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[aredblush]

First and formost! HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY SHANNEN! *yodels* (your card is on the way!) and HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO laria_gwyn! *smooches you both*


Today is one of those day that make me wish I were a violent person or at least a more selfish one. Since I hate hate hate feeling like that, let's have a post full of happy things!

Let's start with how awesome people in fandom can be! I'm sure all of you have heard about the earthquake in Christchurch. Well, someone organized a fandom auction to help those people get back on their feet:
help_nz
Go check it out and offer, bid or even just boost the signal :) My thread is here, btw.

Another thing that is very awesome? This Sherlock fanart by squashbee! I love every single thing about it! EVERY SINGLE THING! And you should check it out and tell her how charmed you are by it!

More happy-making things!
• this IBB fanart by essouffle is so beautiful, you guys! I love the style and the colours and the texture!
• Panic! boys being ridiculous and UNF! How are they so ridiculous and also UNF at the same time? How?
• Being spammed on twitter with beautiful pictures(&saba1789;)
• Being tweeted a story about Steve and Danny going to a tattoo parlour ♥
• All the art for i_reversebang. I keep going back to the claiming post to fill my eyes with all the pretty <333

Comments

Re: I've got conversation and a bottle to keep us warm 2/2

[angelgazing.livejournal.com]

There's something about going back again that stings worse than anything else ever could. Something that pulled every mistake into the sunshine, threw them on a map just to highlight all the wrong roads that'd been taken. Steve had spent a long time thinking that the Navy was the first choice he ever made for himself, only to realize it was never a choice at all. He followed footsteps, and every pattern, every road took him through there.

Only a fraction of them ended up in a place like home.

The third was stupidly, carefully planned. It wasn't that he grew out of rash behavior, just that he let it take over, push out on all sides until action came before thought. Thought was harder, let too many doubts in, got too many people hurt.

He was tired of people getting hurt. He was tired of the weight on his shoulders and not looking around because he was too busy looking ahead. He had the other two, a little more dull, the edges pulled away from sharpness by wear and time, and he was done. He was done having to carry everything with him.

Danny turned a little green when the needles came out of the package, his fingers wrapped around a mostly empty coffee cup, wearing a t-shirt with a collar that'd been stretched down. Steve wanted to laugh, wanted to offer to hold his hand, but the table was cold and Danny was looking at him like he could have half an idea what this even was.

He had epics hanging off his shoulders. He had memories and meanings and lessons learned. And Danny curled warm fingers around his wrist when the buzzing started, as lines were drawn over a scattering of scars at his hip. There wasn't a lot of flourish, not too much style, nothing but black building, and building, and making something real. Giving him something indelible, a reminder he would always have, just in case.

"Aw, babe," Danny said, soft, like he was witnessing something completely unexpected, like he was awed.

Steve smiled, letting go, breathing out. "Yeah," he said. The air conditioner hummed in agreement, blew over his wrist behind Danny's thumb. Steve set down an anchor in every way he knew how.

Re: I've got conversation and a bottle to keep us warm 2/2

[aredblush.livejournal.com]

*SCREAMS*

OMFG NIC! This is so freaking beautiful I don't know how to deal with it ç___ç
I love, love, love this Steve and how he lives, that the first was an impulse but still had significance (On his bicep her eyes were covered, because he didn't want his to be. this! This this this!), that the second stayed the same exactly as he needed it to, that the third was different from all the others!
I keep going back and reading it all over again and I have had this comment box open for half an hour and still can't come up with something that will let me express exactly how much I love this. And you.
Thank you so freaking much, Nic. ILU ♥

Re: I've got conversation and a bottle to keep us warm 2/2

[chaoticallyclev.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I kind of love tattoo fic even though I am reasonable sure I do not have a thing for them in real life at all. But this is just-- ugh, gorgeous and kind of settles under you skin.

So pretty much: ♥ ♥ ♥

Re: I've got conversation and a bottle to keep us warm 2/2

[gyzym.livejournal.com]

Oh my fucking god, this is GORGEOUS, dsfhdsjfdsf I just cannot even. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

Re: I've got conversation and a bottle to keep us warm 2/2

[templemarker.livejournal.com]

this was lovely, dude. totally worth the time you put into it.

Re: I've got conversation and a bottle to keep us warm 2/2

[photoclerk.livejournal.com]

*__*
That was... far more than I was expecting. Not that I don't expect brilliant things from you, but this was so lushly descriptive in a way I didn't plan for. <3 Beautiful!

Re: I've got conversation and a bottle to keep us warm 2/2

[earyn-black.livejournal.com]

This is just really incredible, I loved it! I especially loved how it reminded me of my own tattoos, of the feelings and the permanence and the shock of looking down and suddenly seeing that flash of colour and meaning.

I really liked the way Danny was there for his last one and how different that was.