#pique queue

[27dragons]

Tagged by @rosewinterborn - thank you, I love stupid tumblr games!

last song i listened to: be there by howie day

song currently on repeat: your idol from kpdh has been stuck in my head for 3 weeks now 😫 sometimes it takes a break so i can listen to dancing with your ghost by teddy swims

characters most similar to me: um i tend to identify with the ones who are really smart with high anxiety levels and an overdeveloped sense of responsibility. so, y'know, tony stark, aziraphale, jayce talis

first fandom: active participation in a fandom goes to the MCU, but the first fandom i obsessed about was star wars. back when it was just one movie perplexingly labeled "episode IV" that's what me and my neighborhood friends were playing pretend about

reading: lately i've been on the hellish end of a project for work so i've just been re-reading my same 4-5 fave fics over and over. but that's over now and i saw project hail mary last weekend (yes yes i left it stupidly late, i know) so now i want to read that.

country/region: southern usa. yeah i know. i'm sorry, too.

meaning behind url: 27 is my favorite number. dragons are my favorite creature.

time i went to bed last night: got into the bed? probably about 8:30. actually turned off the light and made an attempt at sleeping? around 11:30.

what shoes i'd be: flipflops

tagging... idk i can't remember who likes these and who hates them so please consider yourself tagged if you would like to be! (a copout i know i'm sorry)

[27dragons]

Item: A Half-blank Notebook Rarity: ⏶ Common

What video game do you most regret not finishing?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Cult of the Lamb.

There are only 2 reasons why I stop playing a video game: 1) it no longer interests me (and therefore I do not regret abandoning it), or 2) I became unable to play it for some reason. Cult of the Lamb remains unfinished because I lack reflexes, and after a certain point it was too hard for me to finish a fight, and it just got super frustrating, because you can't sustain your followers if you can't go into the caves and fight things. It was super cute, though. Maybe I'll go back and just play the first few levels a bunch of times.

[27dragons]

Hammer to the Heart / JayVik

This song has been stuck in my head for like three weeks now. So I made a jayvik AMV out of it. Like you do.

(This is my first AMV ever and iMovie is terrible, so please be kind, but concrit and/or suggestions of better software if I ever do this again are absolutely welcome!)

[27dragons]

Much love to @just-french-me-up for tagging me in this!

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous and tag as many people as you have WIPs. People send an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then you post a snippet or tell them something about it.

~

Right, here we go... Here are all my WIPs that have actual words (and not just bullet point ideas) in them:

ABO Foursome

Dangerous Beauty AU

jayce/silco timefuck

Post-Canon Fic

Valentine Story maybe next year

Viktor Community

Slave Jayce

And these are not *active* WIPs but they're sitting in the freezer in case I ever decide to thaw them out again. (Fair warning: The freezer contains non-arcane WIPs that haven't been touched in 4+ years.)

Arranged Marriage sequel

Escort AU

Soulmarks

The Mutt

Time Travel Hijinks

Arranged Marriage Regency

BBGM (Tony's version)

Heatsink

Home on the Range

Life Debt Bride

Old Guard AU

Roman AU

SciFi ABO Arranged Marriage

Drarry Art-Inspired

Jaskovid-Heist

Ask away!!!

I shall tag... Uh... @just-french-me-up hit a swath of my usual suspects. Let's see... @softest-punk, @seiya-starsniper, @e11era, @sometryhardnamedtalis, and @sulkybender!

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Spambot Rating!

The bots are getting more clever, I have to give them that! But let's play "spot the direct tag references," shall we?

Trauma

Healing

Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics

And additional things that even a crappy AI would be able to infer fairly directly from the tags and summary:

"Viktor's care and compassion" / "Viktor's care for Jayce" -- caretaker Viktor, Hurt/Comfort

"in his time of need" -- Jayce is very much in need (summary)

"supportive community" -- it takes a community, his friends in the community (summary)

"the tension between them" -- Mutual Pining

"darkness in his past" -- exile Jayce, Past Rape/Non-Con

Bonus points for the question at the end to try to lure me in to responding! I actually might have, if that wasn't a question that was explicitly answered in Chapter 3. 😂 That is, in fact, what tipped me off to the thought that this might be spam.

Great job, I had to actually get some friends to help me decide if this was a bot at first! 9/10

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The Worth of an Alpha: Chapter 6 - closure is overrated

"—nothing but a filthy hole, so if you don't want another—"

"Fu— Fuck you, you don't own m— Let go of me!"

Jayce sat bolt upright. He didn't know where he was. His throat was raw and he was shaking. He tried to swallow his sobs (stay quiet don't be noticed). He clawed at his throat (get it off getitoffgetitoff)—

His fingertips encountered the collar of a shirt, soft and worn.

He froze.

A shirt was different.

Different was dangerous.

What was happening, what was this?

"Jayce?"

Jayce stopped breathing. He never used Jayce's name.

"Are you all right?" That wasn't… him. The accent was different, heavier, the pitch a little lower. "It sounded as if you were having a nightmare. Are you awake now?"

A nightmare. Cautiously, Jayce felt at his wrists, his throat. No ropes. No bruises.

He wasn't locked in hi— in Finn's basement anymore, Jayce recalled. Hadn't been there for months, almost a year, now. He was with—

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Read on AO3: [from the beginning] [this chapter]

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The Worth of an Alpha - Chapter 5: from another point of view

Lest smiled warmly at the beta server who brought her tea and Jayce's coffee, and then winked, flirting a bit, just to see if she could get a rise. The blush that bloomed on the server's cheeks was gratifying, and Lest made a note to come back soon. But for this afternoon, her companion was Jayce, and she turned back to watch him from under her lashes as she stirred cream into her tea.

She hadn't seen him for some weeks, but he didn't look quite as nervous to be out in public as he had been at first. He was still watching the other people in the cafe a touch warily, especially the alphas and anyone who came within arm's reach of their table, but it wasn't as obvious as it had been a couple of weeks ago. Lest had requested a quiet table in the back, near the emergency exit, just in case, but she thought that this time, he might not need it.

Back at the apartment, Viktor was probably fretting himself to pieces, but that—thank Janna—wasn't her problem. Viktor knew that Jayce needed to learn to be out and about without him, and he'd agreed to letting Lest help with that goal. The stupid alpha urge to protect his family (his mate, if he ever got off his ass to talk to Jayce about it) was Viktor's problem, alone.

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Read on AO3: [from the beginning] [this chapter]

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The Worth of an Alpha - Chapter 4: biology's bitch

How could he have been so stupid? Jayce had been living in Viktor's apartment for five months now, and it hadn't occurred to Viktor even once that the presence of a young, brilliant, beautiful omega would kickstart certain biological processes that had largely not bothered Viktor more than every few years since he'd been Jayce's age, himself.

He berated himself all the way home from his doctor's appointment. When he walked into the apartment, Jayce's cinnamon scent washed over him and it made his skin prickle. His neck broke out in cold sweat, and he had to suppress the urge to barricade the door. Janna's breath, it was so obvious. How could he have missed the signs?

Jayce looked up from where he was reassembling an air purifier at the workstation with a small smile that faded immediately when he saw Viktor's expression. "What is it?" he said. "What did the doctor say?"

Viktor sagged into the nearest chair—as far from Jayce as he could be—and scrubbed his hands over his face. "You will need to find someone else to stay with for a few nights," he said. "Lest and Ekko would both be delighted to have you, I am certain. Or Powder, if you can endure to be around so many alphas."

Jayce frowned. "Wh— Is it contagious? You said you'd been feeling off for a couple of days, so if it is, I've probably already caught it."

Viktor laughed shortly. "It is not contagious. I am going into rut."

"Oh." From the corner of his eye, Viktor watched as Jayce absorbed that, and worked through all the implications, because Jayce was far smarter than Viktor might wish, in this particular situation. "…Oh."

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Read on AO3: [from the beginning] [this chapter]