[steppedoffaflight]

masterlist / links

All of these can be found on my ao3 here!

Do You Know Who You Are?

42k words (completed), 18+ content, Adam Lowry/Brandon Tanev/Reader

“Well, since we’ll already be in the States, I was talking about catching up with Rusty, er, Brandon, and I wanted to see how you felt about a camping trip.”

“With Brandon?” Your voice goes up an octave. You knew him and Adam were close, and that they FaceTimed sometimes, but you’ve never even met him.

“Yeah,” Adam’s tone reflects back your hesitation. “See, he’ll be in Michigan to cross the border and head into Toronto, and we’ll be down there to see your parents. So it kind of… matches up.”

Summer’s A Knife 

154.8k words (completed), 18+ content

Your annual birthday trip with your best friend to San Diego ends in a chance encounter with Van McCann.

New York Babyverse

10k words (blurb format), 18+ content

Your cheeks flush as you propel yourself to the cash register, deciding at the last second to do self service. The last thing you felt like doing was handing a stranger three boxes of pregnancy tests while your hands were shaking so bad you could barely get the barcodes to read on your items.

This wasn’t happening. You were overreacting. There was no way.

Other Writing

Six Sentence Sunday

Writing process tag

[teex]

[gorebonk]

Having a blorbo is so embarrassing like sorry I have to go and self regulate by looking at The guy

[batmanshole]

crisp glass of water moodboard

[theinternetarchive]

System wallpapers from Windows XP's RTM, Build 2600; Microsoft Co., August 24, 2001.

[voulezloux]

details of the doodles of louis’ outfit tonight

[yesornopolls]

i have been inspired by the chris jericho question.. is travis konecny hot???

Is travis konecny hot???

Yes

No

See results

Voting ended onJul 17

[martypantone]

🚨FINAL HOURS IF YOU HAVEN’T VOTED YES YET!!!

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[ararexic]

today i offered nothing. good night everyone!!!

[imperatorrrrr]

Nico Hischier at Jonas Siegenthaler’s Thai Wedding

[linskywords]

A cover! A preorder link!!

Look at it isn't it so beautiful 🥹😭

As keen eyes may have noticed, there’s also a release date up there (March 16th!). We also now have:

Teammates to Lovers by Jenny Linsky: 9798217378425 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A professional hockey player falls headfirst into fanfiction—and ends up shipping himself with his captain—in this addictive friends-to-fanf

That's right, a preorder link! Should your heart desire, you can buy it right this very moment.

(The PRH site actually has links to a bunch of different vendors; some of them won't be live until closer to the date, but you should have plenty to choose from. You can also preorder through your local indie bookstore.)

When NHL star forward Will Burns gets sent a fic about him and his best friend (and team captain), he laughs it off. It’s a joke. It has to be. But one late-night scroll turns into another…and another—and suddenly Will’s a little too invested. Because the fic gets a few things right.

I’ve said it before, but this novel feels so much like one of my fics to me. It has the same prolonged sense of yearning that I’ve struggled to capture in previous attempts at original fiction but that came so easily as soon as I tried writing in the romance genre. The difference is that I've spent way more time polishing this one, and it's probably better than anything I've managed to post on ao3 (or at least it had better be at this point 😅). I love this book to pieces and I hope you'll read and enjoy it!!

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[patrebka]

👆 my beloved linsky’s book!! available to BUY!!!!!!

[yabagofmilfs]

i can’t find that article about sid sending tyson barrie’s agent (friend?) a signed pride jersey. does anyone have it handy? i just want to give myself happy heart palpitations again.

[puckpedia]

this is the one!!

[yabagofmilfs]

thank you! yeah that’s my guy. 🩷💘💖💞

[orchisailsa]

HEY. OKAY. SO. I went off in the groupchat this morning a little and I think I want to say this in public to ALL of my fellow Fandom Elders. I have been a fangirl online for thirty years now, and YOU KNOW WHAT? I'm tired of my peers apologetically calling themselves ancient grandma fandom mummy hags!

It's not weird that we are here! There are SO MANY OF US! We're not outliers, we're not oddballs. We are occupying a space we CREATED and we are still fucking here, having fun with all our younger online friends, which is COOL AND GOOD and NOT EMBARRASSING ACTUALLY. It's fucking rad.

Look. We *built* online fandom, comrades! We built it with Angelfire and Geocities and the fucking telephone cables we unhooked from our phones to plug into our enormous, boxy desktop computers to suffer through glacial download speeds that today's children can't even fathom. I think we should all agree to stop apologizing for being here when this is our fucking house. An excellent sentiment (not mine):

To all of my beloved young friends - remember this when you get older. You don't need to grow out of fandom. Who the fuck cares if it's cringe? Childlike joy is something to CELEBRATE, NOT SOMETHING TO BURY AND HIDE!

Fandom costs no money! Fandom doesn't require gas mileage or plane tickets! Fandom promotes human connections! The world is cold and miserable and full of pain. Don't fucking give up simple things that fill your heart with joy just because you feel like you should now that you have arbitrarily grown 'too old' to enjoy them.

[starrynet]

nico news

[dailytomlinson]

Louis chatting with fans at Madison Square Garden in New York City - 08.07

[jonasiegenthaler]

[recoveringdirectioner]

not listening to one direction for a while and then listening to one direction again is like drugs. it’s like every drug. all the drugs. i am high as fuck off that 1D pack at 8:39am in my cubicle.