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This is one that I actually am very sad I never finished. I think it was nearly my first Avalanche idea, and definitely came near the beginning of the group chat with growlery and frecklebombfic, which has produced essentially every good idea I've ever had. The original idea here was that Nate and Tyson are buddyfucking/boyfriends and then they incept themselves into having the hots for Gabe by accidentally dirty talking about him during sex. Then they can't get the idea out of their heads so decide to "invite" him to have a threesome with them by having him constantly catch them fucking in increasingly more implausible places/positions. and Gabe eventually cracks and they end up going out.

However, I didn't write any of that, I wrote the first 1000 words about Nate & Tyson fucking, and like ten words of a joke I wanted to include later in the fic. Still, I think several of the jokes are funny, and that's what matters. This also marks potentially the last time I wrote in present tense, which I now find bizarre.

( 1.3k of Tyson realising they're boyfriends )

This idea was to write a series of snippets of different hockey pairings making long-distance work over the summer or when they weren't on teams together, but I wrote 600 words of it and then realised I didn't love the idea that much and had better wips in the pipeline. It is however 600 words of Geno jerking it over snapchat, which I love. There's also a blink and you'll miss it Carey/PK snippet that I wish I had more of.

( long distance )

I have a bunch of bits and pieces in my wip folders that are almost certainly never going to get finished, either because I've lost interest, the fandom has moved on, the idea wasn't that good to begin with, or a combination of all three. I'm amnestying them this December by posting them here! Some of them are almost complete ficlets, some are just bits and pieces.

This is an idea I had after watching Infinity War, where Peter comes back after the film and ends up having a found family experience with Dr. Strange. Like MJ and Ned and Peter keep going to Bleeker Street to do their homework and Strange is like why are these CHILDREN always around Wong stop encouraging them!! and I wrote the first couple hundred words, stalled forever, Endgame came out, I lost 90% of my interest in the MCU, I'm amnestying it because writing Peter's inner monologue was fun!

( Peter & Strange post-Infinity War )

I haven't posted anything in ages because I've been working on other stuff and busy on other boring real life stuff (and also cause 2020 has made my brain smooth) but here's some assorted snippets from some WIPs

( Joe, Nicky & Nile talking religion )

( Andy & Nile after a fight scene )

music

H.E.R.'s 2017 eponymous album
really good, sexy, R&B (highlight songs: Hopes Up, 2, Focus)

Transgender Dysphoria Blues - Against Me!
fast-paced angry punk rock, an album I've had on repeat to get through a very stressful week (highlight songs: True Trans Soul Rebel, FUCKMYLIFE666, Paralytic States)

comics

Exorcism Academy
SEXY DEMONS. SEXY DEMON MAGIC SCHOOL.
Ethan is an exorcist in training, Al is his demon (kidnapped for demon-fighting purposes), they fall in love and get it on.
I nominated this for yuletide and am going to request it because I desperately need more content, and I'm promo-ing it like crazy, because I need people to get into the sexy demons so they can understand how good they are.

fic
Four Letter Word For Intercourse
I spent a week reading this nearly 200k Supernatural au fic where Dean is a mature student at college and Castiel is a phone sex operator and they have like 200k words of phone sex. Is it good? Sort of, but it's so engaging I read the whole thing basically without stopping.

sixthlight's The Old Guard Arranged Marriage AU
Do you want to read a hilarious, sexy and sweet fic set in a loosely historical past where Nicky and Joe get arranged marriage? Yes, because these fics are amazing. Probably best described A Romp. Kind of like if the Princess Bride was about the old guard.

nothing here that is not sacred
demisexual Yusuf has some ~realisations about his feelings for Nicky. emotional! sexy! they have such good conversations!

to be known
KJ Charles' A Society of Gentleman and Band Sinister cross over! Contains a Richard coming out to his family scene that made me EMOTIONAL and a VERY SEXY Dom/Silas + John Raven scene, and just, this whole thing is great, enjoy.

books

Altered Straits by Kevin Martens Wong
Singaporean sci-fi, set both in dystopian 2047 Singapore, and an alternate dimension Singapore in 1947. Yeah, a lot happens in this. Has a central queer romance, which I am enjoying, but is very Tragic (because of the dystopia and brain-eating aliens, and potentially Future Homophobia, unclear). Also So Much is happening a lot of the characters feel very undeveloped but I want to read whatever future stuff Martens Wong writes because the Concepts are great. semi-enjoying
Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
Cannot tell if I am enjoying this because it is written in a deliberate style that makes it feel like your brain is being turned inside out. I suppose once you win the Booker you can do what you want. Very "fantasy written by a literary writer" as opposed to "fantasy by a fantasy writer". I probably won't read the next two in the trilogy because this book is already too long and makes my head hurt too much. It's very interesting, and I have stretches of really enjoying it, and then long stretches of just thinking "what the fuck is happening".

more WIP snippets!! save me I am drowning in wips

( Joe/Nicky )

( Andy/Nile )

I kinda had a fandom fugue state last week, and wrote 10.2k of fic in like five days. I think I averaged over 2k a day, not even counting stuff I wrote and then eventually had to cut. Whenever I have a run of writing a lot in a short period of time I always feel wierd afterwards because, like, I can do +2k a day, I just did, why aren't I doing it now? and the obvious answer is "because that's unsustainable and you have life things you need to focus on" but that doesn't always make the feeling stop.

I'm very proud of the fic I finished. It was a lot of work and research, and I think what came out is really good.

beneath the hip and plow
words: 10,220
additional tags: Pre-Canon, Dildos, Sex Toys, Vibrators, Recreational Drug Use, Public Sex, Canon Queer Character of Color, Canon Queer Relationship, Immortal Husbands Fuck Their Way Through The Centuries

I'm also working on some other things. I have some equality auction pieces I'm working on and need to get to the recipients, and some original wips, and some hockey things but I am definitely keeping my Old Guard wips open in tabs. Here's a snippet from one:

&&&

( team as family snippet )

If you are also obsessed with The Old Guard, please drop me a message because I made a discord server for shouting about it in and it's super fun so far. Let me know if you want an invite!

i am OBSESSED head first into a new fandom guys

anyway finding stuff on Today's Internet is impossible so I am putting all my links here so I don't lose them

please consider all of this recs for this content (mostly fanart and gifs, because fic is findable, and my own dumb tweets already live in my brain)

I haven't used tumblr since 2016 so this is me TAKING ONE FOR THE TEAM

"we killed each other"
very sweet sketches of Nicky

Nicky and Joe

really lovely paintings of Andy, Nile and The Kiss

gifs of Andy being very competent at killing people

gifs of Nile being awesome

gifs of the team being AFFECTIONATE (includes joe lifting andy up with a hug I WEEP)

art of Nicky and Joe when they met and now

got VERY emotional over these gifs of Nicky

fight choreography with Nicky and Joe being perfectly in sync

SEXY and INTIMATE andy/the french pharmacist

just some Nile close ups because I am obsessed

more joe/nicky, includes them always checking in with each other after they die

please pretend like it hasn't been a solid 7 months since I made a post in these trying times

I've been rereading in a bunch of old fandoms, mostly because my brain cannot take the cognitive load of finding new fics in new fandoms (please link me to your favorite Witcher fics) so:

The World Well Lost by oliviacirce
A Society of Gentleman Ash/Francis fic, follows them roughly through the plot of the three main books. Hot, sweet, sexy, Ash is spot on, Francis is great. Lovely.

The Right Direction (is everything) by shaenie
White Collar fic where Neal wants Peter to top him but also won't tell him that. Didn't love the wierd possessiveness with Sara, but Pete talking through the "problem" of Neal with Elizabeth was pitch perfect.

From Sweet Fellowship Comes Nectar by jacquez
Lord of the Rings Gimli/Legolas where elf gender and dwarf gender isn't like human gender and Legolas and Gimli are in love but also have to navigate the cross-cultural communication of their relationship. Very very good, I reread this all the time

Numberless the ways, and imperceptible by jacquez
Lord of the Rings Gimli/Legolas - this is really great, basically it's pining but Legolas doesn't know he's pining, he feels the feelings of pining but he doesn't know that's what he's doing. Stands up to being re-read a lot, since a lot of the comedy is blink and you'll miss it, and when you reread it it's hilarious. It's also really beautiful and lovely.

Only one rec today, but it's a doozy. If you like hockey and you haven't read it yet honestly run don't walk.

Say When by dadvans
Andy shrugged. “It’s not that. And you should stay. But we should talk. Sid and I—”
It was him saying 'Sid and I' that did it. Andy said 'Sid and I', and it didn’t just dawn on Nate that Andy and Sid were fucking: moreso the realization slammed into him like a truck doing one-twenty down the highway.
“You’re fucking,” he said, like an idiot.
“Yeah, I mean, we’re married, so,” Andy replied. “I guess, yeah. We’re fucking.”

This fic is really really good on lots of levels, like hot and funny and lived-in, but the part that really nailed me, and I think makes it so good, is that Nate's internal POV voice is so good, and so well-done. He's temperamental, and moody, desperate to prove himself, stubborn, but also hard-working and competitive. He comes off so completely honestly, and his internal voice just absolutely killed me. A great piece of writing.