letters to stray kids

I'm just...☠☠☠

IT'S ONLY 9AM?!?!

I have officially concluded i need to own some of these Daze magazines BC DAMN THEIR PHOTOSHOOTS ARE JUST ARE ARTISTIC AND SEXY and then we got Elle ruining me too.

are you smelling that shit?

Every time I wrote your name, I lied. Every time I wrote your name, it was the truth.

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+ cw: suggestive, lots of fluff, gn reader.

+ ft: kaeya, zhongli, diluc, childe, albedo, xiao, venti

KAEYA

begs for you to have a self care night with him, he’ll stand outside your door with a basket of face masks, serums, and those really cute animal headbands he bought on amazon.

asks for you to scratch his tummy or scalp while his hands are occupied and by occupied i mean he’s playing games on his phone.

you never speak about that one time you both made out on your front door step and almost gave the granny across the hall a heart attack.

tucks you into bed if he comes home to find you asleep on the couch. you don’t tell him this but you pretend to be asleep sometimes so you can be close to him when he carries you.

ZHONGLI

he wears a really cute bandanna when he’s cleaning around the apartment and you once sneaked up on him to take a picture. the picture is now your laptop background.

it’s a reflex of his to sit you on his lap when you walk by him.

gets upset if you leave the house without telling him or texting him goodbye. he calls you like 40 times to make sure you’re okay.

during quarantine he had a knitting phase and you now have 20 pairs of cotton socks. you wear them for good luck sometimes!

DILUC

secretly loves to cuddle with you. also loves when he’s the small spoon, makes him feel safe and loved. but of course he won’t admit it.

+ diluc hates lying to you but he has to do this in order to convince you that it really was too hot in his room so can he please sleep over in yours? he promises he won’t kick you off the bed like last time!

has once accidentally sent you a semi explicit picture but only because he was trying to see if that was a mole or a pimple on his back.

he leaves you little notes. “went to work early, made some breakfast for you” “please open the windows once you wake up, you need the sunlight” “don’t forget your keys like last time”

CHILDE

asks you to adopt a dog with him. you tell him you would if you weren’t also busy taking care of him, so you settle for a betta fish!

you once let childe do the laundry and all your shirts became crop tops, but he reassures you that you look hot. you reassure him that you’ll bring flowers to his grave once you kill him.

the first time childe kissed you was when you were watching a movie together, it was a spur of the moment thing and when he pulled away you whispered to him. “you taste like raw onions.” he instantly got up to brush his teeth.

he once kept loudly whining about how he wanted to get laid. “wow i need sex, i need sex so bad, i wish someone would just sex me right now!!” you walked out of your room to speak to him and he perked up at your presence, but all you said was “shut up” and walked away.

pairing: bang chan/reader

word count: 7.2k

genre: romance, werewolf au, frenemies-to-lovers

warnings: swearing, dirty talk, hot and heavy making-out, reader is a capital-B Brat, blood (chan’s got those gnarly-looking claw-marks on his back and chest), yes this was entirely inspired by that wolfgang performance

summary:

Then, he finally notices the first-aid kit in your hand, and he changes.

The corners of his lips turn up, twisting into a smirk. He raises his chin, one eyebrow arching at the sight of you. It’s a smug, quietly dangerous look from Chan that you’ve never seen before. One that sets your nerves on edge, has the hairs on the back of your neck standing up.

“Why?” Chan asks, and his hand drifts up to undo his top button. “Are you here to play nurse?”

There’s something wrong with Chan.

You notice immediately, trying to stay discreet as you watch through the window at the boys as they wander out of the forest, stretching limbs, ruffling dishevelled hair.

You’re still getting used to the whole werewolf thing.

It had only been a few months ago that you had returned from a semester abroad to find that your life-long best friend, Felix, had been bitten by some sketchy creep at a beach bonfire.

There’s no…lingering guilt about not being there. Or anything.

You’re fine.

But Chan isn’t. That’s what you’re so focused on right now.

His expression is guarded, shoulders tense as he walks just a few steps behind the rest of the group. You watch Felix hang back a second, talking to him, saying something you can’t hear through the window. You see Chan shake his head, patting him on the shoulder, and when Felix says something else, he moves his hand to the back of Felix’s head, scratching it affectionately.

You know objectively that Chan taking in Felix was one of the best things to happen for him. From the little you’ve gleaned about werewolves, you know that packs work like a support network. A new family. It’s good for him.

It just…chafes a little that you’re not a part of it. It feels unfair that the only way to regain that position you once held in Felix’s life would be to get bitten too, suffer through the painful transition, disconnect from society, spend days and weeks and months of your life as a mindless animal ready to attack and maul any living thing in sight–

Chan’s limping.

You catch it. Just barely.

You don’t think anyone else has noticed. You think you only caught it because Chan hasn’t noticed you looking.

Hasn’t noticed you.

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A blacksmith is a generalist, a person who uses tools and fire to work iron.  Some blacksmiths work more specifically, so you get, say, an architectural blacksmith, who focuses more or less exclusively on things like gates, rails, fences, or an artist blacksmith, who makes wacky sculptures or what have you.  These days, though, that’s a pretty blurry line.  ‘Blacksmith’ is a pretty damn broad term, but it’s nowhere near broad enough to cover everything encompassed in ‘metalworker’, which is how I often see it used.  There are a LOT of different skills for working metal, and no one knows them all.  Some other terms:

A farrier shoes horses.  They may make the shoes, or they may buy them and then size them, but they actually do the shoeing.  Unless the blacksmith is also a farrier, they don’t know shit about horses’ hooves and are not qualified to deal with them and probably don’t want to.

A blacksmith works IRON, usually almost exclusively.  They might work with bronze or do a bit of brazing, but those are really separate skillsets.  If you work, say, tin and/or pewter, you are in fact a whitesmith.  You could also be a silversmith or a coppersmith, and so on.

Knifemakers and swordsmiths have their own highly specialized and fairly complex specialties, and usually a blacksmith wouldn’t mess with that unless they want to pick up a new skillset or if they’re really the only game going for a long way around.  By the same token, a swordsmith might never have learned the more general blacksmithing skills.  They’re not the same thing is what I’m trying to say here.  Likewise armorers.  There’s overlap but it’s not the same thing.

If you make metal items via molds and casting, you work at a foundry and are a foundryman.

In fantasy, though, it’s all different.  Tolkien’s dwarves have an average lifespan of 250, so they have much longer to pick up skills (and live in an environment where probably it’s much easier and encouraged for them to do so: they live in cities that are concentrated on providing made items and skills to other species: they aren’t a generalist society, very unlike any human institution I can think of.)  They also ‘make mighty spells’ so very unlike real medieval blacksmiths, they are probably working metal with enchantment as well as tongs. 

We don’t know about their gender role situation, but I don’t think there’s anything in canon to say that the women aren’t making things (and even if there was, there are loads of dwarf cities that last for thousands of years, so no doubt there’s variation between them). 

Let’s talk first about the name!  Historically Smith would mean metal worker and the color would tell you what type of metal. Black is the designation for iron (because of the color it takes after being heated and cooled several times.)  Today Smith more generally means maker, but is still most commonly applied to metal workers.

And, as the OP said, if you need a tinker (tinsmith, also works pewter), silversmith (whitesmith), goldsmith (white- or yellow- smith), or coppersmith (red-, brown-, or green- smith), that’s a different discipline.  Not that a blacksmith has no idea how to work those metals, but his knowledge will likely be limited to how it applies to his general discipline.  For example, weapons and armor made for nobility might have precious metals used to decorate them.  (Aside: The techniques for iron vs copper are complete opposites and one of my favorite modern blacksmithing proverbs is about brass, an alloy made with copper and zinc.  It runs, “Brass, brass, what a pain in the… brain.” )

One of my choice historical bits is talking about medieval blacksmithing in England. This is something we actually have records of because of the guild structure. There were so many blacksmiths in urbanized areas that your permit to open a shop would permit you to make only a specific set of items. Pin drawers, chain makers, armorers, swordsmiths, farm tools, nails, wainwright (hoops for wagon wheels or barrels), farriers (horse shoeing)… all of those might be different shops.  And that isn’t even a complete list!  (Naturally there was a lot of overlap on high-demand items.) 

But even better, Yorkshire records that show us that women were regularly involved in the trade!  It was still male-dominated BUT several of the disciplines (nails, pins, chains) were almost exclusively women!  Women owned blacksmith shops, took apprentices, worked the forge - all of the things that mark them as “real” blacksmiths.  One of my favorite anecdotes is from William Hutton’s History of Birmingham; he encountered a nailer’s shop in which he noted “one or more females, stripped of their upper garments, and not overcharged with the lower, wielding the hammer with all the grace of the sex.”

Come yell at me about blacksmithing!  I want to learn what you know and I’d love to answer any of your questions!  I have a lot of prepared lecture snippets on a variety of smithing details:

Technological setbacks due to loss of historic metallurgical discoveries.

Why “damascus” swords are supposed to be the best.

Cultural and historical reasons for large, slow, strokes with a heavy hammer (like you see in video games) vs. small, quick strokes with a smaller hammer (like you see on YouTube).

Blacksmithing terms in modern English.  (”Keep your temper” being the most common.)

How settling America changed the Western picture to males-only generalized blacksmithing

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Apprentice vs. Journeyman vs. Master

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Summary: Reader is starting the job she’s been planning towards her entire life, becoming a profiler for the BAU. But what she didn’t plan on was falling head over heels in love with her genius co-worker or her terrible secret coming to light. 

Prologue: I had a thought, dear

Chapter one: However Scary

Chapter two: About that night.

Chapter 3: The bugs and the dirt

Chapter 4: Why are you hiding?

Chapter 5: What did you bury?

Chapter 6: Before those hands pulled me from the earth

Chapter 7: I will not ask you where you came from. I will not ask, neither should you

Chapter 8: Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips

Chapter 9: We should just kiss