#ratherembarrassing

[applesforthis]

New Deadloch Fic: In Plain Sight

A slow-build romance leading to polyamory. Rated explicit. Long (84,000 words). Eddie POV. Complete.

Eddie/Dulcie are definitely the main pairing. Eddie/Cath are shown making out once. There is also one Dulcie/Eddie/Cath sex scene at the end but otherwise no Dulcie/Cath or Eddie/Cath is shown (though both are mentioned).

Canon-compliant. Set after the end of the series proper, starting right after Ray’s death. Includes the canon epilogue scene (in which Eddie and Dulcie visit Holly) and then continues after that.

I didn’t like Cath in canon but I think she could get her shit together and be a better person and a better partner, and I’ve leaned into that very hard, while doing my best to also keep her in character.

Important note: the first scene is rough but things don’t stay that way. This is a happy fic overall, with a very happy ending.

See Chapter 1 for content warning.

This was an utter delight to write. Please read and enjoy. I'd love to hear in comments how you respond to it -- all feedback is great, including critique. <3

Lastly, thank you SO MUCH to my absolutely amazing beta, @ratherembarrassing, for help with so many important dialect and character notes. This fic would be such a hot mess without you, and I'm so so grateful for your time and your meticulous attention to detail. <3 <3 <3

This way to the fic :-D

#eddie redcliffe #deadloch #dulcie collins #dulcie/eddie #dulcie collins/eddie redcliffe #cath york #fanfiction #fanfic #eddie redcliffe/dulcie collins #eddie/dulcie

[jennamacaroni]

QUESTIONS FOR 15 FRIENDS I was tagged by @scifi-cowboy thank you!

ARE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE?: the character jenna wade in the old soap opera 'dallas'

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU CRIED?: i cry all the time since i had to put down my dog :(

DO YOU HAVE KIDS?: a one year old girl

WHAT SPORTS DO YOU PLAY/HAVE YOU PLAYED?: soccer, volleyball, lacrosse, roller hockey, softball, and basketball.

DO YOU USE SARCASM?: do people not?

WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT PEOPLE?: outfits and smile

WHAT’S YOUR EYE COLOUR?: brown

SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDINGS?: i do not watch scary movies. happy endings are underrated frankly.

ANY TALENTS?: is beer pong considered a talent?

WHERE WERE YOU BORN?: the smallest state in the united states

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES?: reading, writing, cooking, baking, swimming, watching sports.

DO YOU HAVE ANY PETS?: a 9 year old cat named tuukka

HOW TALL ARE YOU?: 5'6"

FAVOURITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL?: physical education

DREAM JOB?: no job at all. just caring for my family

tagging @tarynlatx @confusedanon @sarahstreep7 @smartycvnt @5ivebyfive @xactodreams @ratherembarrassing @brandi927 @lebanesetoaster @roarsaidthedinosaur @dratij @dkc2017 @circling-back-to-it-all @stennnn06 @samaelschain no presh

#a portrait of the blogger in 2024 #thanks for the tag!

[occidentaltourist]

9 favorite films that I watched for the first time in 2023 | tagged by @swallowedabug (thank you!)

Empire of Light

Past Lives

3000 Years of Longing

Four Daughters

BlackBerry

Theater Camp

The Holdovers

Barbie

A Thousand and One

tagging @morallyconflictedcharacters @disquietiswhatitis @moistvonlipwig @sideguitars @brownandreclusive @sbrn10 @beefcake-penguin @ratherembarrassing @lena-in-a-red-dress @weinzapfeltalks

#movies

[ratherembarrassing]

omg omg omg ratherembarrassing fic?!

this is very sweet. i’m not sure it’s anything that will see the light of day, but there is at least one word doc with something resembling an actual story and not just my insane ramblings about the ideal first meal barbie should eat as a human.

[door]

tagged by @brella HEY PAL while sat eating contraband and reading at the reference desk so let's do it

3 Ships: there are so many. ok: obi-wan/cody for the serious adult/serious adult content my heart craves, apollo/klavier because i LOVE an anxious weirdo and what's better than 1 anxious weirdo?? and finally peter/harriet on account of all the heyer mysteries i've been reading and there are some good and fun romances in them but truly nobody did it like peter and harriet.

First Ship Ever: i have forgotten the specifics of the chronology of my youth. Nancy Drew & Ned Nickerson or Anne Shirley & Gilbert Blythe, likely. han & leia also, possibly. i watched the original trilogy straight through on a snow day so i wasn't left in suspense about them for very long but i did very very badly want it to happen. the first ship i ever read fic for, however, was mulder & scully.

Last Song: the Glass Onion score while doing some research, but i currently have Transgender Dysphoria Blues by Against Me! playing on a loop in my head (not a complaint)

Last Movie: watched Invitation to a Murder last night after finding it on a wikipedia list of films set in the 1930s. i have been reading almost exclusively books written and set in the 30s and i just wanted to see it. i like the unpretentious nature of tv movies so an american-made straight-to-streaming take on a Christie country house mystery should have been right up my alley but mostly i was bothered by how wrong the breakfast service was.

Currently Reading: just finished one heyer (A Blunt Instrument) and immediately started another (No Wind of Blame)

Currently Watching: nothing. i am very weird about tv.

Currently Consuming: just finished the contraband (a peanut butter cup cookie from the cafe)

Currently Craving: it's still fucking pimento cheese

tagging: @notabuddhist @ratherembarrassing @powpowhammer if you want! im not a cop

#more information about penguins than i care to have #meme thing

[the-ominous-owl]

Tag 9 People You Want to Get to Know Better

i was tagged by @gohandinhand and @princington (<3 thank you my beloveds) and relentlessly peer-pressured by @scooby-doo-creepymechclown (demon. biting you. <3)

favourite colour: greeeeeen mostly, but sometimes purple

currently reading: currently re-reading Compass Rose by Anna Burke, which is awesome, and i just finished The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanranhan, which has awesome worldbuilding but i hate the main character so ehhh

last song: love will come through - travis

last series: rewatching elementary. someone put a gifset on my dash and my brain latched on

last movie: i don't actually remember

sweet/savoury/spicy: sweet alllll the way

currently working on: avatrice ghost au. it's either going to be awesome or nonsensical. or both. stay tuned!

tagging: @lostchips @birgittesilverbae @ratherembarrassing @kendrene @sevens-evan @powerbottomblake @simplyavatrice hi friends no pressure only hugs

#tag game

[xactodreams]

Thanks @scififantasies for the tag!

Three ships: currently supercorp, avatrice, wenclair

First ship: Sailor Mars x Sailor Venus

Last song: Drain You by Nirvana

Last movie: Beauty & the Beast

Currently reading: NOTHING. NOT EVEN THE THINGS I DESPERATELY WANT TO READ. It’s awful. stupid brain and its stupid random paralysis of enjoyable activities

Currently watching: Gilmore Girls for the nth time, Warrior Nun for the 6th or 7th time? Alone Season 6: The Arctic for the 2nd time

Currently consuming: water

Currently craving: attention?

Tagging: @gaypapercuts @roarsaidthedinosaur @ratherembarrassing @slightly-ducky @23rdhunter

[karatam]

I posted 3,606 times in 2022

That's 1,593 more posts than 2021!

130 posts created (4%)

3,476 posts reblogged (96%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@becamitchell

@dearsheroozle

@fiddleabout

@ratherembarrassing

@tripleburger

I tagged 2,922 of my posts in 2022

Only 19% of my posts had no tags

#warrior nun - 451 posts

#sister beatrice - 297 posts

#ava silva - 293 posts

#a league of their own tv - 280 posts

#ava x beatrice - 278 posts

#lol - 256 posts

#house of the dragon - 218 posts

#warrior nun spoilers - 174 posts

#alicent hightower - 137 posts

#rhaenyra targaryen - 134 posts

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#lmao the WN tags just taking over #all from just the last month asjkdhasjkhd #seems correct #I took out the top posts because they're not very interesting tbh

[fiddleabout]

Tagged by @smallandsundry to post 5 songs on repeat ❤️

i’m not down - sleigh bells

spike the punch - alex lahey

i hate running - number one popstar

this hell - rina sawayama

alphabet block - marnie

Tagging:  @bigmammallama5 @frenchsoda @karatam @ratherembarrassing @critter-of-habit @itcameuponamidnightqueer

#meme

[smallboyonherbike]

🎶✨when you get this you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to. then tag 10 an amount of people 🎶✨

tagged by @williamthebloodied thanx!!! 💖 i will take literally any excuse to talk about music lol

-missin u - tori kelly

-cha cha cha - käärijä

-same language - meet me @ the altar

-bad at letting go - leland and MUNA

-sick to my stomach - rebecca black

tagging @mr-writes @dreamerhennessy @landunderthewave @ratherembarrassing and anyone else who sees and wants to!!

#megamazing #tag game // #so many good albums out this year so far i'm having a blaaaaast #and 4-5 concerts booked so far this year eeee #as always feel free to ignore the tag or consider yourself tagged if you wanna do it i mean that genuinely!! #it's tumblr like it's just fun lol #also i used a lot of restraint to only incl one ESC song lol #i did pick just 2023 releases bc otherwise it's too vast of options

[hatchetation]

Rules: tag some people you want to get to know better.

Tagged by: @100hearteyes @cxanmen

Favourite time of the year: Summer! Summer always feels like freedom to me. Also, I enjoy the heat 

Comfort food: Box mac and cheese (Kraft), kichdi 

Do you collect something: No

Favourite drink: London fog or any black tea with milk and sugar 

Favourite song: Idk if I have one overall atm?? But for a long time it was Thinking of You by Katy Perry (and I still love that song)

Current favourite song: I’m going through a country moment soooo 80s Mercedes by Maren Morris

Favourite fic: Wow this is HARD!! There are so many good fics out there that have touched me. I guess one that I’ve read a ton of times and loved every time is “the mothering thing of us” by QuickYoke and ratherembarrassing

I tag: anyone who wants to do this! but like, tag me if u do, i love reading this kind of thing :D

#personal #This was fun!

[jennamacaroni]

RULES: List 8 tv shows to get to know me better.

tagged by @dkc2017 ty friend! i'll also go with some more obscure ones that i haven't mentioned in other things lately

dickinson (apple+)

sex education (netflix)

taste the nation (hulu)

vida (starz)

reservation dogs (hulu)

julia (max)

september mornings (prime)

sort of (max)

tagging @kennamanenna @orangeyouglad8 @wellyoucantliveinfear @ratherembarrassing @wanderson20 @sarahstreep7 @sarah-crewe @xactodreams

#feel free to do the thing or dont #a portrait of the blogger in 2023

[occidentaltourist]

15 Questions, 15 Mutuals

Thank you for the tag @leoisanaries :)

1. Are you named after anyone? Yes and no :) (First name no, middle name yes)

2. When was the last time you cried? Hmmm, a couple of days ago I think. I tear up quite frequently (usually in a good way, but also just experiencing waves of grief as they hit me) ... and a good cry is a good emotional release. 

3. Do you have kids? No, and happily so. 

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot? Nevah! (sarcastically)

5. What’s the first thing you notice about people? Their dog. If they unfortunately don’t have one with them, then their eyes.

6. What's your eye color? Black.

7. Scary movies or happy endings? Happy endings. I’m too chicken for scary movies and never watch them.

8. Any special talents? None that I can think of. 

9. Where were you born? Planet earth. :)

10. What are your hobbies? I love to travel and am incredibly lucky that I’m able to do so in my professional and personal life. Not sure if that counts.  Aspirationally: learning more about video games (culturally, anthropologically, economically, aesthetically, as an art and media form), and building fun Lego sets.

11. Have you any pets? A dog, and a rotating cast of fosters when time permits.

12. What sports do you play/have played? Softball, basketball, tennis, track. A long, long time ago!

13. How tall are you? 5' 6"

14. Favorite subject in school? High school: Literature (of all kinds), though I had some amazing science and history teachers too; College: too many to name; Grad school: learned a lot from so many but probably the Economics of Immigration, International Health Policy, and Finance. (three different courses, sorry couldn’t choose)

15. Dream job? The career I’ve had for most of my adult life. I’m incredibly lucky. 

Tagging @maiden-of-might @disquietiswhatitis @brownandreclusive @morallyconflictedcharacters @lena-in-a-red-dress @mssirey @writingsandfandoms @whythinktoomuch @jazzfordshire @elizabethgoudge @chantgirl @this-is-lightning @swallowedabug @the-ominous-owl @ratherembarrassing

And anyone else who’d like to join in!

#ask meme

[ratherembarrassing]

surprised to hear you've not done Xena rewatch, i watched over covid lockdowns but was a bit hesitant

ended up watching alongside xena warrior podcast which lengthened the rewatch massively but would recommend if you like in depth.

you cannot begin to imagine the damage that finale did to 17 year old baby gay ashleigh ratherembarrassing

[roarsaidthedinosaur]

🍓 ME!

YOU!

you cannot half ass a single thing in your life, including (dare i say especially?) how much you care about people. you paid me one of the best compliments i’ve ever been given because you just like… knew exactly what to say. also you have this uncanny ability to look at an article of clothing on any person and then FIND THE PLACE TO PURCHASE IT. HOW.

#you are also the sole reason i met all of my friends #ask meme #ratherembarrassing

[amaltheaz]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY THANK YOU FOR THIS BIRTHDAY GIFT now i just have to get through a day of work before i can enjoy!

You are welcome for this gift on my birthday 😂

I hope you'll enjoy! ❤️❤️❤️

#asks #ratherembarrassing