#queen me

[mandareeboo]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Title: Queen Me

Summary: Chess is a surprisingly polarizing topic in the big top.

Excerpt:

"King me." "Aw," pouted Kinger, giving his queen a hug goodbye. The pieces in the pillow fort seemed to be made specifically for children and made of Styrofoam. The pieces came up to Pomni's hip. The board was patchworked with a puzzle to put it all together, flattened unnaturally from rendering, and it reminded her eerily of a kindergarten teacher's room. Kinger reluctantly replaced her black pawn with the queen. He liked to keep the piece in his lap while they played, rubbing it for good luck. He blinked, one eye after the other, and shifted his knight to block off a rather tasty bishop. "You jerk," Pomni muttered, gnawing on the fabric of her glove like it were a wayward nail.

Every word of this felt like acid. GOD it reads so clunky. You can tell it's my first TADC piece.

Anyway, this was mostly a chance to try my hand at writing these goofs! Also, chess. I actually really like chess! I am. Terrible at it! But I have a lot of fun playing. I really recommend learning to play- chess dot com has free lessons that go piece by piece and you can learn really easy.

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[theuniversalscat]

[a-very-disreputable-intj]

I promised my nephew pancakes and chess and he was very eager to play. I was black, he was white. He opened with the popular pawn to e4, but was surprised when I chose to open with my queen side knight ( I tend to be an aggressive player ). Initially, I had center control and castled early, queen side. By mid game, he had half of my pieces, including my queen and had me pinned down pretty good. I had one escape and asked if he wanted to play it out. He said yes.

His first mistake.

An hour later, I was down to my king, a rook, and one lonely pawn. He still had his queen, a rook, Bishop, a knight, two pawns, and king. Of course, he thought the game was basically over, my king was running out of options and I only had one good piece on the board. It wasn't the rook. I let him chase me around, putting each other in check, stole his Bishop, Knight, and two pawns, and got pinned by his remaining rook and queen. Again, he thinks it's over. I'm down to a pawn and king. He lazily chases me again. He thinks he won.

He doesn't see it coming.

I was waiting.

I only needed that one lonely pawn.

Bent on chasing down the King,

he forgot that every Pawn, can be a Queen.

Checkmate in 2!

[pedropascalito]

Gentle hands

[arty-e]

TADA! I did it! My self indulgent Six-Queen Me!
I look different than avatar for two reasons 1. my pink dye has washed out and 2. my hair has grown a looooooot since i drew that i couldn’t decide between blue or pink so i got both! Also gave myself a scort because tights are a crime against nature

[mythomagically-delicious]

Update: looked in the mirror. I literally look like the Norman 'Normal' Guy that was a bunch of gnomes stacked on top of each other rn. Hair swoop and hood and everything. No jam on my face but some blush that refuses to come off, so, hey. I'm nailing that gnome look.

[kat-demon-of-chaos]

excuse me ma'am don't think you can escape this gay questioning i know ur there being gay w/ bek, embrace the gay, come join me and your gf bek, in the gay, so gay

I’m laughing at how many times the word gay is in here, also I did not confirm or deny any gayness👌🏻 #checkmate

[omsnons]

can my skin be this clear again when i wake up plz thx