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[second-hand-heaven]

ok i haven't read your answer yet, but bear with me because when i sent the ask i was thinking about sex and you came at me with sleeping arrangements (which i love). but now i want your thoughts on ed and stede purposefully corralling izzy into sleeping on the innermost side of the bed (i.e. against the wall) so he'd have to go thru both of them to leave them

lmaoooo sorry I got so caught up in the intimacy of sharing a bed I forgot about the concept of sex

No matter where Izzy ends up after their evening, uh, enjoyments, Izzy always crawls over to the far side, closest to the door, to settle down to sleep.

After the first few times, where Izzy pulled that shit, only to leave once he was sure the captains were asleep, Ed and Stede aren't pleased, to say the least, when it continues well after they convince Izzy they want him to stay.

Maybe it's Ed, still struggling through his abandonment issues, that brings it up. Maybe it's Stede, still trying to build something stronger, more durable, between himself and Izzy.

Either way, it comes up. "Why does it feel like you're always trying to leave?"

Izzy tenses. Hates having to talk about these things, the things that make him feel like an idiot, all twisted and weak inside. But Ed's looking at him expectantly, and no matter what, he hates disappointing his captain.

So he tells them. Tells them that if he's closest to the door, he's standing between them and any danger that might come crashing through their cabin. Tells them that if someone wanted to hurt them, that fuckwit would have to go through Izzy first. And he tells them, looking away because he can't fucking bear it, that if he dies protecting them, maybe then it would be worth it.

They don't say anything to that. Not really. What on earth is there to say?

But the next night, when they're settling into bed to sleep, Izzy finds himself manhandled by two determined captains and deposited right next to the window. He looks to Ed, who only raises an eyebrow, daring Izzy to fight him on this. He looks to Stede, who's trying to mirror the same look.

So Izzy grumbles, tugs the sheets up higher, and wishes them both 'goodnight'.

[treesofgreen]

ed clinging to Izzy's leg after All That and he starts nuzzling Izzy's inner thigh and Izzy's like STOP. Doing That. and Ed's eyes glow red as he realizes he's discovered a fun new button to press over and over again until something explodes

Ed keeps doing it until a very red and very flustered Izzy starts dragging him back into the captain's cabin, and then he just moves his face to Izzy's crotch as Izzy is trying to stagger faster and faster without tripping and falling on his face.

He loves it though, Ed used to lay his head in his lap when they were younger, before Blackbeard, before they fell apart, but he's not going to show that kind of vulnerability in front of these imbeciles (who can't even tie knots he couldn't have gotten out of, had they tossed him over - they did it on purpose, it was a fuckery, Lucius will tell him later)

So anyway Izzy and Ed wind up back in the cabin and they kiss for the first time in years and years and it's maybe softer than it's ever been and Ed cries and begs Izzy not to leave him too and Izzy promises he won't and fucks him so tenderly and *then* Stede comes back

[sequencefairy]

happy fic writer friday! what are two of your fandoms that you think are particularly suited to a crossover (whether you would ever actually write one or not), and what are two of your fandoms that would be a real challenge to make work together?

Oh! What a good question.

I think VLD and The Witcher would be a fun crossover, what with the common elements of swords + terrible magic, and I would ADORE putting my Witcher lovelies into space and giving them a quest out there in the reaches of the galaxy.

I don't think I'd ever write this because I can already sense it sprawling out into some monster of a thing and I'm already many thousands of words deep into various other projects.

A combo I have struggled with is any combo of Ryan and Shane + another fandom that involves fighting. I want, badly, to dump Shane and Sara and Ryan into like, the Continent or onto the deck of the Castleship in Voltron, but I can't make them into competent warriors in my head in the way that the other people who live in those worlds are. That's maybe a failure of my own imagination, and perhaps I should just try harder, but see above as to why.

[writeblrsupport]

@calicojackofficial is absolutely an expert in their craft - fanfiction and original works. their writing is so captivating and I love seeing them around

[zaricats]

okay, pls take this as genuinely as possible because that's how i mean it. i absolutely hated apostle so so much, and i'd be fascinated to hear your interpretation of it / why you like it 🤔

OOF okok disclaimer i dont think ive watched this since like. 2020. maybe. i had to google some of the plot so please take this w a grain of salt ~

spoiler warning!

i remember really enjoying the atmosphere of it generally, and i do like the sort of religious horror to it - this village is supposed to listen to its leaders fairly blindly as they are the only ones that are allowed/can speak to the thing that really controls their lives. i like that the leaders abuse this trust, and are really the ones making the demands. and this is all despite an actual divine presence, which the leaders actually talk to. in similar films, there usually isnt anything godly/supernatural at all, which makes this addition interesting to me. and then theres dan stevens whole loss of faith at the beginning, the blood = eucharist (maybe), etc etc...

i also like the nature angle to it, wherein incredibly damaging attempts to control nature occur, and its the effects of that control, not natures retribution, are what make everyone miserable. i wont spoil it, but i really like the way it ends because of the way it fits into these two themes. its optimistic, almost, its frightening, almost... i remember thinking it was very beautiful

ultimately, the film is about corruption - theyre all on this island to escape the corruption of the rest of the world, but it's followed them here. power is inevitably, unavoidably corrupting. i'm remembering the way the villain compares the goddess to a machine - its capitalism, its brutality, its greed.

i will say i dont remember liking some of the gore; the scene with the boy and the carving-out-your-brain thing was deeply upsetting to me. that was probably the intention, but it wasnt cathartic or intriguing in the way many other horror movies have upset me. i dont like gore in general, though, so theres that

tldr; its not a perfect movie, but i remember liking the aesthetic & atmosphere, the ending, and the themes! i also really love period horror films... they dont feel as common as horror films set in the modern era but i could be wrong

[antihell]

Belial! What is your new url in reference to / what does it mean?

ahh i'm so glad you asked!

you know how i love involving religion in my wips... well i'm actually staunchly anti-religion and an atheistic satanist, which is to say i don't believe in hell, so i'm opposed to the idea of it. at first glance it could be inferred that i'm on the "good" side of the religious war of good and evil because i'm "anti-hell" but it's actually because the idea of hell itself has been used as a device to scare people into being "good" when they wouldn't necessarily choose to be otherwise.

if that offends anybody.... wait til you read my wip god exits, lol.

[transmasc-wizard]

Lily, she/her

I'm getting Carrie vibes from her, in the sense that I have briefly skimmed the wikipedia page for Carrie and she seems similar. She looks very calm, but clearly there's something fucked up (/pos) going on. I'm guessing she's about one inch from the edge of snapping.

[second-hand-heaven]

thinking about the crew all hanging out super late one night and ed has been smoking on his pipe for a good long while. he's all soft and loose, lounging on the deck like it's as soft as clouds, in between stede and izzy - which is of course his favorite place to be. and the high makes him just a little bit too honest, a little bit too thoughtless, so when they both happen to look at him he says, out loud, "you two should fuck. that would be really hot. for me."

conversation halts of course, and there's an awkward pause. then stede says, "I think you've had enough for tonight" and izzy says, "you're faded, boss"

ed laughs it off. "you're prob'ly right," he admits easily. "super didn't mean to say that out loud." then he grins, all besotted like, and says, "you're so cute when you agree."

stede says, "you're cute."

izzy doesn't say anything, out loud, but he's the one ed is looking at when he grins even harder, all besotted like at them agreeing.

I'm literally loving this, A+, no additional notes