#cp asks

NATURE IS HEALING

When are you giving me my man back?

-Daisy (@powerofelvis)

He’s in the works, I swear, my Daisy May. He’s very sweaty and grimey and it’s been two days since his last shave so beard burn is in the immediate future.

{Snippet from Chapter 17 below)

“What’s wrong with it?” Rosey asked.

“Oh it’s great!” He assured with a laugh, “For the first five hours. Then ya start thinkin’ bout amputation. If I catch you slippin Horny Goatweed in my tonics’n’shit I’ll take you over my knee girl, I ain’t teasin.”

“I won’t.” she swore, disturbed at the mere notion of slipping anything into anything he took.

He patted her cheek in acknowledgment before sitting down heavily beside her and setting to yanking off his grimy shirt, the pit stains dark and visible as he raised his arms and struggled with the garment.

“What’s this really about?” he asked softly as the fabric cleared his flushed face, his hair soft and mussed, grease defining each half-hearted curl at the nape of his neck.

“I’m bein’ silly.” she acknowledged with a shy smile.

“Ain’t no crime that.” he smiled back, “Not on my boat. Hell, there ever been a time you ain’t silly, girl?”

oh my god they are tho, it honestly explains everything :’) 

You’re very welcome, but honestly, no thanks are needed.

Grief is something that I think everyone handles differently, but I know it’s swallowed me up in my past, so writing it is very personal for me. I’m so sorry about the loss of your grandmother - I remember you talking about her, and seeing all of the pictures of her that you would share. Mine passed away the day after Thanksgiving back in 2015 and it was ridiculously hard for me. We’d always been close, but that last year of her life, I was the one who probably spent the most time with her, so her death - even though I knew it was coming - left me brokenhearted. When she passed, I was miles and miles away in Ohio just trying to get back to be with my mom, and I was so close to my Granny that losing her was just…devastating, the way losing my Pappy was many years before. Those two were dear to me in a similar way that Georgia’s nan and granddad were to here, so writing this felt very personal to me.

Grief is truly like an ocean, in that it is vast and unpredictable at times and we all have different ways of moving through it. Because it is something that I have fought really hard to deal with in healthy ways in the years since I lost my Pappy, I tried to be very careful in showing Georgia’s grief in this, especially given it isn’t told from her perspective. We are seeing Georgia’s grief through Liam’s eyes - Liam who has known her for about seven months at this point and has been dating her for four of them, but already they’ve grown close to where watching her go through this, especially with the distance she needs, is hard for him. But I wanted him to be respectful of that. While being very clear in showing his affections for her, I also wanted him to be understanding of the fact that she would ask for him when she needed him, and otherwise, the respect and the space she deserved would be given to her. I just wanted to be sure I colored this part of their tale with as much realism as I possibly could, because it is a very serious subject to me, and one I don’t take lightly because it’s something that everyone, on some level, can relate to.

on the other hand dONT THINK all your perfectly perfect prose has distracted me from what is rEALLY important here......... which is the presence of so many period-accurate sex toys and accoutrements in that goddamn suitcase of his.!!!!!!

it cracked me the fuck up, rosey was undergoing so many painfully delicate realizations at aida's behest and she wanted gentleness for cp SO bad and all i could do was be depraved and cheer bc- 😈😈

This Liam is the SWEEEETEST. He’s so sweet he makes my teeth ache but it’s pleasant torture, so like, I don’t even care about the cavities.

One of the things I love about writing this story is that each part offers a small turning point for Liam. Whether he’s opening himself up to new beginnings or defining his relationships, he is taking a step forward towards the man he’s meant to become - the man we’ve met in all the one-shots and drabbles that came before this, who is married to the woman of his dreams and has a beautiful, growing family. 

Liam’s turning point here is not with his romantic relationship, but rather, his professional one - and it’s one I could relate to, being that I am having to make some changes professionally. The future is a big and scary thing no matter what you do, and so we find Liam here on the brink of something and everything has been go, go, go for so long that the idea of just…taking time to breathe doesn’t even cross his mind. But having someone like Georgia in his life gives him perspective. She helps him see the things he misses. He’s come to really treasure their relationship, and he treasures her and tries to keep her as comfortable as he can with their relationship in the public eye because he understands that it’s difficult for her - hell, he’s not the biggest fan of all of it himself. So that moment in the lobby, with the hat, with his internal promises - it felt necessary here, to translate that. Georgia is so often so considerate of him and his schedule and what he does and little things like this are his way of showing her that he’s considerate of her, too.

Ahh I am SO glad you liked it! It’s very rare that I hear anything about my Liam and Gee pieces these days, so thank you for always taking the time to message me. I’m so excited I was finally able to finish it! I love my babies so much and I enjoy sharing them with you. 💖