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It Takes Two is finally done and I am over the moon with excitement at so many of your lovely comments!

Happy 28th Birthday, Dylan O’Brien (August 26th, 1991) ❤️

For the prompt for July by @stetermonthlyprompts —witches!

Peter enters the bakery warily, eyes searching for danger—but all he sees are customers eating or drinking coffee. Strange, maybe he has the wrong address?

“Excuse me,” he says to the cashier. “Do you know when the owner will be in?”

There’s a grin pulling at the boy’s lips, and Peter wonders what’s so funny until...

“That would be me. Stiles Stilinski, what can I do for you today?”

Well. That’s a surprise.

“But I thought you were a witch?”

The honey eyes before him flash with power, and Peter no longer doubts his authenticity.

“I embue everything in my work with magic. Most of the time, it’s a nostalgic memory into dough or inspiration into icing, but sometimes?”

Stiles pulls a bat from behind the counter, obviously well-used and has runes carved into the sides.

“Sometimes I have to kill some big bads. Now tell me, what can I do for you today?”

Claudia is just the latest in a long line of spouses but she’s the first to give him a child with potential. While the Sheriff might not be anything great when it comes to magics, this child’s magic is seeping out of them to just such an extent that it’s killing Claudia (though the Sheriff doubts she feels anything yet, it’s a slow poison that will eat away at her and there’s nothing either of them can do about it). 

Plotty Steter coming up!  -Emmy

I Don’t Like You, But I Love You by OH LOOK, OUR OWN ANASTASIA!

(23,816 / Explicit / Complete)  *steter, peter/ofc, emissary!stiles, pack dynamics, daddy kink

He smells him before he sees him, the scent competing over the sticky smell of stale beer and sweat. It smells like burnt sugar, a little bitter mixed in with the sweetness. He leaves the paperwork on the desk and steps out of his office, passing the bathrooms that he can tell Erica still hasn’t cleaned.

A lithe, what Peter could only describe as a boy is standing in the middle of the empty bar, one hand gripping the dolly’s handle full of boxes of Hair of the Dog; one of the few werewolf beers that doesn’t taste of ass. (And Peter would know.) His mouth is slightly parted as he surveys the bar and Peter suppressed thoughts of what he could put in that mouth.

Ink Blossoms by  Triangulum

(24,501 / Explicit / Complete)  *steter, florist!stiles, tattoo artist!peter, tattooed!peter, tattooed!stiles, no hale fire, werewolves are known

“So, you’re going to ruin your niece’s baby shower with flowers in the wrong color?” the florist, Stiles, asks when they reach the counter. He pulls out a binder and starts flipping through it.

“Not ruin. Mildly inconvenience,” Peter says.

“Right, messing with a hormonal pregnant woman seems like a great plan.”

“To be fair, her fiance and the father of her baby is my ex-boyfriend,” Peter says. “And we weren’t broken up when they started ‘dating’.”

Stiles looks up at him in surprise. “And you’re still getting her flowers?” he asks.

“It’s under duress, I assure you,” Peter says. He absolutely wouldn’t be here if his alpha hadn’t ordered it.

“Well, shit, yeah, let’s get you some purple revenge flowers,” Stiles says.

Sanctuary by  DiscontentedWinter

(56,524 / Mature / Complete)  *steter, alive hale family, suicidal thoughts

The Hale Wolf Sanctuary isn’t just for wolves.

It turns out it’s for Stilinskis as well.

How the Mighty Fall by  ToyBoxOfSuz

(62,333 / Explicit / Complete)  *steter, a/b/o dynamics, alpha!peter, omega!stiles, heat cycles, college au

A/B/O universe. Stiles and Scott are in college, renting a house with Derek and one fateful day Stiles meets Derek’s uncle Peter, who is a professional Alpha and seemingly has an eye for him. And things develop.

Hook, Yarn, Sinker by  pprfaith

(65,675 / Not Rated / Complete)  *steter, human au, aged up characters, parenting

Stiles is happy with his store, his hobbies, his friends. Peter’s just trying to figure out how to raise his nieces and nephew without fucking them up too badly.

Paths cross.

Sympathy for the Devil by  KouriArashi

(72,522 / Mature / Complete)  *steter, stiles and scott are brothers, child abuse, canon divergence, catatonic!peter

Stiles gets a job as a hospital orderly and finds himself becoming strangely attached to the catatonic man on the long-term care ward, and finds out that there’s a lot more to Peter Hale than there seems…

Worn Out Shoes by  moonstalker24

(96,763 / Teen / Complete)  *steter, zombie apocalypse au, accidental baby acquisition, 

When the dead rise, and the world comes to an end, the McCall Pack must learn to live in this new world, or die in the attempt. This is the story of the end, and of the year that follows.

Occupational Hazards by  veterization

(129,305 / Explicit / Complete)  *steter, office au

u wanna write a single, passing line of dialogue so u fact check it to make sure it’s historically accurate, then suddenly you’ve lost track of time, space,, urself

it’s like this, right

If you see a street musician, you have three options:

Walk past without saying anything

Stop and listen to the music, but don’t give them any money

Stop and listen to the music and if you have the money and liked what they played, you give them money

Nowhere in any of that is the option, “Stop and criticize them to ‘help them improve their performance.’”

If you do that, you are considered an asshole. That’s just how life works.

In the same manner, when you read a fanfiction, you have three options:

Read it, like and/or love it, leave without a word

Read it, dislike and/or hate it, leave without a word

Read it, like and/or loveit, leave a comment

If you don’t like it? You don’t have to comment!

If you did like it but there was an element that wasn’t to your specific taste? Focus on the part you did like when you comment.

If you can’t do that, then walk away. Don’t say anything.

You’re right, you don’t have to leave a positive comment, but I’m not telling you that you have to leave a positive comment. I’m telling you that if you can’t leave one, then don’t leave a comment at all.

If the only way you’re willing to tell someone about the parts of their story that you liked is to also tell them the parts that you did not like and/or actively hate? Then don’t comment. Do. Not. Comment.

Because no matter how long each of those lists are–no matter if the good outweighs the bad or not–the only thing you’ve done is left a sour taste in someone’s mouth.