AUTHOR: bramblePatch
CAST: (alpha universe) Rose, Jade, Dave
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: 2139
ADDITIONAL TAGS: slice of life, written for ouroboros remix 2013
SUMMARY: The end of the world is coming, and it’s easier to see from certain universes than others.
EXCERPT: Your apartment is small, and you’re still shrugging into your robe as you reach the kitchen. Someday, you want a house big enough to get lost in, miles from anything, where you can write to the sound of nothing but your own typing and a tape deck and birdsong and maybe a nice water feature. In a few years, you think, when you’ve got a feeling the young adult wizardly literature market will really take off. That’s a few years, yet, though - your biggest competitor is still only beginning to look for the publisher that will pull her out of poverty, although you’re not at all certain how you know that.
For the time being you’re content enough working as a secretary at SkaiaNet and biding your time. You’re not sure whether your feeling that this is a temporary thing is intuition or just youthful restlessness. You’re also not sure whether your loyalty to Ms. English is gratitude or intrigue – you’re not ready, just yet, to say that it’s destiny, although you catch yourself thinking a long those lines once in a while. After all, though you write fantasy, you only live in science fiction. Massive leaps in technological prowess and secretive alien invaders and your own sometimes uncanny intuition do not imply the fates taking an interest.
rec’d by diatorre
#rose lalonde
#jade harley
#dave strider
#less than 5000
#rating: G
#gen
AUTHOR: Azzandra
CAST: Rose♦Tavros
RATING: T
WORD COUNT: 6587
ADDITIONAL TAGS: AU, part one of a series
SUMMARY: It’s a whirlwind pale romance, unbelievable even by Troll Hollywood standards.
EXCERPT: It was only a quaint little rumor at first, a throwaway comment while waiting for drinks (hey, did you hear there’s a human…?) and quickly forgotten when the drinks arrived. At most it would get mentioned again as a tongue-in-cheek poke at someone for being less than truthful (yeah, that sounds about as real as that human we’ve been hearing about) or at most as an overly earnest-sounding insistence (but there is! There is a human, my matesprit’s friend’s kismesis saw her!)
So yes, Tavros did hear there was a human. Several times. It was a curiosity, but sometimes they’d have aliens passing through.
rec’d by girltypething
#tavros nitram
#rose lalonde
#rosetavros
#hetfic
#more than 5000
#rating: T
AUTHOR: sunflowerwonder
CAST: Rose/Dave; Dirk, Roxy
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: 2526
ADDITIONAL TAGS: alpha universe, no SBURB AU, family fluff
EXCERPT: TT: May I go out of line to presume someone fell asleep with his credit cards in plain sight again?
TG: yeah yeah dont be hating
TG: all in the strider parenting method lalonde
TT: Uh huh.
TG: i havent even checked how much they bought though
TG: how expensive do you think a couple hundred cases of legos are
TT: I highly doubt it matters. You act like you wouldn’t buy them the moon if they asked for it.
TG: shh shh shhh dont give them any ideas god
rec’d by noximilien-the-watchmaker
#rose lalonde
#dave strider
#daverose
#roxy lalonde
#dirk strider
#gen
#hetfic
#less than 5000
#rating: G
AUTHOR: Vintar
CAST: Porrim/Damara, Porrim/Latula, Porrim/Meulin, Porrim/Aranea, Porrim/Meenah
RATING: M
WORD COUNT: 7387
ADDITIONAL TAGS: tattoos, written for rare women 2013
SUMMARY: Seven moments, seven tattoos.
EXCERPT: She had thought that black romance would be the most confronting of the two to encounter, but she was used to violence, had spent perigrees wading ankle-deep in the viscous spawning soup to scoop out injured wrigglers and pop their spinestems with one quick twist.
The two other mothers didn’t do anything as simple to understand as bite or scratch. There was murmurs, sighs, low wounded sounds. The noise of their intimacy was so similar to the noise of violence, but for some reason worse. Porrim had listened for a while, frozen in place, then fled. She’d holed herself up in her hivechamber against the warm fur of her lusus and picked at her unease until she could start to see the shape of it. She’d fallen asleep tucked between her lusus’s legs, dreaming the dream of golden spires and an open black sky.
rec’d by badrowboatcop, lantadyme
#porrim maryam
#damara megido
#latula pyrope
#meulin leijon
#aranea serket
#meenah peixes
#damaraporrim
#latulaporrim
#meulinporrim
#araneaporrim
#meenahporrim
#ladyslash
#more than 5000
#rating: M
#;]
AUTHOR: nocturnalKnight
CAST: John, Dad
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: 1689
ADDITIONAL TAGS: thunderstorms, written for promptbound
SUMMARY: There’s a thunderstorm coming in over the horizon, and you bet your boonbucks that John Egbert is the kid who loves playing with lightning and watching the clouds gather.
EXCERPT: He slings the towel around his shoulders and runs downstairs. Usually he doesn’t pay much attention to the weather and just chats with Dave, Rose and Jade if he can’t play outside, but there’s crispness in the air, an anticipation, that draws him out like a jumping magnet. The breeze immediately picks up the second he’s out of the door. The various trees around the neighbourhood begin to rustle their leaves and there’s a coolness dripping around him, the wind breaking around him in fluid streams. His shirt flaps. His damp hair whips around his head a little and a laugh breaks out of him like the sound is a dam breaking. Underneath his skin, his nerves are singing an electric song. The air current feels so strong that he thinks he could just jump and his feet would just lift from the porch and he’d spiral away into the heavens, light as a feather.
rec’d by lantadyme
#john egbert
#dad egbert
#gen
#less than 5000
#rating: G
AUTHOR: kingfisherBlues
CAST: Jane/Roxy, Jane/Dirk(/Jake), Jane/Jake; Condesce, Helmsman
RATING: M
WORD COUNT: 11893
ADDITIONAL TAGS: complete, underage, troll romance, mind control
SUMMARY: You exist and your body does not, nor does your life or what proceeded before awareness. You breathe cold. You are blank. Your ears catch the sound of silence. You taste stillness. You take another breath. The state of your existence is unsure. The room is very white.
EXCERPT: “I haven’t been to a slumber party since… oh, dear, I’ve never attended one!”
“Why not? Didn’t you live in kid central out in the ‘burbs?” she asks as she begins sorting the linen pile. You kneel to help her, tossing pillows on the bed and messily folding blankets for later use.
“‘Don’t you live’,” you chide. “Present tense. Grammar, Roxy!”
The look she gives you is long-suffering and patient. “Still, though. If movies taught me anything, it’s that there’s like, a shit ton of kids living in those cookie cutter houses and chucking papers at peeps and getting into scraps with their big ol’ loyal dogs,” she drawls, a brief imitation of a Southerner’s sprawling vowels. The two of you share a giggle.
“No, I never went to other children’s houses,” you finally answer, folding the last blanket and stacking it on the pile. “My father didn’t think it was safe.” You cannot remember why, you realize, hands smoothing over the rough fabric of a quilted blanket. A frown tugs at your lips.
rec’d by asukaskerian
#jane crocker
#roxy lalonde
#dirk strider
#jake english
#condesce
#janeroxy
#dirkjane
#dirkjakejane
#jakejane
#hetfic
#ladyslash
#polyfic
#rating: M
#more than 5000
AUTHOR: bannanachan
CAST: (alpha universe) Rose/Dave
WORD COUNT: 9174
ADDITIONAL TAGS: sadstuck, written for ladystuck 2012 treats
SUMMARY: Alpha Rose fights a battle she can’t win.
EXCERPT: You publish “Complacency of the Learned” when you are twenty-six.
At first, you are dubious about the possibility of publishing. It skirts dangerously close to commercialism, a force that you have been fighting as long as you have been alive for reasons largely unrelated to being raised in the 80s. But you remember what the Old Ones said about sending a message of warning, and although you know that such a message will be futile, you are reticent to disobey a suggestion from your gods. Besides, some money and notoriety won’t be remiss if you want to be as well-equipped as possible for the coming fight.
rec’d by noximilien-the-watchmaker
#rose lalonde
#dave strider
#daverose
#hetfic
#more than 5000
AUTHOR: Asuka Kureru
CAST: Karkat, Becquerel, Jade/Dave, Bro, John
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: 7896
ADDITIONAL TAGS: petstuck, adoption, fluff
SUMMARY: When a young troll kid from John’s rescue adopts Bec as his new mom, Jade has no choice but to bring him home. No choice at all! (D’aw.) Dave totally has the choice of ignoring Jade’s weird pets, and he is making it. Watch him paying no mind… to… aw, crap, why’s that little bugger so cute.
EXCERPT: Bec is wandering around the apartment, already nosing at the French door opening onto the tiny bit of garden they could manage to get. The troll clings like a baby koala.
John told her he was the equivalent of a five year old kid, developmentally, but he’s the size of a toddler at best (some of that is malnourishment, but trolls don’t get as big as people anyway.) They don’t sell them that young in the few shops that even sell them in the country.
That one wouldn’t sell easily, anyway, the eye color is unique enough to be interesting but his horns are barely-there nubs and he’s much too light-sensitive. The blinds are always half-drawn in their apartment, though, because Dave’s eyes often ache as well.
rec’d by girltypething
#karkat vantas
#dave strider
#jade harley
#davejade
#gen
#more than 5000
#rating: G
AUTHOR: nextian
CAST: (alpha universe) Rose, Jade, Dave
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: 1913
ADDITIONAL TAGS: letter writing, written for ladystuck 2012
EXCERPT: I had been emancipated the previous year, so it caused no one any consternation when I locked up my apartment, sold my car, and bought a ticket to Baharna, where Skaianet’s factory had once stood. Baharna was wet in its spring, and the farthest I’d ever been from New England by about ten thousand miles. I hated it. I had never been this warm before. I was constantly wiping the sweat from my eyes, and wondering, once again, if I had finally become the ice goddess of keysmash 7
9:22 Shit. Sorry. “If I had finally truly succumbed to my own burgeoning paranoia.”
10:00 mines better
rec’d by diatorre, komaedakomaeda
#rose lalonde
#jade harley
#dave strider
#rating: G
#gen
#less than 5000
AUTHOR: arenoseAnima
CAST: Jade/Rose (alpha universe)
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: 3677
ADDITIONAL TAGS: letter writing, written for ladystuck 2012
SUMMARY: Zoom in as they burn the past to the ground and feel the heat of the future’s glow.
EXCERPT: oh my gosh!!!!!! i would love to be your pen pal!!!! oh wow, this is really exciting! im so glad you like me hehehe. i dont really know what pen pals talk about though, but im sure we can come up with something, since we are such a couple of smarty pants…es!
maybe i should ask you about your next book since i liked the last one so much! or should i tell you about what im doing? i shot down one of crockercorps hunter seeker drones with my rifle a few minutes ago and it was GREAT!
pen pal xx oo,
jade english
rec’d by diatorre
#jade harley
#rose lalonde
#jaderose
#ladyslash
#less than 5000
#rating: G
theatheneum:
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#mod post
AUTHOR: bannanachan
CAST: Rose/Kanaya, Kanaya/Terezi, Jade/Kanaya, Kanaya/Vriska
RATING: Explicit
WORD COUNT: 18328
ADDITIONAL TAGS: complete, humanstuck, written for ladystuck 2012
SUMMARY: Kanaya Maryam, globetrotting fashion designer, has been many places, done many things, and been with many women. She never puts down roots, she never gets too invested, and she certainly never falls in love.
Well. Almost never.
EXCERPT: She laughs, and it’s warm and genuine and kind, the kind of laugh that got you to stay with her. And here in her mothers’ house, in dim dining room lighting, you feel you are seeing Rose Lalonde for the first time – for all of her lavender eyes and icy flirting, this girl is made of light. She is human and sarcastic and at times unstable, with stories of an awkward adolescence and parents who are embarrassingly doting as well as rich. You realize that perhaps you got the wrong first impression, and although you cannot be blamed when she carries on how she does, you feel embarrassed for it. You begin to understand the instinct that has kept you going on dates with her for two weeks despite every comment, every backwards insult, every question about your faith. You are reluctant to call it love, because you move around too much to fall in love. But you find that you care about this girl.
rec’d by diatorre
#kanaya maryam
#rose lalonde
#terezi pyrope
#jade harley
#vriska serket
#kanayarose
#kanayaterezi
#kanayavriska
#jadekanaya
#ladyslash
#more than 5000
#rating: E
AUTHOR: tatterdemalionAmberite, titianArchivist
CAST: Sollux/Aradia, Sollux/Psiioniic, Sollux/Karkat; Tavros, Terezi, Vriska, Condesce
RATING: Explicit
WORD COUNT: 65695
ADDITIONAL TAGS: currently updating, helmsmen, body horror, dream sharing, captorcest, age difference, mental health issues, mind control, part one of a series
SUMMARY: The first time, you just dream of strange stars. Stars rise at the top of your vision and arc lazily down to the bottom, constellation after constellation, galaxy after galaxy, and you wake with an effortless sense of great distance and deep calm that stays with you half the night. Perigees pass before you’re willing to question it, to investigate what the hell that was all about, and by that time, things have gotten entirely out of hand.
EXCERPT: They sneak up on you, because they’re nothing like normal daymares. They’re so anomalous you don’t even know how to categorize them; far from anything you’ve ever been told about in schoolfeeding, and none of your searching on the dark net turns up an equivalent.
You dream repeatedly of pure numbers, calculations flaring through your ‘pan like pinwheels, and it’s the structure of your mind, only moving powers and multitudes faster, geometry of a thrown-apart hyperbolic space – whiteness, and silence, and the barest instant of vertigo, and then the click of shifting coordinates, nothing more.
rec’d by silent-p
#sollux captor
#aradia megido
#psiioniic
#karkat vantas
#aradiasollux
#karkatsollux
#psiioniicsollux
#dudeslash
#hetfic
#more than 5000
#rating: E
AUTHOR: Vintar
CAST: Kanaya, Dave
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: ~400
ADDITIONAL TAGS: tumblr fic, pesterlog format
SUMMARY: kanaya and dave being nerds together
EXCERPT: TG: so are we going or what
GA: Well It Is Tempting But On The Other Hand So Is Staying In This Pile And Never Moving Again Ever
GA: Oceans Will Rise Skies Will Fall And I Will Remain Firmly Ensconced In A Mountain Of Things
rec’d by blindmouse, lantadyme, taxonomist
#kanaya maryam
#dave strider
#gen
#less than 5000
#rating: G
#;]
AUTHOR: gatty
PAIRING: Rose/Vriska, background Rose/Kanaya
RATING: M
WORD COUNT: 6009
ADDITIONAL TAGS: post SBURB AU
SUMMARY: In which Rose risks her equilibrium and her health in exchange for a free place to sleep.
EXCERPT: They are at the front of the line now, and the store assistant is ringing up their coffee and orange juice. Vriska puts it on plastic, while Rose bags up their purchases. Her hands shake as she lifts the gallon bottle of juice. As they walk towards the door Vriska slaps her ass.
“Look at you being Little Ms Lawless,” she says into her ear. “My baby’s first felony.”
Rose pushes her away with a sharp elbow to the ribs. She stalks out the store, keeping her chin tilted up. There is no wailing siren as she steps out side, no heavy hand on her shoulder. She makes it to the end of the block, where she stops and takes a careful breath. Vriska catches up to her, hand up to shield her eyes from the morning sun.
“Fuck you,” says Rose.
rec’d by taxonomist
#rose lalonde
#vriska serket
#kanaya maryam
#rosevriska
#ladyslash
#rating: M
#more than 5000
#;]
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