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Original Work: not a haven but a home, and your arms to shelter within by ninemoons42
Rating: General Audiences
Relationships: Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso, Shara Bey & Jyn Erso
Tags: Alternate Universe - Dragon Age Fusion, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Star Wars meets the Inquisition, Jyn is a human female rogue Inquisitor, Cassian is commander of the Inquisition's forces, Kissing, Kissing in the Rain, Introspection, Female Friendship
Audio Length: 14 minutes, 30 seconds
Summary:
Headed back to her home -- the mountain fortress of Skyhold -- after a series of sorties and far too many unwelcome revelations about the power that she reluctantly carries within her, Inquisitor Jyn Erso tries to steal a moment to find herself once again.
Fortunately, she gets that moment -- and someone she loves finds her, too.
Podded as a mod treat for @blackestglass during ITPE 2023 | thank you to @flowerparrish for editing during crunch time!!
The problem with [Western BTS fandom] is that it’s still the white fan contingent, the Western fan contingent, specifically the white culture people, who are centered, and every time somebody wants to raise the issue of “what about centering BTS from the perspective of people of color?” there’s always going to be a debate. Someone’s going to get shouted down. Someone’s gonna get insulted. Which is really not what should be happening, considering what the band sings about."
@ninemoons42 in “Episode 135A: Race and Fandom Revisited: Part 1.” Click through to listen or read a full transcript.
You look like a movie, you sound like a song. My God, this reminds me of when we were young. Below are my Top 5 Favorite stories:
*Not to be confused with the de-serumed list!
“Ring the Bell Backward” (T, 13k) by Dira Sudis
"I know how it is," Wanda said. "Being half of something. I would go anywhere if I knew he was there waiting for me."
+ Post CW. Wanda’s magic removes trauma by taking years away. Bucky’s going to get a fresh start at living (not without you)
-☆-
“young hearts to yourselves be true” (G, 8k) by ninemoons42
Steve and Bucky are hit with an alien weapon and they're not singed, they're not hurt, they just get turned into their six-year-old selves (with some modifications).
The Avengers cart them back home to the Tower, and it turns out JARVIS doesn't mind being a babysitter.
+ Post WS. Both de-aged, babysat by all the Avengers
-☆-
“Clint Barton And The Adventures In Terror Twin Rearing” (G, 3k) by attackofthezee (noxlunate)
“Maybe it’s aliens.” Steve hisses at Barnes.
“Aliens don’t look like people Steve.” Barnes says with all the surety of an eleven year old. And ho boy, does Clint kind of want to introduce this version of these two to Thor.
In which Steve and Bucky are somehow turned into their ten and eleven year old selves and Clint Barton is somehow nominated to take care of them. It goes about as well as can be expected.
+ Post WS. Both are de-aged, babysat by Clint
-☆-
“yes you can hold my hand if you want to (’cause i want to hold yours too)” (G, 3k) by liionne
So Sam has no idea what they’re going to be like when they’ve been shrunk down to pint size, but really, he should expect them to be just as weird.
+ Post WS. Both are de-aged, babysat by Sam
-☆-
“Mission Parameters” (T, 12k) by what_alchemy
The soldier does not find the Mission. The soldier finds a tow-headed white child, aged approximately five years, unconscious and naked amid the empty Captain America uniform lying charred and bloody in the middle of what used to be a battleground. The soldier finds an expanse of bruised flesh and stubborn cowlicks that shine through the fog in his head.
The soldier lifts the child up and slings it under one arm before running.
+ Post WS. Bucky keeps Steve safe, starts to remember, and learns how to laugh and smile again. Incomplete series since 2014
We’re happy to continue our Birthday Project, where every month we post the members’ birthdays of the month. We hope you will join us in wishing a happy birthday to these awesome people!
This September, please celebrate:
@heyimreese – Sept 1
@scifibi – Sept 3
@runakvaed – Sept 6
@cassianserso – Sept 21
@jynersos – Sept 21
@ravenreyess – Sept 21
@stillusesapencil – Sept 23
@ninemoons42 – Sept 28
@spacepandar – Sept 30
Happy birthday to you! Please remember to send birthday love to your fellow RebelCaptain shippers :) ♡ ♡ ♡
(If you’re a member and want us to celebrate your birthday, please SEND US AN ASK! If you would like to become a member, please follow the instructions HERE)
for @ninemoons42 - Happy Birthday, my dear - it’s an honor to be your friend - sending you so much love.
As per request, Bucky Barnes and blankets and comfort--
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Bucky’s been collecting blankets. Fleece, knit, woolly, striped, tasseled, patterned with holiday kittens. Heavy, light, and in between. Sometimes he buys them online; sometimes they appear via a Wakandan matter replicator; sometimes people send them, a gift for a wounded hero. Bucky always hesitates when unwrapping those; Steve isn’t sure what emotions move behind those eyes, but then Bucky curls up into starry blue or rainbow-swirled folds, and smiles, and so: that’s something.
That’s everything, really: Bucky smiling.
Bucky wraps himself up in blankets like armor, like safety, like a way to be touched without having to be touched. Steve’s heart cracks each time: a splintering like snapped thread, frayed yarn. Bucky’s staying warm and being happy. Bucky’s hiding away every inch of bare skin and vulnerability behind a shield-wall of gold-traced gunmetal grey, a gift that matches his new fingertips when they tug a corner a bit higher.
Steve knows Bucky loves him. He knows it the way he loves Bucky Barnes: opal-bright and many-colored, every color, because Bucky’s woven into every piece of him. And they do touch; they kiss, they hold each other, they come together breathless and shuddering with the joy of each other, in the night.
It’s only the days. The need for Bucky to reestablish something—some walls, some boundaries, some comfort—that’s his, uninvaded.
So Steve sits down with Bucky on the couch to watch Star Trek—Bucky’s rediscovering a love of science fiction and hope about the future—and he doesn’t push, doesn’t disturb the blanket-ball that’s tucked itself into the cushions. A stray strand of Bucky’s hair’s visible, dark against orange pumpkin patterns—it’s autumn, after all, and Bucky grins almost like his old self when diving headlong into cinnamon-sugar scented candles and pear-with-brown-sugar luxurious lotion—and Bucky’s sock-clad toes emerge too, after a second, to poke Steve gently in the thigh.
“Hey,” Steve says.
“Hey.” Bucky pokes him again. “Did you bring popcorn?”
“Yep,” Steve says. “Regular and caramel. Just for you. Your and your weird need for sugar on a savory food.”
“Expand your culinary horizons, punk.” Bucky’s hand pops out to toss popcorn into his own mouth, and then at Steve. Steve, who does not mind caramel at all, catches the piece in his mouth too and makes exaggerated unhappy noises about it.
“It’s not that bad,” Bucky says. “Quit complaining.”
“I might like it better,” Steve says hopefully, “on your lips.” It’s a terrible line, and he sort of half-means it: he wants to, he completely wants to, but he doesn’t want to disturb Bucky’s blanket-nest.
Bucky, from under the pumpkins, groans. “Terrible line, Stevie.”
“Yeah, I know,” Steve agrees happily. “Captain America’s allowed. And you kiss me anyway.”
“I do. Actually…” Bucky wriggles around, sits up a little. “You know you can kiss me, right?”
“I do, don’t I?”
“I mean right now.” Bucky looks up at him. Those eyes are anchors, grounding Steve’s soul. “You know I like being warm. You’re warm. How come you never asked to join me?”
“Oh,” Steve says, newly breathless all over again. “Oh. I didn’t think…I thought you didn’t want…being touched…”
“Sometimes I don’t,” Bucky says. “I’ll tell you. But mostly it’s just really damn nice, feeling this. Even nicer if you were feeling it with me.”
“Yes,” Steve says. “Yeah, Buck—yes.”
“Then get over here. Bring the popcorn.”
Bucky’s arm moves; Bucky moves, and there’s space for Steve in the pile of blankets, there’s space for Steve at Bucky’s side, there’s room for Steve in the warmth—
Bucky tangles himself into Steve, easy as anything, easy the way loving Bucky Barnes has always been. The world’s been cruel and hard and vicious, but falling head over heels for James Buchanan Barnes, well. That’s never been hard.
“Extra warm,” Bucky observes, contented as a cat, and tips his head up. “You gonna kiss me or not, Steve, you can’t offer and then leave a guy hanging.”
“Shut up, jerk,” Steve says, “I’m getting to it, I love you,” and bends to kiss Bucky there in the protective fortress of orange-pumpkin blanket-waves, tasting caramel and warm cozy skin and Bucky’s smile, while sci-fi optimism rings out in the background.
Hello👋 I'm looking for a long juicy Cherik fic (preferably teen but it's cool they're quite rare) Any suggestions?
Hello anon! 👋
Do you mean long fic where they’re teens, or teen-rated? Here’s a list of long-fic where they’re teens, but let me know if you were thinking of rating, not age!
Fic: you follow and i’ll lead by pearl_o, pocky_slash
Summary: When Charles discovers how frustrated and self-conscious his best friend Erik is about his ignorance about sex, he’s eager to volunteer to help teach him and practice. Charles might not have any more direct experience than Erik, but he does have a telepath’s mind full of accidentally picked-up fantasies and memories, as well as knowledge of a few dirty books - and more importantly, he’s been madly in love with Erik for years. This seems like a brilliant, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that he can’t pass up.
Now he just needs to manage to keep his feelings in check, and not ruin their friendship forever.
Fic: Late Bloomer by so_shhy
Summary: Erik is a mutant jock with ISSUES. Charles is a geeky transfer student and totally human… (or is he?)
Fic: How Not To Get A Date in Mutant High by stereophoenix
Summary: It’s sort of like this: Raven and Erik don’t like each other so Emma makes them have a bet but then Hank turns up and wants to date Raven but Kurt doesn’t approve because John wants her too so they appeal to Charles to date Erik but Charles and Raven aren’t getting along because of a problem no-one knows about but Ororo seems to know it and she won’t talk because she’s too interested in Kurt and then…maybe you should just read it. Or make a spider diagram.A 10 Things I Hate About You AU
Fic: You and Me Against the World by madmalina
Summary: One important thing to remember: this is a love story.Twenty years and two lifetimes later. Just two boys learning to mutant, grow up, and love each other.
Fic: World Revolution War by ninemoons42
Summary: After being orphaned as a child, the only things left to Erik Lehnsherr are a memory of being alive and being loved, and a strange rose signet ring that had belonged to his mother. Eventually that ring leads him to a strange school, where students fight duels with live steel for a great but mysterious prize, and finds himself pulled not just toward the idea of something called World Revolution, but also into the orbit of a boy known as the Rose Groom.
(Or: X-Men: First Class meets an AU of Revolutionary Girl Utena.)
Fic: Sour Cherry by Sophia_Bee
Summary: A Gossip Girl inspired AU, Erik Lehnsherr is the angry queer Jewish scholarship kid at Dalton, an exclusive private school in New York City. Charles Xavier is the golden boy with the perfect life and the perfect girlfriend, except he can’t get through the day without being stoned and he feels like he’s living his life for everyone else. A chance encounter in a Dalton bathroom starts something that changes everything for both of them.
Fic: A Winter in New York by nextraordinaire
Summary: Charles and Erik have been childhood friends for as long as they can remember – Erik, living with his mother in Queens, and Charles in the big mansion in Westchester. For all, expect themselves, it was just natural progression that they’d end up together.
A series of ficlets from the same universe – can be read as separate and are out of chronological order.
Fic: Wings by UrbanNightingale
Summary: Life wasn’t easy for Charles Xavier - with his mother missing and an abusive stepfamily always breathing down his neck. It sure didn’t get any easier the day he found out the he was special. That he possessed powers some people would be prepared to kill him for.
Fic: If You Liked The Book, You’ll Hate The Movie by paperclipbitch
Summary: It’s not until Hank realises half the class are glancing towards the back of the classroom with something like nerves and something like schadenfreude that he finds out Alex Summers is back.
Fic: don’t wake me, i’m not dreaming by Geertrui
Summary: Erik Lehnsherr and Charles Xavier have never gotten along, it’s a school-wide known fact. But when Charles dies in a wrong-place, wrong-time accident that Erik could have prevented, guilt plagues him for weeks; a guilt on which he pins hallucinations, paranoia, and his mental instability.
What Erik can’t blame on guilt, however, is seeing Charles sitting at his dining table with his legs crossed and his habitual smirk one afternoon, a month after he died.
@ninemoons42 tagged me to list 10 songs I can’t stop listening to lately. (And also put together a great list of songs.) Thank you friend!
I always want to know what music everybody is listening to, so everybody should answer this if they are so inclined. I am tagging @kissingthehyena and @puddingcatbae for now.
Mine is really an FFXV themed playlist (hashtagsorrynotsorry). It’s after the jump.
1. Make Me Feel, Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer (2018)
“Baby don’t make me spell it out for you. All of the feelings that I've got for you.”
(This song proves once and for all that Janelle Monae is Prince’s rightful heir.)
2. Dance Apocalyptic, Janelle Monae, Electric Lady (2013)
Just because the world’s ending doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to have a good time.
3. Present Tense, Radiohead, A Moon Shaped Pool (2017)
And by ‘have a good time’ we mean distraction, denial and putting off our responsibilities.
4. Lies, Low, Ones and Sixes (2015)
This one goes out to a certain “fun-loving, happy-go-lucky joker.”
5. Murderer, Low, Drums and Guns (2007)
And this one goes out to gods who don’t do their own dirty work.
6. Here Comes Your Man, The Pixies, Doolittle (1989)
“There is a wait so long” (No kidding! 10 years.)
7. She’s Got You, Patsy Cline, The Ultimate Collection (1964)
This has been making me sad lately so I drew a picture about it.
8. Walking After Midnight, Patsy Cline, The Ultimate Collection (1964)
“I go out walking'/ after midnight/ out in the starlight/ just hopin' you may be/ somewhere a-walkin'/ after midnight/ searchin' for me.”
9. Jigsaw Falling into Place, Radiohead, In Rainbows (2007)
I love this song so much I wrote fanfiction about it and worked in a reference to every single line.
10. This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody), The Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense (1984)
