#lightly

[natp20]

i don't know what it is about the fantasy high setting that drives me completely insane. the mall has an ice cream parlour owned by a djinn and a strudel place with direct supply from the strudel dimension. your gnome parents modified the lawnmower to have fun with their new "friends." death means nothing if you've got your spells prepared. generational curses that make your life miserable recognize that you're not the stepdad, you're the dad that stepped up. we wanted something else from our god, so we made her into something else. your wizard principal is on a time travel roadtrip with his half-phoenix daughter and spent an obscene amount of money on a jet ski. there's a strudel dimension.

[spacerockband]

things we can’t have / the most comforting place in the whole world

[castratecapuchin]

forgive me for my greed, but when u get the chance can u pretty pretty please share more abt this? i’m absolutely obsessed like u wouldn’t even believe, i wish there was a 200k word fic abt this, so i’ll literally take any little bit i could get

https://www.tumblr.com/castratecapuchin/816802683184873472/college-roommates-samisa-au-worlds-worst-most

hehehehe i love infecting people with the samisa virus. and i can always yap more

everyone in the house gets along really well, they’ve somehow managed to create a frat without it actually being a frat (most of them say this with glee, graf points this out with genuine distain). and it’s not that misa doesn’t fit in, it’s just that he’s quiet. he sticks to himself, especially in the beginning, and nothing really seems to break him out of his shell

so of course, sam takes it upon himself to fully integrate misa into the house. there are serious side effects to this like, everyone on campus, and off campus, thinking that they’re dating. it’s not that they’re attached at the hip like will and mack are, there’s some wiggle room there to call it just really good friends, but sam is very obviously attentive. at every party, he has an eye on what misa’s doing, what he’s drinking, if he’s talking to people or hiding in a corner, or if he’s gone back up to his room.

more often than not, sam just keeps misa right under his arm and when misa wants to dip, they dip together, which is so deeply un-sam like. he’s never been the type of guy to leave a party, or a hangout, or anything really, early. especially if it’s in his own house! and yet, sam is so locked in on misa that everything else matters a little less. it’s been months since misa moved in and sam is still using the excuse that the reason he spends so much time with him is bc he’s trying to figure him out. which is a blatant lie bc sam figured him out in the first two weeks, misa is weird and introverted, and painfully sincere. the thing sam hasn’t figured out is why the fuck he’s so interested

misa knows. sort of. sam is so nice to him, spends so much of his time fucking around with him, calls him cute nicknames, leans his body up against misa so often. and misa isn’t an idiot, he figures that they’re dating, or close to it. the problem here is that misa doesn’t really care to make any move, he likes anything that sam gives him and doesn’t feel the need to ask for anything more. if sam doesn’t want to kiss him, fine by misa, the idea hasn’t even come to his mind yet. actually that is giving me crazy ideas for another au, so more on that later.

and at the risk of falling into the and-so&so-is-the-bus-driving effect… really envisioning that toff and cat live down the street from the wannabe baby sharks frat house. even before misa moves in, sam is always the one they send to toff’s to tell him that they’re having some party and it’s going to be loud. so toff does NOT fuck with him, even tho cat is always saying that it’s nice they’re even warned. and misa always asks to pet stella when she’s on a walk so toff thinks he’s such a nice normal guy. he’s horrified to find out that one, misa is living in that house, and two, he’s “sort of” dating sam out of all of his roommates.

once again…. inspired by that to make a neighbors au. it’s too good

[dk-thrive]

In a life properly lived, you’re a river. You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it; you can’t figure out a banal game plan applicable to all situations; you just have to go with the ‘beingness’ of life.

— Jim Harrison, from "Jim Harrison, The Art of Fiction No. 104" in The Paris Review, Issue 107, Summer 1988

[vintage-tigre]

[w-unschtraum]

i just want to be

held gently

kissed tenderly

gazed at softly

fucked thoroughly

understood deeply

and reciprocate it

but not in like

a romantic way

u dig?

[justwithlu]

and that applies to Gwynriel too! to recognize the bonus chapter has significance is to recognize that it all has significance. Azriel feels his spark and his shadows dance and something restless inside him settles, but he also wants Elain. And not just her body, he wants to be her mate. He’s not. But him wanting to be is still canon. That desire is still there.

but it’s also canon that he yearned for Mor as late as the solstice in FaS. And that when asked about her in the bonus chapter, he didn’t answer. It’s also canon that Feyre wanted to be tamlins mate, but ended up being Rhys’s. It’s canon that Lucien’s family killed the last person he loved, who he also believed might be his mate. It’s canon that he was wrong. It’s canon that larger forces than you or I or any of the book characters peered into the training ring to look at Gwyn cutting the ribbon and becoming the first reborn Valkyrie. It’s canon that azriel gave Elain truth teller. It’s also canon that she gave it back

If you’re not considering all of canon when considering the books, you’re doing yourself and the characters a disservice. You can’t cherry pick what parts of canon work for you and what doesn’t

[fluvious]

cocktails and confessions by fluvious

Fabian grins brightly. “Secrets. I told you one of mine, you tell me one of yours.”

“Oh, uh, you know me. I’m an open book. No secrets here, not one.” Riz feels the heat of the liquor climb his throat. He itches at his collar. “Sorry to disappoint.”

“Oh, you’re not disappointing me,” Fabian says easily. “You’re just lying to me.”

-

or: Riz makes a drunken confession.