Thank you so much @sauron-kraut for tagging me and for sharing your BEAUTIFUL snippet which I am still feeling feral about <3

I'm working on a little something at the moment about Melkor coming back to Mairon post-Third Age once he escapes from the Void, and finding him in diminished form living in a desert.

“Mairon.” A name, breaking the chill quiet of the desert night. His name? No, no, it cannot be. He has no name that is still remembered on these forsaken shores. “Oh, Mairon,” the thing that has a voice says again. “We will make them pay, those who have done this to you. We will see them end in agony.” He mistrusts that voice—this—all of it, and coils deep into the wisp of his own spirit to get away from it. There are no living souls here, in the East beyond the end of maps, nothing but sand and rock, blistering days and freezing nights. It is a place for executions. All who stray this far do so because they are already lost. And this—this creature that speaks words—does not sound like it has ever been lost.

I was tagged by the amazing and wonderful @radioactivepigeons. <3

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and you post a snippet or tell them something about it.

SO many WIPs. Too many. I'll try to make sense of it here, follow Pigeon's lead, and organize by fandom/work.

Stranger Things

My Hand Was the One You Reached For (We Survived the Great War)

So We Find Ourselves in Love With You (I Say We Always Get It Right)

Stranger Things Post-Finale

The West Wing

Beautiful Chaos

Presumed Dead

Chronicles of Narnia

Tumnus' Corner

Enchantment Passing Through

Weaver's Knot

Little Women

New Jo and Laurie Story

The Matrix

Lexy is Neo and Trinity's Daughter

Newsies

Sweet Summer Music

Fire From Embers

The Four Freedoms

We'll Be There to Defend One Another (multi-story 'verse)

Midsummer Meeting (multi-story 'verse)

I know there are ones I am missing for HP (Harmony) and Glee (Klaine), but I don't have the energy to dig them out. They exist, though!

Reading: Just finished up Christie’s The Murder at the Vicarage, which is a Ms. Marple novel, and which I’ve had fun with. Along with Platform Decay, though it’s on audiobook so I am going to struggle given how I have not read it yet.

It is May, which means I will be rereading Night Watch.

The fanfic reading will continue. I did come across two Leverage/Protector of the Small fics for an exchange that I have yet to read.

I have Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive by Eliot Stein on hold for book club reasons – but it’s also an audiobook. The struggle is real. At least Project Hail Mary has a text copy available on Libby! (Also on hold, I want to see how it differs from the movie since it had been on my interested to read list from last year now.)

Last TV series: It’s The Mysterious Lotus Casebook. It will continue to be MLC for a good long while, I think. It’s a rewatch, sure. But watching new things isn’t something that happens a lot anymore. (I should re-start the Elementary rewatch sometime in future since I do have it on DVD.) For online content, Drawtectives is always fun.

Last movie: Project Hail Mary. In which I asked how much money was paid for use of Beatles music, and my sibling wondered about how much Leica paid to have their products featured so much. Gorgeous visuals – the dark depths of space really lends itself to glowing lights. Plus visualizing how a primarily audio perceiving species would come across to a visually perceiving species must have been fun.

Last song: Had I gotten to this earlier, it would’ve been one of the tracks on the Sunless Skies album. Currently, it’s Elysium by Eta Persei as it was the weather on the newest Nightvale episode. Or Disparition, I suppose, who normally composes all their background music. It was very Noir of them.

I almost got to talk about Josh Groban’s Cinematic album, which is growing on me. The initial comparison of some songs did make me squint at his musical choices. It also seems like his onstage period has greatly influence his singing style? Though given his last album I know I listened to was Illuminations, there is a potential gap in my knowledge.

Coffee or tea: Both! Tea when I have the time, but coffee generally for work mornings. I decided to try something new this year, and signed on for a year-long commitment to a subscription box from a local tea maker. It’s been fun to expand my tea collection, but I also now know factually I cannot drink as much tea as I currently get.

Let’s be honest, my coffee is instant. Though I did recently go to a local bird event (May 9 was the spring World Migratory Bird Day) and they were promoting a Smithsonian bird friendly coffee? It was very black, though I don’t think it was too acidic. The coffee may literally be called Bird Friendly coffee.

Working on: I have two foddart pieces that have been languishing since last September. I will get them done. A crochet piece that is meant to be an afaghan – but with the amount of colour changes means I have a lot of loose tails to weave in – I am not letting myself progress too far without working in the ends, which is a stage I am currently at. Work has an upcoming platform change, which will be Fun as we will need to make sure information is being processed correctly, and that results have ported over. Validation of systems will hopefully be fast, and not full of unexpected bugs.

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reading: I’m still slowly working my way through the Mistborn series.

last series: I assume this means TV series? Last one I completely finished was Andor. I started the last season of Stranger Things but everything I’m hearing about it hasn’t given me much gumption to watch.

last film: Frankenstein. I haven’t been much of a movie person the past few years but I’ve watched this one like 4 times.

last song: Wildflower and Barley by Hozier

sweet or salty: Sweet! I have a massive sweet tooth, it’s a real problem y’all. I’m not a candy person but baked goods? Obsessed.

coffee or tea: I really love both but prefer coffee.

working on: trying to get back into the habit of drawing or doing some kind of art more often.

Perfect timing, as now that Atom Bomb Baby is out the door I have a bunch of WIPs that have been gathering dust and could use some TLC.

Tagged by both the brilliant and lovely @indolics and @banthacakes! For the sake of keeping this somewhat short I'm going with the first word i got, which is with.

Rules: Share one sentence/excerpt from your wip(s) that starts with each letter of the word you’ve been given. These are, uh, mostly sex scenes lol. That's what I usually start with, tbh!!

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"What are you doing?” Santos pulls back, frowning at him.

“Jesus, Santos,” Frank wheedles. “You just popped my cherry with your massive dildo and you won’t even kiss me?”

“Kissing is not on the fucking menu,” Santos says, but her little pink tongue comes out to swipe at her lower lip. 

“You’re so lucky you’re not a guy,” Frank laughs. “You’re already such a fuck-boy.”

(Working Title: Slut Gets The Fuck-Boy Strap)

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“It’s okay,” Jack says, his hands pressing Robby down into the too-cheap sheets. “It’s okay that you want it.”

“It’s not,” Robby grits out, and fuck, maybe for him it really isn't. Jack's had more time to chew on this, to square this particular circle. There's so much he could say, so much he could try to explain, but it's hard to do anything right now other than stroking Robby's legs a little wider, Jack's thumb's pressing into the tender skin of his thighs.

“No one will ever know but me,” Jack says instead. “And I don’t think less of you for it.”

(Working Title: Rabbot - Just Fucking Let Me Love You)

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Trinity's powers, her calling, whatever-the-fuck, had come too late. It doesn’t suck, having them now -- Trinity can pin someone twice her size with one hand behind her back, can pinpoint the exact direction of a scream from four blocks away, can even use a little non-sanctioned Slayer strength to better fingerbang the life out of the flavor of the week. Better late than never, the second best time to get superpowers is right now, blah blah blah.

But still. It's hard not to wish she'd had this strength back then. Could've rode in like a white knight and rescued Janey from the jaws of the dragon, could’ve run a sword through his black heart and watched him bleed out. And he'd know, as he gurgled and choked, that Trinity was the one who did it.

(Working Title: Five Slayers That Never Were)

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His words had been thick through the dregs of his orgasm, but Frank’s certain he had asked to do her right after, to give Samira a ride on his hand until she comes on his fingers. But she'd just twisted her mouth and looked disinterestedly at the clock on the wall with a flick of her eyes.

“Thanks, but I…I'd better get back out there,” she'd said, apparently immune to his charms, and Frank had just gaped at her as she left.

(Working Title: Samira/Frank/Robby: No One Is Having A Good Time)

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thank you @sibylsleaves for tagging me!! 💛 i've had a pretty hectic couple of weeks (plus some combined iwtv and the bear brainrot skdafh) so i'm a bit more behind than i wanted to be with part 2 to it's always on the tip of my tongue but i've spent the past 2 hours editing what i have already and writing the next section so we're officially back on track!!!!

Like most of Buck’s problems, he takes it right to Maddie’s door. He shows up at her house on Tuesday night and as soon as she opens the door he blurts out, “I think Eddie’s in love with me.” She gapes at him, mouth working for a response that doesn’t come until Chimney beats her to it. “Eddie’s what?” Maddie claps her mouth shut, stepping aside to let Buck through. Chimney’s on the floor in the living room with Jee playing with her tea set. “You’re not involved in this conversation,” Buck says, pointing at him. “It’s your fault in the first place for even putting the idea in my head.” Maddie apparently finally finds her voice, appearing at Buck’s side and looking between them. “I’m sorry, what? How did Chim put the idea in your head?” “Him and Hen!” Buck exclaims, waving a hand. “They told me I should pay attention to how much Eddie wants to be around me.” “And you took that to mean he’s in love with you?” Chimney asks incredulously. Huffing in a way that could definitely be described as pouting, Buck turns to Maddie. “Can you please help me with this?” With a sigh, she glances between him and Chimney again before putting a hand on Buck’s arm. “Why don’t we talk in the kitchen?”