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maybe i'm a bit traumatized still by the change between OFMD seasons 1 and 2 but if DBDA gets renewed and the plan was that charles and crystal were in love the whole time and edwin just had a fleeting crush, art is dead. i will eat my hat and the head it sits on.

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"look" for WIP game?

Thank you so much! There were lots of examples in this in my Dead Boy Detectives WIP, so I picked one from the first chapter:

Crystal wanders. She hovers for a bit in front of the crystal display, looking at jagged geodes, the purple of amethyst, the mottled swirls of agate, the speckles of snowflake obsidian. Some of the rocks are smoothed down, like those tourist shops that sell rounded colorful rocks by the handful. Others look like they’ve just been plucked from the ground. One is a deep blood-red color radiating bad vibes without her even needing to touch it.

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For the WIP guessing game: blue?

Thanks! There are five instances of the word blue in my fic, so here's the first one:

He adjusts his rolled-up sleeve and offers his forearm to Charles, underside first, where his veins are blue and tempting.

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Fanfiction Work-In-Progress Guessing Game

Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in

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actually it tickles me to think about how every member of the psych crew is perfectly designed to survive a zombie apocalypse regardless of its severity or flavor. even a the last of us style gritty end of the world would be no match for their belligerent plot armor and perfectly-designed basket of stupid eccentricities

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first chapter of breakdown fic is here!

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Next Five Fic Recs (#18)

Changing up the format for my fic recs again. I'll post these with the next five new fics I've read, and then throw updated fics and any rereads down at the bottom!

New fics!

9-1-1: the sincerest form of flattery by canadadry. Oneshot, under 2K, Not Rated, No Archive Warnings Apply. Brad assumes Buck is Bobby's kid. Brad's POV is hilarious throughout the fic, leading to a light-hearted, fluffy masterpiece of his thoughts about the 118!

Trollhunters: el mismo idioma (or, four languages in the life of claire nuñez) by Arsenicalbronze. Ongoing work, currently ~7.5k, G, No Archive Warnings Apply. Sort of a canon character study of Claire through the perspective of her relationships with the various languages around her; really neat!

Dead Boy Detectives: factory reset by @the-ipre. Oneshot, under 2K, G, No Archive Warnings Apply. A snippet of memoryless Crystal before they get to Port Townsend, bittersweet as her cynicism fights with her hope for a better future.

Dead Boy Detectives: The Case of the Dead End Carnival by Rosie447 / @itsthenovelteafactor. Ongoing work, currently over 9k, T, No Archive Warnings Apply. Casefic with absolutely wonderful characterization, primarily focusing on Crystal trying to figure out who she is now in the wake of everything that's happened to her and who she used to be.

Dead Boy Detectives: Adventures in mirror hopping. by Hse11z5. Oneshot, just over 2k, G, No Archive Warnings Apply. A delightfully soft pre-canon snippet of the boys learning mirror travel together.

Updated fics!

Dead Boy Detectives: chapter 4 of i do not ache, i would not trade by gaywat9000.

Temeraire: chapter 5 of That Dare Not Speak Its Name by WerewolvesAreReal.

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Such, such a good outline! Always love your ideas!

Now, you absolutely don't have to read it if you don't want to, or if you're still interested in writing your own fic, but the second chapter of my fic Domestic Squabbles is kind-of-sort-of similar to this idea? Not every bullet point, obviously, but it's Crystal at a gala with her parents, them being generally oblivious to her, and then Edwin shows up.

I really wanted to write a fic where Edwin meets Crystal's mother for Day 2: Friends and Family of @crystal-week but life and concussions got in the way, so here it is, bullet-point style:

In her continuing attempts to get on her parents' good side, Crystal has offered to help them with the planning of a charity gala they throw every year. Last year, she was possessed during the gala and made a scene involving tearing into several trays of sushi in front of all the guests, so she's determined for everything to go perfectly this year. As a result, she's taken a bit of a step back from case work.

It's the night of the gala and everything's going smoothly. Crystal's done everything her parents asked and they both seem happy. She's having a pretty good night, until she turns around and sees her mother talking to a woman she recognizes as Edwin in disguise.

(Why is Edwin at the gala in his disguise? Probably because he needs Crystal's help on a case. Why didn't he just slip in unseen as a ghost in order to avoid social interaction or send Charles? Handwavy plot reasons.)

Really not wanting to see where this conversation goes, Crystal approaches, pausing when she hears Maddy Surname ask Edwin if he has any children. When he replies in the negative, she launches into a litany of complaints about her own daughter, who she says is selfish and spoiled, who has squandered every chance her parents have given her, who ruined last year's gala and has done nothing but get in the way while they were planning this year's.

Crystal knows how her mother feels about her. She can read her mind, after all. But hearing it laid out in such stark terms, when Crystal has been trying so hard, is like that phone call in Port Townsend all over again.

Edwin, who is visibly uncomfortable with having a stranger drunkenly gripe about her family troubles, looks around and spots Crystal standing nearby, unbeknownst to her mother. She knows she's not doing a very good job of hiding how close she is to tears.

And the thing is, Crystal knows where she stands with Charles, because Charles wears his heart on his sleeve. She considers Edwin a friend. But even if she knows he likes her better than he did when they first met, she's never been 100% sure if she's his friend, or if he just tolerates her for Charles's sake.

And then Edwin turns to Maddy and says something under his breath that Crystal can't hear. He's wearing the same icy expression he gets sometimes when a client disrespects Charles. Whatever his reply is, it leaves Crystal's mother speechless.

Edwin walks away from Maddy, offers his arm to Crystal without a word, and they leave the gala together. They don't talk about it. Crystal never asks what Edwin said to her mom.

They solve the case and afterwards, Edwin makes a point of telling Crystal that she did an excellent job. Crystal stays up all night with Edwin and Charles playing Cluedo. Around the third time she kicks their asses (Edwin, the sore loser, accuses her of reading the envelope) she realizes that she's been spending all this time trying to get back in her parents' good graces when she has this new family right here who likes her just as she is.

Next time she visits her parents, she overhears Maddy complaining to a friend about the awful woman at the gala who called her a fucking dreadful mother. Crystal just smiles to herself and decides to go buy Edwin some new mystery novels.

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Hello Dead Boy Detective fans! I'm close to finishing up my next fic and I'm looking for beta readers - yes, plural! I've already got one in the lovely @archer414, but I'm hoping to get multiple sets of eyes on this thing before publishing. I'm trying to work on my editing skills, so I'm not looking for spelling and grammar (though of course you can look for those!) but more in-depth critique, as well as feedback on plot and setting and character arc and themes and whatnot.

The fic is an AU, no ghosts/everybody is alive but still supernatural and it's sitting at just under 97k right now. There's no timeline here, so no worries about that! Feel free to message me or just reply here.

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curse fic preview just for funsies

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You should only write in present tense with extreme caution.

not because it's bad or anything but because if you do it even once you're going to be editing the bits where you shifted tenses out of your writing for the rest of your life

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Take a break, this cute tardigrade needs time to cross your dash:

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hate when I wanna talk to a person but I don’t really have anything to say. but I yearn for the connection. can’t just message someone like, hi I have nothing in particular to say but you’re fun and cool and I would like to have a conversation

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Aldis Hodge as Alec Hardison in Leverage (2008—2012)