got any recs for romantic pazzi smut 👀 like established relationship already? I keep finding random AUs that are just pwp
hi, my love. i'm sorry that i took a while to answer this only because i wanted to be intentional. i know that you asked for established relationship but i slightly expanded this to include fics with a building relationship that i adore that are deeply romantic to me. i will be rambling a bit, becuase these are kind of my rotation.
@peach4pazzi everything, but especially you gonna come to my senses?. there's something deeply evocative about rivals to lovers and about peach. i think, in a way, because of my history of being the soft spot for several women who were considered ice queens by many a person but were forced to form a relationship with me because of us performing in the same vein of things at our very best. this fic pulls at the thread and does a beautiful job of explaining the act of desire under the disguise of disdain. plus, i simply love peach; my special gorgeous girl—she's the human equivalent of the feeling of blushing in exertion after doing something you love.
@wecrytogether's recognition and looking down at you looking up at me. just beautiful execution all around. i'm highly biased when it comes to niyah's work because i adore her, but there is something specifically so well done in her pieces when it comes to complex relationships that i rarely see elsewhere. everyone in this is not necessarily a villain, just a victim of circumstance and societal pressure. the romance here is intertwined with lust, but still remains irrevocably tender.
@dripanddrive‘s hot lap. the best way i can explain this is that every ounce of her world-building reads the same as the feeling of a square of 60% dark chocolate melted over the split of a cherry. there is such a literary adult nature in what she pens. what is most romantic to me is her dedication to allowing both girls the intricacies of being an adult without condemning them for anything. and i find that perfectly romantic, this idea that yes i will look at you in both glory and fault and there will be love there. just stunning.
@lupinqs hunger games au & her ongoing thin ice project. maddie is just stellar, i think. another author with whom you have to pay attention and i think that is so special. its just so easy to get sucked into her world and you have this feeling that you are sinking deeper and deeper but there's no true sense of urgency to distangle yourself, because where else would you rather be? always always in perfect form.
in between shades of blue by @imaginespazzi. all i'm going to leave is this fragrantica review by albertcamslut that encapsulates the expeirence: ❝Hit and run. Blood on the pavement. Cotton candy in the air. When I wear this I feel like a sweet girl (chewing gas station strawberry Hubba Bubba) now all mangled up on the road. You could say "Katherine why do you want to smell like a pretty little crash victim?" but you're not my therapist so that would be a highly inappropriate question to ask. When I put this on, the first immediate scent I get is plastic and rubber like the bicycle section of Walmart (don't ask why I've been in the bicycle section of Walmart or in any Walmart ever) but don't let that put you off. Please. This is one of my most complimented perfumes for a reason. After a few seconds of Walmart tire it transforms on the skin giving way to the most delicious strawberry gum smell in the world. You can almost taste it. The sillage is decent, you leave a short little bubblegum trail for the first hour or so that you wear it. The dry down gets violent, that may be the crash itself. The sweetness fades and leaves you with gasoline, metal, pink roses on a wooden cross. It's not just a fragrance but a moment, a story you get to experience first hand. The reason people around you will love it is because they want to smell the Crash (1996) unfold on your skin. It will draw them in close enough to die with you. This is an all-timer summer signature. Toskovat' elevates the medium of fragrance. I'd sell my soul to get my hands on the rest of their perfumes if this one is indicative of the quality of the rest. This was my most favorite blind buy that I've ever experienced. Try it for me. Please.❞ and this exact text i wrote to a friend over it and included in a genuine essay i wrote on it:
❝ crisis creates its own intimacy. strangers who survive something together become bound by that shared fracture in normalcy. "trauma bond," my therapist drawls and i nod, but slightly disagree. yes, in some instances. but i think it's more than that, maybe worse. [...] the idea is that you've seen me in my basest form, maybe even the vilest—an idea beloved by enemies-to-lovers enthusiasts—and have never wavered. or you've wavered and fallen, decided that you can handle the horror because what you need is me—all of me, right now. similar to how, in an earthquake, we both seek shelter and run out into the open. ❞
@graybuckets. every single thing graysen writes. i struggle to articulate just how much i always come back. my way of describing the exact potentcy of how well done every single piece is: imagine a scenario in which you feel nothing and are worried you will never feel nothing again and then you begin reading the first line of whatever work you have chosen and suddenly there is a thrum in your body as if you have put your hand along the honeyed spine of a hive and every bee has come to venerate you and send their song throughout your body and there is no pain and your head falls back and above you the sun becomes a yellow sapphire fractured at every point and every inch of its light reaches you. close as i can get, take it or leave it.
@azzibueckers5. at this point, i think we can see that i am incapable of recommending anything specific because i love it all too much, and this remains true still for my beautiful, angelic ella. ella always has her finger on the pulse of love. it runs through her; she is love. every instance of sharing time with her and her work has the same affect of laughing in surprise, that bubble of joy that rises and plays around with you and leaves you glowing. a perfect girl creating perfect worlds.
i will add on to this as i remember, i need to truly get into the archives. hope this helps you, my love. xx
