swim through the fires to stay in this world

From dollsome and kirkwood-is-in-oregon:

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I’ll tell you something about the story I’d write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. roadtrip
2. forced to share a bed
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married/fake!dating
6. jealousy fic
7. amnesia
8. hurt/comfort
9. friends to lovers
10. truth or dare
11. forced proximity fic
12. fluff
13. apocalypse fic
14. curtain fic
15. High School / College AU

I was reading tv tropes' page on Defrosting The Ice Queen, which (unsurprisingly, as it's often a subset of ruthless girl/emotional open guy) is a trope I really enjoy. Whoever wrote that entry really nailed the ways it functions as wish fulfillment in two different directions:


(I edited the above to be more gender inclusive.)

I have really been craving jealousy-fic recently. Does anyone have any recommendations? (Fanfic or fiction, either works.)

I blush to admit it, but I seriously love fics with an element of jealousy, especially when combined with a side of pining. I love it when Character A doesn't realize he/she is in love with Character B until they start dating someone else, I love it when Character A knows that there isn't any reason to be jealous or they're being irrational but can't stop, I love it when Character A gets handsy and possessive in a situation where they don't totally have the right to*.

*If this is combined with fake!dating or fake!married it's EVEN BETTER. 'How dare character Y touch my pretend!spouse! Even though I am not actually married, I am feeling exactly as possessive and territorial as if I were. I'm not going to reflect to hard on that; instead I'll just glare and/or pointedly touch my fake!spouse.'

Dear Yuletide Author,

First of all, let me sincerely say that I requested fandoms and characters I absolutely love, so please do not feel at all wedded to my insane optional details. Ignore them all entirely, pick and choose what works for you, optional details are optional.

If you're looking for more insight into general tropes that I like, check out my tag of bulletproof kinks. (Short list: banter, sex against walls, competency, characters respecting each other, tragic backstories, biting/love marks.)

Things I do not like: noncon, ladies needed to be saved, ladies being treated disrespectfully by the narrative, bleak and hopeless endings.

The Dark Knight Legacy: John Blake, Stephanie Brown

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Batgirl: Stephanie Brown, Nick Gage, Damian Wayne

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Rose Under Fire: Maddie Brodatt, Jamie Beaufort-Stuart

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The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Lizzie Bennet, William Darcy, Gigi Darcy, Caroline Lee

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The Kate Daniels series, Derek Gaunt, Julie Olsen

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• bare feet


• a lady wearing the shirt that belongs to her lover


• making sure your love interest is eating regularly


• accompanying your love interest on a revenge quest


• going into battle with your love interest


• banter


• 'I'm so upset that I need to have sex with you right now... but don't think that I have romantic feelings for you, because I don't.'


• mutually unrequited relationships


• "...you think a Princess and a guy like me..." (BIG YES.)


• up-against-the-wall sex (bonus points if this takes place in an ally)


• saying 'I love you' without actually saying 'I love you.' ("I owe him a debt." "I have a new dream/you are my new dream." "As you wish.")


• forehead kisses

#gacked from stainofmylove

gacked from lady_with_cats:

1. 5 TV shows you watched from the very start (that may or may not have gotten better).

I cannot think of even ONE tv show that I watched from the beginning (like, saw the first episode before it aired, kept watching). Pretty much every show I’ve ever watched has involved me finding about it after it’s been airing for a while and/or already been canceled. The exceptions are Alias (which I watched the pilot and the first couple of episodes when it was first airing and then my mom made me stop watching and I later watched in college) and Wonderfalls (which I watched from the pilot until it was canceled, three episodes later.

2. what playlists do you have on your phone/media player/mp3 player etc?

About a billion. The ones of interest to you, dear reader, is that I have several fannishly specific ones:

I Learned Love From Sacrifice (MCU, heavy on Natasha-centric songs)
Beautiful Car-Crash Of A Boy (Clint Barton)
Soul Eater (Soul Eater)
Four Elements (Avatar)
Alias (songs played on Alias)
Veronica Mars (ditto)

I also have several playlists for individual writing projects and then a bunch of other playlists that are basically like songs grouped together for ease of listening.

3. favourite tumblr tags (that you have on your tumblr).

two master assassins in love, which I also use on livejournal, and red room romance, for stuff relating to Natasha/Bucky. Most of my other tags are either ‘fandom name’ or ‘stock’ or ‘hell yes’ for pretty people.

4. IS BREAKING BAD REALLY THAT GOOD? I MEAN. REALLY?

Since I don’t watch it, I wouldn’t know.

5. something you can't stand but everyone else loves (be it food, a tv show, a ship etc).

BBC Sherlock. Slash. Coconut. Bananas.

6. do you regularly quote any catch phrases from pop culture? (e.g. "he is terrible face wise")

I regularly quote pop culture (in fact, for years, trying to stump each other with quotes from movies or tv was the game my mom and I played whenever where were bored) but I wouldn’t say I’ve adopted any consistent catch phrases.

7. a song you never get tired of.

So many. Too many to list.

8. something from etsy you really want but can't afford.

I say away from etsy. And we were just talking about my consistent case of fannish buyer’s remorse.

9. a fandom you wished was bigger/had more fanworks.

I’d get slapped if I suggested that the Avengers fandom needed to be any bigger but I’d really like the fanficcers with a deft touch for fucked up people in love to start writing for Clint and Natasha again. Because it’s been a long, long time since I’ve read a deliciously dark, explicit-as-fuck fanfic for those two. Lately it’s all been sunshine and babies and Winter Soldiers. Or, you know, in-character gen where they’re platonic. Seriously, the most ‘oooooh,’ Clint/Natasha I recently read was (nonconsecutively) about six paragraphs as a background pairing in a Steve/Bucky fanfic that I read. THINK ABOUT THAT SENTENCE FOR A MINUTE, PEOPLE. THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING IT IMPLIES.

10. a tv show you're one going to watch, ONE DAY.

I’ve watched the first three episodes of Friday Night Lights. That’s as far as I’ve gotten. I’ve tried to watch Farscape twice, and don’t understand why I don’t love it.

11. Three tropes you love.

Using sex to block out emotional pain while being in denial about how much the person you're with means to you.
Ruthless, violent, competent women and the more emotionally open badass men who love them.
Friends to lovers. (Actually, I would love a really good friends-to-lovers story at the moment.)

(Anyone who enjoyed reading this meme should totally do it themselves, switching out questions they found dull for questions they actually want to answer.)

This was taken from, literally, my entire flist.

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom*/pairing and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. genderswap stuck in an elevator
2. bodyswap let's get you out of those wet clothes!
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be dating/married
6. secretly a virgin roadtrip!
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing meet the parents! (or the metaphoric equivalent)
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU friends becoming lovers
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy curtain fic
15. High School / College AU

There is a great post here talking about heroes who are heroes because they remember being the villain.

AND IT'S AWESOME.

It's written in reference to Alison Argent but what it really reminds me of (at the moment) is M'gann.
( Speculation Without Spoilers )


"Some heroes are heroes because they remember what it was to be a villain."

Via jenab, I discovered homebrewbingo.



And just for kicks (inititally mistyped as 'kinks') here is a big old list of cliches.