If We Make It Through December | A Venji Bakery AU

if we make it through december | a Venji Bakery AU

summary: Benji’s heart is still broken, and his bakery is limping through the holiday season, not certain to see the new year. Victor’s got his sights set on a promotion at work until Benji catches his eye and makes him consider loosening up, just a little. Just enough. Awkward flirting, pining, and baking ensue. word count: 16,342 excerpt:

“Well, have fun tonight,” Benji says once the transaction has gone through.

“What? Oh, right, the party. Whoo!” Victor says, and Benji can’t tell if he’s being sardonic or badly forcing enthusiasm. “Yeah, can’t…can’t wait.”

There’s a pause during which the two men just look at each other, similar to the pause that occurred the day previous.

“Um. Yeah. Thanks again. See you around,” Victor blurts, and then he practically runs out the door. The sound of the door chime has never been so sad.

Petition Restoring Same-Sex Romances in the Mass Effect Legendary Edition

A petition for BioWare and EA to restore same-sex romances in the Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

If you’re a fan of the Mass Effect series, please consider signing this petition and sharing this post on your pages!

We the authors - myself, @estalfaed-archived, and others - believe that BioWare, EA, and Mac Walters have squandered an opportunity with the Legendary Edition to fix the lack of same-sex romance options in ME1 and ME2. Fans have been calling for the studio to restore the existing material for Kaidan Alenko’s same-sex romance in the first two games for years. Then news broke in January that Jack and Jacob’s same-sex options were cut during development.

Responses and reasons from the studio for these exclusions have been lacking and contradictory at best.

In short, we are asking for:

A full, detailed explanation of the reasons why these characters’ same-sex dialogues and romances were originally planned on some level and had dialogue written and/or recorded, but were ultimately excluded from the games;

A formal apology from the studios for the deliberately exclusionary decisions made regarding all three characters, both in the original version and Legendary Edition;

A Legendary Edition post-release patch for an MShep-Kaidan romance using and filling in existing material so we can have one trilogy-spanning male same-sex romance;***

A frank and open assessment of the possibility of finishing the same-sex romances for Jack and Jacob and the potential for Legendary Edition patches;***

A detailed, public plan of concrete steps the studios and creative directors will take to ensure diverse, accurate, and comparable LGBTQIA+ representation in future ME projects.

***Yes, we’re specifically asking for post-release patches because this studio has a well-documented history of grinding down its employees and developers to meet their deadlines. We want to be both realistic with what can conceivably be accomplished and respectful of the pressure these developers are facing with a looming deadline during the pandemic.

That's so cool! I played Warframe a while back but only had Volt (my main), Rhino and Oberin. I tried to unlock others but never got all the parts required.

Mag looks fun, from what I remember she dosen't have much health or shields, but I imagine the Prime version stats and some mods can make up for that.

Unfortunately I never got any of those chakram weapons, I really wanted to have those and even grinded some parts for one them, but the RNG wasn't on my side.

Thanks for sharing the gameplay too, I forgot how awesome this game is!

Mass Effect where everything is the same but biotics can use a throwable disc blade as a melee weapon like Xena's chakram or Tron's discs! Can you imagine? The power...

....have you tried Warframe?

May I present Mag Prime, my beloved "biotic" Warframe, wielding a Tron disc...

...and fucking shit up with a power actually called "pull."

If you want to feel like an actual god, play Warframe. If you want to be a literal space ninja with literal space powers, play Warframe. I could map a different Warframe to every class of Mass Effect.

Warframe is the game that does not tell you "no," and it's amazing.

by SaintVince

Benji Campbell moves to the little town of Brandon, Texas, and Victor Salazar’s life will never be the same.

Words: 5201, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Love Victor (TV 2020), Simonverse | Creekwood Series - Becky Albertalli

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M, M/M

Characters: Victor Salazar, Benjamin “Benji” Campbell, Felix Weston, Mia Brooks, Simon Spier

Relationships: Benjamin “Benji” Campbell/Victor Salazar, Lake Meriwether/Felix Weston, Mia Brooks/Victor Salazar, Mia Brooks/Andrew Spencer, Bram Greenfeld/Simon Spier

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Everybody lives in Texas, Benji is the new kid in town, Slow Burn, Coming Out, Homophobia, Internalized Homophobia, Friendship, Falling In Love, Self-Acceptance, Canon LGBTQ Character, Anxiety, Panic Attacks, Queer Culture, Love Confessions, Family Drama, Mild Angst, The road to self-love is long, But Victor gets there in the end

Good Things Fall Apart | Chapter 18: Paroxysm

This is the longest chapter of anything I’ve ever written oops! But it’s also been a month between updates so I think technically it all evens out <3

excerpt;

There’s a sense of reversal as Victor recalls a moment they’d had on this very beach, of Benji reminding him it’s okay to look if he wants to. Victor takes a step toward him and reaches out a hand. Benji eyes it, wary, then allows Victor to pull him close. He takes Benji in his arms again, pressing their bare torsos together.

Victor takes a shuddering breath, Benji’s skin already cold from the air conditioning. Benji laughs, still shivering slightly, and then they both go quiet. There’s a profoundness in this, a pendulum that swings between innocence and something yet to be explored. All that sits between their two kindred cores is a layer of skin, some muscle, some bone. Victor thinks that he would be okay if Benji reached into his chest and clutched his heart in his hand—he would welcome it, even wishes for it. But Benji has already in some ways, hasn’t he? Since the moment their lips touched on a bench outside of Creekwood High, Benji has held Victor’s heart like a small, wounded animal in cupped hands.

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