#(and maybe a halloween stiles moodboard)

[jjtheresidentbaby]

- halloween themed little collin gray moodboard -

- save my boy he did nothing wrong and deserves to be wrapped in a nice warm blanket

[keldjinfae]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers! Spread the self-love 💞

Okay, so first off, thanks to @dear-massacre for this one. I got to filter through a lot of things I wrote for other fandoms besides Teen Wolf, and while I won't be sharing them (purely because most of them fell victim to the Great Strikethrough Purge, and the "clean" versions I have up on the Pit that is fanfiction.net are... frankly, things I would delete if I could remember what the hell my log-in is), I did remember one I co-wrote with a friend of mine over a decade ago. And neither of us remembers how to log into that old account we created solely for the purpose of writing something together (let me just say, AO3 allowing for co-creators is a fucking godsend), so the link for that one will have to direct you there instead of AO3. I may be able to update this with an AO3 link, provided @caseyvalhalla (said cowriter) is able to find a full version of the fic in their backup drive (which would be outstanding, seeing as how my copy of the fic was lost at some point about three or four PCs/laptops ago).

I also left WIPs out of this list because I feel like that might be too cruel of a tease, seeing as how I haven't updated them since about 2011.

Freaks and Fools is a Halloween-themed fic that Casey and I brainstormed together in about two hours after the initial joke of mashing up Kingdom Hearts and Peanuts. One of us said "Axel is Snoopy, sleeping out on the lawn," and it suddenly turned into him also being Johnny from The Outsiders; what followed was a feverish brainstorming session of determining the perfect way to balance drama and humor. Then we wrote and edited the whole damn thing over the course of three coffee-laden weekends.

I'm Not Asking Questions, I'm Taking My Chances is the first fic I wrote for the Sterek Reverse Bang. I'd previously written a fic for the Sterek Reverse Quickie, and it was my very first Teen Wolf fic, period, while I fucked around and found out if I'd be able to write for the fandom. Turns out, I could. The minimum word count for the RB was 5k, so naturally I wrote something up in the 80k range because I have zero chill.

It's a fantasy AU that very loosely (seriously, so loose that you definitely don't want to be relying on this fic to catch you in a trustfall exercise) incorporates themes from the Merlin series. Writing it helped teach me how to better plan out scenes, in terms of "do I really need to write out this whole scene independently or could I just incorporate it briefly into this already-existing one?" It also gave me better practice at determining when I was going to have to let scenes go altogether, maybe with the notion that I might write them someday and add them on later.

You Gotta Promise Not to Stop When I Say When is a fic I wrote for the Sterek Reverse Quickie, during which I was paired up with the same artist who I'd written for during my very first RQ. She wanted comfort, made a moodboard about it (sadly, Discord stopped image hosting so the links to all of her previous artwork are all broken), and I decided I wanted to write comfort as well. I gave her two choices (Derek takes Stiles's pain, or Stiles is a vampire sharing a house with Derek, and both of them accuse the other of being a squatter--it's a long, stupid story that has gone off the rails in a meme prompt thread on Discord), and went with the one that both of us could sink into.

This one is probably my absolute favorite because I literally just wrote what I know. Stiles is disabled, Derek helps him cope with it. I can't really sell it any better than that, other than to say that I wrote my own personal experiences, but Sterekified.

We're Floating in the Moonlit Sky is a Sterek fic I wrote for a little something called the 1000 Cakes Challenge, which provided the writer and artist participants with a word, an action, and a setting, and had us all spin our own take on them. The word was "kumquat," the action was "pursuit" or "sleepwalk" (I incorporated both--again, zero chill), and the setting was a gorgeous painting of a snowy forest that one of the moderators made herself just for the challenge. Initially, I wasn't even going to participate because I'd literally just finished writing my latest Sterek RB fic and thought I was burned out. Then an idea smacked me in the face right as I was falling asleep.

I love this one because it's more or less just me allowing myself some pure self-indulgence. There's some angst, there's some drama, but most of it is just seeing how many Christmas carol references I can squeeze in as puns. Stiles is half-elf and half-frost sprite, Derek is still a werewolf, Peter is Krampus (thanks to @ice-mage, because "of course Peter is Krampus"), and Noah is Santa Claus.

My Echo, My Shadow, and Me is the Sterek Reverse Bang fic I wrote before I got started on Floating. I somehow managed to write 100k+ words in a bit under four months, and satisfied my desire to write a season 3a "fix-it" (of sorts--more like a revision) in the process. I don't know if the experience would be the same for @nerdherderette, who wound up beta-reading "the Beast in Blue" in the course of about 20 hours, but it was damn satisfying to write.

Essentially, all of season 3a still happens, but Jackson never leaves and Cora never arrives. I wanted to explore everyone's strengths and flaws, and I wanted to write an alternate take on the nogitsune without having to rewrite 3b as well.

[purpleyin]

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Was tagged by @canarysirens​ a while ago and finally getting to this. :)

top 4 ships:

alt!Liv/alt!Lincoln (Fringe) - the universe did them wrong but I’ll cling to the multiverse of fic so yay.

McKay/Weir (SGA) - it wasn’t a big ship contingent but we were dedicated (I used to run the fansite and fic archive for it before ao3 was a thing).

Derek/Stiles (Teen Wolf) - I got into that fandom late and I swear between the tumblr tags and a few early promo spots I saw from the cast I thought it was actually gonna be a thing in canon. I was disappoint. But the fandom is hella creative.

savisnow (The Flash) - this ship is barely afloat and not necessarily healthy but I am trash for it anyhow. I like complicated and timey wimey.

last song according to spotify: probably a song from a playlist because that’s what I use spotify for. Youtube is what I listen to stuff on usually and my recent one on repeat is 8 Graves “Burning Alive”.

last movie: He's Just Not That Into You - I’ve watched it I don’t know how many times now. I’m a sucker for Gigi/Alex and Beth/Neil (I love the point they make about Neil versus her sisters husbands near the end. It’s easy to say somethings, harder to show it in actions).

currently reading: ummm, the same book I was reading since Halloween “Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron,” oops. Fanfic is so much easier to read, although I’m behind on what I want to read due to job hunting zapping energy these last few months.

food i’m craving: Proper takeaway fish and chips.

relationship status: in a relationship, although being polyam that doesn’t mean the same thing as it would for other people. Not actively looking for another partner. I do have a bit of a crush (maybe? romantic feelings are weird to figure out when not full blown) on a friend but not doing anything about it.

favorite color: I find it too hard to pick, I want them all. I’ve been favouring red lately tho.

lipstick or chapstick: I like the ones that sort of do both, but I’d probably pick chapstick if I had to choose.

favorite food: I like variety so picking is hard but I really do like eggs.

top 3 shows: Fringe, Black Sails, The Good Place.

last thing i googled: the full title of the book I hadn’t finished. Before that it was Caity Lotz pics for last nights moodboard.

height: 5'7" ish

time: 14.44

song stuck in my head: 'Moral of the Story' by Ashe keeps coming back to me randomly lately after watching "To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You“.

wearing:  mismatched pj’s, a comfy cardigan and a wrist brace for my mouse hand.

# of blankets i sleep with: one duvet to rule them all *cough* I mean an all seasons duvet that I only take off the bed when it gets to heatwave time. Also got a summer quilt on right now which is light pastels.

dream trip: Japan at the time of cherry blossoms.

favorite gif:  I wanted to do the husky jumping into a big pile of leaves but can’t find it so here’s one I just thought was cool (I like rain).

I can’t deal with tagging specific people right now, so I’m just gonna say if you want to do it consider yourself tagged by me.