#bearceptionus

[luninosity]

I'm kinda new to the sub!Seb scene and got pointed to your blog. Can you recommend a story where I could do my toes?

OH YES INDEED

…let’s see…

(also, if anyone else wants to make suggestions, feel free!)

I’ll start with a couple of my own fics, and then a couple of my favorites from my AO3 bookmarks, I think? for options? obviously not an exhaustive list; we’d be here for ages!

My fics that might be good sub!Seb starting-points

~(baby won’t you please) run your fingers through my hair, which is ~20k of Chris accepting a role that involves kinky sex, needing to do research, agreeing to let Sebastian take him to a certain…club…that Seb knows about…and discovering that he’s pretty good at being exactly what Seb needs

~tempt me, tease me (leave me breathless), in which Sebastian’s not-great kinky sex date (not bad in a way that’d require warnings, it’s just not going well) gets interrupted by a tipsy Chris Evans phone call asking for a ride home from a bar; Sebastian says yes, of course, being in love with Chris, the way he always has been; and he ends up taking Chris back to his own apartment, and then Chris notices Seb’s odd mood and wants to help, and there are love confessions and of course the kinky sex (this story also contains what’s still one of my favorite little passages I’ve ever written, when they’re in the car)

~if you feel up to wading into an AU (contemporary, BDSM-accepted society - and some people find AUs easier to get into when it’s RPF), the Like Sugar series is one of the things I’m most proud of, with the world-building and the marriage-of-convenience that of course turns into True Love! (It technically says not complete but that’s just because there’ll be two more short bonus story snippets - the main stories are all complete)

~just a couple lovebirds (we got a good thing), which is sort of semi-AU: famous actor/director Chris Evans comes into the escort service run by Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie; they provide more companionship in general, though sex is also an option, but initially Chris literally just needs a date for a big event, and this agency comes highly recommended for that…of course, Seb’s sworn off handling clients himself, and he’s too busy anyway…so there’s a whole lot of pining, a whole lot of implied or not-entirely-sexual Dom/sub caretaking dynamics happening whenever Chris and Seb interact, a lot of cameos, a lot of food, and, yes, finally getting together and splendid kinky sub!Seb sex.

Fic recs - fics written by other awesome people!

~the beautiful and gentle and, yes, sweet (you’ll get why that’s a fitting adjective when you read it!) Don’t Say It Softly by @paper-storm

~for utterly adorable pet-related meet-cute and also scorching hot sexytimes (and a really gorgeous use of the line, “say ‘thank you, Chris’ ”), there is bundles of love wrapped in fur by @thebestpersonherelovesbucky

~the Big One that everybody’s going to rec to you, for good reason, and I love it so (in the category of: I wish I could write like that… fair warning, though, they get pretty kinky, so if you’re looking for dip-the-toes-in, it may not be a starting-point, though then again it’s so well written that it may just hook you anyway): You Once Said If We Were Careful by @callmejude

~technically still a WIP but you can read it as done, it’s not a cliffhanger or anything, and the scene where it currently ends gives some resolution to some of Seb’s worries, so that’s fine: Ceramic by @bearceptionus, which is very soft and tender and full of caretaking and learning together and love via food and gentle!Dom!Chris

Okay! That’s like eight things, so I’ll pause there! You can always check my Evanstan AO3 bookmarks too!

And if anyone else has good suggestions for dipping one’s toes into reading sub!Seb, please share! <3

[knifeshoeoreofight]

arizona coyotes & pittsburgh penguins plz thanks :)

arizona coyotes: when/why did you start watching hockey?

Heh, well, it’s a long story? I kept seeing that authors I liked in other fandoms also, inexplicably, wrote hockey rpf.  Eventually, I got curious and some Googling led to the Fanlore.com page on hockey rpf. When I am curious about something I research HARD. It’s the ADHD, I think. Anyway, some clicking led me to the Extremely Exhaustive Evgeni Malkin Primer, and I kind of lost my head? I went on a sidgeno fic binge that lasted weeks.And has kind of never stopped, tbh. 

When I emerged in a confused daze the first thing I did was make a kind of crazy multipage google doc of info, links, and recs in order to 1.try and make sense of how a sports fandom was taking over my life and 2. try and convince my friend and fic beta @deservingporcupine to go down the rabbit hole with me. Which she did, bless her. After a bit she made this blog and added me onto it as a place for us to post hockey stuff or CP without completely inundating people who followed our regular blogs. She posts every once in a while? Posts with no tags or sensible tags are hers, lol. I’m the crazy one, I think. ANYWAYS. 

At some point it occurred to me to look up the real hockey players. The Pens were playing the Caps in the playoffs, and I started listening to the radio broadcasts. And learning everything about them and hockey that I could. ADHD hyperfocus at work once again. And I was going through a really, really rough time in my personal life. The Pens became a lifeline and a welcome distraction. During the series against the Lightning my enabling friend @miniaturebucky (already a hockey fan) showed me how to watch games online. Cut to me watching our boys hoist the Cup with tears running down my face.  

And now, a year later, here we are! I own….a significant amount….of Pens gear, I’ve been to several (major juniors) games, I’ve got my dad hooked on hockey too, and I started skating as part of my recovery from the rough time in my personal life I mentioned before. Soooooo, yeah. And I’m trying to save up to see the Pens play in Vancouver (closest NHL city to me) next season. 

pittsburgh penguins: favorite celly a player has done?

Several come to mind:

Nail Yakupov’s beautiful celly that he got so much shit for, but I am kind of tremendously moved by every time I see it. It’s just…so full of joy and excitement and wonder. 

There’s this one (actually, several) from Geno’s rookie year where he scores and Sid just launches himself into Geno’s arms, and it’s amazing

Anything PK Subban has ever done, ever.

[luninosity]

K u know that fic u rec-ed that one time called “ceramic” yeah I read it every minute of every day and I just— WOW The Suckling? The noises seb makes? The kneeling? The juice? My— poor— heart! I’m a big fan of non-sexual submission and that absolutely tore my heart UP. Ugh. Wonderful. The fondness with which he calls Chris SIR?! I don’t always like when subs use sir bc it sounds too distant or cold and it makes me sad but this was So Good! Every time I read the suckling part I tear up

I LOVE THAT FIC WITH A DEEP AND ABIDING LOVE and I will say that I absolutely learned things about writing from it - about phrasing and emotion and the pure beauty in simple gestures and intimacy and trust. <3333

@bearceptionus is brilliant and you should all go read Ceramic, especially if you like Evanstan and sub!Seb and very gentle tender soft Dom/sub relationships. It says ¾ chapters done, but you can read it as is; it’s not a cliffhanger or anything, and you’ll feel satisfied where it stops. :-)

[luninosity]

i know you've got a life n stuff but is there any chance of 'ceramic' getting its last chapter put up? i rly want to read it but at the same time i don't wanna be left on a cliffhanger, y'know?

I’m not the author of Ceramic; I think you mean to ask @bearceptionus! I do love that fic as well, though, and I would love any more of it if that should happen. :-)

[nomorelonelydays]

bearceptionus replied to your post: Link to all my unanswered asks!!

omg no it fully loaded now it’s 39

I KNOW IM THE WORST I JUST KEPT LETTING THEM PILE UP 😭😭😭😭😭

[mojoflower]

Mojo!!!! I love love love Do Not Go Gentle. I have a genuine question. Now that (spoilers!!) Stiles can shift back, will they take him to a human doctor for his voice problems?

Thank you, my dear!  It’s been really amazing to write, and talk to so many people about it.  Yes, I’ve got a chapter coming up, hold on, let me check, oh, lordy, it’s in chapter 28.  Presumably whatever goes on in the intervening chapters made sense to me at the time.  I get that poor kid some therapy, too, don’t you fret.

[luninosity]

(Muffled gasping) Luni, does this reblogging of McFassy material mean you might write McFassy again? I'm having fond flashbacks to 2012 and LJ.

Hmm...

Well, probably not on any extended basis...too many other things to write, not as much inspiration...

...but it perpetually bothers me that I’ve yet to finish the last McFassy Regency fic. I know all the plot points. I have one scene written. I just need to write the rest of it down. :D :D

(other people who’ve previously written McFassy - @ninemoons42, @kernezelda, @significantowl, @brendaonao3, anyone I forgot - should we try to do some sort of last McFassy Writing Challenge? finish off some unfinished fic, a last sort of big hurrah, or write something short and shiny and new? help motivate me? *laughs*)

[luninosity]

"Smoky grey, wide and supple, it fits like glove-leather, made for him. A single diamond dangles at the front, sitting precisely in the hollow of his throat." First of all, this update is everything. Second of all, a small song of praise for the phrase "it fits like glove-leather." I think a few minutes of a creative writing lecture could be easily spent talking about how cleverly you're avoiding familiar language and making it novel again.

Awww, you, I am so flattered. <333

I wish I could say there was a lot of deliberate thought involved in the de- and re-construction of old metaphorical edifices in my writing, but honestly it’s just sort of...the way words turn up in my brain? Like, I didn’t really think about that one! *laughs*

I *do* try to look for any really obvious cliches when I do a re-read, after I have a finished draft, but I think I’m pretty good at not going there (maybe?)...my words get shaped by having read a ton of fantasy, medieval romance, other fic (of course), academic nonfiction, and current romance authors like Alexis Hall...I think vocabulary gets naturally influenced by the variety of genres that we read, and the structures we internalize and/or reject. :-)

And, hey, if anyone ever wants to give a lecture on/write a paper about my fic, I’m in favor! :D :D