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they went from "when i feel friendship for you, i feel ashamed" to their souls reuniting in death holding hands watching the sunset

#they outsold everyone i'm afraid #ship of all time #they're t'hy'la your honour #star trek #spirk #but like #not just in universe #something something 'if that was the particular style of the 23rd century'#am i making sense #like they're an allegory for forbidden relationships and forbidden feelings #AND THEY WERE TOGETHER IN THE END #it was all worth it #yknow??

cover art by the inimitable @astoriacolumnstaircase

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She had already turned to walk towards the gondola home, assuming they’d both be spending the evening at the bar, when she realized that Laudna was hanging back a step. “If—well—I did say later,” Laudna said, sounding apprehensive, “and obviously we can’t talk about it here, so if you wanted to come, you know, with me, I mean? It’s not far!” she added hastily while Imogen was still struck dumb trying to process this. “I’m just a few stops up the Center line, or it’s also a nice walk, around half an hour, but the gondola is probably better. To avoid putting that ankle to the test, I mean, better safe and all that.” She let out the very end of her breath and then added, “I have tea?”

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I Prefer Girls chapter 6 is up!

It's about 15k, and I think there's some stuff in this one y'all will like. Hyperlinked, because Tumblr's link post feature is broken as hell.

Also, it's been a hot minute, so here's the main fic description again:

Whenever it all got to be too much, whenever the fear and panic and denial and longing rose too high in her chest, Imogen would press her ear against the creaky floorboards of her bedroom, close her eyes to the dust under her bed, and listen to the life she was never going to have. Or: A 1950s AU. Imogen is closeted, Laudna writes fix-its for lesbian pulps, and the city’s clandestine gay bar is right underneath Imogen’s new apartment.

#imodna #imogen temult #laudna #50s au #cr3 #my fic #i am really proud of this fic guys. just #sometimes a story means a lot #yknow??

Every. single. day. I find new things that Steve and Bucky wouldn't've known about until coming to the 21st century that is so normal and foundational to the modern understanding of our world. For instance, oh, yeah, fuck, I entirely forgot that plate tectonics theory didn't come into popularity until after the 1960s.

Can you imagine what learning about that would be like for either of them? It probably wouldn't even be thoughtfully done because their peers would take that knowledge for granted, unthinking of their ignorance. It would be slipped into conversation only for Steve or Bucky (or both if they're together) to pore over on their own.

Personally, I have the feeling that Steve would think to himself, huh, yeah, that makes sense, I guess, and all but shrug. He's felt the world move beneath him, without him, even if he wasn't conscious and it wasn't tectonics but freezing water and ocean currents that brought him to his first grave... there's something there. I baselessly feel like he would he attuned to that movement. Plus, he moves so fast himself, having had to adjust immediately, jolted into modernity to fight, no explanation given, and simply expected to catch up. If technology can leap so unfathomably far in 70 years, why can't the earth rewrite itself over millions of years?

Bucky, however, I feel would be fucking enraptured by it in the sublime sense. Awed and terrified. He is a fucking science nerd, yeah, but also, there is something parallel to him in tectonics. Something so familiar to those of us who live with it daily for the fleeting length of a human life being twisted into unrecognizability with enough time. He knows something of that. He knows what it is to be brought from a more equatorial position, tropical and lush, to the poles, frozen and barren, awaiting another shift to thaw and reveal what's really beneath.

Just—I've been cooked by stucky. Everything makes me think of them.

#there's also much more to dig into for steve depending on how you headcanon his religious position #if you think he's catholic he might have more resistance but also... idk #I'm not religious so i don't relate in that way #and he doesn't strike me as being so bound by the idea of strict young earth or whatnot more if he is religious the broad concept of god #yknow??#anyway #fandomfluffandfuck #bucky barnes #steve rogers #stucky

#soul eater #i need to re read the manga but theres a panel of him w a scarf and a sweater that got burnt in my brain as a teenager #this is ass bit i liked the nose i always pictured him w an aquiline nose ig to me it just makes sense. the aquiline nose+downturned eyes #yknow??#anyway #whatever #this angle is so annoying too

Ilya is the definition of submissive like a guard dog. But specifically submissive like a guard dog who has chosen his person to protect. And Shane is both in awe of and unafraid of what he could do to him because he knows at his core Ilya would take on the world for him, and he'd take on the world for Ilya

i respect your headcanon! and this is a fun dynamic to explore! i think that for me personally the guard dog imagery just isn't that compelling, for the same reason that i've come to be kinda bored by all flavors of dom/sub discourse for this pairing. i ultimately like ships where they both see each other as equals and there are no leashes involved lol. i just think that whatever they've got going on is much more flexible and playful than either the hardcore ilya dom/shane sub version or the secretly submissive dom ilya/secretly in charge sub shane version. they try the hardcore dom/sub thing exactly ONCE in vegas and they both Do Not Like It. i don't think shane wants to be in charge of a mean guard dog top and i don't think ilya wants to exert total control over an ultra-submissive bottom. i think they just like being togetherrrrr and being silly and that can involve experimenting with kink but probably isn't going to take the form of lifestyle bdsm lol. i will of course defend to the death everyone's right to read/write/enjoy whatever versions of this pairing speak to their id!! and i know for a fact there are lots of fics out there that play with this guard dog trope in fun ways. but it's just not soooo much for me i think.

#what DOES intrigue me is 'he'd take on the world for ilya'#would he?#i thought the most devastating part of TLG was shane being like ok but you can't expect me to give up HOCKEY #would YOU give up hockey for ME?#and ilya is like babe i already gave up hockey for you. why the fuck do you think i'm in ottawa #i thought that was extreeeeemely good to chew on #you could for sure sell me on ilya who will do anything for shane and a shane who will accept anything ilya does for him #but doesn't always like. do it back. give the same energy back #yknow??

You ever think about the fact that Lucy Gray's first appearance was in a very brightly colored dress, contrary to the depressing setting of the Reaping, and then all of these years later, the Capitol itself (besides Snow) dresses JUST like that (in a more ridiculous way)? In spite of how dark and brutal the Games are? In spite of the Districts that are starving and still being treated like slaves??

Do you think Snow set it up that way?? Or was bro secretly holding in his anger because it brought back memories of Lucy Gray, therefore releasing more of that rage on the innocent tributes who went into the arena??