Heart Of The Country (ongoing, T) - a series of happenings at the Fahey family farm, one year post-Crooked Kingdom.
No Right Way for the Blue or Black Days(4K, T) - Jesper has a run in with some debt collectors after a solo job, and comes back to the Slat bruised, bloody, embarrassed and, despite all insistence to the contrary, not fine. Neither of them take it well.
Fashionably Late(1K, T) -Date night, or the precursor to it. Jesper has certain thoughts about punctuality and surprises, and Wylan has thoughts about Jesper. Themes of identity and self acceptance.
Aubade, in Bed(1K, T) - Jesper wakes up to Wylan tapping silent melodies against the ridges of his ribs, over the apex of his heart. Geldstraat fluff.
Call and Response(1K, T) - A night out in the Barrel. Clubs are loud, and Wylan is quiet. Neither of these things are a problem.
Cutting Losses(1K, T) - obligatory Wylan leaving the morning after meeting Jesper fic. Stroopwafels meet-cute backstory with a side of angst.
Questions, Unasked(396 words, G) - short drabble about Jesper listening to Wylan ramble and noticing how he puts himself down.
Science and Magic (2K, G) - s2 filler, Wylan falls asleep in Jesper’s lap post-adrenaline crash after the battle in Ravka. Vaguely hurt/comfort adjacent but mostly just fluff. Hair petting.
Call to Rest/Call to Wake (3K, T) - post-s2 soft mornings at the Slat. Jesper wants to go out for breakfast and Wylan is not a morning person.
I Need to Leave (Please Stay)(1K, T) - a short Wylan character study on leaving and being left, struggling through his first year in the Barrel, and meeting Jesper. Light angst with a happy ending.
Careless Is the Fall(3K, T) - Wylan character study about perfectionism and making mistakes. Chemistry accidents and hurt/comfort.
When I Try to Find My Way(4K, G) - show!wesper post-ck. Jesper goes up to the roof of the mansion for some air, Wylan goes up to the roof of the mansion for Jesper. Wishing on shooting stars and talking about feelings ensues.
Taste of Home(3K, T) - show!wesper Geldstraat years. Wylan comes home from a council meeting and Jesper has taken up baking. Dancing in the kitchen and fluff ensues.
Flight of the Butterfly / Symbiosis(3K, T) - s2 filler. Travel time between Shu Han and Ravka. Nighttime conversations on the deck of the Hummingbird.
Familiar Strangers (2K, T) -s2 filler. Jesper’s pov of the night the Crow Club blows up, and what happens after.
Gifts Wretched and Devine (815 words) - short ficlet about Wylan’s feelings on receiving gifts. Domestic fluff with the slightest tinge of backstory angst.
me: so in 1964 john lennon wrote one of his only love ballads, “if I fell” and called it auto biographical even though it doesn’t match w any of his public relationships. the lyrics can easily be flipped to be about him pining for someone already in a relationship with a woman which would most likely be a man (as seen in “across the universe” where they did the song from a woman’s pov to a man without changing the lyrics and it still worked). he wrote the full lyrics for the first time on the inside of a valentines day card and in the corner you can see his handwriting that says “to: paul with love” with an arrow pointing inside and some doodled hearts. it was auctioned off in the 2000s, but the description only says it was written on a plane on a card “given to paul” as a spare paper, not acknowledging the little dedication with the hearts. years later he referred to it as a “silly love song,” referring back to paul’s song that was in turn referring to his mocking comments. and that’s why he’s a fa-
I know for a fact I have no control over my special interests/ hyperfixations because I did not choose for my brain over the last two weeks to become obsessed with Paul McCartney and John Lennon and their weird but deeply fascinating relationship. WHY??? How did this happen???
If I start my sentence with “Girl” I mean it in a gay way like I’m about to bitch to you about my coworkers who I hate and who I am nothing but nice to. If I start my sentence with “Maaan” I mean it in a tired teen boy way. Like Shaggy learning that he’s eaten the last of his vile sandwiches
worst thing people did was turn the incredibly personal experience of being lgbt into strict definitions and rules and then ridicule and harass others who don’t fit into their neat boxes, as if that isn’t what we were trying to run away from this whole time.
tbh shoutout to the over 40s on tumblr, sorry the internet acts like yall belong in the retirement home when ur literally just regular adults with hobbies
I was going to leave comments in the tags, but I decided this was important enough to put on main.
In college, my friend group collectively got into the SCA - Society for Creative Anachronism. They’re the people who get really into medieval reenactment, the fighting and crafts and cooking, they have kings and queens and knights and events and a good percentage of them (but not all!) work or have worked at Ren Faires.
I am forever grateful my friends dragged me into that, because it was my first introduction to fandom in older adults. Middle-aged dorks. Elderly nerds. Absolutely as intense and weird and hilarious and fun as any fan in their teens or 20s. I started getting into fandom already knowing there was a road ahead for me as I got older, full of handmade costumes and late night movies and shelves of pewter dragon goblets and mixed-aged road trips to meet ups and conventions.
And it kills me that so many people don’t know that sort of community even exists. On both sides, even! I went to Philcon a few years ago, which tends towards older fans, and an older woman I was talking to sadly told me that she thought fandom was dying out, because she never saw younger fans any more.
Over the past decade, there’s been a really toxic movement towards keeping different ages strictly separated, both in and outside of fandom. There’s this strong implication that if an older person wants to interact with a younger person, there is something inherently predatory about that.
Yeah, that attitude sucks. That drive towards separation and puritanism sucks. Declaring that younger people should have nothing to look forward to and that older people should stay separated and lonely sucks. It sucks and we are all worse for it.
Don’t fear age. Don’t put an age limit on having fun. Give yourself a damn future.
very big fan of when shows put wigs on actors and say ‘yeah. That’s him when he was younger fuck you’. No anti aging ai, no teen actor hired. Just. The same guy with a fuckass wig
Anti-asexual discourse has always been a canary in the mine when it comes to anti-LGBTQ stances. First it’s trans people, than ace people, then gender non-conforming people, then bi people… it will just keep going until it’s every queer person.
I looked up the tweet to confirm it was real (because even now it was shocking), and she doubles down (as she always does) in follow up tweets.
It’s always felt like the way TERFs hate Asexuals is related to the fact that we kinda fuck with their narrative by existing.
They can’t spread transphobia on the back of gender essentialism that says people with penises are animals with no impulse control, if simultaneously it’s generally understood that some people (which includes some people with penises) just don’t have that sexual impulse.
If asexuality is real then a lot of Radfem rhetoric starts falling apart.
