shake it off, this pride and glory

Smith. he/him & they/them. AO3: Highsmith. Very Much ON HIATUS since January 2024. Be back when I can!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Emma - Jane Austen Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jane Fairfax & Emma Woodhouse, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Emma Woodhouse, Jane Fairfax, John Knightley Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Friendship, Developing Friendships, Yuletide 2023 Summary:

Emma has to admit she would have assumed it would be progressing far quicker than this, considering that she is a lovely person, in possession of a great character and ability to tolerate everyone in the vicinity, and Jane has indicated, via Frank’s admissions following an evening meal at Hartfield, that Jane would be not only open to such a friendship but enthusiastic about its existence.

Emma is beginning to suspect Frank may have exaggerated the openness of his new bride to Emma’s attentions, specifically.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Emma - Jane Austen Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Jane Fairfax & Emma Woodhouse, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Emma Woodhouse, Jane Fairfax, John Knightley Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Friendship, Developing Friendships, Yuletide 2023 Summary:

Emma has to admit she would have assumed it would be progressing far quicker than this, considering that she is a lovely person, in possession of a great character and ability to tolerate everyone in the vicinity, and Jane has indicated, via Frank's admissions following an evening meal at Hartfield, that Jane would be not only open to such a friendship but enthusiastic about its existence.

Emma is beginning to suspect Frank may have exaggerated the openness of his new bride to Emma's attentions, specifically.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word Count: 1,099, Bradley/Jake, Teen and Up Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Post-Movie: Top Gun Maverick, Post-Canon, Developing Relationship, Getting Back Together, Happy Ending

Summary:

Jake never starts shit. Not in the traditional sense. Shit is more like the eventual consequence with him a lot of the time. But he does his best to get the last word regardless. For that, he needs to not be scrambling at the last moment, clotheslined by forces outside his control.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word Count: 1,099, Bradley/Jake, Teen and Up Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Post-Movie: Top Gun Maverick, Post-Canon, Developing Relationship, Getting Back Together, Happy Ending

Summary:

Jake never starts shit. Not in the traditional sense. Shit is more like the eventual consequence with him a lot of the time. But he does his best to get the last word regardless. For that, he needs to not be scrambling at the last moment, clotheslined by forces outside his control.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word Count: 1,305, Jo/Bela, Explicit, No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, One Night Stands, First Meetings, Casual Sex, Explicit Sexual Content, First Kiss, First Time, Vaginal Fingering, Biting, Marking, Wall Sex, Frottage, The Fourth Annual Femslash Kink Exchange 2023

Summary:

Sometime after high school spits her out, she goes off on her own for about a year, partly running away from the life, partly getting some air from the ideas her mother has about Jo herself and the life.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word Count: 1,305, Jo/Bela, Explicit, No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, One Night Stands, First Meetings, Casual Sex, Explicit Sexual Content, First Kiss, First Time, Vaginal Fingering, Biting, Marking, Wall Sex, Frottage, The Fourth Annual Femslash Kink Exchange 2023

Summary:

Sometime after high school spits her out, she goes off on her own for about a year, partly running away from the life, partly getting some air from the ideas her mother has about Jo herself and the life.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Ship to Wreck - Florence + the Machine (Song), Original Work Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Characters: Original Characters Additional Tags: Purposely Undertagged, Inspired by Music, Jukebox 2023 Summary:

Ana gets some knocks at the door.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Ship to Wreck - Florence + the Machine (Song), Original Work Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Characters: Original Characters Additional Tags: Purposely Undertagged, Inspired by Music, Jukebox 2023 Summary:

Ana gets some knocks at the door.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word Count: 2,052, Bill/Mike, Teen and Up Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Post-IT Chapter Two (2019), Developing Relationship, Friends to Lovers, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss, Friendship/Love, Survivor Guilt, Insomnia, Hurt/Comfort Exchange 2023

Summary:

About another week has passed the next time Mike phones him up, by all accounts a regular Tuesday, Bill out shopping mid-morning, absently thumbing at his phone’s screen to accept the call while staring at a shelf of differently-packaged types of quinoa in the Whole Foods out in Silver Lake. He thinks he must mumble some form or other of greeting, although it’s fair to say most of his brain space is devoted to figuring out the difference between what looks to him to be the exact same product at starkly dissimilar price points.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word Count: 2,052, Bill/Mike, Teen and Up Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Post-IT Chapter Two (2019), Developing Relationship, Friends to Lovers, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss, Friendship/Love, Survivor Guilt, Insomnia, Hurt/Comfort Exchange 2023

Summary:

About another week has passed the next time Mike phones him up, by all accounts a regular Tuesday, Bill out shopping mid-morning, absently thumbing at his phone's screen to accept the call while staring at a shelf of differently-packaged types of quinoa in the Whole Foods out in Silver Lake. He thinks he must mumble some form or other of greeting, although it's fair to say most of his brain space is devoted to figuring out the difference between what looks to him to be the exact same product at starkly dissimilar price points.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rebecca (TV 1997) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Maxim de Winter/Mrs de Winter (Rebecca TV 1997) Characters: Mrs de Winter (Rebecca TV 1997), Maxim de Winter (Rebecca TV 1997) Additional Tags: Character Study, Relationship Study, Melancholy, Memories, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Age Difference, Coda, 90s Channel TV Exchange 2023 Summary:

Memories are like sinking river rocks—they hinder her steps when the current of life is strong.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Rebecca (TV 1997) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Maxim de Winter/Mrs de Winter (Rebecca TV 1997) Characters: Mrs de Winter (Rebecca TV 1997), Maxim de Winter (Rebecca TV 1997) Additional Tags: Character Study, Relationship Study, Melancholy, Memories, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Age Difference, Coda, 90s Channel TV Exchange 2023 Summary:

Memories are like sinking river rocks—they hinder her steps when the current of life is strong.

[rhubarbdreams]

Season of Kink, Round Ten Card

AO3 Collection | DW Comm

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word Count: 1,325, Jenny/Giles, General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Developing Relationship, Awkward Romance, Epistolary, E-mail, Post-it Notes, Answering Machine Message(s), POV Jenny Calendar, Unsent Letters Fic Exchange 2023

Summary:

Whereas the internet holds many mysteries, an envelope and a receiver do not.

- Rupert Giles, probably.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word Count: 1,325, Jenny/Giles, General Audiences, No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Post-Season/Series 01, Developing Relationship, Awkward Romance, Epistolary, E-mail, Post-it Notes, Answering Machine Message(s), POV Jenny Calendar, Unsent Letters Fic Exchange 2023

Summary:

Whereas the internet holds many mysteries, an envelope and a receiver do not.

- Rupert Giles, probably.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word Count: 1,725, Andy/Nile, Explicit, No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Post-Movie: The Old Guard (2020), Developing Relationship, Complicated Relationships, First Kiss, First Time, Explicit Sexual Content, Vaginal Fingering, Wet & Messy, Light Angst, Comfort Sex, Banter, Companionable Snark, Semi-Public Sex, Clothed Sex, Lock Picking, Smut 4 Smut 2023

Summary:

“Is this a special occasion?” She doesn’t really know why she asks this. It’s not as if they’ve been here before.

[rhubarbdreams]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word Count: 1,725, Andy/Nile, Explicit, No Archive Warnings Apply

Additional Tags: Post-Movie: The Old Guard (2020), Developing Relationship, Complicated Relationships, First Kiss, First Time, Explicit Sexual Content, Vaginal Fingering, Wet & Messy, Light Angst, Comfort Sex, Banter, Companionable Snark, Semi-Public Sex, Clothed Sex, Lock Picking, Smut 4 Smut 2023

Summary:

“Is this a special occasion?” She doesn’t really know why she asks this. It’s not as if they’ve been here before.