Aiden Brady at Helen Anthony, Spring 2022

great expectations // modern au

please can you do [ground] from the prompts list? ship of your choice ;)

[GROUND]: during a moment of intense emotional stress, the sender gently takes the receiver's face in their hands to ground them until they're calmer again.

*spins wheel* Little Beasts Blakely and Brady

"Jack."

Brady barely hears his name, clenched fingers damp with dishwater, dripping over peeling linoleum counters and dripping onto the floor they were planning to tear up next. Replace it with something nice, something a little classic. He'd found this peach-colored tile he thought would look nice with the yellow cabinets. Warm and bright. The sun was setting, fading light warm on his body where it filtered through the window over the sink

"Jack."

He hums in the back of his throat, stares at the area code on his phone as it vibrates. vibrates. vibrates. vib-

"Five things John, what can you see?"

Brady inhales, digs his fingernails into the linoleum as if he could dent it like butter "The swing outside. The cupboards need dusting. The-the floor tile. Sarah's schoolbooks. Your mom's Christmas card."

"Four."

Four things he could touch, or perhaps touch him as a pair of soft-skinned hands slide across his jawline, cupping his face and stroking the tight clenched masseter muscle on either side.

"Your hands. The water, it's cold. The dishrag. The counter."

Blakely walks him through the rest of the list, three things he can hear (Everett's voice, the TV in the other room, the dishwasher running), two things he can smell (Ev's cologne, the leftovers of breakfast) and one thing to taste, the mint chapstick on Blakely's lips as he kisses him lightly.

The phone stops ringing somewhere in the process, the screen black and silent. Everett smiles at him, crinkles around his eyes and brown hair carefully styled off his face. He was dressed in a white button down and a soft brown sweater, dressed for work and probably running late for helping Brady through his lapse in control.

"Better?" He asks, strokes Brady's cheek again.

"I'll manage." he says roughly.

'I'll cancel improv, we can have a movie night with Sarah instead."

"You don't have to do that," Brady insists, to proud to sound miserable.

"I love you," is all Blakely supplies in argument, which was more than enough.

"As production on the second season of And Just Like That was underway, Casey Bloys, the chairman and CEO of HBO and Max content, approached Kim Cattrall about putting her stilettos back on as Samantha — which led to her decision to say yes".

a/n: ik i'm behind on prompts but i'm in AU hell. in my brain, there lives a summer camp. chaos ensues. huge shout out to @shoshiwrites and @loveduringthewar for listening to my rambling for the past few days.

“Welcome back to a beautiful evening at PNC Park. It’s the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two strikes, one out, the Yankees lead the Pirates 8-4—scratch that—” It’s more exciting to pitch from behind. “Tie game. Egan winds up—”

“Stop talking to yourself,” Brady yells.

No one lets him have any fun around here. He waves his co-counselor off and winds up again, sending a two-seam into Connor’s catcher’s mitt with a satisfying thwack. Diego, the batter, sighs, takes his helmet off defeatedly, and shuffles back to the home dugout. The kid stood no chance, especially not this far back in the batting order.

“Sorry, bud,” Bucky calls. That’s a lie; he’s about to pitch his first no hitter of the summer and he’s carrying his cabin, which has put up an abysmal performance through these first seven innings. Serves them right for naming themselves The Brady Bunch instead of naming themselves after him.

“They named themselves after you last year.”

“You mean the Tampa Slay Buckyneers?”

They’re back-to-back camp champs; they better play like it. This the only pre-season game before the cabin tournament and Bucky needs to put up some serious numbers or he risks losing his stars being poached for the intramural tournament at the end of the summer. Nevaeh Hale in UC09 just started playing national travel ball and there’s no way in hell he’s letting an arm like that end up on Kidd’s team or even worse, with one of the new counselors. Official practices are strictly against camp rules but if The Brady Bunch’s nightly tribal council just happened to coincidentally be on the baseball diamond tonight, he wouldn't complain. He has the speech from Remember the Titans down pat and he’s not afraid to use it. We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile.

His co-counselor will put up a fight, but he doesn’t understand the game like Bucky does. Brady’s a swimmer and swimming isn’t a sport, it’s a survival skill.

Bucky kicks at the dirt and pops his gum as Connor throws the ball back. The kid’s playing well today. His request to play catcher instead of his usual center field had taken Bucky by surprise, but he’s holding his own. It’s not as big of a test as Bucky would like it to be and he’s not sold on it being a permanent change. They need Connor’s height—and more importantly, his speed—in the outfield, especially in their first game against Buck and Benny’s Boyz 2 Men 2 Fast 2 Furious.

“It’s a bad name.”

“It’s a great name.”

“You’re only saying that because it’s Buck’s team.”

B2M2F2F’s (say that five times fast) Chayse Merriweather had shot up three inches since last summer and his counselors are being tight-lipped about how his swing is looking, but Bucky has no doubt that he’s going to have to send his boys deep and have his pitchers prepped to walk him if push comes to shove. The more he thinks about it, the more he makes up his mind. Sorry to Connor, but Xander is a decent enough catcher and since counselors aren’t allowed to play in the actual tournament, Buck needs as much height as he can get in the outfield. 

But, on the other hand, Jacob F. is pretty tall and he could—

The dinner bell sounds across camp and two benches of teenage boys jolt upright in sudden, rabid interest. 

“Final at bat?” Cros calls from his dugout. 

Bucky defers to Brady, who gives him a solemn nod, and he shrugs at the home side. “Sure.”

He scans the field behind him. The outfield’s getting bored: Maxwell and Aiden have been shouting song requests to Dellie and Ken in the booth and doing TikTok dances since the game started, Nolan’s pulled so close to Dominic that there’re practically two third basemen, and even if he started making subs, the dugout’s too busy doing bottle flips to know where they’re at in the game. He loaded the bases to give them some defensive practice, maybe field some ground balls while keeping an eye on their man, start getting into a passing rhythm for double plays, but apparently it’s much more interesting to do a bad line dance to Beyoncé. 

He yells to his boys to get back to their spots and is immediately waved off. Nol and Dom don’t even acknowledge him, which hurts a little. The dinner bell broke the remaining shreds of their attempt at concentrating, and he wouldn’t regain control until after they ate.

Sometimes, he feels like he’s the only one around here who gives a shit about baseball.

The Riveters’ fastest runner, Jordan, is on second and wouldn’t steal with Davonte at shortstop. Bucky doesn’t have the rest of the batting order memorized yet, but based on their last few hitters, the other team’s scraping the bottom of the barrel. He’ll lay down a few heaters, make sure the kid doesn’t feel too bad about it (2-0’s an honorable loss), and make sure his boys don’t kill each other getting in the dinner line. He’s not going to save their season from the mound and besides, it’s taco night. He’d develop their roster over a plate of delicious, greasy ground beef and use Brady as an entirely unresponsive sounding board.

It takes awhile for a batter to step up to the plate and if they’re the ones who want one more swing, they shouldn’t waste his time. It’s getting chilly as the sun goes down and the mosquitos’ll be out soon, and he much rather deal with the 15-year-old boy’s tirade against bug spray in the privacy of his bunk. He gets some plate-to-mound reps in with Connor before standing up and setting his hands on his hips. “What’s taking so long?”

“Sorry, sorry,” Cros says, flipping through papers on a clipboard, “hitter change.” Are they fucking printing out their batting orders now? Since when? No offense to the other bunk, but they’re much more… feelings based than Bucky and Brady’s. Cros emphasizes enjoyment over wins, which is fine, he supposes, but there’s a reason they haven’t made the playoffs in the five years Bucky’s been at camp. And now they’re printing out their batting order, like that’s gonna help.

Maybe Jean took Harry to a game, opened his eyes to the joys of the spirit of competition, made him see that there’s as much confidence building in holding yourself to a standard as there is in “having fun.” Maybe this’ll be a year when more than two cabins are putting in effort.

After a few moments, someone finally steps out, bat in hand. It’s Rosie, much to Bucky’s surprise. He doesn’t know much about Cros’ new co-counselor, but he knows he’s full of surprises. 

It had been a shock when Bubbles announced to the counselors’ group chat that he wouldn’t be returning this summer, passing up eight weeks in the mountains for a “once-in-a-lifetime” Master’s exchange program in Paris. Bucky didn’t understand; you have to pay to go to Paris, they pay you to be at camp.

And Cros put on a brave face during returning counselors’ orientation, pretending that he wasn’t shitting himself about doing his first summer ever without his partner in crime, nodding nervously at Chick’s assurances that they found him a good co-counselor. Everyone was surprised when Rosie showed up the next week. It’s not like they were expecting anything in particular, but they weren’t expecting someone so… so perfectly suited to the environment, frankly. A law student, the newest Head of Academics for the kids who take summer classes, and vouched for by Izzy in the front office. 

Bucky held the man at arm’s length for a few days due to being unimpressed by his “I don’t really follow the Yankees” answer when Bucky tried to connect over Rosie being from Brooklyn.

“There’s more than one professional sports team in New York,” Gale says, taking his seat next to Bucky for a fire safety orientation they’ve seen too many times. 

“Yeah? Name one.”

“Or,” says Mahalia as she leans forward and sticks her head between the boys’, “get this: some people don’t root for their hometown teams. Some people get so infatuated by a group of uniforms hundreds of miles away that they betray the land that raised them.”

“You know what?” Bucky snaps, turning around.

Chick clears his throat from the front of the room and gives a warning, arched brow. Bucky flips Mahalia off over his shoulder.

Even thinking about her partially ruins the respect he’s built for Rosie.

It took a week or so for him to realize that it’s not an act, that the new counselor is as genuine as he presents himself to be—patient, smart, gives good advice but isn’t parental about it. Instead of the usual mess of interbunk seating at dinner on the first night of camp, the majority of Rosie’s campers opt to sit with him at the cabin table rather than catching up with all their friends, full of questions and listening intently as he introduces himself. Their team name is in the intramural Google spreadsheet by Day 3. Rosie’s Riveters. It’s rare that a bunk names themselves after a counselor even once in the ten summers they’re together, let alone a new guy coming in seven years late.

He’s a good fit for UC17. Cros’ group has always been on the quieter side, tending to stick with each other and spend a quiet night playing board games in the bunk rather than trying to wreck as much shop as they can before curfew. A gentle but strong spirit who stays calm under pressure (look, Harry’s trying but he’s not there yet), a natural leader, and a complete lack of FOMO makes Rosie the perfect guy to keep his boys in a low pressure environment.

He’s the darling of the front office, the clear favorite of the kitchen staff, and one of the only counselors allowed within the sacred walls of the nurses’ cabin. Bucky’s never been on the nurses’ porch let alone inside the bunk, and he's known all of those girls for years.

“Maybe that’s why they don’t want you in their personal living quarters.”

Whatever, Mahalia. He’s grown up a lot since starting at Lake Harding, okay?

So it surprises him as Rosie walks to home plate with confidence, taking a couple of half-swings before digging a heel in the box and hiking the bat up. He looks ready.

Bucky’s impressed, but not deterred. “I don’t go easy on counselors,” he says.

“That’s fair,” Rosie shrugs with a gentle smile.

Alright, well. The Brady Bunch still wants to get to dinner and a few of them have homework to do before tribal council and lights out.

“Bottom of the ninth,” he whispers as he winds up, savoring the familiar drag of clay under his shoe, “bases loaded, two outs, Yankees lead 2-0.”

The ball slams into Connor’s glove, a high and tight four-seam, without so much as a twitch from the batter.

With no refs, Bucky has to call his own games. “Strike one.”

Rosie nods at the ground with a contemplative pout before preparing again. If it’s going to be this easy, Bucky might as well change things up a bit. The wind is blowing south east, toward home plate, and if he can sink his change up just right…

He winds up, aims, and fires, and the most beautiful noise he’s ever heard—the expressive, roaring, galant crack of ball meeting bat—thunders across the field. It takes him a second to track the ball against the darkening sky, and up it goes, higher and higher over the short chain link fence at the end of the outfield.

Rosie takes a few stumbling steps toward first with the practiced momentum of a man who’s gone yard many times in his life but just wants to be polite about when he starts running, and lets the bat fall to the dirt as he starts a light jog. It’s silent except for the evening birdsong when the ball finally disappears into the first few feet of forest, and then the home dugout erupts. The Riveters pour out onto the field like they just won the World Series, hats and mitts flying into the air, whooping and jumping on each other. 

Bucky is dumbstruck. He’s never been grand slammed, not once in five years and a week of pitching, but as Rosie is rounding the bases, he finds Cros’ gloating, smug ass smile still in his dugout and furrows his brows. What the fuck, bro?

“Brooklyn College, Division II Men’s Baseball National Champs,” Cros shouts over the victory cries of his boys, “2020 through 2023.”

“Where the hell is Brooklyn College anyway?” Bucky asks later as he’s pulling his tray through the taco bar, replaying the sound of Rosie’s homer over in his head.

“Brooklyn,” Brady says with a laugh.

They take their seats at their table where Connor and Davonte, the traitors, are animatedly regaling two UC05 girls with the story of The Miracle on the Diamond.

“You think he’d coach?”

Brady drops his fork into his plate with a scowl. “I’m your assistant coach.”

“Well, you weren’t much help today.”

“How was I supposed to know the guy’s a national champi—”

“Heard you boys got your asses kicked by a lawyer,” Mahalia says, plopping down on Bucky’s left. 

Brady returns to his dinner in silence and Bucky gathers up a taco in his hand. “People lose sometimes.”

“I don’t,” Mahalia says innocently, stabbing the greens in her neatly arranged taco salad. What the hell is wrong with her? “I stood on business today. Parenthesis-Withdrew-parenthesis in italics didn’t know what hit ‘em.”

Ah, yes, (Withdrew), Ev and Dougie’s latest scheme to trick opposing teams into not showing up to their matches, automatically forfeiting and giving them the win. The worst part is, Mahalia did stand on business. Getting pinched on the last possible pitch hurt like a bitch, but not as bad as whatever the UC08 girls did to their opponents on the volleyball court. The shell-shocked faces of (Withdrew)’s valiant soldiers told Bucky everything he needed to know about their game when the Bunch got back to the boy’s side of Upper Camp.

Mahalia bumps his shoulder with hers, causing half his taco to spill all over his plate. “It’s funny,” she starts, “Nevaeh plays so well. I can’t believe she hasn’t tried volleyball before.”

He already doesn't like where this is going.

“She had a lot of fun out there. She might pick volleyball over baseball when intramurals start.”

She's poaching his fucking players. Bucky’s vision goes red and he’s about to get up and leave (he learned last year that he and Mahalia are not allowed to get into screaming matches in the dining hall) when she reaches over and nabs his cookie off his plate before standing and sweeping over to her own table. He’s too stunned to speak or to look away, even as she turns over her shoulder and bites down on the treat with a coy smile.

He’s going to kill her. 

Character Name Ideas (Male)

So I've been browsing through BehindTheName (great resource!) recently and have compiled several name lists. Here are some names, A-Z, that I like. NOTE: If you want to use any of these please verify sources, meanings etc, I just used BehindTheName to browse and find all of these. Under the cut:

A: Austin, Aiden, Adam, Alex, Angus, Anthony, Archie, Argo, Ari, Aric, Arno, Atlas, August, Aurelius, Alexei, Archer, Angelo, Adric, Acarius, Achilou, Alphard, Amelian, Archander B: Bodhi, Bastian, Baz, Beau, Beck, Buck, Basil, Benny, Bentley, Blake, Bowie, Brad, Brady, Brody, Brennan, Brent, Brett, Brycen C: Cab, Cal, Caden, Cáel, Caelan, Caleb, Cameron, Chase, Carlos, Cooper, Carter, Cas, Cash, Cassian, Castiel, Cedric, Cenric, Chance, Chandler, Chaz, Chad, Chester, Chet, Chip, Christian, Cillian, Claude, Cicero, Clint, Cody, Cory, Coy, Cole, Colt, Colton, Colin, Colorado, Colum, Conan, Conrad, Conway, Connor, Cornelius, Creed, Cyneric, Cynric, Cyrano, Cyril, Cyrus, Crestian, Ceric D: Dallas, Damien, Daniel, Darach, Dash, Dax, Dayton, Denver, Derek, Des, Desmond, Devin, Dewey, Dexter, Dietrich, Dion, Dmitri, Dominic, Dorian, Douglas, Draco, Drake, Drew, Dudley, Dustin, Dusty, Dylan, Danièu E: Eadric, Evan, Ethan, Easton, Eddie, Eddy, Einar, Eli, Eilas, Eiljah, Elliott, Elton, Emanuel, Emile, Emmett, Enzo, Erik, Evander, Everett, Ezio F: Faolán, Faron, Ferlin, Felix, Fenrir, Fergus, Finley, Finlay, Finn, Finnian, Finnegan, Flint, Flip, Flynn, Florian, Forrest, Fritz G: Gage, Gabe, Grady, Grant, Gray, Grayson, Gunnar, Gunther, Galahad H: Hale, Harley, Harper, Harvey, Harry, Huey, Hugh, Hunter, Huxley I: Ian, Ianto, Ike, Inigo, Isaac, Isaias, Ivan, Ísak J: Jack, Jacob, Jake, Jason, Jasper, Jax, Jay, Jensen, Jed, Jeremy, Jeremiah, Jesse, Jett, Jimmie, Jonas, Jonas, Jonathan, Jordan, Josh, Julien, Jovian, Jun, Justin, Joseph, Joni, K: Kaden, Kai, Kale, Kane, Kaz, Keane, Keaton, Keith, Kenji, Kenneth, Kent, Kevin, Kieran, Kip, Knox, Kris, Kristian, Kyle, Kay, Kristján, Kristófer L: Lamont, Lance, Landon, Lane, Lars, László, Laurent, Layton, Leander, Leif, Leo, Leonidas, Leopold, Levi, Lewis, Louie, Liam, Liberty, Lincoln, Linc, Linus, Lionel, Logan, Loki, Lucas, Lucian, Lucio, Lucky, Luke, Luther, Lyall, Lycus, Lykos, Lyle, Lyndon, Llewellyn, Landri, Laurian, Lionç M: Major, Manny, Manuel, Marcus, Mason, Matt, Matthew, Matthias, Maverick, Maxim, Memphis, Midas, Mikko, Miles, Mitch, Mordecai, Mordred, Morgan, Macari, Maïus, Maxenci, Micolau, Miro N: Nate, Nathan, Nathaniel, Niall, Nico, Niels, Nik, Noah, Nolan, Niilo, Nikander, Novak, O: Oakley, Octavian, Odin, Orlando, Orrick, Ǫrvar, Othello, Otis, Otto, Ovid, Owain, Owen, Øyvind, Ozzie, Ollie, Oliver, Onni P: Paisley, Palmer, Percival, Percy, Perry, Peyton, Phelan, Phineas, Phoenix, Piers, Pierce, Porter, Presley, Preston, Pacian Q: Quinn, Quincy, Quintin R: Ragnar, Raiden, Ren, Rain, Rainier, Ramos, Ramsey, Ransom, Raul, Ray, Roy, Reagan, Redd, Reese, Rhys, Rhett, Reginald, Remiel, Remy, Ridge, Ridley, Ripley, Rigby, Riggs, Riley, River, Robert, Rocky, Rokas, Roman, Ronan, Ronin, Romeo, Rory, Ross, Ruairí, Rufus, Rusty, Ryder, Ryker, Rylan, Riku, Roni S: Sammie, Sammy, Samuel, Samson, Sanford, Sawyer, Scout, Seán, Seth, Sebastian, Seymour, Shane, Shaun, Shawn, Sheldon, Shiloh, Shun, Sid, Sidney, Silas, Skip, Skipper, Skyler, Slade, Spencer, Spike, Stan, Stanford, Sterling, Stevie, Stijn, Suni, Sylvan, Sylvester T: Tab, Tad, Tanner, Tate, Tennessee, Tero, Terrance, Tevin, Thatcher, Tierno, Tino, Titus, Tobias, Tony, Torin, Trace, Trent, Trenton, Trev, Trevor, Trey, Troy, Tripp, Tristan, Tucker, Turner, Tyler, Ty, Teemu U: Ulric V: Valerius, Valor, Van, Vernon, Vespasian, Vic, Victor, Vico, Vince, Vinny, Vincent W: Wade, Walker, Wallis, Wally, Walt, Wardell, Warwick, Watson, Waylon, Wayne, Wes, Wesley, Weston, Whitley, Wilder, Wiley, William, Wolfe, Wolfgang, Woody, Wulfric, Wyatt, Wynn X: Xander, Xavier Z: Zachary, Zach, Zane, Zeb, Zebediah, Zed, Zeke, Zeph, Zaccai

here's the moment we've been waiting for- our valentine's day blind date pairings! we had 58 characters submitted, so there's 29 pairings!

please remember that these obviously do not have to end in a whirlwind romance! the dates can end up just being two friends having a free meal, can end in a disaster, can have someone else bailing, or maybe can spark something real! the point of it all is to have fun.

the dinner will be held at Neptune on Friday February 16th in game, but threads can begin as of tomorrow! the dates can also bc hc'd as well, all we ask is that everyone paired please speak with your partners and decide on the outcomes together! we don't want anyone feeling left out or dejected.

again, this has been randomized! (with tweaks to make sure no one is paired with themselves and to avoid large age gaps) so as wild as some of these pairs may be, we hope you all have fun with it!

Benjamin Hyun and Sebastian Torres

Elijah Seok and Delilah Carreño

Eric Kang and Zehra Ozdemir

Charley Morello and Noelle Driscoll

Baz Howlett and Nelson Quinn

Maisie Lenny and Scott Kulkari

Emerson Cassidy and Noah Atwood

Aiden Stevens and Ramsey Rivera

Blake Michaels and Buddy Wells

Valeria Ortiz and Cassius Banks

Kalina Slater-Horne and Atticus Cortes

Blair Harris and Aubrey Carson

Eleanor Andersen and Ziggy Kyeon

Valentina de Luca and Angel Rojas

Arabella Park and Stevie Sharp

Leo Larson and Sterling Levin

Darcy Anthony and Aiyla Kucuk

Melanie Hart and Denver Scott

Alma Khalif and Uly Flynn

Maura Cortes and Paxton Brady

Gabriel Haddad and Cherry Koch

Arkin O'Connell and Aurelia Cavendish

Rebekah Danvers and Cyrus Al-Zahid

Maverick Liu and Sola Adisa

Eden O'Connell and Lucy Driscoll

Hinata Ito and Nikki Keaton

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Lorelai Lewis and Lola Mi Tran

Ariel Davis and Roxy del Rosario

Questionnaire for book lovers

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my answers ⬇️

Goodreads account?: Yes

Favorite genre(s): Dark Romance, Fantasy Romance, Contemporary Romance

Favorite book(s): A Court of Mist and Fury, Anne of Green Gables, Twisted Games by Ana Huang

Favorite book series: ACOTAR, Anne of Green Gables Series, Millennium series

Favorite classic(s): The Great Gatsby, The Last of the Mohicans (one word UNCAS)

Favorite Author(s): Stieg Larsson, Sarah J. Maas, Anne Rice

Favorite quote(s): “If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too?” —Lucien Vanserra (ACOTAR)

“It’s easier to bear when you let someone in, let them help you through the grief. So next time, you come to me. For everything, you can come to me. If you’re hurting, I want to hurt. If you’re angry, I’ll rage with you. If you’re happy, I’m euphoric. If you’re so beyond broken that you can’t sort through the rubble, then come to me, baby, so I can piece you back together myself. Hit me, yell at me, kiss me, fuck me, whatever you need to do, my body is yours for the taking.” —Creed (Lethal Truths)

Favorite adaptation(s) to screen: Pride & Prejudice (2005), Sharp Objects HBO, Anne of Green Gables (1985)

Favorite character(s): Lucien Vanserra from ACOTAR, Anne Shirley, Camille Preaker from Sharp Objects (show version is my most beloved fictional character, I think liked book version almost as much???), Creed from Blackwood University Series, Jim Holden from The Expanse, Lisbeth Salander from Millennium series

Favorite villain(s)/antihero(es): Arobynn Hamel from Thorne of Glass, Lestat de Lioncourt from Interview with the Vampire, Creed from Blackwood University Series, Killian Carson from God of Malice

Book boyfriend(s) or girlfriend(s): Creed from Blackwood University Series (I'm in love with him), Atlas Corrigan from It Ends with Us, Rhys Larsen from Twisted Games, Rhysand from ACOTAR, Lucien Vanserra (hopefully he will get his mate)

Favorite ship(s): Feyre/Rhysand from ACOTAR, Bridget/Rhys from Twisted Games, Anne/Gilbert from Anne of Green Gables Series, Elide/Lorcan from TOG, Holden/Naomi from The Expanse

Book(s) that made you cry: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey

Physical book, eBook or audiobook: Ebook and audiobook (GraphicAudio)

Currently reading: Kingdom of Ash, You Can't Kiss the Nanny, Brady Banks (Audiobook, narration is so good, I wish more books had dialogue between two narrators)

Last 5 star read: Lethal Truths by Sybil Reese

Book(s) that you wish were more popular: Blackwood University Series by Sybil Reese (it's a Dark Romance and Reverse Harem so yeah😞), I wanna gush over Creed with somebody. He should be sole lead, then maybe book had more readers. It's weird when you have character who is cuddlier version of Zade Meadows and you try shoe horn him into harem when he is obvious choice. Technically he is her main hubby and others are more like sidepieces, hopefully it stays this way. And 2nd book is way better.

You old favorites: Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick (I still love it)

Your most anticipated book: God of Fury by Rina Kent and ACOTAR

Favorite audiobook narrator(s): Aiden Young

Unpopular opinion: I think Chaol is the most rational and relatable character from TOG and I side eye his haters. I have so many unpopular opinions about TOG that I sometimes wish that I have never started reading it.

sorry : @jupiter-86, @dangermousie, @acourtofthought

Wassup here are some (mostly english) trans masc/boy names! I'll do trans fem/girl next:)

Vance, Vince, William, Richard, Edward, Steve, Billy, Bruce, John, Brady, Alex, Alexander, Jack, Daniel, Micheal, AJ, Connor, Evan, Raymond, Henry, Jasper, Drew, Alan, Harry, Ronald, Oliver, Spencer, Sydney (can be feminine or masculine), Liam, Noah, Elijah, Juan, James, Ben, Benjamin, Lucas, Theodore, Levi, Booker, TJ, Jackson, Matteo, Finn, Bill, Joe, Joseph, Jonathan, Luke, Cason, Kaden, Cade, Mason, Sebastian, Ethan, Logan, Owen, Ryan, Travis, Leo, Jeffrey, Bose, Miles, Samuel, Sam (Gender neutral), Jacob, Keys (Gender nuetral), Asher, Ash (Gender nuetral), Aiden, Wyatt, Albert, Dylan, Dean, Sean, David, Julian, Hudson, Grayson, Matt, Matthew, Max, Elvis, Jim, Jimmy, Gabriel, Ali, Alvin, Simon, Drex, Carter, Isaac, George, Jayden, Albert, Lucas, Anthony, Lincoln, Tom, Thomas, Charles, Caleb, Chris, Christopher, Mario, Stephen, Luis, Nathan,Adrian, Cameron, Aaron, Ein, Peirce, Zade, Cooper, Robin (Gender nuetral), Robbie, Kai, Landon, Axel, Avery (Gender neutral), Robert, James, Everett, Joey, Ross, Chandler, Channing,Marcel, Wesley, Jose, Nicholas, Parker, Austin, Carson, Xavier, Jace, Emmet, Cooper, Adam, Rowan, Roman, Dan, Arthur, Kai, and, Ralph!^^

My OTP was always adult Lily and adult Brady--Charlotte's daughter and Miranda's son from SATC. I love babies ever after, I love when friends hatch a plot to get their kids together.

In "And Just Like That"...now that that's canon, I can't wait to see how these writers are going to utterly ruin the ship.

Other updates:

I can't believe I'm back to shipping Aiden and Carrie. Carrie was SO AWFUL to him. I'm glad his ex-wife told her to not hurt him again. (And to please not use her children for article content, it's a very fair ask.) But I dunno. I just love Aiden so much and it SEEMS like they're doing the work and Carrie is open about sharing her life with his kids...

I kinda like the angle that Aiden is unwilling to come into her apartment, because he is intensely triggered by the heartbreak and hurt there. That makes a lot of sense for his character.

Meh on Seema's new romance, but for characters like Seema and Samantha--jesus I just realized how similar Seema and Samantha are, they really were just like 'let's have a new Samantha but make her Indian'--I usually am meh on their romance.

I'm glad Nya's living her best life.

Christopher Jackson's character has been bugging me on how blase he's been about his wife's career, but I liked that little twisty reveal at the end. (I LIKE. BABIES. GET OFF ME.)

Che is gradually growing on me, like a cancerous tumor.

Miranda remains the worst, but I like her new chic Lesbian look.

Charlotte pendulum swinging on whether it's good or bad if Brady and Lily are together--it could mess up her friendship with Miranda if they broke up BUT WOULDN'T THEIR KIDS BE CUTE that is a very in-character Charlotte reaction.

STILL MISSING SAMANTHA JONES I am firmly team Kim Cattrall but the reboot series has s u f f e r e d without her electric presence and I'm glad they're paying her a cool million to come back, she deserves it.

naturally reading a lot of isekai stuff makes you think about what it'd be like if you got isekai'd but i normally read a lot of korean stuff which usually goes like game/novel comes to life apocalypse fighting hunters whatever and the mc is obviously korean and korea's usually like a world player and so that's where in instinctively imagine myself but like. i literally wouldn't be there. i would be getting killed at a speedway or something. grinding levels in the cornfields. joining the local guild led by jacob with my fellow hunters brody brady braden aiden kayden kenzie whatever

the following muses are now private / reserved for pre - existing connections they've already had :

lorenzo, aiden, ethan, benji, felix, landon, edward, henry & callum

the following muses have been deleted due to general lack of muse :

brandon, brady, alice, gage, shiloh, eric, amelia, cooper, lila, alisha, kieran, quinn, cordelia, emma & edith

@halliwellauto asked: [ PREVENT ] for one muse to stop the other from going too far during a fight. from the angst prompts !!

there was plenty of ammo for demons to latch onto to get under sam's skin. his parents, jessica, his demon blood addiction, the betrayals of ruby and brady... it all weighed heavily on him. in one way or another it all traced back to his decisions or a twisted way he could blame himself for all of the tragedies in his life. it took a lot for him to come to terms with how outwardly selfish it appeared from the outside to run from the life of hunting monsters. someone with knowledge about hidden travesties of the world not doing anything to stop -- but he was tired. tired of his entire life being destroyed by monsters and envious of everyone around him that had normal lives with stable and caring relationships. and look how far it got him, playing pretend at stanford until the others around him inevitably got dragged into it.

then his grief and desire to save others was taken advantage of -- and really he had no one to blame for that apart from himself. trusting a demon? he could only imagine how his father would react to the news, given how bobby and dean had. he should have known better, been better -- but having an increased likelihood of saving the unwilling vessels of demons had been as intoxicating as the rush of power. and now as the consequences of those actions, lucifer was free and all of the angels were keen on following plans of an apocalypse that wouldn't have been possible without his actions. talk about fuel to second guess and regret every decision he had ever made.

with all of his pent up emotions, he had found himself slipping into the territory of overkill. last week, he had taken gratification in roughing brady up before killing him. and now -- he already had seen the glowing sparks signaling the death of the demon below him when his arm reeled back for another strike with the demon-killing knife. aiden's hand firmly grasping his wrist snapped him back to reality. the frenzied, deer in the headlights look soon was replaced by an ashamed one. she was right. channeling his anger here made him no better than the hunters that lost themselves in revenge, something he had never wanted to become after seeing it in his father.

gently pulling his arm away from her, the younger winchester pulled himself to his feet, no longer able to meet aiden's gaze. ❝ we should get out of here. ❞ he would have to call bobby, let him know it was another dead end. there was no longer an option going forward other than to get the final rings of the horsemen. sam was going to have to say yes to lucifer.

hey! is anyone looking for a mother/aunt (or something similar) connection for a muse 55-ish?

Hi there! Here's some connections to fit the kind of character you're looking for!

Sloane Danvers (Madelaine Petsch) is looking for her mom or her aunt!

Sterling Levin (Madelyn Cline) is looking for the nanny for her daughter

Aiden Stevens (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) is looking for his aunt

Maverick Liu (Derek Luh) is looking for his aunt

Paxton Brady (Dylan O'Brien) is looking for his aunt

Blake Michaels (Zazie Beetz) is looking for her mother (or aunt!)

Darcy Anthony (Zendaya) is looking for her aunt

If any muns want to add more, just reply to this post!

If you need help getting in contact with any of these muns, just dm the main!

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Finney’s Markus Robinson stood on his head within the arc, burying 16 baskets and making 7-of-11 free throws to finish with 39 points. Gentile (28), Johnson (21), Gissendanner (18) and Taggart (12) all bolstered offensive production. Chris Taggart went 5-for-6 from the line, Xavier Gissendanner sank four field goals, Zacarr Johnson registered six points and Wilfredo Sanchez added five in the fourth as well. Trailing 63-57 entering the fourth, BK’s starting five combined for 34 points to put the contest out of reach. Other scorers – Aquinas: Mykel White (6), Jordan Jordan (2), Damarius Owens (2) Penfield: Andrew Faillace (5), Harrington (4), Derek Torres (2).Ĭolin Gentile drained seven shots from behind the arc, including three in the final quarter to complete the comeback victory over Finney. Wesley Henderson came through with 12 points, Will Scanlon muscled out 11 and Jack Bleier and Robert McCullough both finished with 10 apiece. Aquinas junior Myles Blackwood drained 11 of his 12 field goals after the first quarter to finish with 26 points. Salmon collected 21 points and Schroeder had 12 by the end of the game. Brady Schroeder and Ty Salmon combined for nine points and Caden Harrington contributed a single field goal in the final period. Wilkins finished with 23 points and Cook snagged 16 with the help of four long range shots. RJ Wilkins led the charge with nine points and Aiden Cook followed with two clutch threes. Other scorers – Wilson: Marquise Johnson (4), Harlem Campbell (2), Jalen McDonald (2) Irondequoit: Jake O’Sullivan (5), Nick Mercurio (5), Darius Turner (4), Evan Leonardo (3).Īfter trailing through the first three quarters, Penfield pulled off the comeback with a 27-point fourth quarter. Zavarius Henry and Damel Turner split 10 points for Wilson as well. He finished with a team-leading 19 points. Wilson’s Derrick Simmons drained three from beyond the arc and shot a perfect 4-for-4 from the line. By halftime, Irondequoit possessed a 47-14 lead. finished with seven and six points, respectively. Using three threes, Ryan Heath was the only other Eagle to reach double figures with 13 points. The senior netted four three-pointers and only missed 1-of-4 free throw attempts. Keenan Robertson accumulated 29 points in three quarters of work to keep Irondequoit on the path of the unbeaten.

Aiden Shaw (Aiden Brady)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 22 February 1966

Ethnicity: White

Occupation: Adult actor, writer, musician, model