#12 days of cloqwork

[captain-of-the-roses]

I've seen the 'Ao3 writer 20 questions' thing floating around before and decided I wanted to take part in it, even if I haven't been tagged because who's going to stop me? My cat?

1. How many works do you have on Ao3?

236 (plus a handful of anonymous ones)

2. Total Ao3 word count?

642, 946

3. Fandoms you write for?

I'll write for almost any fandom I'm in. SMPs, animes, video games, book series- according to my dashboard, I've written for ~40 fandoms

4. Top 5 fics by kudos?

Past And Future Running Free

A Mastermind's Comfort

Stepmother

Crossovers are great for relationships, who knew?

kisses

5. Do you respond to comments?

Yes! Sometimes it takes me a while -whether it be because I'm asleep/busy, or I just don't know what to say- but I do always respond.

6. Fic with the angstiest ending?

Probably Take Heed, For Strength Will Not Bring Victory. Everyone dies in that one.

7. Happiest ending?

This one is probably debatable because a lot of my fics are written to be pure fluff. If we narrow it down to just my completed chapters fics however, it'd probably be together we are home

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not yet! A few rude comments ("Would've liked better if [character] was in it." Don't care, didn't ask.) but no outright hate!

9. Do you write smut/what kind?

Nope

10. Do you write crossovers?

Yep! My most notable crossover is probably my Evolution SMP/Linked Universe crossover fic series :D

11. Ever had a fic stolen?

Not as far as I'm aware, thankfully

12. Ever had a fic translated?

My Scum Villain fic was translated into Russian!

13. Ever cowritten a fic?

No. I've considered the idea, same with participating in zines, but have always been too stressed to feel comfortable working with someone else on something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

14. Favorite ship?

Depends on the month, week, and hour honestly lol. Since I'm in so many fandoms, my ships take turns like it's a rotating door. Sometimes it'll be Revalink, Cloqwork, and Flowerhusbands, and other times it'll be Raviolink, Scarian, and my OCs. Right now though it's all transformers, being JazzWave, MegOP, and ShockOP lmao

15. A wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

I have an overwhelming (like. completely) need to finish what I start, so all of my wips will one day end. Right now though, the one that I haven't touched since November is the sequel to Windswept I've been working on.

16. Writing strengths?

I'd like to say descriptions. I love worldbuilding, and descriptions play a lot into that, so I put my all into describing things, whether it be languages or fights.

17. Writing weaknesses?

Flow. I try to make sure things flow smoothly and coherently, but sometimes it's definitely rushed. I'm working on it, it's just not going well

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in different languages?

I'll do it now and then. I try not to use Google translate because God knows how accurate that is, so I'll look up actual dictionaries and stuff. That does mean the sentence structure is a bit wonky, but I'll end up with some new vocabulary at least!

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Officially? Empires SMP

Unofficially? InuYasha

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

That's really hard to answer. I do like my popular fics, but they were more spur of the moment things. If I had to pick a favorite-favorite though, it'd either be The Art Of Finding Hope or Rippling

[shadydirt]

Hc that Qrow gets a lot of gifts for those he loves

Day 2 - Presents

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Day 12: Christmas Tree

A collab with the wonderful @dissonantharmony ! Thank you for coloring these for me aah💜💜

[zacs-of-rwby]

I have a new concept to introduce to the absolute mess of Ozcar AU's the Soul Dozen has created 🙈 I humbly present...

Ozpin’s Halfway House AU

Which I have decided to title “A Beacon of Hope”

- Ozpin starts a halfway house for strays, runaways, and juvenile delinquents.

- Oscar (14) was officially adopted by Oz after his parents kicked him out from coming out to them as trans (FTM trans!Oscar is underrated)

- Emerald (16), Mercury (16), and Cinder (20) are the only three in the house court-ordered to stay with him after they got caught stealing to survive.

- Weiss (16) and Whitley (12) show up one day out of the blue after escaping their abusive father.

- Blake (18) ran away from home to join the White Fang and came to him after that went sideways. She's still too scared to go home and Oz's main goal with her is to make her feel safe enough to do so. She helps him a lot around the house.

- I'm creating this AU so you know Cloqwork is involved but I won't rant about that too much (yet). I only mention it because Ruby (16) and Yang (18) still live with Tai, but they visit their uncles all the time and become really close with most of the kids staying there.

- Yang gets super attached to Blake and visits often, finding the smallest excuses to help her around the house and run errands with her (yes, I’m adding Bumbleby to the mix, who do you think I am?).

- Ren (6) and Nora (5) are two little kids Oz noticed snooping around outside the house one day. He questioned them, asking them where their parents were, where they live, if they were lost, etc. When they didn’t have answers to these basic questions he knew what he had to do.

Sheepishly, he walked into the house and found Qrow in the kitchen. The kids are trailing behind him, hiding behind his legs.

“Qrow. Please don’t be mad.”

“Oh no. What did you do, Ozzy?”

Oz hesitantly steps aside, letting the presence of the kids speak for itself. Qrow can’t help but just laugh. He knows where this is going.

“They were just wandering around outside, Qrow! What was I supposed to do!”

Adopt them, obviously! And Qrow agrees. So now they live there, too.

- Pyrrha (22) and Jaune (22) are Oz’s only other staff members. They help the kids with homework, transportation, extra circulars, the more day-to-day stuff.

This post is getting too long so I will stop but yes, I do have more.

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I’ve said this about many of my ideas, but this one is absolutely the most self-indulgent AU I’ve thought of. I plan on using this setting and these characters to stay focused on my studies this semester so any and all ideas/questions/interactions with it are greatly appreciated XD

[gorgeousgalatea]

1, 12, & 21 for the writing game ~

Thank you~ <333

1- What’s the last wip you opened?

Haaa there's a loooong standing ozqrow wip placenamed "why do you put up with him" that I put down for literal years before finally getting it nearly finished a few months ago and just cannot find those straggling last few sentences somehow. That said, "opened" and "looked at" are two very different things...

12- Favourite wip?

Ooooh good question, I mean I guess I'd have to say Don't Shoot the Messenger for the sheer amount of worldbuilding I put into it? ...That I have yet to really reach in what's been posted, but is the reason it's still chugging along. I'm disappointed in myself at how far I've allowed canon to lap it with my terrible writing discipline, but because it essentially diverges at v3 I had a lot of non-canon elements I had a lot of fun playing with.

For one that hasn't been posted at all I have this dusty old overambitious "cloqwork oneshot" that hit a wall at 17k and opens with a take on Raven leaving I'm still terribly fond of. Someday, oneshot. Hopefully.

21- What is a word you use too much?

Ugh, I know there's loads so of course I can't think of any. For an at-least-once-per-fic I tend to use "snide" and "volatile" more than most... Also admittedly have certain characters (...Qrow...) swear like sailors so prooobably profanity as well. There was definitely a fic back in the day I used the word "fact" waaaay too much but I'm fairly certain I outgrew that. Probably. (Probably might be another word)

[theresivy]

people be saying Snowbird is pedophilic relationship with an "ungodly age gap" but let me remind you that:

- Cloqwork (Qrow x Ozpin) is a man in his 30s shipped with a man whos older than the entirety of the second happening of the human race itself

- Rosewick (Ruby x Roman) is a 15/17 year old girl shipped with a grown ass criminal

- Iron Princess (Pre-adult Weiss x Ironwood) is a 17 year old girl shipped with a middle aged man.

- Younger Tauradonna (12 year old Blake x 18 year old Adam) is a 18 year old adult taking advantahe of a 12 year old girl who has a puppy crush on him. (Their ages are taken from the fact that present day Tauradonna as of pre-Volume 1 would be 16 year old Blake and 23 year old Adam)

[facultyloungecosplay]

Life Lessons with Professor Branwen™: January 27th

[starlightshadowsworld]

Me: *blinks as the door caves in and watches you pet an invisible cat. Rounds the corner and a knife is suddenly aimed at me.*

*blinks*

Okay! I'll tell you 😅😂

So, erm? I have 5??? That I'm working on.

Two are RWBY, 2 are Harry Potter and 1 is Yugioh Arc V/Yugioh GX.

The RWBY ones are on my fanfic account (SparkyIceblaze135), The Harry Potter ones on my Wattpad (GlitchyHeart1704) and the Yugioh one is... Well it's on Tumblr. Because having all my stuff in one place is too easy.

Right so, RWBY fanfics. Snow Siblings and Cloqwork Family.

Snow Siblings: Winter leaves for Atlas Academy, Weiss (14) and Whitley (12) are left alone in the mansion. And the two of them bond, becoming closer as they try and survive together. There bought to Jacques office one day, he's pissed there getting along and wants to test their loyalty to him/the company (because Winters still the Heiress so he's like gimme a reason to keep ya'll around)

And the jackass decides to out them both to work in the mine, where they encounter several workers (*cough* Blake *cough* Cinder), and learn more about the outside world and that Faunus are people too. Everything's guuci until Jackass (yup him) decides to try and sell Weiss to the White Fang. Surprisingly... Or not, prison break ensues, and well there criminals now. (Oh and Oz, Oscar and his Aunt show up giving him a place to stay)

Cloqwork Family: Oscar is the soul survivor of a grimm attack, and is taken in by Dadpin and Qrow. And wants to be a huntsman like them and his new cousins, and sets off to Signal Academy where he makes friends and Yang totally doesn't embarrass him. His friends have their secrets (ah yes this Ci-... I mean Ella and a guy with black hair that isn't white...) ... , but it's all good...right? Not like beacons gonna fall or anything... Nope...👀 Butt I'm not that far into it yet 😅.

The Harry Potter fanfics, Elegant Rose and Cries in the Dark.

Elegant Rose: Set in the Goblet of Fire (well the tournament not the actual... You get it) where Fleur decides to help Harry and basically becomes his big sis. That's it... That's the story... Its just Fleur Delacour Propaganda because she is awesome and underrated and has her helping the others grow, becoming big sis for everyone, stuff about magical creatures in the wizarding world and their prejudice and other houses....and dragons... And Charlie and her becoming bffs. Its just me being like Fleur is badass the story.

Cries in the dark: Set in Deathly Hallows, it focuses not on the trio but on Hogwarts. Or what's become of it... Its abt a group of first years in the year where no one should've gone to Hogwarts (fucking Fudge) where everything's just depressing and Seamus, Dean and Neville are trying to make everyone smile (and apparently wanting to reinact star wars?). It's about the houses coming together to protect their own, Percy Weasely as a spy for Hogwarts. And just kids going through hell and trying to hold onto hope.

And the Yugioh story, If both of us are falling, who's going to catch us?

If both of us are falling, who's going to catch us?: (Truly the longest of names) Its a story where the Yu boys (protags) and Kaiba (obviously) are trying to find Yuya after he goes missing. They travel dimensions searching until the dimensions merge into one... And they find Zarc. Believing him to be the one fated to bring him back, Judai is left to bring Yuya back. Its dark (cos a lot of shadows) and cos Judai's having serious flashbacks and bad vibes cos of the whole Hell dimension thing.

Just these two dualing with Judai afraid but knowing he has to do whatever it takes to bring Yuya back, no matter what he becomes, how much he'll fall. Just me trying to write this dual with these two fallen boys, with Yuya trying to find himself and Judai trying to attone as Zarc mocks him.

And than there's all my random Weiss and Whitley leave Atlas and Ozpin takes them in AU on here, rambly fanfic posts that have no direction but are just puzzel pieces that kinda fit together 🤔

@immortal-green-wizard Thank you so much for letting me ramble and rant about my fanfics 😅😊 now erm... Can you put the knife down?

When you want to tell people about your fanfics but your worried you'll come across as an attention seeker, and you'll suddenly have the realisation of when you updated them.

[dissonantharmony]

12 days of cloqwork day 3: baking!

..this drawing is entirely fueled by my hc that ozpin is only good at baking chocolate chip cookies bc he memorized an old recipe, and so while his sugar cookies definitely look much better than qrow’s, qrow’s cookies end up being the only ones that are actually edible.

(also i am. so sorry for the low quality art aksndnnf my fatigue and motivation are really bad rn)

[shadydirt]

This isn’t what I was gonna do but. Here we r

Day 3 - Secret (Relationship With) Santa

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There r no breaks :3

Day 1 - Sledding

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Matching Sweaters!!

Day 9 - Naughty/Nice

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They watchin their stories™

Day 7 - Cozy

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Unused 12 days of Cloqwork sketches

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Qrow do not eat

Day 8 - Gingerbread

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The struggle between drawing Oscar because he’s the accepted ozqrow fam child or drawing Mercury because I wanted to was real

Day 5 - First Christmas