When I ask for fic recommendations (especially for Queliot “classics”), hetrez’s name always comes up. This is the first fic of theirs that I’ve read--a post-Monster Eliot is trying to figure out how to be in his body again, and Alice begrudgingly interrupts her own magical project and gives some of her time to help him. I have a huge soft spot for Alice and Eliot’s complicated relationship, and this fic captures it so well. All the reasons people may not like Alice--her selfishness, her cunning, her impatience for emotions--are highlighted in such an insightful way here, and her soft, squishy, vulnerable parts are exposed too (also begrudgingly). If you are an Alice Appreciator (and I hope you are because this blog is NO place for Alice hate), this one is a lovely portrait of our girl 💙
It’s still Wednesday in California, so I was tagged by @hetrez for WIP Wednesday. I’m slowly but surely working on the next fic in the “Buck adopted a dog with the Diazes and found love~” verse (aka Kibble verse).
Buck has learned a lot of things since Kibble came into his life.
He’s learned that Chris has a natural affinity for dogs. Kibble follows him around the house, sleeps at the foot of his bed, and sits under his chair when they eat dinner at the dining room table (no matter how many times Eddie has tried to tell her to quit begging). Chris seems to know exactly when Kibble is hungry or tired or needs to go outside. It’s only been a couple of weeks since Kibble officially became a member of the household, and Buck is amazed by how close they’ve grown and how quickly it happened.
Buck has learned other things, too.
He’s learned that Eddie leaves his socks everywhere (like a total slob), that Chris likes to narrate what he’s doing to anyone who will listen (including Kibble, which is adorable) and that having a dog around is better than Buck ever could have imagined.
He’s also learned that Eddie’s morning breath is terrible.
“No,” he says firmly when Eddie tries to kiss him right after waking up.
“No?” Eddie echoes. He’s sprawled across half of the bed on his stomach, the sheet tangled around his legs, and Buck is sitting up with his back to the headboard, drinking his morning coffee. Eddie has propped himself up on his elbows and just tried to pull Buck down for a kiss, but Buck is categorically denying this request because—well, because of the morning breath.
“You should brush your teeth,” Buck tells him.
Eddie’s eyebrows rise up so high they look like they’re about to take flight.
“It’s pretty dire,” Buck adds.
Eddie stares at him for another moment, and then he collapses back into his pillow. “Fine,” he mutters as he moves to roll out of bed, “but it’s not like yours is any better.”
The Winter Soldier tries to incept himself into being Bucky Barnes. As a general plan, it goes very badly. As a way to reunite him with Steve Rogers and work out some of their interpersonal conflict, it goes pretty okay.
Responses to replies on ‘Are You Here to Stop Me? Part 2′ cause I thought these posted but I put them in drafts AGAIN 🦐
@nighthaunting Ohhhh yes >:) It would have been so cathartic to get in a punch, but it wasn’t part of The Plan. Soon
@gingersnapwolves HOOOO YES, this AU is a constant battle of wanting JGY to just go apeshit on people and wanting him to see people go apeshit for him. And yes, he is going to end up very very dead--JGY is still JGY, after all
@hetrez AHHH THANK YOU I’M SO GLAD 😍😍
@pink-fuchsia THANK YOUUU!
@ablazeandmeandering I’M SO GLAD! :D As a treat! He deserves it! They both do >:)
@flamingwell This made me laugh so evilly pfff I’m glad you...enjoyed it?? :D
@madtomedgar THANK YOUUUU. He’s going to go for maximum humiliation and discredit--I mean, he did insult A-Li, after all. Not just any death will do. Hopefully, he’s going to make it Zixun’s own fault >:)
@stripedroseandsketchpads Yesss! He’s weighed the odds and what he’s heard of Wen Qing and is pretty certain she’ll agree for the sake of her brother and her people. But perhaps it will bloom into something moooore? AHH, I’m so glad!! :D
@sparklespiff WELL THERE’S A THOUGHT 😂 The first one will definitely happen--the second perhaps as a happy dream
@themoonbunnyverse I KNOW, WHO THE FUCK COULD INSULT YANLI?? Yeah, that’s pretty much JGY’s thoughts too
JZXun: Fuck you
JGY: Unsurprising
JZXun: Fuck your wife
JGY: .... 🔪 Well, now.
If the other Jiang disciples are smart, they won’t repeat the exact words to either JYL, JC, or WWX o.o JGY certainly never will--he needs the man alive to kill! He made the best of a bad situation ;-;
@the-bi-bilingual THANK YOU SO MUUUCH He’s a lot of fun and he definitely wouldn’t go full mush--he’s still got that rage filled core, no matter how soft he might get! Like an angry gusher....
Everything is cool when you’re part of a team, everything is awesome when you’re living out a dream. (and living with found family) Below are my Top 5 Favorite stories:
“Make Way For Ducklings” (E, 28k) by hetrez
Bucky says, "Do you know, after you leave -- every time you leave, after the doctors have taken my mask off, I walk around this place and try to find everywhere you've been. Was your hand on the toaster? Did you lean against the doorway? Where were you on the couch? I haven't seen your face in seventy-five years, not really."
+ Post Avengers (2012) to Post -WS. Steve hires new agents, bonds with the Avengers, and gets his Bucky back
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“How To Train Your Superheroes” (T, 3k) by StuckySituation
“But of course, no matter how much we practice on schedule, we will need to learn constant vigilance and manage to get our reaction times down to the minimum,” Steve continues and takes the last burger beef from the grill and puts it onto the table next to him.
Natasha has a brief millisecond to frown and think “Constant vigilance?”, before Steve kicks the grill so hard that the coals rain on top of the flammable carpet feets away.
“What the hell-!?”
“STEVE!?”
Steve is already sprinting towards the ledge. “First training session started! Wanda, Sam, Tony - someone CATCH ME!”
Then he jumps off the Tower.
+ Post WS. Steve has learned from the best. His high stress and high intensity trainings may be unconventional/extreme, but they get the job done. Featuring stuffed animal team mascots
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“The Ding Dong War” (T, 6k) by icewhisper
The year Hostess releases their limited edition Star Spangled Ding Dongs, they all suffer.
(AKA no one should let Tony Stark have a credit card and history books never covered just how much of an asshole Steve Rogers really is.)
+ Post WS. Pranks gone astray and domestic life in the Avenger Tower
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“@sgtbarnes1917 and @cptrogers1918″ (G, 114k) by BayleyWinchester
Bucky Barnes broke Twitter with one photo
+ Post WS. Mixed media of tweets, interviews, photos, transcriptions, and news articles. Chapter 5 & 6 is a tv documentary of domestic daily life in the tower, and Chapter 75 is the marriage record reveal
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“The S. Rogers Memorial (it’s NOT a shrine) to J. B. Barnes” (T, 18k) by SkyisGray
When the Avengers realize that Steve doesn’t have anything to remind him of Bucky Barnes, they embark on a project to track down Bucky memorabilia. But it seems that Steve isn’t the only visitor to the (unofficial) J. B. Barnes memorial (which is totally NOT a shrine, Tony).
+ Post Avengers (2012). Reposted from the Starter Pack list. Nothing like friendly competition and personalized gifts to show your teammate you Care
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*More Avengers focused stories in the Starter Pack and Cooking list
hetrez replied to your post “omg could you imagine if victor took makkachin to a dog show”
So my dad was an amateur dog trainer and used to take our Tibetan Spaniel to dog shows when I was young. What I remember is that the dogs had to have PERFECT posture, be still as a rock when judges were feeling them up, needed to be within 0.000001 standard deviation of the textbook picture of the breed, had to perfectly run some kind of obstacle course, and usually were washed and groomed to high heaven.
I have no idea what the judges would do if adorable, floofy Makkachin rolled in with Actual Purebred Whippet Victor Nikiforov holding the leash, but it would not be anything good.
okay so i know this is absolutely not the point but i want you to know that i’ve been thinking about actual purebred whippet victor nikiforov for like ten hours, A VERY SATISFYING IMAGE
radialarch said: a) tearaway costume b) dramatic swoon/collapse onto the ice at the end, possibly with a splash of blood colored fabric over his heart c) yuuri’s shameful teenage fantasies about this routine d) victor DISCOVERING yuuri’s shameful teenage fantasies about this routine
mountliang said: old viktor, making sure to always shake it in yuuri’s direction
hetrez said: WHAT WHAT THIS IS MY GO-TO KARAOKE SONG AND NOBODY ELSE HAS EVER HEARD OF IT. I think he did do this, and when asked about it in interviews afterwards he said he was inspired by Johnny Weir choosing Lady Gaga songs, songs that reflected Weir’s deepest, truest self. The interviewers stared at him for a second and then changed the subject.
i am so glad i am finally home from work so i can give these replies the attention they deserve. okay, first and foremost, i’m going to say that young victor skated boney m’s “rasputin” as an exhibition, because of the above commentary, except i’m going to argue that he paid tribute to 70′s soviet fashion by skating it in the following:
so yes, splash of red under the tearaway cowboy coveralls, into who KNOWS what. of course, yuuri has probably got off at least thirty-six to fifty-nine times to victor slowly peeling off the denim monstrosity into whatever awful thing is underneath, and he has the routine memorized, and he only finds this out when the nishigoris and katsukis take him out to karaoke, and are like, YUURI, SING THAT SONG!! YOU KNOW, THE ONE YOU ALWAYS SING!! which is, of course, boney m’s “rasputin,” which he knows by heart from watching the exhibition skate so much. and victor is like, oh hey, i used to skate to this! and yuuri is like, PLEASE do not connect these two very connectable dots, except victor does, and sooner or later yuuri shows up to ice castle hasetsu and victor is in a (now, very tight) pair of coveralls with the music ready, ready to seduce his man to a disco jam.
