Wake up babe, new fanart for chapter 9 of You're Perfect (And Everything in Between) just dropped!
After the beautiful animation they made for the chapter 4 club dancing scene, I commissioned @anewp0tat0 once more to bring this moment of chapter 9 to life, with Stolas sleeping on the couch guarded by Tuna Sandwich while Blitz works quietly on the dishes.
It turned out so beautiful and soft 🥺😭 thank you so much, Pota, for all the care and love you put into this piece! ❤️
Some close-ups/a little snippet from chapter 9 under the cut:
Blitz's hand/arm scars, the snow on the window and the full moon outside:
Stolas' exhausted features and Tuna Sandwich protecting him while he sleeps:
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There were an additional two blankets draped over Stolas by the time Blitz managed to pry himself away from his sleeping form.
Stolas didn’t look cold anymore, but that observation couldn’t seem to scratch the itch at the back of Blitz’s mind. Stolas looked companionless, unprotected, and Blitz threw a look at the walls, dismayed by the lack of horse plushies that could watch over Stolas while he slept.
After much quarreling with himself, Blitz had an idea. Silently, he removed Tuna Sandwich from his car keys and placed the small pink pony plush carefully next to Stolas’ face. Then he took a step back to assess his work.
It wasn’t much, but it’d have to do.
Even though he hadn’t looked at his phone in hours, his only unread message was from Millie, letting him know they were home and thanking him again for dinner. He sent back a dancing woman emoji and texted Loona he was staying the night at Stolas’. If she was still on her phone, she wasn’t impressed enough by this information to dignify it with a reply.
With one last lingering look at the shadowed outline of Stolas’ softened face, Blitz rolled the tension off his shoulders, pushed back his sleeves, and got to work.
There was a pattern to Stolas’ dirty dishes, he soon found: pots and pans and plates buried at the bottom of the sink and pushed to the back of the counter to make room for bowls, mugs, and glasses, each holding an unrinsed spoon inside. Someone more well-read that Blitz would’ve been able to carbon-date the stages of Stolas’ mental decline, maybe even decipher how many days he’d survived on milk and cereal alone. But that person wasn’t Blitz, who directed his efforts towards emptying the food scraps into a discarded takeout bag and covering each plate with water before stacking them up to soak.
Dishes were loud by nature, but Blitz had been nurtured from an early age to shape them into a stealthy task. Even so, he stilled every couple of minutes to make out the soft, almost hoot-like releases of breath coming from the couch facing away from him.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Stolitz | 107k (WIP!) | Explicit | Human AU, getting together, fluff, humor, hurt/comfort, smut, tattoo artist Blitz, trans Blitz, flustered Stolas, dad Stolas, flirting, first dates, love bites, and much more!
“I was… I was wondering if I could get a tattoo done here at your earliest convenience?” the man asked, and, oh.
He had a British accent.
Oh, Blitz was cooked.
“I’m… unsure whether I’m supposed to make an appointment in advance,” the guy added. Was that shyness in his voice? That was definitely shyness in his voice. And he was fidgeting with his fingers.
So the guy was hot and cute. Great. Great.
“Sure!” Blitz said in the least normal voice that had ever come out of his mouth. And then he processed what the guy had actually just said. “Um, I mean—yes. No. It—it depends on what you want to have done.”
Okay, seriously. Could the ground please just open underneath his feet and take him straight to hell?
Or: Blitz is very, very gay for the cute, easily flustered, tall-as-hell man that walks into his tattoo shop.
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Currently starting to work on chapter 10! Comments are the fuel that makes me write faster 😈
The wait has been long, but hopefully worth it... chapter 9 is finally here!!!! Hold my hand and let's finally find out what's been going on with Stolas together 🫴🏼
Normally I wouldn't spend this much money nor even make a post showing my merch purchase, but this is my first official pride month being out as a lesbian to my friends and family!! I decided to treat myself with helluva boss merch!
I had my first, genuine, full-blown panic attack when contemplating coming out to my parents and telling them I was dating a girl. I experienced a lot of distress and anxiety during that time, and I can't believe that was already four months ago. It felt like the end of my life, and I'm so lucky enough to say that it wasn't, and my relationship with my family didn't change at all. I know other people don't have the same experience, and sometimes have the exact opposite that I did. It's not something I take for granted.
So I wanted to make a post saying happy pride month to EVERYONE. Whether you've been out for twenty years or whether you're not out to a single person or whether you're somewhere in between, I hope you find a way to celebrate you sometime this month.
blitz deciding he's going to be a soooo fucking nice and respectful now because he's gonna be a good fucking boyfriend, he's stepping up to be the man stolas deserves!!
and stolas is like "he hasn't slapped my ass or called me a filthy slut in weeks :( he hates me and thinks im ugly :("
