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To comfort, to cherish, to love

Click here to read it on AO3! Rating: Teen Fandom: Boku No Hero Academia / My Hero Academia Ship: Fem!Todo/Fem!Deku (Shoto is Shoko, Izuku is Izumi) Status: 1/1 Complete (one-shot) Word count: 1.2 k (~5 minutes of reading) Tags: Post-Canon, Alternate Universe - All Female, Domestic Fluff, Established TodoDeku, Menstrual Pain, Hurt/Comfort, Shoko is a sweetheart, Femslash February 2025 Summary: Shoko may be third in Japan's Hero Rankings, but she's Number One in caring for Izumi—especially when she's on her period.

Art credit: FemDeku by nikkiyan on Instagram || FemShoto by ShuujiChan on DeviantArt

Disclaimers

My fics are locked to AO3 registered users only. I'm sorry, but there's been so many issues with bad actors scraping the public fics that I've locked all my works, as many other users have. I work too hard on these stories to have them end up being fed to some stupid fucking AI.

This fic contains non-graphic mentions of periods and descriptions of period pain and migraines. It centers more on the comfort than the hurt, but it's clearly mentioned.

Yapping

I wanted to write a little something for Femslash February, and I didn't have time for something longer or more projects, but this is something I had running circles around my head and it felt like the perfect opportunity.

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Just for Tonight

Click here to read it on AO3! Rating: Explicit +18 (Minors do not interact) Fandom: Harry Potter Ship: Dramione | Draco x Hermione Status: Finished - 3/3 chapters Word count: 9747 (~40 minutes of reading) Tags: Choose your own ending! (details under the cut), Break up sex, Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a happy ending OR Hurt No Comfort, No HEA (you choose!), but always: enthusiastic consent, established relationship Summary:

Hermione stared at the parchment in her hand, where her own shaky handwriting sat waiting for her to make up her mind. "Hey, want me to come over tonight?" It felt disingenuous, like burying the lead. But what should she say? “We need to talk” was out of the question. He’d build an entire fortress around himself by the time they actually talked, and she wouldn’t be able to even get a word in edgewise. It wasn’t like she was ambushing him, either. He surely suspected something. Draco had many flaws: he was arrogant, prone to brooding and sulking, and he had a mercurial temper. He also kept everyone at arms’ length, including her, which was the reason for all this. But he was not stupid.

Disclaimers

The fic is locked to AO3 registered users only. I'm sorry, but there's been so many issues with bad actors scraping the public fics that I've locked all my works, as many other users have. I work too hard on these stories to have them end up being fed to some stupid fucking AI.

Also, the fact that I enjoy inhabiting the HP fandom—in all its wonderful queerness—does not mean I agree with JKR's hateful transphobic views. My fic and my blogs are a safe space for trans and non-binary people, as well as all other gender identities. Transphobia of any kind is not welcome nor will it be tolerated. Feminism without trans people isn't real feminism. Trans right are human rights.

Choose your own ending!

How it works: Chapter one is the beginning of the fic, the setup.

Chapters 2 and 3 are two separate, different endings. You can pick one at random if you like to live life dangerously, or look at the notes at the end of the first chapter and click on the arrow to learn which ending is the happy one, and which ending is the sad one.

After that, you can skip the ending you don't want to read, or you can read both just for funsies!

Let me know what you think of this choose-your-own-adventure format!

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The Bun Incident - chapter 2!

Click here to read it on AO3! Rating: Explicit - +18 (Minors do not interact) Fandom: Haikyuu!! Ship: Kozume Kenma/Kuroo Tetsuro ~ KuroKen Status: 2/6 chapters (pre-written) Chapter word count: 2.3k (8–9 minutes of reading) Full word count (current): 4.1k (15~ minutes of reading) — Expected total word count: 17k Tags: Post-Canon, College, and they were roommates!, Idiots in Love, Fluff and Smut, Porn With Plot, Humor, Mutual Pining, Best Friends to Lovers, Kuroo Tetsurou is Whipped, Bossy Kenma, Bokuto Koutarou & Kuroo Tetsurou are Bros, Kenma and Shoyo are besties Chapter Summary: Late stage pining, gay panic galore, and a very tired Bokubro. Work Summary: Life was unfair. Especially to Kuroo.

What had he done to deserve this? Had he been a terrible person in a previous life? A murderer, maybe?

That was the only reason he could think of to justify the scene in front of him.

Or, Kuroo loses a bit of his sanity with every inch Kenma’s hair grows.

Disclaimers

The fic is locked to AO3 registered users only. I'm sorry, but there's been so many issues with bad actors scraping the public fics that I've locked all my works, as many other users have. I work too hard on these stories to have them end up being fed to some stupid fucking AI.

Also, the fact that I enjoy inhabiting the HP fandom—in all its wonderful queerness—does not mean I agree with JKR's hateful transphobic views. My fic and my blogs are a safe space for trans and non-binary people, as well as all other gender identities. Transphobia of any kind is not welcome nor will it be tolerated. Feminism without trans people isn't real feminism. Trans right are human rights.

Yapping

After asking some friends about it and considering it thoroughly, I decided to post longer chapters a little bit less often. This way they’ll feel heftier instead of there and gone. I’ll still need to cut the smut in two chapters to avoid a monster chapter, but at least it’ll be more story packed into each chapter. Next chapter, the smut commences!

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Something like this would be so colossally helpful. I'm sick and tired of trying to research specific clothing from any given culture and being met with either racist stereotypical costumes worn by yt people or ai generated garbage nonsense, and trying to be hyper specific with searches yields fuck all. Like I generally just cannot trust the legitimacy of most search results at this point. It's extremely frustrating. If there are good resources for this then they're buried deep under all the other bullshit, and idk where to start looking.

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Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

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'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

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Tips from a Beta Reading Writer

This one's for the scenes with multiple characters, and you're not sure how to keep everyone involved.

Writing group scenes is chaos. Someone’s talking, someone’s interrupting, someone’s zoning out thinking about breadsticks. And if you’re not careful, half your cast fades into the background like NPCs in a video game. I used to struggle with this so much—my characters would just exist in the scene without actually affecting it. But here’s what I've learned and have started implementing:

✨ Give everyone a job in the scene ✨

Not their literal job—like, not everyone needs to be solving a crime or casting spells. I mean: Why are they in this moment? What’s their role in the conversation?

My favourite examples are:

The Driver: Moves the convo forward. They have an agenda, they’re pushing the action.

The Instigator: Pokes the bear. Asks the messy questions. Stirring the pot like a chef on a mission.

The Voice of Reason: "Guys, maybe we don’t commit arson today?"

The Distracted One: Completely in their own world. Tuning out, doodling on a napkin, thinking about their ex.

The Observer: Not saying much, but noticing everything. (Quiet characters still have presence!)

The Wild Card: Who knows what they’ll do? Certainly not them. Probably about to make things worse.

If a character has no function, they’ll disappear. Give them something—even if it’s just a side comment, a reaction, or stealing fries off someone’s plate. Keep them interesting, and your readers will stay interested too.

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for the love of god, write all the self-indulgent scenes you want.  be utterly  shameless about including every last fantasy.  i know everyone likes to share quotes and quips about how miserably hard writing is, but please please try thinking of it as a joyful act where you get to be a messy human who makes art rather than some pain filled quest for icy perfection.

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Symphony: Prelude

Click here to read it on AO3! Rating: Teen || PG-13 Fandom: Harry Potter Ship: Draco/Harry/Hermione Status: open-ended to possible future additions Word count: collection of self-contained drabbles (100 words exactly each) Tags: Domestic fluff, triad fic, humour, a sprinkle of angst Summary:

Small slices of Harry, Hermione and Draco's lives together in the same universe as the longfic I'm working on.

Disclaimers:

The fic is locked to AO3 registered users only. I'm sorry, but there's been so many issues with bad actors scraping the public fics that I've locked all my works, as many other users have. I work too hard on these stories to have them end up being fed to some stupid fucking AI.

Also, the fact that I enjoy inhabiting the HP fandom—in all its wonderful queerness—does not mean I agree with JKR's hateful transphobic views. My fic and my blogs are a safe space for trans and non-binary people, as well as all other gender identities. Transphobia of any kind is not welcome nor will it be tolerated. Feminism without trans people isn't real feminism. Trans right are human rights.

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Baby I'm Yours

Click here to read it on AO3! Rating: Teen || PG13 Fandom: Harry Potter Ship: Ron/Hermione (Romione) Status: Finished (one-shot) Word count: 2190 (~8 minutes of reading) Tags: Post-War, Epilogue Compliant (for like the first time in my life), Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Nightmares, CW: Panic Attacks, POV Ron Weasley, Ron Weasley is a Good Significant Other, Ron Weasley is Whipped, Established Relationship, Domestic Fluff, Inspired by the song "Baby I'm Yours", Crookshanks is a Little Shit Summary:

If anyone had told him five years ago that he could have understood what a distressed Hermione needed without exchanging a single word, he would have laughed himself to death. However, when they finally stopped dancing around each other and instead tried—really tried, for the first time—to connect, well. What they found within each other could only be described as magic. Now? He just… knew.

Disclaimers

The fic is locked to AO3 registered users only. I'm sorry, but there's been so many issues with bad actors scraping the public fics that I've locked all my works, as many other users have. I work too hard on these stories to have them end up being fed to some stupid fucking AI.

Also, the fact that I enjoy inhabiting the HP fandom—in all its wonderful queerness—does not mean I agree with JKR's hateful transphobic views. My fic and my blogs are a safe space for trans and non-binary people, as well as all other gender identities. Transphobia of any kind is not welcome nor will it be tolerated. Feminism without trans people isn't real feminism. Trans right are human rights.

Yapping

This fic was a gift for a friend of mine, and it was challenging because I don't really ship Romione, but I tried to write it from the perspective of someone who would. From the feedback I got, I didn't do so bad at all! So I hope you enjoy it 💜💜

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Too many writers are using generative 'AI' to make their book covers, so I've written a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap without turning to a machine.

If you can't afford to pay an artist, you CAN make your own!

I hope this is a helpful overview that covers the basics and points to some free resources.

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Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.

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Last Line Tag Game

Thank you @1ficklesickle for the tag! Your line was killer! (check it out!)

The last line I wrote is from my last drabble (Lily POV)

Halloween of 1981 probably wouldn’t be a day for the history books; she might as well enjoy it.

I'm tagging @heav3n-of-rxses @marlowethelibrarian and @i-am-moss-the-boss !

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The Bun Incident

Click here to read it on AO3!

Fandom: Haikyuu!! Rating: Explicit (Minors do not interact) Chapter word count: 1.8k words (~8 minutes of reading) Ship: Kuroo Tetsuro / Kozume Kenma (KuroKen♥) Tags: Post-Canon, College, and they were roommates!, Idiots in Love, Fluff and Smut, Porn With Plot, Humor, Mutual Pining, Best Friends to Lovers, Kuroo Tetsurou is Whipped, Bossy Kenma, Bokuto Koutarou & Kuroo Tetsurou are Bros, Kenma and Shoyo are besties See work tags and author's notes for smut tags and warnings! Status: In process (1/10 chapters) Housekeeping details under cut! Summary: Life was unfair. Especially to Kuroo. What had he done to deserve this? Had he been a terrible person in a previous life? A murderer, maybe? That was the only reason he could think of to justify the scene in front of him.

Or, Kuroo loses a bit of his sanity with every inch Kenma’s hair grows.

Like the POV dividers? I'm having fun with some workskin CSS too, it was a blast!

Housekeeping! This fic is prewritten, currently at 18k words, and chapter count might vary because of redistribution (I might combine some chapters so they're a bit longer), but it will stay within the 15-19k range in total. Update schedule isn't fixed, but I hope to be able to put out a chapter every month until it's done. It will depend on how much the chapters fight me and my workload with other projects, as well as my beta's schedule! You can be sure, however, that it will be finished! I love this story and I'm excited to share it.

The fic is locked to AO3 registered users only, and I'm sorry, but there's been so many issues with bad actors scraping the public fics that I've locked all my works, as many other users have. I work too hard on these stories to have them end up being fed to some stupid fucking AI.

Anyhoo, if you read it, let me know what you think! ♥

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Welcome to Raptor’s Femslash February Bingo 2024!

Three different bingo cards—light prompts, darker prompts, a combined one with all prompts—to celebrate Femslash February with fanworks. All fandoms welcome! Enjoy!❤️

Rules and prompts in text form under the Read More!

Rules:

- When: all of February

- What: focus of your work should be a wlw / femslash / f/f ship, i.e. a ship with two or more female presenting characters, gender bending welcome

- any fandoms, any characters, any ships, any content (please tag appropriately)

- any fanworks—fics (no minimum or maximum wordcount!), art, poetry, moodboards... go wild! Tag #femslash feb bingo when posting it here on Tumblr so we can reblog

- AI-generated works are NOT allowed

- How: it’s totally chill, just do a single prompt or aim for bingo(s), whatever you want! You can get your bingos with one fic, with multiple fics, whatever you like! Choose one of the bingo cards and mark what prompts you're using.

- Crossposting with other events allowed

- most of all: have fun!

Prompts in text form

Light prompts:

Miscommunication

Bells

Reincarnation

Snowed in

Heaven

Princess / Queen

“I’m not going anywhere"

Anniversary

“Just trust me”

Sickfic

Secret identity

Break up

Post-Canon

Good intentions

Dream

“Hit me with your best shot”

Dark prompts:

Blood

Power imbalance

Enemies to lovers

“I don’t need you anymore”

Knives

Damaged

“I’d burn down the world for you”

Came back wrong

Betrayal

“I didn’t know who else to go to”

Hell

Thief

Nightmare

Unrequited

Obsession

Dying words

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Let’s get to know each other!

If you received this you are obligated to answer the weird ass question underneath:

What is your fandom pet peeve?

Send this to ten more followers changing the question. It can be personal (no doxxing) like favourite colour/what made you cry last? More general or more fandom specific if you want.

Found this lost in my inbox, sorry for taking so long! 🙈

Hmmm. I think it's probably those huge ass collection of one-shots in one post that is tagged with 473 fandoms, 985 characters, 12545 ships and about 7569856 freeforms that of course there's no way to define which belongs to which chapter. Like. Just make a series for the love of christ.

OH and maybe the people who tag a character that is like barely mentioned twice in a 140k fic. Just... don't. Puh-leaase.

I'll send it over! 😁👍🏻