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Step Out (Face The Sunshine)

by MayQueen517 Single parent Alex has everything going for him - he's got a good job with the Okonjo House Shelter in New York. His son Frankie has just started school. And he has enough free time to take on some pro-bono cases with Luna & Westbrook. Henry, single and not quite ready to mingle (thank you very much), crushes from afar until a baby is left with the Okonjo House Shelter. More precisely: with Henry. Who doesn't know much about babies, to be fair. Lucky for him, he knows a pretty competent single dad. Navigating parenthood, self-discovery, and self-worth, can Alex and Henry find the same orbit? === Alex’s mornings start the same way now. Once, in law school, it would have been: wake up, consume enough caffeine to fund a small country, get in a last minute cram, and maybe kiss his then-girlfriend goodbye to get in extra time in the library. Priorities are different now. ---- Infants, Henry knows, have cries designed to make sure they are noticed because they need other humans to help the person who’s given birth. This is a thing that Henry knows, it’s something the shelter learned in getting qualified for him and Pez to qualify as a Safe Haven in New York. Words: 2621, Chapters: 1/18, Language: English Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen, M/M Characters: Alex Claremont-Diaz, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Percy "Pez" Okonjo, June Claremont-Diaz, Nora Holleran, Original Alex Claremont-Diaz Child(ren), Original Child Character(s), Amy Chen | Amy Gupta, Cash (Red White & Royal Blue) Relationships: Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor Additional Tags: Single Dad AU, Foster Parent, Slow Burn, no really very slow burn, Alex is a single dad, Henry becomes a single dad, Self-Worth Issues, Found Family, Introducing Frankie, neurodivergent as hell and supported as hell, special interest is dinosaurs, and Henry adores him, Autistic Character, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, New York Shelter, Lawyer Alex Claremont-Diaz, POV Alternating via https://ift.tt/TczwerM

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Imagine thinking that Honkle is the best left back when CRYSTAL DUNN IS RIGHT THERE

RIGHT??? 

I worked really hard on this. 

[hauntedfalcon]

fic titles meme

Tagged by @iwritesometimes!

Look at the most recent 20 (or however many!) fanwork titles on your AO3 account and answer the questions below. Acts of Service A Tolerance for Pain Bajur Adding Shadows Words of Affirmation a pillar I am, upright Twice the Thunder Housed By Your Warmth Work for Idle Hands Rite of Movement Woven Walls Shun the Light Early Retirement It Looks Ugly, But It’s Clean Tread Softly Rum On the Fire if I was born as a blackthorn tree Absent with Leave Unconventional Methods If You Can Find It  You, Too

1. How many are you happy with? Nominally, all of them. 

2. How many are…not great?

I wish I’d come up with a better theme for the titles of the three spinoff stories from “Acts of Service”. But individually I still think they fit their respective stories. 

3. How many did you scramble for at the last minute? lololol so many. “Woven Walls” came out of the end of the story; I was sure I’d just use a Hozier line until then. 

4. How many did you know before you started writing/creating, or near the beginning? Acts of Service, Words of Affirmation, Twice the Thunder (thanks to @bisexualwinry), Shun the Light, Tread Softly, Rum on the Fire, Absent with Leave, You, Too. 

5. How many are quotes from songs or poems? LOLOLOL the question my friends is how many are from Hozier songs? the answer is EIGHT. Four others are sourced from non-Hozier songs. and “Tread Softly” is from Yeats.

6. How many are other quotes? “You, Too” is a play on the “You either” line in Pacific Rim: Uprising that heralded the blessed polyamorous moment that inspired the fic, but I don’t know that that counts. 

7. Which best reflects the plot of the story/content of the fanwork? how long do we have here 

honestly on review, I often do the thing where the snippet of lyric I quote is meant to invoke the context of the line, which is more directly tied to the story, hence “Adding Shadows" (to the walls of the cave) for an action scene set in a cave, or (it’s a wonderful life) “If You Can Find It” for a Hansen-Pentecost blended family trying to scrape by on a planet that’s trying to kill them. I am not subtle. 

out of the handful that aren’t quotes, “Acts of Service” is like... the whole fic. Right there. Again, I am not subtle. 

8. Which best reflects the theme of the story?

I mean, “Acts of Service” again. tbh I try to match these to a mood when I can’t match the theme per se. “Woven Walls” has the lyricism I was going for and the suggestion of people putting up whatever flimsy barriers they can to protect themselves from vulnerability. “Unconventional Methods” for a bunch of misfit benders trying to train Avatar Chirrut to take down the Fire Lord when nothing they’ve learned is really applicable. “Tread Softly” for Hawke and Fenris tenderly nurturing a future for each other, oh no I’m crying about it again 9. Which best reflects the character voice of the story/pov of the fanwork?

basically all the Cara stories. particularly “A Tolerance for Pain,” “Work for Idle Hands,” and “Housed By Your Warmth”. and “It Looks Ugly, But It’s Clean” features a very bitter, grim, and goal-oriented Hawke.  10. Which is your favourite title?

I thought this would be really difficult, but I just love “Woven Walls” so fucking much 

TAGGING @confabulatrix @mienuxbleu @mayqueen517 @aban-asaara @thelcstcolony @oriyala @spectroscopes @bisexualwinry @thelionshoarde  and anyone else reading this! 

[pantstomatch]

Number 2 for How (Not) To Ask A Boy To Prom!

Oooo sweet! okay:

2. Which scene was your favorite it write in How (Not) to Ask a Boy to Prom:

oh man, this is so hard, because that book was a true bitch to write, and I have whole entire scenes that I loved that I had to cut out, and SO MANY quirky moments between Daphne & Nolan that I love, but one of my favorites was near the end, where Daphne and Nolan are both hungover in the bathroom. I just really love Daphne and everything she does, but just slumping into the tub fully dressed and passing out really worked for me.

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YOU REBLOGGED MY GOOD OMENS POST!! Listen, I haven't had much to offer in the way of solidarity beyond liking a post and being sympathetic but I have LOVED your writing and good omens posting and AHH and I am sorry for yelling, I'm just excited.

Listen, I’m a simple blogger, I see a fantastic post I slam the reblog button <3. And thank you!

[poedinson]

📖

Very recently, I had the idea for the story of a investigative journalist/conspiracy theorist who starts a podcast about their search for the Winter Soldier, only to notice he goes off the grid after the shit that does down in the Potomac, which wouldn’t be totally weird, but then after he shows back up after the UN bombing and disappears again, Captain America goes off the grid and, like, huh, that’s really odd, and so then it’s basically some podcaster figuring out that it’s Barnes and that Cap must be trying to help his old war buddy and maybe getting Too Close and ANYWAY I DON’T KNOW WHERE IT GOES FROM THERE and probably it should be Stucky because that’s all my brain wants these days.

Drop a 📖 in my ask box and I’ll tell you about a random story concept I have or have had in the past that I may or may not ever actually write.

[iamanartichoke]

That take-down on that horrific Captain Marvel post was a thing of absolute beauty and I'm so glad that you did it. Thank you.

Ah I’m glad it was appreciated, thank you for saying so <3 

[returnsandreturns]

I saw Mike/Kevin and was transported back in time. Omg I miss writing for Skippy sometimes!! *__*

it’s never too late!! 

such a fun, weird time tho