. I hope you're writing is going much smoother than mine! I'm sure whatever you come up with will be fantastic 💎

Happy Friday, Rae!! I hope you enjoy your weekend to the flipping fullest!

Oooooo a fight scene with Pero?? That sounds very intriguing! Are swords involved or is this a fist fight?? Listen if he’s tackling too hard, he can come tackle me. I can (and gladly will) take one for the team. He can tackle me as hard as he wants. I don’t mind 😏 (plus all my joints and bones are trash anyway so the risk is minimal)

But back to your scene. Do you have any methods for writing fight sequences? Like, do you visualize it a certain way beforehand? Do you use references? Or do you just let Pero (or whomever) go wild and see what happens?

I have, admittedly, enlisted the help of my husband once or twice (or an unknown number of times) to physically block out a fight. Once upon a time (like a million ages ago) my sister and I acted out a sword fight using wrapping paper tubes for something she was writing. I’ve also like… punched the air and or smacked (lightly) myself to figure out Gabe placement or whatever. 😅

Right now I’m bouncing between three wips - Survivor Blues, The Contractor & Unfinisted. Unfortunately there’s no fighting happening in any of the scenes I’m currently working on. SB Joel is cooking you dinner and putting some music on. Contractor Joel is having a very eye opening discussion with Ellie. And Unfinished Marcus is… well, he’s spooked out of his mind, because the ghosts at Maplewood Manir are Very Real and are posing a Very Real threat to you.

(There is a suuuuuper gritty fight coming in an upcoming chapter of SB though, and it’s one I’ve been soooo eager to get to!)

Whatever you come up with will be fantastic, lovely! Never ever underestimate or under appreciate your talent and creativity. For what it’s worth, you’ve written some of my favorite stories, and I’ve always admired your writing. You got this!! 🤍

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Any new chapters of Aphelion coming soon pretty please ??

Hi anon, and happy Friday!! I hope you’re having a great start to your weekend!

First of all, it always makes me so incredibly happy when someone shows interest in Aphelion, so please know that this ask found me like this: 🥹

That story is literally always being turned like a rotisserie chicken. It’s always being worked on and thought about. And though I can’t promise you when it’ll be updated, I can promise you that it will be updated.

Vampire Oberyn is so close to having everything he’s ever wanted (which is honestly not that much considering he’s been alive for thousands of years and all he wants is a little vengeance and some undying love) and I personally can’t wait to share how it all shakes out. This story has been a little on the slow side in terms of writing, because it’s always been about doing justice to the characters - doing justice to Oberyn, specifically. And since he deserves nothing but the best, it’s a story that can’t be rushed.

But rest assured that it will happen.