New readers are welcome! Each volume follows a different stage of Simon and Reader’s relationship and can be read as a stand-alone. Bite-sized chapters (1.5-2k words). Easy to pick up and put down.
NIGHT CRAWLER
Strangers to lovers
The one where Simon rediscoveres his bike
The one where the saviour needs saving
The one where he gets a sweet taste of what ifs
The one where he fucks up and has to sit with it
The one where he steps outside his comfort zone -and gets rewarded for it
NIGHT CRAWLER: Whats left of us
Exes to lovers
Simon Riley has survived a lot of things. Losing you might not be one of them
finally jumped on the Bride by Ali Hazelwood train and y’all this is so funny?? the perfect read for when your brain is worn out. i’m having a great time, the banter is 😚👌🏼
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Heated Rivalry (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Additional Tags: Short One Shot, Angst, POV Shane Hollander, POV Ilya Rozanov, Shane Hollander Needs a Hug, Alternate Universe, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, I'm Bad At Tagging, Drunken Confessions
Summary:
Classic Heated Rivalry Club scene, leads into a messy, drunk argument. Revealing things Shane could have never admitted sober.
His world is full of barn cats, and he loves them. They stay up in his loft with him, and they mess up his telescope. His personal favourite breed would likely be a long-haired calico or tabby. He likes cats more than dogs because dogs usually hate his alien scent, while cats remain more forgiving of the unknown. Especially friendly barn cats. When he was a kid he had a favourite, a grey long-haired cat, he named her “Wrench”, she eventually had kittens, all named after tools Jonathan needed around the barn. One time, he met a black, short-haired barn cat. He named him “Virgo” because he had recently found the constellation on his journey through the stars.
2. Stargazing 🔭 ✨
On warm nights, Clark secretly moves his mattress and bedding right up to the barn roof, where he can watch the stars twinkle before drifting off, and feel the breeze on his skin. He enjoys the sweetgrass scent wafting through the air, and the vibrant, deep-blue-purple of the night sky. From his happy spot, he can make out the metropolis skyline, the windows glittering and cars screaming through the nightlife, and see Lana shut the lights off in her bedroom for sleep. It feels like being one step closer to his home planet, wherever that is. Martha likes to watch him stargazing, the soft curl in his hair, the moonlight shine in his eyes, how handsome he was, the best memories flooding her heart, and her pride. She saw herself in him, and Jonathan, and couldn’t be happier. Both Jonathan and she both know all too well about his solo nights on the roof, and keep their eyes to themselves when Lois is invited over.
3. Flying saucer 🛸 🍼
After Clark takes his first flight as a baby, his parents carefully secure a harness made from sturdy rope, which they attach to smooth, rounded rocks they gathered from around the farm. They place him gently in the center of the living room, where he eagerly attempts to propel himself into space. Despite his efforts, he always manages to slip free, maneuvering through an open door and floating playfully above the grazing cows in the barnyard. Martha and Jonathan initially chase after him during these escape attempts, but eventually they stop reacting to his Kryptonian antics and instead keep a close watch nearby. Each time, Clark slowly rubs his sleepy eyes, gazes up with innocent curiosity, and begins a gentle, unhurried drift back into his mother’s or father’s arms, comforted by their familiar touch.
4. Dietary changes 🌾🥧

Jonathan and Martha frequently wore heavy, padded protective gear—helmet, thick gloves, and safety glasses—when feeding Clark as a baby, and they always kept an extra pair of safety gloves and glasses under the sink as a precaution. Though Clark Kent was reborn good from the moment he landed in their cornfield, the only minor damage he caused was to tens to hundreds of rubber baby bottle nipples, which he eagerly swallowed whole. Jonathan and Martha spent days anxiously trying to remove the rubber tops from his mouth. Unbeknownst to his parents, while on the farm, Clark also ate whole carrots, large pumpkins, juicy melons, and chunks of metal from tractor parts. Jonathan discovered these metal pieces when he cut his hand on the sharp edge of a broken tractor tooth. He replaced the missing piece with a fragment of brown scrap metal, which he kept as a memento and hung on his workshop wall. Eventually, Martha, exhausted, simply presented him with a steak at dinner and smiled tiredly, calling it a day.
I just finished “The Island” and it is phenomenal!
In case you didn’t know, it’s a book written by the guy who wrote Wold War Z (of all things!) and it’s basically what the Minecraft Movie should have been.
The basic plot is that a guy from our world spawns into the middle of an ocean in a Minecraft world and has to find a way to survive on the only piece of land he can find, a very small island.
With no memory of who he was in our world, but vague memories of what our world is like, the majority of the books revolves around him working out the game mechanics of Minecraft. But it’s all told from the perspective of someone who is actually there in the world itself and trying to reconcile the differences between Minecraft logic and physics vs what he knows about how the real world operates.
There’s lots of close calls and first time blunders. His frustration at not being able to eat an egg, at feeling the pain of getting injured and not being able to heal until he eats food, of trying to plant crops and accidentally dumping water on the seeds because he doesn’t know how water works, to literally watching zombies and skeletons pop into existence in the dark and then poof out of existence at random times. The book does an excellent job of taking all the things we as gamers know about Minecraft and making it feel weird and fascinating and new.
It’s very much like watching a first time player experience the game and seeing their foibles and mistakes as they struggle to work out what to do.
If I have any negatives to say about the book it’s that it feels like only the beginning story in a much larger series. Which is fitting since there are two more in the series to look forward to! “The Mountain” and “The Village.”
If you’re down on the Minecraft Movie and want something to rekindle your spirits, I strongly recommend this series! It’s relatively easy to find, there’s e-book versions for your phone, and if you’re really up for it there’s an audio book adaptation read by Jack Black. How ironic huh?
It’s not something I would usual read but every once in a while I like to read something different. And let’s face it I do love Tinker Bell so I already know it’s gonna be really cute! Let me know what you all are reading and if you’ve ever read this book. I would love to hear your thoughts!
