Max didn’t really enjoy watching other people play games, knew he’d criticise their decision making. He also didn’t like vlogs, yet he found himself tuning into Daniel’s streams when he could. If only to hear him laugh a little, or a lot. Daniel laughed a lot and Max loved to hear the sound.
He figured it wouldn’t hurt to sub from one of his burner accounts. Daniel’s account was a guilty pleasure of his and he didn’t need to share him with the wider world.
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Max is down bad for a curly haired Australian streamer
(from tumblr; Otaku Daniel)
tags: Alternate Universe - Twitch Streamers, Pining, Max Has A Crush, Otaku Daniel, Max Loves His Geekiness, Completely Self Indulgent, Mostly Max POV, Max is Down Bad
Max didn’t really enjoy watching other people play games, knew he’d criticise their decision making. He also didn’t like vlogs, yet he found himself tuning into Daniel’s streams when he could. If only to hear him laugh a little, or a lot. Daniel laughed a lot and Max loved to hear the sound. He figured it wouldn’t hurt to sub from one of his burner accounts. Daniel’s account was a guilty pleasure of his and he didn’t need to share him with the wider world.
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Max is down bad for a curly haired Australian streamer (from tumblr; Otaku Daniel)
tags: Alternate Universe - Twitch Streamers, Pining, Max Has A Crush, Otaku Daniel, Max Loves His Geekiness, Completely Self Indulgent, Mostly Max POV, Max is Down Bad, Turn's Out Daniel's Down Bad Too, Idiots in Love, Eventual Smut, Getting Together, Getting to Know Each Other
so my brain hasn't been the nicest and I literally can't seem to find the focus to write anything lately (I'm also looking for some serotonin T_T) so I'm popping on to drop the first like scene of otaku daniel because i honestly in my current state can't see me ever finishing it but I love it so much so yeah. I hope you guys like it, I've been meaning to post this for so long so I'm doing it before I chicken out again :(((
“Oh, a new sub! Max_v_maxx33, enchante.” The voice was accompanied by a grin and wink before a pink tongue was once again sticking out of the side of a heart shaped mouth.
Max settled himself in his rig, scratching a pec absently. He wasn’t scheduled to stream with Team Redline for another hour and that was good, he’d made sure to schedule the group stream after Daniel was finished with his.
He’d found the account by accident a few weeks ago, a clip from a stream had made its way to instagram and he would admit to himself and himself only that he’d been dazzled by a smile and crinkly eyes. He didn’t watch many other streamers, and didn't particularly care to. He only streamed because Gianni had said it would have been a good way to get sponsors for Redline and he’d been right.
Their streams were popular, no matter what they were playing. And once they disconnected, they tended to stay online longer– just to play some more together. Privately like they used to.
Max didn’t really enjoy watching other people game. He also didn’t enjoy vlogs, yet he found himself tuning into Daniel’s streams when he could. If only to hear him laugh a little, or a lot. Daniel laughed a lot and Max loved to hear the sound.
He figured it wouldn’t hurt to sub from one of his burner accounts. Daniel’s account was a guilty pleasure of his and he didn’t need to share him with the wider world.
Dan_the_Badge3 or Daniel was a relatively smaller account. He lived and breathed anime and anything kawaii. It took Max a little time to understand that, he’d been annoyed at himself that he wouldn’t stop watching after the third time when Daniel went off into a rant about which anime were better for people starting out. He’d gotten into a full blown argument with the chat and ended up pausing his game. Max didn’t watch anime, didn’t plan to, but he found himself making note of Daniel’s choices all the same.
Daniel’s curly hair was dark, long and wild. And always covered by his favourite headphones that had cat ears on top. He rotated between three designs, and currently he used a blue and white pair with ‘old skool’ flames on them. He always sported a sweatshirt or hoodie, mostly his own designs and he loved them oversized so he could have ‘sweater paws’. Max found it endearing as hell.
Today was Wednesday and Daniel used those for productivity power hours for his subscribers. He usually did something mundane and would chatter away for an hour or so. He called his Wednesday streams “Badger Mode” and at first Max didn’t ‘get it’, but a quick lurk of the chat had produced people chiming in on what they planned to work on and others thanking Daniel for his ‘parallel play’ and ‘sprints’.
Max inadvertently found that he relaxed more before Redline’s Wild Wednesday streams than any other day. So maybe Badger Mode had more positives than just him staring at the slope of Daniel’s nose for an hour. What a cute nose it was.
“So I told Chelle that I wanted to like try crochet– because she makes all these pretty things and like she laughed at me and asked me if I could count.” Daniel’s voice was fondly annoyed while he spoke about his older sister. Max grinned to himself at Daniel’s exaggerated eye roll. He had a skein of red yarn in one hand and a hook in the other, the pattern had already been started. “So I annoyed her until she gave me these and started a pattern for me. I wanna make like a small plushie, but maybe I should like start with something basic. Like a scarf. Or maybe a– a square.” Daniel continued to ramble and Max felt his shoulders drop in relaxation.
“What are you guys working on today, chat?” Daniel leaned back into his gamer chair– that also had cat ears– and put his foot up on the corner of the desk. A static rectangle popped up on the screen obscuring his feet with a cartoon honey badger holding a sign that read ‘no feet for free’. Max chuckled.
“Good luck on your essay Falconado73! Meerlymeerly I feel your pain, that laundry isn’t gonna do itself!” Daniel continued to babble to the chat while attempting to crochet and Max enjoyed watching his fingers as he tried to work. “Jeepers, I really can’t count. Do you guys mind if I like count aloud for these next couple rows to get the hang of it? No one like told me there was so much counting involved?!” Daniel laughed before starting a halted counter while he focused hard on the red material.
Max checked his phone, answering a few emails about sponsor stuff and replying to the Redline private discord. He looked up a few times to see that Daniel’s tongue was once again sticking out of his mouth and he felt hopelessly endeared. His cat, Sassy, jumped into his lap for a second.
“What’s that mark on your neck?” Daniel leaned closer to his screen to read before leaning back and laughing merrily. Max’s eyes honed to his exposed neck for this proposed mark and he absolutely ignored the slight clench in his chest.
“I bet you all are hoping it's something like juicy but it isn’t. Yeah nah, sorry to burst your pervy bubbles.” Daniel snorted and Max took a deep breath. “I thought I was gonna get stung by a wasp and like was trying to bat it away with my brush and I scratched myself with the bristles. Then I realized it wasn’t a wasp but like a bee and I felt like so bad cause I didn’t want to accidentally kill it.”
Daniel continued to ramble while he worked and Max stared at his mouth, at how his lips formed his words before stretching in a smile. Max thought Daniel’s Australian accent was hot as hell.
“How is the apartment search going?” Daniel read again and groaned. Max’s ears perked up, apartment search?
“Itssssss not going? Nah, yeah I haven’t like started looking as yet. I don’t even know which country I want to move to yet. So we’re still in the beginning stages of like that whole thing.” Daniel laughed. “Move to Japan with Yuki? Oh mochiro– I mean it's not out of the realm of possibilities. Yeah that’s all I’ll say there. I have like a list of countries and I guess I need to do a pros and cons thing–”
Daniel did that sometimes, mixed other languages with his babbling. He spoke Japanese with his friend Yuki when they streamed together– there was an ai translator bot that provided subtitles, except for when they started rambling and laughing and it couldn’t pick up what they were saying. Those times, Max just liked to stare at Daniel. And he sometimes spoke Italian, specifically when he was speaking to people off camera, like his grandparents.
Max’s phone beeped with his Redline stream reminder. He stroked Sassy’s fur before hovering his mouse over the exit stream button. He took a long look at Daniel’s smiling face before leaving the stream and jumping into his team’s account.
Hey Tysh!! Let’s check in on streamer/Otaku Daniel and Max
Daniel drummed his fingers on the door handle, watching the city pass through the window. His taxi driver had said it was about an hour from the airport and he watched as the buildings grew scarce while they hugged the coast. Daniel looked out into the beautiful blue of the Mediterranean.
He took up the yarn in his lap and deftly looped and knotted it to pass the time. The red fabric was forming the shape he wanted. A badger, like the Max badger he’d made over a year ago now.
He couldn’t believe it, that its been a whole year since he and Max got together. Over a year since that fateful Live that started it all. Long Distance was hard, but they made it work. It had gotten easier when Daniel had at least moved into a similar time zone.
Before he realized it, the car came to a stop in front of a high rise. The doorman came out to take his luggage from the taxi driver and Daniel scrambled to put his crocheting away and step out of the car.
The building was bougie. Shiny large tile floors, large windows, potted plants and a gilded elevator. Daniel tapped his feet as the lift climbed. It stopped on the 33rd floor after giving Daniel vertigo and he gladly got out to walk down the corridor. The door opened as soon as Daniel got to it and Max stood there grinning.
Daniel smiled back, big and happy, and let himself be dragged into the flat. Max scrambled to remember Daniel’s luggage. The door barely closed before they were kissing hungrily to make up for the last few months apart. Daniel sighed into Max’s mouth and walked backwards further in.
They pulled apart, panting, and Daniel’s gaze slipped from Max’s scrunchy, happy eyes to the large windows and the view. He officially could see why Max got the place.
“Wow.” Daniel whispered in awe. The ocean stretched forever in the distance. Max hooked his chin over Daniel’s shoulder and frog-marched them closer.
“Hmm, I’ve wanted to suck you off in front of these windows forever.” Max hummed and Daniel looked at him scandaled.
“Then why am I standing here unsucked?!” He cried out, clutching his pearls. Max laughed at the expected reaction and pressed Daniel against the window.
welcome back, you've been missed!!
streamer au BANGS 🫶 can we get a lil sneak peek of the second part? will be graced with a feature stream? 🥹
Hello my love! Thank youuuu. Everyone has been soo lovely and I'm so happy you all enjoy it! Ok I fought with myself about which part to snip but this section makes me laugh every time I read it so:
“Well let's look! This is hot goss.” Michelle grinned at his scowl.
“This isn’t even nearly goss.” Daniel rolled his eyes. This was a nothing sandwich, and it would inflate his numbers for a little bit before they went back to baseline when people realize there’s nothing to get.
He leaned his head on his arm and watched her fiddle with his phone before her eyes widened in shock. He wondered belatedly if she went into the wrong chat, because there was a server that… well he hoped she hadn’t gone into that chat.
When she was silent for more than a minute he got worried that maybe she had found the wrong chat. “I know you don’t judge but you look like you’re judging a pic of like Link with a boypussy and like–”
Why yes, Daniel is as chaotic in real life as on his streams lmao
g’morning, i’ve got streamer maxiel on the brain, can you give us a sneak peek 🥺🫣
allo bestie!! I honestly had to go look to see if I ever dropped a snippet here and I'm like le gasp I haven't. I am seaux sorreh.
This is from somewhere near the beginning, Max is watching one of Daniel's streams;
Max checked his phone, answering a few emails about sponsor stuff and replying to the Redline private discord. He looked up a few times to see that Daniel’s tongue was once again sticking out of his mouth and he felt hopelessly endeared. His cat, Sassy, jumped into his lap for a second.
“What’s that mark on your neck?” Daniel leaned closer to his screen to read before leaning back and laughing merrily. Max’s eyes honed to his exposed neck for this proposed mark and he absolutely ignored the slight clench in his chest.
“I bet you all are hoping it's something like juicy but it isn’t. Yeah nah, sorry to burst your pervy bubbles.” Daniel snorted and Max took a deep breath. “I thought I was gonna get stung by a wasp and like was trying to bat it away with my brush and I scratched myself with the bristles. Then I realized it wasn’t a wasp but like a bee and I felt like so bad cause I didn’t want to accidentally kill it.”
Daniel continued to ramble while he worked and Max stared at his mouth, at how his lips formed his words before stretching in a smile. Max thought Daniel’s Australian accent was hot as hell.
I do feel kinda bad because I paused this to finish my WS fic for maxielfest. hoping to write some more today!
