the trick is to keep breathing

Hello as i ROLL THROUGH HERE with random things ive written and then run away again!

swallowed the dice (8383 words) by seventhe
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Final Fantasy VI
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Celes Chere/Locke Cole/Setzer Gabbiani
Characters: Celes Chere, Locke Cole, Setzer Gabbiani
Additional Tags: Clothing Porn, Threesome - F/M/M, gratuitous appreciation of locke's ass, Heist
Series: Part 8 of Sev's Commission Run 2019
Summary:

I swallowed the dice / I make my own luck now. Locke, Celes, and Setzer are taking things into their own hands in the aftermath of Kefka. They're tracking the shadows of the Empire, taking back what belongs to others, and celebrating having found a life to suit them all.

and She who made kittens put snakes in the grass (4146 words) by sevdrag
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)
Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Snakes - Character, Like a Fuckload of Snakes
Additional Tags: Parenthood, Snakes, dads, like i don't even know what to tag, Children, ????????? - Freeform, i am prepared to be defriended here, deLETE THIS
Summary:

Sometimes a family can be a doting angel, a cranky demon, and their adorable forty snake children.

amidst this bitterness (9503 words) by sevdrag
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
Characters: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes
Additional Tags: Background Winterhawk, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Soulmates
Series: Part 6 of Sev's Commission Run 2019, Part 2 of i'll know (soulmark universe)
Summary:

Tony’s always been fascinated by soulmarks. Like, what the fuck? There’s science that can see the soulmarks working in someone’s brain, chemical responses and nerve actions they can trace, but in the end no one really knows how it works, which is fascinating. He considers, for the four-hundredth time, writing a set of academic papers on what happens when your soulmate leaves you. Taking his own blood samples, monitoring his own brain, mathematically inscribing the pain he feels in his heart every time his left arm burns at him. It’s a field not many have looked into; he’s checked.

 

Steve and Tony, post-Civil War, and their soulmarks.

the sweetest (4513 words) by sevdrag
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton
Characters: Clint Barton, James "Bucky" Barnes, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Pietro Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff
Additional Tags: Mandatory Fun Day
Series: Part 7 of tumblr mugged me in a back alley
Summary:

Turns out Clint's favorite afternoon snack actually comes from Hydra. It's a typical day for the Avengers, really.

(Mandatory Funday PopCycle prompt)

space, in the black (5073 words) by sevdrag
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James "Bucky" Barnes/Clint Barton
Characters: James "Bucky" Barnes, Clint Barton, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov (Marvel)
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Firefly Setting, Alternate Universe - Firefly Fusion, Bucky don't use proper grammar, Ensemble Cast
Series: Part 5 of Sev's Commission Run 2019
Summary:

When you're livin' on a ship full up with crew, sometimes you gotta keep things to yourself, give yourself a little bit of space in the black to hold what's private an' pure. Then, other times, you just gotta say, fuck it.

[MCU/Firefly mashup.] NOW WITH THE PORN!

I’ve got a bunch of other WIPs i’ll Share later this week, but hey, IM DOING ALL THE WRITING THINGS LOOKIT

I make some fucking good presentations. I complain a lot about making slides, mainly because a) it doesn't feel as ~productive~ as being out in the lab and making goop and b) I have to make a fuck ton of slides, often for things that seem worthless -- but honestly, I have to admit, not only do I make some fucking amazing slides, but there is actually something satisfying to putting together a good scientific presentation. Selecting which data to show and how to show it, aligning and arranging your slide to best explain your experiments with the most pictures and the least words, drawing out conclusions you may think are obvious but other people may not understand: there's a science and an art to it, and even though having the most badass presentation won't necessarily get me anywhere, I am actually finding some satisfaction in the normal bullshittery today.

It's strange, because this has become such a huge part of my job, and it has taken me until now to actually stop and breathe it in and find that communication of scientific data has just as much worth if not more than the generation of the data. You can't really have one without the other - my slides all tell you important things about my data, and if they don't, I delete them - but this is part of what moving up in the organization is: becoming a communicator rather than a generator. I quite like it, in a very strange sort of way. Or maybe it's just that my OCD really likes lining up all the text boxes and making sure every red is the same red and the fonts have stayed consistent between slides (not always the case when I am collecting drafts from 5 different people who should be using the same master template but aren't).

I am, however - disappointingly - starting to make slides like a Japanese businessman. AKA: CRAMMING 8000 THINGS ONTO ONE SLIDE COVERED WITH ARROWS AND AWFUL COLORS IN UR FONTS EVERYWHERE AND TONS OF FUCKING SEQUINS. I realize I am presenting to the Japanese so maybe this is a good thing, but I legit just had to step away from the computer because I tried to cram a series of text boxes into each other making them varying shades of (a very readable) blue. NO.

Seriously though, I wish I could show you guys these. But I can't, because I would get fired.