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Reached the phase once again where my brain is torn between like 5 different fics and not letting me work on a single one

in good news though... there is SOME progress on AFN for the enjoyers out there. I'm probably gonna finish the stealing glory sequel, do the four seasons fic promised and THEN get back to updating it.

Maybe I'll cycle stuff around? Like afn 1 week and then the four seasons one another. I'm not sure. We'll have to see.

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Maybe no chapter today BUT I think it’s gonna end up being like 4K minimum so it basically works out anyway don’t worry pookies

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Food!! Food!!! Food!!!!!! Food!!! I am feeding you!!!!!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63563413/chapters/162896686

The link wont post properly!!!!

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MAYBE HOPEFULLY upload tonight!!!!

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Kinda wanna write Phil as more bird like. Sometimes he’s just a man with wings and Vague Bird Instincts.

What if I made him just eat a fucking mouse.

What if he just coughed up a bird pellet.

Let this man be a freak sometimes I think.

Technos store house has NEVER had a mouse problem. Only a raccoon one. Why, you ask? I don’t think Phil could’ve eaten Tommy as easily as he could a mouse.

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I’m cooking I’m cooking I’m cooking I’m cooking it’s all soft fluff mostly, twinsduo enjoyers please feast.

General concept is that techno is a shapeshifter demigod that’s taken his adoption as actually just being besties with Phil.

He’s now in charge of Wilbur who’s around 3 because Phil’s out snatching another kid and shenanigans ensue. It’s a lot of Techno not understanding mortals / children and jumping to wild conclusions. Very fun.

Techno being a shapeshifter: yes

Techno being Phil’s bestie who’s been unknowingly adopted: yes

Techno not really understanding mortals fully: also yes

Now consider: him being in charge of babysitting Wilbur when he’s a kid. He doesn’t really understand this strange tiny hybrid that Phil’s given him but he calls them brothers and says to play nice so he’s just kinda in charge of the little guy for now.

There is really just one problem though. He’s so small. Phil says it’s because he’s ’only 3 years old’ but Techno was out waging wars at the same age so that’s hardly an excuse.

He tries teach the kid defence strategies, using the blocks he plays with as little blockages but Wilbur won’t stop pushing them down and laughing about it!

The same thing happened when he used some of the toys Wilbur loved playing with. Even though the teddy bear he made play the role of a war general won he still had to sit through the frog princesses tea party!

It was ridiculous. His teddy bear general would never stoop so low as fraternising with the enemy. Even if Wilbur claimed that was mean.

He even tries to spar with him but he’s just so small and squirmy that he gets worried he’ll actually hurt him! He even refused to learn proper stances for combat, instead opting to swing on Technos arms and sit on his foot when he tried walking around.

Really, he ran out of options within the first two hours of being in charge of Wilbur. He had no survival instinct and certainly wouldn’t be ready for war by winter. He was very disappointed in himself, in all honesty.

But then, he remembered.

“To know your enemy, you must become your enemy” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

The problem wasn’t that Wilbur wasn’t ready for war. It’s that he didn’t understand Wilbur completely!

Sure, he knew the kid hated mushy peas and maybe ate a frog while Phil wasn’t looking but he didn’t understand his psyche. He needed to become Wilbur.

He had to take the form of a 3 year old.

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He then like gets stuck as a 3 year old for ages and grows up as Wilbur’s twin because while he knows how to change out of that form as an adult, he doesn’t when he’s a literal child lmao. Silly guyyyy.

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Bad headache… consider vampires not being able to go into the sun because it’s widely seen as ‘good’ culturally. Now apply that to good people and you have vampires not being allowed contact with people deemed as good.

Touch starved vampires corrupting any humans they come across purely so that they can have physical contact again.

Ramble / elaboration below the cut. Feed and maybe become insane about this like I am. Need to infect others with my brain worms.

You die and become a vampire and are forced into the cold embrace of your sire and your coven. It’s not the warm hugs you’ve always known, your brain tells you the chill of their skin is better.

And it is. It’s like a balm for the ever growing hunger inside you but over the years it’s not enough. You’ve grown and so has your need for warmth, for contact.

You’re met with the very same desire that had your sire turn you and bring you into their coven in the first place. You want to feed on warmth and good and it’s been far too long since someone’s joined your family.

You must find a human and coax them in, just like your coven did to you if only to feel the once familiar warmth of life seep away into the very same cold that’s taken over you.

I think I’m so normal about instincts and selfishness and corruption and vampires.

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On the floor begging life to stop kicking my ass have some food

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Dear god life is beating my ass I just wanna write!!! Lemme write!!!!!!

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Everyone look at this now!!!! Its amazing and great and I love it very very much!!!! Look at it or else I'll break down your walls!!!!!!!

You did such a good job on this!! I love the characterisation and it fits so well with everything I have in mind for the universe!!!!

Thinking about an AU where Techno, Wilbur and Tommy are all the harbingers of the actual entire apocalypse and Phil (just some insane guy) decides that those are in fact his kids and starts gaslighting the absolute shit out of them about it.

Rambles under cut!

I wanna try something where they're just more insidious and passive killers than anything else, theyre mostly just biding their time and watching as wherever they're lingering around gets sicker and just starts withering away.

They're a slow moving threat that just can't be stopped and for some reason (because Kristin thinks its funny) Phil just isnt affected by them.

Phil: Oh Techno's always been like that ever since he was a baby Techno: I have literally never met you a day in my life Tommy: Idk man... you have always been like that Wilbur: Oh my death he's actually getting to us

Its a mix of that combined with that "how did he know I was a gemini" meme

Phil: Wil! I brought you some salmon, I know how much you love it! Wilbur: How the fuck did you know I like salmon Phil: I'm your dad silly, of course I'd know :-)

I just think itd be super fun since Phil in this au is literally just some insane dude. He literally lies about their entire childhood but does it so consistently and so realistically that it throws them off guard.

I also have a few ideas where they start referring to Phil as their dad in the beginning as a sarcastic / mocking thing but accidentally just getting themselves even more adopted as they do it.

Phil: Wilbur put on a coat Wilbur: I don't need one! Techno: Go on, Wil. Listen to dad Wilbur: Ugh fine. Only because dad wants it, though

Stranger: Whos this? Tommy: Oh thats our dad. He kinda just tags along Stranger: Aww thats so sweet! You got his nose and everything Tommy: I- wh- no he's not actually our da- Phil: I know he did! Isn't he the cutest, spitting image isnt he? Tommy: You're not my dad! Stranger: Oh someones embarrassed! Phil: Yeah he's going through a rebellious phase right now

Just a mixture of things like that where it starts as calling him it but then accidentally actually giving him parental authority along with that.

I also wanna explore how Kristin and Phils relationship would be like. Maybe her as death being very bemused by this silly human that just decided she was his wife one day.

She literally visits him in dreams and stuff and he just acts as if they're married and have been for years. He complains about their 'rambunctious kids' and how he has to threaten them with her so that they behave sometimes. She finds it so silly and just cant help but play pretend.

Kristin: Hello, human Phil: My love! Its been so long since I've seen you Kristin: We've never met Phil: Oh don't say that! It hasnt been that long. I've just been far too occupied with our boys to visit too much Kristin: Our boys? I made them Phil: And they came out beautiful! I'm so glad Wil and Tech got your eyes. I was hoping they would.

I think that'd be a core part of this AU as well. Everyone is playing pretend but then it just fuzzies and it all becomes real for them. At first its a joke that Phil is her husband and their father but then they get lost in the fantasy and fun of it all and actually accept him as such.

Phil has no ulterior motives either, he's literally just a strange insane man that heard stories about neotrio and started thinking they were his kids one day. He genuinely believes his delusion and they end up accidentally making it a reality.

He just makes lucky guesses and plausible lies often enough that he's still shiny and new, he's still fun to play with and thats what ends up 'tricking' them all.

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My tablets pen nibs finally came in!!! I can finally draw!!!

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No update tonight but SOON you will be fed. This is a promise. Have more snacks while you wait.

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Hi! I was wondering if you could give some advice on how to plan fics? I’m writing my first multi chapter fic at the moment and I’m struggling to outline a coherent plot

(also I love ur writing so so much!!)

Hello!! I’m happy to help :D my first piece of advice is to take your time with stuff! Rushing a fic will usually make you unhappy with the result and demotivate you so it’s better to just wait a bit until you’re happy with a chapter instead of forcing it!

The same goes for ideas, have somewhere to write fic ideas so you can pull from it later! Sometimes a fic just has to stew in your brain for a while until it’s done cooking lol.

Another part is that writing is personal! What works for me might not work for you and that’s ok! Take what works and use it or experiment with stuff! It’s your process and it should work for you!

This is a bit of a long one because I ramble and I wanna give you as much to work with as I can but below the cut is a breakdown of my process! Hopefully it can help!

I generally have 2 methods for when I plan multichaps. It depends how I have written the plot out but I will write what I want to happen as a whole and then split it off into chunks that’ll later be chapters.

You don’t technically need the whole plot to be written out before you start either. It’s ok to have some empty gaps that you can fill in later. This depends more on whether you follow your chapter plans exactly or if you just go with the flow more though.

The way that I write will just follow the flow that I fall into. The plans I write out are basic guidelines for me but unless I have a very specific vision, I don’t hold myself to them too harshly.

I break off my long, usually incomplete plan for the plot into sections and then I’ll split that further into 2 scenes per chapter. I'm a bit of a visual learner so I'll attach some screenshots below.

Here is an example from The Green Striped Hat. It started with me basically rambling about the plot to myself in a long list that I then broke down.

Long ramble vs after being chopped down into chaps:

From this, I got to here:

I basically put those points under a miscroscope and thought about the details of what I wanted in the chapter. Since this chapter is later in, I also referenced some stuff from previous chapters from where I went a bit off plan.

Usually after I'm done chopping, I'll structure my document properly. I make a title and a little table of contents so I can click to a chap I wanna get to quickly.

I also find it easier to read when I just scroll to my unwritten chap and see the shorter points rather than a long one at the very start of the fic lol.

You can also see the scene structure! Scene 1 is Phil making the big reveal about getting unsealed and attacking Technos (at the time) father and then scene 2 where Techno gets turned into a book and gets stolen away!

Another example is for AFN with a more rigid structure:

As you can also probably see, some of the points are ticked off already and are out of order. This is because I don't write every fic / chap in the order that stuff occurs! There's even stuff that I retconned later on in there lmao

I generally find dialogue easier to write. I love writing conversations because I find it easier to make the characters bounce off of each other. Its much easier for me than writing long scenes with no dialogue.

Because of this I generally write talking scenes first and then slowly link them together for the more technical stuff! If I know how I want Techno to talk to Phil, then I'll write it! The scene where I wanna describe Techno feeling sick can come later!

This can also be used for adding stuff into the plot! Some fics are made purely for a certain scene! Henchman AU? Only made because I got glass in my foot and wanted to write a scene where Techno suffers through the same pain.

If there's a certain scene in your head that you wanna write then just build some plot around it!

Lets say I wanna make a fic purely for a tea party scene between Phil and Techno where Phil gets drugged. How can I pad this out? Why not make it a royalty AU? One where Techno is a more unassuming prince and Phil is a servant forced to obey?

Why not make it be an adoption fic and have it so that this tea party is what finally gets Techno to trust Phil? When he willingly lets himself get drugged just to prove that he will accept anything Techno does?

As long as your fic has a beginning, middle and end, you'll be good. It doesn't have to be this long, insane coming of age story to be a fun read.

You don't have to know every single detail of what will happen before you start writing it. You can just leave blanks that can be filled in later, I do that a tonne.

Here's an example of a plot I have in progress right now:

Its not complete but, by the time I write the scene where Techno serves Phil I'll probably have a general idea of how he gets assassinated. From then on I'll be able to follow the flow and know the consequences and link that up with the kingdom falling.

A lot of my plot planning is writing stuff like this and then thinking "ok now where can I go with this" and just improvising until I get a broader picture of what I want.

The Green Striped Hat literally started as a brainrot drabble, one that had a vague intro into its world. I literally just followed its vibe in one of my longer plot rambles until I had a semi cohesive plan.

I knew that Tech would read the cursed book, I knew that Phil would pop out and be all spooky and then I knew it'd end in Tech almost dying and being adopted.

I just chopped it up into chapters and prayed that I'd have a better idea of what I wanted by the time I reached stuff. A majority of my early chapters just looked like this:

I know I'm rambling but I guess the point I'm trying to get across is that you don't need it all figured out. You just have to know the direction you're going and how you want it to end. You can fill in the blanks on your way there.

A lot of my writing is just 'yes, and?' until a plot comes out in a way I'm happy with. Just think about how you're gonna get to wherever you wanna get to.

Is it a series of misunderstandings? Is there a big reveal that can be hinted at? Just follow the vibe of what you want and it'll slowly flesh itself out.

Generally, since its your first multichap, I recommend sticking to a lower chapter count. There's less to keep track of and its easier to have a cohesive plan.

If you're planning a 4 chapter fic, you know that you need to be about halfway through the plot by chapter 2 and wrapping up / reaching the climax by chapter 3.

Another thing you might wanna keep in mind is how long you want each chapter to be. I generally try keep my chaps equal in size, somewhere around 2.5k.

This isn't anything mandatory and its not the end of the world if its under / over this much but I do make sure to plan for this much in content with my bullet points. If you want something below that, plan less. If you want something over, plan more.

My very final piece of advice is if you're reading something you've written a bunch and you hate it take a break! My eyes get sick of my writing a lot and it can really skew your perspective of! Leave the chap / scene alone for a bit and come back to it after sleeping!!

I'm glad you like my writing and I hope this was at least somewhat helpful for you! If you have more questions feel free to ask, I'm happy to help people out whenever!

Also feel free to call be a dummy if I've somehow missed giving you an answer on what you're actually asking!

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Joy, Wilbur suffering upon you

Also have some Handle With Care

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Gotta fuckin write Tommy dear god pray for me

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Ok so turns out my awful brainfog is fucking covid

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Just woke up!! Handle with care won by 1 vote so that’s what I’m working on next!!!

Blehhhh vote time because I'm avoidant at making my own decisions.

While this is my next longfic theres no promise that itll be like, the very next thing I upload. Probably the thing after it lmao.

All of these vary in length but all are above like 5 chapters. 2 are probably like... 15+ depending on how shit turns out.

Idk I just wanna clear out my longer WIPs because hopefully that way I can get back into the groove of writing that oneshots doesn't really give me.