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[writergirl2011]

The latest chapter of this story has been posted!!  Jaime wakes up the morning after the disastrous concert at Summerhall to find out that he’s done something he really, really shouldn’t have done...

[mother-shipper]

What do you think the first presents Steve and Billy get each other? 👀

The first presents they give each other don’t even register as presents for them but it totally counts. Billy doesn’t let Steve drive often. He likes to be in control and being a passenger makes him antsy. Normally this isn’t a problem. Steve doesn’t mind letting Billy drive them wherever they’re going. But when the Camaro is in the shop, Billy doesn’t really have a choice. Steve picks him up from the garage and, oh god. As if being stuck in the passenger’s seat doesn’t make this hard enough, he discovers what his boyfriend listens to. It’s all bubblegum pop. He feels like his ears are gonna bleed and when Steve starts belting "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” Billy seriously considers just opening the door and letting himself fall out into traffic. 

When Steve picks him up to drive him to work the next day, Billy shoves a tape at him. “You are in desperate need of some music education, Harrington.” There’s a lot of what Steve had expected. Rush, Metallica, AC DC, Zepplin, Scorpions. What he didn’t expect was the last song. Sure, he thought Billy would be into the Stones. But he never expected to hear “Wild Horses” on a mix put together by Billy Hargrove. Steve finds himself laying on his bed with his walkman and grinning at the ceiling like a total goober while he listens to it over and over and over. 

It takes a few days but Steve finally thinks he has a good mix of his own. “I liked it,” he tells Billy. “I think the last song is my favorite.” Billy shrugs nonchalantly but he’s still avoiding Steve’s gaze. 

“Yeah, man. The Stones are good.” Steve sees right through it. Billy’s embarrassed and it only makes Steve love him more. 

“I uh, made you one too.” He hands over the tape and Billy wrinkles his nose at it, looking up at Steve like he just handed him a slug. 

“It’s not all Madonna, is it?” Steve rolls his eyes and shoves the tape into Billy’s chest. 

“Listen to it and find out, asshole.”

Billy does listen to it. And there is a lot of Madonna and Wham and the like. But it’s...not awful. They aren’t the ones played to death on the radio or that Max is always dancing to in her room. They’re actually pretty good if Billy would ever admit it. But it’s the last song that gets him. 

‘You can lose courage 

and the darkness inside you

can make you feel so small

But I see your true colors shining through

I see your true colors

That’s why I love you

So don’t be afraid to let them show

Your true colors

True colors

are beautiful like a rainbow’

And if Billy tears up just a little bit...well, that’s his business.

[sorrythatwasmean]

Hulk moment:

“We are we,”said Hulk.”And we are me.” He wasn’t sure if that made sense. “But only ever one at a time.”

—From a discord thing where Hulk wishes he and Bruce could exist at the same time outside of their head.

[inquisitorhotpants]

so i’m going to noodle around with a new thing here and there.  I’ve been thinking about it for awhile, and I’m finally getting around to making a little progress.  Have some chapter titles?  :D

Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy

Master the Art of Timing

Work on the Hearts and Minds of Others

Make Other People Come to You

Be Royal in Your Own Fashion

Play on People’s Need to Believe

Court Attention at All Costs

That’s not all the chapters, buuuuuut that’s the first few that are going to happen at some theoretical point.  :D  It’s gonna be fun.  I’m really excited for this project, it’s going to be something new and interesting and not like what I usually do.

[writergirl2011]

From the upcoming chapter of kiss me like you mean it:

“The cuddle” became a phenomenon.  Every live event had dozens of videos taken on cell phones of people imitating those assholes, accompanied by loud laughter, especially when “forbidden lovers” got caught in the act—a guy dressed in the colors of House Bracken cuddling with a young woman who was obviously a Blackwood at a historical reenactment of some battle from the War of the Five Kings; the mascots of MLB’s Sunspear and Lannisport teams cuddling during the seventh-inning stretch of a game; a group of Freefolk cuddled with members of the Night’s Watch at a Coldhands concert in a video uploaded to CawCam.

And if there was one video of people cuddling at Kingsguard concerts, there were thousands.  Jaime never dreamed there would come a day when he would hate one of his own songs, but he gladly would’ve given up music if it meant he wouldn’t have to listen to “Kiss Me Like You Mean It” ever again, much less sing it night after night.  He wanted to take it out of the set list—had even attempted to get through a concert without playing it—but as the band ran off the stage, the audience screamed at fever pitch and Petyr ordered them back out to play it.  Worse still, the gods had a perverse sense of humor because the song was climbing the charts again, nearly a decade after it had been recorded.

[writergirl2011]

I guess directly sharing from AO3 is the only way to get the link to work??  Whatever.

Anyway!  At long last, I have updated this story!!  The link should take you to an author’s note that explains why you should reread the story from the beginning before diving into the new part--but if it doesn’t...there’s an author’s note that explains everything.  Enjoy!!!

[writergirl2011]

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

This is the story I started writing for @ilikeblue for this year's J/B Fic Exchange!! But anyone who knows me knows that I can't take a prompt and do something simple with it, so why I thought I could take two of them, mash them together, and get something done in two and a half months is...yeah, I may need to see someone about that. Aaaaaanyway, this is a work-in-progress, so have no fear that I've abandoned it!!

Summary: Brienne accepts a job as Cersei's personal assistant against her better judgment, a decision that looks worse and worse the more she has to deal with Cersei's annoying twin brother, Jaime...who keeps finding reasons to drop by.

[writergirl2011]

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

Hellooooo!!  Getting in just under the wire for More Joy Day 2025 is a brand-new chapter of this story, which is for the wonderful @ilikeblue and will be done eventually!!!  Ahem.  Anyway.  Back to this.

Chapter summary: Brienne’s stunned by Jaime’s challenge that she go on ten dates to liven up her blog.  And that’s just the start of the chapter.  😁

Enjoy--and happy More Joy Day to those who celebrate!!!