We’re Here Because We’re Here

because we’re here because we’re here.

[ouatpancakes]

Hey, you know that TV show about a pair of brothers who fight monsters and save people?

And the older brother has to take on the role of father figure to the younger one in the absence of their parents?

Because their parents died after spending their lives investigating and hunting paranormal beings?

And they also have a half-brother who they’re not as close with?

And the younger brother uses power derived from demon blood?

And they encounter various beings, including vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and Death itself?

And they both end up as father figures for a being whose soul is much younger than their body?

And one of the brothers has a daughter who exists in one singular episode and whose implications are never again addressed?

And the older brother is written so blatantly bisexual that it’s barely subtext at this point?

And the younger brother has to figure out how to live the rest of his life on his own after the older one dies tragically early?

And the story ends with the brothers being reunited in the afterlife?

Yeah, you know. That show.

[ill-kidnap-all-the-stars]

Garashir is such a batshit couple for many reasons, but can we talk for a minute about how they went from weekly lunch dates and reading recs to nursing Garak through withdrawal and confronting the ex-head of the obsidian order over him. The intensity went from 0 to 100 and that is so incredibly gay of them

[doeman]

Then what does it espouse besides indifference and silence?

[luminote]

"He's half of my soul, as the poets say"~ The gorgeous artwork is by @anminpillow!

[starfleetshrimps]

hmmm thinking about jake siskos cultural background hmmmm thinking about how if/when he returns to earth he's probably suddenly Worlds Strangest Guy to the humans there.

you're telling me this kid was entirely raised on a space station where humans are not the majority, surrounded by, friends with, FAMILY with, working with, and loving some of the most hated alien species in the galaxy, and he's not a little strange for this?

he's on earth in his 20s and someone starts shit talking the ferengi and he flips the FUCK out on them.

alternatively someone brings up cardassians or shapeshifters and he gets weirdly nuanced like "well some of them are okay actually. I mean (stares into the distance as if picturing a treasured childhood memory) in my experience they can be a little weird and defensive about their buckets and not sitting with your legs down off the balcony, but hey my aunt (Nerys) loved him so"

or "idk man in my experience cardassians can be scary and evil but they can also be scary and ridiculous man there was this one guy....he would NOT stop trying to fuck our doctor man"

[ill-kidnap-all-the-stars]

Garashir is such a batshit couple for many reasons, but can we talk for a minute about how they went from weekly lunch dates and reading recs to nursing Garak through withdrawal and confronting the ex-head of the obsidian order over him. The intensity went from 0 to 100 and that is so incredibly gay of them

[goatsandgangsters]

I feel like Lord Cheetham had THE weirdest fucking time at the equinox gala tbh

all he knows going into the gala is that his son helped blow up the government and his wife has been having a house party with gang of terrorists for a couple weeks. which is already a lot to deal with, if you're a conservative peer in the house of lords.

and then shit gets Equally Fucking Weird For Every Single Magician All At Once, but as if that's not enough:

that nice journalist who interviewed you once for the Respectable Conservative Newspaper you like to read goes running by in a maid's uniform (???) and flings himself in harm's way to essentially take a (magic) bullet for your son

you didn't even know he was here and now he might be dead (in a maid's uniform??) and you kind of wish you could remember his name, because your son is having a whole Moment Of Despair about it. and you're not sure how it happens, but you feel your land Do Something and React In A Way and you can feel lifelong oaths being made under your feet

and you just have a lot of ... questions about your son, who you've barely seen in the past decade, and his maid-outfit journalist and his terrorist friends

(and you don't even know yet that your son is also employing your illegitimate son, in some kind of strange power move)

[serpan-alfie]

inspired by that one scene in book

i may or may not forgot to upload this

Jack and Alan from A Power Unbound

[sigmastolen]

count on the lesbians to get shit handled

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[id: highlighted passage from an ebook, reading, "He managed a word with Pat before bed when the two women engineered the evening card tables so that the three of them were engaged in a game of Reunion. By this point Curtis had developed a respect for their organisational powers that verged on awe."]

[chocolatepot]

While doing the first half of my post-storm shoveling, I listened to the scene where Robin talks Hart into taking him in exchange for four thousand pounds and then puts on a show to prove how much he likes the arrangement. Thank goodness nobody was around to ask me why I was grinning so much.

[threewaywithdelusion]

KJ Charles Fics People Should Write

Susan bringing Cara home to meet her Guvnors (and Emma). Justin and Nathaniel only know that this is her first serious lover since James Vane (and the only one she’s brought home to meet them). They’re expecting someone vaguely respectable, who maybe owns a business or has a trade. Cue their surprise and horror when they realize she’s finally over the Marquess’s nephew only to bring home a Duke’s daughter. Bonus points if Sukey never bothered mentioning she’s into women

Esther Gold’s pov before and through A Case of Possession, when she’s worried Stephen Day is turning warlock. She testifies before the Justiciary that he’s not, but she’s terrified that she doesn’t know her partner. Where is he getting such power? And then her pov on the scene where they heal Leonora using Crane’s blood and the fight that happens after

Anything that takes advantage of the fact that Society of Gentlemen, Sins of the Cities, and The Lilywhite Boys are set in the same universe. Pen Starling working with Miss Cristiana at the music hall. Greta using her titles as Countess of Moreton to do chaotic-good shit. Greta and Pen swapping places so Greta can swing on the trapeze again (with potential shenanigans as Pen plays Greta for the day). Normal, boring Tim ending up at family events with Jerry Crozier and trying to make polite conversation.

Silas and the Shakespeare siblings lived on the streets at the same time as children. Their youth, their friendship. Cyprian probably met them through Millay’s, once Zoë started working there. Their first meeting must have been epic

Relatedly, I’ve seen people do fics where Silas hangs out with the Ricardians (though admittedly there could be more of those, focusing on Silas getting to know each of them and like some of them (he will never like Francis, but finds Julius tolerable)). But what about Dom meeting Silas’s friends? I want Dom sitting in a room with Silas, Will, Jon, Zoë, and others and them being skeptical of Silas’s Tory (except Zoë, who’s fond of him) but slowly coming to appreciate that he’s trying hard to like Silas’s friends and be somewhat palatable to them. (Bonus points for a crossover with the Band Sinister universe. I think this group would be friends with Theodore Swann, Martin St. Vincent, Amanda Frisby, and Jon Raven).

Francis Webster meeting Robin Loxleigh and playing him in a game of cards

Dom going to something (a dinner?) and ending up next to Lord Corvin. He’s outraged by everything coming out of the man’s mouth and is also sitting there panicking because there are hand-shaped bruises around Corvin’s wrist (from John, of course) and he doesn’t like having a single thing in common with the Devil’s Lord, but he can’t help but feel kinship with him

The Murder showing up to Romney Marsh to visit Luke and meeting Gareth, Joss, Sophy, Rufus, and the lot. Corvin would adore the Earl’s castle with its random corridors and nonsensical gothic architecture. Plus the sacrificial alter thing. Amanda would absolutely set a Gothic novel on Romney Marsh. Gareth and the Salcombe-Streets would love talking about their exploration of nature via bugs and fossils.

DS meeting Phoebe and realizing he should have hired her to be the secret agent instead of Kim because she has all of Kim’s competence and none of his Kimmishness. (This is not a diss on Kim, but he and Will have just come back from another bungled mission where they left behind a string of bodies and DS is furious). Plus she’s pretty and feminine, which means everybody basically overlooks her and it’s very easy for her to get info because a lady can’t possibly be a threat.

Anything with the Seven Wonders. Idk why nobody writes Death in the Spires fic, but I need all of it. Ella and Aaron’s awkward reunion while he still believes she’s a murderer but they start working together to figure out what the fuck Jem is up to. The five remaining Wonders hanging out after the end of the book. Outsider povs of all the people who work at Oxford having heart attacks when they all descend on campus at the same time. Prue and Ella slowly repairing their friendship. Aaron and Jem’s friendship

A day in the life of Mr. Peacock, devoted husband to the most ordinary woman in the world. He just tries to do normal things like make breakfast and look after his wife, but in the background Kim and Will are up to shenanigans. But the whole time Mr. Peacock has to be unruffled and act like none of this is even slightly out of the ordinary

Marianne Loxleigh should meet Amanda Frisby. They’d either invent feminism or cause the apocalypse by noon

Theo and Martin have to meet the Murder. It would be so good. Theo’s already met John, but he’s entirely unprepared for Corvin being Corvin and also for Amanda and her gothic novels and also for every single person treating him like a celebrity because they all love Jonathan. Meanwhile Martin in having a heart attack over the fact that this is The Murder, but he gets on well enough with Guy, Phil, John, and David, all of whom are least capable of pretending to be suitable company

[asmolbirb]

oughhgh i know if no one got me kj charles got me 🥹🤭🥰

[werewolfjism]

One of my fav "extended banter" scenes in The Will Darling seriess by KJ Charles

“Why the blazes you’re called Kim when your name is Arthur.”

“My name, since you raise the topic, is Arthur Aloysius Kimberley de Brabazon Secretan. What would you do in my place?”

“Leave the country,” Will said wholeheartedly. “You poor bastard, you never stood a chance.” 

.....A few eventful happenings and a lot of gay later....

“I want you to fuck me till I forget my own name.”

“What, all of it?”

“Take that as a hint.”

[avuncularwalt]

Something I appreciate about The Will Darling Adventures and the England World in particular is how realistic some of the characters’ precautions are.

1. Kim doesn’t out Phoebe to Will despite their relationship

2. Kim doesn’t out DS to Will

3. Pat’s concerns when she and Fen caught Bill and Jimmy together

4. Subtle blood: Will and Kim waiting until they got upstairs to ~show affection~, in case they were seen through the windows

5. Daniel trying to ward off Archie with the possibility of rumors

6. Daniel’s meticulously crafted personas and the way he explains to Archie how he’s still safe

7. Even Phoebe introducing Maisie to Edward Molyneux so she wasn’t shocked by gay ppl lol

KJC doesn’t pretend that this world, their world, was safe, because we know it wasn’t. It’s nice to see little glimpses of how the characters protected their found family, and even just others like them.

[asmolbirb]

Is there anything tastier than opening a KJ Charles book and reading on page 8 “he was the most dislikable man he’d ever seen” !!!! Oh you KNOW those two old men are gonna be making gay love in 50-200 pages!

[moveslikebucky]

Well this book series has me in a chokehold. I can't make crackvids because it's not a tv series but I CAN make a vine compilation, so here you go! 8 and a half minutes of the Ricardians being ridiculous but it's just vines.

Hope y'all enjoy it!

[elliebirdwrites]

I’m re-reading the Sugared Game and oof, Will’s making a lot of sense.