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1. Hi ! I sincerely thank you for this blog and love it 💖. For the next itmf can you please recommend a) some modern world fics where either wwx / lwj come out to their families and are met by homophobia ( outright or passive ) and the other comforts them ? Bonus points if they confront the homophobic family members and make them see sense .

b) Hi! For the next itmf can I get a rec where wwx gets some closure regarding Jiang yanli's death ? Like it's her ghost or some dreams or some gods interfering? As i see her death was still an open wound post canon even so it will be really nice . It can even be jyl resurrected or something along those lines but it should be like after wwx resurrection .Thank you ! @beingdesiandqueer

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a new kind of silence by deliciousblizzardshark (E, 11k, WangXian, Modern AU, Autistic LWJ, Communication Disorder, Trans LWJ, Protective WWX, Pregnant LWJ, Panic Attacks, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Happy Ending, Getting Together, Oral Sex, Vaginal Sex, Soft WangXian, POV WWX) That's also one where WY opens the door and lz is there in the rain because lq reacted badly to him coming out and they later have to go get his stuff but I can't find it or the title I'll update if I find it

Caught Up In All This Bitterness by thunderwear (G, 2k, WangXian, Modern AU, Coming Out, Hurt/Comfort, Getting Together, LQR’s A+ Parenting)

Mad about the Boy by TriviasFolly (M, 62k, WangXian, 1950s America, Greaser WWX, Historical Smoking, Historical Viewpoints, Angst, Internal Struggle, Pre-Relationship, Historical Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, sexual awakenings, Sexual exploration, small town gays, Self discovery journey, Self love journey, gay acadamia, Song fic, teenage dramatics, smoll angst)

The Fifth Type of Non-Contact Force by Caixx (Not Rated, 83k, WangXian, Modern AU, High School, Slice of Life, Slow Burn, Fluff and Humor, Actually Somewhat Canon, Mutual Pining, Horny Teenagers, Angst with a Happy Ending, Non-Graphic Smut)

1B)

is fan comic sufficient? Its not exactly a closure but more WWX trying to deal with his past

Discontented series by LaivineNinuiel (T, 85k, wangxian, LSZ & WWX, JC & WWX & JYL, Night Hunts, Demonic Cultivation, Changing POVs, Post-Canon, Pre-Relationship, Pining, Bloodbath of Nightless City, Canon-Typical Violence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Case Fic, yunmeng siblings reconciliation, Getting Together, Love Confessions, First Kiss)

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2. Hi🌸 Do you know any fics where the cultivation world find out about wei ying beimg captured and in the burial mounds and his no golden core. They realise they musjudged him?

I'm Sorry & Thank You by Iamnotawriter (T, 12k, WangXian, LQR & WWX, Canon Compliant, Post-Canon, Golden Core, Canon-Typical Violence, lqr's epipheny, Angst with a Happy Ending)

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3. Olá, tudo bem ? Você tem uma sugestão de Fic numa dinâmica beta e ômega? (Eng translation using translate.com: Hello, how are you? Do you have a suggestion of Fic in a beta and omega dynamic?) @silvanagomes87

sacrifice by quillifer (E, 9k, WangXian, light pain kink, Heat/rut, A/B/O Dynamics, A/B/O, light mythology insp, canon setting au, Slight Dirty Talk, very minor pregnancy kink, Bottom LWJ, Top WWX, Omega LWJ, Beta WWX)

A Sword With No Hilt by Deastar (E, 17k, wangxian, rape/non-con, canon divergence, ABO, beta/omega, omega LWJ, beta WWX, Qíshān Wēn Indoctrination, Attempted Rape/Non-Con, I wouldn't say we're quite in dead dove territory but this is a heavy one so proceed with caution, Guilt, Shame, Psychological Trauma, Non-Consensual Humiliation, Non-Consensual Voyeurism, this universe's version of rape culture turned up to 11) this one contains a lot of sexual trauma but it is VERY good and shows how they try to heal together in the aftermath

The Dare by Deastar (E, 16k, wangxian, ABO, beta/omega, omega WWX, beta LWJ, canon divergence, two self-sacrificing idiots go on a journey of self-discovery through the medium of marathon sex, unapologetically a fix-it, Post-Sunshot) This one is also a LITTLE angsty but mostly very sweet

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4. For the next intmf post your favourite 10-20k getting together fics? Modern or canon era ! (Preferably top!lz)

And Yet Here You Are by cosmicmilktea (T, 10k, WangXian, Post-Canon, Domestic Fluff, Cloud Recesses, settling down, Separation Anxiety, Teacher WWX, very light angst, Chief Cultivator LWJ)

The Fault in Our Stars by Vamillepudding (T, 17k, WangXian, Modern AU, Getting Together, Romantic Comedy, Comedy of Errors, Misunderstandings, the title makes it sound like a cancer story, it's not a cancer story)

I'll meet you coming backwards by ilip13 (E, 15k, WangXian, Modern AU, Time Travel, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Mostly soft fluff though, First Meetings, Mildly Dubious Consent, Blow Jobs, the mortifying ordeal of waking up and discovering you have a husband)

heart like a haunted house by Sanguis (E, 15k, WangXian, Modern AU, casefic, Witches, Haunted House, Magical Realism, Mild Gore, Pining, Getting Together, Explicit Sex)

simple love | 簡單愛 by auberjing (E, 19k, WangXian, Modern AU, Hurt/Comfort, Slice of Life, Getting Together, Falling In Love, Strangers to Lovers, Caretaking, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Feels, Grief/Mourning, Smut, Eventual Smut, Happy Ending, Hopeful Ending, Nude Photos, Nude Modeling)

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5. Thank you so much for your hard work! I have a request for an ITMF but I don't even know if it exists! I'm hoping for some sort of time loop/groundhog day fix-it type WangXian fic. Any ideas? @greywake

Wearing Down Every Bone by CSHfic, VSfic (E, 30k, WangXian, Groundhog Day, Time Loop, Temporary Character Death, Hurt/Comfort, Post-Canon, Case Fic, Curses, Pining, Getting Together, Time Travel, Night Hunts, Hurt wwx, Mystery, Angst with a Happy Ending, Use Your Words, Mutual Pining, Depression and Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, gratuitous use of empathy)

Respair by donutsweeper (T, 9k, WangXian, Time Loop, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Night Hunts, Resentful Energy, Post-Canon)

the cycle of regret by KouriArashi (T, 14k, WangXian, Groundhog Day, Fix-It, Angst with a Happy Ending)

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6. Hi! ITMF supportive/protective Madame Yu? She doesn't have to be outrageously kind and sweet and ooc, but I would love to see her take on a bit of a helpful motherly role to WWX, JC, and JY, and I would LOVE to see her teach them to fight or protect them.

some things go forward by everythingispoetry (T, 73k, WangXian, Modern AU, Hospitals, Teenage Drama, Slow Burn, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Happy Ending) she isn't the focus and just a background character in this one but i loved the scenes she had with wwx

❤️ the thing with feathers by RoseThorne (G, 43k, wangxian, Transmigration, Time Travel Fix-It, Illnesses, Family, Scars, Memory Loss, Angst, Fear, Recovery, Sharing a Bed, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Good Parent YZY, Referenced Sexual Slavery, Blood and Gore, Sexual Tension, Arranged Marriage, Grief, Adoption, POV Third Person, POV Alternating, Implied/Referenced Abuse, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Good Parent LQR, Clairvoyance, Butterfly Effect)

A Mother's Love by FirefliesNLightningBugs (M, 168k, WIP, WangXian, ChengQing, Canon Divergence, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies, Mostly combo of the Untamed and MoDaoZuShi timelines, Unreliable Narrator, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Eventual Happy Ending, Miscommunication, Family Feels, PTSD, Post-Sunshot Campaign, Political Intrigue, Mystery, POV Multiple, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Additional Warnings In Author's Note, Genderbent WWX, Intersex WWX, not a/b/o, POV Original Character, Expanded Universe, Unplanned Pregnancy, Golden Core Reveal, WWX Has No Golden Core, YLLZ WWX, Getting Together, MXY Lives) kinda does this, tho madam yu is definitely influenced by her own motivations, rather than just kindness of her heart

Therefore, You Should Get To Know Him First by FlorQuinnUwU (G, 41k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Out of Character, For reasons, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Family Feels, Family Bonding, Sunshot Campaign, Good Sibling JC, Good Sibling WWX, Good Parents JFM and YZY, Yúnmèng Siblings Dynamics, Twin Prides of Yúnmèng Dynamics, Twin Prides of Yúnmèng Feels)

Zephyrs Blowing Below the Violet by Comfect (T, 64k, FengYuan, Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Bad to Good Parenting, cursing, Anger Management, No Golden Core Transfer, Bad Parent YZY, Good Parent YZY, POV YZY, YZY Learning and Adapting, Not Everything Ends Up Sad, Happy Ending, YZY & JFM Live)

Sun Stained Lotus by MidnightLightHowlite (T, 70k, wangxian, YZY&WWX, good parent YZY, angst w/ happy ending, fluff, miscommunication)

🧡 Heaven Has No Rage by flipfloppandas (M, 51k, WWX & YZY, JFM/YZY, implied wangxian, WWX/WC, WWX/others, rape/non-con, modern, hurt/comfort, protective YZY, good parent YZY, hospitals, medical procedures, vomiting, trauma)

The Spider and Hound by Alexirose (T, 29k, YZY/WRH, wangxian, JC/LXC, JYL/NMJ, canon divergence, slow burn, Likeable YZY, Motherly instincts and love, JFM is confusing, YZY badass mother, YZY scoldings, Good Parent YZY, Angst, Cultivation World DRAMA, JGS Bashing, Changed WC, WLJ Bashing, Shy WX, WRH Redemption-ish, Hot WRH, Blood and more blood, Twin Prides of Yúnmèng Feels, Dry Humor, YZY & WZL friendship, intimacy, YZY pov, Hurt/Eventual Comfort, Trauma, Protective YZY, JFM & YZY argue, Psychological Trauma, Psychological Drama, Hallucinations, POV WRH, New Cultivation/Magic, WIP)

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7. Hello! Thank you for finding all these different fics it makes my reading experience much better! I've been wanting to find found family-esque fics of wangxian (or just lwj) raising or taking care of or being parental figures to Sizhui AND Jingyi! Thank you once again for this page and all that you do <3 @elymansss

Seen and not heard by eatmyass (E, 51k, WangXian, Case Fic, No Sunshot Campaign, AU in canon setting, Kid Fic, dadxian, Strangers to Lovers, Found Family, POV LWJ, Pining, Sharing a Bed, Fake/Pretend Relationship, First Time, Falling in love in metaphors)

and having a marvelous time by varnes (E, 108k, WangXian, Sound of Music AU, (i know!!! i know. stay with me on this.), Slow Burn, Mutual Pining, Family Feels, spies to lovers???, Protective Siblings, Angst with a Happy Ending)

oh, these are real things by typefortydeductions (E, 15k, WangXian, Modern AU, The Porn Is the Plot, Kink Negotiation, Under-negotiated Kink, Safewording, Light BDSM, Dom/sub, Fisting, Sex Crying, lil bit of gender stuff, Panic Attacks, Top Drop)

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8. hello! for the next itmf, do you know of any fics where Wei Wuxian's habit of fainting (presumably into LZ) comes up? id love it if it was a plot point, but ill take any fics where he does faint

The most dangerous thing is to love by KatAnni (E, 113k, wangxian, JYL & WWX & JC, WWX & WQ, JYL/JZX, JC/WQ, golden core reveal, fix it, everyone lives au, angst w/ happy ending, hurt WWX, found family, implied/referenced torture, implied/referenced cannibalism, PTSD, golden core transfer Fix-It, major character injury, WWX has a new golden core, asexual JC, whump, marriage proposal, wedding night) addresses in an AU sort of way

to the river of rivers by haysel (T, 27k, wangxian, post-canon, character study, pining, dissociation, getting together, misunderstanding, trauma, angst w happy ending, hurt/comfort)

梅花开放 | the plum blossoms bloom by doubletan (E, 6k, WangXian, Sickfic, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Established Relationship, Yunmeng Bros Reconciliation, Post-Canon, Anal Sex, Kissing, Crying, a lot of crying)

Not What We May Be by brooklinegirl (E, 29k, wangxian, post-canon, pining, bed sharing, case fic, hurt/Comfort)

Talismans by brooklinegirl (E, 10k, wangxian)

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9. hii!! for the next itmf, im really struggling to find modern or canon fics where wx have some kind of secret, like that they hide from their families and friends?? honestly, the problem is that i dont really know how to explain if, but secret relationships, some secret job, secret identity. it would be nice if both of them were into the secret. im sorry if no one can understand this request, though im fine with whatever you find!! thank you <33

Hiraeth by cherrywhiskey (E, 155k, WangXian, Modern AU, Fluff & Angst, Friends With Benefits, Pining while Fucking, Falling In Love, Separation, Getting Back Together, Angst with a Happy Ending, Second chances, food as a metaphor for love, canon-typical Jiang family dynamics, fighting, Bottom LWJ, Switching, Versatile WangXian)

Always Be Closing by betts (E, 32k, WangXian, Modern AU, America, Office, Kid Fic, Drunken Kissing, Semi-Public Sex, Sexting, Divorce, Falling In Love, Bank Robbery, Secret Relationship, Co-workers)

In Which They Are (Not So) Secretly Married by panda_desu (T, 99k, wangxian, canon divergence, fem WWX, secret relationship, secret marriage, implied sexual content, implied dub con, fluff, everyone lives au, no sunshot, intimacy, childbirth) if you dont mind reading fem!WWX i think this fit the criteria?

Post-war baby! by like_a_bird_that_flew (E, 24k, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Mpreg, Secret Relationship, Relationship Reveal, ooc probably, Domestic Fluff, Good Uncle LQR, A-Yuan is Wangxian's son, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Humor, Crack Treated Seriously, brief mention of the Lan parent's dubious marriage, Weddings, Wedding Night, Eventual Smut, Established Relationship, petnames, Non-Graphic Depiction of Childbirth, Happy Ending, Pregnant WWX, Unplanned Pregnancy)

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10. ITMF WWX's golden core reveal in a big shocking scandalous way! The more dramatic the better!

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11. For the next ITMF, a) where are the Wen Ruohan redemption fics? Sami mentioned it in some endnotes and now I'm curious!

b) I'm rereading Sami's masterwork series, but I'm also craving more Lan Zhan is not a Lan fics (ever or anymore). Any recs? @mreisse

11A)

Communal Child-Rearing and Other Diplomatic Necessities by Elpie (Horribibble)

To the Heavens and the Earth by IsilmeLasgalen (E, 77k, WangXian, NingSong, XuanLi, MingXu, ChengYu, WWX is a Wēn, Marriage of Convenience, Accidental Marriage, Implied Mpreg, Time Travel, Canon Divergence, CSSR and WCZ Live, Cultivation Sect Politics, Bottom LWJ, Top WWX, Good Person WRH, Immortal WangXian, POV LXC, Mpreg, WangXian Get a Happy Ending, Emperor WWX, Emperor LWJ, Past WWX/Other(s), Everybody Lives, Fluff, Angst, Smut, LWJ is LJY's Parent)

there r a few wrh fics in the vein of 'wrh finds out wwx is actually his long lost son/grandson and wants wwx to join the wen/like wrh both for personal and practical reasons' and so puts his plans of domination indefinitely on hold. So u might find a few under 'wwx is a wen' type tags.

nirejseki on ao3 (@robininthelabyrinth) has some

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no step had trodden black by Stratisphyre (T, 32k, wangxian, LQR & WWX, JYL/JZX, canon divergence, madam lan lives, past rape, golden core reveal, hurt/Comfort, referenced to attempted suicide & suicidal thoughts, canon-typical violence)

The Best I Can by Zephyr (ZephyrAndTheSilverfish) (T, 26k, LJY & WWX, WangXian, Canon Divergence, Light Angst, Drama, Recovery, Coming of Age, Secret Identity Fail, Friendship, Rogue Cultivator LWJ, Road Trips, Sort Of, POV Multiple, Happy Ending) In this fic LWJ became a rogue cultivator not long after WWX death but the focus in this fic is not on LWJ but on LJY and WWX. There are LWJ POV too

lost no more series by hamlets_ghost (G, 43k, WangXian, LXC/NMJ, Angst, mention of imprisonment, hurt little comfort, child LXC, child LWJ, this does not have a happy ending im sorry, LQR tries his best, Cloud Recesses Study Arc, alcohol mention, Rogue Cultivator LWJ, LXC POV, LWJ POV, Pre-Relationship, WWX POV, pre- cloud recess arc, Pre-Canon, some violence, NMJ POV, Light Angst, mention of intention of punishing yourself (see chapter notes), madam lan left with lwj as a child AU, LXC deserves a hug not lan elder friendly, this is not how to raise a child, So much angst, Isolation, Loneliness, Hurt/very little comfort, LXC centric, wangxian is very cute and domestic, mention of punishment Gusu Lan style, Burning of the Cloud Recesses)

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12. I know this is more ITMF but any fic where LXC and LWJ relationship (as siblings) is explored like it could be strained or complicated specially after JGY or WY or just in general? Or it could be LXC bashing but I really wanna see the sibling dynamics 👉👈 --This one was moved from the last FF post to this one ~Mod L

Turn Left by kianspo (M, 193k, WIP, WangXian, NieLan, Canon Divergence, Fix-It of Sorts, Friends to Lovers, eventually, references to child sexual abuse, not main characters, Neurodivergent LWJ, Slow Build, Lán Family Feels, specifically, Twin Jades of Lán Feels, lwj-centric, Twin Jades of Lán Dynamics, Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies)

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13. Hie! I'm in the mood for a fanfic where wangxian adopts a baby/toddler (but no age restrictions really) [a-yuan exists and has the age he has now]. Please no calling Wei Wuxian a mom and it'd be nice if it had a more serious tone. @rkivees

Little One by arcadenemesis (E, 8k, wangxian, post-canon, accidental baby acquisition, rated E for Everyday, case fic) probably not exactly what they had in mind, but “Little One” by arcadenemesis fits the bill and is really good. (WWX is called mom in a scene)

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14. Hi!!! ITMF for time travel fics but it's the juniors who go back to the past! :D I've read "The Stuff of Legend" by pupeez4eva and I really liked it!

❤️ Tragedy is Not the End by Hobbsy3 (T, 358k, wangxian, Time Travel, Torture, Hurt/Comfort, Golden Core Reveal, Canon Divergence from Qiongqi Pass, Angst with a Happy Ending, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Yunmeng sibling bonding, good dad wwx, good dad lwj, JZX Lives, JYL Lives, Junior Quartet Dynamics)

How Much Love Has the Inch Long Grass by Vainwyrm (M, 12k, WIP, WangXian, ZhuiLingYi, XuanLi, Time Travel Fix-It, Permanent Injury, Disability, Canon Disabled Character, Physical Disability, Non-canon disabled character, Self-Worth Issues)

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15. Hello! I’ve been craving some wholesome junior quartet fics. More specifically I’d like it to be about the kids in the Gusu-lectures. If not any I’m fine with some post-canon junior shenanigans. Thank you in advance. @itstheinfamoushogwartsjaguar

Grim Grinning Ghosts by Theladyofravenclaw (G, 3k, Junior Quartet, Ghost City, mxtx crossover, WWX's Birthday, the juniors shenanigans, Gambling, slight mention of gore once they enter the city, but nothing very graphic)

Lan Sizhui's Got a Crush! By Theladyofravenclaw (T, 46k, Junior Quartet, LSZ/OFC, Humor, Fluff and Crack, Case Fic, Gūsū Lán Juniors Dynamics, Junior Quartet Dynamics, Body Horror, Mild Gore, Post-Canon)

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16. Hey for the next itmf can i get any fics where yunmeng brothers reconcile but Jiang cheng is the one who apologises? Like genuine remorse over his actions . Or a fic where lan qiren / lan xichen apologise. I don't know something along those lines because i have been feeling how I just the first siege was and i need the cultivation clans to apologise see the product of their actions and so on ...

Twelve Moons and a Fortnight by stiltonbasket (M, 290k, WangXian, Humor, Slow Burn, Post-Canon Fix-It, Long-Distance Relationship, Epistolary, Love Letters, Family Feels, a-qing lives, teenage romance, Adoption, Romantic Comedy, Happy Ending, Weddings, Case Fic, Parenthood, Politics) "twelve moons and a fortnight" series is EXCELLENT. There's an EPIC scene with lxc reacting to everything post canon in the main fic. There's also a marvelous side story in the series set during wwx's death where jc gets invited to Lan sizhui's courtesy name ceremony (which is how everyone learns this Lan heir even exists). And jc realizes he's his brother's kid and gives him "the bow of a dead beloved shixiong" - only sect bro older than jc was wwx, but no one living remembers. Greatwriting

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17. Hi there. So I'm currently in the mood of reading wangxian AU or canon divergence fics. If possible the fics shouldn't be a short story, and I really, really just want WangXian, other characters may appear or mentioned, but I'm not in the mood of reading other chara's self importance appearance, so yeah just wangxian.

E.g a canon divergence when LWJ took WWX to an exile after the bloodbath in Nightless City, or a scenario where they were in the run, or the post 13 years WangXian just run away and don't give a shit about the revenge drama NHS and JGY are having about, anyway, it must be 90% of the fic, should be about wangxian.

To be more specific, perhaps some canon divergence where wangxian just don't give a shit about the cultivation world? Either before the First siege happen, or post 13 years, but preferably before wwx dying because I think it's a pity for a fine man like YLLaozu to die, lol. Just a pair of husband running away, live in seclusion, feeling discovery, etc.

Or an AU of soulmate or abo, or martial arts au, royal drama au, where it's, again, only about wangxian.

I would love it if you could kindly give me some recc🙂 Thank you, and G'day~! @catmaid-san

Disclaimer for the next few recs, it's been a while since I've read these but I recall them being pretty focused on wangxian ~Mod L

the kite string and the anchor rope by fleurdeliser (M, 38k, wangxian, canon divergence, after the yiling date, sick child)

wide enough and wild by impossibletruths (E, 64k, wangxian, canon divergence, Getting Together, Canonical Accidental Baby Acquisition, Families of Choice, References to Depression, Canon-Typical Violence, Happy Ending, Noping Out Of Society With Your Boyfriend And Your 50 Wen Refugees: The Novel, Overzealous Use Of Imagery, Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, Well Except Wen Ning But He Was Already Dead So, Fix-It of Sorts, Podfic Available, Spanish Translation Available)

Diverge by WithBroomBefore (T, 13k, wangxian, canon divergence, fix-it of sorts, angst w happy ending, first kiss, implied sexual content, golden core reveal, LWJ pov, established relationship, sick fic, LWJ stays in the burial mounds, everyone lives au)

You Are My Euphoria by orphan_account (M, 17k, wangxian, canon divergence, fluff, making out, 5+1, pining)

love & longing, rabbit edition. by jaws_3 (G, 18k, wangxian, canon divergence, animal transformation, pining, fluff, first kiss, getting together, rabbit LWJ)

body and soul by TooSel (E, 41k, wangxian, canon divergence, fix-it, marriage proposal, everyone lives au, politics, yiling wei sect, adoption, smut, Friends to lovers, angst w happy ending)

I would wait for a thousand years by bleuett (T, 10k, wangxian, canon divergence, post-canon, memory loss, hurt/comfort, reunions, curses, intimacy, yearning, happy ending, Chinese mythology & folklore, immortality, fluff)

blossoms at the roadside by bleuett (T, 13k, wangxian, different first meetings, gardens & gardening, getting together, tenderness, happy ending)

Three changes. by orange_crushed (M, 18k, wangxian, Fluff, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Cloud Recesses study arc, Friends to Lovers, Romantic Comedy, Kissing, Fade to Black, Mild Sexual Content, Canon Divergence, No Sunshot, falling In Love, Non-Graphic Violence, Everyone Lives au, Sparring, Harm to Animals, Don't Worry The Animal is Fine Wangji Makes Sure of That, Developing Friendships, Wangji Makes Friends At Summer School, None Of This Makes Sense Until You Remember They Are All Teenage Boys, teenagers in love, They're A Mess Your Honor (And I Love Every One Of Them), Hurt/Comfort, Mild Blood, First Time)

Under every sky, in every way by naqaashi (M, 15k, wangxian, Curses, Curse Breaking, Merji, Love Confessions, Pining, Genius WWX, Little Mermaid Elements, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Angst w Happy Ending, Feelings Realization, Lan Wangji is a Mermaid, Idiots in Love, Getting to Know Each Other, Oblivious WWX, Falling In Love, Golden Core Transfer Fix-It, Canon Divergence, Making Out, Fairy Tale Elements, Public Display of Affection, shameless wangxian, Married wangxian, Accidental Voyeurism, Fix-It, Mythical Beings & Creatures)

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cherryrainn · 5 months

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How would Striker react if his human friend was dressed nice and smelled really sweet because she was wearing perfume as she tried flirting with him? Also Millie and Moxie tries helping the human by talking to her on a ear piece.

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━━ ✧ 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦 ˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆

─ ✩ 𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 ; striker + reader

─ ✩ 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄 ; this is silly thank you

─ ✩ 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 ; none

the night was aglow with the soft glow of streetlights, casting a subtle radiance on the not-so-crowded street where you and striker found yourselves. you had taken extra care with your appearance tonight, dressing in an outfit that felt just right – a subtle blend of sophistication and allure. a cute, pink, floral blouse with a white skirt accentuated your curves, and the faint scent of sweet perfume lingered around you.

millie and moxxie, your imp friends from the underworld, were playing the role of undercover cupids, their voices buzzing discreetly in your earpiece. "remember, sweetheart, confidence is key," millie's encouraging voice whispered.

striker, clad in his typical cowboy attire, tilted his hat slightly as he looked you up and down. he was known for his arrogance, but tonight, even he couldn't deny the subtle change in the air. his yellow eyes lingered on you a beat longer than usual.

"alright, y/n, just be yourself. but a slightly flirty version of yourself," moxxie chimed in, attempting to ease your nerves.

as you approached striker, millie advised, "initiate casual conversation first. gauge his reaction before going full flirt mode."

striker, ever vigilant, raised an eyebrow as you strolled up. "well, ain't you lookin' fancy tonight. special occasion?"

you grinned, the earpiece conveying your friends' suggestions. "just felt like spicing up a regular night. what brings you here, striker?"

he smirked, "thought i'd check out this 'human nightlife' thing you're always talkin' about."

smooth, you thought. you could feel millie's approval through the earpiece. "well, lucky for you, you've got the best guide in town."

as the night progressed, the banter flowed effortlessly. millie and moxxie chimed in occasionally, like backstage directors guiding a live performance. the atmosphere was surprisingly light, the tension you anticipated gradually dissipating.

striker, normally brimming with arrogance, seemed a tad disarmed by your playful banter. you couldn't help but revel in the small victories – a chuckle here, a smile there.

but then came the moment you both knew was coming – the transition to a more direct approach. moxxie's voice was like a gentle nudge, "alright, y/n, now's the time. compliment him or something."

striker took a sip of his drink, his eyes fixed on you. you took a deep breath, channeling your newfound courage. "you know, striker, i can't help but notice – you're looking pretty nice tonight. i mean, even hotter than usual."

the corner of his mouth twitched upwards, the closest he came to a genuine smile. "you think so?"

"yeah, it's nice."

millie and moxxie shared a silent virtual high-five. striker, for once, seemed to be navigating uncharted waters. the dynamic had shifted, and you could almost sense the faintest trace of fluster in his demeanor.

as the night wore on, you found yourself genuinely enjoying each other's company. the flirtatious atmosphere had given way to genuine connection, the walls around striker's prideful exterior showing subtle cracks.

finally, as the evening winded down, millie and moxxie took a back seat. "looks like you're doing just fine on your own now," moxxie teased.

with a soft smile, you said your goodbyes to striker. as you walked away, his voice cut through the night, "maybe we can do this again sometime."

you glanced back, meeting his gaze with a grin. "count on it, striker."

and just like that, with a little help from your imp friends, you had successfully navigated the complexities of flirting with a prideful cowboy imp. the night ended, leaving a promise of potential adventures and maybe a few more banter sessions with striker.

as you walked away, you could hear striker's perplexed voice, "hotter than usual? i look the same every damn day." the comical realization in his tone made you burst into laughter, the sound echoing through the night as you left him pondering the mysteries of human flirting.

#STRIKER #y/n #reader insert #x reader #ask #helluva boss

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lookingfts · 14 days

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What are your favorite tropes/motifs/themes to write when you write about Kate and Anthony? What are some constants that you think are imperative to stay true to their characters regardless of the AU?

I think your signatures/strengths include intimacy in a variety of forms, including smut in general, but specifically porn with feelings. I truly think authors like you are important in giving respect to the skill it takes to write good sexually explicit material. 99% of readers (at large, not in this community) are so dismissive of this facet of writing, especially in fan fiction, which we all know is massively disrespected by people who don't read it. As is romance writing in general. I'm rambling. Anyway.

Anyway, thanks for all the stories and for fielding so many questions here. I feel like after next week, the anticipated lack of Kate and Anthony screentime (at least during this first half) will see an uptick in interest in new Kanthony stories/headcanons/missing scenes from fans, and of course no writer is obligated to fill that demand, but I hope you and the many other talented writers here find some inspiration in what little of Lord and Lady Bridgerton we will see.

Also, writing grounded, flawed characters that remain likable but eventual find growth, often with the help of professional therapy. I LOVE seeing therapy come up in fictional narratives. We all need it. I wish it were more accessible in real life.

Lavishing Kate with the character building and time and attention her character deserves, the way the show didn't (and will no doubt continue not to).

Um... I have more, but struggling to articulate it at the moment.

Sorry for the rambling. I did intend just to answer those questions up top 🤦🏾‍♀️

(Also, Kate and Anthony being exhibitionists, haha. I love the different ways that pops up in your stories. These two, I swear.)

So many good questions here.

My favorite tropes/themes – that’s a hard one! Exhibitionism, absolutely – I just feel like canonically they’re the kind of people who get a thrill by tempting fate. Just right out on that gazebo where anyone could have caught them. 😂 I absolutely love writing dirty talk, I love an age gap, and I love playing with dom/sub dynamics (it seems fairly universally accepted that Kate and Anthony are both switches, and I find something so swoon-worthy about one of them willingly submitting to the other because they have full trust in them, and they communicate openly). Outside of smut tropes, I’m a sucker for hurt/comfort and bickering as an expression of sexual tension. Also miscommunication because they both have their Jump to Conclusions mats out at all times.

I think in every universe, Anthony is obsessed with Kate and Kate is at least a little reluctant to fall for him for one reason or another (mostly because he’s a sad little rich boi).

Unfortunately, yes, fanfiction does tend to be the butt of jokes. I hate when people use “it’s like fanfiction” to describe a poorly written piece of media – when I think that most people who read fanfiction can name dozens of stories that are better than the media they’re based on. And I think people realize how hard it is to write good smut when they read bad smut. 😂 I’ve seen some truly horrendous phrasing in smut.

Also agreed that professional therapy should be more accessible. I’m glad that the newer generations are speaking so openly about mental health, and the stigma continues to diminish. Therapy is healthcare, like anything else. And I think Anthony and/or Kate working through their issues with the help of therapy a) makes a lot of sense for their characters and their trauma and b) shows that they’re committed to being the healthiest versions of themselves for each other. (I have semi-recently become aware that a lot of people have had bad experiences with therapy, so this is not to diminish that! I personally have had good experiences but I understand that’s not a blanket statement for everyone.)

Fanfiction really gives you a wonderful opportunity to dig into the characters and flesh out lots of details about their backstories, in a way that TV shows aren’t usually able to do. I particularly like writing from Kate’s perspective because I relate to her so much, though it’s also very fun to write Anthony’s unhinged inner monologue!

#asks and answers #writing asks

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You asked me, so as you're preparing to introduce Kaede in your fic, now I'd like to ask you: what is it about irumatsu that appeals to you?

- goshdangronpa

Thank you for that question! I had to ponder it for a while and of course I have two different answers depending on which version of irumatsu we're talking about.

Like I said, and my tumblr has evidence of that, at first I was on board of kaemaki's train. I think what's done it for me was a fic on ao3, I believe it's this one. It's pre-game irumatsu and that opened my eyes. I guess I'm unusual in liking that part of their relationship where Kaede abuses Miu lol. Not that I like the abusing part, but I just see so much potential in it. How Kaede gradually opens up about the reasons she's such a b, how Miu becomes more confident and picks up some of Kaede's traits. The same could be said about their v3 relationship. Most of my answer is the same as yours. They're a perfect fit for each other, and a skilled story writer can get a lot from their dynamic.

And then we get to PF irumatsu and I probably need to put it under a cut.

Originally I wanted to write Miu closer to canon material, with her being a famous inventor who just throws schematics out of the window because she doesn't like them. Then I put in her in a huge corporation and assigned Kaede as her boss. Then there were sparkles. They had such amazing chemistry with all their bickering and slowly building interest that I realized I needed this story.

I made them out to be perfect enemies. If it were pokemon, Kaede would be a ground type to Iruma's electric. Iruma would be a Poison Orb to Kaede's Guts. Basically they need each other like no one else in the world, but because of all their trauma it's really hard for them to get along at first. And, this is a mild spoiler, Iruma's character arc is somewhat of a downward curve. You can see how it all started with her being outgoing and cheerful and then, well, Junko happened. Kaede starts as a piece of shit human only to change so much later on that you barely recognize her.

#new danganronpa v3 #danganronpa #kaede akamatsu #ndrv3 #miu iruma #irumatsu #project fiction #askbox

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tvrningout · 5 months

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i grew up on disney | plots & dynamics ft. chiyoko

if you see something that you would like to write, please tap the heart and i'll approach you <3

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gimme old classmates from school and college who see she's kinda the same but also very much not the same; gimme old friends who dropped her back when she was getting bullied in middle school and who feel bad about it now; gimme people who used to be really close to her before she transferred to a new school; gimme any and all dynamics with history <3

i was thinking that chiyo got her tattoos done by yoshi's older sister, but!! i wouldn't mind letting someone else take that role. it'd be a kinda neat dynamic bc she would need to build trust with this person to get some of the tattoos in more revealing areas, yet :' ) she probably hasn't revealed much of her life to them. i'd love that dynamic of being close yet distant and trying to bridge the gaps

as a mangaka, chiyo has an agent and employees at publishers she deals with often enough; she has fans who she might run into; she has people who might work with her to animate her manga; and she might work with others to bring their own stories to life! gimme work-related connections pls and thanks <3

since chiyo has history with kojirou, her ex, that impacted her greatly, i would love to kinda explore that with someone, be it in a romantic plot or between friends. chiyo encounters ko bc of her work ( he, too, is a mangaka ), and it's clear that there's something unresolved between them at least on her side. someone should force her to talk about it : )

using this post as a visual aid bc even though chiyo doesn't easily admit why she doesn't ask for help, this still captures the essence of what i mean when i say i want her to meet and be pushed by someone who notices a lot more than she'd like them to. i want them to notice her habits and call her out, be it in a bit of an admonishing tone or a comforting one. crack that shell wide open!!

big pain if anyone ever actually wrote this with me, but: your muse developing feelings for chiyo and working up to confessing to her, and she looks so sad. she stops them and her eyes are a lil shiny bc they're her best friend, she loves them, but she doesn't love them the way they want her to. and she's so scared of losing them -- they can see it, feel it when she grabs their hand. she's scared of ruining everything if they finish their confession bc it's happened before. she doesn't want to lose them bc her dumb heart can't return their feelings. maybe there's an ending where they get together, or maybe they work through the awkwardness and they're closer friends for it, but either way <3 pain <3

jjk

ngl, i might end up rewriting chiyo's jjk verse, but for now, i'd love to see her frustrated bc her sorcerer colleagues and friends are all risking their lives while she has to just let them. she can only watch from the sidelines and provide support when she's able to as a manager, and she hates it a little

she would have been in school around the time of all the mess with geto was going on, i think about a year or two behind them? so there's a chance for pre-established connections as same-year classmates and seniors and whatnot

gimme chiyo chastising the younger sorcerers for being reckless but also acting as an older sister figure who looks out for them pls and thanks <3

spiderverse

this scenario! bc oooh conflict : )

in general, be it with canon characters or oc's, i'd really love someone to get chiyo to talk about shiori. she meant a lot to her -- chiyo doesn't casually date, nor does she date anyone that she didn't first befriend over a long period of time. and the thing is!! chiyo never actually got to admit her feelings to shiori. so there's a lot of unresolved feelings concerning her, and i just want someone to get chiyo to talk about it.

shiori was her universe's gwen, so i do think it'd be interesting to see chiyo interact with any version of her. they're different people, but i think chiyo would be wary bc gwen dies in certain universes and!! she's not in a position to handle that emotionally rn

gimme all the mentorships pls and thanks <3 the more i write her in this universe, i do think she'd get along with just about anyone tbh -- she just might disagree with them on occasion, but that's normal and healthy and makes for some fun threads!

big bonus points if her mentor is friends with her mom, yuzusa! i want someone to help her with that awkward situation pls :' )

i love multiverse shenanigans, but i also love the idea of chiyo having regular friends/mentors/etc. who discover she's jorogumo! so gimme that too u3u

ALSO give me her universe's harry!! bc they're supposed to be great friends, but things are weird and strained after the whole green goblin thing!! that wasn't her harry, but chiyo knows it could be one day, and i so badly want to write how that friendship is affected by that knowledge. do they manage to break canon? do they not?? let's find out!!

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tbh i think chiyo would default to learning about herbs and how to utilize them for healing and poisons and whatnot bc her physical ability would be a fat 0, but that just means your muse could attempt to teach her how to fight and laugh when she falls on her butt :’ ) and maybe there’s a lil physical tension too bc sparring means getting close and sometimes pinning a person’s arm behind their back and taunting them : ) but yeah, if you laugh at her she’ll get mad and competitive and that’s always a fun dynamic! gimme sparring partners for her!

i'd also love someone to just straight up not trust her at all bc her background story is vague and convenient as is her connection with mal. i want someone to think she's a spy working for edmund or maybe an evil spirit trying to sabotage the free army. i want someone to confront her and chiyo goes " man do i wish i was a spy but actually the truth is so much more far-fetched "

lemme brainstorm a lil more for this one and i'll add more later <3

bg3

man if i don't want a mentor/mentee dynamic between chiyo and another druid. halsin naturally comes to mind bc chiyo comes from the same grove, but i'd be happy with any muse who fits into a mentor role <3

in general i pre-established connections, so anyone from the grove, her former village, or whatever other connection we think of would be cool!

chiyo struggles with her faith a lil bit in this verse -- she believes deities exists, but she struggles to believe that they really care about the mortals who worship them. she's respectful towards them and whatnot, but when she prays, it's like going through the motion rather than believing she's heard. i wanna explore this with a muse who is pretty devout, especially bc i'd eventually like to touch on the favor that eilistraee shows chiyo

chiyoko " i feel the weight of everyone depending on me " hisakawa vs muse who thinks she needs to stop worrying so much about others and think about her own self interest for a change

since she naturally ends up assuming the role of " tav " and thus the leader of sorts for the group, i'd love to explore the discomfort that actually brings. just because she can't stop herself from helping others in their time of need doesn't mean she's having a good time doing it asdf

#pls be proud that i managed to write so much oh my gosh #thankfully the spiderverse chunk i could copy and past but man the rest i had to think about #that's all i got for now though -- i gotta get ready to see my brother and his family later #and ofc if you have an idea of your own that you wanna toss at me pls feel free to like this post too!#this is just meant to be a starting point bc plotting can be hard especially with the way i can be uvu #i grew up on disney | wishlist

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Okay more omegaverse Mötley, let's get it! This time different pack dynamics, a joint post with @anaalnathrakhs , thanks for the idea!

Everyone go check out the twin post

I don't think I'll get to all the intricacies of every possible Mötley dynamic, so if y'all like this holler if you want a part 2.

Let's get this show on the road then!

Alpha Tommy, alpha Vince, beta Mick and omega Nikki - Okay this is the most accurate one for them to realistically have. Tommy and Vince are both super dominant dude bros who think with their dicks instead of their brains- both of them being alphas also explains the super friction between them that comes in later years that we see in resurrection of crüe I mean they literally say and I quote “if Tommy and Vince want Mötley crüe to happen, it'll happen” it's giving alpha, for sure, they are both also very selfish, Vince more so than Tommy but Tommy has been described as a brat way too often for me not to mention this. Beta Mick being the calming middle ground that low-key sucks at his job of being the calming middle ground cause he hates conflict, and more often than not instead of jumping into an argument with one of his bandmates to cool the situation down also makes sense, he'll just be silent in the corner, hoping that it'll end before he has to patch things up after the damage is already done and too severe for him to fix after the fact. This is one of the reasons why I believe this is the most accurate version because even with the safe setting of being in a pack together, the conflicts would still be high because of the two alpha's with core belief differences and the beta who can't deescalate situations, which would lead to them being in the news for public spats a lot more, just like they were in real life. Nikki being an omega also makes the most logical sense to me, he's a lot more sensitive and genuinely caring then the other guys and him having shame for being an omega just works intrinsically well with his character. It also explains why he's so desperate to be the boss/leader of the band and the one who's more likely to take charge because he wants to feel in control of things for once in his life and he takes it a bit overboard. That being said, in this set up, they are basically just normal Mötley, except with a little bit of classificationism on Tommy and Vince's end. Tommy more so on the ground that he was raised by a father that told him to treat an omega with the utmost delicacy and be a gentleman, and Vince more so out of its the social norm in the 80s to see omegas as lesser then - in later years they come around from their ignorance though as seeing everything Nikki accomplishes as an omega makes them see their way of thinking is wrong. Mick has no such prejudice towards Nikki, which is why I think Nikki has such a deep and special bond with Mick, because he didn't underestimate him or think he was lesser than any alpha who worked in music.

Alpha Mick, beta Tommy, beta Vince and beta Nikki - this dynamic is so funny for me to think about because, I just talked about how Mick is conflict avoidant and as an alpha conflict is pretty much inevitable and with three insane betas that he is now the leader of conflicts are guaranteed! He'd constantly have to put out fires the guys would be making (literally and figuratively) like- “Vince, why the fuck did you sleep with that alpha's omega, he's coming here to beat your ass and I gotta stop him now!” And Vince is just sitting on the couch not a worry in the world cause he knows Mick is gonna have to sort this out for him, because he's the leader of the pack. All the band would put Mick through these kinds of situations constantly because, one they knew Mick would get them out no problem and Mick wouldn't punish them for anything at all and two their all subconsciously jealous of Mick's higher status and trying to get back at him by getting his conflict avoidant ass into fights with random alpha's. They are not aware of this fact either really, but in the back of their minds they know why they want Mick to get a black eye every now and then. Other then that I think this pack is kinda not functional, Mick can't keep them in line extremely well, not because he can't intimate them but because he can't be bothered and this bites him in the ass all the time as the boys have no real figure to keep them in line and so they wreek havoc on anything they can which is the reason Mick is put through so many fights. But the one place this dynamic would work is the music, you know how I said Mick can't be bothered to keep them in line, well in the studio, that's all he does, he keeps them on track and focused and creative as he's genuinely leading them as a pack leader but outside the studio, in a world where Mick doesn't give a shit to correct them, the three beta guys take out their feelings of insignificance on the general public with no restraint. When Mick goes into rut though their all there to support their old man, they have to switch out every round because Mick is insatiable and he goes for so long and with his back it's obvious that he's in a lot of pain so they all try to do most of the work but Mick doesnt allow them to at all when he's far gone in rut. Mick absolutely tires them out, which is an accomplishment in itself and when the guys are lucid again with Mick there definitely not above teasing him for what a freak in the sheets he is in that state, Mick growls at them and dips until they can stop being immature. (Also I'll just make this side note here, but I kinda don't think Mick would willingly let anybody help him through a heat. He thinks it makes him look weak and he hates being dependent)

Alpha Nikki, Alpha Tommy, beta Vince and omega Mick - Nikki is a heavily controlling alpha though and while he doesn't have that prejudice against omegas like I think Tommy and Vince would low key have, he is a lot more protective and possessive of Mick and Mick does not care for being owned at all and so this would be a constant battle of whims against Nikki and Mick, Nikki trying to get Mick to be careful and safe with himself and have more forethought and Mick just doing whatever he feels like in the moment without forethought and he gets away with it too, because all he has to do is play up his omega act a little and Nikki just cannot bring himself to punish Mick and Mick knows that. I think Nikki would hand out punishments but none that get any of his band mates to listen lol. Tommy would also be super protective of Mick but unlike Nikki's suffocating chokehold on him, Tommy's style of dominance would be more Mick's style, easygoing but there for Mick if he needs anything only an alpha can provide. Vince being a beta in this situation, again just makes me laugh, because he would constantly be trying to have a pissing contest (figuratively but I'm sure he's literally challenged them to one before) with them and Vince looses every single time. This would give beta Vince even more of a complex and I kinda think this would get him to quit the band much sooner actually, funnily enough. Also this is the only two alpha set up that I think would actually work, as Tommy and Nikki are so close, it'd be impossible for them to get into any arguments that weren't of the absolute essence.

Alpha Vince, Omega Tommy, omega Nikki and omega Mick - oh boy, is all I kinda gotta say about this one honestly. Vince absolutely feels high and mighty in this one and the other guys fucking despise it. He makes a very big deal of being the only alpha to an omega harem (his words, not mine). Nikki and Tommy both constantly undermine his rule and make him go insane and Mick just straight up ignores him unless he thinks the cause is important enough for him to follow directions. Doesn't actually know how to run a pack and constantly fails to keep everything together. I mean this pack is all fun and games for Vince until Mick, Tommy and Nikki go into heat at the same time. This one would be a total disaster and not even in a funny way…okay maybe a little funny, since classificationist Vince eats shit every time he thinks he's in control of the omegas, and I think this dynamic would get him out of that terrible headspace super quick, so it's a win ig.

Alpha Mick, alpha Tommy,alpha Nikki and alpha Vince - utter shit show, like this is the worst combination….but fuck is it fun to think about, I mean it's a ticking time bomb, there would constantly be fights and or tussles that would leave them with scars they could never fully recover from and yet they would be so fucking ride or die for each other it's insane. Like they want to kill each other constantly and pheromones are running high, but if some punk tried to mess with any of them, they'd never see the light of day again. This combo is volatile in all the best ways and they bond by knocking the teeth out of some drunk schmucks face. Just alpha things <33. Ruts would be fucking insane, it's a lot of growling and fucking and domination, they would all be sore for weeks to come afterwards.

Alpha Mick, alpha Nikki, alpha Vince and omega Tommy - they are all so protective of Tommy. While Nikki and Vince argue about what's best for the pack, Mick is just vibing with Tommy and keeping creeps away from him by freaking out said creeps with his own terrifying personality when Vince and Nikki are too absorbed by other things. But when Nikki and Vince are sober and not at each other's throats they also make sure Tommy is as comfortable and well looked after as they know how to give someone else. This would be the most wholesome-ish combination of all the dynamic pairs because it's basically just Nikki and Vince having a marital fight while Tommy and Mick snuggle on the couch and watch them duke it out.

Omega Nikki, omega Tommy, omega Mick and omega Vince - I know this is not gonna be the answer you expect but I kinda think this one would also be one of the more functional ones. As a group full of omegas in an “alpha's” career realm of rockstar, they gotta have each other's back and this gives them a common societal enemy to fight and we know how strong these guys can be when they have a common enemy. I think they're all even more protective of each other then the all alpha pack tbh and I know I really haven't mentioned nesting at all in any of the oner dynamics but in this one it would be prominent. They make a big communal nest together and all of them sleep together. Omega Nikki would be so happy to finally have such a safe environment to be in and he'd for once in his life feel proud to be an omega because not only are they brutal to every alpha that dares to try and either enter or break their pack because they think it's non valid but they are all so strong together, that he never feels scared to stand up to anyone of any dynamic ever, because he knows his pack has got his back. Omega Nikki finally has no shame to be an omega in this combination. And the other guys don't argue as badly at all as other packs mentioned in this post. And picking a leader also isn't hard, they decided that Mick is the leader for all intents and purposes, but Nikki is the one that actually runs it, Mick is just the main protector as he's the oldest and therefore wisest omega. The heats would also be such a comforting experience, it's all so comfortable and everybody understands what the other is going through, Mick even joins in for this dynamic aswell.

Beta Mick, beta Tommy, beta Vince and beta Nikki - So much alpha envy it's kinda insane, but this time with the added ingredient of a disgruntled Mick in the background, not because he's also envies alpha's (..okay maybe a little, but he won't straight up be petty about it, it is how it is) but because all the guys are making a total undeserved disaster, subconsciously because they are not seen as important in the chain of society.

#omegaverse au #love doing these!#poly!crue #crueslash

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Hi! I found your blog through the female rage substack article that you posted and I’m curious about a couple things (so I hope the tone of this ask will read as genuine/non-confrontational etc).

I really liked the article and the anti-gender essentialist content, so I looked through the others and eventually found your jegulus article (which I read and also liked) but I was sort of surprised to see that you are a part of the hp/marauders fandom. For me personally, everything related to that franchise has just been tainted since the whole jkr terf debacle really took off. I was big on hp when I was younger and wolfstar is a ship/dynamic that I enjoyed back then, so I’d probably like your stuff if I were to read it. But I decided some time ago to give any and all hp content the chop, because to me it didn’t feel right to engage with it anymore. So I was just wondering how you feel in that regard, if you don’t mind sharing. I don’t have anyone in my internet content circle that still actively posts about hp and if irl friends still enjoy it then it’s not something we talk about, so I’d just like to know how you juggle the ‘two sides’ in that sense of your trans-positive/anti-essentialist beliefs and fandom content that’s still so intrinsically connected to jkr and her politics. (Also, sorry if you’ve answered a question like this before. I scrolled through your blog a bit, but if yes then not far enough.)

Anyway, hope you’re well and I’ll probably keep an eye out for any future essays on your substack even if I don’t follow you on here. cheers! (and thanks for the “playing the whore” book rec, I’ll be looking into that. a rec from my end would be paul b. preciado's "can the monster speak". it's the written version of a speech he tried to give at a Freudian psychoanalysis conference about the position trans people occupy in psychoanalysis before being booed off stage. it was short and pretty intriguing, in case you're interested/haven't heard of it yet.)

hi! happy 2 hear u enjoyed the female rage essay--i wasn't expecting it to spread as much as it did + had to turn off reblogs for my own peace of mind 2 keep terfs away from my blog, but it's nice to know there are still people getting something out of it. also appreciate the book rec--that definitely sounds up my alley + i'm excited to check it out!

and i'll do my best to answer your question about hp, but i'm gonna put it under a cut because i know this is a contentious topic + i have a feeling my answer's gonna get long--so if anyone doesn't want 2 read abt my conflicting hp-fandom thoughts, just scroll away please xx

so, quite honestly, i'm in agreement with you that the entire franchise is tainted by jkr. the truth is that it was never really my intention to join the fandom--i read a single fic because it went viral on tiktok, then decided to rewrite the fic from another character's pov just for fun. at that point, i hadn't read any other hp fic and had never been involved in any kind of online fandom space, and although i'd read the hp books + watched the movies growing up i hadn't touched them in years + was so far removed from the franchise that i vaguely remembered hearing jkr had said some terfy stuff, but wasn't aware of the extent to which her politics were like. actively and significantly causing real-life harm.

anyway, i'd done a rewrite for fun of another story i liked and had posted it on ao3, and that had received a handful of people commenting + talking about the story with me as i wrote but had remained pretty self-contained + small. i was expecting the same sort of thing with the hp fic i rewrote, but instead someone posted about it on tiktok and it went viral, and then suddenly there were thousands of people reading every ch update and hundreds of comments. like i said, i had never been involved in an online fandom space before, so i sort of awkwardly stumbled into it and tried to figure out what i was doing as i finished up writing the fic. this was at a point in my life where i'd recently moved to a different country and had to go back in the closet after being publicly out for years, and this online fandom space became my only queer community and a bit of a lifeline in that way. i started making actual friends and talking to people + getting more deeply involved in the community aspect of things.

at the same time, i started actually educating myself on jkr + her politics + her impact, and the more i learned the more uncomfortable i became with being part of anything hp-related. now, i've been writing hp fic for almost two years and 'active' in the fandom for ~one and a half, and despite being grateful for the friends i've made and treasuring the space i've been able to cultivate, i've become increasingly disenchanted with 'the fandom' as a whole and have increasingly found it to be a hostile space, so i've sort of taken a step back from broader engagement and more + more have limited my interaction to just my mutuals here on tumblr. unfortunately, i think many of the 'bad parts' of this fandom are somewhat built-in because of the source material; there are a lot of people who agree with jkr's politics to varying extents and that can make it kind of a miserable place to be sometimes. i know many people insist that hp can be completely removed from jkr, but i don't think that's the case, and i've talked on my blog before about the fact that her politics are built into the very foundations of the text, so i think it's necessary to acknowledge her influence if we want to actually engage with hp at all in a way that isn't just perpetuating her politics.

all that being said, the point i'm at currently is that i'm not really sure that this fandom is a space i want to be a part of forever. again--i understand how it can be lifeline for some people and a queer community they might not have elsewhere, because that's been the case for me. but for me personally, as much as i value my own carved-out space, it doesn't completely outweigh the negatives that i have found myself coming into contact with more and more in this fandom. writing hp fic is also something that i keep strictly separate from 'real life,' contained solely in this online space, because i know that any engagement with hp is a red flag for many, many trans people and i don't want to bring it outside of this space. within this online space, i don't keep it a secret that i write hp fic; it's right at the top of my blog so that anyone who wants to can easily block and unfollow me. i only post my fics on ao3, where they are clearly tagged as harry potter fanfiction, and i only post about hp fic + fandom stuff on this blog, which was specifically created for that purpose. i've requested that people no longer post about my hp fics on platforms like tiktok where the algorithm could send it out onto anyone's fyp, and that request is also in my pinned faq. keeping my hp fic as contained as possible to only people who are already engaging with hp fic is one way that i try to mitigate any harm that might be caused by my fics contributing to hp's ongoing popularity.

the other ways i try to mitigate potential harm are by actively discouraging people from giving any financial support to hp + jkr and by being very vocal about my politics on this page, so that anyone who is following me will be getting pro-trans and anti-gender essentialism politics along with any hp engagement. i also don't engage with hp uncritically; i am specifically critical of the shitty politics in the books both in my posts on this blog and my fics themselves. i don't make it a secret that i think the books are politically rotten all the way down through to the foundations.

none of this is to say that there's, like...a Right Way to engage with this content or a set of rules that, if followed, Absolve All Shittiness. this is just an explanation of the personal evaluations i've had to weigh when it comes to deciding how i'm going to interact with content that is fundamentally opposed to my own politics. and again, i don't blame people who think that any amount of engagement is morally untenable and completely block it out. this is a growing source of cognitive dissonance in my own life, and i'm increasingly considering whether/for how much longer i want to continue to write fic + be involved in hp fandom. but for the time being, i'm still here + still writing fic, and i guess my feeling is that any harm that fic causes is a drop in the bucket, and even if i were to stop writing it wouldn't necessarily have a huge impact either way. i'm just some random guy online like everyone else; even though i talk about politics, that doesn't mean that i'm asking to be held up as some sort of moral standard, nor do i think anyone should be expected to be 100% politically perfect in every action they take--like, for me, writing hp fic kind of falls into the same category as like...eating mcdonalds even though i think factory farming is fucked, or buying + wearing makeup sometimes even though i think the beauty industry is fundamentally corrupt, or paying to see the new guardians of the galaxy movie in theaters even though i think marvel movies are us military propaganda. i don't think "no ethical consumption under capitalism" is an excuse to completely abandon any attempt to mitigate the harm our actions might cause, but it does matter to me the way in which someone is engaging with a fundamentally broken/corrupt piece of media beyond simply whether or not they're engaging at all. at the end of the day, it's up to everyone on their own to evaluate where they draw the line on hp, and i am not looking to make that judgment for anybody else considering that my own thoughts + feeling about it are still changing.

#ask

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I was reading through this thread on statistics and mlm slash reblogged by @darktwistedgenderplural, and reflecting on it a bit, as one does. I’ve been active in fandom spaces since the turn of the millennium, and I’ve seen similar versions of this argument on tumblr and livejournal and in other sites for over two decades now. I do think it brings up some reasonable statistical points. At the same time I think that sometimes we think of fandom as a space immune to the influences of patriarchy, when in fact it still at times influences us and nudges us toward which characters we prioritize. I find that I have to do a lot of questioning of my own biases as I explore my various fandoms. Other people’s experiences may vary—maybe your experience is different than mine—and I can really only speak to my own. Maybe what I have to say here resonates with a few of you, though.

Anyway, let me shift to talking with a more positive lens. The more I considered the ideas in that original series of posts, and the more I thought about people agonizing that fic about female characters is harder to achieve than fic about male characters, the more it made me grateful for Young Royals and how well-written its female characters are. Two out of its five main characters are teenage girls, and Sara can even be called the show’s B Plot Protagonist. (Thank you again @heliza24 for sharing your meta about that with us! I think about it at least once every three days.) And Sara and Felice are both what I would call authentic and textured characters, who’ve got really interesting backstories and desires and flaws at play, the same way you get that for dynamic male characters. There’s so much for fanfic writers to work when it comes to the two of them! And I’ve enjoyed writing them both in my time in this fandom, and I’m proud of what I’ve managed to achieve so far in my writing.

Since the post addresses shipping as something fandom loves to do, I also think there’s lots of potential ways to ship the girls on Young Royals—whether that’s shipping Sara and Felice with one another or with other people, or whether that’s shipping the other girls in with other people various femmeslash ships and het ships. I admit I haven’t written Felice/Sara yet, but I’ve written Felice/Maddie and Felice/Rosh and Sara/August. And of course, in the moments when Heart and Homeland allows, I’ve explored the Manor House Girls friendship pentagon, and all the complex interpersonal interactions therein. I’ve seen other great ideas thrown around by other people, too, like the folks who’ve come up with Linda/Kristina backstory in the 1980s and so on.

I hope that as YR develops as a fandom and as we collectively write more fics, we’ll see the number of fics about female characters continue to grow alongside the number of fics about male characters. And also, once again, I think it’s so awesome that Lisa Ambjörn invests so heavily in the female characters on her show. She’s just about my age and my fandom generation, and I know there’s interview notes about her writing m/m slashfic for that wizard fandom back in the early 2000s. Her writing takes what’s awesome about fanfic but also mixes it with what’s great about professionally published fiction, and she did not neglect her female characters in the process. It’d be easy enough for her to just focus on cute boys and ignore the girls, but she doesn’t. And I just thought it was fair to give myself space to gush about that a bit, when a few of the comments in the post I was talking about alluded to writers who aren’t doing the best with the women in their stories.

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Outside of Young Royals side note: even if I’m not writing fic for these other shows yet, I’m additionally grateful that TV right now has a whole crowd of female characters I can get excited about. There’s the girls of Heartstopper including my beloved Elle Argent, there’s Claudia in Interview with the Vampire, there’s Rose and Essie in When the Angels Left the Old Country (ok that’s a book not TV but I still love it), there’s Helen and Noelene on The Newsreader, there’s Kleo and Lidia Poët in the shows named after them, there’s Maribel and Fanny and Clara and Nines in 45 RPM (although god, nowhere near enough people have seen 45 RPM, and I wish there were more people out there who’d seen it!) That’s just off the top of my head. As more women have been included in writers rooms and have gotten to be showrunners for things—still not nearly enough, but an increasing number—I do think representation for female characters has gotten much, much better overall.

I also realize that… well. Over time, with hindsight, I’ve been able to appreciate female characters from old fandoms that I didn’t before. Like Relena in Gundam Wing, who I in my teen years used to bash relentlessly. Or Éponine in Les Misérables, who I used to roll my eyes at for being in tragic unrequited love, or something. But now I can see the roles they play in their larger narratives, and the nuances of who they are. So I think there’s also a lot of good representation that’s always been there, even if I haven’t always seen it.

I’m hoping that the trend of more and better female characters continues, and I’m hoping that the fandom statistics shift to reflect that with time. Are there any female characters on anyone else’s mind, while we’re chatting about this? Who are your favorites right now?

#sara eriksson #felice ehrencrona #i have a lot of feelings about girl characters okay #and i think felice and sara meet the criteria for what people want in female characters as outlined by that other post #so i wanted to revel in that a little bit as my weekend begins

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I think one of the main issues with not only s2 but some of s1 as well as that only neil was involved with the creation of both of them because terry unfortunately passed away. It lost something vital in that moment. In s1, they still had the book and I think s1 did a good job as far as adaptations go with some grievances, but now in s2, it's whatever neil is going to do and with how active he is on tumblr and how the fans are and how he's reacting to them, it's losing the spirit of the original even further. Not BECAUSE the ship is canon, but everything else surrounding the ship and how we got there and how the writers and the actors are changing the characters more as they progress from one season to the next. I watched s2 feeling giddy for more good omens and very quickly that giddiness turned sort of confused and disappointed. I didn't want disjointed filler fanfic with a loose plot. It didn't fit. It didn't feel right. Overall, I didn't hate the season, but I didn't quite like it either. The handful of you good omens critical blogs have summed it up very well for me and I'm surprised it's not a more popular opinion. I've just seen a couple people talking about how book fans are complaining which is the most dismissive way to put it. I'm not sure if people are blinded by their theories and canon ship or they just don't care that this season felt almost fanmade, but I'm sad that the book and tv show versions are now miles apart rather than cousins.

That's a long ask, thank you for sharing!

I actually did like season 1, too. The book is very hard to transfer to tv imo and choices had to be made.

Technically, Adam is the main character, but putting more focus on him would either mean a) a kid show with a lot of stuff about the them or b) more Anathema and conspiracy theories discussion.

That probs wouldn't have worked that well, so Gaiman made the two most colourfull characters the protagonists and in order to flesh them out added to their relationship.

Other stuff was added for comedic reasons or drama. Which I get.

So season one was a fair interpretation with necessary (to appeal to a mainstream audience) changes.

And both actors were doing an amazing job, so that helps.

Another plus is that a lot of new fans had so much fun with the material and created a ton of art/fics and revived the fandom.

And then it went off the rails somehow.

The thing is, Good Omens isn't a drama. A lot of dramatic events happen, but they feel understated, it's mainly weird, quirky and funny.

It also isn't a love story. In the romantic sense.

There is a lot of love in the book.

And I truely do not know what exactly happened, that turned such a unique little thing into the most bland, generic romance.

Probably capitalism.

I mean, just watching Crowley and Aziraphale trying to weather everyday life without having their jobs anymore would have been hilarious, but probs to niche.

And I would love to know what made Gaiman change his tune in regards to the nature of their relationship.

He does not really answer stuff, though, he's good at circumventing.

I hope at least it wasn't tumblr that influenced him. In most cases a creative process suffers from too much social media interaction. (Season 3 could get even worse).

The fandom dynamics regarding criticsm are always complicated.

I do speculate that most hyper positive fans are fairly new, just in it for the ship and going with the flow.

Also critcism is kinda a four letter word these days.

Sadly.

I mean it can be fun and relieving to went or pick apart or even ridicule and as long as it's tagged correctly nobody gets hurt by it.

Maybe 'Good Omens' also is a sore subject, because after years of being vague, Crowley/Aziraphale actually got canonized, and no matter what they represent as, they do look like a gay couple to the general audience, and people might be afraid criticsm might reflect badly on the representation they finally got.

Who knows.

In the end, one can always cherry pick. I do like some scenes, I do ship Crowley/Aziraphale, but I'm disappointed that their characters went full on angel/demon cliche contrary to the appealing, nuanced book versions.

And yeah, there is no actual plot so we might as well have gotten smth like Crowley tries to earn money by becoming an uber driver or smth (there's great fanfic about that).

But that's just me, I do get why people enjoy it. Criticsm just helps to deal a bit with the disappointment, because, like you, I was initially thrilled about the second season.

#anonymous #good omens critical #good omens #good omens season 2 #I could go on forever about that #But actually I just wanna ask why Gaiman switched their personalities to fit the cliche so much #which is the saddest thing #but he wouldn't answer that anyways

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1 13 25 make enemies queen

thank u so much for the opportunity

the character everyone gets wrong

The more interesting less hatery take on this is part of a convo I actually had with a mutual today about charles re: characterization and the anglicization of non-native speakers' personalities which i'm gonna put a lot of here. The current popular characterization of charles (for lack of nuance i'm talking about current 'babygirled' charles vs the older 'femme fatale' characterization) is so heavily based in who he is when he speaks English.

I've said before one of the reasons I find it hard to pin down the piarles dynamic™️ outside of the one “they're childhood best friends and therefore soulmates” narrative - which i find to be a bit of cop out on doing the work on how their personalities are actually compatible - is because Charles is often being slotted into a pretty heavily gendered role in his pairings. I think that comes from the babygirl characterization that comes from interpretations of a lot of the English media we see of him. I find he is flattened for the narrative more than anyone else is.

But when you watch French videos of him, and Italian but I can speak about that less because of my own knowledge of the language, a far more layered version of charles comes out that counteracts some of the manic pixie dream girl characterizations that he gets. Part of that is because the longer form french content we get of him is a) outside a racing context and b) around people he is comfortable with. The Monaco videos with his mom and the youtube video with Pierre are really good examples of Charles as he describes himself: confident, self-assured, easy-going, etc etc.

I wish people would take in more of that side of his personality, but a lot of it seems to come from the language barrier of the content, not even getting in to the language barrier for Charles himself.

13. worst blorbofication

I will be honest to say that my interest in Lando has fallen off a fair bit in the last year or so. And part of that is because I think he no longer fulfills a role that I find particularly intriguing, and partly because I think he has moved further away from the Carlando characterization than the fanon has really caught up to yet. Part of that I think is because somewhere in the Carlando -> Dando transition, Lando was fully lost along the way lol. I have no idea who the Lando any side of the warring factions is referring to but it certainly isn't the one I see nowadays. Maybe that's also because no one on my dash on any side is willing to engage with the Lando and Max of it all which, listen, me neither. rock and a hard place and lando is somewhere deep in the crevice!

Also the Lando apologists think he's being a cunt (affectionate) when sometimes he is just being a cunt (derogatory) and it annoys me.

25. I will save this for the other ask I got for 25! Edit: Actually no I lied. I mentioned this the other day sort of and I *get* where the frustration comes, but I hate when writers pretend like they have no expectations for their readers re: comments or interactions with their fics, while simultaneously complaining about types/frequencies of interactions with fics. I think the ecosystem would work better if we stop pretending that there isn't a certain degree of transactionary nature in fic publishing and start those types of conversations from a place of more honest interaction with both ego and consumerism. I recognized it isn't a balanced issue, especially because reader entitlement seems to have gotten out of control recently. But you don't change anything with the way both sides currently engage critically with how they or the other party interact within the ecosystem. This is a difficult take to explain without a 4000 word essay but yeah.

#hater ask game!#honestly i feel like these are actually pretty tame lol #asks

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knife my shining star, long time no see!!

can i order a number 2, number 8 with kaede, and a number 12 for the danganronpa ask game? ☆

Heslo Lune! Nice to talk to u again! Thanks so much for giving me an excuse to ramble <33

2. Favorite character from each game

DR1 - Taka for sure, though a lot of the first cast is pretty special to me. Taka as a character is heavily relatable to me (it’s the autism and over achiever attitude) and in general he’s the character that drew the most emotion out of me during the first game. Not a lot makes me cry but I definitely got emotional at his reaction to Mondo’s execution.

DR2 - Kazuichi, I hold my special version of him so dearly. I haven’t played the 2nd game yet but I’ve seen a lot of clips and he can be… a lot, but I also find him rlly relatable (again, he’s autistic and traumatized, I have a type). I also rlly like his design, DR is kinda known for it’s out there designs (just look at Ibuki) but I think Kaz’s rlly works, especially considering the context behind why he dresses that way. *Points* look at all that insecurity and trust issues, how could I not love him?

DRV3 - Kokichi, who is also my favorite DR character in general, as I am a basic bitch. He is my meow meow who is soooooo fucked up. He cares so much abt others and helping them but he’s also paranoid and distrustful and a compulsive liar and he doesn’t want anyone around in case he gets hurt but also he’s desperately lonely and *gestures* look at all this trauma and autism!!!! He is a creature!!! Look at this clown!!! The hanger consumes my every thought now.

8. What did I think of Kaede’s death/execution?

Keeping in mind I haven’t played the 3rd game and have only seen a number of clips as of rn, Kaede’s execution is pretty horrific to me. For one, it’s completely unfair since she didn’t actually kill Rantaro. Two, hanging is one of the most painful ways I can think of to die. It’s slow, it’s asphyxiation which means ur lungs are basically burning for oxygen, and she’s being swung around which is just agitating the wound. It’s also sad to me because I really wish Kaede was the true protagonist. We haven’t had a female protagonist yet (apart from Komaru) and Kaede is a truly interesting character. Not that I despise Shuichi exactly but Kaede is just better to me. I really wish Rantaro and her both could have gotten farther so that we could’ve gotten to know them better.

12. How I think character A would get along/interact with character B? (talking about characters from different games)

You didn’t give any characters for this so I’ll just talk abt the cross-game dynamic I find most interesting!

Kokichi, Fuyuhiko, and Mondo I think would be a fascinating group. Considering all three of them are leaders of (vaguely in Kokichi’s case) illegal groups but all have drastically different ways of leading I think there’s a lot they could learn from one another. The way they came into leadership is interesting too, since Mondo gained it from his brother and has guilt abt it, Fuyuhiko was born into it but seemingly doesn’t truly want to be a part of it, and Kokichi is a leader by choice who (seemingly) brought his group together by himself. Fuyuhiko and Mondo are fairly similar in temperament too, and we know from the side games that they’d get along fairly well. Kokichi’s just a fun wildcard who I think would both annoy the hell out of them while also startling them with his intellect and leadership skills.

#danganronpa #drv3 #dr2 #kiyotaka ishimaru #kokichi ouma #kazuichi souda #kaede akamatsu #fuyuhiko kuzuryu #mondo owada #reesie rambles #if u couldn’t tell #I have a very specific kinda character I rlly rlly like #notable mentions of characters I also like tho are:#Nagito Iruma Kiyo Sayaka Hajime Celestia and Gundham #autism trans swag or trauma is a must to be one of my favorites :))

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Marx, K., & Engels, F. (1848). The Communist Manifesto. Kommunistischer Arbeiterbildundsverein.

I have to confess that I have a very different relationship with this booklet than the rest of the people that have read it, as it was mainly for me a personal exercise of analytical scrutiny of the media I consume. Started after watching two videos about this booklet and both told radically different things of what "is it about". My blood boiled because i felt lied to so I just fucking read it.

True enough it is a booklet designed to raise class consciousness of the working class in the 18 hundreds specially to anglophone and germanophone countries, more precisely to illustrate a simplified version of the author's critique of capitalist proletariat/bourgeois dynamics. It is also important to understand that from this text you will not grasp Marxist theory in its entirety.

Furthermore it absolutely needs to be stressed that this book is not a guide for social reorganization in any way and anyone that claims such a thing either hasn't read it or has an interest in making people think that.

It is also important to note that to this day it still remains historically relevant and highly controversial thanks to the likes of Jordan B. Peterson who cannot give a press conference now a days without summoning the phantom of Marxist Postmodernism; a ridiculous term as both Marxists and Postmodernists hold intrinsically opposite and antagonistic ideas to one another.

For me this controversial and storied booklet was a mandatory reading as the first step in stopping myself from listening to thought-leaders to feel informed and just actually getting informed.

People in power will always try to influence our decisions, so for me this booklet was that lesson; trying to at least read the sources of what they are talking about once in a while.

There is no Big Other to impress. We are all alone, so at least we must be genuine to yourselves.

#book review #Book #communist manifesto

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the flip side | part 3.

Summary: (Y/N) has always been one of the stronger Alphas. Which is saying something when the Avengers is a team overrun with Alphas. A mission gone wrong changes her entire world and when everyone starts treating her different, she doesn’t know if she can cope. Change hurts and (Y/N)’s not sure it’s a pain she cant bear.

Warnings: THIS IS THE DARKER VERSION! IF YOU WANT THE LESS DARK/ANGSTY VERSION CHECK OUT CHANGES HURT

Warnings for the Series: strong language, angst, fluff, assault, a/b/o dynamics, sexual content (18+ readers only)

Pairing: Stucky x black!reader

Word Count: 5.9k

Previous Part | (Series Masterlist)

“I thought I said to stop working late,” you chuckled as you entered the lobby to see Roseanne.

Like Sam and Bruce, her eyes widened at the smell but she fixed her surprise quickly.

“Is that a command?”

“Don’t test me.”

You two laughed. Roseanne clicked a couple of keys and sent an email before bending down to throw Steve’s other leather jacket you had kept down there at you. Steve just chuckled.

“That’s where you hid the other one. Thought I could trust you, Roseanne.”

She gave him a sarcastic salute. You handed the jacket back to Steve. It was useless to you now that the smell had worn off of it. Roseanne typed something else and then took a risk to ask.

“So you three?”

“Nothing like that,” you said as you drummed your hand against the counter. “Needed some help.”

You cringed at that realizing it sounded exactly like what was being insinuated.

“A different kind of help… you know what, night. See you later, Roseanne.”

You sped away from the desk. Steve barely caught the elevator as you pressed the button for your floor.

“You really hate people thinking something’s going on,” he said with a chuckle. “Would it really be that bad?”

“Look, you two are probably great in bed. Don’t care to find out.”

Bucky put a hand over his heart and pretended to sob. You headed towards your room and the two men kept following. You were friends so of course they would but somehow you expected them to stop at their doors. It felt intimidating that they wanted to come into your space, especially when they temporarily marked you. You hadn’t even cleaned up the room in a way that you would want them to see— immediately you cursed yourself for even thinking that.

“Or are you two just that obsessed with me that you need to know?,” you teased to try and bring your Alpha self back.

“Please, doll, the way that you antagonize us. It’s clear who wants who.” Bucky gave you a smirk. “There’s nothing stopping you.”

“No thank you. Not interested in being compared to Nat. Or even worse, Sharon.”

“Why are you two so opposed to each other?” Steve leaned against your doorway now that you guys had reached it.

“She has it out for me.”

“You don’t make it easier… but you’re right, I’ll talk to her.”

“No, you won’t, Captain. That’s sure to make it worse. It’s just a little dispute. We were both training together long before you thawed out the ice. Same scores, same everything. I said I wasn’t interested in Avengers, was supposed to be a standard field agent on the international team with a nice set up in the tropics. And then something woke up my powers and it would’ve been stupid to not be on the team. Nick didn’t even give us time to talk, just replaced her with me.”

“I didn’t know.”

“Of course not. Why would your little girlfriend tell you that?”

“She’s not my girlfriend.”

“You two go back to each other more than Buck and Nat, she might as well be. Just bond already.”

“Not interested in bonding with just anyone.”

“Right, high standards.”

“Not that high.”

Steve and Bucky pushed past your doorway to sit down in your sitting area. You scoffed at Steve’s statement and went to the little kitchenette to grab a drink. You fished out three beers since you cut their partying and drinking short by having to take you home.

Steve quickly stood up while you were at the fridge to take off his shoes and put them at the door, remembering you had a thing about the team dragging their outdoor shoes through your space. The men stretched out on the couch, noting only two pillows were there instead of the usual pile. They accepted the beers. You sat in between them, head in Steve’s lap and feet in Bucky’s.

“Mr. Golden Boy, you and your little 40s partner in crime have standards higher than this tower.”

“Not that high. I’ve met a few people that meet them.”

“Peggy doesn’t count.” You smiled when Bucky laughed at your statement. “I meant someone from this decade you two still have a chance with.”

You guys kept talking and you became super comfortable covered in their scent. You set down the empty beer on the table and laid back even more, both drowsy and tipsy. The supersoldiers were obviously fine and still in the mood to keep conversation going, partially because they wanted to stay longer. Even after you got sleepy, they just wanted to stay. There was something intoxicating about the idea that your whole space smelled like nothing but them.

Bucky laughed at a joke Steve made and looked over at you, noting your eyes were closed. He shook your foot a bit and you didn’t wake up. Instead, your foot just moved trying to shake off whatever was touching it. He set down his drink and got up.

Steve adjusted you in his hold so he could carry you upstairs to your bed. Both of their eyes were glued to where your tight leather shorts stopped. There was a bruise growing around a pinprick mark— even though it hurt a bit, you stabbed the same area to avoid having lots of needle marks especially in visible places.

“You said she was taking those steroids for inflammation?” Steve asked in a hushed tone so as not to wake you.

“Yeah.”

“I think we should tell her to see Dr. Cho, she should probably take something else.”

Bucky nodded in agreement. They would suggest you go to medical when you wake up tomorrow but you were peaceful in Steve’s arms and they didn’t want to bother you now. Steve deposited you gently on your bed and pulled the covers over you.

Against his better nature, he let his fingers brush against your neck where he had been kissing it. He quickly pulled his hand away when you sighed at the touch— it wasn’t his intention to wake you up.

The late morning came and you were still asleep when Bucky and Steve knocked on the door. They didn’t try again, figuring they could handle getting you your coffee order without needing you there. If Roseanne was at the receptionist desk, Steve would have leaned over to check if you had any of his other jackets stored behind there. But it wasn’t Roseanne, it was another employee. One he didn’t know well at all so he just left the lobby.

The walk to the diner was very noisy— it was New York City, it was always noisy. The little bell jangled and the two Avengers walked straight to the bar seating and ordered the drinks from the young Alpha manning the little coffee station. They leaned against the counter while waiting for your elaborate drink to be finished.

“Excuse me?” a small voice asked.

Steve looked up from his phone to see a woman in front of him with a leather jacket folded over her arms. She picked at the jacket and when Steve didn’t say anything she decided to continue.

“This is yours, I think, or your friend’s. Um, (Y/N)? She kind of saved my life last night. She left her stuff in the jacket and the wallet had the address for Avengers Tower but the tag says Steve Rogers. I was headed to return it but saw you in the window.”

She held out the jacket. Steve took it, honestly not expecting to get it back. It was nice that there was still hospitality in the world. His scent was off of it for sure. That didn’t surprise him. A scared Omega and based on how it had covered you, his jacket stood no chance from the incident. Since he was only wearing a button down, Steve put on his jacket.

“Well thank you for the return and I hope you got home saf—” he stopped as he adjusted his collar.

The woman thanked him for his concern and assured that she made it okay. She even said something about Steve should tell you to stop by the diner again on her next shift but he wasn’t paying attention to any of it. The scent on the jacket didn’t match the one from the incident. He stuck a hand in the pocket and pulled out the contents. They were all yours. The woman had given him the correct clothes.

Discreetly, he took a sniff. The Omega in front of him smelled everything like the jacket and nothing like the scent of last night. That was a smell he couldn’t forget, not when you were drenched in it when he found you in the alley. But now that scent was nowhere to be found— the really sweet smell of apple butter, bark, and roasted coffee beans that you normally carried plus that one added scent of fresh linen that he never smelled before. None of that was lingering despite the fact the Omega you saved was standing so close to him.

“You’ll do that?” the woman asked and shook Steve out of his thoughts.

“Huh?”

“Tell her my next shift is in a few days. Starts at four, food’s on me.”

“Yeah, sure. I’ll tell her.”

She bounded away with excitement. The barista handed Steve the two cups of coffee and gave Bucky his tea. They grabbed them and headed out the door. The whole walk back and even in the elevators Steve couldn’t help but smell the jacket, trying to get a grasp of the scent he felt like he was craving from last night. He even asked Bucky to take a sniff to make sure that he wasn’t crazy. They both gave up as the doors opened to their floor. Steve paused when he saw Bruce standing at your door holding two boxes.

“Hey, Bruce.”

The scientist almost jumped as he saw the two Alphas.

“Hey, Cap, Sarge.”

“What’s that?” Steve asked.

“Don’t know,” Bruce lied. “It’s a package for (Y/N), they accidentally dropped it off at my lab. My name’s on it but the address was hers. Some sort of mix up.”

“Just walk in, she’s still asleep. We kind of stayed up when we got back.”

Bruce nodded and adjusted the heavy box to reach for the door. The smaller package fell from the box. Both he and Bucky leaned down to pick it up. The top of the box still in Bruce’s hand shifted, the lid sliding off. Bucky set his tea on the ground to pick up the box top and hand it back to the scientist. His hand stopped as he looked in the box. Lots of unmarked labels and a ton of needles. Bruce started to sweat as Bucky showed his friend the contents of the box. Steve’s jaw clenched thinking about what he saw earlier.

“Wait.” He stopped Bruce. “Let her sleep more, we need a team meeting.”

“Shouldn’t we wake (Y/N)?”

“Meeting’s about (Y/N).”

Bruce got nervous as he followed Steve and Bucky back into the elevators. He clutched the box tightly as Steve informed FRIDAY to call everyone but you into the dining room. The rest of the team piled into the dining room. Each person took a glance at the box and the syringes inside. Steve made Bruce tell them the same thing the scientist told him and Bucky. Except Bruce lied and said he didn’t know what it was, thankful he made the smart decision to remove any labels from the vials. He offered to analyze it and report back later.

“What do you think it is?” Wanda asked.

“No clue but it shouldn’t take too long to find in the lab.”

“She has an injection mark,” Bucky confessed. “Saw it the other night, her inner thighs all bruised in a single spot. It’s not whatever she said that Dr. Cho gave her.”

You woke up feeling happy despite the fact that the night before was one of the most stressful ever. It didn’t matter. Steve and Bucky’s scents were everywhere and that was good enough for you to wake up with a smile. You showered and changed, excited to wear a fresh pair of clothes for once. The two Alpha scents were still there a little bit from the marking of your neck. It wouldn’t stay but you could now roam freely down to the kitchen for breakfast and wait for Bruce to give you your package.

Despite the smell of everyone in the dining room, you strolled downstairs confidently. No one responded to your good morning but it didn’t phase you much. You dug around the cabinets for the quick-ready coffee pod in the flavor you wanted.

“We got you a coffee.”

You turned to see Steve holding up the drink. Closing the cabinet, you strolled over and took the cup. Everyone was still standing even after you sat down at the table. After a second long sip, you looked at them.

“You all statues, now?”

“(Y/N),” Bucky started. “Are you feeling alright?”

“Little tired but great overall. Passed out last night and slept like the dead.”

“We’ve just been noticing you seem a little off.”

“Off?”

“Irritable and jittery all the time,” Tony filled in.

One by one they all started adding other things they noticed. You were irritable, moody, forgetful of things you normally had on a tight schedule. Not hanging out with them as much. Staying out way too late. Not letting the team know where you are when you did leave. Nat rolled her eyes and lifted the hidden box from the chair and slammed it on the table. She felt they all were dancing around it too much. Your eyes went wide.

“What the hell are these and why did you put them under Bruce’s name?” Nat asked, not even hiding the accusatory tone. You had to control yourself from shivering at the slight Alpha tone that she added. You knew why. As far as she was concerned, you messed with her Omega or roped him into something dangerous.

“That’s not mine.”

“Your room number is on there.”

You breathed out through your nose. Nat was going to kill you for what you were about to say next but you needed your stuff back. “It’s probably supposed to go to Bruce. The mix up was the address not the name.”

“Bullshit! Leave my Omega out of this!”

“Nat.” Bruce tried to place a hand on his Alpha’s shoulder.

“No! Answer the damn question (Y/N), why do you look like a deer in headlights? What is it? Ketamine?”

“Judging by the viscosity, I’d say maybe MDMA,” Tony piped up.

“Are you guys accusing me of being on drugs?” You said, shocked.

Drugs were a serious offense in SHIELD. An agent risked their team on a mission if they were under the influence. Caught on drugs and an agent was forced to take mandatory leave until they cleaned up. Even worse, there was a chance that you could lose your job completely.

The accusation pissed you off. The fact they would throw it around, if it got past the team it might cost you your spot. You knew that Sharon— and anyone that wanted an Avengers’ spot— would demand you receive the highest form of discipline. Getting mad wasn’t the smart idea but you couldn’t help it until it was too late. Just under your nose you could smell it. The Omega pheromones seeped out a little bit.

It was then you realized you hadn’t taken a suppressant either because it was the box Bruce was supposed to give you. The box that was currently sitting right in front of you. Steve and Bucky’s scent was still masking it but the fact that you could smell yourself right under was not a good sign. You squeezed the coffee cup tightly to the point it might fold under the pressure in attempts to keep it under control.

“Guys, I’m pretty sure (Y/N) isn’t taking anything not approved by Dr. Cho.” Sam tried to save you.

“I got hurt on the last mission, like I told Buck, it’s no big deal. They’re just standard steroids till the muscle inflammations calm down. What is wrong with you all?”

You reached for the box and Bucky held it down with his metal hand making you snarl at him.

“Bucky, let it go.”

“We’re looking out for you. This shit is serious, (Y/N).” He pulled the box back. “You need help before it’s too late to recover.”

You set your cup down after the coffee had spilled on your hand— you had heated it up by accident and burned a hole in the cup. Steve and Bucky raised an eyebrow at that. It wasn’t in your character to not have perfect control over your powers. Maybe you were actually hiding something and now were panicking that you got caught. You were on the verge of tears. If you left now then you were never getting the box back.

“Guys, please. It’s just the steroids. I won’t go on the next mission until I’m not using them and fully healed. Just give them back.”

You reached for the box one more.

“(Y/N), let go.”

You whimpered at Bucky’s Alpha command, panicking and looking at Sam and Bruce for help. You three knew that you were on very limited time, probably seconds instead of minutes. Sam put a hand on the other man’s bicep to get him to chill while Bruce was attempting to quickly diffuse and get everyone to drop it— no one was listening to his explanation that the steroids made sense and it was an honest mix-up. You could really smell your scent now.

“Please just give it to me!” You half whined with the tears streaming in full effect.

“Stand. Down.” Steve commanded.

You wildly shook your head as the tears came down harder, knowing the damage was done. You held your head in your hands, elbows hitting the table with a thud. All at once the team pulled a face at the sudden influx of a new Omega scent. They knew they had never smelled it before. When they took a harder sniff, your Alpha scent was nowhere to be found, just the new and random Omega one. Steve and Bucky recognized the scent immediately— the one missing from Steve’s jacket, the intoxicating one from when they met you in the alley.

“(Y/N)?” Steve asked gently.

You forced yourself to look at the entire team. It wasn’t the prettiest sight: your face was stained with tears, nose snotty, and you were sure that if you could turn red you would have been red all over. You tried to hold your head up but all the eyes on you weren’t making it too easy. There was a range of emotions on the team’s faces. You wiped your nose with the sleeve of your shirt, waiting for someone to say something. No one spoke, just stared. You shot out of your chair and ran up to your room, taking the stairs instead of the elevator and ignoring everyone’s shouts for you.

Your back was slumped against the door of your room and you cried even harder now having privacy. Downstairs, the team was wondering what was going on until Bruce finally confessed. They didn’t believe him until he came back with the real medical records that he had hidden in his nesting supplies. It was staring at them plain as day. Bruce said he was working on a reversal based off of the initial formula but it wasn’t looking promising at all. Bucky walked away from the table, Steve quickly following.

“Where are you going?” Vision asked.

“To talk to (Y/N),” they answered like it was obvious.

“Guys…”

Sam started but neither Alpha was listening. Sam sighed. It was obvious that the three of you were like a mini Alpha pack within the team but he thought it was too sensitive for them to try and see you now. However, nothing he said would stop them.

“Is she really an Omega now?” Nat asked.

“Well, partially. She’s coexisting as both for now technically. She still has her Alpha skills, memories, and the cells are there but they produce Omega DNA. That formula was meant to make a mutation of sorts. Eventually the old Alpha cells will die and the new ones produce Omega without having the mutation but as if they were always her original makeup. But yeah, she’s one of us now.” Bruce motioned to him and Wanda.

Steve knocked on your door to be greeted with no response. He and Bucky could hear the sniffling and knew you were sitting right against it. He tried again to be met with the same response. More silence when Bucky called your name. You felt a bang against the door as the two men slumped against it as well.

“Bruce explained the whole thing. We’re right outside the door when you’re ready. Alright, doll?”

They were met with the same silence. It wasn’t the most gentlemanly thing to do while you were in distress but they couldn’t help taking in your new scent that was all around. Both men had the same thought. You were theirs, their Omega. They tried to shake the thought from their head. That was not something to be focused on right now.

But at the same time, it sort of was. They thought about the night they escorted you home from the alley. Every Alpha and Beta was watching you when they thought that the two men weren’t looking. Your Omega scent was just your Alpha one amplified to ten and it called every dynamic for miles. The door opened suddenly and both men jumped up to their feet.

“Can we come into your space?” Steve asked.

You paused. Both of them already adjusted to your new status, asking to enter an Omega space instead of simply barging in as if the space still belonged to an Alpha. It was your biggest fear when you first told Sam. No one else even felt conflicted about how to address you— they immediately dropped you down to Omega status. You nodded your head slightly and stepped aside. Steve and Bucky took off their shoes at the door and walked in. You closed the door behind them and just stood there with your hand still on the doorknob. Bucky turned to look at you while you were looking anywhere but them.

You pointed to the couch and they both walked over. The two of them waited, looking back when you didn’t move over to them. Your back was to them but they could tell you were taking in deep breaths. They were debating leaving, maybe you weren’t ready. A knock on your door broke the quiet.

“It’s Nat.” The voice called out. “Can I enter your space?”

You couldn’t stop the tears this time as you crouched to the floor. Steve and Bucky asking was one thing. Nat asking just confirmed it. You were an Omega to them, almost like you had never been born an Alpha to begin with. Sure, you had powers like Wanda and sure Bruce could turn into a giant green monster but outside the battlefield all three of you were Omegas and nothing changed that fact. It didn’t matter how special you might have been. Wanda was the most powerful person you knew and she still had no power. The Alpha memories were screaming in your mind at the feeling of independence slowly slipping out of your grasp. Real independence, not the fake shit that Betas, unclaimed Omegas, or Omegas with nice Alphas believed that they had.

“She’s not ready, Natasha,” Bucky called out.

The growl on the other side of the door wasn’t missed by anyone. You froze up. They weren’t bonded but Bucky and Nat were like Steve and Sharon. And right now, he was in a room with an unclaimed Omega.

Nat attempted to control herself but she couldn’t help it. Sometimes your jokes when you were an Alpha were too much for her on the wrong day. Now, with you in distress and that Omega scent everywhere, it felt like a real threat to her pseudo claim on the supersoldier. Bucky gritted his teeth.

“We’ll all be down in a minute,” He called out. Growling, he still smelled her. “You can go now, Natasha.”

You shuddered at the Alpha command as you heard Nat walk away. In a more gentle tone, Bucky called you over to the couch. Slowly, you made your way over to them. Even though she was gone and you were sitting in between them, the two supersoldiers stiffened up. Their super senses allowed them to smell Nat even after she had left. Your new Omega scent had set all the Alphas off, even bonded ones. It had settled like a blanket at the dining room table that their ruts couldn’t help but to start whether it was time for them or not. Steve growled, not able to help himself anymore.

“She already has Bruce, she doesn’t need another Omega.”

“Hmm?”

Your head moved back and forth between the two of them. They didn’t have to answer because now you could properly smell them. Steve and Bucky in a rut had never smelled extreme to you before but now as an Omega you really got the full effect. It was so thick that it almost felt palpable. You understood why Omegas always looked around when Alphas in rut— especially unclaimed ones— entered public spaces. It was a feeling of prey that you had never felt before in your life. Shrinking into yourself, you gently spoke without looking at either one of them.

“I can smell the ruts, you don’t have to stay with me. Do you guys want to find Nat and Sharon?” You added after they both looked at you.

Steve and Bucky traced your scent glands. Their scents were no longer on you after all your panicking had practically melted it away. It didn’t feel right. Leaving to get their ruts satisfied by others didn’t feel right. They weren’t even sure if they would feel satisfied. Steve shook his head while tracing the area that he had marked up.

“Want you.” Steve said, almost in a trance.

Like the night before when they were trying to stop that other Alpha at the club from staring at you, both Bucky and Steve pushed your head back. They were already considering giving in and becoming companions with you since the three of you were so close— everyone knew that you weren’t necessarily the bonding type. They didn’t care, even if they slept around, you were the only one that they really vibed with personality wise. They thought it might have been nice to be in a companionship even without the claim. But now, as an Omega, they could just have you. You were unclaimed and their friend.

It was a perfect match. Perfect matches that didn’t come around very often nowadays. Most Alphas just took an Omega because they smelled good or settled for someone else because another Alpha had claimed an Omega that they actually liked, or even worse they lost to a Beta. Your eyes closed as they started kissing the area that they had previously marked. When you whined, they gripped your thighs and squeezed tightly. Both men made eye contact with each other and smiled. You were so responsive to them. Even more so when Steve’s hand slipped in your pajama shorts and Bucky’s hand went under your shirt.

That brought you back to reality as they began to suck harshly. They were in ruts and you were the target. Knowing Bucky and Steve, there was no way that you were getting out of this unclaimed. It was something you three had been dancing around since Steve was thawed from the ice and Bucky was saved from HYDRA.

Eventually, you knew that the three of you would settle down with each other— it was part of the reason that Sharon and Nat were set off so easily by your jokes. Everyone was just waiting for the day it happened. Alpha you would have fun, even cracked jokes about it after you all got off. Omega you was shaking. You weren’t ready. You barely had power as an Omega, less so as a claimed one. You stiffened when you felt teeth graze your skin. The two Alphas surrounding you were men that you trusted with your life.

They were good, everyone on the team would agree. But in that moment you still felt a little fear. As long as an Omega was unclaimed and submitted to the Alpha command, everything done was lawful and seen as technically consensual. It always made you scoff because rarely could an Omega refuse the Alpha command enough for the law to help them.

It didn’t even have to be a major refusal but a lot of Omegas found it hard to even repeat their request after an Alpha commanded them to do something— there was only a true chance with a Beta. What if Steve and Bucky’s rut took over any common sense they had? Based on how everything had been going lately, you were sure that if they used a command then you wouldn’t be able to refuse them.

“Wait, stop.”

Both men pulled back, concerned when they noticed you shaking a bit. They removed their hands from you.

“Hey, hey, (Y/N),” Steve said, getting your attention. “It’s okay.”

“Sorry.”

Bucky shook his head. “Don’t apologize, doll. We were moving kind of fast for you, weren’t we?”

You nodded. The fact that you were finding it so easy to submit to the two of them scared you. It was too hard to know what full control felt like and let it slip away. You couldn’t reconcile with that. Bucky pulled you into his lap, grinding you over his hard on to try and give himself some relief.

“You should go,” he said. “Give Stevie and I a chance to calm down. You set everyone off little ‘Mega.”

“I did?”

Bucky passed you over to Steve like you were just a toy which you figured that you kind of were with your new status. The blond nodded as he did the same thing that Bucky did, trying to get a little bit of relief.

“Your scent’s all over the damn tower, made everyone’s ruts start. You smell so damn sweet.” You shuddered as Steve’s tone changed to an Alpha one, making him smile. “Go on, get out the tower until everyone settles down.”

You scrambled off of him. In the back of your mind, your Alpha memories made you scream at yourself for listening so easily. You wanted to yell at yourself some more when you immediately turned as Bucky called you.

“Go out with one of the Omegas or Sam. No Alphas.”

“Oh, please no one is going to do anything, Buc—”

“No Alphas.”

You didn’t say anything. You figured that you could just go to the Botanical Garden with Sam. Leaving, you went upstairs to grab your bag and text Sam to meet you in the lobby of the building. You came back downstairs and the two men got up to follow you out. When you entered the elevator, Steve turned to face you. He grabbed the sides of your face in both hands and kissed you harshly.

“You’re gonna be ours, right? Buck and I’s Omega.”

You nodded. It was more dangerous to go around unclaimed, especially when the Alpha cells projected your scent farther than it should travel. Steve and Bucky were safe. You weren’t ready and you never would be but they were safe. As soon as you calmed yourself down enough, you would let them mark you for real. Maybe with them you could still keep Alpha ways. They knew who you actually were, who you started out as. Bucky tilted your head back and kissed you.

“Thanks for letting us into your space,” he said. “And being your Alphas. We’re gonna treat you so well, Omega.”

Your eyes fluttered close at his words. Roseanne looked up from the desk where she had been talking to Sam when you guys walked out the elevator. Their mouths almost dropped open at the three of you standing in front of her. You were a little more reserved with the new status being so open but Steve and Bucky were beaming. Steve drummed his hands on the desk.

“Rose, any more of my jackets hidden back there?”

She nodded and reached out to reveal an armful of outwear. He picked up two of them, sniffing them both and handing the one with the lesser scent to Bucky. The other man shrugged it on, annoyed by the sleeve on the left side but he hadn’t bothered to get his custom jacket before you guys had left.

“You building a little nest back there?” Bucky asked with a chuckle as he watched Roseanne put the rest of Steve’s jackets back behind the desk. “Take care of her, Sam. You two have fun.”

They both left without another word. Sam pulled back the collar of your shirt and he and Roseanne sucked their teeth at the two obvious hickeys on either side of your neck. Your face felt hot as they kept looking.

“They aren’t my Alphas… yet.”

“Damn. Under 24 hours, Cap and Metalman already laid a claim. Are you ready to go?”

You hooked your arm through Sam’s and the two of you left to go on your little outing.

Not many people were at the Botanical Gardens which is why you picked it. Just enough people that you didn’t know could see and smell you as an Omega but there weren’t too many people to where you would be overwhelmed. You and Sam took a detour walk down the butterfly path. A blue butterfly landed on your hand as you stepped on the path before flying off.

“I don’t care what everyone else thinks,” Sam started. “You were an Alpha and you’ll always be one. Just remember that I’m here for you. I’ll stand up for you if you need it, all you have to do is find me.”

You thanked Sam for having your best interest at heart. He always would. Didn’t matter how much of a gentleman Steve and Bucky were, they were still unclaimed Alphas and Steve was the leader of the team. Sam wanted to make sure you weren’t just going with anything to appease them— especially when as a new Omega he assumed you would submit very easily. If he had to actively work to remember you were an Alpha then he knew that everyone else forgot. It was obvious when Tony and Wanda immediately cracked jokes when you left.

The two of you finished walking the place when Steve texted Sam that they were back at the tower if you were ready to face everyone. At your request, Sam texted back to give you guys a few more hours and then you’d head home. You were still nervous about seeing the others. It didn’t matter how much Sam tried to comfort and reassure you that it would all be fine.

(Part 4)...

#stucky x reader #alpha!steve #alpha!bucky #avengers fic #marvel fic

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