you always end on a jade's trick;

half your own heart (775 words) by icouldnotsee
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Pacific Rim (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Raleigh Becket/Mako Mori
Characters: Raleigh Becket, Mako Mori
Additional Tags: Bodyguard, Royalty, Identity Issues
Summary:

In which Raleigh was raised to be Mako's protector.

light (235 words) by icouldnotsee
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Lucifer/Sam Winchester
Characters: Sam Winchester, Lucifer (Supernatural), Michael (Supernatural)
Additional Tags: Sam Winchester in Lucifer's Cage, Trauma, Dissociation, Emotional/Psychological Abuse, Psychological Torture, Torture, Physical Abuse, Implied Sexual Abuse, POV Second Person
Summary:

Is that not a gift, to have the bringer of light in such a dark room?

min & the three wishes (or, three late wedding gifts from a mother cat) (2726 words) by nyame002
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Kay/Min, Original Female Character/Original Female Character
Characters: Original Characters
Additional Tags: fairytales - Freeform, Fairytale format, Rape/Non-con - Freeform, Abortion, Wishes, Animal Death, Murder, your standard fairytale fare
Summary:

Two girls, a cat, and a couple of longings—fairytale style.

okay so phryne has dallied with a russian tango dancer, a rich heir, a buff vet, and right now an angsty anti-capitalist, all the while having intense eye sex with inspector jack, so what i want to know is how do i 1) become the love of her life and failing that, 2) become her

(also mfmm is so ridiculously good i'm willing to watch it besides the period-typical stuff intrinsic to the 20s and some of its poorer decisions. it's just. it's so good)

neil w puppy dog eyes as he says to peter "we're partners?" gave me such a feelllll

Also Peter with his eyes a little wet as he looks at Neil with a warm smile

And Elizabeth and her faith in the two of them I'm just ahhhh

This is my first Snowflake Challenge, and I'm happy to be here :)

Day 1

In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Lots of stuff! I think what kept me happiest this year were my friends; despite being...not great in a lot of respects, 2018 was the most socially balanced I've ever been in my life (which is a lot for your local introvert), and it's really nice to have people with the same shades of political and dark humor around, and people to yell at about random things I like and to listen to while they yell about projects they're working on, and to discuss each other's problems with and the like. It's really nice.

Another thing that has always made me happy is my notebooks. I write a lot and blow throw notebooks exceedingly quickly, and paper is just how I filter out the random stuff that comes into my head. It's really fun for me and useful, and calms me down when I feel at my most anxious. It's been such a constant in my life, and it's such a point of familiarity for me.

Damien/Joan is such a difficult dynamic to do when you're trying to go for "unhealthy but darkly romantic" vs. "explicitly abusive" because I feel like by the nature of the ship, if you're not going to go full OOC it's gonna be dark and manipulative and if you go straight through to the heart you get this explosion of awful and control, so like, to make him into a half of a semifunctional unit you have to like, eat around the edges and chip away at the sheer awfulness and find a hole that Joan can very uncomfortably settle in, where they're both more whole but the whole thing is prickly, thorns digging into each other, but familiar.

(It's also why the arc of Mark and Damien on the run is kind of partially in my head fundamental to making Joan and Dean work for me, like I'd shipped since s1, but that arc assured me of the insecurity of Damien, the unsureness of whether anyone has ever really liked him or found him charming vs. whether literally everything is because of the power, which makes him feel more lonely while making him think the power is more essential, and it's this awful feedback loop and it's so fucked up AHHHH I love it)

EVEN WHEN HE'S YELLING ABOUT ADAM HE'S COMPLIMENTING HIM CALEB YOU ARE A MESSSSSSSS

(okay i'll stop leaving scattered posts on your reading page now and be back later but i'm having such an emotion???)

TEENAGE EMPATH SOULMATES

God, I wish I had a paid account so I could have more icon space. (Look how cute he is though, y'all.)

I love that El is like, the Most polyamory apparently monogamous person E V E R, they basically took in Neal as their third from the moment El saw him. They're so good.

I hope you're all having a lovely day.