#-more and more fics have populated the tag as ive written this

[madderruz]

Chapter 10 is up! Here's the design for Logos, the robot who finally appears in this chapter.

Something is very wrong with Lewis Smith's new body.

Cover art for my post-canon/semi-continuation fic With You At the End on AO3

[evenfallwriter]

Writing Patterns (Tag Game)

Rules: list the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern!

Thank you @42donotpanic for tagging me in this! (they tagged me such a long time ago but i was only able to do it now T^T)

I - till forever falls apart / AFTG [Andrew stared into crescent blue eyes and lips that pulled further than it should. He looked at the smile that had adorned Neil’s face, one that felt too much like goodbye.]

II - misfortune of the fortunate / AFTG [More than forty percent of their population consisted of those that had more chaos energy than fortune in their cores, named ‘the children of the night’. Children of day, who were the exact opposite of those of night having more fortune-energy than chaos, followed right behind creating somewhere between twenty-five percent and thirty percent of their population.]

III - we'll be allright / SVSSS [The soon to be seventeen years old boy placed his tablet down, letting out an irritated sigh at the absurdness of the novel that he had been somewhat obsessed with lately. It had started so well, the protagonist had had so much dedication, motivation and it had been well written on top of it. ]

IV - i'll be there to wipe your tears / NATSUME YUUJINCHOU [It wasn’t that much of a big deal, Takashi reminded himself as he held back his tears, it wasn’t something to cry over, nor was it something that he needed to bother his relatives over.]

V - night's filled with hot choco and peach tea / AFTG [Silence was both a gift and a curse at once- a thing that he had found himself both hating and loving at the same time.]

VI - promises better left unkept / AFTG [Two cups of coffee sat on the table, long forgotten and growing colder each second.]

VII - let bygones be bygones / AFTG [“Let Nathaniel rest, leave him buried behind at the Nest with all of his demons.”]

VIII - something worth remembering / BSD [Sakunosuke held the younger boy tighter to his chest, his breathing coming out laboured- maybe even more so than the brunette in his arms. His beige coat was spattered with crimson red in a way that it hadn’t been in years, his specially tailored pants soaked with blood in a way that it would surely stain. Even though Sakunosuke knew that it would stain- he didn’t move a bit. He couldn’t care less.]

IX - more than just a pipedream / AFTG [Soulmates, souls bound to one another by fate before they had even been born, sought out one another in their own way unconsciously. They left a mark on their other halves, one that only they would recognise so that they would know when they were fated to meet once again.]

X - to hunt a rabbit / AFTG [It was two years after the Wesninski case had closed off -with the death of Mary Hatford and Nathaniel Wesninski- that Browning was met with a CD and a flash drive on his desk, in the office that he shared with Agent Stetson.]

This is really interesting to see, tbh. The only thing that stays the same is the fact that I write in past tense. Sometimes i end up starting with explaining a bit about the world or just diving into something, seems like when it's an alternate universe it tends to end up starting with a bit of world building and in other situations hinting at things already going worse.

Tagging @stevethehousewife @mrs-steve-harrington @sweetpeapod @voiceoffenrisulfr

[phangelica]

trope tier tag

- use this Fanfiction Tropes Tier List Maker (https://tiermaker.com/create/fan-fiction-tropes-302768) to rank your favourite tropes

- fight with mutuals, follows and anons over your choices (lol not really, but feel free to make it a polite discussion)

- any particular fics that influenced your choices positively? name, tag and link them below to recommend and say why they inspired you! (especially if you’re appalling with leaving comments like I am, this is your chance!)

- if within a particular trope you have any fics which you are especially proud of, promote those too. author pride!

- tag at least 5 other mutuals who you’d like to see doing it next

thank u @det395​ ! idk how i missed u tagging me but i literally did it yesterday not knowing if i should just post it lol so thanks!!

So, S tier is obviously all god tier stuff I feel like nothing here is crazy, I love established relationship one-shots especially by @alittledizzy​ they’re just so good and wholesome! I also LOVE humor in fics bc i think dnp are very humorous people and they don’t get enough credit I can’t lie but someone who i think writes pretty funny fics is @dayevsphil​ ! they balance humor with serious moments so well in their chaptered fics especially can’t breathe when you touch my sleeve!

i considered A to be my faves. the “in vino veritas” trope is one of my faves but I feel like it is so under utilized ! iron hoof cattle call has one and i like it ! (i feel like ive been sponning that a lot recently lol) Also I want to say that lowkey i consider this to be alcohol in fics generally but also i actually really like weed in fics lol and I love high by the beach by @det395​ as an example!

I decided B was like good tropes but just not my faves or I don’t think there are a lot of them! two that come to mind for these tropes are the amnesia au and slutville, population two both by @dayevsphil​ AGAIN. they’re just too good. but also pls rec me some chaptered fics with these tropes!! 

C is like.... its gotta be done well. tbh this is like a random category like some in here i like wayyy more than others but all i’ll say is im working on both a magic au and an enemies to lovers fic rn so lol we’ll see! also wilde and iron hoof are both historical aus i’ve written. also one of my first favorite fics that i re read over and over again is birthday sex by @danfanciesphil​ which is quite angsty so also pls rec me fics with these tropes!

D is like not my faves but there ARE ALWAYS EXCEPTIONS! this probs doesn’t count as “baby fic” but i love @watergator​‘s meet me at red dragon ! 

there are so many fics i did not include in this bc i can’t think of ALL of them there are just too many good fics out there guys. 

i wanna tag @watergator​ @olfrogbait​ @phanbliss​ @casualdannie​ and @randomcat1832​ ! and anyone who feels like doing it, if you’re waiting for someone to tag u take this opportunity ! 

[fancyhwrites]

Best Stucky Fanfic Opening Lines

What are the best Stucky fanfic opening lines (from any Stucky fic ever written)? These need not correspond to what you think are the best Stucky fanfics in general. Copy and paste the lines down below, provide a link to the fic, and tag any fellow Stucky fans!

Oh hey, there it is. His old pal, pain. He didn't give it the slip after all. It's right behind his breastbone; a sucking void of fierce, burning hurt. Grief. Erskine was kind, and good, and now he's dead. The only man who believed in Steve, who wanted to give Steve a chance. The first person since Bucky to fight for him.

Steve looks up from Erskine’s body. He doesn't even remember that he's not five foot four anymore. He doesn't run after the spy because he's Captain America. He isn’t Captain America yet -- that doesn’t come until later. He runs after the spy because he's Steve Rogers.

Nothing that matters has changed.

-Good Morning Heartache, What’s New? by girlbookwrm

I could include any of the Hundred Year Playlist fics, but I really love this opener. It manages to give such good characterization and poignancy in just a few lines. 

Steve gets out of the hospital in two days, but just barely. “I’m fine,” he tells Sam, Nurse Eunjung and the phalanx of doctors assigned to make sure Captain America didn’t bleed out and die and get bad PR all over their nice clean hospital. “I have an advanced healing factor. It’s fine. See? I’m standing.”

“That is not standing,” Sam tells him.

“You’re bending the IV stand,” Nurse Eunjung adds pointedly. “Let go and sit down, they don’t grow on trees.”

If They Haven’t Learned Your Name by silentwalrus

Who would I be if I didn’t include this iconic opener?

“I’m sorry, you want me to what?” Steve sits back in his chair and tries not to glare at Hill across the (sustainable hardwood) conference table. Steve has slept in beds smaller than this table. He’s lived in apartments smaller than this table. There has to be about thirty chairs arranged around it. Why they have to have a meeting of just the two of them here, and not somewhere a little less officious, is beyond him. “Track down a cryptid.” Agent Hill tosses a dossier onto the table, and Steve has to stretch out an arm to reach across for it. “A cryptid,” Steve repeats doubtfully.

The Devil’s Acre by littleblackfox

I love the immediate humor and grounding of the fic with description. A unique and lovely AU.

When Steve wakes up, just for a moment, he’s sure he’s in the wrong place. He stares up at the dent in the ceiling, the one he’d made when he got a little too enthusiastic about popping the champagne after graduating college. Next to it is the green arrow Sam stuck there so Steve would never forget that night. It’s the same ceiling he’s woken up to for the last six months. But for some reason, his mind insists it’s the wrong one.

He blinks and the moment passes. He’s exactly where he’s supposed to be—in his room. Where else would he be?

So far I’ve come (to get to you) by obsessivereader

This fic! It jumps between past and present, and makes you wonder at the differences and the mystery until the end when it becomes clear and it’s so painful. The opening does a great job of setting up the initial conflict/mystery and draws you in.

Steve can’t breathe.

It wakes him, the tightness in his chest, the heavy working of his lungs. He can feel a nightmare wrongness pervading every inch of his body, and he has had this nightmare—this one exactly. He knows the way of dreams: how the sleeping mind has a tendency to return to the same places, long after you’ve ceased to live in them; to populate itself with the same faces, long after they’re gone; and to whittle you down to your true image of yourself. Steve blinks gritty eyelids and stares down at the small frail thing curled beneath the covers. He knows this is not a dream. The mattress is thin beneath his bony back.

To Live It Again Is Past All Endeavor by trinityofone

Great opener that immediately creates mystery and suspense. Love this time-travel AU.

I’m sure there’s lots more but this was off the top of my head. Tagging @itsmajel @frostbitebakery @spacebuck @mrd-k3