Ineffable!

All on my own

2024-04-20T06:27:35Z

Fandom: The Old Guard
Series: None
Rating: Teen & Up
Wordcount: 20 103
Pairing(s): Immortal Husbands
Character(s): Niccolo Di Genova, Yusuf Al Kaysani, Sébastien Le Livre, and appearance by other TOG characters.
Genre: Family crisis.
Trigger Warning(s): Discussions of depression, self harm, suicidal thinking and suicide attempt. Brief allusion to genocides. Instances of homophobia (related) and islamophobia (on screen and discussed)
Summary: Closing his eyes, Niccolò leans his head back against the sofa and wonders how today went to shit so fast. They were supposed to have a nice day together. Celebrate their first anniversary with Sébastien by having him finally meet Andy and Quynh in person—Yusuf’s parents usually aren’t free this time of the year, but they’re coming to visit during Sébastien’s Christmas break. There was going to be Niccolò’s best risotto and an apple cake, and it was going to be great. Instead, now, they have this.

Or: the Al-Kaysani-Genovesi-Le Livre household's very harrowing day.

Note: First of all, thank you to FluffyKat for betaing this fic.

Secondly: there are a number of phrases in foreign languages in this fic, pretty much all of them coming from online dictionaries. I tried to make it so you wouldn't need translations to understand the general meaning, but if anyone who has actual knowledge of these languages wants to offer some input on how to make them sound more natural, I'll be happy to listen to any suggestion!

Lastly: this fic comes with a number of warnings, which you've probably seen in the tags. Most of them apply either to Nicky or to baby!Booker, which may make them extra upsetting for you. The story has a happy ending and no one is seriously hurt during it (present time or flashbacks) but I encourage you to apply caution with the themes if you know they resonate with you. I'm happy to answer any question you may have about fic content, here or on my writing tumblr: @terresdebrumestories.

EDITED TO ADD: NOW THERE'S ART!!

Thank you so much to thesunwillart@tumblr for this gorgeous comic illustrating Yusuf and Nico's quiet moment in the bathroom! I'm screaming so hard about it :D

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One night only

2024-04-20T06:15:16Z

Fandom: DC Cinematic Universe
Series: None
Rating: Explicit
Wordcount: 7 358
Pairing(s): Superbat
Character(s): Kal-El/Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne/Batman
Genre: Light smut
Trigger Warning(s): None that I'm aware of
Summary: Bruce crashes on an unknown planet as he returns from a League-related mission. Fortunately for him, he manages to survive the accident with nothing more than big bruises to show for it. Even more fortunately, he finds himself rescued by the hottest alien he's met so far.

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Define Dancing

2024-04-20T06:05:08Z

Define Dancing

Fandom: The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Series: None
Rating: Teen & Up
Wordcount: 4 692
Pairing(s): Napollya
Character(s): Ilya Kuryakin, Napoleon Solo, Gaby Teller
Genre: Hostile acquaintances to lovers... IN SPACE
Trigger Warning(s): None that I'm aware of
Summary: It takes a couple of very lucky--though not for the people they happen to--events that border on miraculous, but Napoleon and Ilya do manage to get sent to the I.S.S. in the end, with one question in mind: how much effort is it really going to take to stop themselves from punching one another in the face--again?

The answer, as it turns out, runs along the lines of 'not that much'.

Note(s): I have once again remembered my DW account, so have some crossposting. There'll be a bunch of that in the next hour or so, and then who knows!

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Crushes that linger and trans questions

2019-09-13T15:23:44Z

So this week I found out that guy had a major crush on last year separated from his girlfriend of eight years. I wish I could say I was very surprised by the way I felt, at the news, but to be honest, not really. I’m also not really surprised that most of it is complicated and weird and not always comfortable.

Like, aside from the him-specific bits and the kinda unavoidable disappointment in knowing your crush doesn’t like you back, it brings back a lot of questions and fears I have about dating as an almost-definitely-gay trans man, especially pre any kind of transition other than social and it’s...not a comfortable place. These are questions I don’t have answers or models for, and I don’t really have an offline community where I can try to come up with answers for them.

I don’t know any other trans person in Phnom Penh, and while my friends are absolutely supportive and all, these are not problems they’ve been confronted with before and therefore they have even less information, let alone answers, than I do.

(I was talking with a bunch of them at lunch today and at one point I talked about my experience s a trans guy, including the knowledge that being interested in men who like men can be real complicated when you don’t have a dick, or plans to get one, and one of them sort of...didn’t believe it could be a problem, at first. Which, on the one hand, I get it: if you’d told me before I got more informed on queer topics that cis gays could be transphobic, or that gays could be biphobic etc. I’d have been surprised too—I was surprised when I found out about it, though not as much as I’d have thought I’d be—but on the other hand: it’s always frustrating to express a fear only to have someone deny its legitimacy, even out of very well-meaning ignorance.)

There’s no solution I can think of to these issues right now, except maybe got to sleep and hope I’ll feel better tomorrow but it’s still not my coolest evening this week, and I wish I had a pet I could hug.

(Note: I'm aware I haven't been active here in ages and I'm sorry about that it's just that what I like about DW (namely, that it requires actual effort to work as a social website) is also what makes it more difficult to use during franctic preiods like I've had for the past couple of months, or weeks at the very least. sorry :/)

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About my writing, and letting go

2019-08-11T14:41:43Z

So, I was going to do a big Thinking Post about all the fics in progress I’ve failed to touch (or in some cases, think of) for…anywhere between two to eight years. I was planning on having, idk, a summary of what went wrong and a maybe even try to see if any of them had a chance of being picked up. After all, I’m turning 30 next year, and I figure that’s as good a reason as any to decide if I want to do a clean slate-style move or not.

The thing is, though, that looking at the multichaptered fics I’ve abandoned…none of them makes me feel like going back to them.

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The lull after hard work

2019-07-20T12:18:16Z

One thing I’m starting to understand as I try to (very slowly) work on a co-writing project about a fandom I’m currently into (yes, it is Good Omens, how did you guess) after spending seven months working on the same fic and spend my days at work alternating between long stretches of intense focus and moments when I can’t stomach the thought of doing anything remotely intellectually challenging, is that I seem to be a very start and stop sort of person/content creator.

I don’t think it’s that unique a thing, really. It’s just that it’s taken me this long to start realizing that I need periods of being a consumer in between bouts of being a creator, which is possibly a bit of an ill-timed realization when you’ve just agreed to co-write a story, but I’m fortunate to have a patient co-author, so it’s okay.

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If it's not canon, it's not enough

2019-07-14T10:51:31Z

So I’ve been giving thoughts to the idea of Good Omens and queerbaiting, because it’s been discussed a lot and. Uh

I don’t think Neil Gaiman was queerbaiting anyone, in the sense that he seems to have wanted to give us good rep. It isn’t perfect by far and I have my beef with the whole ‘they’re totally a romance but only in word of God’ thing, which I might go into later on. But, technically speaking, not queerbaiting.

Amazon? A different beast entirely. I have zero doubt that they saw this and thought 'perfect, queer viewers AND homophobes!’

Regardless of that though, and despite the things I’ve said in the past that might run contrary to this post, I’m going to say: this isn’t enough. Because we can say whatever we want about how Ineffable Husbands is canon, but at the end of the day the only characters who label Aziraphale and Crowley’s relationship as romantic (or even queer in any way) are people trying to belittle them. This is not interpretation, it’s a fact.

I know there are people who saw themselves in the ambiguity, and I respect that. I’m glad people found something that was good to them. That still doesn’t change the fact that Aziraphale and Crowley are not canonically queer, not really, because anyone who refuses to see them as queer will still be able to say 'yeah but in the show…’ and right now we’re not in a cultural place where subtext is enough to make good rep.

This isn’t an attack on the show, or on Neil Gaiman. I know he’s been trying, even if his queer work is…well, it feels iffy to me. But it IS criticism though, and I really hope some queer person in his life will take him aside someday and let him know that. More than anything I hope he’ll listen.

Because he’s trying to do good.

But it’s still not enough.

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I have seen Spiderman: far from home

2019-07-14T10:49:53Z

The world building is still wonky and I get the feeling Marvel/Disney has a tendency to think character development is too complicated so they put more explosions in their movies rather than bother….

But overall I was okay with what they did with Peter’s character (less so about the 1st credit scene, which I felt was taking the ‘new Tony Stark’ thing too far) and MJ is still cool despite the er…semi sidelining of franchise-native characters in favor of SHIELD personnel and Happy.

Idk, I feel like individually the MCU movies keep themselves in the 'formulaic but mostly okay’ zone, which I suppose is to be expected. Can’t look at them too hard from a broader perspective or they fall apart though, which kinda sucks when Disney is trying to extend its reach to space :/

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Fic Masterpost: Clark Kent, of Krypton

2019-07-14T08:16:45Z

FANDOM: DC’s cinematic universe.
RATING: Mature.
WORDCOUNT: 98 211 words
PAIRING(S): Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne (main focus is on Clark, though).
CHARACTER(S): Kal-El | Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Jor-El, Lara Lor-Van, Kara Zor-El, Zor-El, Martha Kent, Alfred Pennyworth, Diana Prince, Barry Allen, Arthur Curry, Victor Stone, John Stewart, J’onn J’onn, plus a quick cameo by Lois Lane.
GENRE: Alternate Universe (canon divergence), transition fic with romance.
TRIGGER WARNING(S): A great deal of anxiety and self loathing, especially in parts one and two. Some descriptions are heavily inspired by my experience of dysphoria-induced dissociation.
SUMMARY: Batman crashes on Krypton a few days before the Turn of the Year
celebrations and Kal-El's life takes a sharp turn to the left, on a path
that will ultimately lead him to becoming Clark Kent.

CKOK ON DW: [I. Kal-El] [II. Shadow] [III. Superman] [IV. Clark Kent]

CKOK ON TUMBLR: [Full fic tag] (Will also contain Maing of Posts and answers to questions when applicable)

CKOK ON AO3: [Clark Kent, of Krypton]

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Clark Kent, of Krypton - Part 4/4

2019-07-14T08:06:46Z

FANDOM: DC’s cinematic universe.
RATING: Mature.
WORDCOUNT: 27 147 words.
PAIRING(S): Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne (main focus is on Clark, though).
CHARACTER(S): Kal-El | Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Jor-El, Lara Lor-Van, Kara Zor-El, Zor-El, Martha Kent, Alfred Pennyworth, Diana Prince, Barry Allen, Arthur Curry, Victor Stone, John Stewart, J’onn J’onn, plus a quick cameo by Lois Lane.
GENRE: Alternate Universe (canon divergence), transition fic with romance.
TRIGGER WARNING(S): A great deal of anxiety and self loathing, especially in parts one and two. Some descriptions are heavily inspired by my experience of dysphoria-induced dissociation.
SUMMARY: Batman crashes on Krypton a few days before the Turn of the Year
celebrations and Kal-El's life takes a sharp turn to the left, on a path
that will ultimately lead him to becoming Clark Kent.

FIC MASTERPOST: [Total length: 98k+]
ALSO AVAILABLE: [On AO3] [On tumblr]

THANKS: to susiecarter (also susiecarter ), for getting me into this pairing (seriously, go read her stories!), cheerleading me through the writing process, and then betaing the whole monster in absolute record time! And thanks to stuvyx for the AMAZING comic pages which you can find here and here and then shower her with praise for her work! :D

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Clark Kent, of Krypton - Part 3/4

2019-07-14T08:02:57Z

FANDOM: DC’s cinematic universe.
RATING: Mature.
WORDCOUNT: 29 999 words.
PAIRING(S): Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne (main focus is on Clark, though).
CHARACTER(S): Kal-El | Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Jor-El, Lara Lor-Van, Kara Zor-El, Zor-El, Martha Kent, Alfred Pennyworth, Diana Prince, Barry Allen, Arthur Curry, Victor Stone, John Stewart, J’onn J’onn, plus a quick cameo by Lois Lane.
GENRE: Alternate Universe (canon divergence), transition fic with romance.
TRIGGER WARNING(S): A great deal of anxiety and self loathing, especially in parts one and two. Some descriptions are heavily inspired by my experience of dysphoria-induced dissociation.
SUMMARY: Batman crashes on Krypton a few days before the Turn of the Year
celebrations and Kal-El's life takes a sharp turn to the left, on a path
that will ultimately lead him to becoming Clark Kent.

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Clark Kent, of Krypton - Part 2/4

2019-07-13T16:10:59Z

FANDOM: DC’s cinematic universe.
RATING: Mature.
WORDCOUNT: 20 640 words.
PAIRING(S): Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne (main focus is on Clark, though).
CHARACTER(S): Kal-El | Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Jor-El, Lara Lor-Van, Kara Zor-El, Zor-El, Martha Kent, Alfred Pennyworth, Diana Prince, Barry Allen, Arthur Curry, Victor Stone, John Stewart, J’onn J’onn, plus a quick cameo by Lois Lane.
GENRE: Alternate Universe (canon divergence), transition fic with romance.
TRIGGER WARNING(S): A great deal of anxiety and self loathing, especially in parts one and two. Some descriptions are heavily inspired by my experience of dysphoria-induced dissociation.
SUMMARY: Batman crashes on Krypton a few days before the Turn of the Year
celebrations and Kal-El's life takes a sharp turn to the left, on a path
that will ultimately lead him to becoming Clark Kent.

FIC MASTERPOST: [Total length: 98k+]
ALSO AVAILABLE: [On AO3] [On tumblr]

THANKS: to susiecarter (also susiecarter ), for getting me into this pairing (seriously, go read her stories!), cheerleading me through the writing process, and then betaing the whole monster in absolute record time! And thanks to stuvyx for the AMAZING comic pages which you can find here and here and then shower her with praise for her work! :D

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Clark Kent, of Krypton - Part 1/4

2019-07-13T15:47:48Z

FANDOM: DC’s cinematic universe.
RATING: Mature.
WORDCOUNT: 20 404 (Fic total: ~97k words)
PAIRING(S): Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne (main focus is on Clark, though).
CHARACTER(S): Kal-El | Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, Jor-El, Lara Lor-Van, Kara Zor-El, Zor-El, Martha Kent, Alfred Pennyworth, Diana Prince, Barry Allen, Arthur Curry, Victor Stone, John Stewart, J’onn J’onn, plus a quick cameo by Lois Lane.
GENRE: Alternate Universe (canon divergence), transition fic with romance.
TRIGGER WARNING(S): A great deal of anxiety and self loathing, especially in parts one and two. Some descriptions are heavily inspired by my experience of dysphoria-induced dissociation.
SUMMARY: Batman crashes on Krypton a few days before the Turn of the Year
celebrations and Kal-El's life takes a sharp turn to the left, on a path
that will ultimately lead him to becoming Clark Kent.

FIC MASTERPOST: [Total length: 98k+]
ALSO AVAILABLE: [On AO3] [On tumblr]

AUTHOR’S NOTES AND THANKS: Seven months of work and nearly a hundred thousand words! How's that for a first foray in a fandom, uh? I'm actually pretty proud of myself on that one, and I hope you all will enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it! But before we start, there's a number of people I need to thank:

susiecarter (also susiecarter ), for getting me into this pairing (seriously, go read her stories!), cheerleading me through the writing process, and then betaing the whole monster in absolute record time!

stuvyx for the AMAZING comic pages which you can find here and here and then shower her with praise for her work! :D

The officialmoviesoundtrack, for compiling the complete Wonder Woman score: I listened to this more than any other music while writing CKoK.

The jewish nerds of tumblr, who’ve been (and still are) spreading the word about Superman’s origins and the character’s original meanings and principles, which in turn had a rather large influence on Clark’s personality in this fic. I hope the bits with Martha will come off as respectful as I tried to make them.

And lastly, a tiny thanks to DC and Mr. Snyder, for deciding to cast Henry Cavill and his jawline as Clark Kent but also making him just not-how-I-wanted enough (and in the right way) to spark me into telling this story.

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Fic Back Friday

2019-06-28T16:47:22Z

It’s Fic Back Friday! And in this occasion I’d like to go back to another fandom I haven’t been active with in a while (not a fan of what they’re doing with the franchise recently, I’m afraid) let’s go for an X-Men fic! :D

The welfare of a child by oddegg (2116 words)

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Characters: Sean Cassidy, Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr, Raven, Hank McCoy, Alex Summers

Additional Tags: Angst, Childhood, Neglect

Summary:

Written for the 1stclass-kink meme prompt: Charles gets turned into a kid/baby. While the team scrabble to work out how to put him right they try to look after him. Turns out, Charles doesn't need much looking after. If he's a baby, he never cries. If he's a little kid, he's really self-sufficient.

Everyone's charmed/amused by this except one person (Sean) who is really unnerved by this. All babies cry. Kids that age are not that independent - they're just not. Unless they're used to nothing happening when they cry/used to fending for themselves.

Reccer’s note:

I liked this fic when I first read it, not just because it was sort of exploring the loneliness of Charles’ life despite his (many) privilege(s) but also because it gave Sean a lot of depth that the movie didn’t. sure, I liked his goofy character in First Class, but even the most ridiculous person has something else going on behind that, and it was nice to see a fic try t take a dig at it at a time when we still thought the new X-Men franchise would try and do something with its new-to-the-big-screen mutants.

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My problem with the way fandom does Former Archangel!Crowley

2019-06-28T13:15:04Z

I have further thoughts on the whole Raphael!Crowley semi-fanon thing that’s happening these days. See, my problem is not that it exists—it’s a perfectly understandable thing to think, and it was what I thought myself when I first read the book, so I’d be a hypocrite to say people shouldn’t headcanon Crowley as being Raphael’s new form^[1].

That being said, lately this fanon has been bugging me, not on the basis on its existence but rather because of the way the fandom (or what I’ve seen of it) seems to handle it. It feels/seems to me like as soon as that headcanon appears, the attention shifts away from Crowley and focuses on Raphael instead, like fans are so obsessed with who Crowley might have been that the stop thinking about who he is. It makes me uncomfortable, honestly, because every time I’ve given a ‘Raphael!Crowley’^[2] fic a go, the plot seems to revolve entirely on his former name...in fact, I’d even go so far as to call it his dead name.

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Work in progress Wednesday

2019-06-26T14:16:24Z

Today is Work in progress Wednesday *and*, @caloub tagged me in the “Last Line” challenge, so in honor of that, here’s the last (complete) sentence I wrote so far for the Good Omens fic I did not expect to write but am more or less working on anyway:

Sure, the air conditioning gets better there, but the corridors also get smaller, busier, and far more crowded with electronic devices in the walls that make it impossible to drive the temperature lower than pleasantly-cool-on-the-Crowley-scale^[5] even in the winter.
[5] Everyone else sweats and showers two-to-six-times a day.

I’m actually pleased that this doesn’t reveal the setting of the fic because I kind of want to keep it a surprise and/or teasing people about it–it’s a fusion fic that, again, I hadn’t expected at all xD

Also yes, there will be footnotes, because this is a Good Omens fanfic and I always half want to add footnotes anyway so I certainly wasn’t going to pass up that opportunity :D

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terresdebrume @ 2019-06-26T00:36:00

2019-06-25T17:38:21Z

Also before I go to bed, let me just say that as a not old but not exactly among the youngest (or the most virile) trans man, I’m so so so happy to see Aziraphale/Michael Sheen onscreen!

No offense to the young trans dudes whose pictures get shared around but they tend to look like young jocks and/or thin twinks and that has never ever been my body (or, in the case of the jock-ish looks and the attached stereotypes: personality) type and it’s honestly a great feeling to have someone like Azi/Sheen as a general template for post-transition goals that feels realistic and attainable for me.

It’s a nice change of pace and I really appreciate it.

13 seconds ago

#Matt has a life #Gender things #Again: no offense meant if you fit the aforementioned type #You're just not the only ones and I'm simply never gonna fit it so it's nice to see someone I could hope to more or less look like

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Trivia Tuesday

2019-06-25T17:29:01Z

For this Trivia Tuesday I used a random number generator to decide which fic I should talk about. As it turns out, #141 is (probably, I didn’t exactly o a numbered list) Little Man, a 1099 porny ficlet for the BBC’s Merlin.

I don’t really remember what inspired me to write it aside from a mix of ‘everybody’s writing Merthur, I want to do something different’ and ‘Gwaine sure is pretty!’. It was a fun foray into the world of adult fic, though upon rereading it I have to say I’m a little horrified that I had them go at it without lube…oh, the things you learn through the internet.

I don’t have that much to say about this fic–it’s an old one, and from a time I didn’t pay as much attention to what I was doing as I do now, but I like the idea of using a random number generator for these trivia posts: it forces me to not talk about the same fics all the time :P

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Motivation Monday

2019-06-25T17:27:31Z

Didn’t do Motivation Monday yesterday because my laptop was being a boob so let’s use today to give a shout out to @keircatenation, whose enthusiasm enabling talents played a huge role in me deciding to write Clark Kent, of Krypton, aka my Superbat Big Bang story!

Other enabling things they do/did include:

Yelling about the Lightwood family with me
Making art of my Mortal Instruments rewrite AU (which I should probably enter in a bang of some sort if I want to finish it)
Indulging me when I have AUs I just can’t wait to discuss with them, even when they’re just random ideas I know I’ll probably never write

Thank you Keir :D

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The writing brain is ineffable

2019-06-25T17:21:43Z

The Good Omens fic I actually started to work on tonight is *absolutely not* the one I thought I’d be writing but you know what? I’ll take it.

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Rich Text Editor AWOL...

2019-06-23T13:32:49Z

Am I the only one that happens to? I don't think it's a known effect of the recent code push (unless I misread the announcement which is entirely possible) but it's still not working for me (not on desktop or on my phone)...

Oh, and I don't get predictive text for tags either... wtf?

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Six Sentences Sunday

2019-06-23T13:08:30Z

For this week’s Six Sentences Sunday, I was hoping to have something to show from the Ineffable Mutants project: it’d have been a way to alternate between two stories and, hopefully, keep things more entertaining. Fate, and my brain, have decided that wasn’t to be so, however, so let’s have six sentences from the Adult High School!Napoleon fic or, as I’ve decided to tag it: AHS Napollya.

Napoleon wakes up with a start, the bone-chilling freeze of his memories still digging into his ass and back, a shiver running through him when his hip twinges with the phantom ache of a night spent on concrete, and he’s sinking further into his parka before he realizes he didn’t emerge from sleep on his own. The blonde man from Monday and yesterday looms over him, concern creasing at his eyes and pulling at the dark line of stitches on his right temple. Whatever caused that, it must have hurt like hell.

“Are you okay?” The stranger asks.

Napoleon’s answer is cut off by a yawn so long even he can’t help but scoff at the end of it, although he does keep enough presence of mind to gesture for his apparently-study-buddy to sit down. The man doesn’t sit down, however, opting instead to walk around their table and loom over Napoleon from a closer space.

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Writing, big projects, and transitioning

2019-06-22T15:49:13Z

The interesting thing about making my previous post is that I was joking but also now that I’m thinking of it a little more seriously...it’s probably closer to the truth than I realized at first. It’s not that I don’t want to write because I do!

In theory.

In practice, every time I try to give any of my stories a good thinking, my brain just goes ‘nope’ and that’s how I watched the entire New Tales of the City series last weekend, or spent most of today alternating between reading Good Omens fanfic and staring at the ceiling. (Well, that, and also I’m still tired from yesterday’s eval) It’s weird how even doing the things you like can become an absolute chore after a while—I’m glad I wrote the Superbat fic, honest! But by the end of it I had to push myself into it like I was working on my thesis all over again.

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Imight have fried my brain more than I thought I had

2019-06-22T14:25:14Z

It’s funny how six months of working on the same fic makes you forget how hard beginning a fic is.

And by ‘it’s funny’ I mean ‘this fic barely has an outline and the concept isn’t even clearly defined, and we’re already fighting’

#My Posts #Matt writes #Ineffable Mutants #Good Omens #I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised #I just finished a super long fic #It makes sense that my brain would balk at writing either of my two long form WIPs #It's still frustrating

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Spotlight Saturday

2019-06-22T13:14:10Z

I’v got quite a bunch of bookmarks stashed away Spotlight Saturday is another spread-the-love oriented challenge by @ao3commentoftheday! And oh, I’ve hesitated on which fic to rec for a while, because I have quite a lot of bookmarks stashed away, but the second contender should be good for next friday, so this week (because doing spotlight posts for people will be a little longer for me) I’ve decided to rec:

Anthony J. Crowley and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good (Actually Very Good) Day by unicornpoe (2041 words)

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)

Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Crowley's plants

Additional Tags: Fluff, First Kiss, Soft Aziraphale (Good Omens), Soft Crowley (Good Omens), Dinner, when you suppress something for 6000 years it tends to come up eventually, Schmoop, Ineffable Husbands (Good Omens), Crowley is Bad at Feelings (Good Omens)

Summary:

“Crowley,” says Aziraphale, and that’s it. Just that, just Crowley’s name—and yet Crowley would do almost anything to hear him say it like that (like Aziraphale is happy, like Aziraphale is surprised by something Crowley has said or done or showed him and inordinately pleased by it) every single day.

Aziraphale’s fingers slide up a bit further, and they make a delicate circle around Crowley’s wrist. Crowley has to resist the urge to purr. He’s a snake, not a fucking kitten.
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Aziraphale takes Crowley to dinner.

Bookmarker's Notes:

A pining, disgruntled Crowley who doesn't know what to do when Aziraphale finally catches up with him (and then promptly rakes a bit of a lead)? Sign me the heck up! :D

More seriously, this fic is super tender, and Crowley in it is absolutely adorable--a most excellent comfort fic! :D

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