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choking on your alibi (2531 words) by likeadeuce Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Saltburn (2023) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Felix Catton/Oliver Quick, Felix Catton/India (Saltburn) Characters: Felix Catton, Oliver Quick, India (Saltburn) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Nobody dies (yet), Casual misogyny, India Has a Point, Justice for India TBH, Hedge Maze Do-Over, POV Felix Catton Summary:

Olly comes on so innocent, so doe-eyed, but those antlers strapped to his head say hart, not hind. Far from a prey animal, Oliver Quick is the lurking, skulking persistence predator Felix has spent the entire evening pretending not to see.

Anyone else would go away in the face of Felix’s disapproval.

Everyone else always has.

#saltburn #fanfic #saltburn fanfic #candy hearts fic exchange #felix catton/oliver quick

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to all that is gentle, young, and forgiving (4807 words) by likeadeuce Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Richard Gansey III/Blue Sargent, Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish, Henry Cheng/Richard Gansey III/Blue Sargent Characters: Blue Sargent, Henry Cheng, Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch, 300 Fox Way Women (Raven Cycle), Richard Gansey III Additional Tags: New Year's Day, family traditions, Cozy, Gansey is a lightweight, everybody thinks the kiss curse is over but nobody knows for sure Summary:

New Year's Day at 300 Fox Way

#the raven cycle #fanfic #blue sargent #adam parrish #henry cheng #richard gansey iii #ronan lynch #300 fox way #cozy #holiday fic

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No, I didn't forget about those WIPs, time just moves differently for me. For you, it's been years; for me, it's just been a few seconds, maybe a minute

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Do you ever read a fic so interesting you want behind the scenes lore, ten pinterest moodboards and one of those fancy .gif edits but none of that exists bc it's a fanfic?

#this is extremely true #you can always ask me anything #including why that one story isn't finished

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Fount of Honour (1345 words) by likeadeuce Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Richard Gansey III/Blue Sargent Characters: Richard Gansey III, Blue Sargent Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Not Dreamer Trilogy Compliant, though not really divergent, Gansey family, Road Trip Era, they can kiss because i said so Summary: When Congresswoman Gansey introduced her to a guest at the family Christmas party as “my son’s good friend,” Blue decided to be a grown-up about it. Or, Blue wonders who she is when she's at the Ganseys' home.

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are you a born to run girl, a born in the USA girl, a the river girl, a nebraska girl, or a darkness on the edge of town girl?

#stares in 'look at my username' #justice for 'greetings from asbury park nj'

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WIP Wednesday -- New Year's Day at Fox Way (Henry's turn)

Henry Cheng crosses the threshold of Fox Way exactly at noon, according to the cuckoo clock that yodels excitedly at his entrance. Henry chooses to regard this as a fortuitous omen, even though the precision of his arrival is fully accidental. It took him seven tries to find a satisfactory parking spot for the Fisker -- far enough from mud or vegetation, the right distance from any of the random unfamiliar cars scattered on the shoulder along Fox Way to make sure that no one (say Ronan Lynch, who hasn’t arrived yet) will be tempted to clip the overpowered sports car just for fun.

Once Henry found his way to the doorstep, he had to fuss with the plate of still-warm dumplings that he swiped from Mrs. Woo’s stovetop. Mostly, he fussed to make sure he didn’t spill fried dough and pork grease over his smart parka when he went to ring the bell; mostly that, and only secondarily because Blue’s family were (still, mostly) strangers and the moment the door opened, he would have to be Social Henry, and, despite checking the text thread several times, Henry would not be sure he had been invited on purpose until. . .

The door opens, without Henry needing to ring, and Blue’s mom sweeps the plate from his hand and coos over how good the dumplings smell. Blue hugs him around the waist and presses her cheek into his neck and ear into his chest and the cuckoo burbles excitedly and Henry makes a conscious choice to take this all as a good omen because, by some long-dead pope’s reckoning, it’s the nineteenth new year of Henry’s often precarious life, and he needs to collect all the optimistic prophecies that he possibly can.

#the raven cycle #henry cheng #wip wednesday #300 fox way #blue sargent #fanfic

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Adam Parrish, Talking to Girls at Parties

I'm thinking about Adam, pre-TRB, at a party-with-girls that Gansey convinced him to go to, and Adam decides it's a time to Practice Being Normal because it's important to his Future Plans, and absolutely definitely not to Impress Gansey with how much he's Getting Aglionby.

So he tries the Mingling Thing and after a few Awkward Starts, he's starting to feel it, he's telling Selective Anecdotes and engaging in Observational Humor and asking girls about themselves and making eye contact and listening and nodding and even some Casual Touching, he suspects he may be on the verge of doing Flirting correctly.

And then one of the girls hands him her phone and he thinks she wants him to take her picture so he does it Flirtingly and she is both charming and charmed. Then she's like, 'ok weirdo are you gonna put your number in or not?'

At this Point. Adam has no choice. But to Improvise a Condescending Explanation, vaguely based on some pearl-clutchy articles he had to analyze for Speech and Debate, about how cell phones are ruining culture and He definitely doesn't have one. And by the end, the girl says, Oh, and her voice is smaller than it was before and she says, You have a landline in your dorm room or something, you can put that in I guess. So Adam puts in the number for the rotary phone at Monmouth because he is definitely not having a girl call him at His Father's House, but by the time he hands it back the air is out of the balloon and he knows she's not going to call him and he doesn't blame her because he was trying to keep himself safe and in the process made her feel small, and he tries to save the whole thing by asking her to tell him more about her field hockey career, but she excuses herself to go to the bathroom and they don't talk again.

Worst, he looks over and he realizes Gansey heard some of it, he's not sure how much, and Adam makes it through the rest of the party and then on the drive home Gansey makes some sort of allusion to cell phones and how maybe Adam could consider just being honest. . .at which point Adam is forced to Double Down on the bullshit about cell phone culture and also and also RICHARD CAMPBELL GANSEY III you're really one to talk about honesty, the person you were at that party, all the folksy Southernism and pretending to care about somebody's ski vacation and how much her handbag cost and how she got invited to a party by some D-list celebrity you've definitely never heard of -- are you HONESTLY telling me that's the REAL you?

Finally, Adam has to catch his breath. Gansey just stares ahead in silence and finally, absolutely in control of his emotions and fully aware of the impact this comment is going to have, says, "Adam. If you want me to buy you a cell phone you can just ask."

(And THAT is the time they didn't talk for two weeks and Ronan had to pull some shenanigans that made them both mad AT HIM so that they would work together and be friends again. NOT THAT THEY EVER THANKED HIM)

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Hm! On the subject of Riza Hawkeye (re: my last post [link]), I went and rewatched the BH episode that covers the same scene as Chapter 24 of the manga, because I was curious about what exactly was different.

(Cut mostly for spoilers/everyone who doesn’t care about the FMA part of my Current Blogging, it’s not super long.)

Keep reading

#this post came up from somewhere and I was nodding and agreeing with it and then like OH WAIT THAT'S MY FIC THEY CITED !!! #fullmetal alchemist #riza hawkeye #tbh I have not watched that much of either show #but I have noticed FMAB cuts most of Riza's best moments

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I was thrilled to get this podfic from Chestnut_Pod. (Did I commission someone to record next gen future fic about my own OC, who is Riza Hawkeye and Roy Mustang's daughter, a power lesbian who is the coolest soldier/alchemist who has pretty hair and hangs out with General Olivier Armstrong? I did! And it was for a good cause, too!) Seriously, Chestnut_pod is a great podficcer and this is super fun!

#fullmetal alchemist #podfic #fanfic #roy mustang #riza hawkeye #olivier armstrong #fma brotherhood

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ive realised there isnt a huge market for shakespeare shit posts

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Wish I had the attention span to write one shotsinstead of long fics I don't finish. Wait, does that make sense?

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Better Than the Drugs

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/FkU64Au

by flitwickslittlebrotha

“I’m going to take a hit from the joint,” Ronan said calmly, “And then you can take my exhale.”

Shotgunning Fic

Words: 3880, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Ronan Lynch, Richard Gansey III

Relationships: Richard Gansey III/Ronan Lynch

Additional Tags: what if we were roommates… and we kissed…, oh my god they were roommates, Shotgunning, yes twelve years after she learns what shotgunning is (via fic of course) she finally writes it, Drugs, Smoking, Making Out, making out in a CAR might i add, Mutual Pining, Mutual Repression, Mutual unrequited, A Bee Trifecta, Slight Internalized Homophobia

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/FkU64Au

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For WIP Wednesday. . .

“Hey hey Lynch.  I gotta meet the guy. Officially, I mean.”  It was Blue’s coworker from Nino’s. Cialina, Adam remembered. Or Cia, pronounced 'See-uh.'  Ford Mustang and Irish whisky enthusiast who had set her eyes on Ronan until she learned that was a nonstarter.

Cia was tall, with shoes that made her taller, and she wore a red vinyl jacket over a crop top that showed off her long torso.  Dark makeup accented her eyes, but didn’t hide the fact that she was looking Adam over from head to toe.  He had worn a blue dress shirt over a white T and newish dark jeans, and his loafers were second hand but . . .   Adam didn’t know what to do with the inner voice that told him they should be good enough for a townie.  

“Cia Rossi."

“Adam Parrish.”

Cia’s put her hands on her hips.  “Fuck me! I thought it was you.”

Blue frowned, like she might have to play diplomat and really didn’t want to.  “He’s been in Nino’s a bunch.  With the rest of them.”

“No no.  Not that.  You!”  She pointed at Adam.  “You went to Glen Lea!  You won the spelling bee!”

“In like third grade?” Adam spoke uncertainly, as though there was any way he wouldn’t remember.

“Right!  Obviously!”  She turned to Blue.  “Glen Lea was third through sixth back then, and a flipping third grader won.  LIke I wouldn’t remember.  Everybody had to be at the assembly.  They said your name a lot. Plus.  Stephanie Hatcher was in for sixth grade and she was my BFF *at the time*, she was so mad about it.  Said you must have cheated -- I know, how do you cheat at spelling bee, right? She ended up going to William & Mary for college, and before she left she fucked my boyfriend *at the time* -- and then she went off to Williamsburg and never called either of us. Huh.”  

“You won the school spelling bee?” Gansey asked.  “Adam, that’s fantastic.”

Adam needed to get control of the situation before Gansey decided this needed to be Adam’s Coming Out and Winning the Glen Lea Elementary School Spelling Bee in 2004 party.  He didn’t need to be reminded that he had never gotten to enjoy even that silly victory.  On the day he won his classroom competition, his mom had let him pick out a treat from the ice cream freezer at the gas station -- he chose one of those orange-flavored Push-Up pops and succeed in eating it slowly enough not to seem greedy, but quickly enough for it not to turn into a melty mess in his fingers. 

But after the stupid assembly, older boys knew who he was and teased him about it.  By the time he had to go to the countywide competition on a weekend, his mother grumbled about having to give him a ride all the way to Waynesboro.  And when he came home with a cheap third place trophy, his dad told him he was getting a big head and threw it in the trash. He’d gotten away with taking a sick day the following year, and in the years after that, he’d made sure to miss a word he knew early on. 

Then Ronan ruffled Adam’s hair and placed a kiss on his temple.  “My boy’s smart,” he said, and Adam felt his face flush.

“Sure thing, Lynch,” said Cia.  “You got a good one.” 

#the raven cycle #fanfic #adam parrish #justice for cialina #wip wednesday

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whoever picks up gtn from this jeopardy clue with no other context is in for an experience

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i need feminism because when jesus does a magic trick it’s a g**damn miracle but when a woman does a magic trick she gets burned at the stake

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WIP Wednesday

From the next chapter of The Shape of Something New. Almost time for the party:

When Adam got home on Saturday evening, sore and grease stained after a long day at Boyd’s, Ronan was sitting at the top of the steps at St. Agnes. He wore his heavy leather jacket and over a black T-shirt and black jeans, an emerald green stocking cap his only concession to the fact that it was really damn cold.

Adam thought Blue had knit it for him. She had given Adam a pair of mittens that matched, a thoughtful gift but not much use against the evening’s chill. Adam wasn’t too proud to wear heavy gloves instead, although they forced him to fumble with the key as he attempted to open the door.

Bare-handed Ronan reached over to take the key. He rubbed the back of his wrist over Adam’s hand as he did, then twisted the knob and pushed the door open with his knee. “After you,” Ronan said, with a wide smile at Adam.

“I thought you were over at Gansey’s party. Does it suck that bad already?”

Ronan shook his head. “I came over to make sure you didn’t chicken out. And also --” He reached under Adam’s coat with both hands and grasped on each side, just above his hip. Even through his sweatshirt, Adam could tell Ronan’s hands were cold, but he liked the feeling.

#wip wednesday #the raven cycle #pynch #fic #fanfic