#betaot4

i have so many beta ot4 thoughts and i keep writing like three pages of Vibes™️and leaving them in my drafts for a year and a half before i sadly move them to my "probably not gonna finish" folder

anyway this story features:

daverose codependency but in a totally chill way where they're pretending they've basically never met before

both dave and rose idolising jade but never daring to express this idolisation in any way other than occasional statements that are probably not passive-aggressive

dave having major guilt over kissing june when they were at school together because this was pre-transition and he thinks he disrespected her boundaries/heterosexuality and basically never talked to her again because he felt so guilty

rose being like "let's go on a road trip" when she hears this story because she wants to own dave's past by inserting herself into his significant stories

dave falling right back into loving june the second he sees her

rose and jade falling for june immediately as well

a very happy ending

absolutely not annoying! i love talking about my wips :D

i answered dirkjakejohn here and betaot4 here

"God tier John asks Dirk to help him die" is a fic i started because i wanted to give @phlegmykins a present and then i didn't actually finish it and it's sat in my folder with 1.5k words for a while haha

basically, after resurrecting on theseus, john's suicidal but inconveniently god tier, so he asks dirk very casually to kill him. he figures that dirk is evil and being killed by someone evil will do the trick. the thing is, that isn't actually heroic and dirk isn't actually evil (despite his actions), so dirk doesn't want to. taking someone's life with his own hands (and a human life, someone who could be his friend) is very different from writing them dying, and dirk gets it, you know? he gets feeling this way and he is utterly willing to tear himself apart for the benefit of others, but he's sick of it

anyway, he tries and it doesn't stick and he hates himself and hates john, and john feels betrayed by it despite asking for it because humans are not rational creatures and it's just an incredibly emotionally fraught and also intimate time (and there's sex)

"betaot4 pwp" has a single sentence but it's a hilarious and good one:

Jade leatherworking and then whittling a strap in front of dave and rose (they don’t know what it is at first) and john’s just playing fortnite or something in the background

"bro/d soft" is a fic where bro has a tendency to break into d's house when d is incredibly high/drunk and makes him come despite the fact that he can't get it up (a legit possible thing! 🥵) kinda playing with bro's thing for puppets because like ... limp, helpless body. the soft is in reference to d's dick not the tone of the fic 😂

Bro doesn’t answer, but it’s true. He comes over sometimes when you’re sober, but he’s all over you when you’re wasted. You probably shouldn’t trust someone who gets off on you being practically helpless. But you kinda get off on it too and it feels so fucking good.

He undoes your shirt without taking off your tie and slides his hands against your skin. His fingers are warmer than the leather of his gloves, and the texture difference is something to get lost in. The coke’s made everything feel brighter, like the world has a shiny edge, like your nerves have been moved to the outside of your body. You could do anything right now.

"dirkhal pwp" is literally that, hal comes into dirk's room and annoys him into sex (omg i haven't worked on this since august 2019)

‘I’m bored,’ Hal says. You scroll down the wiki article you’re reading performatively, as if you aren’t giving him even a bit of attention. ‘You should see if you can top me.’