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Six Sentence Sunday

Thanks @hgejfmw-hgejhsf and @stellarm for the tags! And don't forget: only a couple of days left to get prompts in for my subscriber shindig, if you're keen ❤️

I come to you this evening bearing more Doctor Who AU, which I am very much hoping to finish... soon. This month? If my brain would stop fucking with me, that would sure be nice. The dream, etc etc.

“Is this what you’re always like when—” NORA’s landing gear fires up, the materialisation sound cutting Alex off mid-sentence as she sets them down. Henry checks both the outdoor camera and the date and time information, just in case; it’s not that he doesn’t trust NORA, exactly, but she does tend to have a mind of her own sometimes. However, it looks like she’s delivered them exactly where he asked, and he lays a grateful palm on her console. “If you want to stay in here, you can,” he tries, but Alex is shaking his head before he can finish the sentence. “No way, sweetheart. I’m in this now.” There’s that nickname again; it’s too easy, in the middle of NORA’s control room, to remember the way his Alex would call him sweetheart, fingers curling against Henry’s jaw. The face might change, but the way he kisses Henry never does. Perhaps he should stick around when he returns NORA to where he found her, later. Perhaps actually getting to see Alex again would be worth it.

Tagging @agame-writes @affectionatelyrs @anincompletelist @celeritas2997 @cha-melodius

@clottedcreamfudge @cricketnationrise @dumbpeachjuice @everwitch-magiks @firenati0n

@getmehighonmagic @happiness-of-the-pursuit @heysweetheart-writes @indestructibleheart @inexplicablymine

@jellibuns @junebugclaremontdiaz @leaves-of-laurelin @littlemisskittentoes @lizzie-bennetdarcy

@magicandarchery @matherines @myheartalivewrites @ninzied @nocoastposts

@nontoxic-writes @notspecialbabe @orchidscript @piratefalls @read-and-write-

@rmd-writes @sherryvalli @ships-to-sail @smc-27 @sparklepocalypse

@stereopticons @tintagel-or-cockleshells @welcometololaland @whimsymanaged and, as always, anyone who wants to play! (If you take the open tag please tag me so I can see!!)

#six sentence sunday #kiwiana-writes #fic: like loving the stars themselves

[kiwiana-writes]

does anybody remember when ship names would be changed depending on who they thought topped. that shit was so funny just a BRUTAL civil war between a group that ships the same characters but cannot agree on who takes it up the ass

#YES #I remember when there was expectation to write ship names in the order top/bottom #and a certain subsect of people were Very Upset when AO3 defaulted to alphabetical order instead #I was there gandalf dot gif etc

[kiwiana-writes]

Kiwiana's Subscriber Shindig

I hit an absolutely wild (to me, anyway) AO3 subscriber milestone overnight, and after lying on the floor for a while about it, I want to CELEBRATE with a ficlet fest for all y'all who are so kind and supportive and just fucking awesome.

So! Feel free to send me:

A location: I absolutely encourage you to go buckwild here, because y'all know I love a challenge. You can also include a (vague) time period as well as a location if you want to, but you absolutely do not have to. (And there's no guarantee that if you don't send a time period it will be modern-day!)

A ship or focus character of your choice

Your username on AO3, if it differs from your tumblr username, so I can gift it to you there once it's written!

A maximum rating if you're not happy for it to go to E. I'm not saying all of them will, but... well, y'all know me, it's always a risk. So if you wouldn't want to read something E-rated, let me know what the highest rating you'd be happy with is.

And in return you get... a ficlet. Honestly, could be anywhere from 300 to 3000 words, depending on where the mood so takes me. 1-3 are required, though; I need something more than "IDK whatever you feel like" (that's what my normal WIP list is for 😅)

Important note the first: the idea here is a jumping-off point rather than a detailed prompt. So something like "FirstPrince at the barbershop" is awesome! "FirstPrince meet-cute at the barbershop where Alex accidentally comes onto Henry and then they hook up" is more detailed than I'm looking for for these (also I already wrote that one, so it'd be a waste of your time.)

Important note the second: if you're submitting your request on anon, you will still need to give me an AO3 username, please—I can only accept one submission per person, to keep it fair and ensure that I can in fact still write other stuff as well. If you don't have an AO3 account, I still have a few kicking around which will get you signed up faster than the current waitlist: you'll just need to DM me your email address :)

Slide on into my ask box with your request! Requests will be open until April 30th 11:59pm UTC and I'll start filling once requests are closed.

Love y'all, thanks for being awesome and really forcing me to confront my imposter syndrome lmao ❤️

#bumpity bump bump

[kiwiana-writes]

For the "No excuses" writing meme - Alex and Henry are alone in a small room and the door is stuck and refuses to open

[insert prompt here] – you post a prompt, and i’ll write three sentences based on that prompt, set in the same time/setting as my current project

I set this in the Doctor Who AU time/setting because why the fuck not:

"What do you mean it won't open?" "I don't know what you think was unclear, exactly, but what I mean is that the bloody door won't open!" Henry tugs again, just in case, but it absolutely refuses to budge. Christ, what he wouldn't give for a sonic screwdriver right about now.

[No excuses writing meme]

#no excuses writing meme #stellarm

[kiwiana-writes]

an important principle of fandom (and life, actually) is that if you want more of Less Popular Thing, it is good to create positive spaces and events for it. however, if you use those spaces to take cracks at the More Popular Thing which you perceive as stealing oxygen from your Less Popular Thing, you do not increase the audience for Less Popular Thing. you decrease it, because you irk people who like both Things. and depending on the relative popularity, there are quite possibly more people who like both Things than people who only like Less Popular Thing. (not to mention - you kill your chances of recruiting people who like More Popular Thing but are neutral on or haven’t considered Less Popular Thing.) 

you’re not campaigning for votes (where There Can Be Only One), you’re marketing for a share of people’s attention. don’t be petty. be effective. 

#co-fucking-signed

[kiwiana-writes]

no excuses writing meme, askbox version

drop one of these bad boys in my askbox and i will post, without editing

FIRST – the first two sentences of my current project

LAST – the most recently written two sentences of my current project

NEXT – the next line. meaning i will finish the sentence I’m on and write a new one, which you’ll get.

[insert prompt here] – you post a prompt, and i’ll write three sentences based on that prompt, set in the same time/setting as my current project

WHAT IF – i will pick an important choice or event in my current project and write three sentences (or more?) about if it’d gone done differently

THE END – i’ll make up an ending, or post the ending if i’ve written it

BEFORE THE BEGINNING – three sentences (or more) about something that happened before the plot of my current project

POV – something that’s already happened, retold from another character’s perspective

feel free to specify a specific project, if i have more than one, or a fandom*, if you don’t know what i’m working on. 

#no excuses writing meme

[kiwiana-writes]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thanks @cha-melodius and @stereopticons for the tags! I know I’ve done this in the past, but it’s been a hot minute…

How many works do you have on ao3?

239!

What's your total ao3 word count?

822,937—but that’s a collaboration-boosted lie. Per my writing tracker, words that I have personally written and published on AO3 is 693,613

What fandoms do you write for?

Mostly RWRB these days, but the majority of my back catalogue is Schitt’s Creek, with a few others sprinkled in for fun. The Pairing definitely made my brain whirr… we’ll see.

Top five fics by kudos:

With so much of my heart (that none is left to protest), RWRB, 65.5k, the Much Ado About Nothing stage actor AU

Kinda think that I might be his type, RWRB, 12.8k, Alex and Bea fake date and Alex gets a little distracted by Bea’s brother

We were supposed to find this, RWRB, 3.3k, soulmate AU

We always walked a very thin line, Happiest Season, 2.7k, Riley character study/alternate ending

All the Lonely Starbucks Lovers, RWRB, 5.8k, barista Henry repeatedly putting his foot in his mouth in front of his coworker crush

(This is how I learned Puck It has been knocked out of my top five 😭)

Do you respond to comments?

Yes! And absent a Schitt’s Creek resurgence of some kind that sees me absolutely inundated I don’t see that changing.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Five ways it could have ended (and one way it still could), Schitt’s Creek, 1.2k, for the love of god read the tags

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Like… most of them? I love to end on a good HEA haha. For sheer joy, though, it’s probably With so much of my heart (that none is left to protest)

Do you get hate on fics?

From time to time. I’m very free with the delete button. Weirdly, it occasionally pops up in the AO3 comments but mostly seems to come to me via anons on tumblr??? I have no idea why.

Do you write smut?

It’s been known to happen, I guess 👀

Craziest crossover:

I haven’t written any AO3-era crossovers! A few fusions/media AUs, but no crossovers.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope. I’ve only been asked once, and they wanted to post off AO3 which is a big heck nope for me (and my permissions statement has now been updated to reflect that)

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Heck yeah I have. I’ve done several anthology-type collaborations where we each wrote a chapter in a fic, and I’ve fully cowritten fics with @ships-to-sail several times. We have another collab coming up for @aroyallybigbangrwrb and I’m also cowriting The Big Secret AU with @indestructibleheart which is essentially us one-upping each other on emotionally devastating ideas until someone writes them down. Good system 😂

All time favorite ship?

Stop making pansexuals choose things.

What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Look, the chances of kinktober 2021 being finished at this point are slim 😂

Schitt��s Creek kinkverse… I don’t know. I have little snippets written of future fics and they’re great but… idk. Maybe I’ll write one vignette-y wrap up fic one day.

What are your writing strengths?

Narrative POV, dialogue that feels like the characters, epistolary bullshit, smut apparently.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Coming up with actual plot lmao. Visual descriptors — I’m not even remotely a visual person so I really really struggle with writing the sorts of things people can visualise. Also like… the passage of time? A scam.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

Love it. I’ll shoulder tap a fluent speaker if I need an actual sentence/anything Google isn’t super reliable for. Forever heartbroken that there are no fics in my second language in AO3 and no reason for me to be able to sprinkle it into my own writing (though one of the subscriber shindig prompts might be about to change that 👀)

First fandom you wrote in?

HP

Favorite fic you've written?

Stop! Asking! Pansexuals! To! Choose! Things!

I don’t know there are 239 of the bloody things 😂 I’m far more interested in what other people’s favourites are than what my own is!

I have no sense of who’s done this already so apologies if this is a double up but tagging @agame-writes @affectionatelyrs @anincompletelist @cricketnationrise @getmehighonmagic

@happiness-of-the-pursuit @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @indestructibleheart @inexplicablymine @nontoxic-writes

@read-and-write- @rmd-writes @sparklepocalypse @welcometololaland @whimsymanaged and, as always, anyone who wants to play!

#20 questions for fic writers #kiwiana-writes

[kiwiana-writes]

Okay, so... I wrote this bit at 2AM and then waited to post it until it was a reasonable hour, so it is very much not Wednesday, but time is fake and we're all in different timezones anyway, so... To quote Miss Sabrina Carpenter, my give-a-fucks are on vacation.

Thank you to @magicandarchery, @thesleepyskipper, @firenati0n, @cha-melodius, @three-drink-amy, and @kiwiana-writes for the tags this week! Love y'all!

Here is an epistolary piece from the actor/playwright au. I obviously have not named the play yet, lmfao:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW YORK (April 8, 2019) — The Okonjo Theatre Company is pleased to announce its latest theatrical triumph, 'TBD.'  This production is the long-awaited Broadway debut of Olivier-winning playwright, Henry Fox, and it promises to be a deeply moving journey ripped from the pages of his personal journal.  "I'm quite thrilled to debut this piece in New York," says Fox. "This work is closer to my heart than anything I've done before—and much of it is a tribute to my father. He was immensely fond of the city, and of North American theatre in general. So, it feels like this play is premiering precisely where it was meant to." Spanning a twenty-five year timeline, 'TBD' places the audience in the vivid imagination of a playwright attempting to write his life story. It will be led by Alex Claremont-Diaz, cast in the principle role simply known as The Author. 'TBD' will also feature a small, intimate ensemble—including two actors playing younger versions of Diaz's character.

Tagging some lovelies under the cut. If you have not been tagged and you want to be, consider this your tag!

@anchoredarchangel, @cricketnationrise, @kiwiana-writes

@guillermosfamiliar, @hgejfmw-hgejhsf, @hippolotamus,

@inexplicablymine, @itsmaybitheway,

@jettestar, @junebugclaremontdiaz, @lizzie-bennetdarcy,

@missgeevious, @mulderscully,

@myheartalivewrites, @ninzied, @nontoxic-writes,

@notspecialbabe, @priincebutt, @rmd-writes,

@treluna4, @vanillahigh00, @welcometololaland,

@orchidscript, @ships-to-sail, @stereopticons

#wip wednesday #indestructibleheart #tbd is actually my favourite play 🙂‍↕️

[kiwiana-writes]

the scariest part about being a writer? pouring your heart and soul into this one fic that has taken literal months to piece together only to have this sick feeling in your stomach like it isn’t going to be a hit. not because it isn’t good, no, it’s worthy of a pulitzer, but just because readers won’t interact.

this is my message to my readers and all the readers out there: interact with your writer’s fics. someone can leave a seven word compliment along with a reblog on one of my stories and i’ll think about it for days. writers, good writers, have stopped writing because of the lack of feedback they get. nobody should get the amount of support to the point where they feel it’s worthless to do the thing they’re doing. 

readers. like. reblog. leave a comment.

#❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[kiwiana-writes]

Happy Wednesday! Should I be writing my @aroyallybigbangrwrb fic? Yes. Have I been this past week? Nope. Thanks for tagging me though, @alasse9, @magicandarchery, @heysweetheart-writes, @thesleepyskipper,

@duchessdepolignaca03, @orchidscript, @firenati0n, @cha-melodius, @kiwiana-writes,

and @faketrex!

I'm tagging @hgejfmw-hgejhsf, @thinkof-england, @priincebutt, and @zwiazdziarka today, but of course my tag is open to any and all!

So since I haven't been writing my Big Bang, you may be wondering what I've been up to. It's not the Big Giant AU, either -- nope, it's a brand new AU that I don't want to share too many plot details about, but suffice it to say it'll be full of all my old standards: angst, smut, schmoop, etc. Today, I bring you a snippet of a little conversation that Alex and Henry are having on what may or may not be a date, depending on whose perspective you're considering.

“You’re a duke?” Alex asks. “I honestly had no idea.” Frankly, Henry would’ve preferred to keep it that way. “You mean you don’t stalk my Wikipedia entry regularly?” Henry jokes. “Probably for the best. You only get the official facts there and none of the interesting ones. This is an official fact, though; Grandpa bestowed the title unto me when I turned twenty-five in March.” “Now I want an interesting fact,” Alex declares.  “I fenced competitively until I was nineteen,” Henry replies instantly. “I was bloody good at it, too. Probably would’ve had an Olympic run like my cousin Anne had with her equestrian competitions. But then there was a minor incident where a foil tip was improperly attached, and I wound up very slightly stabbed—” Flatly, Alex interjects, “You what.” “Very slightly,” Henry emphasizes. “Didn’t even leave a scar, but my dad nearly had a heart attack when he found out, and that was the end of my fencing career.”

#wip wednesday #sparklepocalypse #hate it when I get slightly stabbed

[kiwiana-writes]

WIP Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Hey it's Wednesday again! And the following lovely humans tagged me for this week's installment of WIP Wednesday: @faketrex @kiwiana-writes @theprinceandagcd @cha-melodius @iboatedhere

@firenati0n @piratefalls @thesleepyskipper @onthewaytosomewhere

We're going back to another fic I haven't added words to in a hot second because I've been working on my RBB fic, but (lay me down), give me something to feel just means too much to me to let it go neglected for long.

The corners of Henry’s mouth tip up into a small smile. He goes back inside for a moment, grabs a blanket, and spreads it out on the grass when he returns. He sits and stretches his legs out in front of him as he leans back on his hands. Alex joins him, settling in beside him, but opting to lay back with his hands under his head. Henry can feel Alex’s eyes on his back and he finds the attentiveness of Alex’s gaze doesn’t make him uncomfortable the way the way the masses gawking at him does. He tips his head up, his eyes immediately finding Orion again, and inhales slowly. He looks at Alex over his shoulder, sees the way he looks so relaxed and comfortable, knows how easy it is for Alex to go through the world. Henry may not be able to have that every day, but he does get to have it here so he lets himself lay down next to Alex, hands coming to rest on his belly. 

I think a lot of folks have probably already done theirs, but no pressure tags to: @getmehighonmagic @violets-arent-blue-art @bigassbowlingballhead @captainjunglegym @anincompletelist

@affectionatelyrs @itsmaybitheway @inexplicablymine @cactusdragon517 @sparklepocalypse

@myheartalivewrites @clottedcreamfudge @nontoxic-writes @wordsofhoneydew @cricketnationrise

@littlemisskittentoes @priincebutt @read-and-write- @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @ships-to-sail

@nocoastposts @three-drink-amy @indestructibleheart @lizzie-bennetdarcy and as always, an open tag if you have words you want to share. If you're tagged here and have already posted, share a link so I can go unhinged at you.

#wip wednesday #magicandarchery #🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺

[kiwiana-writes]

wip weds 24.6

its both wip weds and the day after i finished my @aroyallybigbangrwrb fic, so y'all get one last bit of it before it gets posted in the next month or two

thanks for the tags, your snippets were delightful to catch up on when i got home from work today @kiwiana-writes @cha-melodius @firenati0n @three-drink-amy @adreamareads

@iboatedhere @onthewaytosomewhere @thesleepyskipper @nocoastposts and @orchidscript

The gym has been decorated to the nines for the dance, streamers and gauzy fabric panels hanging from the rafters and draped over every available surface. There’s white picket archways set up around the perimeter of the room, providing selfie opportunities and more places to lay fabric and tack up fake greenery. Seriously, it’s like the dance committee raided a Joanne’s Fabrics without regard for anyone else’s sensibilities. Nora gives her ticket to the bored-out-of-his-mind Spanish teacher manning the check-in table and slips inside. Just like every other school dance, it’s both ridiculously crowded and hotter than hell—there’s already signs of frizz on almost every girl’s hairdo, despite the scent of hairspray lingering in the air. She can’t find June anywhere.

an open tag for anyone looking for an excuse and some specific ones under the cut!

@inexplicablymine @welcometololaland @thoughtsofthegirlwiththecurl @dumbpeachjuice @wordsofhoneydew

@hgejfmw-hgejhsf @cactusdragon517 @leaves-of-laurelin @sherryvalli @rmd-writes

@heysweetheart-writes @getmehighonmagic @missanniewhimsy @montrealmadison @dr-book

#wip wednesday #cricketnationrise #the nameless spanish teacher is so valid huireqhguirhgiuqehrg poor teachers

[kiwiana-writes]

Tagged by @onthewaytosomewhere and @emmalostinwonderland for WIP Wednesday!!

This is more from WitSec AU. Alex is having a bad time

PREDATOR POLLACK: Audio leaks reveal Senator's harassment, attempted sexual assault

“YOU SHOULD STAY, SWEETHEART" - the uncomfortable coercion behind Senator Pollack's pet name usage

There are more, and the right is even worse. Saying it’s fraudulent and edited to make Pollack seem like the villain. Alex hasn’t gone to class. Can’t explain why he’s been absent. Avoiding everything and everyone while kissing his perfect GPA goodbye, but none of that matters because Pollack knows.

He might be anonymous in the eyes of the media but Pollack knows and he can leak his name and send the wolves after him. Alex hears the alarm bells in his head, but he doesn’t know what to do, because there isn’t exactly a manual on ‘what to do when you figure out a US Senator is a dumpster fire of a human being’ and leak the information for the betterment of everyone at your own fucking expense.

His heart won’t stop fucking racing and his brain is plotting out every scenario and he is in over his head. He is drowning, and it’s his own fucking fault.

Tagging : @inekepp @inexplicablymine @kiwiana-writes @cha-melodius @cheesecurdsgravyandfries @jackzimmermemes

@junebugclaremontdiaz @cactusdragon517 @clottedcreamfudge @littlemisskittentoes @firenati0n @anincompletelist

And no pressure tags for anyone else (:

#wip wednesday #thedramasummer #omg OKAY I'm sat I'm seated

[kiwiana-writes]

OK-so it's Wednesday and WIPs and all that

ok so i meant to get back to hockey and books 'cuz that's where i wanna be right now but my brain was in a not so creative place until someone broke me out of it last night

so for wirp wednesday i got bits of a new thing that is gonna be part of a series NOT-SO-MUCH ONE NIGHT STANDS (cuz well they don't necessarily stay that way) that i've already got 2 fics going for - one firstprince and one liam/pez cuz well that's apparently really becoming a thing for me

so first thanks @suseagull04 for the out of context lines tag - i have something for that too (not one of those other ones) throwing this on here too cuz i can lol

He kisses Henry on the cheek, whispers, “Get me whatever you wanna share,” and sneaks up to the office when everyone is finalizing the breakfast order

thank you so much for the wip wed tags @jmagnabo92 @theprinceandagcd @suseagull04 @firenati0n @adreamareads

@piratefalls @duchessdepolignaca03 @thesleepyskipper oh! and stealing @kiwiana-writes and @cha-melodius open tags cuz that's what they're for :)

nsfw words & tags (it's the words nsfw not the tags lol)beneath the tag

Now, it’s moments like right now, where he’s biting his way across Alex’s thighs, thighs sprinkled with just the right amount of hair, hairy in the way that Henry likes, not just a dusting but actual hair that catches on his tongue as he lavishes the spots he’s sucked bruises into. These moments are the ones that make him so glad he got away from everything else. He can have this anonymous moment with someone so hot he doesn’t want to kick him out the way he has the others eventually. It’s halfway through the morning after, and they’ve yet to get out of bed for more than bathroom trips – one of those with some spectacular moments in the shower – and some quick trips to the kitchen for drinks and some quick snacks when Alex lures him into turning on the tv and watching a movie after round three. They barely make it through the movie when Henry is orgasming for the fourth time that night. Henry is no stranger to multiple orgasms; he’s in his low 20s and knows that brings with it a quicker refractory period. But Alex, the stranger who’s fast working on filling Henry in on every aspect of his life so it no longer feels that way, is doing things for that quick refractory period he’s never experienced before.  Henry doesn’t know how he got so lucky last night when he accompanied Pez and Liam to the club, but he is beyond happy that Liam decided to bring his friend, and that said friend was agreeable to finding his way into Henry’s bed.

if ya already did this and i missed it i'm sure i'll find it - consider me a top gun pilot doing a fly-by lolz

tagging: @agame-writes @agostobuwan @anincompletelist @bitbybitwrites

@dragonflylady77 @england-would-fall @firstsprinces @forever-fixating

@getmehighonmagic @heysweetheart-writes @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @inexplicablymine

@itsmaybitheway @jellibuns @junebugclaremontdiaz @littlemisskittentoes

@lizzie-bennetdarcy @magicandarchery @mikibwrites @msmarvelouswinchester

@nocoastposts @priincebutt @sophie1973 @stellarm

@tailsbeth-writes @thedramasummer @thinkof-england @cricketnationrise

@tinyarmedtrex @typicalopposite @wordsofhoneydew @yrsacdfox

@captainjunglegym @bigassbowlingballhead @eusuntgratie @violetbaudelaire-quagmire

DON'T MIND ME JUST ADDING AN IMPORTANT TAG THE SUN IN MY EYES MADE ME MISS LOLZ @taste-thewaste

#wip wednesday #onthewaytosomewhere #👀 👀 👀

[kiwiana-writes]

WIP Wednesday

Many thanks to @jmagnabo92, @three-drink-amy, @theprinceandagcd and @duchessdepolignaca03 for the tags!

I've been primarily working on my neighbours AU for @aroyallybigbangrwrb but I thought I'd feature something a little more spicy today that is a much older WIP that I haven't gotten around to writing properly yet.

Alex takes himself in hand, thinking only about Henry. He finally understands why Henry’s face has been the one to appear in all of his fantasies over the past few months, almost every time he takes a shower and he can no longer resist the urge to touch himself. Now that he’s had the chance to experience the real thing, the taste of him, the weight of him in his mouth - it all finally makes sense. 

The next time they’re together, Alex desperately wants him in the shower.

Also taking the open tag from @kiwiana-writes!

More tags for anyone else who might like to share: @noahreids, @cha-melodius, @orchidscript, @myheartalivewrites, @cricketnationrise

@ships-to-sail, @rmd-writes, @indestructibleheart, @nontoxic-writes, @sparklepocalypse,

@magicandarchery @fullsunsets, @priincebutt, @onthewaytosomewhere, @dragonflylady77,

@suseagull04, @agame-writes, @hgejfmw-hgejhsf, @anchoredarchangel, @tinyarmedtrex

@henryspearl, @inexplicablymine, @nocoastposts

#wip wednesday #thesleepyskipper #SKIPPER SPICE LET'S GO

[kiwiana-writes]

thanks be to @kiwiana-writes @jmagnabo92 @iboatedhere & @firenati0n for the tags! this will be the last little bit from psych au for a couple weeks, both because words are hard and because my job is about to take over my life. i fully intend on getting back to it when life is calmer!

There’s one Thursday night about six months into their working relationship where they get Henry just drunk enough to do karaoke at a dive bar a few blocks from the station. Alex has seen Henry in a wide variety of situations, but he’s never seen Henry like this: hair disheveled, a light sheen of sweat on his forehead, three buttons undone on his shirt instead of his usual two, grinning as he laugh-sings his way through Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now”. His skin is a mosaic of blues and greens and reds under the stage lights, and Alex, try as he might, cannot stop himself from thinking that Henry has never been more beautiful than he is right now.  It’s no secret that he’s been harboring…something for Henry since the day they met, and yet he’s still caught off guard by the realization that he’s in way over his head. He knows he should squash whatever this bright, fuzzy feeling expanding in his chest is, but in the words of one of Henry’s favorite singers, this is one magnetic force of a man and Alex would like to take him as his lover.

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[kiwiana-writes]

thank you all for the tags today! I feel like I'm late, but hopefully this rather long snippet will make up for it. Just some more of my @aroyallybigbangrwrb fic (upcoming in September, roughly), the Great War AU I keep teasing and (under the cut) a little Tarlos snippet for all y'all who keep holding out that one day I'll get my shit together.

Someone start playing Science Fiction Double Feature ;)

Henry tilted his head, considering. He pinched his lower lip in his teeth as he thought. Eventually, he shook his head and held it back out to Alex. Alex took it back. “You don't need another bookmark, Hen?” Henry shrugged, then reached for his slate. It doesn’t feel right taking something like that. “Why not?” I don’t believe either. “Well, then it’s no good to either of us.” Alex tucked it into his front shirt pocket. “I don’t even know what she does either.” Alex huffed a laugh, then made a face at Henry. “I should’ve paid better attention to catechism, but in my defense, the incense made me sleepy.” Henry laughed again – a bright, hiccuping sort of sound. It inspired a bubbling feeling in Alex’s chest, giddy and golden. An English rose flush bloomed in the apples of Henry’s cheeks, his freckles glowing to life across his nose. Between the rumpled collar of his shirt, the flop of sandy hair across his forehead, Henry was a far cry from the shivering, vacant man from the night before. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Laugh all you want,” Alex teased. “I don’t know what you know, but I know all of it and en español.” He watched Henry erase the slate with his sleeve. “I’ve seen you reading in French, so maybe that’s not all that impressive.” Henry scribbled for a moment, then showed him. It is impressive, but I only know one thing of her’s. “Oh? What’s that?” Her last words. Henry frowned and erased, then rewrote. I used them in a poem once. Alex blinked. “You write poetry?” I write. Mostly poetry. Sometimes stories. “My sister’s a writer too, but she never shows me anything.” Alex picked his next words carefully, winnowing down the large list of questions to a single most pressing one. He motioned for the chalk, which Henry gave him immediately. Alex wiped the blackboard clean, then wrote as neatly as he could: What were her last words?

And now for the Tarlos Peeps:

“Well, at least there is someone instead of no one, ma’am, because before I got here it was definitely no one,” Carlos snapped, then felt cold with regret. Silence hung on the phone line. Carlos swallowed tightly. “Ma’am, I’m sorry. That was unprofessional and completely uncalled—.” “What’s your name?” Her calmness took Carlos back. A perfect one hundred and eighty shift from her rant moments before.  He took a breath. “Carlos Reyes, ma’am.” “And you’re a detective?” “Yes, ma’am. In missing persons.” Carlos paused, but she seemed to be waiting for more. “I was a patrol cop for four years. I’ve been doing this for the last five months.” Ms. Morgan hummed on the other end of the line, considering. Her file said she was a lawyer. She probably had questions lined up for miles, on stand by for the eventual cross examination she’d give him. “Why do you care about TK’s case?” “Why shouldn’t I?” Carlos answered simply. “He’s someone, same as any other person that comes across my desk.” “Do a lot of people come across your desk, Detective Reyes?” “More than I thought, but less than if I was on murder squad.” It was blunt, but it was the honest truth. “But why him?” She pressed further. “You’ve got other cases to look into? Other people and other families who have cases that are more urgent, more actionable, whatever.” She took a beat, a small breath. “Out of all of them, and everyone else, why TK?” “That’s a fair question, ma’am,” Carlos began.

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