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Three ships: i'm a seon-ho multishipper but if i had to choose then it would be bangseon (yi bang-won/nam seon-ho, MCTNA); sephcloud (sephiroth/cloud strife, FF7); balthorki (baldr/thor/loki, Marvel/MCU); as a bonus: heavar (heahmund/ivar, Vikings)

First ship: i think it might have been sasunaru lol

Last song I listened to: Labour by Paris Paloma

Last movie I watched: it's still The Divine Fury (haven't gotten around to watching The Handmaiden yet, but i hope to soon! /o\)

Currently reading: not really reading anything right now... though i guess i recently got Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin. also meant to start reading Gilgi - eine von uns by Irmgard Keun soon beyond the sneak peek i already got (folks, is it gay to call your girl best friend "Marzipanmädchen" and dreamily think of her as romance itself in the era of the "Neue Sachlichkeit" that eschews romance and sentimentality of any kind???).

Currently watching: i gave in to the urge and finally started watching House of the Dragon (hence why i got Fire & Blood). alicent hightower is my poor little meow meow who is surrounded by creeps and has sapphic longing for her childhood friend/first love turned enemy and can do no wrong

Currently consuming: water - remember to stay hydrated, everyone!

Currently craving: savory puff pastries or há cảo 🤤

69. how do you write emotional scenes? do you ever feel what the characters feel?

Yeahhhhh. So because in a previous life I was an actor, this is how I tend to approach my character work in fic. I tend to immerse myself fully in the scene and think and feel like the PoV character in particular. I can't imagine not feeling what they feel!

This can also be very tough and triggering depending on the scene so I find sometimes I do need to step back and distance myself a little for my own mental health.

73. how do you visualize scenes? do you see it like a movie in your head, or do the words just flow?

Additional Tags: 

Food as a Metaphor for Love, Food Sharing, Travel, Introspection, Hurt/Comfort

Word count: 6k

Summary:

“Lan Zhan, ah, Lan Zhan, do you really want to kiss me so much?” Wei Wuxian laughs, but not unkindly. He pours Lan Zhan chrysanthemum tea and passes him the cup, watches him down it in a single swallow.

“It is not only for that reason,” Lan Zhan says once he regains composure. He picks up another mouthful of noodles between his chopsticks and brings it up to his mouth. “But yes, I do. I always want to kiss Wei Ying.”

Wei Wuxian knows it’s not only about that. Lan Zhan’s meals growing up were silent and restrained, and more often than not solitary. That’s why, Wei Wuxian supposes, he’s so intent on being able to share.

Thank you for the ask!

If you had to join a sect, which would you join? I think I’d like Gusu Lan the best. I love structure, chill vibes, their whole aesthetic, and playing music. (oh and also bunny rabbits!)

Describe a ship in five words. Oh I’m not good at these. For Wangxian, and for me specifically, it would have to be: I’m going to fucking scream. Because that’s the mood. I see them, and they yearn, and I go absolutely feral.

Favourite character of the juniors? [don’t forget OYZZ] This is so hardddd, I love them all for different reasons. Having to pick though, I think it would have to be Lan Sizhui, my good sweet baby boy.

You can bring one character back to life, but you must pick someone else to die in their place. Would you do it? How would this affect the story? I'm bringing Jiang Yanli back because I love her, and I’m killing Xue Yang because as much as I also love him, he is a fucking dickbag trashlord.  > So, going CQL canon, likely big effects on main story with saving Jiang Yanli is Wei Wuxian isn’t immediately swan diving off that cliff. > Jin Ling gets to keep his Mother. > Jiang Yanli out here with Therapy Soup for the Boys so get some reconciliation happening? Maybe be like hmmm, there be some suspicious shit going on around here lads. > Then basically welcome to a whole new canon divergence fic - I gotta not think about it too hard or I’ll have to write it and I’ve got enough fic on my plate lol. Though, does kind of play into one of the side projects I’ve been fiddling with. > DontTemptMeFrodo.gif > For some reason this means Xue Yang trips down a ravine and dies so he’s not out here fucking with Song Lan or Xiao Xingchen, so they, plus adopted daughter A-Qing, get happy ending times. 

tin soldiers (19743 words) by idrilka Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers Characters: Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Original Characters Additional Tags: Social Media, Meta, Fandom Politics, POV Outsider, Academia, mentions of torture, Mentions of canon-typical violence, Mentions of Non-Consensual Body Modification, Mentions of PTSD, Captain America: The Winter Soldier Compliant Series: Part 1 of half awake in a fake empire Summary:

In his 2009 book on Captain America comic books, war photography, and American propaganda, Everett claims: “There is nothing to suggest that either the graphic novels issued during the war or the photographs taken during Rogers’ stay with the Howling Commandos can serve as a basis for a queer reading of Rogers and Barnes’ relationship. But even more importantly, there is nothing to suggest that such a relationship ever existed in the first place, and as such, those queer readings are not only misguided, but also libelous” (197).

[from: Lynn E. Anderson, Captain America: Behind the Mask. Steve Rogers and the Contemporary Hero Narrative (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), p. 242.]

no archive warnings apply

mature

157,904 words

completed

eric bittle/jack zimmermann

It’s almost funny. All he ever wanted was to play hockey, to play in the NHL, to win the Cup. This—Samwell, the team, the Haus—was supposed to be just a detour, but now it feels more like a destination he failed to realize he’s already reached.

OKAY SO. i’ve actually been thinking about yoi royalty au, because look, obviously how this shakes out is that victor nikiforov is the ruler of a ludicrously large kingdom, and yuuri is second in line for the throne to a very small one.

everyone knows who victor nikiforov is, including yuuri, who’s had an embarrassing crush on him since like, age twelve, but it’s really quite hard to attract the attention of someone like victor when your own standing is so low. but hasetsu gets an invite for his royal majesty christophe giacometti’s birthday or something, and victor is of course a close friend of the giacometti family, so yuuri plucks up his courage & goes to this massive function & proceeds to get very, inadvisably drunk.

(you know what happens here.)

yuuri comes back home, morose as fuck, and two weeks later victor nikiforov pulls up in front of the katsuki castle and sort of. invites himself over indefinitely.

HIS PARENTS ARE BAFFLED. HIS OLDER SISTER IS BAFFLED. HIS ADVISORS AND CLOSE FRIENDS ARE BAFFLED.

and then they realize – motherfucker, victor nikiforov is courting katsuki yuuri for his hand in marriage.

(it takes yuuri a lot longer to realize this. in all fairness, victor thinks they have an understanding and he just has to go through the formalities.)

imagine, though: victor nikiforov comes back home, floating on clouds, and yakov is alarmed immediately, because victor’s parents of course died quite a ways back, so yakov’s been the one to see victor grow up from a bright-eyed child to a man who can put on a charming smile and take it off in a moment.

“vitya, you cannot marry the second son of the katsukis,” yakov shouts, “it will be a disaster. maybe – perhaps – if you took him as a consort, but your hand is not something to give out like a plaything. what are you thinking?”

and victor just looks at him and kisses both his cheeks and says, “yakov. i’m happy.”