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ashten, 27.

she / her, writer of stories. my inbox is always open. this blog is 18+, minors do not interact.

“what is alive must heal; what cannot heal must endure.”

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Hello, hello! My name is Ashten, also known as dirty-holy-things on Tumblr and Ao3! I write for a seemingly ever-expanding list of characters, and love getting to share that with others.

This masterlist will be kept up to date with new projects, WIPs, and the occasional prompt or one-off that I share. My inbox and messages are always open for thoughts, ideas, prompts, questions, pretty much anything and everything. This posting is up to date as of January 20th, 2022.

As of October 2021, I will be on an unofficial / loose hiatus. Between a new job in healthcare, my final semester of grad school, and life in general - I have had little time to dedicate to writing. There are some WIPs that will be updated occasionally, as I have time, but in the meantime, I appreciate your empathy and understanding.

Please note: almost all of my projects are exclusively 18+. All projects will have an appropriate maturity rating noted. If you are under 18, do not interact with these specified works.

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The Space Between (your heart & mine)

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Pairing: Din Djarin x AFAB Reader, no Y/N.

Rating: 18+, mature, explicit.

Chapters: 23 / 25

Words: 116.0 k

Warnings: References to past abuse. Canon-typical violence. Mature language. SMUT. Additional warnings in chapters. Minors DNI.

Author’s Notes: My longest project to date, and we’ve still got a ways to go. This story comes with its fair share of angst, but some sweetness to balance it out. Slow burn, Force-sensitive Reader, found family, soft Din, eventual happy ending.

Summary: When a mysterious Mandalorian unexpectedly shows up in your shop, you can’t help but wonder about the curious stranger and the child that travels with him. And when he reappears in your life, in your most desperate time of need, he offers you everything you needed — and maybe more than he even realized he was offering. Safety, adventure, a family of your own, and a love that echoes through the wildest parts of the galaxy.

Projected Publication / Update: Early February. Join my TAGLIST to be included in future updates!

Sequel to The Space Between (your heart & mine)

Pairing: Din Djarin x AFAB Reader, no Y/N

Rating: 18+, mature, explicit.

Author’s Notes: This story is untitled at the moment and is not yet in progress, as I am wrapping up the current fic.

Projected Publication: TBD

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Cowboy Like Me

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Pairing: Agent Whiskey x AFAB Reader, no Y/N.

Rating: 18+, mature, explicit.

Chapters: 2 / ?

Words: 18.3 k

Warnings: Very smut-heavy. References to alcohol and smoking. Minimal violence. Additional warnings with individual chapters. Minors DNI.

Author’s Notes: Sugar daddy Whiskey, but are those some feelings that I see as well? This was intended as a oneshot, but after I finished the first part, I realized there was still more story left to tell. The next installment has been mapped out and is in progress, with additional ones in mind.

Summary: Whiskey comes across a songbird trapped in a cage of seedy dive bars, stale cigarettes, and cheap liquor; and when he offers you the chance to leave it behind, with grandiose promises of the future, you find yourself accepting his offer. And as Whiskey is a man of his word, he whisks you away to the most fantastic of destinations, showering you with more attention and affection than you could hope for.

Projected Publication / Update: TBD. Join my TAGLIST to be included in future updates!

Agent Whiskey NSFW Alphabet

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Pairing: Agent Whiskey x AFAB Reader, no Y/N.

Rating: 18+, mature, explicit. Minors DNI.

Words: 4.6 k

Warnings: It’s a NSFW alphabet, y’all. It’s filthy. Semi-public sex, bondage, brat-taming, use of toys + whips, rough sex, masturbation, teasing, to name a few. Minors DNI.

Author’s Notes: This was a collaboration project with @emmikmil as we share very few brain cells and most of them are focused on this man. This project is complete with no upcoming updates.

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Forget Me Too

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Pairing: Javier Peña x AFAB Reader, no Y/N.

Rating: 18+, mature, explicit.

Chapters: 4 / 15

Words: 25.1 k

Warnings: Smut-heavy, canon-typical violence, swearing, references to alcohol and other substances. Definitely not a good representation of a healthy relationship or coping skills. Additional warnings with individual chapters. Minors DNI.

Author’s Notes: This story will be taking place roughly around S2 of Narcos, and I will be bending some canon to fit this story. Lots of resentful and suppressed pining between two extraordinarily stubborn assholes, however hate sex is undeniably hot and this is no exception.

Summary: Javier Peña was a pain in your ass, a thorn in your side, an absolute nightmare to try and work with. As a woman working in the field of forensic psychology, you were used to facing your fair share of bullshit, but Agent Peña seemed dead-set on making your time in Colombia as challenging as possible. And yet, despite your best reasoning, you couldn’t deny that there was something enticing, thrilling, exciting about him that inevitably drew you to him, like a moth to a flame. Except, you knew that this attraction would only end in one way -with fire, and passion, and mutual devastation. But god, it’d be brilliant to burn after a lifetime spent in the shadows of candlelight.

Projected Publication / Update: Late February. Join my TAGLIST to be included in future updates!

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Invisible String

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Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV

Pairing: Bucky x AFAB Reader, no Y/N.

Rating: 18+, mature, explicit.

Chapters: 4 / ?

Words: 30.6k

Warnings: Very few, as this entire series is basically self-indulgent, sickeningly sweet fluff and daydream scenarios. See chapters for specific content warnings. Minors DNI.

Author’s Notes: This started out as a purely self indulgent, tooth rottingly sweet oneshot that I couldn’t get out of my head after the finale of TFATWS. And as I imagined a life for Bucky and Reader, I felt the need to fill in the other happy moments in their life as well. Fic updates will not be chronological, and will bounce back and forth between life events. Updates will be kept in chronological order on this masterlist and Ao3.

Summary: You were fairly certain that landing a date through court-ordered therapy was some sort of HIPAA violation, if not an ethical one, but you couldn’t help but be intrigued by the mysterious storm cloud of a man who you shared the waiting room with every Thursday. And you certainly couldn’t have imagined that spending your afternoons in a therapist’s office would lead you and this stranger into the kind of saccharine happy ending that people write romance novels and Hallmark movie scripts about – the kind of happy ending that neither of you had believed you could ever deserve.

Projected Publication / Update: TBD. Join my TAGLIST to be included in future updates!

a love that is whole

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Pairing: Bucky Barnes x AFAB Reader, no Y/N.

Rating: 18+, mature, explicit.

Chapters: 1 / 1 ( oneshot )

Words: 5.3k

Warnings: Swearing. References to alcohol consumption. Allusions towards sex. Heavily focused on parent-child relationships and dynamics. Minors DNI.

Author’s Notes: This is incredibly sweet and fluffy, and is basically how I would imagine my parents reacting to me bringing Bucky to visit for a long weekend. It’s tooth-rotting fluff and I love it.

Summary: You had known the truth and the history of Bucky Barnes since your first date, and you had loved him just the same. You had loved him unequivocally, unconditionally, for years, and as the world began to be safe once more, you eagerly awaited the time in which Bucky would be able to officially meet your parents.

Projected Publication / Update: Several readers have asked for a second part to this story, and I have some ideas cooking up! Date is TBD, but feel free to send along any thoughts or words of encouragement. Join my TAGLIST to be included in future updates!

easy like Sunday morning
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Pairing: Bucky Barnes x AFAB Reader, no Y/N.

Rating: Mature, for sexual themes. Minors DNI.

Chapters: 1 / 1 ( oneshot )

Words: 1.7k

Warnings: Swearing, smut. Honestly this is pure smut. Cockwarming + praise kink.

Author’s Notes: This might’ve turned out a little softer than intended but I couldn’t help it, bc the idea of lazy sweet morning sex with Bucky is *chefs kiss*

Summary
: It’s a gorgeous, chilly autumn morning when you wake up tangled in the sheets and arms of your beloved Bucky; and neither of you can seem to bear to be parted for any waking moment.

to build a home

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Pairing: Bucky x AFAB Reader, no Y/N.

Rating: Mature, minors DNI.

Chapters: 1 / 1 ( oneshot )

Words: 4.9k

Warnings: Swearing, mention of alcohol, SMUT, smut smut smut, oral sex (M&F receiving), hand job, slight overstimulation, PIV, some body worship, unprotected sex / creampie, angst, talking about feelings, ambiguous ending.

Author’s Notes: This is set during the Endgame timeline, but I took artistic liberties with canon - you and Bucky both survived the initial Snap. Inspired by the song ‘To Build A Home,’ by The Cinematic Orchestra.

Summary: There was a strange, somber feeling seated deep within your chest, as you took in the sight before you — quite likely, for the last time. The world was ending, the world had already ended, and here you were on the precipice of the conclusion, sharing one last night with your friends, your family, what remained of your world. One more night together, before you embarked on the final mission. One final opportunity to tell your best friend, Bucky Barnes, that you were madly, hopelessly in love with him.

Projected Publication / Update: Several readers have asked for a second part to this story, and I have some ideas cooking up! Date is TBD, but feel free to send along any thoughts or words of encouragement. Join my TAGLIST to be included in future updates!

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Last Single Saturday Night

Pairing: Chris Evans x Female Reader, no Y/N.

Rating: Mature, for alcohol references and swearing.

Chapters: 2/5?

Words: 4.6 k

Warnings: Some swearing, references to hospitals/illness (reader is a surgeon), alcohol consumption.

Author’s Notes: I’ve had this idea/daydream stuck in my head for about two months, and am finally getting around to writing it out! This will be a relatively short ficlet, I’m anticipating approximately 5 chapters, but that’s subject to change. Mostly fluff, some future smut, no angst.

Summary: Working as a pediatric surgeon in Boston, you’re certainly no stranger to the MCU - every kid on your unit had at least one Avenger pasted to their wall, with Captain America being a prominent figure. And yet, you certainly never expected to stumble into the real life Captain America on a casual Saturday night, who would turn out to be just as charming and enigmatic as the character he portrayed.

Inspiration from the song, Last Single Saturday Night, by Cole Swindell.

Projected Publication / Update: Late January - mid February. Join my TAGLIST to be included in future updates!

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Frankie ‘Catfish’ Morales Prompt - “I feel like I’m in the clouds when I’m with you.”

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Pairing: Frankie x AFAB Reader

Rating: Mature, for language and alcohol consumption.

Words: 2.2k

Warnings: References to drinking and alcohol consumption.

Author’s Notes: This is almost entirely pure fluff and softness and sweetness.

Summary: Whenever you’ve had a particularly tough work day, soft Frankie eases all of that stress and tension with thoughtful, sweet words — and a glass of wine with your dinner.


Ransom Drysdale - let ruin be light

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Pairing: Ransom Drysdale x fem!reader, no Y/N.

Rating: Mature, exclusively 18+, minors DNI

Chapters: 1 / 1 ( oneshot )

Words: 4.7k

Warnings: Smut, like holy shit this is probably the most explicit and filthy smut I’ve ever written, swearing, jealousy, possessiveness, references to alcohol, slightly toxic dynamics, hate-fucking but with underlying feelings, oral sex, aggressive sex, degradation, pussy spanking, choking, orgasm denial, slight overstimulation, unprotected sex / creampie.

Author’s Notes: This is purely self-indulgent smut, because I love the idea of possessive!Ransom and jealous!Ransom who also has feelings but shockingly isn’t the best at expressing them.

Summary: You and Ransom had grown up in the same social circles, running in the same vicious, malicious, and antagonistic high-society groups; continually dancing around a mutual attraction for one another, you had fallen victim you your desires once before, but never again - at least, that was what you tried to tell yourself. but on the eve of your party, celebrating your success as the new up-and-coming author with Blood Like Wine Publishing, you found yourself irritatingly drawn to the belligerent blonde once again.

mariacallous:

I couldn’t fix him, but I could fuck him, and that could fix me, and that’s more important.

iamjaynaemarie:

Dangers of working on a set.

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That’s what I said.

seawitchkaraoke:

Okay but you forgot the best part! During the scene where Aragorn, Gandalf and the other Main CharaktersTM ride ahead to go shout at the gate (and talk to the mouth of sauron in the extended edition) they were very firmly told only to ride up  ahead “this far” because that area was cleared and beyond that it wasn’t.

But. Viggo Mortensen is absolutely mad and lead them just…. a bit farther than that. Everyone else was very scared they might blow up any second. Viggo said it “added a little extra tension”.

mikkeneko:

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ithinkitsdashing:

#they just don’t make behind the scenes stories like lotr anymore

ophidahlia:

Viggo was just Like That™ for the whole trilogy, taking method acting to extreme levels:

  • he would spend multiple days walking overland to locations in full pack, sword, & armour when everyone else was travelling in trucks
  • refused to use any prop swords that weren’t actual steel
  • basically lived in the forest in-costume, sleeping rough under the sky, even fishing & foraging for his food when possible
  • often spent hours in the barn just bonding with the horses. He adopted the horse he rode, Uranus, after filming ended
  • repaired all his own gear by hand, which was often since he never took it off
  • had a tooth knocked out during filming but had the crew simply glue it back in place so they could keep filming
  • the instructor who taught everyone swordplay said Viggo was the best swordsman he had ever trained
  • carried his sword literally everywhere & practiced non-stop, resulting in the cops being called when locals reported “a wild man swinging a sword around his head" outside a gym in Wellington
  • an orc actor fucked up & accidentally threw a dagger directly into Viggo’s face, but Viggo just deflected it with his sword. They kept that shot
  • infamously broke 3 toes kicking that helmet but stayed in-character & sold his very real scream as part of the scene. They also kept that shot
  • Viggo insists on doing his own stunts; in The Two Towers where Aragorn is unconscious & floating down the river, the strong current pulled him underwater for so long that a rescue team had to go in to save him. Viggo survived by grabbing a boulder on the riverbed and pulling himself to the surface

It’s probably more accurate to say that Aragorn played Viggo Mortensen in the off season, so I’m 100% unsurprised to hear he put a whole crowd of fellow actors in genuine mortal peril for a 12% increase in authenticity

soapstore:

something holy inside you wants to get out but you can’t let it

he-is-half-my-soul:

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on tragic heroes and the people who'd follow them anywhere.


tumblr textpost// Anne Carson, An Oresteia// Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles// Victor Hugo, Les Miserables// William Shakespeare, Hamlet// Anne Carson, An Oresteia

toastbutteregg:

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gattmammon:

That was somebody's mom whose dream had always been to be a restaurant owner but sadly she married into the mafia and she was like the mom of someone important and moms are like the one authority italians recognise so when she put her foot down and said "NO. We are going to make them great food and give them the most lovely evening!" Nobody dared disagree and thanks to op she got to live her dream for a night she probably remembers them as fondly as they remember her

psikonauti:

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Alice Brasser (Dutch,b.1965)

Swimmer # 3, 2023

oil on canvas

yellenabelova:

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Ferrera said it felt like she filmed 500 takes of the speech over the two days of filming, adding, “It was probably 30 to 50 full runs of it, top to bottom. By the end, [co-star Ariana Greenblatt] recited the monologue to me because she had memorized it because that’s how many times I had said it.”

Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

newathens:

baby i’ve got half finished wips you couldn’t even imagine

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something-tofightfor:

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That’s why men like you and me are here. We have a job to do and god help any motherfuckers who stand in our way.


Rest in peace, Bill and Frank. 🤍

badjokesbyjeff:

As a car mechanic, I can safely say, I don't understand the gay agenda. 

I do however, understand the trans mission.

jedislight:

His armor is his best look

(Scenes are thanks to @filoniversepacks on Instagram.)

intimatum:

“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn’t even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn’t talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”

Yiwei Chai, The Jacaranda Years

handweavers:

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how the light gets in pt.1 (2020) a woven sample exploring negative space, light, and texture

handweavers:

when i was designing/making this i was thinking of birch bark and bloodied bandages and scarred skin so everyone in the notes saying this reminds them of one of those things is making me 🥰 bc it worked hehe

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