HexitScariel 🦇🪄💥

I am and will be *dying* to yap about the (marvelous, sweet, sexy, funny, melancholy, fantastic in both senses) AWY fics I betaed until the authors are revealed.

But then -- oh, watch out, friends, I'm gonna hype them up so hard!!

It's so hard to wrap your head around! Like -- how and when did this happen?! (My youngest is 3/4 of an inch from making me officially the shortest person in our family of five ....)

Is it not astonishing how you read one little hockey romance and suddenly your permanent address is somewhere in the Rachel Reid-verse?

Oh my God - Lib! 🥹
It's like seeing one of my fave fics come to life!

Not *yet* but give it until, say, lunch time....

Ok so after toggling between HR and Long Game THREE TIMES in succession, I really switched things up and read The Shots You Take.

There's no Ilya in it, so, you know -- but otherwise it is juicy and delicious, highly recommend! 👍

You've read The Darkness Outside Us and The Brightness Between Us, yes? Both are fast reads, so well done -- and will fuck you up into the bargain. Win-win-win.

Cory Doctorow's Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town is also fast and fun -- and deeply, profoundly weird. A forever favorite.

Oh I love 84 Charing Cross Road!! An absolute classic. And a great book about how awesome books are (and bookish people too)

Hard, HARD co-sign on Sal and Gabi Break the Universe!

So funny, so warm and loving, and so unhinged. It's YA, but a really good book is a really good book. And this one's *excellent*.

THIS! This right here. Like yes that was a rude and stupid thing to say about ANYTHING.

But I really do think the fact that TS has the gall to be female, successful and even apparently HAPPY, all at the same time, is activating previously undiscovered reserves of misogyny in soooo many people....

*rises on behalf of the community's non-writing readers*

We are so very sorry you are suffering but SO EXCITED FOR A NEW CMERE FIC 🎉🕺🪩🎉🕺🪩🎉

This is fantastic, Lib!! ❤️❤️❤️

* And my second most belovedest: An All The President's Men AU. Henry is Woodward, Alex is Bernstein, Nixon is still Nixon -- and if they're staying up all night pouring over government records anyway....??

* The Rocky Horror fic (Alex takes his uni pal, and Rocky Horror virgin, Henry, to a shadowcast screening; Alex plays Frankenfurter and when Henry sees him in that corset...)
* Episcopal priest Alex meets Henry when he's visiting June and Pez, who expect their first child any day now, for Christmas.

* LionTamer Henry/trick motorcycle rider Alex join the circus. Alex is escaping bad decisions he made back in Austin. Henry has friends with very sharp teeth...
* The Jesus Christ Superstar fic (they're hs boyfriends playing Jesus and Judas; Bea fronts the band; everything goes wrong opening night)

Others that are started but nowhere near done:

* Songwriter Henry meets, loves, then leaves rocker Alex in 1960s Laurel Canyon. (My most belovedest, my Joni Mitchell/Graham Nash AU)
* The Down Bad fic (AlienHenry abducts, then returns, canon-typical Alex; Alex joins NASA to go get his man)

Red White and Royal Bleu Cheese!!

Can I call it 'my beloved' if it doesn't quite exist yet and also isn't mine?

👀👀👀‼️‼️‼️

Thomas Crown Affair AU. (Henry in the Pierce Brosnan role, Alex as Renee Russo. Like -- obviously, right? Nora as the Denis Leary police captain, Pez the museum director, Bea the forger.) I can *see* it. I can practically *taste* it. I just can't *write* it.

I keep hoping somebody else will!

Wish list for the sequel:

* Amy meets her wife as a subplot. There's needlepoint and a cameo by Jonathan.
* Raf!
* At least a *few* moments of the Brownstone Thanksgiving. (As a flashback, bc obvs they're 10 years older now...)

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rwrb nation right now

HUSBANDS

So fucking pumped it's *embarrassing*

Bitch, you took me there!

(Seriously, I would read the novel-length version of this. Like holy shit -- AND THEN WHAT HAPPENS?!)

I'm so glad you're in a percolation phase! It's such a cool feeling, isn't, when a song is like HEY. I'M TALKING TO YOU.

Anyway -- I love the way you write. So looking forward to reading more of this!

Me too, so much!

I do love to think that they'd be together and wildly into each other not just in every universe, but at every stage of life....

Yay! I'd love to hear what you think of them. (I do know what you mean about some of the more familiar stories starting to all blend together. Hope these are different enough to entertain!)

Bonus track: Dragon veterinarian Henry/on-the-lam dragon-"dad" Alex: archiveofourown.org/works/485282...

🫠😭❤️ Thank you so much, you made my day!

Room for Rent (Sex Dungeon Not Included) by Everwitch. Landlord Henry has a sex dungeon. Alex has multiple follow-up questions. Pez knows a great spot for brunch. Just trust me on this one:
archiveofourown.org/works/529474...

Gay Panic Button by Void Sempai: The OG story from Henry's POV, and the funniest thing you'll read this year:
archiveofourown.org/works/287706...