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Honestly I am absolutely in love with how the boys look here, and as always, I gotta yell about the boys!!! ( @ramonadecember come scream with me)
Jed and Theo, the OG cowbabies… I seriously can NOT get over how much I love them ;-;
Thank you @moncuries for yet another amazing artwork <333
depressing soulmate au has caught my attention 👀
This is one of my favorite ideas to think on right now, though I've made little progress past the first ~100ish words I wrote when I first started working on it.
It's a pynch fic with the idea that at a certain point in your life, you develop a psuedo-telepathic bond with your soulmate, regardless of if you've met them or not. Adam hasn't met his, but he does start to hear them at what he considers The Worst Possible Moment (during a bought of abuse) and he refuses to respond.
And keeps refusing to respond even after. He decides that he won't intentionally talk back until he's out or at least in a better place than he is now. Likewise, he doesn't try to seek out + hear Ronan's thoughts, either, since it wouldn't be fair. But Ronan doesn't stop the one-sided conversation he's having. And Adam falls for him anyway, but there's a certain aspect of resentment, especially once Adam meets Ronan in person and recognizes the voice.
I'm putting a snippet below the cut, but it's like 1/2 what i've written and almost all abuse, so, TW: parental abuse.
fanfic writing asks 19 and 24??
19. What words do you think you tend to use the most?
I’m afraid to actually look, but (other than the obvious placeholders and functional words), it’s gotta be a tie between “nod,” “glare,” and “smirk.” lol...I write a lot of dialogue and these nonverbal discourse moves are as common as “said” in my writing.
24. Do you prefer AUs with the characters, or sticking to the original universe?
I don’t mind AUs, though I admittedly haven’t written many that diverge too far from canon (other than taking Jadzia Dax through a wormhole into Thedas). I like to tweak one thing at a time and see what happens, but I am working on a complete semi-modern ‘re-skinning’ of DA that may eventually see the light of day! Maybe...
91 + cullistair 💚
Heeeeeyyyy!! It’s super late, but here it is! I hope 1143 words is enough of an apologize for making you wait. ;D
Prompt: 91: It’s in the past.
It was after some debating with himself that found Cullen knocking on the chamber doors to King Alistair’s temporary chambers. The charming monarch had been at Skyhold for a couple of days, but aside from formal meetings between him, his fellow advisors, the Inquisitor, and the King, Cullen had had no other interaction with him.
It didn’t help that he’d been doing his best to keep busy so that he wouldn’t have to. But here he was now, knocking on the door as if he had any right to see his King.
His everything...
Thankfully, it didn’t take Alistair long to answer the knocking and when the door opened Cullen gave him a short bow. He normally didn’t bother playing nice with nobles, but this was...different. He was here for a reason, and he needed to make sure that it was said before he lost his nerve.
“Your Majesty, I apologize for interrupting your rest-”
“Cullen?” Alistair sounded surprised, and Cullen raised his head. Alistair looked perplexed, but he didn’t seem upset that Cullen was standing in front of him. “Umm, what are you doing here?”
At first, he didn’t reply. He just stared at Alistair, taking in the sight that he made. Tall, auburn hair a little darker than it was when they were younger, freckles running along his face like they always did. He was dressed in a loose tunic and breeches and… Maker, but he was gorgeous. The past decade had been kind to him and Cullen had to stomp down any feelings of attraction bubbling in his chest.
“Cullen?”
He startled, shaking himself out of his stupor, before taking a deep breath.
“Your Majesty, I was hoping I could have a moment of your time. If you’re too busy-”
“No! No, I’m not. You can come in.” Alistair interrupted, moving off to the side.
Cullen nodded and brushed past him, eyes darting around the room before settling on a couple of chairs. He sat down and Alistair did the same. They were both silent for a moment before Alistair spoke up.
“So-”
“Your Majesty-”
“Alistair.” He interrupted again. Cullen blinked in surprise, but the other man continued without waiting for a response. “You can call me by my name. You of all people shouldn’t have to…” He waved his hand in the air, letting the gesture finish his thought.
“...I wasn’t sure if such familiarity would be welcome.” Cullen said after a moment. Alistair snorted.
“Cullen, we practically grew up together. I wouldn’t demand-”
“I know.” This time he interrupted Alistair. And he did. Alistair no doubt hated that people were constantly calling him by his title. Cullen could remember their past conversations about how Alistair had wished he was anyone’s bastard but the King’s. He’d never enjoyed the fact that he was royalty.
Not to mention how remarkably kind Alistair was. He wasn’t the type of person to demand formalities, especially towards people he cared about.
But that was a privilege Cullen had lost a long time ago. He couldn’t- wouldn’t assume that Alistair would give him the same leeway. Not anymore.
“But after...I wanted to apologize.” Cullen continued. “I was hoping I would get the chance to do so now.”
Alistair frowned at him, clearly confused by the sudden admission.
“Apologize for what?”
Cullen looked down at his hands. He could feel his cheeks started to flush in embarrassment, but he refused to let it stop him. He needed to say this before it was too late. He’d already avoided it for far too long as it was.
And that was how he spoke about the night Alistair left the Chantry. Staring down at his hands, speaking softly and avoiding Alistair’s gaze, as he apologized for losing his temper. For the things he had said, and for the black eye he’d given Alistair as a parting gift. He admitted that he had avoided Alistair right up until he and that Grey Warden rode away. How he’d spent the next few nights in Alistair’s bed, missing him fiercely and planning to leave the Chantry to find him. How he had cried bitterly because Alistair seemed to have left so easily, when Cullen would have done anything to keep him by his side. How he hated that he had still loved him so much, even though it had hurt so bad.
The room was silent by the time Cullen finished speaking. He had yet to look up, and he wasn’t sure if he wanted to.
“Cullen,” Alistair laughed a little. It sounded a bit strained and uncertain. “That was so long ago. You don’t need to apologize for something like that. That’s in the past, water under the bridge, and stuff. I haven’t even thought about it in ages!”
Maybe not. But Cullen had. More times than he cared to admit. It was strange how that one act- that one day- weighed on him; maybe because in his mind that was when everything began to go wrong. The day Alistair left, his life was never the same. It became so much more painful and empty.
And now, here they were, King and Commander, talking about the actions of a hot-headed, heartbroken young man.
“All the same, I apologize.” Cullen replied softly. “I wanted you to know that.”
He expected Alistair to say something, maybe tell him he was an idiot to hang onto that for so long, but instead he found himself wrapped up in Alistair’s arms as the king hugged him. He could feel Alistair press his face into the crook of his neck. It was a surprise, but Cullen wrapped his own arms around Alistair and held him just as tightly.
“Alistair-” He gasped, a little surprised.
“I’m sorry too,” came the muffled response. “I lied and I’m so sorry. I thought about it all the damn time. I wanted to take you with us, but you loved the Order and I couldn’t take that from you. I thought it’d be better to leave and I planned to write to you and find you after you were reassigned to a Circle and-”
“Alistair.”
The King fell silent. He moved back just enough that his cheek was rubbing against Cullen’s as he spoke. “I missed you, you know. Things just aren’t the same without you.” He finally said. “Do you think we could...start over?”
“Please. I missed you so much,” Cullen whispered. He turned his head so that his lips were just barely brushing past Alistair’s as he spoke, but he didn’t dare to move in further.
Alistair made a noise- small and desperate- as he kissed Cullen hard. His hands were cupping his head, his fingers were wrapped around those curls Cullen kept so well hidden.
It was just a kiss, but was a start. And Cullen hadn’t felt so at ease in years.
Tell me about Heart Trick?
Ah, well, it’s somewhat prettier title for a project I have tagged on here as “bdsm verse”. That’s lead to one or two awkward questions when I reblog things for it, let me tell you.
It’s a project I really need to dive back in on, but it’s a Mass Effect, modern au fic where Kaidan, somewhat disillusioned with attempts a actual relationships, hires John to be a live in sub. But, of course, nothing’s quite what it seems. (Basically porn with plot and a heck of a lot of feelings apparently.)
Gansey/Ronan 3, 4, & 6? 👀
OTP Established Relationship Asks
Yes! Thank you ive been dying to share my Ronsey ideas... and well. They're long answers cuz I got stuff to say 😅
3. Have they ever considered splitting up?
Not at the same time and never because of something the other has done. Gansey 100% has posed the question 'should we break up?' A handful of times because he thinks he takes too much proactive care of Ronan, that he stifles him in some way, usually because he's asking him to /please/ not do anything self-destructive and he ends up picking over the moral quandary of whether it's better for Ronan to live and make mistakes or to be 'guided' to a better direction. To quote richard siken, its 'love streaming out the wrong way' when he oversteps boundaries around what hes allowd to tell Ronan he can and can't do. All quips about leashing his dog aside, he really cant stand the idea of anything bad happening to Ronan, and that's where it all stems from. When he voices this concern, as he inevitably always does, its typically greeted with ronan's dead eyed stare and an even more deadpan response of 'are you stupid?' Followed by an aggravatingly long conversation about their feelings.
Ronan has, possibly bi-weekly, wondered if they should seperate. Part of it is a reflex from when he was in high school, still grieving his father, and diving headlong into everything that could hurt him with only the afterthought of who else would get caught in the crossfire. I imagine hes better by the time their established relationship happens but god it's still a lot of junk to work through. The other part of it comes from that fact that it's a lot and its tedious to work through and it feels like it's taking forever. He thinks gansey can do better. He never gets around to voicing his thoughts. His brooding is so loud that gansey cant help but notice and he dive bombs ronan with affirmations and love until Ronans thoroughly flustered and just shaking him off going 'Jesus Christ, you're so embarrassing.'
4. What do they consider to be each other’s most annoying habits?
They're both 'project' people. They're constantly building, diagramming, researching, etc for whatever their current hyperfixation is. It's great when they're on the same page. Horrid when they're not because the living space will become cluttered with ganseys indoor dioramas and Ronan will bitch about it being constantly underfoot even as they eat cereal in the middle of the project's hurricane of parts.
Gansey, politely, never says anything about the yard and driveway looking like an abandoned theme park. But he does think that leaving the dishes everywhere - EVERYWHERE, in EVERY ROOM- unacceptable. Ronans horrible about just putting things down and leaving it/losing track of it when he gets an idea and one day gansey cleans up like 4 plates with the same sort of sandwich in various stages of eaten and leaves them all in the bed because that is the only place Ronan will find them and clean them up himself. (Jokes on him though because Ronan then sleeps on the floor out of spite because 'you could have just asked, you passive-agressive neurotic.'
6. What things have tested their relationship over the years?
Sometimes it feels like theres always something testing the strength of their relationship. When they were younger, People kind of expected them to get together but their assumptions of what the relationship would be like were usually verging on toxic and it chafed them both for anyone else to assume theyd be bad for one another, and they both went about correcting people in polar opposite directions. It resulted in at least one honest to god fight because Ronan bit off someones head for implying gansey was anything less than the best thing to happen to him and gansey thought it was just too over the top. Basically saying 'we'll be that couple with no friends if you dont stop' and Ronan saying 'Adam and blue' only to receive the hugest eye roll because I imagine those relationships are still as quasi romantic as they've ever been. Gansey's rebukes were often more calm, but no less firm. He'd shut that shit down real quick, but he never seemed to get angry at it. A second honest to god fight was had over why he DIDNT bite someones head off when they made a joke about gansey being in his 'bad boy' phase. Very over the top stuff young couples might get into. As they got older it happened less or mattered less depending on who you asked and the major hurdles became internal and harder to work on. Gansey wanting to feel less worshipped and more loved; needing Ronan to articulate his worries more often. Ronan needing to set up boundaries on how/when/why gansey could take care of him so that his role was less parent and more partner; recognizing their diverging interests and recognizing it doesnt mean a lack of love; dealing with the feeling of abandonment whenever gansey joins a friend or colleague on a roadtrip/academic excursion. They ways work it out but sometimes theres a lot to unpack.
rule: we’re snooping on ur music so put your library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs before choosing 10 victims .
Like always, second time’s the charm.... @ramonadecember as expected, it’s mostly sad songs lmao.
1. Modern loneliness - Lauv
2. Before you go - Lewis Capaldi
3. I’ll be good - Jaymes Young
4. Lost on you - LP
5. Ride - Twenty One Pilots
6. You’re somebody else - Flora Cash
7. It’s alright - Mother Mother
8. Shrike - Hozier
9. Glitter & gold - Barns Courtney
10. Bones - JC Stewart
I’m tagging @the-red-dame @andreaissy @shippingdara3008 @cap-sweet-and-salty-sadness @reloumi @metatiki @ekkimazero @jellysharkbat @squirrel-wolf @ironbullsmissingeye
What’s your color? Favorite flower?
Purple!
Hmm..I don’t have a favorite flower.
