Beyond The Stacks

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[beyondthestacks]

Here’s a fic idea I’ll eventually write (but who knows when that’ll be because, life)

Loceit secret husbands:

Look, Logan didn’t mean for it to be a secret, it’s just one of those things that never managed to come up!

It’s a college au but everyone’s older (like, late 20s, early 30s)

Logan didn’t get to go to college till later because he had to Save the Family Farm™️

Yes, that’s literally the reason

He had to work with Janus to do it and Janus was helping Logan as a Fuck You to his parents (also because Logan is a really good guy and he didn’t want to see him lose his place, okay!?)

Through the course of everything, they realize Saving the Farm would be easier if they were married. (Something about taxes and income and circumventing a lot of unnecessary paper work if they were just married)

So they get married. Fast forward 6 months later. Uh oh! Feelings.

So now the marriage of convience has become oh so different because both Logan and Janus realize oh, I actually love this person!

Eventually the feelings become apparent, there’s a big to do about it and now they’re fluffily domestic husbands.

Skip forword several years

Logan’s decided to go to college and get a degree to help with the running of the farm (I haven’t done research for this yet as to what his degree would be)

There he meets Roman, Remus, Virgil, and Patton

Roman, Virgil, and Patton get together by middle of their second year

They joke with Logan about finding a man, but they don’t press him, it’s all in jest as friends do!

Somehow Remus is the only one who knows Logan is married

Remus noticed the ring like, 2 weeks in, and asked because he was curious.

The others just think it’s a stylistic choice (I can’t decide if it’s a metal ring or a silicone one or Logan switches them out...)

Fast forward to senior year

There’s a massive winter storm right as winter breaks starting that causes power to go out. No telling when it’ll actually be on.

Because of this Logan invites them to his house, cause they’ve got the equipment to keep power going

They squad knows he works on a farm the don’t know he owns and lives on the farm

So, they roll up to this gorgeous farmhouse, decked out for Christmas

It legit looks like the cover of a Christmas novel (which it was last year and Janus still clucks about it)

So Logan pulls in first, followed shortly by Roman and crew, and Remus separate.

Enter Janus, who’s carrying up firewood

Logan gets stupidly excited and jumps out of his truck and runs towards Janus (I say stupidly cause Logan tends to show emotions in a way that isn’t always In Your face so it shocks the others (except maybe Remus)

By the time Logan’s out of the truck Janus is on the porch stacking firewood

He turns at the call of his name and sees Logan sprinting towards him

He grins widely and meets him halfway, embracing each other on the top of the steps

With their schedules lately there hasn’t been much time for them to actually see each other

Logan sweeps Janus up in the embrace spinning him before slowing down and setting Janus down. (Yes Janus is shorter)

Logan pulls away just enough to cup Janus’s face and kiss him passionately (it’s been a hot minute, okay!)

Roman, Virgil, and Patton are out of the car at this point and are all slack jawed like, who is this and what is happening???

Remus gives them all of 30 seconds before he starts whooping and hollering

They startle away, looking kinda sheepish (or so the others think, really it’s just that I’m so I love look they look at each other with) and start down the steps towards everyone

The squads looking at Logan like, ‘what just happend????’ But respectfully, ya know??

Logan and Janus reach everyone and Logan goes ‘Roman, Patton, Virgil, Remus, this is my husband Janus. Janus these are my friends I’ve talked about before’ and points them all out.

Janus responds with the ‘ It’s nice to meet you, Logan talks about y’all all the time’

He’s met with shocked silence. Janus interprets it as they don’t like him (in reality they’re just trying to figure out when Logan got a husband and didn’t invite them

Roman finally goes to ask the obvious question but Virgil elbows him and Patton breaks the quiet with greetings to stop Roman

It’s awkward and they finally get inside and Remus is the only one acting normal cause he been knew

Janus and Remus immediately get along surprisingly well

The others are still in shock and marveling at the evidence that Logan and Janus have been together a While

They muddle through until the evening when they get Logan alone in the guest bedroom (he’d come to see if they needed anything)

Virgil starts first ‘Dude, what even!?’ Since when are you in a relationship???

Logan’s confused, ‘uh, since ever?’ He tried to go the joking route thinking they’re joking, they’re not

Roman finally asks ‘why didn’t you tell us you were married!?’

Logan, I did, multiple times!

Patton: no, you’ve mentioned a partner, never a husband,

Logan: I talk about Janus all the time!

Roman: No, you talk about Dee, your partner that you work with

Logan stands there puzzled, trying to think how they came to this conclusion.

Then it hits him, Junior year, Janus had called while he was at lunch asking about farm business or something. And he called him Dee. It’s a thing him and Janus started doing years ago, using Janus’s middle name when they didn’t want to be connect as husbands (for certain business purposes and what not)

And Logan never actually clarified or specified he was married or who ‘Dee’ was

And all the times they’d teased him about needing a man, he’d nevered realized they weren’t talking about Janus. (Or something like that)

He tells them all of this

They are baffled

Patton: Logan, honey, how long have y’all been married??

Logan:.......10 years this September

Roman, Virgil, and Patton in varying degrees: 10 YEARS?!

Janus hears the outburst and comes knocking at the quest bedroom door

Logan grabs it, sees the distraught look on Janus’s face and pulls him in close, cooing,

‘Roman, Virgil, Patton, would y’all grab Remus and meet us down stairs?’

And because he’s Logan and his husband is upset and he can, he picks Janus up bridal style and heads downstairs

By the time the others come down Janus has tea and Logan has explained the misunderstanding to Janus

Janus is still kinda upset but more amused at this point and willing to listen to see where this goes

The others sit, and Logan explains how they got together and why

They sit there quietly and Roman, Virgil, and Patton apologize to Janus

They all marvel at how big of dumbasses they really are like, between all of them Janus and Remus are the ones with the Brain cells

It takes a bit for everyone to really be comfortable, but it finally happens tho!!

After that they all get a lot closer and become better friends

Well, that’s it for this part!! If y’all have questions about this au please ask!!

There’s a very good possibility that some details will change because I don’t know when this will get written, but eventually!!

I do plan for there to be multiple parts, the fic outlined above as well as a prequel fic that details Logan and Janus getting together. Like I said tho, who knows when it’ll get written...

Taglist: @pricklyfish777

[fangirltothefullest]

I love the Harem Birthday Roman photoshoot <3

@thatsthat24

[churrotowns]

since it’s pride month, throwback to this beautiful cover and this wholesome interaction between two icons

[thevastnessof]

it’s actually quite easy to take over a small local government group if you really want to, bc if you volunteer consistently people will just put you in charge of whatever. I’m now one of like three people at a nature preserve making official decisions about trails, events, putting in a prairie, and designing a series of illustrations for a storybook trail etc., and it’s just because last summer I started coming over once a week to help the naturalist out for a couple hours. Mine now. you too can steal an organization and shape it to your will 🫵

[penpaladinjules]

Two of my friends and I have taken over the local guild that runs a large portion of charity events in our town. We’re changing bylaws and setting new policies and coordinating with other groups. All we did was volunteer, and they practically strongarmed us into accepting the president, vice president (me) and treasurer positions. VOLUNTEER, KIDS. YOU TOO CAN LET THE SMALLEST AMOUNT OF POWER GO TO YOUR HEADS.

[sarahmackattack]

co-sign. Decisions are made by the people who show up.

[aha-my-villainous-thoughts]

5 + 1 kitchen scenes

(Captions from 'Shoulda Been Yours (Lofi version) by Zee Machine)

Tumblr has FUCKED the image quality of these - please click to see them in better resolution and get into those hairy details

[m-ellodii-art]

All of the Sides!! Remus was the first one, which I did in December!

[dawn4ngel]

[bbcwhereareyou]

[punchholesinthesky]

[stablefuse]

buck. nap

[cupofteawd]

The Coruscant Post stamp - Capital of the Galactic Republic with Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Initially, it was just a sketch, so as not to focus too much on the cowboy image and to practice drawing from a shape, but it ended up turning into this!

It's probably worth mentioning that Kenobi is probably my favorite character, and actor Ewan McGregor is just perfect for the role!

Maybe it makes sense to create a pack of such stamps...

[bluemoonscape]

Anakin was almost the most normal Master in the Disaster Lineage because you have Yoda who had probably taught so many students atp that he was like a Mormon mom with Dooku like “idk just do your fucking schoolwork and then just be home by 4 AM. whatever” which led to a lack of emotional connection and resentment over Yoda’s longevity and perceived complacency in an aging Order. So Dooku wanted to break away from traditional Jedi ideals but was also never taught how to connect as more than student and teacher so he got Qui-Gon and kind of panicked and went hey you know what bonds people? Talking about intellectual revolution. So Qui-Gon was taught with the constant contradiction of everyone around him being like hey this is how you should be doing this and then having his Master turn around and go WRONGGGG LOLOL!!! and watching his Master descend into QAnon conspiracy theories and then Qui-Gon decides “ok well I will take what I can get from this whole freedom of thought thing and leave the QAnon aspect behind.” Except then Qui-Gon turned into the Order’s weedsmoking libmaxxing opposite to Dooku’s right wing xenophobic tendencies. So he then turned around, got his own Padawan, and proceeded to alienate that Padawan with his white cis male leftism. So you get centrist “my opinion is ☝️ that I wholly support the Council’s opinion” Obi-Wan who became this way because he desperately desired an older man to guide him in a queer sort of way and that older man said “ew.” Where he then finds himself the older man to a younger man’s queer fantasies and is like woahhhh wait I didn’t think I was gonna be the older man in this scenario! so it gets awkward and Anakin’s sexual frustration leads to a more appropriate outlet of political frustration over Obi-Wan’s centrism. And then Anakin gets Ahsoka and is completely normal. Just entirely normal. No power struggle. No daily political debates at dinner. They’re 19 and 14 respectively so all they talk about is the new space xbox. It works perfectly. Anakin isn’t even a leading cause in Ahsoka leaving the Order. And then he realizes he has a son later in life and the dormant crazy obsessive boymom in him jumps out like BAHHHHHH and he becomes weirder about Luke than all of the former Masters were about their students combined. He was SO close.

[cartoonrival]

im completely addicted to Open Link in New Tab

[cartoonrival]

if Open Link in New Tab is wrong then baby i dont want to be right

[jv]

I just want to point out the massive amount of brownie points Staff just scored by just being reasonable and listening to feedback. This is the kind of win that extremely rarely you see a tech team achieving from their users point of view.

So...

Once more, Tumblr wins over all other platforms by not doing anything.

[jv]

As multiple people in the notes point, it's not that they didn't do anything, but that they did something and reversed it.

But, oh chat, isn't that the quintessence of Tumblr, a pure reblog chain with no net information gained?

[feignedremote]

On all levels except the most literal I am the librarian in this story

[beyondthestacks]

It has been literal years since I’ve actively written/worked on anything and in the past three days I’ve outlined/wrote a buddie fic and am currently writing/outlining a 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lonestar fic where the firehouses are ‘alive’

I’ve either been reading too many things or summer planning is waking up ALL of the creative juices

[beachgothgay]

The ides of March is coming up what’s everyone getting me?

[emperor-ing-deactivated20191108]

[im-a-fully-realized-creation]

[starsiignals]

i never understood how we’ve reinvented heiroglyphics until now

[beyondthestacks]

What do I do as a librarian? Make jokes about long dead Roman senators.

[beyondthestacks]

It’s the ides of March again! And yes this is still up in the library.

[beyondthestacks]

Welcome to the ides of March again y’all! I’ve since moved library’s, but this is still one of my favorite things I’ve done

[neurotypicalabusesurvivor]

This is a friendly reminder that none disabled people often do benefit from the same accommodations disabled people benefit from.

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay I'll reblog that!!

[multishipperpirateking]

My dad used to work for Vodafone and likes to tell a story about when he was working on a voicemail transcription service.

And there was a woman there who was some form of disability advocate (it was the 90s so her existence in the company was a minor miracle) and apparently she completely blew his mind on that project.

See, he'd imagined that this service was exclusively gonna be for deaf people. Obviously very useful for the very small number of people who couldn't hear their phone, but why would you even own a mobile phone if you couldn't hear?

But she described to him all the times he might want to read a message instead of listen to it. Maybe he was in a loud football crowd. Maybe there was important info that he needed to copy down that was spoken too fast. Maybe he was holding his sleeping newborn (me) and didn't want his phone to be loud and wake them up.

This doesn't feel as revolutionary as all that to those of us that have only ever known phones with the ability 'send text message', but given the timing and placement of this conversation I wonder if this woman and this project is *part of the reason text messaging exists*. The first text (SMS) message was sent by Vodafone UK in 1992 - where + when this conversation was happening - and then for a long time it was supported exclusively for 'messages from the carrier', and this project was an early potential extra use of the SMS protocol.

So Yeh, building for disability is kinda handy..

[the-fallen-blue]

can you imagine how often you would use sign language if everyone knew it