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Find the Word

i was tagged by @aohendo, thank you! i decided i'd try to pull things from False Pretenses for this one, since i said i'd start to post some fp stuff.

my words were warm, fire, ember, and spark.

your words, @wordwizards, @writingsbyelle, @writingpotato07, and @ceph-the-writing-spook, are sick, change, careful, and worry.

now then! (warning: had to stretch "ember" a little bit sksks)

Warm (FP)

POLYAMOROUS LOOKING FOR TWO FAKE SOULMATES

(Posted 3 days ago)

Tryna warm my parents up to the idea of me having two partners, but I know they won’t react well the first time and I don’t want them scaring away my actual partners (when I finally get some). Need two disposable fake partners for my parents to let out the brunt of their judgment on. You’ll get a free dinner out of it, and I can get you a coupon for a free coffee at the local shop. Message me for details.

Fire (FP)

She furrows her eyebrows, opening her mouth to argue more, and Levi scowls and cuts her off. “No, you know what? I don’t wanna hear any of your bullshit right now. Triz is a lovely woman, and, in case you didn’t notice, he just got done standing up for me and protecting me while you stood by and let your friends call me ‘unworthy’ as an attempt to make me keep hurting myself to please them. That’s bullshit. That shouldn’t have happened.” Ey’re more fired up than ey probably should be- No. No, ey’re not fired up enough. That shouldn’t have happened.

Ember (FP)

“We met first,” ey say, which is technically true, “but we love Val just as much, obviously.”

“How’d you meet?” Truth asks, tilting her head. Please god can someone else answer for once-

“We all met on November third,” Val says, and holy shit. How is she this bad at this.

Truth furrows her eyebrows. “I thought Levi said ey met Triz before you-”

“We met Val on our anniversary!” Triz blurts. “At a… library!”

“You spent your anniversary at a library?” Hope asks, pausing to put a hand on her hip. No, god, can they please keep walking? Levi can’t take much more of this.

Spark (SLS: Pride)

“I’m okay now,” Tigh says. He’s turned to face her, now, his legs tucked under himself, and he pulls her in for a proper hug. “I’m out. I’m safe. I go to a real therapist, and I don’t talk to my mother, and I only freak out a little when something sparks in the lab. I’m okay, Tu. I’m doing just fine.”

She understands, now, why he’s closer to ‘insecure’ than he is to ‘prideful.’ It isn’t self-deprecation, not always, not quite. It’s the relief of finally finding a way to do something important, and the fear of being asked to give more than he has to offer.

[hbxplain]

False Pretenses

yeah, ok, i'm doing this! false pretenses is a book i wrote for nano 2020, so it's about 50k atm. i didn't finish it, but i think i might be able to now if i can get myself hyped enough.

false pretenses is a polyamorous fake dating soulmate AU about a human, an angel, and a demon, all of whom need to pretend to have soulmates to their family/god/devil. on top of that, we have soulmate marks, enemies to lovers, hurt/comfort, a trio of girlfriends where one is a he/him lesbian and another is nonbinary, and the opportunity to watch some lesbians get one over on god themself! and if you want the full summary...

Levi is a human. Ey expected the two people who answered eir craigslist ad for fake dates to also be human... but instead ey got Valor, an angel, and Triz, a demon. Now Levi has to cover up Triz's demonic nature to pretend to be soulmates with Valor in front of god, only to turn right around and cover up Valor's angelic nature to be lovey-dovey in front of the devil, too. And then it's time for the worst judge of all... Levi's own, human, parents. The whole thing sounds like more trouble than it's worth, but under threat of eir parents ruining eir life when ey eventually bring home actual girlfriends, ey're willing to pretend... until ey realize ey're unfortunately falling for the angel and demon by eir side.

i will be posting for this under the tag #fp, and i'll make a place for it on my masterlist