Fave Five: Fiction with Trans M/NB Pairings

A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige O’Brien (YA Fantasy) The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver (YA Romance) Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee (YA Romance) Long Macchiatos and Monsters by Alison Evans (Contemporary Romance) Documenting Light by EE Ottoman (Contemporary Romance)

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Documenting Light by E.E. Ottoman

If you look for yourself in the past and see nothing, how do you know who you are? How do you know that you are supposed to be here?

When Wyatt brings an unidentified photograph to the local historical society, he hopes staff historian Grayson will tell him more about the people in the picture. The subjects in the mysterious photograph sit side by side, their hands close but not touching. One is dark, the other fair. Both wear men’s suits.

Were they friends? Lovers? Business partners? Curiosity drives Grayson and Wyatt to dig deep for information, and the more they learn, the more they begin to wonder — about the photograph, and about themselves.

Grayson has lost his way. He misses the family and friends who anchored him before his transition and the confidence that drove him as a high-achieving graduate student. Wyatt lives in a similar limbo, caring for an ill mother, worrying about money, unsure how and when he might be able to express his nonbinary gender publicly. The growing attraction between Wyatt and Grayson is terrifying — and incredibly exciting.

As Grayson and Wyatt discover the power of love to provide them with safety and comfort in the present, they find new ways to write the unwritten history of their own lives and the lives of people like them. With sympathy and cutting insight, Ottoman offers a tour de force exploration of contemporary trans identity.

Documenting Light by E.E. Ottoman

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When Wyatt brings an unidentified photograph to the local historical society, he hopes staff historian Grayson will tell him more about the people in the picture. The subjects in the mysterious photograph sit side by side, their hands close but not touching. One is dark, the other fair. Both wear men’s suits. Were they friends? Lovers? Business partners? Curiosity drives Grayson and Wyatt to dig deep for information, and the more they learn, the more they begin to wonder — about the photograph, and about themselves. Grayson has lost his way. He misses the family and friends who anchored him before his transition and the confidence that drove him as a high-achieving graduate student. Wyatt lives in a similar limbo, caring for an ill mother, worrying about money, unsure how and when he might be able to express his nonbinary gender publicly. The growing attraction between Wyatt and Grayson is terrifying — and incredibly exciting. As Grayson and Wyatt discover the power of love to provide them with safety and comfort in the present, they find new ways to write the unwritten history of their own lives and the lives of people like them. With sympathy and cutting insight, Ottoman offers a tour de force exploration of contemporary trans identity.

Mod opinion: I haven't heard of this yet, but it sounds interesting. Also again t4t stories by E.E. Ottoman sound very intruiging.

letter-keeper's oath

Last year I got ahold of the arcade PCB for a game called Biohazard: Gun survivor 2 Code Veronica. I’ve always wanted to play this game, so I decided to build the rest of the arcade cabinet.

It’s been a while, but I have an update!

The game runs!!! I still have to build out all the controls for the game, and a physical cabinet to house the game, but it runs!!!!!

Sukuna likes to make you cry.

He's got you pinned underneath him with one hand clasping both of your wrists together. But you barely feel that. All you can really feel is him, filling you relentlessly.

"You're drooling." He sneers. "This is the only way to shut you up, huh?"

You think you whine something about how mean he's being in response, but it gets lost amidst other things. What started out as gentle affection from you has turned into this. It's not that you were being overly clingy today either, and you open your mouth to tell him so.

One of his hands slides down from your bare waist to your clit, brushing against it. It's the soft touch standing out against everything else that sends you spiralling through your first orgasm of the night. You're shaking, unable to catch you breath. And he's still going. It feels like he's touching you everywhere that's sensitive all at once, and sometimes he squeezes and sometimes he caresses your skin and—

"Wait—" You pant out.

"You're not overstimulated already, are you?"

He's asking a question that he already knows the answer to. Tears prickle at the corner of your eyes as you try to decide whether it's too much or whether it's still not enough. All that talk earlier about wanting to satisfy Sukuna when it's always been you that's the insatiable one in this equation. He cups your cheek so you open your eyes to look at him. You can feel his finger wiping away a tear with his thumb, grinning down at you.

You don't even feel that he's flipped you over so that you're on top at first, too busy grinding your hips down to chase that feeling of pleasure again.

"There you are." He mumbles, gripping onto your thighs so hard that you know you'll still feel all of this tomorrow. "Come on, try harder."

I love your artwork so much! Your colors are so vibrant and none of the white speckles in the paper ever shows, its so impressive and I really dig it! I was wondering if you use any sort of blending medium? Like baby oil or anything? Either way, I really enjoy looking at your artwork and I'm always excited to see whatever you'll make next

I use a colorless blender (prismacolor, which is wax-based so baby oil probably wouldnt work) but my scanner is also rly bad about picking up white specks in a way photographing the art with my phone isnt, so I usually have to do some digital editing to get rid of them as well.

I do this by duplicating the layer, setting the one on top to "darken," and using the mixer brush to blend out the white spots + just use the eyedropper tool to select the color of that area (needs to be a slightly lighter shade of it) and color over the white spots with the brush tool

i edited a small bit of the original scan to show what i mean

original:

with the edited layer:

heres how it looks set to normal instead of darken, I used both the mixing brush and regular brush just to demo it

Life at 221B Baker Street: 2010 - The Baker Street Boys - (2022)

Click HERE for Part 2 (CW: character death, smoking)

i tried to document the process of making the watercolor piece, + i figured i'd share it bc i love talking about process :D

FRIENDS i bought these instructions for this paddy’s lego MOC and i sourced all 2400 pieces from webrick and toypro and i just started building it and i’m literally so happy this project is checking all of my autistic boxes

Reasons why "Red Light" is actually by Simon Eriksson and not Omar Rudberg:

"didn't mean to fall in love"

"but you were everything I'm not"

"you were everything I wanted"

"we only had a couple days"

"but I saw heaven in your face"

Okay just all the lyrics can be so Wilmon-coded okay

It ends with "we keep dancing, you and me" and then "you and me" over and over = wilmon endgame

Red lights are a Thing in Young Royals

Omar debuted the song during YR promo season

It's been reported that Edvin, who was in attendance, sang along. Maybe he knows all the words because Simon sang it to Wilhelm.

Can't you picture Simon composing this song on his keyboard in his bedroom when he's feeling all kinds of conflicting feelings about his relationship with Wille?

I just need it to be, ok?

I fucking did it again

And by "it" I mean opening a document in my "Yo Han's POV" folder of Who Holds the Devil and stumbling over a section I'd forgotten I'd written (or blocked out, more likely). So, for your enjoyment in these trying post-chapter 39 times:

"Sometimes, Yo Han wondered what that must feel like — to be loved so fiercely and wholeheartedly by someone else. Especially someone like Ga On, whose emotions were as wild and unstoppable as they were genuine. He couldn't seem to curb them even if he tried.

It must be breathtaking to be loved by someone like him.

And, blinded by his own idiocy, Yo Han had allowed himself to hope. For a little while, he'd honestly thought he had a chance — that he might get to find out what that would be like. That, just maybe, the emotions he saw flashing past in Ga On's eyes meant something.

He should have known better."

in another edition of beautiful meetings with strangers that came about thanks to arctic monkeys: i went for breakfast in primrose hill with my lovely gorgeous friend this morning, and we had an argument at the counter because i wanted to pay for the food and she wouldn't let me, and then she turned to the barista to explain "i'm poor because i'm a musician", and the barista said "i'm poor because i'm a musician too!" and they high fived

and then the barista asked us if we had any music requests, and me and my friend looked at each other and went "well we're huge arctic monkeys fans..." and then the barista turned out to be a huge fan too who also went to dublin, and she asked us our favourite album so we decided on humbug, and then the other barista yelled "good choice!" from the other side of the cafe and then put it on, and they played us the entirety of humbug while we had our breakfast, even when lots of elderly people came in who looked very disturbed by hearing "pretty visitors" over their morning coffee

Today is 'coming out to my parents day' for me (for reals this time) and i'm having. a bit of a rough one finally typing out my spiel. Where's 'mutual who can instantly teleport me a fuckin xanax' when I need them T_T

New SCP Foundation piece: an informal collection of tips for new researchers, from Dr. Sophia Light. Do good work. Also available on the SCP Foundation wiki [link].

(Transcripts/text-only version is available on the SCP Foundation wiki page [link], click on "+ TRANSCRIPT" at the bottom.)