#peculiar

[spookysalem13]

[liivn]

by circecurio

[cece693]

hi, i was wondering if you’re still doing Enoch O’Connor fics?

If so, i’d love a Enoch x reader where the reader is Enoch’s s/o(idc about gender) from a different loop and nobody believes that Enoch has a s/o until they come visit

thank you!!!! if you don’t wanna do that than just any Enoch x reader will work

BELIEVE IT TILL I SEE IT

enoch o'connor x male reader

authors note: I couldn't help myself and added Olive's crush on Enoch and how she becomes sad to discover her actually has a partner. However, it's not so sad as she just wants to see the boy she cares about happy (even if not with her.) Hope you like it!

Olive lives in a state of perpetual drift, literally and otherwise. Usually she loves the weightlessness, the way her lead soled shoes click-drag across the floorboards of Miss Peregrine’s kitchen while she daydreams up in the rafters. But today her thoughts are heavier than metal.

Down at the table, Enoch picks morosely at his toast. Dark fringe, darker scowl. The gloom suits him, Olive thinks. She’s spent countless mornings memorizing the angle of his jaw, rehearsing conversations in which he realizes she’s the only one who sees past his bluster to the tender bits beneath.

Except he won’t look at her.

All of Olive's attempts have landed nowhere because Enoch announced to everyone (with all the romance of a funeral bell): “I’m dating someone from another loop.”

Right. Someone none of them had ever met. Someone who, suspiciously, wrote no letters.

Hugh had mocked him, Emma had rolled her eyes, and Bronwyn had laughed so hard tea shot from her nose. Olive also laughed because the alternative was letting them see her heart crack like a clay doll under Enoch’s fist.

She floats a little higher now, chin on the ceiling beam, and coaxes her voice into casual cheer. “Morning, Enoch.”

He mutters something that might be “Mornin’” or might equally be a curse. The look he flicks upward isn’t cruel, but it is distant as if she’s become part of the wallpaper. And that hurts more than any sharp word.

TIME SKIP

The dining room hums with silverware and small talk while wan November light folds itself onto the long table. Olive hangs just below the ceiling cornice, pretending to inspect a cobweb so she won’t have to watch Enoch brood five chairs away, yet she can’t stop counting the place settings.

One extra plate. One extra cup. One extra napkin.

'He’s coming,' Enoch had said. 'He'll be here by supper.'

Olive’s pulse has been clanging ever since.

Enoch sits rigid beside the empty chair, knuckles white around the water glass he hasn’t lifted. Olive sees how he mutters silent rehearsals to himself, little jaw-twitch giveaways that anyone else would miss. She used to think that meant he was scheming, now she understands it’s what he does when he’s frightened.

And Enoch O’Connor is very much afraid.

The grandfather clock in the foyer strikes six, stalls, and coughs on its own chime. A chill draught flicks every candle flame side ways. Conversation stills, even Millard’s invisible napkin freezes mid-dab.

Then the front door swings open and a boy steps into the threshold. Frost crystals bead on his coat, melt and vanish. He’s handsome in a lived in, windblown way, with eyes lit like struck matches the instant they lock on Enoch.

Everything else slips out of focus for Olive because Enoch is smiling. Not his usual thin victory curve, but something shy and aching, like a candle held inside cupped palms.

Enoch stands up, bridges the space in three strides and tangles his fingers in the newcomer’s coat lapels, kissing him full on the mouth. Gasps ricochet off the foyer walls. Olive’s own breath deserts her. She rises six inches before the weight of her surprise hauls her back down with a clank.

Enoch draws away just far enough to rasp, “Thought the rails would swallow you.” His voice is unsteady, but his hand doesn’t leave the boy’s jaw.

The newcomer’s grin is pure sunrise. “Nearly, but you forget I know someone who raises the dead. A delay in schedule is child’s play.”

Enoch’s answering smile is so bright Olive almost shields her eyes. He ushers you to the seat beside his, never releasing your hand, and only remembers the rest of the household when you clear your throat and nod toward the silent audience.

“Everyone,” he mutters, cheeks flaming, “this is Y/N.”

You do a small bow. “Apologies for arriving late. Miss Kovar insisted I carry her compliments and also half a bakery’s worth of kolache.” You set the parcel on the table with a grin. “Apparently love travels best when sugared.”

Tentative laughter prickles the tension. Chairs scrape and conversations stutter back to life. All normal noises except Enoch is glowing.

Even as he courts his best glower, the corners of his mouth keep betraying him, hitching upward every time your shoulder bumps his.

“Stop crowdin’ me.” Enoch mutters, yet makes no effort to shift. Instead his hand hooks over the back of your chair, thumb stroking the unexposed skin of your neck.

Olive watches from across the roast, astonished. This is the boy who once referred to hugs as “unsanitary sentiment.” Now he’s practically nesting around you like a raven shielding a stolen jewel.

You spear a partridge morsel before holding it to his lips with a smirk. “Eat, misery guts. You’ve missed at least three meals stalking train platforms.”

Enoch narrows his eyes but takes the bite straight from your fork. “Wasn't stalking. Timetables were inaccurate.”

“A tragedy,” you sigh theatrically. “Shall I write the rail office a threatening letter in dead-ferret ink?”

“Shut up,” Enoch says, but the reprimand washes out on a laugh.

You lounge back, smug. “There it is. An actual giggle. Mark the calendar, everyone.”

Bronwyn grins. “Noted. Six-oh-eight post meridiem: Enoch O’Connor proves he has lungs for something other than sighs.”

Enoch tries for menace, fails, and ends up nudging his knee against yours beneath the table. When your hand drifts to his thigh he exhales, shoulders losing another ounce of tension before he's practically leaning so far in your personal space you might as well share a chair.

Olive’s cheeks burn. Her chest feels helium thin and molten all at once.

So this is why Enoch never looked at her the way she looked at him. Not because he was heartless, oblivious or delighting in cruelty. But because his heart had already wandered into another loop and built a nest there.

It’s all right, she whispers to herself. You wanted him to be happy, didn’t you? And she realises, surprised by her own honesty, that she means it.

[marygih]

Oh Millard

There's little talk about how uncomfortable it must be to live with Millard at times.

Think about it, he's a 17-year-old guy who spends most of his time naked in the same environment as 13-year-old boys and 6/8-year-old girls. Even if it's not visible, that doesn't make the situation any less unpleasant. You can be sure Jacob wasn't the first to accidentally sit on Millard's lap ☠️🫪

Besides the fact that he was a stalker, ever since Abe was in the loop, Millard had a habit of following his friends and observing everything they did during the day. Lack of privacy and paranoia should be part of everyday life; after all, it's difficult to keep a secret when someone invisible might have seen what you did.

The request for Millard to get dressed isn't just about the indecent exposure; it's also to let others know where Millard is, to avoid accidents, and to be aware of his privacy. It is unacceptable for a young adult to walk around naked in an environment with girls, pre-teens, and children. Millard acts as if the request to get dressed is an attack on his individuality, when in reality it's the most sensible thing to do.

[symphonlctears]

can i req some bloody/peculiar themed pixels 💭💭

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                    ⓘ  F2U — HELLO ANON! I hope you like these .. THIS WAS RLLY FUN TO MAKE! I would’ve done more with the cat pixel but the site I use to remove bg’s for gif’s just got put behind a pay wall. SOBBING. 😢

[brandyschillace]

I grew up as the weird (autistic) goth kid who spent a lot of time in graveyards. I didn’t have friends. So I invented them. That’s why I’m an author, I think. I crafted worlds full of wondrous diversity, quirky characters, peculiar souls. I knitted them into families. I often felt at home when I read; the work of Neil Gaiman, of Terry Pratchett, of Ursula Le Guin, of Terry Brooks… My fiction is meant to be participatory too. When you read it, you should feel like you came home and friends were waiting to greet you.

Maybe in a really cool graveyard—like this one at Scone Castle.

[pio-dov]

things I'd like to see if Ransom ever decides to make a third trilogy

In an interview from after DoDA came out, Ransom mentions that it's not out of the question he might make a third trilogy. If this does in fact happen, there's certain things I feel like need to happen at this point or else we'll all just be really sad.

-More character development for Claire and Noor. Claire doesn't appear much and Noor's good development got stunted the second she and Jacob became a thing. -Jacob learning how to create Soul Jars and having slight hollow traits as part of him for the rest of his life (eg. black blood or sharper teeth). Now that there aren't anymore hollows, his peculiarity would need to focus on other things. -Jacob and Ricky reuniting! Ricky only appearing in two books was truly a tragedy. -An exploration of what Peculiardom is like in Canada, Latin America, and Oceania. The series mainly focuses on Europe, the second trilogy dives a bit into the US specifically, and Museum of Wonders implies European Peculiardom is very similar to that in Asia and Africa. But what about the rest of the world? There's a Polynesian door (I forget to where specifically) in the Panloopticon briefly mentioned in LoS, and Emma sends Jacob a photo of two Peculiar girls from Latin America at the end of the same book, but that's it. I'd love to know more. -No new love interest PLEASE make Jacob take a break from dating for a bit. He's better as friends with both Noor and Emma anyway. -Emma getting therapy -More exploration into how Lily+Millard and Horace+Juliace would work as relationships. Hopefully they'd be better than whatever Jacob's love life is lol -An story behind Syndrisoft and other aspects of modern Peculiardom. -Pereckoo yuri I mean a deep dive into their friendship -Millard getting a degree from online university (and letting his friends do his makeup whenever a professor makes him turn his camera on) -What happens to American Peculiardom now that the gang leaders have no power over them?