#2-14-24 WIP Wednesday

[jtl-fics]

pretty boy, pretty please?

WIP Wednesday 2/14/24 (CLOSED) | Pretty Boy

They leave Edens with Neil still silent and blank faced and it's only when they pull up to the house and everyone starts to climb out of the car that Andrew puts a hand over Neil's.

"Stay." he says.

Neil nods and doesn't leave the car. They watch as the other three clamber into the house and shut the door behind them. Then Andrew puts the car in reverse and heads out back into the night with Neil.

[aalinaaaaaa]

2024 Tumblr Top 10

1. 102 notes - Apr 12 2024

Earlier this year, I decided to renovate my introduction post (the other one was getting a bit old!). But honestly, April feels like an eternity ago, I forgot I posted it this year

2. 32 notes - Dec 24 2024

A year summary in a year summary... wrapped in a gift box, if you will ;)

(The linked one is more comprehensive, it goes over the major highlights of my year. This top 10 post seems to be October-December focused for the most part)

3. 32 notes - Dec 1 2024

This is the post where I announced my plans for December, in that I would be reblogging all my Flash Fiction Friday pieces with behind-the-scenes stuff and deleted snippets. Now that all my pieces for this year have been reblogged, I can say I enjoyed doing it this year and I will probably do it again in the future :D

4. 28 notes - Dec 17 2024

Lol, not an Arcane meme shooting its way into my top 10 posts in such a short space of time 👀 (pun not intended, lol)

Anyway, it’s spoilery for late season 1/early season 2, click with caution...

5. 27 notes - Feb 17 2024

Blue Moon — Callabiem finds cracks in the moon and takes it upon herself to investigate what’s going on before the moon shatters entirely.

6. 25 notes - Nov 29 2024

Pride of Lines Tag — For this tag game, I put in a snippet deriving from this piece I did for Flash Fiction Friday

7. 24 notes - Nov 19 2024

This is the height comparison tag I made for the cast of Obsidian Sapphires, I had fun making it :D

8. 23 notes - Oct 23 2024

WIP Wednesday — The snippet is part of the first things I wrote for Obsidian Sapphires after waking up one morning with the solution to a glaring plot-hole. One could say the acolyte is stuck between rocks and a hard place...

9. 23 notes - Nov 14 2024

Proud of Tag — One of the fragments of what I have affectionately dubbed ‘the angsty pining scene’. I love this scene to bits (call me biased, lmao), especially the last line Cerigo says in this particular fragment.

10. 21 notes - Oct 22 2024

Out of Context Line Tag — I have come to realise that Eshani gets a bunch of snappy lines throughout Obsidian Sapphires. I love that for her <3

Created by TumblrTop10

Seeing as most of this is tag games, I’m going to make this into a tag game too! To all those tagged here, plus anyone reading this who wants to give it a go (here’s your open tag), click the link in ‘tumblrtop10′ and share your top 10 posts for the year!

@bardic-tales @honeybewrites @thebookishkiwi @seastarblue @thepeculiarbird @the-golden-comet @space-writes @mysticstarlightduck @winterandwords @finickyfelix @wintherlywords @ruvastuon @cljordan-imperium @druidx @avrablake @flock-from-the-void @angelfevr @thatndginger @anyablackwood

[sunriseabram]

Bodyguard Nathaniel AU

At a young age, Nathaniel Wesninski ends up working for the main branch of the Moriyama family. He builds himself a name, gains status, and creates fear among those lower in the family food chain. He kills to live, putting on his father's smile and carrying out orders. He lives with the nightmares because failure means death. Failure means he will disappear without anyone remembering his name. He fights because he doesn't know how to die quietly. That is...until he is ordered to serve as a bodyguard for an old friend. Immersed in life with the foxes, Nathaniel starts to question his future with the Moriyama family and finds himself wanting more than a life behind the gun, even if it kills him in the process.

Send an ask and I'll provide a snippet on WIP Wednesday!

Neil: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Kevin: Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14 Part 15 Part 16 Part 17 Part 18 Part 19 Part 20 Part 21 Part 22 Part 23 Part 24 Part 25 Part 26

Completed Chapters on AO3

[bbcphile]

BBCPhile’s Original Content Masterpost

AO3: bbcphile 

Mysterious Lotus Casebook Meta

The Yin Leaves Threat is a Bluff

DFS and the Newlywed Room 

FDB and the Sad Beach Outfit 

MLC and CPTSD Part 1 (DFS & LLH) 

MLC and CPTSD Part 2 (DFS and Emotional Regulation) 

DFS and the Jinyuanmeng robes (+ crying) 

MLC and Neurodivergence

DFS, Autism, and CPTSD (Tumblr convo with kingsandbastardz)

DFS and Waterfalls 

DFS and Lying/Honesty 

DFS and Forced Clothing Changes (Tumblr convo with thesilversun)

DFS, LLH, and Handholding

LLH, Childhood Trauma, and his post-Donghai beach breakdown

LLH, Rebirth, and the Donghai Beach 

LLH and his Choice of Name

Mysterious Lotus Casebook Fic

“What’s Sealed Away” (DFS amnesia fic) 

“Waning Marks and Dawning Realizations” (12th Donghai Battle Anniversary fic)

MLC long fic excerpts 

(mainly from WIP Wednesday (fic not yet on ao3):

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26

(Selected) Horatio Hornblower fics:

Harboured and Encompassed (modern AU, Horatio/Archie/Will) 

Nunc Atque Semper (past Archie/Horatio, present Maria/Horatio. Warning: DKU (Dead Kennedy Universe) 

Taking Hands Against a Sea of Troubles (Archie/Horatio)

[suzukiblu]

current projects’ current progress:

obligatory sugar baby Kon [ assorted; 8.3k/44.5k ]

when I see myself, I always know where you are [ REREAD; 4/4 ]

when I see myself, I always know where you are [ EDITS ch5; 10.2/10.2k ]

Ko-fi subs:

the wet nurse omegaverse [ ducksandswans; 1k/1k ]

Billy adopts Conner and it actually goes pretty good! [ qwertynerd97; 1k/1k ]

a pocketful of Kons [ lottie; 1k/1k ]

Billy adopts Conner and it actually goes pretty good! [ Mango Bat; 300/500 ]

Billy adopts Conner and it actually goes pretty good! [ 🦄; 0/500 ]

the one where omegaverse fucks up Red Hood's life [ miri_tiazan; 250/500 ]

the puzzle trap sex-room [ S; 500/500 ]

a fake cryptid and a real romantic [ Derpsheep; 500/500 ]

mirrorverse!Clark and Kon's daddy issues both get some [ Marina; 0/500 ]

Billy adopts Conner and it actually goes pretty good! [ inkwell; 0/500 ]

think pink [ Paradox; 0/2k ]

Kara gets to Earth on time and the Kents get a two-for-one special on free kids [ Plot Bunny; 500/500 ]

project sidekick [ Plot Bunny; 500/500 ]

think pink [ Cheshire; 0/1k ]

the one where Kon's soulmark isn't fake [ Jan; 0/1k ]

mistaken identities and interdimensional refugees [ Jan; 0/500 ]

Kara gets to Earth on time and the Kents get a two-for-one special on free kids [ videogeek; 0/500 ]

mirrorverse!Clark and Kon's daddy issues both get some [ this-was-a-terrible-idea; 0/500 ]

alpha Jazz, a dark alley, and a very pretty omega [ yesdangerpls; 0/500 ]

the wet nurse omegaverse [ ZepysGirl; 0/500 ]

love potion number nine [ sakoku_decree; 0/500 ]

Clark panic-adopts his teenage clones [ definitelynotaminion; 0/500 ]

TBD x 3 [ EldritchRights; 0/3k ]

Ko-fi thank-you sentences:

YJ packs up and gets pupped [ windcalling; 60/60 ]

the one where omegaverse fucks up Red Hood's life [ miri_tiazan; 24/24 ]

the parasite [ Beatrice_Otter; 36/36 ]

the Gotham Kid [ anon; 200/200 ]

omega!Clark and hungry!Kon [ Ratherbeme; 0/50 ]

the wet nurse omegaverse [ qwertynerd97; 0/34 ]

Clark wakes up alive [ Jan; 100/100 ]

alpha Jazz, a dark alley, and a very pretty omega [ anon; 23/50 ]

Billy adopts Conner and it actually goes pretty good! [ 🦄; 60/60 ]

JayKon soulmates, TimKon datemates, and the wrong Superboy [ likemymask; 81/100 ]

hey I just met you, and this is crazy [ zephrbabe; 0/100 ]

weird amnesia TimBerKon [ Derpsheep; 0/60 ]

Billy adopts Conner and it actually goes pretty good! [ u-h-h-g-h; 0/40s ]

omega!Clark and hungry!Kon [ Nora; 0/24s ]

mirrorverse!Clark and Kon's daddy issues both get some [ dexdefyingstunts; 0/20s ]

Jason gets knocked up and accidentally goes home about it [ Kel; 0/30s ]

mistaken identities and interdimensional refugees [ BernadetteHoule; 0/30s ]

assorted WIP Wednesdays [ kahlee; 14/14 fills ]

wet nurse OR 2-for-1 Kents [ qwertynerd97; 0/100s ]

YJ packs up and gets pupped [ UraniaChang; 0/6s ]

DPxDC events/challenges:

dpxdcbigbang [ 13.5k/5k ]

DPxDC Summer Exchange [ 200/1.5k ]

Women In Comics Mini Bang [ 900/3k ]

konbartzine work [ 0/3 pages inked ]

Invisobang [ claim submitted; released ]

A SECRET THIRD FOURTH DPxDC THING~ [ 0/5 ]

[enigma-the-mysterious]

WIP Wednesday: 23/10/24

Rules

Original Post

After fighting for my life in between 12 hour shifts, I have somehow managed to clear most of my backlog. I only have one more week pending :D Phew.

All recent WIPs from RRR because that's what has consumed my brain.

1. Ram patches Bheem up after the flogging: This is my favourite (and longest!) of all my WIPs and I would love to publish it soon. What it says on the tin. Missing scene. Canon compliant. Hurt, angst and slight (????) comfort.

2. Rambheem first kiss: Hey, remember when I said that this was tooth rotting fluff? With only slight angst? Well, turns out, this has a lot of angst now. No, I don't know how it happened either. Chapter 1 is Pre Naatu Naatu. Chapter 2 is post movie. Pining. Canon compliant. Ram is an oblivious idiot

3. Bheem's thoughts after the betrayal: What it says on the tin. Angst, angst, angst and more angst. There isn't enough Bheem trauma fics in the fandom and I am here to fix that

4. Aftermath of Bheem's arrest: Fucktons of angst and Ram being emo and self destructive as usual

5. Ram's guilt about the flogging: What it says on the tin. Post movie. Angst with comfort

Snippet from WIP 2

Respected Sir/Madam,

On the joyful occasion of Valentine's Day, you are cordially invited to the party at the Gymkhana Club on 14th February, 1921. You may bring with yourself a companion to partake in the revelries. We hope to see you at the aforementioned place and time.

Thanking You,

The Secretary General,

Young Men's Christian Association

"Feb 14," Ram read aloud. "Hey, it's today. Right now."

[consistentsquash]

Hp Rec Fest 2023 Recs by Squash

AO3 collection for the recs I made during this fest!

The fest mods deserve everything <3

Rec masterlist - links are for my rec blurbs.

31. A fav among favs: Almagest by eldritcher (2018). Harry/Voldemort

30. A precanon fic: The Unspoken and the Unsent by hollycomb (2013). Dumbledore/Elphias Doge

29. A postcanon fic: Candles Lit Against the Dark by perverse_idyll (2023). McGonagall/Grubbly-Plank

28. An underrated fic: A Cliff in July by Miss M. (2013) Millicent/Marietta.

27. A Muggle AU: Commonplace Magic by Acid, Sinick (2010). Snarry

26. A fic with an ending you can't stop thinking about: In Infinite Remorse of the Soul by perverse_idyll (2011). Snarry, Snape/Dumbledore.

25. A fic rated T: On Wednesday by Tryfanstone (2006). Snarry

24. A holiday fic: 10 Snarry Holiday fics.

23. A soulmate fic: Inch by Inch We Crawled Toward Each Other by Chatter (2017). Fleur/Hermione

22. An unfinished fic: The J. Alfred Prufrock Arc by vain (2003). Snarry.

21. A thought provoking fic: Brown Sugar by eldritcher (2018). Voldemort/Tom Riddle (Diary).

20. A G Rated fic: The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife by eldritcher (2021). Snape/Giant Squid.

19. Hottest smut fic: Both Sides Now by Predatrix (2006). Snarry.

18. A fairytale fic: The Lost World (short version) by perverse_idyll (2013), Snarry + Omphale by eldritcher (2015), Harry/Voldemort

17. A fic that made you cry: 10 Snarry fics to make you cry

16. A fic that made you laugh: 10 Snarry fics to make you laugh

15. Most recent bookmark: De Aegypto by squibstress (2023). Minerva/Rolanda

14. A fav series: Pandemic by eldritcher (2021) Harry/Voldemort

13. A fic over 100K words: Catullus 16 by eldritcher (2014) Harry/Voldemort

12. A WIP: Year of the Thestral by perverse_idyll (2022) Snagonagall, McGonagall/Hooch

11. A dark fic: King of Fat by rinsbane (2006) Snarry

10. A fest fic: A Matter of Time by danpuff (2022). Snarry

9. A rarepair fic: Extraordinary Lengths by MaxWrite (2009). Percy/Barty Crouch Jr.

8. A canon divergence fic: When the Rose and the Fire Are One by perverse_idyll (2010). Snarry

7. A canon compliant fic: Storytelling by kellychambliss (2010). Hermione/Minerva McGonagall

6. An unreliable narrator fic: Remember Me to Cheetham Hill by Delphi (2021). Snape/Filch

5. A non AO3 fic: Down the Rabbit Hole by RaeWhit (2008). Snarry

4. Fic + art: PS, I love you by mywitch and groot (2022). Snape/Hermione

3. A podfic: [Podfic of] Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do by wilfriede (2023). Minerva McGonagall/Rolanda Hooch + [Podfic of] Plenitude by wilfriede (2023). Amelia Bones/Hermione

2. A comfort fic: Epic of the Forgotten by eldritcher (2017). Viktor Krum/Voldemort + Sexing the Pumpkin by ratherbrightred (2007). Snape/Sirius Black

1 . A fav fic under 5000 words: Corresponding with Snape by asnowyowl (2010). Snarry

[therulerofallpotatos]

WIP Tag Game

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! Then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

I was tagged by @cosmic-lullaby and @iamfandomcrazy!

Oh boy ok this will take a second. My files are very organized. Let's simplify and go by fandom.

The Addams Family

The Multi-Chaps

All Roads Lead to Rome

Chapter 1, 2, 3, 3 raw draft, 4, 5, Notes, Notes General

2. I Bit Him so He's Mine

Hyde Wednesday AU Notes, Chapter One, I Bit Him so He's Mine Tyler's POV, I Bit Him so He's Mine Wednesday's POV original document

3. I See You

I See You chp 1, I See You Notes, I See You Prologue

4. Love Letter AU Chp 1

One-Shots

5. Day 6 Mind Control hurts Wednesday whumptober 2023

6. Day 10 Body Swap au Whumptober 2023

7. vamp tyler scrap

The Series

8. Tyler Raised By Werewolves AU

My Best Friend's Brother Chapter 1

My Best Friend's Brother Chapter 2

Enid Sinclair

My Boyfriend's Sister

Tug of War

The Blood Moon

9. Tyler's Bad Year

Day 24 Failed to Escape

Day 25 nightmare flashback why didn't you save me whumptober 2023

Day 26 magical exhaustion or injury curse whumptober 2023

Day 27 forgotten locked away whumptober 2023

Day 28 hair pulling oxygen deprivation sweating whumptober 2023

Day 29 the easy way or the hard way bargaining forced to choose whumptober 2023

Day 30 possession mind games coma whumptober 2023

Day 31 PTSD headaches crying

10. Her Monster Verse

Her Monster Sequel Notes

Her Monster Verse

11. Just a Couple of Teenage Tearaways

4 October Outreach Day

5 November the 18th

12. Soulmates Aren't Found

13. Vampire Tyler

5 Times Nevermore Caught Wednesday with a Bandage and One Time Donovan Caught Her

5 Times Tyler Nearly Outed Himself and One Time He Revealed Himself

5 plus one

14. Warning: She Bites verse

Warning She Bites Sequel Notes

15. Weyler Week 2023

Day 2 If the Good Die Young I Want to Live Forever

16. Designated Dick Dealer Sequel

17. Til Death

Til Death Part 2

Til Death Part 3

Notes (These are all pure outlines unconnected to anything else)

18. X File Crossover

19. Wylercest au

20. Wednesday isn't a ghost au

21. Tyler finds Fran au

22. Tyler deadname Stacy au

23. Tumblr Prompt Ask Amnesia au

24. Tumblr Posts (collection of prompts i have on my blog)

25. trans tyler post top surgery romcom au

26. The Blood Oath Notes

27. Tale of Two Wednesdays

28. Steal your boyfriend au

29. Series of Dhalias au

30. Secret Identity not so secret au

31. scene scraps

32. scene scraps (2)

33. Refusing the Call General Notes

34. raven drunk sex fantasy au

35. Pregnant Wednesday and Panicking Tyler au

36. Tyler Pizza Boy au

37. mtf tyler x lesbian wednesday au

38. Just unlocked missing time au

39. hybernation au

40. hostage au notes

41. heat sex fic but it's only aftercare

42. grindr au

43. ghoul tyler au

44. Ghost Wednesday au

45. Faux Monsterfucker au

46. Enid mtf knots Tyler ftm

47. Donovan Wednesday morning after

48. cucking xavier au

49. clone wednesday au

50. bianca x tyler siren call au

Okay I'm losing patience. I have after this files for:

Crossovers

Encanto

Hannibal

Harry Potter

MCU

mermaid

Original Works

Teen Wolf

The Umbrella Academy

Twilight

Until Dawn

I will include my wips for Until Dawn and if anyone wants to hear what's in the others, I will make a new post.

Until Dawn

Multi-Chaps

51. Blackwood Mountain

Blackwood Mountain Outline

Blackwood Mountain Part 1

BM PI Chp 1

BM PI Chp 2

BM PI Chp 3

tagging: @obsidianpen, @mister-tom-a-dildo-lover, @mistressvera, @realisticintentions, @realmermaid333, @suchaladyy, @leavesdriftinginthewind, @dispatchvampire, @dark-visitors

[kittkatattacks]

Wip Wednesday 7/31/24

These are hella late but here are my sentences for 7/31 :)

Perfect season 20-22 for:

@happinessisntfun @owlbearwrites @1attheedge @eriquin

“I need you to get some information to the little lord.”

“Ah, I see. And what exactly would I be telling him?”

“Riko is getting out of control. He sent some of the freshman Ravens over to Palmetto to kill one of our players.”

“Are you absolutely sure?”

“Yes. the player who was attacked saw who it was and I’m sure there’s a paper trail that leads back to the side branch if not to Riko himself.”

“Alright, I’ll check it out and relay your message. Is there anything else?”

“Thank you, and no, there’s nothing else right now.”

“Very well then, I’ll let you go.”

“Bye,” Neil says, and hangs up the phone, handing it back to Andrew.

He pockets the phone, leans back on his elbows and stares out at the parking lot. Neil doesn’t feel like going back inside so he sits with Andrew and stares at him, admiring how the sun lights up his hair and makes his eyes glow gold.

───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────

AFTG space au for:

@enigma-the-mysterious @scifikimmi @auburnlaughter @adhdavinci

Neil finishes signing his email, heart pounding in his ears and sends it off before he can think about it too much. He quickly closes his laptop and leans back in his chair, folding his arms behind his head and then takes a few calming breaths.

In, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Out, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

In, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Out, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

He does this until he feels his heart slow and gets up to get ready for the day. 

Neil barely makes it through his first class; the professor monotonically goes over the syllabus and then keeps them there for another half hour talking about himself and how he ended up in ‘such a fine establishment’. He resorts to alternating between drawing on the handout given to them at the start of class and stabbing himself in the thigh with a pen.

He meets up with Jean for a late lunch and they both talk about how their classes are going so far.

“I’m just saying, that class is shit. I don’t understand why we need to take it.” Neil says, referring to his undergraduate studies class.

“We have to take it because someone,” Jean replies, stabbing a piece of broccoli with his fork, and then pointing it at Neil, “wanted to explore Europe instead of going to college when we graduated.”

“Whatever,” Neil says, swatting the broccoli away. “It's not like I made you come with me.”

“True, but irrelevant. Besides, if you had gone on your own, who would have been there to take care of you after all of the times you got into fights and needed patching up.”

“I could have done it myself or gone to a clinic,” Neil says, already knowing he’s going to lose this argument.

“Bullshit. I’ve never met someone who hates hospitals more than you do. Also I’ve seen you try to patch yourself up, you’re pretty shit at it.”

“Alright, Alright,” Neil says, putting his hands up in surrender, “you win.”

───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────

YLPWBOYF for:

@somefishycat @wizisbored

Lola wastes no time getting into his space, knife in hand, crowding him even more into the car door. 

“So, Junior,” Lola says, like she’s gossiping with a friend, “I’ve just got to know, where’d Mary run off to?” She presses the tip of the knife into his cheek when he doesn’t immediately answer, just enough to draw a drop of blood. 

Nathaniel doesn’t flinch despite the pain he feels and replies, “Like I’d ever tell you that.”

“Maybe,” Lola says, “but I have a feeling you’ll tell me sooner or later.”

Nathaniel wants to question how she plans to do that, but keeps his smart mouth shut, his mind already coming up with multiple ways that she could.

───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────

DMRA for:

@zyrafowe-sny @whimsicalmeerkat @aparticularbandit @post-and-out

Aaron can tell he’s struck a nerve, the bulging veins on either side of Hill’s forehead giving away just how much he has. 

Halsey steps between them, redirecting Hill’s attention to him and Aaron takes the chance to give Kevin a once over.

Aaron hadn’t thought much of him when he first walked in, having been more focused on Hill. However, now that he’s really looking, he notices how muscular Kevin’s arms are, his jade-green eyes and how he towers over most of the people in the room, including himself.

Aaron turns his attention back to Hill and Halsey, “I look forward to seeing you in class,” Hill says, but Aaron can tell he is still pissed from earlier despite the smile he wears.

He glares at Hill until he’s gone and turns his attention back to Halsey who checks his watch, “I’ve got to go, there’s a call I need to make. Kevin, could you please show Mr.Minyard the Emergency room.”

“Of course, I was on my way over there anyway,” Kevin says.

Aaron gives Kevin his full attention now that Halsey is gone, “You sure know what to say to impress important people huh?”

“I assume you mean Hill.”

Yeah, he’s a pain in the ass but he’s got a lot of influence here. Let me guess, you’re taking Dr.Hill’s class?”

“Yep.”

“Well, if I were you, I’d tone down the animosity. Getting an F in his class is like a bad review from the New York Times; it’ll ruin your career before it even begins.”

───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ─────

[man--eater]

WIP Wednesday 8/14/24

It's already that time of week again...WIP Wednesday! Time to share a piece of whatever you're working on, writing or art, for Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss. Tag your friends, and if you see this and want to participate, consider yourself tagged even if I don't know you! Feel free to use the banner. Tagging @sunsetofdoom @alikandre @oakishdelights @copaline and anyone else who wants to play! Working on chapter 2 of my new arranged marriage/feral alastor rehab fic Queen of Hearts, Ace of Sorrow:

“Mistress!” Flora cried, taking a step closer as Alastor snarled and sank his teeth deeper into my arm. A shiver passed through me when I felt his teeth meet the sudden resistance of bone. “It’s alright,” I said, taking a deep breath through the pain. “It’s alright.” I was saying it as much to myself as I was to them. “Leave us, Flora.” “But Mistress,” she said, her voice thick with fear as she stared at Alastor. “Go,” I said more firmly, gritting my teeth as he began to chew on my forearm. When the last of the servants left the room, I reached up with the arm that was not currently trapped in Alastor’s jaws and rested my fingers on his head. “It’s alright,” I said, gently touching his ear. It flicked back and away, but I persisted, stroking my fingers through his matted, filthy fur. He went perfectly still; not even gnawing on me anymore. My fingertips kept moving, and between the throbbing pain in my arm and the wild look in his eyes, time seemed to pass with agonizingly slowly. Finally, Alastor fixed his red eyes on mine, then slowly loosened his teeth from my flesh. He began to lick the blood from my arm, prehensile tongue cleaning the black streaks and droplets from my skin. If he were any other creature, I would have thought it a gesture of contrition, but I was quite certain he just liked the taste. Royal blood was doubtlessly novel to him, and I raised my eyebrow as he eyed my slowly healing arm again, licking his lips.

[jtl-fics]

[Walks up with a bowl of Ashes dips fingers into it and places a cross on your forehead for this year's Ash Wednesday.]

"Remember that you are a dust and unto dust you shall return—and you shall return with some pretty boy."

Happy Wip Ash Wednesday Ash <3

WIP Wednesday 2/14/24 (CLOSED) | Pretty Boy

"People say it out loud all the time." Andrew says with a roll of his eyes. If he had a nickel for every time he'd heard someone talk about Neil's attractiveness he'd have enough for a second Maserati.

Neil flinches.

"Does that make you uncomfortable?" he asks.

"I guess I just didn't realize people would talk about it around you." Neil says as Andrew pulls into a spot. Andrew looks at him.

"It is bold of them." Andrew agrees.

[ladytanithia]

Art WIP Wednesday (2/14/24)

Just setting up an illustration for Chapter 18 of DwD - Miranja's telling Geldis about her horrible day and he's wiping the ash off her face. Looks like absolute mammoth dung right now, but you will be amazed when it's done! 😂 Will update this post when it's completed so you can view it on my art blog!

@dirty-bosmer @gwilin-stay-winnin @lillxart @skyrim-forever @thana-topsy @thequeenofthewinter

[skyrim-forever]

1, 5, 6, 14, and 24 for the ask meme!

Hi friend thanks so much! Link to questions here!

1. What are 3 things that shaped who you are?

Well I’d say the first one would be my childhood. I’ll spare you the details but it wasn’t great, but it did provide me with the motivation to do something more with my life.

Second would be my first semester of undergrad. I moved away across the country to somewhere I’d never been and made some of the most amazing friends ever. I finally found a place I could truly be myself.

And third would be my experience in grad school, which was definitely tough (in a multitude of ways) but through this struggle I was able to learn what I really want out of life.

5. What made you start your blog?

I originally started this blog in Summer 2022 (yay 2 years!) after having previous blogs since 2012ish? But I started this blog mostly because I wanted somewhere to talk about the Elder Scrolls and none of my friends are into it! So having somewhere to put all my ocs and ideas was a great outlet.

6. What’s the best and worst part of being online/a creator?

The best part about being online for me is making people laugh and seeing the cool conversations that happen in the tags/replies! I also luke the friends I’ve made and look forward to WIP Wednesday every week ❤️

The worst part I would say is rude people. Luckily this doesn’t happen often but I’ve had a few incidents that left me feeling like I shouldn’t talk about certain things (particularly Morrowind lore/hcs) so I just avoid some stuff now.

14. What’s something you’ve always wanted to do but maybe been too scared to do?

Something I’ve always wanted to do was learn to make clothes. I tried once to make a dress with a pattern but I don’t think it was the right time. I had to print of the pattern, it was hard to figure out the sizes. I’d like to try again because I had a lot of ideas (nearly went to school for fashion instead) and so many clothes now are kind of just shit and made by people who aren’t paid enough; so I’d like to just do it myself 🥰

24. What’s one thing you’re proud of yourself for?

I’m deeply proud of myself for moving away from home. I’m in town for the first time in 2 years for s wedding and I see why I left. I don’t even want to be here now as it’s bringing back old memories. I’m proud of 18 year old me who planned her escape and built a nice life for herself.

[mareastrorum]

TF&TS Meta: Cree Deeproots's Character Sheet

Since I am posting another chapter later this week, no WIP Wednesday excerpt today! However, I usually throw out a meta post before each chapter to tide people over.

I will post a little late this week! Unfortunately, work has been crazy, and this week continued that trend. I am hoping to update by Sunday evening.

Edit: Unfortunately, I have had to bump my planned posting date for Chapter 8 back to 11/24 due to work going haywire. I am still writing, and I'll post another WIP for the next chapter this Wednesday, as well as another meta post the following Wednesday. I'll hopefully have some reprieve by then and intend to get back to a regular 2-week posting schedule after that.

This post discusses how I developed the character sheet for Cree.

See the directory for other meta posts.

The story itself will get into Cree’s backstory and characterization, so this is going to focus primarily on mechanics and items. Here is her character sheet.

As mentioned in a prior post, Cree was at least level 13 when the Nein first encountered her in Eiselcross because she used Firestorm against Gelidon in 123, then at least 15 in 133 because she used Earthquake. Her holy symbol was the gold/crystal pendant with Lucien’s blood that the Nein first saw in 117. She also had the Cape of the Mountebank, first spotted in the same episode and then used in 133.

Like the rest, Cree is starting at level 14. Unlike the others, I did not roll Cree’s stats. I tried to come up with what made sense narratively. Another wrinkle was that Wizards released an update to Tabaxi in 2022, but I opted to go with the racial features from Volo’s because that’s what Matt would have used at the time of the campaign.

Cree cast slow on the Nein as they escaped in 123, and Fjord successfully made a wisdom save with 19. The highest failure was 14, so spell save DC is 15-19. The DC is 8 plus proficiency bonus plus wisdom modifier, and at level 15, her PB would be +5, while it rises to +6 at level 17. So, assuming she was level 15, her wisdom modifier would need to be at least +2 and no more than +6. If she had been level 17, her modifier had to be at least +1 and no more than +5. Either way, that doesn’t tell us much about her wisdom score, especially if she had an item that could have factored in. Any reasonable cleric would pick wisdom for their highest stat, so unless she rolled shit and never took an ASI, I would expect her modifier to be at least +4. However, since she was an end game mini-boss, I thought +5 seemed reasonable. Thus, Cree’s wisdom score is 20 because it maxed out at some point, and considering that cleric is SAD compared to blood hunters, I think she would have prioritized it. Thus, assuming she got at least one good roll to assign to Wisdom, I chose 18 base, and one ASI was used to raise the 18 to a 20.

Logistically, Cree’s Con score only mattered as an antagonist for determining her Con saves because Matt usually needed to buff health pools against the large party. So, for all we knew, it was 6 and he gave her a ton of HP. However, if we were constructing her sheet as if she was a PC, her next highest priorities were constitution, then dexterity. Blood clerics have some BH-like abilities to sacrifice HP for benefits, so she needed a decent health pool. Considering her self-sacrificial behavior, I felt that a player would have strategized for that, and it made sense narratively if she managed to survive as an orphan in the Run and eat “muster” all the time while out adventuring. Since I gave her 18 for Wisdom, I chose 16 for Con.

Dex was next. Higher initiative and AC were also important. Cree’s AC in her final fight was 19. AC is usually armor mod + dex mod + shield(?) + enchantment/item mods, so that could be all sorts of combinations. Matt didn’t mention she had a shield, but we know her armor was enchanted because he mentioned all the Tombtakers’ armor glowed during a detect magic in 117. Clerics are proficient with Medium armor, but not Heavy armor, and while she could have taken a feat, Matt didn’t mention that she had anything more than heavy leathers and furs—no chain or plate. Medium armor also caps the dex mod at +2, and heavy armor doesn’t add dex mod at all. Thus, she probably had studded leather armor, which is 12 + dex mod + enchantments. If she had +3 armor (possible, but very expensive), then her dex mod had to be +4. If she had a shield (which Matt didn’t mention), then maybe she had +2 armor (reasonable for level 15) and +3 dex. Finally, in the last fight against the Nein, Matt mentioned that Cree rolled a super low initiative, but the lowest the Nein got was a 12. Initiative is normally just the roll plus dexterity modifier, so that doesn’t really tell us anything about her Dex score. Realistically, that meant Cree’s dex modifier was probably around 3-4 and she had items or enchantments to add another 3-4, totaling +7 to her AC. Probably not an additional cloak, a spell caster staff, or a shield because Matt didn’t mention her using them and the Nein only looted the necklace and the Cape of the Mountebank. (Or maybe her holy symbol gave AC?) Tabaxi get a +2 to Dex, so I opted to give Cree a 14 that was then raised to 16.

Strength could have really gone anywhere. There’s no D&D mechanic reason for her to have high/low Str according to what we saw in the stream. Her weapon was a war pick, not a finesse weapon, so it would have been her melee attack stat, and therefore it’s a safe assumption that the mod was at least 0 (not <10). However, she never actually used that weapon. So we just have ~vibes~. Because of how Matt played her (immediately firing off her biggest spells at Gelidon), I decided I would use this as a vanity stat rather than something meant to used regularly in combat. I got the impression that she leaves the melee combat to the rest of the Tombtakers and she stays the hell away from it. Considering her time in the Run meant she would be pretty athletic and I already have her +3 to Dex, I gave her 16 strength to match. That makes her excellent at climbing and jumping even without proficiency in the Athletics skill, which I felt was appropriate for the one tabaxi in the group.

Int and Cha are Cree’s dump stats. Strategically, neither is important for a cleric. Narratively, she’s an uneducated orphan, and Lucien no doubt did most of the talking. Based on how Cree spoke, I don’t expect she had much of a Cha stat, though I doubt it was a negative modifier. She was polite and courteous to the Nein until Lucien was back, and then she was rather jealous/envious. So, she can get along, if she wants to, but I figured her Cha wasn’t higher than Lucien’s. Thus, I gave Int 8 and Cha 9, which received a +1 to 10. The only reason I didn’t give her lower Int was that she would have received some education at the Orders. Most of the things she would have learned with the Nightback Clan were wisdom skills, and she’d have relied upon those in the Run as well, and whatever she didn’t know about the town itself, Lucien did, so there wasn’t much pressure to expand her specialty.

If you think I’m being overly generous about Cree’s stats, maybe take a look at Jester’s level 2 stats. That’s right. Level 2.

Cree’s background was relatively easy to choose, though I had considered Urchin. Her experience as an acolyte at the Claret Orders was far more relevant to her skills and character than her time as an orphan in Shadycreek Run. It also made sense that Religion was the one Int stat she’d be good at.

Feats were interesting. War Caster was an obvious choice for D&D strategy, and it made perfect sense for how she would have been trained at the Orders and her experiences with the Tombtakers. The Vital Sacrifice feat was not available at the time of C2, but the flavor fit her very well. Matt had also let her exceed the mileage limit of her Crimson Bond ability (10 miles), or characters flagrantly and repeatedly lied about her ability to track blood further than that and she used some other spell (Commune?) to hunt people down on the Gentleman's behalf considering Crimson Bond is limited to 2 uses per day. (I exceeded that in this chapter.) The narrative reason is she just has a knack for hemocraft, so she figured out how to tap her own vitality to fuck with people.

Items were a challenge. They had to be sensible for her level and not push her into high-level enemy territory. The most pertinent decision was whether she had anything she'd had in Aeor. The first times we saw Cree with her holy symbol necklace, the Cape of the Montebank, and a scroll of Control Weather were after the Nein caught up to the Tombtakers in Eiselcross. However, as a cleric, she wouldn’t have needed the scroll because she could do that at level 15 (which she also needed to be for Earthquake). And if Cree went so far as to criticize the Nein for being rich kids because of the tower, she wouldn’t have spent the coin on buying the scroll when she could just do it herself. Maybe the explanation was she hit level 15 after that, but then there’s the question of why was she so much lower than Lucien’s level and how did Matt expect Lucien (level 17) to be enough to balance the rest of the Tombtakers against a larger group. Maybe Matt gave her the scroll as a clue that the Tombtakers expected this to be a one way trip, but there were other ways of doing that.

Instead, what made sense to me was that Lucien looted the cape and scroll from DeRogna. Think about it. I don’t know if Cree would have just clung to a rare magic item for the 2 years that Lucien was dead, especially one that wasn’t useful and we had no indication it had sentimental value. Neither the cape nor the scroll made sense for that. But Matt also mentioned that DeRogna’s room had already been tossed and looted when the Nein found her body, so Lucien robbed her on top of taking his book back. What would he steal if his plan was a one way trip to the Astral Sea to become a god? Magic items! But the Tombtakers certainly would have already brought weapons and armor, and DeRogna wouldn’t have bothered, so it had to be other items—like a teleportation cape to avoid danger and a scroll to conserve spell slots. Like a rich person would stock for a trip where bodyguards handle all the monsters. Thus, Cree doesn’t have either of those in TF&TS.

There’s also the issue of Cree’s holy symbol. As I’ve mentioned before, it doesn’t make sense for her to currently have a necklace with Lucien’s blood for her to be a cleric of the Nonagon. He’s undead, and while she is tremendously faithful, it’s a whole extra step beyond worshipping a childhood friend to worship a dead one, and then another step to worship an undead one. I had to be able to reconcile it with the facts that she went to Zadash and never once checked on his grave, then let “Lucien” (Molly) go off by himself with strangers and not checking on his blood vial even once to see if he was okay. She believed the Nein the first time when they returned to Zadash and claimed Lucien had parted ways; if she suspected he was dead, she would not have been so calm or courteous. So she trusts him enough to do as he asks, but with him dying “twice” (though once was actually Molly), I don’t think she would have actually worshiped Lucien as a god by that point in time. There’s also the fact that Lucien’s body is in someone else’s control right now, so there’s a disconnect between undead Lucien and his blood. For the premise to make sense, his blood couldn’t be part of Cree’s holy symbol, and the timeline of events suggests that she didn’t start worshiping him as a god until after he came back to life.

The Raven Queen absolutely would not have worked as Cree’s goddess in this plot either. The Matron hates the undead, so even if Cree had remained faithful to her, that likely would have had perilous consequences for trying to cast any spells while Cree helped Lucien. Any attempt to bring him back as undead would have been an issue too. (Yes, I know that clerics have tons of necromancy spells, especially Blood Clerics, and there’s no mechanic prohibiting it, but this story has to have some logic to it.)

Thus, the Somnovem were Cree’s gods. I couldn’t think of a single reason why a gold/crystal necklace with someone’s blood would be suitable for the Somnovem, so I had to make up a holy symbol. That’s excellent for story purposes because the new one is packed with symbolism. It’s an eye carved into a silver coin with a ruby chip embedded as the iris. It’s obvious to anyone seeing it that Cree had to improvise, that she made it herself, and that she didn’t go overboard with making it especially pretty or ornate. Easy to carry, hide, and hold. Practical and without excess.

Then, where’s the gold/crystal necklace? And why was that one so fancy compared to the coin? Hmmm.

I figured she would keep her Raven Queen symbol, though it likely cracked due to her broken faith. She’s sentimental, and even if she stopped worshiping the Matron, that would have been a huge part of her life. It remains to be seen whether her background feature would still work.

I decided to make the coin a Guardian Emblem because Cree didn’t use her actions to defend/heal the Tombtakers in combat except for one Cure Wounds on Lucien. She plays offense like Jester does, but even more aggressively because she threw out her highest level spells as attacks in her first two turns against Gelidon, leaving her with fewer options when the Tombtakers absconded that night with the bag of holding. Thus, having a reaction to significantly reduce damage taken would be a good option for her so she can still focus on attacks.

Coming up with a second item was such a pain. What would she have kept for so long without adventuring? What would she have bought? Probably nothing, but surely she wouldn’t sell off everything she ever had when trying to hide from DeRogna. Eventually, I felt a Ring of Protection made sense because it’s something that would be useful in the event that anything ever went sour with the Gentleman, or if DeRogna tracked her down, and it would lean into the “stop dying so I can kill stuff” mentality. Plus that gives her some AC.

Cree doesn’t have armor, but she has a shield. Why would she have armor? She’d have sold that for sure, and finding something suitable for a tabaxi in the Empire probably isn’t easy. It would be easier to pick up a shield, or for any of the others to buy for her, on the way out of Zadash than find armor that would fit. Plus there’s the strategy of it: anyone starting a fight in the Evening Nip is going to focus on the bouncers and bodyguards in armor, not the blood lady in a robe and costume jewelry—until she blights them. (She needs to buy some armor.)

Cree had a war pick in Eiselcross, and it’s not the type of weapon someone would choose unless they really liked the feel of it. It has no benefits. There’s numerous other 1d8 weapons that are versatile, finesse, or have other special features that make them better options. No, that was a character choice. Listen, Cree is a blood cleric that formerly worshiped a death god and recently brought her best friend back as an undead because she had nightmares and a madness inducing vision about it. Gouging people with a glorified mining pick is probably the most normal thing about her.

Lastly, Cree has a lot of money. Have you never met a person who suddenly started making obscene amounts of money after growing up poor? If they didn’t start spending it like an idiot, they hoarded it for What-Ifs out of paranoia, at least until the shock of having money wore off. Considering Cree’s behavior, it takes her a good while to get over things, and she absolutely seems like the kind of person to hoard her savings. Thus she’s barely spent any coin other than what was necessary for reagents, like diamonds, diamond dust, silver dust, etc. (You want holy water? It costs how much? We have holy water at home.)

[enigma-the-mysterious]

WIP Wednesday: 14/8/24

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RRR has consumed my brain so all recent WIPs are from there. Same as last week.

1. Bheem's thoughts after the betrayal: What it says on the tin. Angst, angst, angst and more angst. There isn't enough Bheem trauma fics in the fandom and I am here to fix that

2. Aftermath of Bheem's arrest: Fucktons of angst and Ram being emo and self destructive as usual

3. Inspired: Bheem still has nightmares about the events at Delhi. He and Ram talk. Angst with comfort

4. Chocolate: Dosti era. Ram introduces Bheem to chocolate :D :D :D Pure, self indulgent fluff

5. Ram's guilt about the flogging: What it says on the tin. Post movie. Angst with comfort

Snippet from WIP 5. Warnings: Flashbacks to a past torture and the implied presence of colonialism

Bheem stared right back at him, unbent, undaunted, unrepentant. A corner of his parched lips lifted up in a mockery of a smile. He bared his teeth like a tiger bared its maw. Despite the shackles binding him, he managed to draw himself to his full height, towering over Ram for a brief second, goading him with the fire in his eyes, before the other officers unlocked his shackles and pulled him back by the ropes.

Ram's stomach sank and his blood turned into ice as one thing became clear to him.

Bheem will sacrifice his blood, but not his dignity.

They pulled him till his back hit the post and oh, oh, there it was. The hurt, the sorrow, the anguish on his face. The tears brimming in his eyes and rolling down his cheeks. The confusion. The unspoken question on his lips- why?

This… this was so much worse than his cold defiance. Ram could bear his disgust, his rage, his hatred but he could not suffer his pain. Bheem's pain was the worst thing in the world.

The Englishman on his left struck Bheem on the face with the heavy butt of his rifle, causing a thick stream of blood to flow out of his mouth and a fresh wound to open high on his cheek. The one on his right bludgeoned his rifle into his stomach. Bheem bent over, coughing and throwing up another mouthful of blood, his eyes unfocused and his mouth slack.

But the stubborn fool did not kneel.

Ram's fist tightened around the whip. Not for the first time today, he wished he was splitting white skin instead of brown.

Whhpssht.

But of course, it was the blood of his beloved he was spilling instead.

He pulled the whip back, ripping bits and pieces of Bheem's flesh from his tattered back. A spray of blood hit him on the face. Selfishly, so fucking selfishly, Ram thanked his luck because wiping the blood gave him the opportunity to surreptitiously wipe away the errant drop of tear from the corner of his eye.

[bearcina]

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