Odds and Events

(Originally posted here.)
==Completed==
Little pieces from the Athene Noctua AU which aren't enough to stand on their own, but still need a home.
===Mondsüchtig===
Mondsüchtig (German) : A person addicted to the night and especially looking at the moon
(Originally posted here and here.)
"Out here again?"
"Mmmhmm."
Newt slides himself next to Hermann on the silvery grass.
Hermann tilts his head and his eyes flash with trapped moonlight. "I haven’t seen a country sky in nearly thirty years. I’d nearly forgotten how many stars there are to see." His voice drops to a whisper. "I worried I’d never see them again."
"You’ve got plenty of time to get reacquainted now." Newt stretches an arm around him. "Wanna introduce me to your old friends?"
Notes: How on earth did I write a semi-decent story in 80 words? Well, 79, since one is a sound effect. >because you're awesome, that's why!<
===Agastopia (Newt)===
Agastopia (English) : An admiration of a particular part of someone’s body
(Originally posted here.)
"I think I love this part of you most—except for your brain, of course. Right here." Newt marks the spot with a kiss. "No one else has a shoulder like this, muscles like these, Hermann." Another kiss. "I wish you could see it like I do. The motion is absolute poetry." Newt trails his lips along the curve of the wing’s anchoring muscles and slips his fingers deep into the soft feathers.
Hermann purrs and slowly flexes his wing, smirking as Newt’s breath hitches. He rolls his hips between Newt’s thighs and Newt's heart skips and hops.
Newt separates himself from Hermann’s back. "Oh god. Now you’re just messing with me, you jerk."
The pillow nearly swallows Hermann’s answer: "Perhaps I’m inviting you to do more than kiss."
"Oh really." He leans forward again and nuzzles Hermann’s shoulder. "Okay. You win. Get naked."
"My, you are the very soul of romance."
"Don’t you know it."
===Șafak===
Șafak (Turkish) : The first skylight seen at the sky in dawn or just before the sun rises
(Originally posted here and here.)
"You didn’t come to bed last night." Hermann pushes a mug of cocoa into Newt’s hand.
He sips absently. "That growth factor I was telling you about? Nearly had it figured out, then I dropped the sample jar and the goo got everywhere and I had to start from the top again and I got the medium mixed before I noticed I needed fresh catalysts but I’m all out—I need to order some more from that place on the mainland I told you about—so I tried to wing it but it didn’t work at all … and then you showed up and—"
Hermann squeezes Newt’s shoulder. "Newton, did you take your medication yesterday?"
He shakes his head.
"The day before?" Newt takes a gulp of cocoa and shakes again.
"The day before that?"
"I don’t ...." He scrunches his eyes in concentration. "I think so. I don’t remember." He blinks. "I’m hypomanic, aren’t I?"
"I believe you are." Hermann gently pulls his partner to his feet. "Let’s get your medicine."
"Yeah … yeah. Good idea." He swallows the chalky pills with a mouthful of cocoa. "Sorry. I haven’t screwed up like this for a while now …"
"It’s alright." Hermann takes his hand and leads him to the patio. "It’s almost dawn."
"We can watch it together."
Hermann moves his hand to the nape of Newt’s neck and the smaller man leans against him.
"Thanks, dude."
"You’re welcome," Hermann whispers and brushes a kiss against Newt’s temple.
===Dysania===
Dysania (English) : The state of finding it extremely difficult to get out of bed in the morning
(Originally posted here and here.)
Newt pokes his head into their bedroom to find the curtains tightly closed and a lump of feathers and blankets on the bed.
"Hermann? Dude? Are you getting up today?"
No response.
"It's, like, ten. [The twins've come and gone."]
A wing twitches irritatedly.
Newt sits on the bed, tucking his feet under Hermann's drooping feathers. "Are you alright?"
Hermann emits a sound just short of human speech.
"I'm not sure how to interpret that." He pokes Hermann's shoulder. "Use your words, dude."
"No."
"C'mon. You can give me more than one syllable."
"Go away."
"Three. That's progress."
"Leave me alone."
"Four." Newt shifts closer, pressing his leg against Hermann's side.
The bundle shivers. "Your feet are cold."
"Thanks for the ammunition." He wiggles his toes under the lump.
Hermann squawks and batters Newt with his wings
Newt tries and mostly fails to guard his face but soon he's laughing and trying to clean powder down from his glasses. "That worked better than I hoped."
Hermann scowls, but pushes himself up and stretches all his limbs.
===Agastopia (Hermann)===
(Originally posted here.)
"Dude! That tickles!" Newt squirms where Hermann pins him against the wall.
Hermann noses Newt's neck and huffs.
"Seriously!" He pushes the other man lightly in the chest. "I'm totally for displays of affection, especially physical ones, but your eyelashes—"
Hermann mumbles unintelligibly against his skin and Newt dissolves into helpless giggles.
"I can't breathe, Hermann! Stop! Please!"
Relenting, Hermann pulls away. "My apologies. I let myself be carried away. I especially enjoy this part"—he traces the curve between Newt's shoulder and throat with a thin finger—"of you."
Newt shivers. "Haah. We need to find you a way appreciate me without cutting off the oxygen to my brain."
"Maybe I need only approach from a different angle."
"Yeeeeah ... that's more like it. Feel free to keep doing that."
"Oh, I do."
===Disallowance===
Disallowance (English) : refusal to allow, reject, veto; refusal to admit the truth or validity of
Please see "Disallowance".
(Originally posted here; revised by revised by "Lovestruck".)
===Sukinshippu===
Sukinshippu (Japanese) : The intimacy, or closeness, between a parent and a child; generally used for bonding through physical contact such as holding hands, hugging, or parents washing their child at a bath.
Notes: Co-written with artificiallifecreator.
Please see "Sukinshippu".
Notes: Ангел мой = my angel
(Originally posted here and here.)
===Saudade===
Saudade (Portuguese) : A deep, nostalgic, and melancholic longing for something or someone, often accompanied with a denied fact that what one longs for will never come back
Please see "Saudade".
(Originally posted here.)
===Cafuné===
Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese) : The act of tenderly running one’s fingers through someone’s hair
(Originally posted here.)
Hermann shivers under a tangle of blankets even as his skin shines with sweat.
"Oh, dude. You're feeling even worse." Newt sets the tea tray down on the bedside table.
"Brilliant observation, Doctor," Hermann croaks. "I caught the damned flu at the conf—" A violent coughing fit shakes feathers loose. "You should leave before I infect you."
"Shut up, Hermann. I'm not going anywhere while you're this sick." Newt slides into bed next to him and cards his fingers through his damp hair.
Hermann closes his eyes at the touch. "Thank you," he wheezes.
Notes: Special thanks to artificiallifecreator (beta extraordinaire) for reminding me tea trays are a thing.
===Paparazzo===
Paparazzo (Italian) : a freelance photographer, especially one who takes candid pictures of celebrities for publication.
(Originally posted here.)
The adorable snaps of #CutePilots Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori have made the rounds for months and fueled many a watercooler chat session, but has another power couple formed among the leaders of the victorious and vindicated Jaeger Program?
A little bird tells ZOMG! the daring doctors, Newton Geiszler and Hermann Gottlieb, have not only taken jobs together at the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment, but will be sharing a house. A house on a private island. A very private island.
Now, we at ZOMG! don't like to jump to conclusions, but this behavior from a pair of thirty-something confirmed bachelors is very suggestive. Especially on the heels of their recent trip to Geneva where they were seen enjoying a quiet moment together at the Winter Garden, walking arm-in-arm through the streets, holding hands under the table in front of the UN Security Council, and sharing a single room—and bed?—at the Hotel InterContinental.
Are they or aren't they an item? Further information may be hard to come by now that the pair have fled civilization, but ZOMG! readers will be the first to learn of any wedding plans!
===Notes===
Many of these will be familiar to my Tumblr followers.
All beta-ed by artificiallifecreator, including the ones where they're listed as co-author. They deserve mountains of credit for editing my brain spasms.
==WIPs==
===Karelu===
(22/06/2014 13:43-0500)
 	
Karelu (Tulu) : the mark left on the skin by wearing something that is too tight
The day-long interview.
Hazing. Prove I belong.
I belong.''
He can't manage the door.
Hands, just ... stop. Stop. Shaking!
The door swings open, nearly tossing him to the floor.
Hermann stands very still for a moment, gauging his traitorous knee.
Don't fall. That would be too much.
He staggers to the bed and crumples.
Get up. Strip. I am stronger than this.
The buttons from the jacket leave crescent moons in his wrists.
He wears the sweater on his skin as a red swath on his lower arms.
The weight of the tie printed the seam of the shirt collar into his neck.
He can map his day in the wrinkles on his sides from the undershirt.
The buckles fight him, but finally yield and his wings burst free, skin singing in the cool air.
The binding drew a picture across his abdomen in angry red lines.
He fills his lungs and occupies his proper volume for the first time since waking.
Hermann sighs.
"'You must put up with a good deal to keep up appearances' ... Andersen didn't know the half of it."
:I found it too... *handwavey* wordy? Not as vivid? So I gave it a shot. 
:I wanted there to be something like, 'suddenly he could breathe again' or /something that described the feeling of all your insides and outsides spilling out, finally free of really tight clothes. Like your everything's pooled or puddled REINFLATES THAT'S THE WORD DAMNIT. Sorta, anyway. It doesn't seem to have 'allowed to occupy a greater area'-ness, but it's close. Doth I make sense-th?
::I see what you mean. It was sort of ... flat, especially compared to some others in this series. I tried some tweaks ...
:::Okay. Okay. So, I don't know how what the words are but the feeling we're going for is at this point in the day Hermann's clothes were the only thing keeping him in a human shape- ooo, and think about the... non-sexual double entendre(?) between keeping his wings bound and his whole self collapsing into a puddle (metaphor, maybe?)
:::The minute he undresses he becomes a formless pile of mush. That tumblr post of the cat: liquid form and solid form. If the solid cat were wearing clothes and you took the clothes off, it would become liquid cat.
:::And now I'm remembering the salamanders in a trench coat. Goddamnit. Or the '"my pronoun is 'they'" "you can't use that it's plural!" "exactly!" *becomes a colony of bees*' But mostly salamanders.
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