30-something beach lady with brain rot tumbling back into fandom. Ghoulcy SethKate Reylo Sydcarmy Hackearney. 🔞 Thoughts/views are my own and do not represent any organization.
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See the list of all my fics under the cut!
Burn It Down WIP
Fallout TV Show | M | Ghoulcy | slow burn, flashbacks, Lucy finding new and creative ways to torture her father: “You gotta wait to find their softness. Get them to forget you're there. Could take some time, but you have to be patient and outlast their suspicion. Gotta wait and let them give you the perfect moment.”
His gloves slid along her arms, cupping her right elbow to lift it. Together, they lined up the shot. Her breathing synced with his.
She pulled the trigger. WIP
By the Light of the Full Moon
The Quarry video game M Hackearney Laura Kearney x Travis Hackett prompt fic, feelings realization, flash fic: Laura feels her heart give a little flip and her stomach does the same and oh shit, she realizes she loves him. Complete!
Exorcism Excavation Explanation
The Bear TV Show | T | SydCarmy, flashbacks, missing scenes:
"Sydney," Carmen repeats, with his gaze now boring into hers and chest heaving. "W-why is your name in Mikey's phone? And why the fuck did you send him this fucking picture?"
She doesn't have to ask which picture he's talking about. There's only one. There was only ever one. Because it is The One.
It's Carmy's paupiette of hamachi with blood orange. WIP
My Present This Year (Or: Cooper and Lucy Accidentally Film a Christmas Coffee Incest Commercial)
Fallout TV Show | T | Ghoulcy Cooper Howard x Lucy MacLean | Modern AU, Actor AU, Folgers Christmas Incest Coffee Commercial: Lucy steps in to save her dad's coffee commercial shoot (and his big break), taking on the part of a niece eagerly greeting her uncle, home for the holidays.
No good deed goes unpunished. WIP
New Moon Over a Wasteland
Fallout TV Show | M | Ghoulcy Cooper Howard x Lucy MacLean | Twilight AU, Vampires, Murder Mystery: Lucy hasn't seen any member of the Howard Vampire Coven since Monty broke her heart and yanked away her chance of eternal life the day after her 18th birthday. A decade later, and now a deputy sheriff in a small town in the middle of Nowhere, Maine, Lucy's life is dramatically different. When Cooper Howard, the coven's patriarch, arrives at a crime scene as the new Medical Examiner, Lucy can't help but wonder if he's connected to the string of steadily growing murders, and if he ever discovered the secret she's kept for 10 years.
AKA, my fic for the Ghoulcy Week October 2024 Day #4 Vampire prompt, AKA the Ghoulcy AU fic that bravely answers a question we have all definitely asked ourselves: "What if Ghoulcy existed in a New Moon/Twilight AU where Bella realized Carlisle was a DILF, the Cullens still peaced out but there was no trips to Italy so Bella moved on with her life, until she reconnected with Carlisle years later for a small town murder mystery, and they ended up banging?" aka not your mother's Twilight AU. WIP
Old Dog, New Tricks
Fallout TV Show | E | Ghoulcy | modern au, social media, Cooper Howard's scorpion belt buckle: Turning my tweet into a two-part fic: Ghoulcy Modern AU: Cooper Howard's new Social Media Manager Lucy needs to explain why people are commenting "thirst trap" "DILF" and "any hole" on his random IG posts, without letting on she's one of the people also doing it. WIP
This Must Be the Place
The Quarry video game M Hackearney Laura Kearney x Travis Hackett | domestic, grief, accidental baby acquisition, slow burn, they were roommates:Travis Hackett is trying to make amends for his family's sins. Laura is just trying to take care of what's left of her family.
When the former Sheriff knocks on her door, he finds a grieving Laura with a baby on her hip, and suddenly the aimless future he was facing after his apology tour suddenly has a direction. She's seen him at his worst; now he wants to help her through hers.
They ended a werewolf curse together, so how hard can raising two small children together really be? WIP
Shady Sands Elementary School PTA, Divorced (and Widowed) Division
Fallout TV Show | M | ghoulcy | modern au, mentioned character deaths, ensemble cast, found family: Various official and unofficial meetings of Shady Sands Elementary School's PTA subgroup, the Divorced (and Widowed) Division.
Or, as I tweeted: #ghoulcy AU where Hank croaks and Lucy becomes a younger Norm's guardian and she meets newly divorced Cooper and Janey at school pick up/drop off and they end up supporting one another and forming a little unit 😭 WIP
Something Blue
Fallout TV Show | M | Ghoulcy Cooper Howard x Lucy MacLean | AU, fairytale elements: “I'm your seventh bride,” she points out, and doesn't miss the way his lip twitches upward, gnarled skin pulling taught, a split second of amusement that must pain him.
“That a threat, sweetheart?” WIP
A Win for Google and the Empire State's Court System
The Quarry video game | T | Hackearney Laura Kearney x Travis Hackett | monster hunting, codependency, they're so married, lots of banter: 'Laura Kearney, the Hackett family name will end at your hand.'
Laura and Travis, now FBI agents tasked with investigating and fighting the supernatural (and occasionally hitting them with their car), are cursed by a witch during their latest investigation. There's an easy solution to the situation, and Laura suddenly realizes how much she *likes* the idea of that solution.
Or: Scenes preceding a visit to the Poughkeepsie Olive Garden. Complete!
fucking hate texting dracula i'll send him a funny meme and he'll call me to be like "i need to take a SCREAMshot on my HELL phone" like oh my god we get it youre scary
Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.
Taylor makes bagged greens, salad kits, chopped salads, the works. Keep avoiding supermarket greens, but keep an especially close eye out for this brand/supplier. The above list of grocers and fast food chains is NOT exhaustive, so please continue getting lettuce and other raw produce taken off your burgers, sandwiches, etc.
everyone has a ship thats just: theyre perfect. they hate each other. theyre married. they havent spoken in 15 years. they have date nights three times a week. theyre divorced. theyre pining, its unrequited. its requited. theyre starcrossed. theyre meant to be. theyre doomed by the narrative. they love each other. theyve never held hands. they wont stop making out at parties. they cant look each other in the eye
