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circling back to the lug/robin h/c for you!!

"It wasn't that he didn't trust Happen to do what he was asked, it was that he never quite knew what to expect to come out of his mouth. They could scarcely afford to be run out of another town. His relief was matched two-fold when the sprites, noticing that their charge was wandering off, finally abandoned their ministrations and flew off after Happen."

Commissions for @ronniebox ! <3 Thank you so much for commissioning me! It was really fun to meet these characters and draw them!

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‘Merthur bed share’ is pretty self-explanatory - they end up sharing a bed because of REASONS and then AGAIN and then they get kind of USED TO IT and is this getting weird yet? 🤣 I’ve got about 4k written but there are some key scenes in the middle that I’ve been struggling with so idk when this’ll surface as a completed story. A snippet:

“There’s not even a pallet,” he whispers. It’s a stone floor. They’ve had a hard week’s ride and now he’s thinking longingly of all those luxurious nights on the soft, warm, forest dirt. 

He looks at Arthur, and pours everything he has into a soulful look. It’s not his usual plan of attack, and he’s hoping the surprise will help it along. Arthur bends easily enough for the damsel in distress of the week, so he’s definitely susceptible, and at this point Merlin will give it a go if only to save his hip bones. He doesn’t have enough padding for stone floors.

“I’m sorry Merlin. But we both have to stay in here, and I can’t challenge Lord Bayron for a matter such as this. The situation is too delicate. You wouldn’t understand; it’s about diplomacy.”

His temper flares. Damn Arthur Pendragon to hell. Although not really. If he ended up there, Merlin would only have to go along and haul him out again, so better to save everyone the bother and cancel that. Damn Arthur Pendragon to sleep on a pile of rags. Actually… that’s not a bad idea.

“Fine,” he acquiesces. “I’ll take the bed, and you can have the floor.”

‘Q in the vents’ is a 00Q story where they team up in an inter-departmental training exercise and there are twisty spy shenanigans and Bond boosting Q up to crawl through the vents and competent!Q which is my absolute fave portrayal of him. I’ve got about 3.5k of this but again, missing some middle scenes (what can I say, I love beginnings and endings). I’ve not looked at this in ages, actually, I really should try picking it up again.

A quick favourite line:

Q puts the kettle on. 

Bond looks suspiciously at his mug, but sips politely. “This is the first MI6 contest I’ve ever started with a cup of earl grey.”

And a slightly more substantial snippet:

The element of surprise works. He slams 001’s wrist and the gun drops and clatters away. 001 recovers quickly, but has barely got his hands on Q before he slumps, and Q staggers under his weight. He lets him carefully slide down to the floor. Bond grins at him, cocking the other agent’s gun. 

“No palmprint recognition for the tranq guns? I’ll have to be more careful.”

“001 down, 008 down,” Q mutters, after turning 008 over to make sure it really was him. He and 002 look remarkably similar from the back. “And I took out 004 in the vent.”

“You - what?”

“Seems your little idea wasn’t so original.”

“How did you take her out?”

He shrugs, not quite ready to reveal to the agent with the keenest predilection for gadgets the existence of a pen that emits a sharp, targeted pulse of sleeping gas. “There wasn’t enough space for her famous roundhouse kick.”

thank u!!!

what if: pick an important choice or event in my current project and write 3+ sentences about what could happen if it had gone differently

ok this was hard bc i don’t have that many wips open right now but!! also this ended up being far more than 3 sentences! from my coffeeshop au, in which shirley makes peter work register and that’s how he meets morse, what if peter ~didn’t~ work register

Peter poured himself a coffee and ducked down behind the counter, taking tiny sips and wincing when it burned his tongue. Shirley looked down at him and opened her mouth, about to tease him, but cut herself off at the sight of another customer.

“Real nice,” Joan said. “Showing up to work and immediately ducking out of sight?”

Peter pouted. “Just let me have this.” He peeked over the top of the counter, immediately pulling back when the customer caught his eye and raised his eyebrows. “Fuck, he’s cute.”

A disparaging glance from Shirley told him she had heard. “You can’t be serious,” she said, laughing, after the customer had paid and wandered off into the café to wait for his coffee. “Can’t you keep it in your pants for one shift?”

“No can do,” Peter said. He pulled a paper cup from the counter and scribbled his number on it, handing it back up to Joan. “Hey, Joan. Do me a favor and make his drink in this cup.”

Joan rolled her eyes but took the cup anyway. Peter could hear as she poured the customer’s coffee and handed it over. “My idiot coworker’s hiding behind the counter,” she said, jerking her head down in Peter’s direction with a wicked smirk, “but he thinks you’re cute and his phone number’s on the cup.”

Peter chanced a look up at the customer, who was reading his cup with a fair amount of amusement. 

“Okay,” the customer said. “But if he wants my number he’ll have to ask me himself.”

Shirley kicked Peter with a shit-eating grin once the customer was out of earshot. “See, now he thinks you’re a weirdo who hides under the counter and doesn’t say anything. It pays to be on register sometimes.”

7. Which part of writing do you struggle with most? Answered here

22. Have you cried while writing a fic? Yes. I definitely cried when writing After the Fire and Twenty-Six Point Eight Percent and I probably did when writing Drafts and No Holiday. Probably also somewhere along the way during writing the behemoth that is Phantoms in the Early Dark too. I like me some angst is all.

30. Tell us an idea for a longfic you want to write in the future. I don’t really have any future longfics that haven’t been at least somewhat started, but I’ve got two casefics mostly outlined.

One is set post-Lewis canon (so Inspector Hathaway and Sergeant Maddox). An old boyfriend of James’ ends up being connected to the case, not in a he’s a suspect way, but it brings up Things for James seeing him after so many years. So basically James not dealing with things and Lizzie going to Robbie for assistance an meanwhile a murder investigation.

The other will be the third fic in my wingfic universe. James is winged and he and Robbie are together. They pick up a case that looks like someone is targeting winged folk. There’s illegal magic and a cult and I’m pretty excited about it. It’s much more fully formed than the first one, I even have an actual motivation for the murder (which the first one is currently lacking) but I keep getting distracted by writing shorter fic with the way things are in these times. I had set a goal of finishing the wingfic casefic by the end of this year but at this point I feel like any writing I can finish is a win so I’m just trying to go with the flow for now.

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my king peter jakes answered here!

JIM STRANGE -

how i feel about this character: honestly big love, i feel like i don’t give him enough love especially bc when i go back to watch inspector morse i think of him as a background character so i like when i see him in endeavour bc <33 what a homie, he’s always looked out for morse and i love him

all the people i ship romantically with this character: honestly not that many tbh i kind of love jim as a lone wolf but like. in a good way?? not in a morse way fksjdlfhshhs though i do love some good jim/joan content and it does make me happy and i think they’re super wholesome together

my non-romantic otp for this character: jim and shirley trewlove! in passenger when box gets cranky and he and shirley are having it out i always get like :’) when strange stands up in the background and becomes like protective. also jim and peter have the best bro vibes u know. (on a side note the coffeeshop au i’ve been thinking about for the last 5 months have mad jim-peter-shirley coworker vibes)

my unpopular opinion about this character: i don’t think i really have one? except maybe like i hate that he’s a mason, like i enjoy it as a concept in a fictional universe, but fr i know if i met him irl i’d be like constantly bitter thinking about it and secretly being like fuck you, male privilege is a scam, booooooo