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With Wicked King making the NYT Best Sellers list and more people reading The Cruel Prince/The Folk of the Air Series, I decided to make a quick guide to the other books in Holly Black’s Faerie universe.
One of the things I love about Holly Black’s books is how they interrelate. They give you background information about the world and side characters in TCP. But it’s not necessary to read these books to understand TCP. Also, since Jude has been in Faerie for almost her entire life she sometimes brushes over certain faerie rules that new readers might not know (eg. the effects of cold iron and faerie true names). Holly Black’s earlier books lay out these rules much more effectively.
So if you’re a new reader of Holly Black’s books, welcome! I’ll try to stay away from spoilers, and I’ll add links to Goodreads for more in depth summaries. If you’re a veteran, here’s a quick review of the other books in the Faerie Universe and a little bit about how they relate to TCP.
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Pairing: Peter Parker x Touch Starved!Reader
Warnings: swearing but otherwise pretty clean (weird right)
Request: HEY YOU, can I request a Peter Parker x touch starved best friend. Peter and her are having a movie night at her place and Peters like laying in her lap and he moves so she jokes around about being touch starved to get him back and Peter being the sweet boy he is fixes that problem and it’s all cute, fluffy and junk 🙄💗💗
Synopsis: Peter decides to make sure you receive physical affection when you joke about being touch starved.
a/n: long time no see
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You had never been one for physical affection. Expressing love and appreciation felt more normal through words. From you towards others and vice-versa. This need to deny most to all touching resulted in your yearning for it in the back of your mind.
Your best friend on the other hand was all over physical contact when you spent time together which was often. And never did anything that you were uncomfortable with because he was so soft and loving.
Peter didn’t neglect the thought of how special he must be for you to be okay with how much he would hold your hand when he was nervous or the number of times he wraps his arms around your waist.
He also paid attention to how you denied other cases of touching from others. The pretty boy who couldn’t go a minute without being consumed by his love for you. It made you feel safe and you honestly looked forward to it.
Maybe you’re both in need of someone to make you feel secure. But one of you is little more comfortable talking about it.
“You gonna watch the movie you got to pick or…,” you peered down at the boy laying with his head in your lap whose eyes had been focused on your features for the past twenty minutes.
He sputtered out an incoherent response you felt wasn’t in need of an explanation. Whenever you caught him staring at you, strings of “no I wasn’t” fell from his lips.
“Whatever you say,” you teased, your attention falling back on the bright screen.
When your hands found his hair, he was gone. Completely smitten. Relaxed and content. He likes when you play with his hair if you couldn’t tell.
Duh.
“I’ll be back,” he told you as he got up to put the pizza in the oven that hand just dinged.
“Seriously?” You whined, narrowing your eyes at him when he looked back at you with a worried expression on his face.
“But I thought you wanted pizza?” He questioned, genuine concern in his voice and you couldn’t keep the laugh from escaping your lips.
He frowned as you shook your head at his obliviousness to your sarcasm.
“No, I do,”
“Okay, you just seemed upset,”
“I was kidding- not like I'm touch starved or anything,” you rolled your eyes and focused on the movie again while Peter contemplated what you said on the way to the kitchen.
You just told him you were joking so he tried not to think much of it. He knew you really only showed affection to him and seemed to enjoy it when he initiated the contact. But you got Peter thinking; what if you are touch starved?
The thought spun around his mind throughout the rest of the night, even when he felt the sleep begin to pull his eyes shut with his head resting on your shoulder.
—
Your best friend had been more touchy over the past few weeks, that’s for sure. You definitely didn’t mind because he was normally was, but now he seemed to be going out of his way.
Out at lunch the other day, he insisted you sit on the same side of the booth. He held your hand in his during the whole time you were there, even while you were trying to eat. When you questioned it he just shrugged and gave you a shy smile.
Peter couldn’t deny this as an excuse to act as more of a couple in public. Others assumed you to be a couple anyway but now it is impossible to convince someone you didn’t have something going on.
How could he not have feelings for you when you’re the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
When you were hanging out in his room a couple of weeks ago, his hands wrapped around your waist while you were on your phone and pulled you close to him. It felt so nice to be held and feel protected.
Overall, Peter dedicated every opportunity possible to show you simple physical attention.
Now you’re back where you started. The two of you had cuddled up on the couch and you grew tired with your head laying on his warm chest.
“Y/n/n?” Peter whispered under you, “You just wanna sleepover?”
He only received a small hum from the body on him and took it as a yes. Carefully, he slid out from under you and picked you up to carry to his room. He gently set you in the bed, pulling blankets over you before placing a small kiss on your forehead.
“Night Y/n/n,” he told your sleeping figure, grabbing a pillow and blanket for himself.
He made an okay bed on the couch and shut the tv off. He too was quick to fall asleep once he got comfortable. As usual, images of you played in his mind while he drifted off.
You shifted a few times before realizing you were no longer within the toned arms of Peter Parker. It was a little off-putting but your eyes adjusted and you determined you were in his bed, minus him.
Out of curiosity, you got up and made your way to the hall in the dark. Trying to stumble as little as possible with the help of the city lights beaming in, you got to the living room where Peter’s senses had woken him up about two soft curses falling from your lips ago.
“There you are,” you stated quietly as you approached the couch, “Why are you out here?”
Peter had wondered the same thing himself before he fell asleep. Obviously, he didn’t want you to be uncomfortable if you woke up in the middle of the night (even though you would be far from it).
But another reason was probably the not so simple fact that sharing a bed would be a little different than the last time you did it a couple of years ago when you actually were “just friends”.
Lol, you thought. Dumb ass, Peter Parker’s in love with you or some shit.
“I um…I figured you should just have your own space, I guess?” Hey answered quietly and you made out the nervousness across his features.
“You guessed very wrong,” you chuckled as a lazy smile came to your lips and you lifted the blanket from his body.
Without a word, you got back in your original position with your body on top of Peter’s, his heartbeat playing in your ear. His arms instinctively held you close and he silently celebrated you wanted him to hold you.
“Hey, Peter?” You spoke softly in case he was unconscious again.
“Yes?”
“Why are you so touchy with me?”
Shit, you noticed. But how could you not?
“I uh- do you n- not like it?” He asked shyly and loosened his grip on your waist.
“No, don’t get me wrong I like it from you just not other people. I’m just wondering more why you’ve been doing it a lot these past few weeks,” you rested your chin on his sternum and saw his nose scrunch.
“Sorry I just thought- because of what you said- you would want me to do things more often but I’ll stop if-,”
“I said I like it so you can relax but I have no idea what you’re talking about,” you thought back to anything you had told him recently but nothing came to mind.
“Remember, you said that you were touch starved?” He let out a nervous laugh and your eyes widened with realization.
“Oh, I wasn’t really serious about that,”
“You sure?”
"You don’t need to worry, I’m all good,”
“Y/n/n, come on,”
“Okay maybe it was a little true,” you confessed, followed by a deep sigh.
His arms returned to your waist, squeezing a little as you laid your head back on his chest.
“Nothing wrong with liking human contact, science actually says you need it,” he reassured you, running his fingers up and down your spine.
“Still, I don’t need people knowing I want it. Especially since you're the only person I like it from,”
“I’ll take my job very seriously then,”
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Pairing: Peter Parker x Reader
Notes/Warning: this is really just a quickly typed up thingy because I wanted to have some more Peter Parker content on my blog oops (tbh I changed the timeline a bit)
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When your taste in fictional men is either: the big, thick type that can snap you like a twig or the tall, dark and handsome that can also snap you like a twig... there is just no in between.
Loki taglist: @y-napotat ❤︎ @elainavmarie ❤︎ @thefandomchoosesthewizard
Cuddles:
Loki loves cuddling you — he simply adores you being in his arms, the warmth of your body near his, it’s perfect to him. He’s very touch sensitive / oriented in his love language, so it’s a perfect match.
Holding hands — when you’re sitting with your back against his chest, Loki brings his arms around you, sometimes to hold you even closer against him, to which you set your hands on top of his forearms. Other times, more often, he plays with your hands in his. He places his hands palm up, as you set your palm down atop his. From there he gently, keeping your hands together, lifts them up, twists them side to side, occasionally interlacing your fingers.
↳ sometimes he reveals his frost giant form, only allowing the blue to spread half-way to his elbow. He loves the way you gasp in awe at it, and trace the patterns on his skin gently with your fingertips.
When you’re sad — Loki is the exact person who you can say nothing to and yet he knows something’s wrong. He’ll watch you for a moment, reading your expression, before walking over to you, arms slightly lifted to the perfection position for you to fit in them. He’s ready to cradle you, resting his chin against your temple, or kissing your forehead / top of your head. He will hold you for as long as you need to be held, zero complaints.
He doesn’t mind at all if you tend to be “clingy” — he absolutely craves any kind of attention, so if you’re more of a physically “clingy” individual, he really has no problem with it. He can tell when you want more physical attention, and he gives you everything you need.
He loves when you fall asleep cuddling him — often times you don’t realise it, but you cling on to him when you’re falling asleep and you don’t let go. In fact when he starts to move, your fingertips subconsciously grip against him tighter. When he’s finally picked you up, to carry you off to bed, he loves how you snuggle yourself right against him in his arms. || He’s super attentive to you once he’s in bed beside you, since he had to let go of you to set you down, he makes up for it by keeping your super close. Which he loves, because he feels protective.
Random times — Loki has been know to just come up to you and pull you into a hug. If you’re laying down, reading / on your phone on the couch / bed, he will crawl from the end of the bed / couch up to rest his head on your stomach, wrapping his arms around your your frame, his hands caressing your back as he buries his face against your stomach. Sometimes you giggle, or squirm a little, but that only makes his smile.
Morning / Night — he 100% cuddles you in bed, in literally almost every way. He’ll let you cuddle against his back like a little backpack, he’ll tuck you against his chest, your back against his chest, head resting on his bicep, he’ll let you rest on his chest, and sometimes, he’ll find himself laying on his stomach with you sprawled out on top of his back, head between his shoulder blades.
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Pairing: College Athlete!Bucky x Reader
Summary: Bucky Barnes was a menace. NYU’s top baseball player, he was used to girls falling at his feet and could smooth talk his way out of just about anything. You hated him. He couldn’t figure out why. So when the novelty of weekend parties and quick hookups finally wore off—and his feelings for you began to grow—he made it his mission to fix it.
Warnings: Mentions of alcohol/drinking, Mild language, Angst, Minor injury, Smut (Minors dni, marked with **), Enemies to lovers trope!
a/n: This series is now complete :)
✶ Part One ✶
✶ Part Two ✶
✶ Part Three ✶
✶ Part Four ✶
✶ Part Five ✶
✶ Part Six ✶
✶ Part Seven ✶
Drabbles/One-shots (chronological after the main series, excluding the prequel)
Bucky realizing he’s falling in love. Prequel one-shot.
First time**
The fight
Bucky gets injured during a game
Going pro
What You’ve Got
In seven years
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These are just short basic descriptions to help get through the cards
Upright
Beginnings
Innocence
Spontineity
Free spirit
Reversed
Holding back
Recklessness
Risk-taking
Upright
Manifestation
Resourcfulness
Power
Inspired action
Reversed
Manipulation
Poor planning
Untapped talents
Upright
Intuition
Sacred knowledge
Divine feminine
The subconious mind
Reversed
Secrets
Disconnected from intuition
Withdrawal and silence
Upright
Femininity
Beauty
Nature
Nurturing
Abundance
Reversed
Creative block
Dependence on others
Upright
Authority
Establishment
Structure
A father figure
Reversed
Domination
Inflexibility
Excessive control
Lack of discipline
Upright
Spiritual wisdom
Religious beliefs
Conformity
Tradition
Institutions
Reversed
Personal beliefs
Freedom
Challenging the status quo
Upright
Love
Harmony
Relationships
Values alignment
Choices
Reversed
Self-love
Misalignment of values
Imbalance
Disharmony
Upright
Control
Willpower
Success
Action
Determination
Reversed
Self-discipline
Opposition
Lack of direction
Upright
Strength
Courage
Persuasion
Influence
Compassion
Reversed
Inner strength
Self-doubt
Low energy
Raw emotion
Upright
Soul-searching
Introspection
Being alone
Inner guidance
Reversed
Withdrawal
Loneliness
Isolation
Upright
Good luck
Karma
Life cycles
Destiny
A turning point
Reversed
Back luck
Resistance to change
Breaking cycles
Upright
Justice
Fairness
Truth
Cause and effect
Reversed
Unfairness
Lack of accountability
Dishonesty
Upright
Pause
Surrender
Letting go
New perspective
Reversed
Delays
Resistance
Stalling
Indecision
Upright
Endings
Change
Transformation
Transition
Reversed
Resistance to change
Personal transformation
Inner purging
Upright
Balence
Moderation
Patience
Purpose
Reversed
Imbalence
Excess
Self-healing
Re-alignment
Upright
Shadow self
Attachment
Addiction
Restriction
Sexuality
Reversed
Releasing limiting beliefs
Exploring dark thoughts
Detachment
Upright
Sudden change
Upheaval
Chaos
Revelation
Awakening
Reversed
Persoanl transformation
Far of change
Averting disaster
Upright
Hope
Faith
Purpose
Renewal
Spirituality
Reversed
Lack of faith
Despair
Selt-trust
Disconnection
Upright
Illusion
Fear
Anxiety
Subconcious
Intuition
Reversed
Release of fear
Repressed emotion
Inner confusion
Upright
Positivity
Fun
Warmth
Success
Vitality
Reversed
Inner child
Feeling down
Overly optimistic
Upright
Judgement
Rebirth
Inner calling
Absolution
Reversed
Self-doubt
Inner critic
Ignoring the call
Upright
Completion
Integration
Accomplishment
Travel
Reversed
Seeing personal closure
Short-cuts
Delays
And as always, merry meet <3
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