Currently have seven queer characters in original show
To add a poly couple to original pilot or to not add poly couple…
*Re-posted because ff.net took it down for apparently breaking the guidelines *cough*bullshit*cough*
Summary: The night he finally takes his ring off is when he accidently walks in on her in the bathroom, seeing red welts crisscrossing down her naked back through the steam. He glares and wants to throw up right there, but then her head snaps back to him and he slams the door shut at her vaguely concerned gaze.
So this is a thing that happened.
Summary: The night he finally takes his ring off is when he accidently walks in on her in the bathroom, seeing red welts crisscrossing down her naked back through the steam. He glares and wants to throw up right there, but then her head snaps back to him and he slams the door shut at her vaguely concerned gaze.
Edit: Was removed because ff.net is an asshole
A fic I wrote! Or well…a WIP fic which I’ve been trying to write since summer. Still not sure how i feel about it.
It’s mostly Quick, with Faberry on the side. Although the Faberry doesn’t appear in this part. It’s angsty.
But I digress! This is posted for Leah, happy birthdayyyy!
(PS: It’s written in a sort of non-linear form, so I hope it’s not too confusing.)
you sit there in your heartache
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He should have seen this coming. He should have known better. He should have been suspicious when she said I love you for the first time. He should have –
There’s really nothing he can do now. All he can do is stare at it, his eyes glancing back and forth between it and its larger twin resting on his finger.
He wants to believe he already knows the answers as to why he found it hidden in her drawer, but he’d be lying if he says he wasn’t confused, with thoughts like when, why, and I’m never going to take it off.
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There’s one sure thing he knows about himself, ever since he hit puberty, is that he loves women. Truly. He’d be nothing without them – he can safely say he spent more time with women than with half of his friends in high school.
But if there’s one thing he knows better, is that he loves Quinn. He used to have the idea that after Beth was born, there was always gonna be something tying him back to her. He thought that he’d drink and fuck his way through a happy bachelor life, and always having a piece of himself left with Quinn. A whisper of I’ll always be here for you.
He knows better now. He knows now, that after over half a decade of an impulsive marriage, he loves the way her body is molded into soft curves and skin, and how her muscles ripple when they move against his body. He loves the way she smiles demurely and how her eyes shine when he gives her his all of attention. He loves the strength she carries, and the resilience she embodies, and the passion she can possess. He loves the way she can make him feel.
He would have never figured he would marry so young in his life. But then Quinn reappears with those empty eyes and he wants to make things better, and he has never looked back since. Never touches another woman since. He has never particularly felt the need to.
So why then did he feel like running out right now and fucking the nearest willing one?
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lol @ your tags what on earth kind of story is this
lol they’re characters that exist in a show in my head. i think I told you about it? That show that deals with an array of 20-somethings almost graduates/drop outs/artists trying to cope with entering the real world? It’s basically a coming of age thing, it’s like what would happen if Girls meets Shameless meets The Graduate
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Devon is one of my favorite girls’ names ever, good job.
Yes, same! That was more of the easier names to choose because I was already gonna name a different character Devon, but she’s just way too Russian to have Devon as a name.
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HAHAHA oh man, I’m going back and sort of editing one of my super old stories (circa 2000) and I’m cringing. It’s like, I can tell I was super into Alias and I was totally crushing after this one girl who was super crushing on prince harry. blekkksdf
lmao i’m sort of in the same position currently because i am so in love with quinn and want to make her life better that i’m subconsciouly turning this original character into her. It’s just…sflkashfs’adfh
I WANT TO MAKE HER HAPPY OKAY?
Oh! And i also have some success on the names! (like i’m a total genius)
My super endgame couples derive of the ‘Quinn’ like character, named Beth Sullivan and Devon Hayes. And the best part, THE BEST PART, their fucking portmanteau is hayvan. HAYVAN. AKA: HAVEN. YES YOU MAY CLAP.
No one understands pain and indecisiveness when choosing your original characters names
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Fuck
First 750 words accomplished!
Gonna try this 750 thing, wish me luck
Now what to write…
Easily the best thing to listen to get into a dark writing mode is to listen to the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack
Sometimes i just look at my writing notes and just go
