#i love Reed so much... 🥺

[kitausuret]

the world does not need another silly one shot from me about the Venom Symbiote's time in captivity with the Fantastic Four but if I'm going to fixate on one page in one comic by god I'm going to do something with that

I just think it would be sweet if in Reed Richards' desperate attempts to communicate with the Symbiote he tried to like, teach it Morse code, and he asks it, "do you have a name? is there something you were called, some designation you were given? something unique to you?"

And the symbiote taps back after a long moment the closest thing to a human translation of the only thing it can think might fit what Reed is referring to: "DEATH"

And Reed is all at once filled with a kind of overwhelming sadness, because what kind of life has this alien lived that it was called only "Death" by those it encountered? What kind of symbiosis had it experienced, if any at all?

But then he manages to collect himself, and he tells his guest that well, we'll just have to come up with a better designation than that, won't we? He probably tells it about how Sue, his own partner, is the one who gave him the name the world knows him by, "Mister Fantastic", and that he hopes the symbiote, too, can find a name it can be proud of.

Everyone needs a name, after all.

#headcanons #i guess #i got a really vague ask recently so I'm thinking about using it as an excuse to write this #i feel weird writing F4 stuff for this era since i have not read it at ALL but #i love Reed so much... 🥺 #venom #reed richards #fantastic four #alien costume era #super self indulgent tag addition: #years later Reed finally gets to follow up with it properly (it's probably like #bonded to both Eddie and Flash it's fine whatever they are just a trio now) #and it preens a little as it informs Reed that it likes the name 'Venom' that it originally took with Eddie even for itself #Franklin from across the room: 'that's SO EDGY oh my god dude' #Flash: 'it's a great name!' #Johnny who is there for unknown reasons: 'no it's edgy; i just didn't want to tell you when we met how dumb i thought it was' #Eddie is just amused by the whole situation and thinks it's funny to watch Flash argue

[thelustybraavosimaid]

Meera Reed was sixteen, a woman grown, but she stood no higher than her brother. All the crannogmen were small, she told Bran once when he asked why she wasn't taller. Brown-haired, green-eyed, and flat as a boy, she walked with a supple grace that Bran could only watch and envy.

...

It was hard to sulk with Meera. She was much more cheerful than her brother, and always seemed to know how to make him smile. (Bran I, ASoS)

--

Meera was a fine huntress, and even better at taking fish from streams with her three-pronged frog spear. Bran liked to watch her, admiring her quickness, the way she sent the spear lancing down and pulled it back with a silvery trout wriggling at the end of it. (Bran II, ASoS)

--

The Wall could look like stone, all grey and pitted, but then the clouds would break and the sun would hit it differently, and all at once it would transform, and stand there white and blue and glittering. It was the end of the world, Old Nan always said. On the other side were monsters and giants and ghouls, but they could not pass so long as the Wall stood strong. I want to stand on top with Meera, Bran thought. I want to stand on top and see. (Bran IV, ASoS)

--

He wondered what Meera would think if he should suddenly tell her that he loved her. (Bran II, ADwD)

#gods i love bran so much #canonbran #bran stark #meera reed #asoiaf #he's so damn sweet 🥺🥺

[void-star]

I'm not crying about Diggory and Percy shut up 😭

#🥺 #hfth #diggory graves #percy reed #I love diggory so much they are so sweet

[saintmurd0ck]

lakeside dreamin'

masterlist

pairing: jedi general anakin skywalker x f!reader

summary: anakin reminisces about your lives together while he's away fighting in the clone wars

warnings: heavy angst, mentions of canon events in TCW, canon typical mentions of warfare, some smut/spice, mentions of sex, minors DNI 18+ only

a/n: to the one anon who requested this maybe a year ago? i saw clone wars anakin and it was over for my brain 🫠 anyway love you guys and leave a comment or reblog if you liked this! 🥺

song pairing: love on the brain (rihanna)

The war was taking its toll.

Day after day, planet after planet, all Anakin knew now was his place on the battlefield. And his role in leading the victory for the Jedi and the Republic, even though their dogma preached peace, not violence. Every skirmish brought a new kind of horror to his once uncomplicated life, whether it was watching Separatist droids and clone troopers alike, cut down as easily as marsh reeds, or the simple fact that his relationship with the Force was dwindling towards something impure. Something he couldn’t make sense of, and would surely raise more questions than answers if he were to confide in his Masters. It wasn’t that he contemplated reaching towards the Dark side, or thought of the kind of evil only the Sith could endure; it was more like an isolating numbness that spread from within, and before long, Anakin felt the cloud settle over his mind.

He was tired of seeing smoke — the kind that billowed in every direction, stinking of despair and lost hope on his front, despite the war turning to the Republic’s favour. It was the sound of unending blaster fire and the repetitive ignition of his lightsaber that haunted his nightmares, and with only the company of his clone legion, his Padawan Ahsoka and the occasional appearance from Obi-Wan, he felt himself starting to slip.

He was overwhelmed, and encumbered with burden. 

Never before had he experienced such guilt, anger and suffering — towards his army, towards the civilians caught in the crossfire, and towards his relationship with you. 

The secret life the two of you led, away from the Order, felt like something out of another galaxy, another lifetime. It was as if eons had passed since he’d last seen you, and yet the world was constantly evolving — not towards freedom, but into a more destructive version of its past. Even for a Jedi General (and, one could argue, because he was a Jedi General), Anakin had little comfort, and much less sway in which systems he visited and what he took part in. Seeing you was absolutely out of the question, but it wasn’t like he bothered to even ask, out of fear of inviting a lecture from Obi-Wan, or Maker-forbid, an audience with Master Yoda. 

At least things like facilitating training for the Onderon rebels allowed him to feel more of himself, and to an extent, a sort of unity with the Council, but all of that was quickly replaced by the more sinister side of the Separatist Alliance, such as the trainwreck on Zygerria. Liberation didn’t exist there. Not until Anakin showed up.

It was these events that really compelled him to look inwards, to not just seek the Force’s guidance, but to use it in tandem with a coping mechanism that would get him through the war. 

And so the vignettes began. Slowly, at first. 

It started off as little glimpses of your life together, slices of euphoric nostalgia that weaved their way into Anakin’s being. He didn’t realise just how much he yearned for you; not simply the way your skin felt on his, but the pureness of your energy, the reminder that good truly did exist in this world. As much as these images were a solace to his sanity, they brought about a sense of malaise. Contrition, actually, if he sought the Force for the purpose of clarity. Even though it all existed in his head, allowing himself these indulgences felt like once again, he was breaking Code. 

But could it really have been that bad, if it honed his focus? If it drew him back to the bigger picture, of the why? Reminding himself of who it was he fought for didn’t erase the atrocities, but it gave him that flicker of hope, knowing that the sum of his actions equalled a better world for you. 

And some selfish, miniscule part of him figured that if he could lead the victory, he’d be pardoned when the Order inevitably found out about the life the two of you shared. It isn’t as if no-one already knew. He was sure Ahsoka was aware. Rex, too. He doubted when it came to Obi-Wan, but then again very little got past his Master. 

While the memories of you lay fresh before his eyes, they seemed to sharpen at specific points throughout the day; often in the thick of battle, or when he woke up in the middle of the night, drenched in a cold sweat, nothing but thin shafts of moonlight illuminating his body. It’s like they were stitched perfectly amongst the real action, scattered at perfect intervals that jerked his body into manoeuvre.

The sweetest images had always featured the lake. 

Armed with nothing more but his wits, his back pressed against the cold, wet stone in a cave on Vanqor, he reminisced about that first night with you by the lakeside. The sweet smell of wildflowers carried in the breeze, heightened by his affinity for the Force. He recalled the gentle lapping of the waves on the shore, and how the two moons cast their milky glow upon the shimmering surface of the water. And you — radiant, almost ethereal in the soft light, and the way your lips brushed against his neck, filling him with the kind of heat that flooded all at once. Not even the screech of the pursuing gundark could have interrupted this moment in time. He felt his breathing go ragged, because he remembered what happened next. He gritted his teeth, thinking about the way he moved inside you, and how you tangled your fingers in his hair, pressing chaste kisses to his mouth, his chest, whispering his name in sinful bliss. The gundark didn’t stand a chance. Not when Anakin’s motivation for getting out alive laid in sweet promise, embedded in these visions.

His name felt the most natural rolling off your tongue, nevermind that that was truly the last real thing he possessed, unmarred by time and the influence of the Jedi. In that moment, when you’d taken him over the edge with you, crying his name so loud he swore someone had heard, he knew he’d give it over to you if you’d asked.

He thought of the lake again when he was in Felucia, crouched low amongst the sillum. His lightsaber grew heavy in his hand, the ridges suddenly awkward in his palm, but the grip he’d started to lose on his lifeline gave rise to something he couldn’t ignore. 

It was another temperate day and the sun had created the most brilliant reflections on the surface of the lake. With the grasses and trees swaying in the wind, Anakin closed his eyes, reaching out with the Force. He didn’t prod or poke, but rather he cast a wide net, a delicate caress, to connect with the life that teemed. It sang to him in a multi-layered harmony, acting as a prominent reminder that the Force flowed in all living things. And when his eyes fluttered open, he watched you carefully as you walked towards the water, your feet crunching on the smooth pebbles that made up the beach. You turned around to give him a dazzling smile, moving with deliberation to slip off your clothes. Your laughter echoed in the crisp air as you dived into the lake, disappearing under a swathe of emerald green, only to resurface in the middle with a large grin plastered to your face. He didn’t hesitate to jump in, to shed his clothing on the spot. A shudder ran down his spine at the thought of what happened shortly after. 

Sometimes it was hard to return to the present, to remember that he’d sleep alone that night while you were only just waking up, systems away, most likely after another fitful slumber.  There were times where he thought these visions would serve no other purpose than to derail him, when the temptation of your touch shadowed his desire for victory. These moments guided him to channel the Force within, so as to remind himself of why he was doing this in the first place. Because it was more than just a coping mechanism. It was an anchor. A thrumming pulse point. A gentle acknowledgement of the life he wanted to come back to.

It’s then that he wondered when enough would be enough, when the war would come to a stalemate, as it so often did in their history. The tide was turning, and he knew it.

And there it was again, that kernel of hope, that ember of light that shone in the depths of his soul. Even reduced to a ghost in his memory, you were tangible, so tangible now. He wouldn’t let the Separatists win. He couldn’t, because there was too much at stake. And so if thinking of you, in these ways, helped him remember that, he wasn’t going to stop. 

Not for anyone. 

#anakin skywalker smut #anakin skywalker angst #anakin skywalker x reader #anakin skywalker fanfiction #anakin skywalker fic #star wars smut #star wars fanfiction #the clone wars fanfiction #anakin x reader #anakin smut #anakin fanfiction #x reader #rhi writes 💻

[bebx]

Victor von Doom: I hate you so much. I have pictures of you in my room, so I can throw darts at them.

Reed Richards: you have pictures of me in your room? 🥺🥺🥺

your honor, I love them

#doomreed #victor von doom #reed richards #fantastic 4 #fantastic four #victor x reed #reed x victor #marvel

[pdrrook]

Hi, if this is not too much 😅, how would pfm amd fmo ROs react?

MC: doing stuff

RO: 😳/👉👈/👀

What is MC doing? Watering the plants, fighting and kicking ass, cooking, training, doing taxes, mopping the floor? What would look very attractive to the ROs?

"What is MC doing?" breathing most likely 🤣

PFM:

Jewel: working out, running from ppl who're trying to kill them, MC reacting with bravado or sarcasm, MC (especially a usually stoic/timid) going mad feral:

Reed: well he defo enjoyed MC breaking Marco's nose, I can't wait for the IF bc you'll have an option to already be in a relationship with him at this point and his reaction is a tad hm different than in the VN but MC wiping the floor with other ppl whether verbally or physically is very attractive to him. Then again, he already is MC's biggest cheerleader, so anything MC does he's like:

Laurent: the first night after MC came to live with him, when he came out of his room in the morning and almost forgot they would be there, and he saw MC sleeping on his couch? MC sleeping or doing anything domestic at his place has him go:

Nino: ngl if MC whacked someone in the face with a gun, she'd pull out a wedding ring right here and there lmao, but in general MC doing something they love or are passionate about is very attractive to her

Flavio: MC genuinely laughing at his jokes, like with other people his humor is very performative, and it usually has a purpose so when people laugh it's mostly 'well done' and he doesn't think twice about it, but with MC when they laugh in general he gets like😳🥺and he doesn't know what to do with himself

Alan: MC acting cute or being made to act cute (bonus points if MC is completely opposite of cute, usually), MC being flustered especially if it's because of him

FMO:

Rez: MC being mean, especially to them, MC sparring/fighting/sweaty/breathing heavily...finish the sentence yourself

Mirren: MC concentrating on a task or trying something new

Lotar: MC bossing people around, bonus points if it’s a figure of authority, MC reading or writing with abandon

Saltire: MC doings something they're good/confident at

Malitiose: either MC being sleepy, caught off guard, or vulnerable, or MC going full rambo

#pfm #jewel #reed #laurent #nino #flavio #alan #NOT REZ BEING A LIL M #fmo #rez #mirren #lotar #saltire #malitiose

[razmerry]

I found this panel when I was reading the fantastic 4 reckoning war arc and jesus christ jack telling a dying man that you'll see him in hell whilst being a dying man yourself is super cold.

My god I love this man so much

Man's a poet of course is would construct one of the coldest sentences 🥺🥺🥺🥺

AHH I love that arc so much!! Had me on my hands and knees grabbing at my Jack crumbs for REAL. It's so funny that he said shsjshhkh honestly he's just matching Watcher!Reed's vibes. Also so good to keep that character trait of his which is "weirdly okay with dying at like, any provocation"

#ask #jack of hearts #marvel #average jack moment delivering the sicket lines while in the most pathetic circumstances

[squigglebottom]

The JQ Connection

Part Two

Part Three

Had a thought today about Joe’s different movies and shows and how many of his cast mates have been in films/shows that are special to me, I grew up with, and/or really enjoyed. It’s almost like a Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon but with Joe and then I thought it’s as if all roads were leading to him before I even knew who he was(I know this sounds mental believe me but he makes my brain mush 😂) I decided to do a fun thing (and I’m bored) and went through all his cast mates (or they starred in the same show as him even if they didn’t work with him) and wanted to share the many things they have worked on that hold a special place in my heart. 🥰

Djimon Honsou

Tomb Raider : Cradle Of Life : I was obsessed with this film because Gerry was in it. I don’t want to know how many times I’ve seen it.

Movie with Joe: A Quiet Place Day One as Island Man

Peter Mensah

300: Yes, another movie featuring Gerry. You will remember Peter as the dude that Leonidas screams THIS IS SPARTA!!!! and then kicks him down the bottomless pit.

Movie With Joe: Gladiator 2 as (unknown)

Dominic West

Yes…also 300: Dominic was the dude who took bribes from Xerxes, gave the Queen shit, and apparently hung out with old guys as shown here. Not a nice guy.

Show with Joe: Les Miserables as Jean Valjean

Matt Lucas

Great Britain: If you haven’t seen the OG version of this show, figure out how and binge it all. It’s one of the funniest shows ever. Matt was also in Doctor Who as well.

Movie with Joe: Gladiator 2 as (unknown)

Lupita Nyong’o

Black Panther: I love Marvel, I’m a huge fan and Black Panther was a masterpiece. Glad we got to see Pita and Chadwick together while we still could. 🥺

Movie with Joe: A Quiet Place Day One as Sammy

Vanessa Kirby

The Crown: Vanessa played Margaret perfectly. She was so fun and hip, I was such a fan girl. Got to work with my Matty. 🥰

Movie with Joe: Fantastic Four as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman

Pedro Pascal

Mandalorion and Game of Thrones : Mando and GOT are two of the biggest and best shows around. Became so obsessed with both (although I’m like House of the Dragon more than GOT). Not to mention Ro Ro and Joe were both in the series.

Movies with Joe: Yes! Not one but…wait for it…TWO movies with Joe! 😃 it’s gonna be too much hotness to handle! Fantastic Four as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic and Gladiator 2 as Justin Martialis

Hayley Attwell

Captain America: And a slew of others as Peggy Carter and love of his life of Cap.

Show with Joe: Howard’s End as Margaret Schlegel

Julia Ormond

First Knight: such a beautiful film featuring Seanny Baby.

Show with Joe: Howard’s End as Mrs. Wilcox

(Guess there is going to be a second part bc I’m not done 😂)

#joseph quinn

[writernopal]

Happy WBW! What kind of music is popular in your world? Are there any famous musicians known by the characters?

Happy WBW, Kraken!

It really depends on where you're at because each of the different races/species has their own types of instruments! Lizardfolk for example play sitars and mandolins, while Elves tend to play reed and wind instruments. That said, fiddling is perhaps the most popular music type! It's lively, it's fun, and perfect for entertaining :)

I haven't put much thought into famous musicians, though now I'm thinking I should since I love music so much. However, there is a character in the AASOAF cast who is known to be a talented fiddler, Rapheus! He took up the hobby while he was nursing a broken leg and he was more or less bedridden. It didn't heal quite right, so he walks with a cane and can't stand for long periods of time but he will save his energy to do one legged dances while he fiddles 🥺

#thanks for the ask! #nopal answers #aasoaf #rapheus #can you see why he is a low key fave of mine? #wbw

[brw]

first of all: i clicked the unfollow button on accident 😭 sorry

i can't see the emoji for the favorite creations thing, so here's a heart❤️

also, if i may request two things:

🤖pick what's easier/most interesting to you (!!!): emma frost. scott summers. scemma. matt murdock. natasha romanoff. doom. doom/reed. carol danvers. magneto. marc spector.

and ofc congrats 🥺❤️ i can't wait for the edits, of mine and everyone else!

and don't worry about time, take as much as you need, i will definitely like these characters in the following months! 😜 and i've been in this hellhole for +10 years... i won't leave either 😂😫)

hii raffa! thank you so much for your lovely message, here is the carol danvers edit :3 i hope you enjoy!

i have quite a few gifsets of yours i really like, but my absolute favourite is this steve rogers one, the no bitches megamind image genuinely makes me laugh every time i come across it, there's messages on discord way back where i linked it to some people bc i really loved it <3

i really like this more comic book inspired avengers one that's framed like a collage, i think it's a really creative idea and the overlapping related images with the faded colours of the gifs themselves to make them look paperish and scanned really invokes the taped together collage vibe. it's a really solid idea!

this elmo one has been living in my head ever since i saw it, it's such a high level shitpost and i was actually so surprised when i saw it only had like 170 notes?? the colours and inverted whites are genuinely terrifying and the kind of like, late night horror documentary vibe is captured really well by the graininess of the footage and the flickering specks. its really creative and i'll be honest is the thing that has made me most likely to go watch american psycho because it's such an odd idea. i would love to study you for this.

fight club is a great movie and i think this gifset showcasing the more overt homoeroticism tinged with the violence inherent is really well done, and the final one at the end with the aubergine still takes me off guard, it's really funny. it feels very invocative of the many film essays written about the theming of fight club which makes it very interesting to think about, and of course the sharpness and colours are stand-out too :)

finally, this goncharov gifset is amazing and one of the best things to come out of that whole meme, i think. the colouring and editing and splicing does such a great job making it look like an actual movie, i genuinely believe you could reverse engineer a movie out of this! despite being from different films, they all go together extremely cohesively and the idea and layout itself is so cool! the first with the overlaid red kremlin! it's such a cool idea and definitely one of my favourite goncharov inspired creations of all time :)

#*my1k #raffa tag #thank u so much! <333

[missglaskin]

I love your post so much I always looked at you post and I love them. You are the best writer I acually find an enjoyment to reed, keep doing your best 🥰.

Anon thank you so much 🥺 it really is so helpful to read such wonderful words, I will try my best I promise

#ask

[presidentrhodes]

multiverse of madness thoughts. spoilers obviously

1. i think critics are insane for the way they're ignoring benedict cumberbatch's performance. he gave each of the four stranges nuanced, distinct personalities that allowed them to shine through. even supreme strange and his "i'm ready" comment when facing death — a nice call back to stephen's "i am not ready" comment in the first movie.

2. wong had some good scenes but i am angry at how much they nerfed him. even if the scarlet witch is a super op character, wong is the sorcerer supreme ffs. he is supposed to be powerful and he didn't even get a single hit at wanda, just got thrown around a lot and it was frankly insulting.

3. they did mordo so dirty. first by not even including mcu mordo in the film, then by retconning his backstory. waldron is a fucking demon because one of the reasons why mcu mordo was so appealing was because his enmity with strange had a logical starting point versus the comics mordo. but of course waldron retconned it into the comics verse where mordo is just a bitter jealous man. i fucking hate this. chiwetel doesn't deserve this rat man's nonsensical writing.

4. master mordo was a cutie tho. my favourite bit was when stephen put that magic dampener cuff on him and they started throwing hands at each other. lol dumbasses.

5. the Illuminati were boring except captain marvel. i refuse to believe that she is dead given she literally is one of the most powerful beings in every universe. it was so good to have lashana lynch back ❤️

6. the sorceress sara was done so fucking dirty. they gave her a funkopop, they chose her name to tease sara wolfe (wong's interest) and then they killed her off so horrifically. i hated that so much. this film somehow relished hurting and killing bipoc and ofc you can't expect anything different when you consider the people in charge. it was nauseating and the more i think about it, the madder i get. 🥲

7. wendy was surprisingly good as a villain but then marvel did its thing and tried to excuse her actions every step of the way. like sorry u lost your imaginary kids. maybe seek therapy instead of trying to kill a literal child for your gratification. plus the justification she gave for wanting to kill America? nauseating.

8. i really liked america chavez. she may have lost her moms in the multiverse but I'm return she gained two incredibly tired dads 🥲🥺

9. one day marvel is gonna respect reed. one day. but let's talk about clea. one of my legitimate fear was that they'd cast some 20 year old to play her and it'd be just as iffy as their ambiguous age difference in the comics. idk how charlize will do as clea but im happy that she's at least bc's age

10. overall a very mid film that was both a doctor strange film but it also wasn't. i'll have more thoughts later but one thing is clear. waldron is a demon. doctor strange 3 should be about doctor strange characters so pls no wendy or loki or anyone else. jericho drumm, more mordo, clea and wong pls. would love to see america too and maybe vvd.bye

#multiverse of madness #multiverse of madness spoilers #doctor strange #stephen strange #karl mordo #wong #anti wanda maximoff #my posts

[cheesybadgers]

Taking advantage of your post about being able to send questions about your fics, I've always wanted to know if you have books that inspire you to write OHDH.

You know it's a statement for me to talk about how much I love what you do, but I think your narrative bias is impeccable! Not to mention the references you use in the story which are great.

Ahhh Maria, bless you and thank you so much for your kind words 🥺 And wow thank you for asking such a great question ❤️

I'll put this below the cut, because it got a bit long lol.

I've read a lot of books specifically as research for OHDH, in the sense of knowing my next chapter was going to be about X subject/place etc. but I didn't know anywhere near enough to be able to write about it well without researching first. I've mentioned a few of the books (fiction and non-fiction) I've used for this in my OHDH trivia post.

One of those books listed in that post, Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester, was also a big inspiration for including Día de los Muertos in OHDH. The book is set in a Texas border town, follows a Mexican family and covers parental loss and grief (the main character's father-in-law is dead and his ghost visits her every Día de los Muertos to try and fix unresolved conflict with his son), cultural identity, and also the realities of crossing the US-Mexican border. So, it was a bit of a goldmine when I found that lol.

I also read a couple of books by Colombian authors: Like This Afternoon Forever by Jaime Manrique and Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. They both follow Colombian characters living in Colombia during the 80s. I found these stories really useful in giving context that Narcos just doesn't give, because obviously Narcos isn't told from a Colombian POV. The first one mentioned also has two gay priests who fall in love, but their ending is a sad one (I understand why though, as the author is a gay man who lived through the HIV/AIDS crisis but their partner didn't, so I think this book was him processing his own grief).

In fact, most of the LGBTQ+ books I've read since starting OHDH had sad/bittersweet endings (including Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, which gets referenced a couple of times in OHDH). I know that's not surprising in the slightest...but in a way, I think reading those books inspired me NOT to do that? There are enough tragic stories about gay/bi men (especially in the 80s/early 90s) already...and whilst they are absolutely valid and serve a purpose and are often based on the author's own experiences, I didn't want to add another.

There are a few books about/set in Madrid I've read for chapter 18 that have been really useful in providing historical context I wasn't aware of, but I don't want to give away spoilers lol, so I'll talk about that in my trivia post once the chapter is done and dusted!

I know you asked specifically about books, but film and TV inspire me a lot as well. Huge shout out to two gay films that have spookily similar premises but very different endings: God's Own Country and A Moment in the Reeds. They're both really atmospheric (God's Own Country is also aptly set on a farm, albeit in England rather than on a ranch in Texas lol) and the way they capture m/m intimacy made me YEARN.

As for TV...I know this is a bit random but Buffy the Vampire Slayer, purely for the way that show uses tropes. I know it's absolutely not the only show to do this, but I did a Buffy re-watch at some point during the pandemic (so probably not long after I started writing OHDH) and remember being impressed by the tools they used to tell stories, particularly dreams/foreshadowing/objects of significance (hello cross necklace, my beloved). I ended up including stuff along those lines in OHDH after I did that re-watch.

I also really wish I'd been able to watch The Last of Us before I started writing this fic lol...I don't think I've ever experienced such extreme writer envy as I did after episode 3 😂 It won't be part of OHDH, but after that episode I was daydreaming about looking in on Javier and Horacio when they're that age and then I made myself cry 😭

By the way, I do know this is all going waaaaay beyond what anyone needs to do to write a fic lol. But in my defence, it serves me right for writing about places/people/events I didn't know much about beforehand lol. And I also love learning new things! And this has been the perfect opportunity to learn but in a more fun way than my school days ever allowed. I've also read a lot more books than I had done in years, so who said pushing your favourite fictional men together like dolls and making kissing noises had to be a shallow hobby? 😂

Thank you once again for sending this, Maria! It's been fun to respond to 😘

#Ask #Asks #Replies #OHDH

[fruti2flutie]

Hi. First of all, I've reeding "The blood on your lies" nonstop and I want to fly off the handle and throw myself out of the window. Minjeong it's killing me (they deserve each other damnit). Thanks for the recommendation (one of the best fics I have read truly).

Secondly, CHAPTER 5. OMG. I just love seungbin so much. I was scandalized while reading the whole smut part 😭 also reading Minnie's pov breaks my heart. He's a poor little fella that wants to be loved. He's so stubborn. He should allow himself some love.

HELLO!! FELLOW THE BLOOD ON YOUR LIES READER!!!! THAT FIC!!!!! IS SO FUCKING GOOD!!!!!!!! i will YELL IT SO LOUDLY i am GLAD u took my recommendation(??) i love the authors so BAD, i began the fic with that & bc of my love of seungbin!!! i didn't feel strongly abt any of the pairs aside from seungbin, BUT inkin has such a way of storytelling that I AM SO.... INVESTED...... IN ALL THE RELATIONSHIPS....... personally aside from seungbin, my fav ship in the fic is hyunsung!!!! i have a soft spot for Snarky & Sunshine 🥺 and i really want them to just sit next to one another 🥺 the minjeong is Extremely Painful tho so i feel u on that........

"poor little fella that wants to be loved" is SO TRUE 😭😭😭 i affectionately call my fic seungmin "a freak with committment issues" JFJSJXMS i really am leaning into the p0rn of the p0rn with plot trope 😳👉👈 so hopefully it's an entertained kind of scandalized LOL thanks for reading!!!!!

#anon #reply #🐶💰🐷🐇 #the only things on my mind: inkin's gang fic & my prostitution au 🥴 #also i'm bumping up the length to 9 chapters whenever i update again. plz Do Not perceive me

[lvllns]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY REED !!! i and so many others are so blessed to know you and be able to witness all the wonderful things you create !!! you are such a funny and intelligent and sweet person and i hope you have a wonderful year ahead of you full of love and light and kindness ❤️🎉🎁🥰

MAIA STOP OH MY GOD 🥺🥺🥺 you are so fucking sweet and kind!!! thank you so, so much <3 <3

#reed.txt #ask tag #bday tag #this is so fucking sweet of you omg #i’m banking all the energy for a good next year for sure

[thecityonthemoon]

Today’s liveblogging will be shorter than I expected. I was struggling to get unlimited to load the pages the whole afternoon, but then I remembered my home network hates it sometimes. I switched to 4G and it all went smoothly from there

I started reading the short stories leading to Attilan being taken to the moon. First, Sphinx abducts the royal family in Fantastic Four Annual (1963) #12

I just love how overpowered Black Bolt is 🥰

Aah Pietro 🥺 I wish it could have remained like this. Pietro finding acceptance from the inhumans, no mind manipulation, no growing suspicions, no theft of crystals…. 👀

Aww look at Medusa taking care of her man 💕 I should add “h/c medusabolt” to my fics-to-write list

I love them, your honor! I love Reed and Sue too, neutral about Pietro and Crystal (but they’re cute at this point). BB smiles!!

Insert some bad taste friendzone joke. That aside, this is actually so wholesome. Jealousy was a problem for both men here, so now Johnny accepted that Crystal loves Pietro and not him, and both Crystal and Pietro accepted that Johnny is Crystal’s friends and she would always have this feeling for him, and Pietro also wants to be his friend. They grew up so much 😭

Continued in next reblog

#silence or death