Feeling this for Steddie, but obviously dealer's choice =)
Thank you for the prompt! It took two tries and I think this came out nicer for it
tw: bugs
The Birds and the Beetles
The leaves on the ground were making it impossible to walk quietly, but that was alright. Eddie was keeping his running commentary as low as he could manage as they walked through the forest, however, that was still louder than their footsteps.
"I don't know how they could have missed it. The signs were right in front of them." Rolling his eyes, Eddie nearly tripped over a particularly large tree root. When Steve dropped his binoculars to catch him, Eddie's alarmed look melted into a smile before he took advantage of their position to peck a swift kiss to the corner of Steve's lips. "My hero!"
Steve knew his expression was more fond than chiding as he helped Eddie back to his feet before giving him a little shove to keep him moving.
"So you've said." And Eddie has. He's got a lot of nicknames for Steve and 'hero' made it into the rotation after they pulled him from the Upside Down oh so long ago. "Maybe you should be paying more attention or you'll miss some signs of your own."
Because, yes, the walk was a bit for their health - getting out and walking around was good for them no matter what Eddie sometimes complained when Steve pulled him from his indoor hobbies. He always came though, because it was also a great way for them both to indulge in their outdoor hobbies which Eddie was incredibly enthusiastic about. He loved to look for bugs and creepy crawlies as they wound their way through the forest, but Steve preferred -
There was a bird call, just audible over Eddie's exaggerated hurt at being called out like that, and Steve instantly had the binoculars up again from where they were hanging around his neck. Not quite putting Dustin's gift to his face while he didn't know the direction it came from, Steve scanned the trees for movement.
Nothing.
Well, that bird call sounded familiar - what little he could hear clearly when Eddie stopped mid-sentence to let him listen - so he'll get his chance to look at it another time if not today. Today would be nice though. He remembered to bring the old camera Jonathan gifted him (with a particularly amused look) last winter and Steve would love to add to his small collection.
"No?" Eddie asked, watching Steve instead of the treetops, obviously trusting Steve's skewed vision to pick the birds out. When he got a negative head shake, Eddie just gave a commiserating nod and motioned them onwards. "Let's see if we're just too far away."
Reaching out with his free hand, Steve snagged one of Eddie's and set the pace. It was an easy one, more of a stroll than anything as Eddie picked up his story again as they both scanned the path for interesting creatures.
Birdwatching wasn't something Steve ever thought he'd like. Honestly, if anyone had told him that it was a hobby before he unknowingly fell into it he likely would have said it was for old people. Fortunately for him, he did kind of come to it naturally. Between the way their encounters with the Upside Down made him hyper aware of movement and the way his eyesight slipped from perfect to far sighted, spotting birds was surprisingly easy and fun.
The fun part was possibly the most surprising, but Steve loved seeing the little guys. Whether they were flitting by his bedroom window, sitting on a wire at a stop light, or hopping along the forest floor, the birds were always free and happy to do as they liked. And finding an uncommon one was always exciting! Trying to think of how or why a bird would come to their part of the state instead of their usual haunts was tricky and both Dustin and Eddie loved to debate it with him.
Of course, sometimes those debates included wildly incorrect guesses like bird revolts or bird spy tactics (specifically, birds spying on other birds and not shady government organizations using birds to spy), but those were usually joined by a wink in Steve's direction as Dustin started tearing Eddie's ideas apart on principle.
"So I told them we'd need to continue another- Steve!" Hissing his name Eddie froze, only the fingers trapped between Steve's moving in an excited set of taps telling him nothing was wrong. Not looking away from whatever he spotted, Eddie pulled Steve's hand closer to tap the back of it with his other hand as he did a few giddy steps in place, the ones that shift him from foot to foot rapidly in a motion that makes him look all of seven. "Look! Look look!"
It took effort to pull his eyes away from Eddie's elated grin, but Steve eventually managed to look in the same direction only to see more trees, leaves, and bushes. After a moment, he leaned in close to whisper a question.
"What exactly am I looking at?"
"A Potato Beetle or maybe a false one." Eddie brought his free hand up to his mouth to squint, presumably at the bug but Steve still couldn't see it and didn't know what that one looked like. His silence was telling, it must have been, because Eddie let his eyes slide over to meet Steve's before flashing him another smile. "Come here and get that camera of yours ready."
Setting his binoculars back down, Steve reached across to pull his camera from his opposite pocket so that Eddie could continue pulling him slowly forward until they're couched a few feet from a branch laying beside the trail.
"See, right there?" He pointed to a spot on the top of the branch and something moved. Narrowing his eyes, Steve listened to Eddie describe it. "It's kinda small, but it's brown and white, with stripes. It almost looks like a lady bug, do you see it on the top of that twig?"
And Steve did. It was small, less than half an inch so he was impressed Eddie noticed it (though, maybe he needed to stop being impressed, Eddie was finding little guys like this constantly). As they watched it, the bug's antennae wiggled a little and Eddie made a cooing noise.
Acting fast before Eddie tried to pet another bug only to get upset when it few away, Steve raised his camera to take a picture of it. The thing had more functions than a disposable one, but thankfully not as many as Jonathan used so getting the zoom right only took a few seconds.
Steve snapped one, then paused.
There was that birdsong again. Closer this time. Shaking off his distraction, Steve focused on getting another few safety shots in case the first was blurry. The bird likely wasn't going anywhere.
He took a second picture and then jumped as Eddie cursed, partially because of the noise, but mostly because of the nearly green bird that swooped down in front of them. It barely glanced at them as it snagged the little beetle right off the branch it was now scuttling along before flitting off again.
They both sat there for a second in stunned silence before Steve snorted with laughter, Eddie's squawk of affront following shortly after.
"What?!" Standing, Eddie stomped over to the branch as if he might be able to find the little bug they definitely just saw get eaten. "No! That's not fair!"
Steve looked down at the camera in his hands to try and keep from laughing too hard and realized he snapped another photo. Damn, he hoped it wasn't blurry. He wasn't sure what part of that farce he just caught, but that was going to be a story, he just knew it. It would be great to have proof when Dustin inevitably tries to deny this happened.
"Steve!" Back in front of him, Eddie stared down with his hands on his hips and Steve caught his tongue between smiling teeth as he looked up at that dramatic pout. "Steve, call your bird back and make him put down my beetle!"
"Her." The correction fell out automatically, before Steve shook his head. The coloring of cerulean warblers wasn't the part of his statement to focus on. Unable to wipe the fond smile from his face anyway, Steve continued, "Idiot. I watch birds, I don't control them."
Clicking his tongue, Eddie's shoulders slumped as he obviously fought to keep up the disappointed expression instead of smiling back.
"Lame. What's the point if you can't make them do your bidding?" The grin fully overtook his expression as he moved on before Steve could point out that Eddie was doing something similar even though he didn't have control over bugs. "Besides, I may be an idiot, but I'm your idiot."
Warmth spread through Steve as he exchanged an adoring look with Eddie that would have their friends groaning and throwing things at them.
"Yeah," he agreed, accepting the offered hand up to lean into Eddie's space. "And I'm yours."
The bird called again, but Steve was enjoying their kiss too much to pay it much mind.
There would be other times to photograph birds.
Eddie did love indulging Steve's hobbies after all.
Also put this on AO3 if people like reading it there better
Hii! I saw your great chefs in Naruto post, I would like to inquire about the sand siblings team? I'm just a great fan and I like your take but I'm just curious!
Hello! Sure! Let me just grab their pic so people don't have to reference the Great Chefs of Naruto post directly:
Our Chefs:
Gaara - Figured out how to cook some things because everyone was either too scared to feed him or tried to kill him via food. He'd get an okay score except he gets sand in Literally Everything. Gaara cannot tell that this is bad, he thinks it is normal and good, so everything he makes has sand grit.
Score: 3/10 He is trying his best but long term consumption for others will grind their teeth to nothing, do not recommend
Temari - Learned for similar reasons as Gaara but with less fear towards herself (as it's more links to her brother and the Kazekage instead of the extremely murderous bits), so she can actually get lessons. Her stuff is good, but extremely spicy.
Score: 8/10 Pretty good stuff but spices may be covering flaws
Kankurō - While actively eating his food, people have said that it tastes good with a nice blend of flavors even if the textures are a bit off. The problem comes later because he cannot cook without poisoning the food. Literally everything he makes goes towards building up or maintaining his immunities and he cannot figure out why everyone else hates his food. At best people get simple food poisoning if they happen to be immune to all of his current poison selections at worst they need to be rushed directly to the hospital. This guy has a body count for his dishes - an unintentional one which is the really shameful part
Score: 1/10 Probably survivable if you're ready for a trip to the ER but try not to eat it
Thanks for asking! If you or anyone feels differently I'd love to hear it because this is so fun!
Premise: Prompt fill for Steter week last(?) year that I never cleaned up - Bindings. It's a 'forced' marriage but like in the loosest sense lol
"How are you so calm?" Scott looked so confused.
"Because the selection here is like ten times better than the mall." If Scott was going to be vague Stiles was going to pick the most amusing of the interpretations. Also, the suit shop really was awesome and he was going to take every opportunity to point it out. Instead of having to pick through three different off the rack suits, there were dozens of high quality formal wear options for him to try on! Most of them outside his price range with him still being a poor college student, but a single day rental was within his budget.
"Stiles," Scott talked off with a sigh before trying again. "We can find another way, I'm sure of it. Just give Deaton and the others a little more time."
Turning back to the mirror, Stiles shrugged his shoulders to check the fit - not bad - and reminded himself that Scott was just worried about him. It was wildly unnecessary in this instance, but it was nice to know he cared about Stiles' happiness.
"You don't have to do this." Scott earnestly insisted once again and that was it.
The final straw.
"No, I don't have to." Stiles agreed, tugging his lapels straight and smoothing the front of his jacket with a sharp swipe of his hands before turning to face Scott again. "But I'm gonna."
Premise: This is the Stranger Things x Supernatural Fusion lol
“Chrissy?” Dropping the bag in his hand to a counter, Eddie approaches the girl cautiously and raises his hands. He doesn’t quite touch her as he leans to one side, inspecting her vacant stare. “I don’t like this, Chrissy.”
Unresponsive, eyes rolled back, unexpected behavior - shit. Uncle Wayne warned him about this.
Eddie steps back to shuffle through the drawer closest to the door, nearly yanking the thing out entirely in his haste. Where is it? Where is it? His fingers brush against the small bottle and he snatches it out with the little slip of paper attached to it.
“Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus,” he prays his pronunciation is as good as Wayne always said it was, but neither that nor the holy water seem to have any effect on the girl who starts lifting into the air as the lights flickers. Abandoning the exorcism, he racks his brain for what his Uncle told him and almost literally feels every lesson slipping through his fingers.
Fuck, he never wanted to go on his Uncle’s hunts because they were dangerous for newbies and his uncle wants him to have his childhood, but now he wishes he had because any practice dealing with this shit face to face with back up would really be helpful right now.
Chrissy hits the ceiling and Eddie can hear himself calling out to her desperately. It feels distant though, the rest of him is going through his uncle’s emergency procedures.
Hey! It’s going and even though I know I want to add more to the first ‘chapter’ I’m forcing myself to get at least half way before editing further. I stopped recently (and nearly missed this ask, sorry!) because I’ve been away at a training for work and just got back today. So hopefully the third mission will go well so that I can get into more interesting things going!
I’ll try to keep you guys up to date as I get it to a point I’m okay with posting :D
They weren't joking, these questions are hard! I took some time to try and puzzle it out and I'm still not certain of my answers lol
20: A song that has many meanings to you
Swim by Valley - I can't say why, but every other time I listen to this I feel like I get something else out of it
21: A favorite song with a person’s name in the title
Judith by A Perfect Circle - Looking through my likes and playlists I actually have a surprising amount of songs with people's names in the title, this one always surprises me though. I have a bad memory for song titles and bands, but I know every word of this song even after like two decades knowing it
23: A song that you think everybody should listen to
A Good Song Never Dies by Saint Motel - This is literally so hard for me to choose because A - songs are different things to different people and B - I'm the kind of person who thinks everyone should at least try out 75% of music as a whole lmao This song is super relatable and catchy though
26: A song that makes you want to fall in love
La Vie En Rose by Édith Piaf - This is probably cliché, but it's really true. idk if I'll ever be in romantic love but this song makes me hope for it a little. I enjoy both the English and French versions though I can't hold the lyrics for the second in my head for longer than a few hours lol
Thank you for the ask! If anyone else wants to stump me with music, the list is here!
(On my alt account, because that's the one I'm logged into on mobile, lol)
Premise: Modern(-ish) Disney AU
If it weren’t for the employee dressed in the familiar bright colors standing next to the blond Din would have passed the man off as a strangely avid fan.
“-hasn’t worked all day.” Their conversation was quiet in the murmur of the crowd, but the worker’s pleading voice eventually cut through it as they approached. “If it keeps up we’re going to have to close the ride for fear of grinding the gears down since none of us know how to turn it off separately!”
“Wes, seriously - I can’t help you.” The prince (Din didn’t really know which male lead the man was supposed to be, but since almost all the women were princesses, that made him a prince right?) fiddled with the shield in his hands as he spoke calmly to the employee next to him. “I’ve looked those blueprints over only once and that was out of professional curiosity and not with repair in mind. You’re going to have to wait-”
Din slowed a little even as Grogu tugged his hand harder when the other employee cut in, desperation in the set of his shoulders and the way he ran his fingers through his short dark hair.
“That’s going to take days, Luke. Wedge is out of town and-”
It was easy to see the exact moment the prince spotted Grogu and his little pink book. Patting his coworker on the shoulder, the man stepped forward to greet them with a bright smile.
“Hello there!” He nodded a small greeting to Din before crouching down to speak with Grogu.
I wouldn't worry about writing TW fanfiction without seeing the show. A big portion of the current writers have only seen some episodes or less. The show is bad and characterization in it so inconsistent already that the only thing people could possibly call you out on is for not following their own specific headcanons :D
lol Their trouble with consistency/characterizations is a big reason why I don’t want to watch it even though the actors are great and the ideas about the world have a lot of potential. (the second reason is ugh over the top teen drama, didn’t understand it as a teen and def don’t get it now)
I really do appreciate the reassurance though because I already have at least two different ideas and a gifset I want to make but I wasn’t sure how welcome they’d be.
