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All stories are about wolves.

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All stories are about wolves. All the good ones, that is.
-Margaret Atwood
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Above the criss-cross of fairy lights, the roil of clouds has settled into something just this side of rain. A drifting mist haloes each tiny bulb, and the sleek, wet bricks reflect them, a mirror of artificial stars. In the middle of the courtyard, a firepit is flanked by wicker furniture and an enormous potted palm, reaching dark fronds toward the night sky. Rey collapses into the blessedly empty loveseat and presses the cold water bottle against the back of her neck, the side of her throat. Closing her eyes, she tilts her face up to catch the kiss of drizzle.
"All right?" The voice is pitched low, stealing in under the bleed of music from inside.
"Fine, thanks," Rey says automatically, and then, conscious of her visible distress, opens her eyes and sits up straighter, amending, "It's just rather a lot in there."
The man in the opposite seat is a sketch of long limbs, elbows braced on the knees of his trousers. Regarding her evenly, he flicks wet hair out of his eyes, then tilts his head to blow smoke into the sky. "Visiting town?"
“It’s the accent, right?” Rey shakes her head, twisting the cap off of the bottle. "No, I’ve actually been living here a few years. Just never been to anything like this." Her nausea is settling, skin cooling. She downs half of the water in a couple of convulsive swallows and wipes her mouth on her salty arm. "It isn't really what I was expecting."

verity and I are accreting, in our loosely adjoined brainpans, a fraternal pair of story creatures, variations on the theme of Reylo BDSM AU. The initial enterprise was to expel these phantasmagorical oospores upon the holiday, but we underestimated the gestational period. I present, therefore, a grainy ultrasound of the process in question, with the full understanding that to many, it could be considered something of an un-Valentine.

Regardless, here it is.

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the valentine / the anti-valentine

001 Help Me Lose My Mind feat. London Grammar - Disclosure // 002 Perfect Form feat. Shy Girls - Cyril Hahn // 003 Two Bodies feat. Emma Louise - Flight Facilities // 004 Saturday Love - Toro Y Moi // 005 Love Alight (Jean Tonique Remix) - Crystal Fighters // 006 Cast Away - Strange Talk // 007 Fall For You (Sandy Rivera’s Classic Mix) - Kings Of Tomorrow // 008 Meet Me In A House of Love (TJANI Remix) - Cut Copy // 009 Desert Island - Architecture in Helsinki // 010 Here For You - Gorgon City

001 Too Much - Pale VV // 002 Te Amo - Atlas Sound // 003 Hanging On - Active Child // 004 Collapse - Vancouver Sleep Clinic // 005 Up All Night - Oliver Tank // 006 Nothing Left to Give - Kyle Woods & Ryan Estwing // 007 Losing U - Chrome Sparks // 008 Forget It (Class Actress Remix) - Blood Orange // 009 So This Is Goodbye - Junior Boys

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In Las Vegas, he scales the half-built skeleton of a parking structure, settles his back against a concrete wall, and drops into sleep like falling down a well. (XCVR, Winter Soldier stuff)

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They still speak Russian to her, but English, increasingly, to one another; the replica’s is rounded with Brooklyn vowels and contractions, peppered with slang she doesn’t know, and, gradually, her own James’s cadence, once bland and unpinnable, shifts to match. (Turing Test, Black Widow/Winter Soldier)

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Forehead pressed against Stiles’s belly, Derek says quietly, “I tried not to want you any more.” (Duramen, Stiles/Derek)

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the valentine / the anti-valentine

001 Help Me Lose My Mind feat. London Grammar - Disclosure // 002 Perfect Form feat. Shy Girls - Cyril Hahn // 003 Two Bodies feat. Emma Louise - Flight Facilities // 004 Saturday Love - Toro Y Moi // 005 Love Alight (Jean Tonique Remix) - Crystal Fighters // 006 Cast Away - Strange Talk // 007 Fall For You (Sandy Rivera's Classic Mix) - Kings Of Tomorrow // 008 Meet Me In A House of Love (TJANI Remix) - Cut Copy // 009 Desert Island - Architecture in Helsinki // 010 Here For You - Gorgon City

001 Too Much - Pale VV // 002 Te Amo - Atlas Sound // 003 Hanging On - Active Child // 004 Collapse - Vancouver Sleep Clinic // 005 Up All Night - Oliver Tank // 006 Nothing Left to Give - Kyle Woods & Ryan Estwing // 007 Losing U - Chrome Sparks // 008 Forget It (Class Actress Remix) - Blood Orange // 009 So This Is Goodbye - Junior Boys

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i read Muérdago last night, which i know you wrote like three years ago, but it's the best "canon" sterek fic i've ever read. your writing style is so engaging and wonderful and it conveys humor better than any other writing i've encountered. thank you for sharing your talent.

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First of all, I read the phrase “like three years ago” and said out loud, “that can’t be right.” Having checked, it’s more or less correct. Fucken holy moly.

Anyway, thank you, truly. It’s so nice to hear that you liked the story so much, and I regret not having a more substantial body of work for you to enjoy! Erratic productivity habits and canon frustration killed the other Teen Wolf stuff I was working on, although I’ve been meaning to take a look and see if there’s anything salvageable; in the meanwhile, you may find something to enjoy in the fic recs bookmarks on my ao3. Regardless, I’m grateful for the generosity of spirit which moved you to say such kind things about my writing.

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MS. MARVEL #14 (April 2015) G. WILLOW WILSON (W) • TAKESHI MIYAZAWA (a) COVER BY JAKE PARKER WTD VARIANT COVER BY TBA • There’s a new kid in town… and he’s cute. • What are those feelings, Kamala Khan? It’s called a crush. 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

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