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The fic should not exist. It should not work. It’s the most absurd premise. AND YET. SOMEHOW. thesweetestdream is a genius. Some writers just?????? Transcend???????

I cannot get over how much this fic should not work AND YET.

I think two critical reasons why the fic works: (a) thesweetestdream commented this to me — regardless of anything the sweet long term best friendship just prevails? Mike is always just :DDD YAY BEST FRIEND. what. ludicrous. charming. I cannot get enough of how Mike is like that was nice!! :D (b) Will is exceptional at this game. Like this is insane improv skills. Comparatively he is always the best at the game. (c) slow burn while they’re “fucking” the whole time is the best edging the reader I’ve seen in a hot minute.

Byler twt will crash the website when they kiss and or when Mike is like oh im gay??? I am crashing out tho about how it escalated in ch7. That was insane.

make it sexy then.

look, i love a good raw dogging in fic, who doesn't? but if you can't find the eroticism in wrapping that thang up, try again, is all i'm saying.

you can't tell me there's NOTHING sexy about a partner holding that wrapper in their teeth, the anticipation that goes along with waiting for it to be torn open. you can't tell me there isn't something sexy about watching someone hold their cock/strap/etc and roll that down their length.

i had great fun with the formatting for this one. the bar at the bottom is actually the exact same colour and texture as the bar near the top in the light mode of ao3. or at least it was until my mediocre printer had its way with it.

the fonts are also the same as what's used on ao3

did y'all know that on firefox you can screenshot specific elements of the html of a webpage? very handy, to have it immediately cropped to what you need (used for the navigation ui, i couldn't easily replicate that)

so. i am making this post to ask for y'alls help with regards to a fic i will be writing! (the help will come in the form of a poll, so please vote! it would be greatly appreciated by this fic writer)

so for context: this fic that i will be writing is an avalance guardian angel au (ava as sara's guardian angel). it's based on/inspired by a song called ICU by Citizen Soldier (my favorite band!) but that is. really not quite so important to the poll or the help that i'm asking for.

anyway, i wanted to do something cool with this fic, and have there be a special nickname/term of endearment that ava calls sara, from what would be her language, as a guardian angel. now, to preface this, i am not a linguist or an expert on languages at all, and i will not be going super in depth with the whole made up angel language thing. in fact, at the moment, this one term of endearment is pretty much the extent of it, though i may decide to add a bit more later on down the line. i initially came up with part of a term, and then enlisted the help of a very close friend IRL to come up with some Options for it, but alas, now that i've got the Options, it's hard to choose one, as is known to happen. so here's where you all come in!

and for a little bit more context, the term of endearment, whatever variation it ends up being, would roughly translate out to be "my love/my heart/my soul", something to that effect. and the vibe i've been trying to go for is something very. pretty/kind of flowy sounding, i guess? so anyway.

Tag game: Share the opening lines of your last 10 fics (you choose how many if you have less than 10) & tag others!

Thank you for the tag, @aquarianshift!

1. Alignment (The Beatles) - “Anyway, it’s hardly queer if one of you looks like the prettiest girl at the party,” John says, one of his fingers brushing upwards against Paul's eyelashes.

2. Speleology (OFMD RPF) - There’s a permeating smell to the windowless room: cigarettes, and jittery performers awaiting their turn.

Bonus! (not a fic): Certified McLennon: a playlist (with receipts) (The Beatles) - How else to begin the narrative but with a genuine Lennon-McCartney cowrite that fired the starting gun on global scale Beatlemania?

3. Politic (Succession) - “...Oh, and this dinner thing is going to clash with a meeting I set up with that congressman, so I’m sending you instead.”

4. such as is common to man (Succession) - “What happened here,” Mencken says, gesturing at it, lip curling.

5. horny dreck (four stars) (Succession) - A heartwarming sports comedy about a billionaire’s son who accidentally buys his dad the wrong soccer team, but grows to love the lads anyway.

6. what rough beast (Succession) - At 3 a.m. in the dark, half of the highest proof bottles from his liquor cabinet festooned across the coffee table, Roman Roy hits send on a nine million dollar donation to the President of the United States.

7. the orgasm olympics (Succession) - “Tom?”

8. Suite (OFMD RPF) - “Actually, I started reading this short story once by some fucking racist Victorian about an ailing immigrant nobody could understand because he only spoke his mother tongue.”

9. Anointed (Succession) - In his father’s vacated hotel suite, Roman lounges tautly, foot restlessly tapping against the couch.

10. Chemistry Test (OFMD RPF) - “Bzzt,” Rhys says in a perfect imitation, pressing the tip of his finger to a distinctly intercomless part of the open doorway to Taika’s office.

(to say I've been jumping around/not been writing much... anyway, I'm locked in on popular band The Beatles right now but I will probably not have any writing time until at least autumn. stay tuned for my 200th AO3 post some time then, beatles yaoi enjoyers!)