You Do Not Have To Be Good

[ember] [25] [queer] [he/they] [like and follow from @forbidden-fungi] [not the fuck you guy (anymore)]

[mostlyvoid-partiallyflowers]

You can call me Ember and my pronouns are he/they. I’m white, trans masc nonbinary and queer. I’m a writer, screenprinter, costume technician, and lover of books. My ask box is open, feel free to ask me anything and I'd love to make more fandom friends, so feel free to dm me too.

Header is art by Tillie Walden. PFP is by @/emry-stars-art!

This blog is firmly and forever for a Free Palestine. Zionists will be blocked and reported. Same goes for TERFs.

Current Wips:

Kevin Day Angst (masterlist)

KevAaron College Theater au (masterlist)

Andreil Cowboy/Rodeo au

KevAaron When Harry Met Sally au

Fanfic List:

Andreil Competency Kink 5+1: Never Felt So Good

smoke you to the filter just to savor the taste

touching his, make blessèd my bloody hands

take all the time you need

love is like a rattlesnake

Tag list under the cut:

personal - #day in the life of ember

writing - #ember writes

wip wednesday - #wip wednesday

Neil Josten - #i love him your honor

Andrew Minyard - #i’d take a knife for him

Kevin Day - #queen of my heart

Aaron Minyard - #the man that you are

Renee Walker - #the woman that you are

Jeremy Knox - #light of my life

Jean Moreau - #my darling desolate creature

[oldmabeuf]

70s disco loudly playing in the background

summertime at the 4077th

[m--bloop]

summertime at the 4077th

[alixirdevida]

he didnt need to be chosen, he needed to be nurtured

[suddenly-frankenstein]

suddenly, everyone around me disappears, like the rapture has come

[theashesofthefirststar]

I have a lot of grievance with season 3 but one criticism I don’t agree with is that Daniel’s sudden attachment/allegiance to Armand doesn’t make sense. In the book, Daniel falls in love with Armand’s evil parts before anything else, most likely because they reflect a similar darkness in himself that has always pushed others away. In the show, we get Armand telling Daniel, not only have I watched you for over 50 years, but I’ve seen you at your worst, at your lowest, and I still want you. More than that, he enables and encourages Daniel’s selfish darkest desires!

Lestat drags Daniel into his world just to get a rise out of Louis, while making it no secret how lowly he thinks of Daniel. Then he steals away the only part of Daniel that still feels real, that still matters; his journalistic thrill, the high of getting his story. Then Armand comes along and gives Daniel exactly that, and all the satisfaction that comes with it. As the cherry on top, he gives Daniel revenge on the person who withheld that satisfaction from him in the most humiliating possible way. Armand makes a plan to cut off Lestat’s head, and hands Daniel the weapon. He enables Daniel to spread all his darkness around and does so without judgment. Does so with love, even. Daniel is Armand’s minion BECAUSE Armand grants his every wish

[hunny-and-haycorns]

Louis bakes himself a King Cake, "to maintain the thread." Pencil and pastel. For @ldpdlweek2026.

[perlukafarinn]

hmm kind of want a childhood toxic best friends au where they're in love with each other and completely clueless about their own feelings and ilya keeps "stealing" girls shane says he's interested in by sleeping with them first.

and when shane finally does get a girlfriend when they're like eighteen, ilya seduces and fucks her. he thinks about shane the entire time and is absolutely furious with himself about it. he casually tells shane about it like a week later because as angry as he is at himself for doing something so terrible, he's equally angry at shane for making him feel this way and it makes him want to be cruel.

shane confronts his girlfriend about it and as she's tearfully apologizing to him, all he can think about is how jealous is of her. and he kind of wants to ask her what it felt like, getting fucked by ilya, and of course he hates himself so much for it that when she asks him to forgive her and take her back he says yes, just to punish all three of them.

[perlukafarinn]

why yes in this au they did get drunk when they were sixteen and "practice" kissing and then both of them pretended not to remember the next day.

(shane believes ilya when he says he doesn't remember. ilya knows shane is lying. this is torture for them both in different ways.)

[darlingofdots]

people who definitely know that Hollander and/or Rozanov have A Thing With A Man (of variably certain identity):

various dentists

hotel housekeeping staff

the kid who works late shifts at the drugstore where Ilya buys condoms (often) and lube (less often)

cleaners and laundry service employees

a kid on vacation with his parents in Vegas bored out of his mind because he's 14 and not allowed in the bars or casinos at their hotel and he's really hitting the grumpy teenager phase so he's pissed at his parents because he wanted to go birdwatching in the desert and instead he's on the hotel roof at night pointing his sick-ass binoculars (which he bought himself with money he earned by mowing their neighbours' lawns for a year) at the surrounding buildings and oh look there's two people making out on that rooftop terrace—wait, isn't that the guy from the Rolex ads?

Janice at the grocery store closest to the Hollander cottages who knows damn well that "David's boy" doesn't eat Nutella

the Voyageurs' nutritionist knows Hollander is fucking someone working for the Bears because he might not log it as sex but even Hollander doesn't actually do extra cardio after a game

employee at an airport phone repair kiosk in Chicago who was checking Ilya’s battery specs when "Jane" texted him "If I win you suck my dick first"

one of the parents at Game Changers Hockey Camp who is a couple's counsellor and a bit too good at her job

Gerry (78) three doors down from the Hollanders who has lived in his house since he was born and has made it his solemn duty to know everything that goes on in his neighbourhood

the owner of the bespoke jeweller's shop once Shane Hollander purchases the second ring, which is identical to the first, and a plain gold chain

the apprentice of the bespoke jeweller's shop a week before that when he recognises the ring he watched his boss make for Shane Hollander sitting on Ilya Rozanov's bare chest in a post-game interview on TV

[stackmoorepaper]

white people are so fucking annoying like i’m still so mad about that person calling sinners “het slop” like, to watch sammie and pearline fall in love in a night and be separated by death within hours and then later see he named his bar/band after her all those years later

to see delta slim, who met sammie HOURS PRIOR and gave his life to make sure sammie was able to live and shine with his gifts forever

to see smoke and annie, separated by love and grief over the death of their infant daughter and united by the same things

to see stack and mary separated by the racial dynamics of their time and the dangers of society, given a second chance in death to walk the world together forever

to see grace fucking chow!!!! literally kill her husband and go down with him in flames because of the love for her daughter

to see sammie! sweet sammie moore the preacher boy who only wanted to play his music and let his light shine, unknowingly piercing the veil between life and death, inviting the ancestors and descendants to every party he plays, who was willing to die for the love of music and his freedom! who defeated the evil with the power of music and ancestry and got to LIVE!

to see smoke die in acceptance after slaying the kkk after fighting off vampires for the entire night and having to stab the love of his life in the chest, to see him reunite with her and their child after a night of horror

to see smoke and stack lovingly embrace and try to build a communal space for their community and family to be free of all struggles just for a few hours and be torn apart

to see ALL OF THIS and reduce the movie to, “het slop” is just insane and racist like there’s no other way to slice it

[rosenkranz-does-things]

one of the greatest commissions I've ever gotten

[snowsmoked]

The longest ongoing argument between Shane and Ilya is who made the first move. Their friends and teammates have learned to never ask that question or they'll argue about it for hours.

"So, how did you two meet?" That was fine, safe territory.

They both answered the same way, "a parking lot in Saskatchewan when we were 17."

But, the question, "so who made the first move?" Unsafe territory, turn back now.

"You introduced yourself to me!"

"That wasn't making a move! You organized a whole photoshoot."

"You shook my hand, twice! You looked me up and down!"

"I did not!"

"You had a crush on me."

"You had a crush on me!"

"You called me a hot player to watch."

"I did not and you know that, Rozanov."

"My English wasn't good."

"You - okay, draft night?"

"What about it? Oh, when you kept staring at my cock?"

"No! When you kept touching my hand and had your legs all spread in front of me!"

"You were staring at me."

"You winked at me."

"You took water bottle."

"Because you told me to!"

"Well, you were blushing on photoshoot."

"You called me pretty, twice!"

"You were laughing!"

"So were you!"

"Because you kept looking at me like - like that!"

"You told me you organized the shoot!"

"You agreed to it! You wanted to see me again."

"You starting jerking off at me in the shower!"

"Only because you were checking out my ass!"

"I was not!"

"Yes, you were! I would not do that if you were not checking me out!"

"You asked for my room number!"

"You waited for me to come out of the shower - I gave you time to leave!"

"I was drying my hair."

"You were waiting for me."

"I was not, I just wanted to talk!"

"Talk! You wanted to talk to hot Russian you invited to your room at night?"

"Yes!"

"You were on your knees in five seconds!"

"You kissed me!"

[mina-logan]

When your bro is also your bunny it can be something so special.

[mostlyvoid-partiallyflowers]

2 and 10 for the book asks :)

2. top 5 books of all time?

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth

10. do you have a guilty fav?

Oh god yes. The Deal with a Demon novella series by Katee Robert is my biggest guilty pleasure lol I love monster smut with a lot of heart

[whatthebleep]

Let's put one thing to bed, real quick, yeah?

"LOL Jeremy is the only character not under the thumb and eye and control of organized crime. He is going to be so shocken when..."

Babes. Jeremy Knox is controlled by a family of corrupt, conservative politicians. The patriarch of whom is a United States fucking Senator.

Babes. Jeremy Knox is controlled by a bribed and corrupt police force.

Babes. Jeremy Knox is controlled by those who could very well control the FBI.

Babes. Jeremy Knox is controlled by the highest echelon of organized crime in America.

It may not be the same, but it sure as hell isn't different.

[sxpositive]

book asks:

book you’ve reread the most times?

top 5 books of all time?

what is your favourite genre?

what sections of a bookstore do you browse?

where do you buy books?

what books have you read in the last month?

is there a series/book that got you into reading?

what is the first book you remember reading yourself?

when do you tend to read most?

do you have a guilty fav?

what non-fiction books do you like if any?

did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?

do you have a goodreads?

do you ever mark/dog ear books you own?

recommend and review a book.

how many books have you read this year?

top 5 children’s books?

do you like historical books? which time period?

most disliked popular books?

what are things you look for in a book?

[floxy-offical]

(UNMUTE YOU WON'T REGRET IT)

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adding tags because YEAH