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Some Things I Like and Even Reblog: FANDOM, SO MUCH FANDOM (Guardian (Zhen Hun), Granting You a Dreamlike Life, The Lost Tomb Reboot, ...let's just say "all things Zhu Yilong" and call it a day, yeah? XD, Dao Mu Bi Ji/The Lost Tomb/Grave Robbers' Chronicles, The Untamed (MDZS), Les Miserables, Star Wars, Rocketman/Elton John, Maze Runner, and many other fandoms, i.e., The Umbrella Academy, Teen Wolf, Harry Potter, Star Trek: TOS, TNG, DS9, AOS, Leverage, Being Human UK, anime, nostalgia fandoms, SO MANY MORE), MUSICALS (Hair, BoM, Newsies, so many Broadway and West End actors), SOCIAL JUSTICE THINGS (antisemitism, rape culture, misogyny, feminism, education, racism, sexuality, gender), CUTE ANIMALS, SCIENCE THINGS, PRETTY NATURE THINGS, AUTUMN THINGS, SO MUCH RANDOM... really, my blog is a mess. O_o;;;
It was tough to pick from all you guys’ amazing suggestions, but we managed to end up with a lovely list of prompts to work with, AND not a single repeat prompt from last year which we found quite important. Additional info + plain text versions of the prompts can be found under the cut.
Housemate Xed works for the Secretary of State, in the bit that registers businesses and, for a few years and for somewhat convoluted political reasons, domestic partnerships.
Yesterday their office received the… complaints? Of a somewhat distraught pair of people (notice I do not say ‘couple’) who, at some point in the last few years, had decided to go into business together — a nail salon or something, I think — and been advised that they should form a Partnership. Pretty standard for a small business with two owners.
…except they didn’t understand and formed a Domestic Partnership instead.
Washington State legalized same-sex marriage in 2012, and as part of that, this June ALL non-senior domestic partnerships became marriages automatically.
These two business partners accidentally married each other.
And now they’re trying to figure out how to undo it.
its so sad when a fanfic trope initially centered around noncon/dubcon gets popular enough that it turns into a watered down extremely consensual healthy-relationship version of it
as retribution i think i’m going to start taking vanilla tropes and making them noncon. the barista is putting roofies in the coffee. there’s only one bed and the other guy is getting chained to the radiator. there’s no social or legal protections for assault within soulmate matches
My boyfriend has really vivid, elaborate dreams. He’ll often wake up and talk about some grand narrative- travel, exploration, politics, performances. I’ve always been a little jealous, he can hold really good plots together for them sometimes.
But anyway, this does have a downside; vivid, elaborate dreams make for vivid, elaborate nightmares. I can usually tell when it’s one of those nights, since he grinds his teeth pretty badly.
I was never quite sure what to do when I knew he was having a bad time of it, though the grinding alone was enough to worry me and push me towards intervening. I used to just shake him gently, hope to rouse him just enough to reset the dream or something, but it wasn’t too effective and anyway waking him up all the time isn’t good for rest.
I’m rather proud of the strategy I eventually settled on: gently, so as not to wake him up, I’d lay one arm across his hands, wrapping his fingers around me so that he was holding on. Nightmares being nightmares, I can usually count on a pretty tight grip when this happens.
It may seem a little odd, but consider that holding on to something with both hands is typically a very agentic frame of mind. We hold on to things that give us power, in one way or another, and possessing objects often makes us feel powerful in some respects. That has consequences, even for a dreaming mind.
I knew it was working when he woke up rather mystified from one such dream, and told me that he’d been running through the caverns of some dungeon or cave system, pursued by monsters, but then all of a sudden he was holding a giant anime sword and fought them off instead. So I got to be a sword for him that night, I was delighted.
I don’t usually get to know exactly what happened, since even for a very vivid dreamer like Ritter, nine tenths of these things get forgotten. But I know I’ve been things like door handles, steering wheels, stuff like that. And even when I don’t know what I am to him, he doesn’t grind his teeth nearly as much- the sleep is deeper and more peaceful, so I get plenty of feedback that it’s working.
It’s such a perfect encapsulation of love in microcosm, isn’t it? No matter how much you mean to them, and how much they mean to you, the gap between two conscious lives is fundamentally separating you. But fundamental does not mean insurmountable. There’s this whole world in him, full of dreams and perspectives that I’ll never truly experience. But I will be a part of those worlds all the same, finding little ways here and there to make sure that the dreams of me make him a better, stronger, and happier person.
Or at least, so one hopes. It’s a difficult challenge, and things often go awry. But usually you get at least a little lucky.
spin two wheels to create a new scenario to write something about – could be serious, wacky, or intriguing!
spin this wheel to find out who your protagonist(s) is/are
spin this wheel second to find out what they’re trying to do/what situation they’ve been thrown into
spin the first wheel again to find out who the antagonist/love interest/deuteragonist(s) is/are
reblog this with the combination you got, and your immediate first thoughts on this plotline/scenario, or even share a quick drabble or potential first lines for the piece (either as a reblog or in the tags)
☝️ OP, I would like you to know I’ve been thinking about doing EXACTLY THAT all day. This picture has been living in my head rent free since I saw it this morning. XD
Maybe if you just slept with your wife and stopped obsessing over a man who literally told you to your face that he hopes you have a happy marriage, said man will stop haunting your stupid butt.
Imagine a villain getting injured and losing their memory and the heroes finding them and taking them with them and taking care of them and the villain gets their memory back after like a week but doesn’t want to say anything because the heroes are being so nice to them and nobody has been that nice to them in so long and they don’t want it to end and they’re maybe getting fond of the heroes but don’t tell anyone shhh. But eventually something happens and the heroes are in trouble and they’re trying to get the villain to run away because they still think they’re an amnesiac with no idea how to defend themself and they’ve grown to like them and don’t want them to get hurt but the villain just pushes past them toward whatever is trying to hurt the heroes and just fuckin goes guns blazing and destroys them
Fic that appears to be an AU where the characters have a little low stakes meet cute and are having a sweet little romance, only for it to be revealed that no, this is in-universe and they both have amnesia and all the other characters are trying to find them and are losing their fucking shit
dnd paladin character concept: a knight raised alongside a magic user, who loves his friend, considers them family — but the magic user through a twist of fate ascends to godhood, vanishing from normal human life. so the knight swears fealty to the fledgling god so he can have some connection to them even still & the god who loves him dearly in return blesses him with gifts and divine powers as a way to reach back toward him, back toward earth. this paladin’s vows are easy to keep, like second nature… and prayer is both automatic and personal
can you imagine being a new god’s firstborn devotee? their most beloved, their milk tooth? he knew his god when they were a lanky teenager and helped lie for them when they used to sneak out of their studies. the two of them would crack each other up late at night until they thought they might hurl. no other paladin knows his god as intimately and well — he saw them pimply and awkward and human and real, and worships them even still. that kind of devotion is impossible to manufacture
the paladin chooses a quest to follow, with the caveat “should my god allow it.” he goes to pray by the river — they used to seek the river together every time they made large decisions, and it was by a river he swore his sacred oaths — and murmurs “will you allow it, old friend?” to the water. a flower blooms at his bent knee. (his god trusts his judgement; they will never forbid him any path he requests to follow.)
This could also work with art inspiration, but the buttons only allow for so many characters on them. And please do ramble in the tags! I’m going to have no idea what most of you are talking about, and it’s going to be great.
it’s always “immortals always lose the ones they love!” and never “this family has had this incredible, powerful, loving figure present through generations of their lineage, all because they are descended from someone the immortal loved long ago” and i think that’s a shame!!
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