May I Have Your Hand, My Lady?

The Atlantic

The Abortion Absolutist

Warren Hern has been performing late abortions for half a century. After Roe, he is as busy with patients as ever.

This was an interesting read. Surprisingly nonpreachy given the subject; and well worth the time.

Romcom where Grim brings back a random beaten up bat and you take it from him. Leaving it in a box with towels and some water to see if it’ll recover by the next day…

But by the next day, the bat is nowhere to be seen. In its place is a very disgruntled looking man clad in armour, ebony hair spilling from his scalp, some locks dyed red. He’s staring up at you warily, before taking a sip out of the bowl you’ve prepared for him.

You approach him warily, poking at him with a broom. The man snorts, eyes glancing up at you with a faint amusement. He introduces himself as a vampire general, who… fled his station. Lilia Vanrouge… not that his name will be remembered.

Not anymore.

You raise an eyebrow, before mentioning that he could stay at your place… until he’s got his grip with reality back. Lilia immediately bristles, trying to show you evidence that he truly is a vampire, but you simply just shrug it off.

Oh, sharp teeth? Nice Halloween decoration.

Intense dislike of the sun? Oh well, he’s probably used to the night.

Refuses to eat any garlic? Oh, a picky eater.

Both of you settle into an odd sort of domestic life, where he’s essentially a stay-at-home… vampire. Lilia takes awhile to truly get used to his surroundings, jumping and grasping at his weapon whenever a sound is just a little too loud for his taste, pacing around whenever night falls, anxious footsteps echoing through the house.

You’ve taken to checking up on him, those nights. Fixing two mugs of steaming hot milk as you toss a blanket over his shoulders. Here, drink… and calm down. You probably didn’t know what he was going through really, but the care and concern in your eyes as you sat by him?

It warmed Lilia’s heart… more than you’ll ever know.

I 100% agree with this post.

kind of wanna reinforce this here. because i’ve seen ai writing become so popular on tik tok.

ai writing is not okay.

it’s literally theft. just like how ai art steals, ai writing steals. it’s using authors’ very real work to generate whatever you type in. and this also needs to be said as well.

writing is a form of art. fanfiction is a form of literature.

seeing this all over my fyp is REALLY discouraging. fanfic itself is already a labor of love and we love it when you interact. but please do not use ai writing for your fanfic needs when this writing literally steals from fanfic authors.

genuinely don’t know if this post will go around because my interactions outside of hcs are shit, but i hope it does.

where am i

Hi everyone,

Guess who's been working to midnight because of the holidays? And guess who's been listening to the new Wicked to stay awake. Me!

Well now I've been inspired. I hope you enjoyed it. I did write it pretty late at night.

Not That Boy

Mallues knew not to convent what wasn’t his. His Father, Lilia had taught him. Yet, here he was doing exactly that.

Yuu wasn’t his but how he wanted them but he could see that Yuu didn’t want him like that.

Yuu wanted his adoptive brother, Silver.

Silver who was blithe of smile and lithe of limb. Silver who was practically a story book prince.

Malleus could see it in their eyes. They were in love.

Malleus thought back to the first time their hands touched the sudden silence of the world around him and sudden heat he felt. He thought Yuu looked nearly giddy but maybe he had been wrong. He had been the one who had been giddy.

Yuu could be that person for him, his everything but he wasn’t everything to Yuu.

He wasn’t that boy.

‘Don’t dream too far.’  He thought. He had been told so often that it wasn’t becoming of a King to daydream. ‘Don’t lose sight of who you are.’ They reminded him.

But every so often he enjoyed steal off to the land of what might have been daydreaming of what if Yuu were to choose him even if it didn’t make him feel any better in the end.

Silver was so winsome so it’s understandable he would win Yuu.

That’s the person Yuu chose and everyone knew Mallues wasn’t that boy.

Malleus sometimes wishes he hadn’t starting wishing so much for them, he was only wounding his heart.

Yuu loved a boy, and Malleus knew him and knew it wasn’t him.

Lilia running his fingers through your hair, whispering “it’ll be alright. Just rest for now.”

Gently massages your scalp, the motion gradually pulling you into a rest.

Silver and Malleus as nobody mourns the wicked is great but have you ever thought..

Kalim and Jamil post book 4. Hear me out:

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No one mourns the wicked:

(The Scarabia dorm canonically shunning/hating Jamil for everything that went down, calling for him to be demoted from Vice Housewarden. Jamil likely also could of faced SEVERE consequences from his family and the Al-Asims, if not for…)

No, one mourns the wicked:

(Kalim. He likely covered everything up from his and Jamils family, leaving the fact Kalim was the one targeted unknown, or who it was at all, as they did not receive a summons/lawsuit , therefore can be worded as “one” due to their lack of knowing who it was that forgave Jamil.)

Know, one mourns the wicked:

(Back to Scarabia, When the students called for Jamils demotion from Vice Housewarden (Hell, I can imagine they wanted to kick him out of the dorm too), Kalim pushed back and allowed Jamil to keep his position as his Vice.

So then, Scarabia “knows” who mourns the “wicked”. It can go unsaid for this verse simply because it’s obvious. If it wasn’t Kalim, Jamil wouldn’t be the Vice Housewarden anymore, and might literally be dead (execution for attempt on Kalims life), imprisoned for same reasons as previous, or pulled from the school. It quite literally couldn’t be anyone BUT Kalim if Jamils still in Scarabia.)

Know, one mourns, The Wicked:

(Kalim obviously felt extremely guilty for being ignorant to and/or subconsciously trying to deny Jamils feelings to protect himself from the truth, aswell as feeling guilty for that fact he never knew Jamil was being forced to pretend to be worse than Kalim their whole lives, leading to Jamils suffering.

Therefore Kalim thinking of himself as “the wicked” for not being there for Jamil.)

Yea :)

(I don’t have the talent to draw/animate this so might aswell give y’all writers and artists inspiration. Anyway I’ll make my escape before y’all kill me BYEE)

SOON we shall know what the bat wears to sleep!! Is it gonna be a centuries old chemise with ridiculous frills?? A hot pink bat kigurumi?? Or perhaps he learned from the young'uns and he just goes 'casual sweatpants and tee'. And there's also the possibility of him going to sleep still in uniform and with the shoes on; just to not waste precious mmorps hours. I really hope they went with the most absurd option

I think you're 100% correct about those being the options, but after Rook in his little Dickens cosplay I couldn't honestly say which one is more likely. like...if they're going to put anyone in a onesie...

if I may offer some predictions:

(with an alternate version because I couldn't decide between them)

I'll take it!

007

Happy Valentines Day Friends!!

I’m not too good at corny quotes so this one is kind of bad…? Idk I tried :,,)

For those who struggle to read my horrible cursive just in case:

“I would give the rest of my life for you, Valentine”