Author: hapakitsune
Pairing: Liam/Louis
Word Count: 20K+
Tags: proposal, youtuber
Summary: Louis had been proposing to Liam on and off for going on four years now. It started as a joke, an insistence that he could absolutely come up with a hundred wedding proposals as sweet as kittens bearing rings. It started as a joke. It didn't stay that way.
“Hey,” Louis said, batting him away. “Where’s your honey, Pooh Bear?”
“Good question,” Niall said, turning to look over his shoulder. He pointed with one plush arm to where Bressie was standing, wearing a brown shirt with a handwritten sign on it that said HONEY. “There he is.”
“Disgusting,” Louis said fondly.
Side Nessie in this lovely Lilo fic. On Ao3 by hapakitsune/ officerbobrovsky.
Summary: Sidney never felt like he was missing anything from his life; he had his job, he had his friends - and then Geno showed up and turned his world upside down.
Title: All the Other Ghosts
Author: rainjoy
Readers: klb and mcollinknight
Rating: NC-17 eventually
Fandom: Glee
Pairing: Kurt/Blaine
Length: 1:27:14 (Part 9)
Effect: cape-swoosh by Cosmic Embers
Cover Artist: aggressivebutterfly/hapakitsune
Download Links (right-click save): Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9
Reader’s Note: First of all, LOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL COVER ART! I am so delighted--Kurt in his cape and mask, Blaine with his fanboy puppy eyes, the beautiful city and the beautiful colors, just. Hapakitsune is amazing and I am thrilled beyond thrilled that she lent her considerable talents to making cover art for this project.
Second... I may have jinxed myself with that last reader's note celebrating how quickly I was going? The next three chapters are all extra-long (and the next two chapters are very emotionally intense), and on top of that my life is going to be a little extra busy for the next couple of weeks, so I can't promise that I'll do any better in the *near* future, but I'm hoping to get past this snag soon and try my best to speed back up to one per week by the end of the month. That's a plan, not a promise, but I'm really hoping to stick to it!
I love this chapter, especially the incident in the second half, which is one of those superheroing episodes that has stayed strongly in my memory since I first read the story. And more than anything right now, I love Kurt and Blaine's fondness for each other, the way they speak to each other and tease each other and accidentally put too much warmth into every word... It's lovely, and so fun to perform, and comes so easily because I believe in their love for each other so much. &them;
absolutely one of my favorite fic tropes of all time. I would count arranged marriages in the same category. it’s the best because I love shit about SECRET FEELINGS and not realizing the other person feels the same way and is also having SECRET FEELINGS while possibly pretending to be in love BUT IT’S NOT REALLY PRETENDING and of course there’s all this tension because of living together and cute domestic stuff and basically it combines everything I love because in case anyone was unaware I am all about FEELINGS and actually I think one of my lj tags “fictional mark zuckerberg’s secret feelings” is a result of me talking to HK about “never marry for money,” which is of course one of my favorite “fake” marriage fics everrrrrrr
and that’s why this trope is so great, because it’s a really great relationship exploration, either of characters who just met OR have a past, maybe they hate each other or one has been in love with the other one and!!!!!! oh man, the possibilities are endless. I just love it.
since all I’ve been able to think of the last few days is ASOIAF/GoT, this reminds me that last night I sent ionsquare a DM on twitter about how I really want a Jaime/Brienne arranged marriage AU liiiiiiike y’all don’t even KNOW, I just ughghghaklhdalkfj can’t even talk about it…
so umm, yeah, MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE/ARRANGED MARRIAGE FICS 4EVER!