#all hail the underdogs

[xiaq]

It’s giveaway time!

I have 2 signed/personalized copies of All Hail the Underdogs up for grabs (shipped to you for free if you’re in the US). You have 2 ways to enter:

1. Like + Reblog this post 2. Make your own post rec'ing one of my books (or fic, if you'd rather) and tag me in it.

Or do both for 2 entries. The contest closes and I'll announce winners on Friday the 6th. There's another contest happening on Instagram as well if you want to improve your chances of getting one!

Also! I ended up having to order more author copies of AHTU since I oversold the first 100 I offered. If you just want to pay ($20 w/shipping) for a signed/personalized one, you can email me at [email protected].

Ok, ok. Here’s the blurb so any unfamiliar folks can be enticed into buying it:

When seventeen-year-old Patrick Roman is offered a scholarship to a top hockey preparatory school, he thinks maybe his notorious bad luck has finally ended. With a hearing for his legal emancipation on the horizon, he dreams of getting scouted and securing a place on a D1 college team. There’s only one problem: Roman has serious beef with his new winger on the team, Damien Bordeaux. They’re supposed to be perfectly in sync on the ice. But Roman, with his buzzcut and tattoos, has nothing in common with trust-fund-kid Damien, his floral scrunchies, and designer T-shirts that cost more than all of Roman’s secondhand hockey gear combined.

When eighteen-year-old Damien Bordeaux starts his senior year, he tells himself he’s going to focus on hockey and school. No more making out in the stacks, no more dorm parties. He needs to decide what his future will look like. Does he pursue his long-held dream of becoming an author? Or stay in his lane and do what he’s good at: hockey. Regardless, he’s not going to let any pretty boys distract him from figuring his shit out. Except his new center, Roman, is possibly the most beautiful boy Damien has ever seen. And his hockey—the way he moves on the ice—might be even more beautiful. Too bad he’s also probably a homophobic, racist asshole.

But their antagonistic beginning turns into an unlikely friendship and then turns into something much scarier for them both. Navigating relationships is hard enough for normal teenagers. It’s a lot harder when contending with lawyers, NHL scouts, and mutual past trauma. Roman and Damien have to decide: What do they really want in life? Are they willing to fight for each other—including fighting against their own pasts and prejudices—so they can have a happy ending?

#mylife #myface #author things #all hail the underdogs #ahtu #lrpd adjacent #ya fiction #queer reads #diversity reads

[labelleizzy]

@xiaq I thought you might appreciate my note in my copy of All Hail The Underdogs

This line just amuses me ENDLESSLY

#fic rec #novel recommendation #all hail the underdogs #xiaq #a beloved fave

[franticvampirereads]

April has been such a great reading month for me. I think I’ve read almost 12 books this month? Which doesn’t seem real but I guess it is. So here’s what I read in April:

Lazarus (AFTG 3.5) 5⭐️ {story link}

All Hail The Underdogs 5⭐️ {review}

Power Plays & Straight A’s 4⭐️ {review}

Foster In New York 4⭐️

Delinquent Daddy & Tender Teacher vol 1 4⭐️ {review}

The Foxhole Court 5⭐️ {review}

The Raven King 5⭐️ {review}

Mad Man 5⭐️ {review}

Mad Man bonus epilogue 5⭐️

Swamp Thing Twin Branches 4⭐️ {review}

The King’s Men -currently reading

Proficiency Bonus -currently reading

My favorite books this month were the All For The Game books. This reread was so good! It brought back so many memories and little things that I’d forgotten about them.

#booklr #April reads #April wrap up #reading #books #read #book #bookish #bookworm #lgbtq+ books #queer books #aftg #all hail the underdogs #the foxhole court #the raven king #the king’s men #power plays and straight A’s #mad man #necessary evils series #swamp thing twin branches #proficiency bonus #roll for love series #delinquent daddy and tender teacher #hockey romance #sports romance #manga #graphic novels #sports books #contemporary romance #all for the game

[chocoholicannanymous]

So you know, every now and again you come across a story that makes you feel more than it probably should, and that you re-read more times than what's probably healthy.

All Hail the Underdogs by @xiaq is such a story.

I haven't watched hockey in ages, but this story makes me remember sitting on the edge of my seat, slamming my hands into my thighs until they bruised and muttering until my throat ached.

This story makes me remember awkward teenage crushes, and the rush of just having realised it was returned.

It makes me ache for a lost boy with freckles and a hedgehog's personality on the surface, who offered to have my awful ex fucked up and held his niece like she was the most precious thing ever.

This story moves me, and I love every stray tear it causes.

#writers of tumblr #all hail the underdogs

[beetlevsboy]

Literally begging people to read All Hail The Underdogs by E L Massey it’s so good I’m going to sob I’m only half way through it’s making my stomach hurt with how good it is. The intimacy and kindness and fuck ups that don’t screw everything up because they’re like normal real people omg this book is gonna fuck me up so bad when I finish it

#all hail the underdogs #queer books #mlm #mlm books #queer book #el massey #book review #books #not done yet #it’s so good god

[plagues-and-pansies]

I finally got a hold of the signed copies, and I had to go all the way to Texas to see @xiaq to do it!

#elmassey #like real people do #kent parson #like youve nothing left to lose #all hail the underdogs #xiaq

[kittymaine]

All Hail the Underdogs

Last of my read an e-book week haul was All Hail the Underdogs by E. L. Massey. This is the third book in the Breakaway series, but you don't have to read the other books to read this one (I sure didn't). It is a gay hockey romance book following two eighteen-year-olds who end up on the same team during their senior year of high school and the story of how they get together.

Patrick Roman enters a private boarding school on a full scholarship in his senior year with a chip on his shoulder. He's lived in poverty all his life and doesn't trust any of the children of the 1% who attend the school. Damien has been at the boarding school for a while, but he's also one of the few black kids there, singled out despite having grown up in upper crust society. As soon as they meet, they rub each other the wrong way, and it takes time before they realize they have more in common than they initially thought.

Unfortunately, I was not super into this book. Or, I should say, I was really into for the first half. But, around the halfway point of the book, there's a big surprise twist that takes the story in a different direction that I didn't really like. I don't want to spoil the twist, since it is legitimately surprising, but it just wasn't for me. From a writing perspective, it also felt like the halfway point is about the point in the book where some of the narrative drive sort of drains out of the story. The mid-point, Christmas break, feels like it should be the climax of the story. In my opinion, the biggest emotional punches of the book are there. All the stuff that happens afterward feels like it should be its own separate story, or maybe even just tossed into an epilogue or something.

All that to say, this is certainly not a bad book by any stretch. I think it just didn't work for me.

If you like enemies to lovers, cozy romances, opposites attract, or marriage/adoption stories, this might be the book for you! It was very sweet, all the characters are kind and well-meaning, and nobody is the bad guy even if they misunderstand each other sometimes.

#all hail the underdogs #breakaway #el massey #ebook #booklr #booktalk #hockey romance #gay romance #cozy romance #opposites attract #enemies to lovers

[troublesomemix]

Tagged by: @hcllriot (( i eventually got it out there XD )

Tagging: @rennisaturate, @kiissme, @cherrysugcr, and anyone else who wants it~​

top, from left to right:

Can kill you in an instant and will: reid

Can kill you in an instant if deserved: auguste

Can kill you in an instant but won’t: ofelia

middle, from left to right

Can fairly beat you up and will: caleb

Can fairly beat you up if deserved: galileo

Can fairly beat you up but won’t: raju

bottom, from left to right

Can hug you and will: kat

Can hug you if deserved: simon

Can hug you but won’t: andrea

#{ { mun things;; just a little quirky potato } } #{ { headcanon;; i imagine the life of a mermaid to be more whimsical than this one } } #{ { headcanon;; his trouble is that he falls in love with every pretty thing } } #{ { headcanon;; all hail the underdogs } } #{ { headcanon;; we’ve all killed parts of ourselves to survive } } #{ { headcanon;; he refuses to die ordinary } } #{ { headcanon;; most likely to not give a fuck } } #{ { headcanon;; he’s the boy that no one ever knows } } #{ { headcanon;; he’s more than his sins } } #{ { headcanon;; already too broken to be brave } }

[xiaq]

My copies for signing are finally here! 🎉These guys are all already claimed—they’ll be personalized and sent next week.♥️ If one of them belongs to you, thanks for your patience through my shipping woes and keep an eye on your inbox the next few days. 😊

#my writing #author things #ahtu #all hail the underdogs

[tired-biscuit]

i love writing for new characters, obsessing over them, thirsting, etc. but at the end of the day i'm still only here for kiba lmao

#the day i stop being a kiba girly is the day i stop writing fics tbh hzjsjddjsjsi #all hail the underdog

[staticveil]

for kara, admitting she was struggling was an understatement. as much as she would try to hide it here & there, she is constantly being reminded of who she was – though, more often than not: who she isn’t. memories, when they did make an appearance, were just short surges of blurred flashes, off-handed notions that were familiar but not quite enough to ignite certainty in the synapses of her brain. she’s still recovering from hydra’s programming, & she’s been told it will be a long road ahead.

it wouldn’t stop her from the mission, though, & her fellow team of renegades appeared to understand her circumstances well enough; at least to the extent of trusting her on assignment. their primary goal? exterminate hydra & assist others who pledged to do the same. today they were focused on identifying the location of missing shield agents & if necessary, extract them. kara’s opinion on shield aside: no one was being left behind. “  come on, dameron . . .  we don’t have time for this. ”  she peers down at the roster of agents still missing. eyes narrow onto the individual who was to be their next rescue before hazel eyes shift to @flighteer​ ‘s “ i can fly this thing, but i’m no you  —  & don’t let it go to your head.  ”

#flighteer #004 › all hail the underdogs.

[franticvampirereads]

God. This was such a good book. It was heartwarming and sweet and messy and filled with love. I honestly don’t know how I’m supposed to wait for the next book to come out. This series just keeps getting better with every book!

I loved this so much, because it felt with so many different issues in ways that I don’t see often in books. I loved that Rome and Damien got to learn and grow, both together and as individuals. I loved that they both got to be messy teenagers but also they had the maturity to think about their future together and what that would look like. Especially when that future included more than just them. Also? The side characters are top notch! I loved them and I would love to see them again in another book.

I just don’t have anymore words. This book was so fucking good and I want to read the whole series again as soon as possible. All Hail The Underdogs is getting a solid five stars. 😭❤️

Reading Challenge Prompt Fills:

Alphabet Challenge: A

#all hail the underdogs #breakaway series #booklr #book review #this book wrecked me! #reading #books #read #book #bookish #bookworm #lgbtq+ books #queer books #sports romance #hockey romance

[captain-hen]

how long (till we call this love?) buddie | 18k words

Eddie laughs wryly, catching on to his meaning. “As long as I don’t rush into it too fast and too soon like with Ana and then find myself stuck in the middle, unable to end things?”

Bobby shrugs. “Yes. Look, you made a mistake before. It doesn’t mean you’re gonna make the same mistake again, especially considering you’re actually in a good place now. And it’s better to try and allow yourself to mess up than not try at all because you’re scared of failing.”

“Buck thinks I’m making a mistake,” Eddie says quietly before he can help himself.

Bobby eyes him keenly. “Is that what he said?” He asks, after a pause.

post-finale. it takes a lot of twists and turns and arguments and misunderstandings, but buck and eddie eventually find their way to each other.

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[beetlevsboy]

SHUT THE FUCK UPPP WE ARE COMMUNICATING NOW I LOVE YOU AND WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS YOU ASSHOLE is such a trope tbh

#trope #tropes #mlm books #wlw books #queer media #this is about all hail the underdogs as well as k #I love romcoms so much but something about real fucking couples that aren’t perfect and bicker and fight but have enough trust in each #other to know that you can get through it and one mistake is not end all be all is so comforting and it is just like true romance to me #like yes this sucks. you suck sometimes. but I love you so we will figure this out even if it takes an hour of talking or a day of spending #it apart or 5 years of therapy or the rest of our lives of me showing you how much I care #wolfstar #shameless? #I’ve never watched the show but that seems to be their vibe #ian x mickey #jupeter #the penumbra podcast #snowbaz #snowbaz core

[theresattrpgforthat]

Second, do you have any good fantasy RPGs set in a non-european focused or at least not medieval-European world? It can be based off of a real-world culture or something brand new

THEME: Non-Western Fantasy

Hello friend! For this recommendation, I wanted to highlight games made about non-western fantasy by authors who hail from the cultures that inspire the games. For that purpose I really want to shout-out to rpgsea and rpglatam, two community/movements that have made it much easier for creators from Southeast Asian and Latin American cultures to advertise and publish their games. Not all of my recommendations come from these communities, but they’re a great jumping-off point to find more games with unique settings, fresh ideas, and beautiful, beautiful art.

Nahual, by Miguel Angel Espinoza.

Nahual is a tabletop roleplaying game about brjos nahuales, humans of mestizo and indigenous ancestry that have the power to shapeshifter into an animal form. These nahuales hunt angels to make a living, running a changarro - a business - together to sell the products they make from the bodies of the angels they have killed. These are stories about underdogs, struggling to find their place in a Mexican world of fantastical and overwhelming forces.

Miguel Ángel Espinoza is a Mexican layout artist and game designer, and the head of Smoking Mirror Games. His ttrpg Nahual really picked up steam on Kickstarter, unlocking stretch goal after stretch goal. At its core, this game is PbtA game about underdogs going up against celestial parasites. Angel Dust is a potent drug, and angels are used by corporations, politicians, and the Church to lure in worshipers and make money. You play the labourers at the bottom of this pyramid, aching for freedom but trapped inside a concrete jungle. Your biggest asset? The special gifts you’ve inherited from your ancestors, watered down as you’ve lost your cultural memories. 

This game is more urban fantasy than anything else on this list, but if you want to explore a game about reclaiming something that you’ve almost lost, you should definitely check out Nahual.

ARC, by momatoes.

Ready Yourself. For Tonight, we save the world.

The RPG to slay the apocalypse. Capture your imagination with near-inescapable dooms that threaten infinite worlds. Be a hero or be the guide to facilitate a heart-racing story to remember.

ARC enables people wishing to run a game with limited experience. The Doom and its Omens help create tension and manage the story’s pacing. The rules are approachable so you can focus on helping make the best story for the table. Additionally, the last chapter of the full book is filled with tips for building a good experience for you and your friends. 

The creator, Momatoes (aka Bianca Canoza), is from the Philippines, and is the custodian of RPGSEA, as well as a Winner of the Diana Jones Emerging Designer Award. Her game, ARC doesn’t have a lot of setting decided for you - instead, you decide elements of the setting yourself. There's even a license for creators who want to publish their own content! The biggest selling point of ARC is the Doom, a terrible event that the Heroes want to prevent at any cost. The GM will set up Omens, which are pieces of the story that advance the Doom - pieces the characters will need to investigate and interact with in order to resolve. Finally, the Doomsday clock is a tool that can be used to keep the sessions tight and focused: every moment on the Doomsday clock has the GM roll 1d6 per unresolved moment - the higher the roll, the closer you tick towards catastrophe! If you want a beginner-friendly game that allows maximum creativity, you should definitely check out ARC.

Arunika, by Anonymocha.

Darkness and gloom threaten to shroud the entirety of this world you call home. Or perhaps, it already had. However, there's hope.

You are a Light Bearer. This beacon of light you hold is the key to reviving the world's gleam and hope, through your own. You are bestowed with the pursuit of rekindling the world, forging bonds with its inhabitants along the path, and freeing it from the murk with what you can offer.

Arunika is a TTRPG of maintaining hope, sharing it with the world, and most importantly, caring for yourself while you're at it.

The rulebook reflects a world's journey towards revival from the characters who escalate it. It is made with the vision of a game that has a non-violent, narrative-first, and feelings-focused system which can be interpreted in many optimistic, creative, whimsical, melancholic, or introspective ways.

Mocha, the creator, is an Indonesian artist with a beautiful and unique art style, visible in the projects they create and contribute to. One person plays the Light Bearer, a character who holds the Light, a beacon that needs to be used to rekindle the world. Other players can play the Companions, friends and old foes that accompany the Light Bearer on their journey. This game can be run with just a GM and one player, with all of the Companions as NPCs. The stats of your character will fill or deplete depending on the events of the game, so Heart will increase when the party has a positive interaction, while Hurt will increase from suffering harm, or decrease when your character is comforted. If you want a game that is easy on the eyes, gives you the basic premise and lets you build your own world, you should check out Arunika. 

Hearts of Wulin, by Lowell Francis and Agatha Cheng.

Hearts of Wulin is a game of wuxia melodrama, Powered by the Apocalypse. Players take the role of skilled martial artists in a world of rival clans, conspiracies, and obligations. The game emulates films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Chinese wuxia TV series like The Smiling Proud Wanderer and Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain, and Chinese martial arts novels from the second half of the twentieth century. In these tales, romance is as dangerous as a blade. Everyone has ties to factions, loves they can’t quite express, and secrets which will shake them to their core. As in the source material, stories in Hearts of Wulin are driven by the characters’ duties, romantic desires, and entanglements with other characters.

You get everything you need to play the game in three different styles: Core, Courtly, and Fantastic. The core game is as described above: a game of wuxia melodrama featuring wandering wulin warriors. The courtly style of play sets the game in a world of politics and factional scheming. The fantastic game adds strong elements of the superrnatural to the story. Each style of play has its own playbooks and moves—it's like having three games in one! 

Agatha Cheng is a cultural consultant and a podcast host, on top of being a co-author of this wuxia-inspired game, in a genre she’s loved since childhood. Hearts of Wulin is an homage to melodramatic stories about protagonists, torn between equally treasured relationships. You may be in love with your teacher’s greatest rival, or perhaps your master and your father despise each-other. The PbtA system that Hearts is built on prioritizes emotional conflict and failure that moves the story forward, while slimming down the mechanics to simple 2d6 dice rolls. If what you’re looking for is story beats that rip your heart up and make you feel all of the feelings, you should check out this game.

Gubat Banwa, by makapatag.

Gubat Banwa is a game of rapid kinetic martial arts, violent sorcery, heartrending convictions and bouts of will. Warriors that channel gods face sorcerers that master black arts, martial artists who have unlocked a new form of cultivation clash swords with those that perfect the night alchemies.

Gubat Banwa is a  Southeast Asian fantasy martial arts Role-Playing Game, inspired by the refulgent cultures of Southeast Asia. Raise your spears, KADUNGGANAN, you elite warrior-braves and asura-knights who travel The Sword Isles to prove their conviction and dictate the fate of the world. Revel in larger-than-life war drama like in Asian Dramas, ballistic tactical martial arts grid gameplay in the vein of Lancer or Final Fantasy Tactics, and find glory beyond heaven. Wield the Thunderbolt of Liberation! Rejoice! In the Glory of Combat!

Makapatag, or Waks, is a Filipino creature who loves creating tactical ttrpgs. All of their games have strong Southeast Asian inspiration, but Gubat Banwa is what you’re looking for if you want good old fantasy. Rules-wise, the author credits Lancer, Pathfinder 2e, ICON, Ryuutama, Apocalypse World, and so many more iconic, well-loved games for their inspiration. This game is made to specifically centre Southeast Asian cultures, and the setting is not solely based in a specific historical setting, but is rather inspired by many cultures and stories of these cultures. I strongly recommend you read the Note On Intended Audience on page 4 if you get this book.

And what a book it is. 400 pages, with maps, roll-tables, an extensive dive into the lore and terms created for this book, and pages and pages of gorgeous gorgeous art. Character creation is heavily involved, incorporating the culture you hail from, the ideal you’re fighting for, major life events and debts, as well as different Disciplines, combat arts that each have their own styles, weapons, and techniques. Fighting in this game is not just a matter of survival - it is a science. If you want a game that gives you in-depth characters and hours and hours of material in a world in which every piece of lore has been carefully thought out, I heavily recommend Gubat Banwa.

Mangayaw, by goobernuts.

Mangayaw is an RPG for one facilitator (the Mangaawit) and at least one other player. Players act as Binmanwa, adventurers and survivors in an archipelago of bloodshed and goldlust. This game is inspired by Philippine legend, folklore, culture and history. The game and its setting is still a work-in-progress. Based on and inspired by Cairn, Into the Odd, Mausritter and numerous other games. 

Benj, the creator, is a member of RPGsea, and draws heavily from Philippine folklore and history for this game. This is absolutely for OSR fans, with delay fast combat, class-less and level-less characters, and a ton of equipment and magic items inspired by Philippines folklore.

Whereas many OSR games present the rules with the assumption that the GM knows what they’re doing, Mangayaw contains a page of principles for the Mangaawit, outlining narrative focus, the purpose of danger and treasure, and advice on how to present the characters with choices, NPC motivations, and the benefits of random generation. It also contains principles for the players, and principles of the World, providing guidance for folks who may be unfamiliar with the culture that inspires this setting. There’s suggestions for names, descriptions of unique items, and tables for magic and sorcery. If you love roll tables, you’ll love Mangayaw.

Brave Zenith, by Roll 4 Tarrasque.

Brave Zenith is a post-fantasy tabletop RPG, set in a world inspired by Brazilian culture and long summer nights playing JRPGs on a pirated PS1. With a set of simple interpretative rules, that focus on player creativity and imagination, explore the ruined world of pastpresent, meet colourful (and deadly) creatures, see the sights of the Second City, partake in delicious Monkey Oil and become an adventurer.

Roll 4 Tarrasque is a team of Latinx creators whose efforts won Game of the Year for 2022 at the Indie Groundbreaker Awards with this game. Brave Zenith is a game about fantasy odd-jobs, rather than epic quests - your characters are cleaning up houses, hunting ghosts, stealing from the rich, etc. The people and creatures of the world are unique and enchanting, from the friendly Jelly shopkeeper to the slippery butter construct, to little porcini goblins. 

Characters have 3 stats, gain abilities based off of their occupations. There are three suggested origins to help you determine what your character looks like, but you’re also welcome to create your own! There are typical hallmarks of dungeon delving here, such as loot tables, monsters to fight, and spells to cast. For the GMs, there’s a chapter full of advice on how to prepare for a session, quick NPC generation, and tables to help you write an adventure on the fly. Finally, the rulebook itself is bright, colourful, and fun - perfect for communicating the kinds of games it’s designed to run!

Lutong Banwa by Sinta Posadas (Diwata ng Manila).

We, the Tamawo, we have no concept of hunger, food, or of a nuclear family. We wandered aimlessly for a long time. Then, we met a Giant Grab. She took us in like her own children. Clothed and sheltered us like we were her kind. We call her Mama Kasag. She showed us more about the people that came before us. The ones she calls “Humans”. 

Lutong Banwa is a cooking game, where you set out to adventure and find ingredients from Spirits and recipes from old civilizations. Embark on this anti-canon storygame adventure with its own custom system and play to find out just what sort of zany adventures you can get up to in this weird, wild world. Do whatever you want.

Sin is a Filipino game designer who loves designing games that incorporate magic realism. Lutong Banwa is no different. You play Tamawo, who have bodies that appear similar to humans, but live in an age in which humans are long gone. Humans are strange beings of a past age, with unfamiliar customs, such as cooking. You’ve picked up cooking as something to explore, and thus go out on errands to find new ingredients for Mama Kasag. This game is charming and small, quick to learn and easy to play. It even includes recipes to get you in the cooking mood! If you like cozy games with low stakes and a charming setting, you should absolutely check out this game.

A Thousand Thousand Islands.

This is not a game, but rather, a collection of system-agnostic zines for use in fantasy tabletop games. This collection is designed by a trio of Malaysian designers, and contains places such as Mr-Kr-Gr, a river kingdom ruled by crocodiles, Korvu, a maritime nation of tenant mercenaries, and Ngelalangka, a market inspired by Southeast Asian bazaars. If you have a game system that you’re already comfortable with and you want to explore fantastical places within that system, I heavily encourage you to check out these zines.

#dnd #tabletop games #game recommendations #asks #this was one of the most satisfying posts I've put together in a long time #fantasy #indie ttrpgs

[nautilicious]

Do you have a secret comfort fic too?

I have quite a few comfort fics! Because things have been hard! Some of them I've managed to write effusive reviews for (review posts here).

Comfort fics that I haven't had time to review yet:

@colubrina Rebuilding and The Green Girl

@prairie-grass Lap Magnet

Owlet's This You Protect

@inexplicifics Must Brave the Thorns

I've Got Nothing to Do Today but Smile by gyzym

The Place Between by psycygni

Text Talk by merlywhirls

@xiaq All Hail the Underdogs

Sailing the Stars by esama

@glimmerglanger A Slow Fall Towards Grace

magdaliny's Quiet Americans

astolat's Heal Thyself

Harry Potter in the Claw of the Raven by bakenandeggs

At Least There's the Football by sheffiesharpe

Indelible by Shaenie

Red Queen to Overwatch by bootsnblossoms and kryptaria

In Defiance of All Geometry by idiopathicsmile

#fic rec