#nerdstrings

“Oh, but I do have ways of making you talk,” Essek says - slurs, maybe, and he is really starting to regret that last glass of wine.

On the other end of the settee, Caleb’s eyebrows shoot up. “Is that so, Shadowhand?”

He doesn’t look to be particularly sober himself, his empty glass dangling from clever fingertips, and Essek can’t completely withold the way his face flushes hearing his title wrapped in exaggerated Zemnian severity. “I - I hear things,” he presses on. “The way the others tease you about - your ribs, was it? Your feet?”

Caleb blinks slowly - his face is flushed with drink to the point where Essek can’t really tell if he’s blushing, but he certainly doesn’t look displeased as he places his glass down with studious care and leans back, splaying his arms just wide enough to be considered an invitation. “And you think you could break me, with this?”

There’s no good reason to edge over into Caleb’s personal space and crowd his fingers up against reportedly ticklish ribs - and yet here Essek is, drunkenly navigating the foot of space between them and pulling his legs up beneath himself to fit more easily against Caleb’s side. “I certainly think it would be interesting to try, don’t - hhhm -”

Caleb looks innocently up from where he’s moved to catch Essek around his own ribcage - and then he smiles, and there’s nothing innocent there at all.

It’s incoming!! (I’m going to use your ask to info drop)

I made a recent post about this on my P*treon, but long story short, I’m going to be taking a break from several things including P*treon, restock printing, maybe Instagram and Twitter, to focus as much as possible on launching my Spoonflower (possibly Society6 too).

When I started Fireside, I thought the only thing that would set me apart was the fact that the fabric was hand printed. Seeing you all interested in my designs specifically definitely makes me want to pursue being an artist with more time spent drawing patterns and creating. Which will hopefully make the handprinted stuff even more special.

My patterns can’t be uploaded to Spoonflower as is due to formatting differences (how the repeat is laid out) so a lot of them need attention to make the move to digital printing. Plus I want to take advantage of their full color printing capabilities by possibly adding textures and adding a variety of color palettes.

If you've read this far down and would like to vote for patterns to be added, feel free to give a shout! I’m leaning towards doing the Animal Bones, Dice, and Stars first.

"Oh, now that... that was interesting."

Molly shifts around a bit, tries to will down his flush. "Was it?"

Caleb, who's propped up on an elbow next to him, trails his fingertips up Mollymauk's back again. Another high laugh flutters from Molly's throat, and he flattens himself further down against their sheets. The spade of his tail is twitching. He knows Caleb can see his goosebumps.

"Yes, Mollymauk, I'd say you've caught my interest," says Caleb, soft and calm and so intensely focused that if Molly were any less Molly he wouldn't be capable of lifting his chin, smirking outrageously at his wizard, and saying,

It was maddening, torturous, and it fucking tickled like nothing Dean had felt before.

Thumbs vibrating into that hypersensitive spot where his groin met his thighs while fingers danced across his hip bones. Was Cas kissing his neck, too? He wasn’t even entirely sure at that point. His vision was blurred with tears of mirth and every nerve in his body was screaming.

It had to stop. He never wanted it to stop.

Cas was definitely kissing his neck, his scruff scraping across Dean’s throat and making him try desperately to scrunch up his shoulders. Lips traveled from neck to ear, and whispered, “Unless I hear the safeword, I’m not stopping.”

On second thought, it didn’t need to stop just yet.

(Re: My costume for the second of the two Sid City Social Club Halloween meetings this week!! I organised and hosted online dance afterparties for both meetings, and spent the week slowly making wings. Altogether some of the most fun I’ve ever had in my life.)

DO IT!!!!!

BE A DRAGON

thank you again ♥️ !