WIP Wednesday

They Get Married.

Rating: Explicit

Words: 28.1k

Chapters: 5/12

Summary:

It’s been five years since Simon Snow saved the magickal world (again). A lot has changed since then. If you told me this would be my life five years ago, I wouldn’t have believed you. Simon was so dysfunctional and broken and we were both so traumatized that I never thought there was a future where we were happy. Where we built a life together and were content. But thank magic, against all odds, it happened.

I think I’m gonna propose to Simon.

Post-AWTWB, they finally went to therapy, marriage rites, dueling, bound together in five dimensions.

ThWIP Thursday (sorry!)

2025.04.23 - 2024.05.01

A collection of the WIP fics that have posted in the last week.

Beautiful Roaring Scream [E, 1/6] by @rimeswithpurple / RimesWithPurple

A Change Would Do You Good* [T, 3/?] by Dumb_Bitch_Writes

Distance* [T, 4/?] by CRML

Do you miss us? [T, 10/11] by Magicaleigh

fin de siècle. [T, 6/7] by @ninemagicks / NineMagicks

For That Stolen Heart [T, 15/?] by Loserlovely

Hapless Supernova [M, 9/?] by BBirdy, @theearlgreymage / EarlGreyMage

In Sickness and In Baz [NR, 4/10] by TaylorSims

Picket Fence Is Sharp As Knives [E, 8/?] by @prettygoododds / PrettyGoodOdds

Right Where You Left Me [M, 5/?] by @waywardlesbian / waywardlesbian

Rising at Dawn [T, 5/?] by iamwheretheseasleeps

The Salisbury Boy [E, 8/20] by @alleycat0306 / alleycat0306

They Get Married. [E, 4/12 ] by @colddeadqueer / colddeadqueer

*Multiple chapters posted this week.

Carry on Through the Ages fics.

Never not thinking about all of them, honestly. Even so many books away from them.

Chapter 23: Revives Me

Hello! I’m sorry the last time I posted a chapter was OVER A MONTH ago but I bring penance in the form of the longest chapter of On The Rocks, a 13k epic.

This chapter has the same TWs as OTR generally, but specifically I will note it contains suicidal ideation, references to fresh scars, and explicit dealing in alcoholic withdrawal and recovery.

In addition to @rbkzz my wonderful beta, I also want to give a huge thank you to @artsyunderstudy, but you need to read the chapter to find out why. 😉

Without further ado, Chapter 23: Revives Me

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no matter your gender it’s gay to be attracted to me I don’t make the rules

Six-Sentence Sunday: They Get Married.

Hello all! I am currently working on and finishing up Chapter 4 of "They Get Married." Here's an excerpt of a scene featuring some steamy cooking ;)

“I want you to make Cook Pritchard’s roast beef and Yorkshire pudding,” I purred, before adding with a smirk: “wearing nothing but an apron.”

Which is how I ended up sitting at the kitchen table, admiring Baz’s beautiful pale arse as he tenderises steak in a frilly pink apron. “You know, I finally understand why it’s called mooning,” I say, slowly sipping on a cider. Baz looks back at me, one eyebrow arched, and I can’t help but snicker. “Have something to say about my arse, Snow?” “Oh, of course not, never!” I gasp, feigning offence. “Watching my favourite thing to eat prepare my favourite meal? I’m living the dream!”

I would like a hot gay rival pls

Lesbian Agatha Wellbelove seems like such a cop out to me years later. And I say that as someone who wants more sapphic representation in books and who liked lesbian Agatha when the books came out.

Like in book one, she doesn’t not want a boyfriend, she wants a boyfriend who’s into her. And in book two she says she wishes she realized she wanted to kiss girls because that could explain why she’s so confused about everything and why she doesn’t fit in… (and because she perceives that that’s what happened for Simon with Baz) and then all that is just thrown out in Any Way the Wind Blows… just because?

I honestly think it was because larger fandom consensus was that Agatha was a lesbian.

But I don’t know. I just wish that in a book series that is so firmly saying “figuring out your sexuality does not fix your trauma or inner turmoil. your mental state cannot be fixed by a relationship, that’s your own work to do.” about Simon and Baz, that Rowell didn’t decide to undercut that by saying “except for Agatha it does. She’s felt out of place because she is a lesbian. And now she knows! So things will be better”

“I was eleven years old, and I’d lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.”

—Baz Pitch, Carry On, Epilogue, pg. 506