Redrawing Another Screenshot Because It's Good Practice And Because I'm A Merthur Whore Let's Be Honest

Steve helpfully offering his hand to everyone boarding the boat, only to get ignored or unnoticed every single time. that’s it, that’s the post

OtaYuri Fic Rec

I haven’t actually read that many OtaYuri fics but these are my favorites!

My soul is an empty carousel at sunset by dawnstruck

T | 13.8K | 1/1 | Slowburn, Hurt/Comfort

Yuri grows up and grows older and grows into himself. Otabek helps. It just takes a while to get there.

Part 1 of Demi!Yuri

Under your skin the moon is alive by dawnstruck

E | 14.8K | 1/1 | NSFW

Long distance relationships aren't easy, but that just means they've got to make each moment matter, got to make it memorable, got to make it mean more.

Part 2 of Demi!Yuri

Once Mine, Now Yours by TripCreates

T | 7.9K | 3/3 | Fluff

"You’ll have to come here to get it,” Yuri wrote.
Otabek smiled at the lack of denial Yuri showed for taking the scarf. “Maybe I will.”
“Try and take it back if you can.”
Otabek stared at his phone screen. Wait, was Yuri flirting with him?

Or while scrolling through Instagram, Otabek realizes where his missing scarf went.

i walk my days on a wire by idrilka

E | 14.5K | 2/2 | NSFW

“Asia sucked without you,” Yuri admits eventually after a moment, as he falls backwards onto the bed, his t-shirt riding up. It must be still hot in Saint Petersburg, if the forecast is to be believed, but Yuri has the hood up, obscuring his face at this angle. “But we all went back to the hot spring run by Katsuki’s family after the Fukuoka show, so I guess it wasn’t that bad.”

A story of a relationship, told in photographs and Skype calls.

anywhere i go, there you are by astrid_fischer

M | 24K | 1/1 | Slow Burn

There must have been a moment. When everything changed, whether or not he knew it. There must have been, but it’s impossible to find now. The full-color truth of it is already saturating a slideshow of black and white mental images and he can’t remember what they looked like before.

or: it takes yuri plisetsky three years to realize he’s in love with his best friend.

chasing fireflies by copperwings

M | 26.7K | 3/3 | Strangers to lovers, angst, fluff

Yuri has never been good with social interactions or with people in general. But there is a staring contest with Mila’s former classmate Otabek in a dingy diner at 2 AM, and then all of a sudden this Otabek guy wants to hang out with him… Motorcycle rides, sticky watermelon kisses and summer shenanigans ensue, and they spend the summer building their relationship while Yuri tries to come to terms with the fact that he just doesn’t fit into the norms of society.

Or: the fic in which Yuri is neuroatypical and a demisexual, and Otabek is just generally awesome and endlessly patient.

HYUNJIN | MAMA 2020 ENDING

Same, It's a miracle I'm not dead yet lol

I die a little everytime a pornbot follows me

buzzfeed unsolved but make it steddie

Unrealistic that all these magic reveal merthur au’s out there have Merlin remembering enough of his life to be able to recap the entirety of the show to Arthur without leaving anything out all in one go.

magic reveal fanfic’s:

Merlin: my magic’s for you arthur. Its only for you. *proceeds to give chronological order of events starting at ep1 all the way up to the reveal*

10x funnier and more likely:

Merlin: *months or years after the reveal* so anyway, there I was, tied to a tree, and a serkhet stings me, right?

Arthur: *spluttering* I’m sorry what

I love it so much

THEY WERE SO HAPPY TO SEE EACH OTHER AND MADE UP I LOVE THEM SO MUCH IM SO HAPPY!!

Boorman: Ah yes, the four love languages

Boorman, pointing at Graydon: My parents never told me they were proud of me.

Boorman, pointing at Jade: I’m so fucking tired please god just let me rest for five minutes

Boorman, pointing at Kit: Please pay attention to me

Boorman, still pointing at Kit: Touch starved

Kit: Hey, why do I get two?

"I'm not much of a shipper," she says, as she makes fluffy shippy doodles again. But also, I love thinking about canon details, and sometimes I can lie awake at night thinking, "wow, I can't believe InoAoi is canon."

Like, the fact that it appeared so suddenly at the end was one thing, and I came around to it pretty quick, but then there was the fanbook detail and new illustration around the same time that said Inosuke makes her laugh, and I'm like, "WHERE!!!??? This never, ever, ever happened in serialization, though????" My guess is that Aoi needed to deal with a lot of her own issues before feeling free enough to smile at all, and consistent with the themes at the end of the series, it seems that finally feeling the freedom of the end of the Corp's mission may have helped. But also, while I'm glad romance was never a big part of the plot to wade through, one is left wondering about what sort of feelings she might have had for Tanjiro, and when and how she moved on from that, probably without anyone else ever knowing of it.

As for the TanKana bit up there, I had a period of time at work last month when I had a lot of scattered stand-by time for a few minutes at a time, and I enjoyed a ton fluffy fanart on Pixiv. While going on a ZenNezu binge I came across a comic that made mention of Tanjiro and Kanao expecting a baby before being married. My first thought was "KAMADO TANJIRO WOULD NEVER" but my next thought was "...unless Kanao really wanted to." It does make some sense that they wouldn't wait that long, though, knowing what the mark may have in store for Tanjiro and wanting to make the most out of their time as a family, and the fact that Kanata and Sumihiko (great-great-grandchildren) are a whole generation ahead of Touko and Yoshiteru (great-grandchildren). That leaves me with the real questions, how long did the Kamaboko Squad all live together in the end?