#30k in 31 days

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Trying so hard to stay focused on Story A but plot bunny #5 keeps demanding my attention.

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TIME SENSITIVE: GET AHMED AND MARAM TO 30K BY 08/31/2024

At €28,485, we have 11 days left to raise €1,515 for my friends Ahmed and Maram, a Palestinian couple trapped in Gaza with their three small children Habiba (4), Kareem (2), and Muhammad (1). Over the months I've been in contact with Ahmed, I've learned of his family's multiple displacement, moving 11 times between actively dangerous areas, their struggle with hepatitis and malnutrition, and their daily suffering with lack of healthy food, water hygiene products, and a truly safe place to stay. With 3 kids under 5 to raise amidst active genocide, Ahmed and his wife are exhausted, and the kids have had their young childhood ripped away. Their hope is to escape Gaza so that they may raise their children in peace. If the aggression stops, they wish to build a new house and re-establish their lives in their beloved homeland. Either way, they need help.

Please give what you can so that they may reach their short-term goal ASAP. With news that talks to open the Rafah crossing have at least advanced, they must be ready to evacuate with their whole family intact. Using the link above, you can contribute any amount -- nothing is too small to matter. You can also enter my jewelry raffle supporting them and two other families and win some beautiful crystal pieces for the most important cause.

Their campaign is 100% legitimate. They have been vetted by el-shab-hussein, featured in a video by YouTuber Ro Ramdin, and I have personally seen multiple forms of verification, some of which Ahmed has sent to me to give to donors through DM if it would secure their donation. I am in a group chat with he and their beneficiary, who updates us on the movement of all funds.

€28,485/€30,000 SHORT TERM GOAL.

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H/D Erised 2024 Stats Post!

Hi phenomenal @hd-erised community! Our Anonymous Masterlist posted yesterday, and reveals will be up on Sunday, January 5th, so there's still plenty of time to catch up on any of the submissions you might have missed before then! While we're all waiting eagerly to find out who did what, may we interest you in some stats for the 2024 fest? :D

This year we had a total of 44 submissions: 8 beautiful pieces of art, and 35 fantastic fics, and one lovely submission which did both!! Let's dig into the details, shall we?

Fanart Stats:

This year we had 8 gorgeous digital art pieces. The average submission from our amazing artists this year was ~12 pages, with our longest comic coming in at 44 pages!! The total number of pages we had between all of our art submissions was 109, so definitely loads to enjoy! We're so impressed with all of the fantastic art we've had this year, and we hope that you are too!

Fanart Rating Breakdown:

1 General Audiences

4 Teen & Up

3 Mature

1 Explicit (fic + art!!!!)

Let's hear it for our amazing artists! Please go leave them some love if you haven't already, because wow have they earned it! <3

Fanfic Stats:

This year we had a total of 35 total stories created for this wonderful fest, for an astounding total of:

~1,249,000 words!!!

That's way more than one million words of Harry and Draco loving on each other and getting up to all sorts of shenanigans! Are you impressed with the dedication of our spectacular writers? Because we sure are!

Our shortest fic this year was 2.6k, while our longest was ~143k! The average fic length this year was ~30k, which is a bit lower than last year, and 17 of the fics this year were below 25k—a perfect size for a day's read! :D

Of those 35 stories, we had:

1 General Audiences

1 Teen & Up

7 Mature

27 Explicit

And once again, the smut has come out on top! (Or on the bottom, as the case may be…)

In those stories, Harry and Draco got up to all sorts of activities in all sorts of places. We had facials and fingering and frottage, wanking and rimming, hand jobs and blow jobs, and of course anal sex (sometimes with gagging or felching or monsterfucking). Of the fics where there was penetration, Draco bottomed about 1.5x more than Harry, but, as always, they certainly were versatile!

And that versatility isn't limited to the bedroom (or any of the other places these boys got up to their shenanigans!); we also saw it in their careers. As we've seen in years past, Harry's most popular career of choice was Auror (12 fics—though sometimes we saw a career switch for him!), but he also had a variety of other jobs, including: man of leisure, magical landscaper, woodworker, professional Quidditch player, professor (or PE teacher, thank you very much), and a magi-geologist, amongst other things!

Draco, on the other hand, as usual held a much wider variety of careers. His most popular career was an Quidditch player/coach (at only 3 fics!). He was also a Sanguinologist, professor, barrister, wandmaker, Mala-cologist, magical preservationist, and a DRAGON among the rest!

Once again, our most popular time period by a landslide was Post-Hogwarts EWE with 31 fics set after the boys have left Hogwarts and ignoring (or mostly ignoring) the Epilogue, with 3 set in 8th year and 1 canon rewrite. That's 88% set post-Hogwarts!! 

Incredible, right? We're so impressed with all of our marvelous participants!!

We'd like to give a great big THANK YOU to each and every single one of you, all of our incredible writers and artists who devoted their creative energies to this fest, and another great big THANK YOU to all of our readers, commenters and reccers – you make @hd-erised the wonderful event and community it is, and we are so, so grateful to mod this fest for you.

Thank you for your support, your contributions, and all the love you've shared with one another! 

♥ Your Erised mods P.S. If there's a mistake or an omission, please forgive us, and do let us know by sending an email to our mod account at hderised@gmail.com

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Masterlist of Vetted Fundraisers from the Palestinians who directly contacted me (23-28 November)

28 November

Mohammed Nabulsi (@mahmoud-gaza): Mohammed and his wife Heba have 3 children: Nour (19), Maram (18) and Mahmoud (13). Mahmoud is carrying water to earn $2 a day to provide some income for his family. They are fundraising to buy basic necessities. (https://chuffed.org/project/114286-help-nabulsi-family) (#141 on @/gazavetters vetted list)

Jaafar Wael (@jaafar-gaza05, @jaafar-gaza01, jaafar-gaza00): Jaafar is a 24-year-old computer engineer. His family’s company has been destroyed. They are a family with 13 people. (https://gofund.me/382a7168) (#299 on @/gazavetters vetted list)

Mona Ramadan (@manouche-231): Mona is 31 years old and she has 3 children under the age of 13. They have been displaced and are now living in a tent in Gaza. (https://gofund.me/908d5b4d) (#253 on @/gazavetters vetted list) (€865 raised of €50K goal)

Tarneem Sami (@tarnem-1): Tarneem is 35 years old and have 3 children: Layan, Jana, and Ayman. Her husband Ahmed was killed in a bombing while trying to get supplies for his family. (https://gofund.me/e3e7ffff) (shared by 90-ghost)

26-27 November

Majed (@majedgerbawi): Majed is from a family of 5. His eldest son lost his job due to the war, his daughter was preventing from graduating uni, and his youngest son’s education came to a halt. (https://gofund.me/54c6a645) (vetted by bilal-salah0)

Nada Dohan (@nadadohan44, @nadadohan2003): Nada has 3 siblings: Youssef, Nouran and Nour. Nour was seriously injured in the bombing that destroyed their house. They are fundraising to provide treatment for Nour and to buy basic necessities. (https://gofund.me/dfc697e5) (shared by 90-ghost)

Hanan Alanqar (@hananalanqar78, @hanananqar78): Hanan lives with his brother Jihad, his wife Ola and their 10-year-old son Yousef. Jihad has multiple chronic diseases including high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis and celiac disease. As a result, he has lost his eyesight, his kidneys have failed, and his legs are also broken. He needs medical treatment that is not available in Gaza. (https://gofund.me/394c0436) (#266 on @/gazavetters vetted list) (€430 raised of €50K target)

25 November

Munther Sahweel (@munthersahweel1): Munther is from a family of 6. Munther suffers from kidney problems and chronic diseases (diabetes and high blood pressure) but struggles to obtain medication. Munther has 4 children: Karim (28) who is an Information Technology major, Samir (26) who is an accounting student, Aseel (24) who is studying business administration, and Layan (13). Their house has been destroyed. They are fundraising to buy food, water, medicine and evacuate from Gaza. (https://gofund.me/a2cd6382) (#256 on @/gazavetters vetted list)

Rima (@riima790): Rima is 45 years old. She has 2 children: Baha (13), and Ola (16) who wishes to study medicine. Her husband has been injured in the feet. Their house has been bombed and destroyed. They are fundraising to pay for Rima’s husband’s surgery and to evacuate from Gaza. (https://gofund.me/da70b47e) (#249 on @/gazavetters vetted list) (€478 raised of €50K goal)

Aya Hassouna (@ayamontasr, @ayafamily5): Aya has 3 children. Their home has been destroyed and they are now sleeping on the streets. They are fundraising to buy basic necessities. (https://chuffed.org/project/help-aya-and-her-family-survive-the-onslaught-on-gaza) (shared by 90-ghost) (€88 Raised of €30 000)

24 November

Yossef Ezz Eldeen Abo Steta, Ruba Khaled Khader (@rubakhader2004, @yossef-gaza11, @ahmadabostita): Youssef is 24 years old and he used to be an accountant. He was supposed to marry his fiancee Ruba (20), whom he has been engaged with for 2 years, in Februrary 2024. Ruba is studying software engineering in uni and Yousef wishes to pay for uni fees so she can finish her education. (https://gofund.me/140f79ec) (#251 on @/gazavetters vetted list) (€167 raised of €30K goal, fundraising since August)

Farah Younis, Lauren (@farahyounis, @allorenasworld2): Lauren and Farah are sisters and they are from a family of 8. Lauren is a uni student and she dreams of becoming an artist. Her younger sister Farah was seriously injured in the head, resulting in bleeding and a fractured skull, when their home was bombed. They wish to evacuate from Gaza and get treatment for Farah. (https://gofund.me/44d38085) (shared by 90-ghost) (CHF1,172 raised of CHF30K, fundraising since April)

Adham Ayyad (@lawyer-adhamayyad88): Adham is a lawyer with 4 children. His family, including his parents, his 11 siblings and all their children, totals 62 people. They wish to evacuate from Gaza. (https://gofund.me/e41a607c) (shared by 90-ghost) (€807 raised of €50K target)

23 November

Maram Rafat (@maramrafat): Maram is a 27 year old pharmacist from Gaza. She is trying to evacuate her family (her parents, 3 sisters and her brother) from Gaza. His father needs medical treatment for the severe pain he is suffering on his back and foot. He has had 3 surgeries done to his back. Her father is a journalist, and they have had difficulty finding shelter as people are afraid to help him for fear of being targeted. (https://gofund.me/1d29dc02) (#85 on Butterfly Effect Project vetted list, shared by el-shab-hussein)

Abedallah Musallam (@abedallahmusallam): Abedallah is a fresh graduate and supposed to start university. He is a very talented student and wishes to become a doctor. (https://gofund.me/f7e44b6e) (#276 on @/gazavetters vetted list)

Mahmoud Ayyad (@mahmoudayyads, mahmoudayyad): Mahmoud’s family consist of 43 members, mostly young children and old women. They wish to evacuate from Gaza. (https://gofund.me/4539f36c) (vetted by 90-ghost)

Yehia Alqoqa (@yehiaalqoqa6): Yahya’s father has been killed and now he is the sole breadwinner for his family. He has lost his home and he is fundraising to help his family survive. (https://gofund.me/d38cc51f) (#95 on @/gazavetters vetted list)

Click here for my Google Doc with my complete masterlist of all the Palestinian gfm asks I've received

Info on how gfm campaigns vetted:  See here, here, here and here.

See post here for other verified ways to send aid to Gaza.

Daily Clicks on Arab.org. Every click made is registered in their system and generates donation from sponsors/advertisers.

See links below for my Masterlists of Vetted Fundraisers from the Palestinians who sent me asks for if you want to help more people! As well as resources for palestinian students if you are a palestinian student!

Masterlists of Vetted Fundraisers

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 13 - 25 July.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 26 -29 July.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 30 July - 1 August.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 2 - 5 August.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 6 - 10 August.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 11 - 14 August.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 15 - 18 August

Click here for my Masterlist for fundrasiers from 19 - 21 August

Click here for my Masterlist for fundrasiers from 22 - 24 August

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 25 - 28 August

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 29 August - 1 September

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 2 - 5 September.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 6-10 September.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 11-14 September.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 15-18 September.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 19-22 September.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 23-26 September.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 27-30 September.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 1-4 October.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 5-9 October.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 10-14 October.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 15-21 October.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 22-26 October.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 27 October - 2 November.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 3-12 November.

Click here for my Masterlist for fundraisers from 13-22 November.

Resources for Palestinian Students!

Initiatives and resources to support Palestinian students, academics and universities:

This is a list of initiatives and resources for Gazan students seeking to complete their studies, including initiatives, resources, training and scholarships. See list here.

Scholarships for Displaced Palestinian students:

Putting this here for the palestininans who follow me: If you are a displaced Palestinian student looking to fund your education, this document lists the scholarships available around the world for displaced Palestinian students.

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2024 FIC Roundup

A big thank you to everyone who either mentioned or tagged me 💛 @missunderstoodlyrics @eybefioro @itsscottiesstark @bellisima-writes love y’all brilliant people 💛💛

What fandom do you write in?

Good Omens 😇😈

How many words have you published in 2024?

255 363 words ���‍💨😮‍💨 it will keep going up until Dec. 31

What is your greatest achievement this year?

Having consistently written through the year. 2023 was my comeback to writing after 15 years of nothing and I’m so happy it lasted like that. I’m seeing a tremendous amount of progress in my writing and story telling and I’m very grateful for that 💛

What are your top three fics you wrote this year?

Drive me to the moon: (complete, rated E)

At GOMENS, world-renowned sports brand and sponsor, one takes pride in endorsing the UK’s most talented athletes. On the other hand, one would like to ignore the fact that their two top of the bill, Aziraphale and Crowley, have heartily hated each other since the day they met. But what should be expected, when one knows these two? Aziraphale is a professional dancer, Crowley a rally driver. While the former switches between fierce competitions and prestigious stages, the other goes from one track to another across the world, clearing out every prize from behind the wheel of his racing car. Two beings, two worlds, two universes that everything should keep apart. But an unprecedented charity event is getting set up at GOMENS, and quickly, their own athletes will have to compete with and assist each other in turns. Two worlds, two personalities. But if they want to run for a cause that matters to the both of them, Crowley and Aziraphale are going to have to find an Arrangement. 

The Angel I knew : (WIP but 100% written, rated M)

Twenty years after his divorce and the loss of their child, Aziraphale finds his former partner and childhood sweetheart to have happily transitionned. Together they begin a healing journey. A very soft and fluffy fic despite the themes.

Richfront Valley: (WIP, rated E)

Aziraphale lives a very secluded life in Richfront Valley national park. That is until a stranger comes and turns his life upside down, their one night stand turning into the most intense three weeks of their lives.

What was your biggest pit of despair moment?

I am not sure I understand that question? Every time I lose interest in one of my WIP is a pit of despair moment I guess? Because I hype myself (and my friends lol) and feel bad that I'm not able to go through with the idea??

What have you learned?

OUTLINE.

I'm still fighting myself over the "first draft doesn't need to be perfect" thing, BUT, I have learned that outlining my fics helps me write them to the end. I'm still working a lot with the flow because I need to write to keep writing, but I know where I'm going.

What fic did you want to do but never made it off the ground?

UUURGH. So, OK. I wrote a very dark Human AU that I called No Place to House our Love, where Aziraphale is a prison priest and Crowley is a convicted fellon. This resonates a lot with me, as prison was my work environment for years, and I really wanted to finish it. It's currently 30k words and on hold. I really hope to finish it someday. Sad ending. But comes from my guts, I suppose.

Did you beta any fics?

YES YES YES!!! I had the joy to help my dear friend @eybefioro polishing up a couple of their fics: Forgive me, Father, and Vavooming part2 at different stages of writing so it was a tremendous fun!!

Also currently lurking on one of @itsscottiesstark's next work and it's YUMMY.

What three fics have you read this year that you love?

Oh boy.

OK, I declared myself the official propaganda officer for @itsscottiesstark 's fic Undone it's sooooo good guys... An AU where Crowley and Aziraphale realise just in time that Adam is the real Antichrist and decide to help raise him? HELLOOO??

In your own time, by @ineffabildaddy ... What can I say... How soft can something really be??? (I had to chose between this and I'm Beginning to See the Light and oops... seems that I've mentionned both now...)

And last but not least, Take Some Pictures or Something stole my fucking heart... By His_infinitevariety (if that person is on tumblr please wave at me!!)

What ideas are percolating for next year?

SO. MANY. IDEAS. BREWING

I have a Space Race fic idea that promises to be A BIG PIECE OF WORK. Pretty much based on the Hunger Games concept, but in space, and in a race. It's still a brewing thing and will most likely be super long to write.

I am currently writing The Angel's I Knew 's prequel! So if you're in love with those two lovebirds and wonder what they were like as teenagers... It's coming your way!

I am writing a Ghost Story, with WW2 RAF Pilot Crowley!

And last but not least, @elenthyaolyenths and I are outlining a through the ages, loss memory fic that we hope to start writing soon!!!

And well... so many plot bunnies ready to be adopted, I'm opening a bloody shelter at this point. But those are the main ones.

Who do you want to thank?

So many people... damn, starting with @eybefioro, @crowleys-bentley-and-plants and @fearandhatred -- our groupchat is still so dear to my heart <3 love you guys

@itsscottiesstark -- for having me open the Nice and Accurate Network on discord and allowing me to meet with all the wonderful people on it <3 And for being just the sweetest <3

And well... My very own internet wife, my partner in crime, my faithful reader and illustrator. @elenthyaolyenths You've made this year so much more fun, I can't wait to continue brain rotting with you in 2025!

Cheers everyone, here's to 2025! To our world!

Tagging @beerok23, @pineappleonbread, @ineffabildaddy on this <3

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It’s “appreciate yourself” hours! Pick five pieces of writing/art that you’ve done that you love and talk about them! ❤️❤️❤️

Ahhhh okay, thank you!! 💜🌻 I finally have a free moment (aka work is slow) so I'm going to work on drafting this out :) I have far too much art I'm proud of—I'm at a stage in my progress right now where I think my art looks pretty awesome. So this list will be stuff from my Greatest Hits collection on AO3. In order of oldest to newest, I think:

incandescently happy

An LU post-adventure work, one of the first longer fics I posted. I released one chapter a day over the summer of 2022, so a lot of the notes have something about my day in them. It's about 30k all told.

I absolutely adored expanding on what the boys might do after the whole LU adventure happens (though I did forget about the fact that I think Time and Malon have a kid during this time!) This work features some proto-Shatterproof stuff, like Wind having a prosthetic leg and Four starting to specialize in crafting prosthetics/disability aids. I gave Hyrule longer hair and a job making maps for the royal family. Legend got another adventure but also started a magic garden/orchard, which pulls in more business than Ravio's stuff. Four and his grandpa adopted a single mother and her two kids. Man I went off with some of these headcanons. I've always considered writing more in this world, but I think it stands very well on its own. Maybe someday I might revisit and rewrite it with some of my new skills. :)

Rise and Shine and Fall

Whumptober 2022, focused entirely on LU! Guys this thing is almost 78k. I realize now that most people pre-plan or pre-write for things like Whumptober, but I wrote these one by one every day, which was extra-hard because I had both college classes and a day job at the time. I came up with some fun AUs, learned a lot about writing (especially whump), and proved to myself that I can do hard things like this!! I've adored doing daily challenges since, though I haven't done it in a while. I look forward to this year's whumptober though!

I really like the table of contents in the first chapter—it makes things easy to find. I know individual works are probably more accessible, but I was still getting to know AO3, and those big numbers are fun. XD I have a hard time picking favorites, because I really went off on these, but I'd say a couple of them are:

Chp 3, "Right Here" about Sky

Chp 7, "Proof of Life" about Four and Shadow

Chp 18, "I'm onwy a babey :(" about Wind

Chp 21, "6:13" about Hyrule and Time

Chp 26, "Silence is Golden" about Wild

Chp 31-32, "The Worst Thing About Earth" about Legend, but kind of more specifically the rewrite/expansion I did last year... haha...

The Marvelous Misadventures of Wind and His Merry Band or Maybe-Human Heroes

It's been a while since I updated this story (56k, 6/8 chapters), but it's constantly on my mind. I've started chapter 7 twice, and I know what I want to happen, but I am easily distracted by the siren call of some other whump fics. XD

I freaking love this story, though. I really want to finish it. It's kind of an... experiment? I guess? I want to get published someday, and I picture myself writing middle-grade novels. This story is sort of my attempt to hit that tone. Also I just love Wind so so so much. Let him be cool!!

Blood-Sucker's Guide to High School

56k Four Swords completed story! I wrote this in a frenzy of like two or three weeks, then took another two to edit. It takes plot points from a vampire novel I enjoyed and twists and applies them to a story about Shadow and the Four Swords manga boys. I'm very proud of what I accomplished here, and that it's a complete story! I think it worked out really well. I learned a lot about plotting and handling larger stories, and it helped that I had the half-remembered structure of an existing novel to use as training wheels.

I love the worldbuilding in this story! The premise is that Shadow is an evil soulless vampire from a (rather abusive, not that he sees it) family of the same, but then he gets the ability to walk in the sunshine. He's assigned to go to high school for a while to get a feast for the vampire gala, but meanwhile he's developing a conscience and getting very attached to these human boys. I think I did a good job. I love rereading this, every scene is just so fun! :)

Counterbalance

55k exactly of a stupid LU darks AU. This started life as a series of oneshots and then the plot progressively got more and more convoluted and I love these stupid boys so much. The plot is very much not tight, in contrast to Blood-Sucker's Guide, but I learned a lot about how I write and how I like to plan with this one, too.

The characters are stupid and the plot is just kinda silly and there is both a bathhouse scene AND a spa scene. Legend blows up multiple things, my lovely nasty little Dark Links need smacks and therapy, and Prince has a legitimately emotional moment at the end. I love how it turned out, it's like an ugly little stuffed animal I made and hug until the eyes pop out.

That's five but I would be extremely remiss if I did not also mention something from Shatterproof:

The Incredible Shrinking Chain

About 10k, this is entry 31/68 in my series Shatterproof, which is a close-canon AU in which each of the boys has a different physical disability. This series also plays into my publishing ambitions, because whatever I publish will very likely have some disability representation. I'm rather passionate about it, actually! Shatterproof is close to my heart, and I'm so honored that so many people seem to love it too. :) I need to work on the next entry again!!

This entry in particular is so much fun. In it, the whole Chain sans Four is stuck mouse-sized, and Four has to travel out to Twilight's castle with them to get Dusk to help break the curse. They all have to figure out how to navigate while tiny, and Four pulls some very silly stunts. I love them.

Anyway, there's my list!! I've written a lot over the last like two and a half years, and I'm so so glad that I get to be here and part of this community. The LU fandom as a whole (or at least the parts I've seen!) is so welcoming and positive and I try to give back where I can! I'm going to suggest looking through my bookmarks and ultimate rec list collection to find some new favorites from some very talented authors! :) (oof I need to update the collection soon!! I've been seeing some awesome stuff!)

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ᥫ᭡bee's tumblr wrapped (2024)ᥫ᭡

it took me embarrassingly long to make this banner.... anyway a special thanks to dia ( @yoonia ) for tagging me to do this ! i didn't do much writing this year but i wanna do this so imma do it lol

this year kinda fucked me sideways multiple times. it took months of therapy and lots of courage to sit myself down and reconnect with not only my writing, but myself. i have been feeling so lost but diving back into passions like writing has given me the confidence i needed to find my direction again. i still have no idea where i am supposed to be or what i am meant to do. but, right now, it feels like at least i know which way i am going, and that's forward.

thank you so much to everyone who has continued to read, comment, reblog, like, and interact with me and my work. i don't think i deserve any of it and it's incredibly surreal that i still got asks about my fics and series. i can't believe that a lot of these fics were not only read once, but twice. like that's fucking insane to me. so thank you so much. and thank you to everyone behind the scene who has supported me from banners to reading things over. jen ( @anobodyslove ) is the most wonderful, sweet, beautiful person i have ever had the pleasure of connecting with. from late night editing to long walks talking about every and any thing, you are my favourite human and i love you!

okay, okay, enough sappiness!! let's dive in!

₊˚✧ OVERALL STATS ✧˚₊‧

: ̗̀➛ fics published: 9 : ̗̀➛ series completed: 1 : ̗̀➛ series ongoing: 4 : ̗̀➛ words written: 122,258 : ̗̀➛ fics to be published: 24 (i don't wanna talk about it...)

‎‧₊˚✧ FIRST FIC OF 2024 | published : february 17 ✧˚₊‧

: ̗̀➛ xi. rotten angelcake ⇾ kth. | s2l, ceo au, sugar daddy au | 16.5k

retrospection: ahh my first attempt at returning to tumblr after a long unplanned hiatus. if you were ever curious on what kind of headspace i was in, this fic is the perfect explanation. the rotten angelcake series has been my form of self-indulgence and journaling since the very first chapter. however, i completely threw myself into this chapter of the series. all my anger, frustration, regret, confusion, sadness was poured into this chapter. it's so emotionally charged and personal, i almost didn't post it. i haven't even looked at it again before this moment and that was just to retrieve the link lol it's just carrying a very dark part of my life that i have been trying to pull myself out of. but, while it does hold so much for me, i do not regret writing or publishing it. it's all part of the self-healing process ૮꒰ ˶• ༝ •˶꒱ა ♡

‎‧₊˚✧ LONGEST FIC OF 2024 | published : october 3 ✧˚₊‧

: ̗̀➛ the underground ⇾ bgc. | strangers to lovers, boxer au, dark themes | 29.1 k |

retrospection: oof this fic! so i wrote this for channie's b-day and one of my favourite chantober rituals, especially for his b-day, is to write the most unhinged, dark story. i have never been able to get the idea of boxer, mafia boss!chan ruining me in front of his friends out of my head, so i wrote about it. i lowkey wish i could make it a series or add an epilogue but i vowed to finish my ongoing series first before starting another one. it's just such a fun fic with a lot of grittiness. i don't think the nearly 30k words was enough either tbh but it will have to do for now ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა

‎‧₊˚✧ PERSONAL FAVOURITE FIC OF 2024 | published : october 17 ✧˚₊‧

: ̗̀➛ between roar and whisper ⇾ bgc. | hogwarts au, pwp, e2l | 9.4k |

retrospection: this was probably the easiest to write because there was very little worldbuilding required and i got to focus on the sexual tension between these two "enemies". it was short, sweet, to the point, and the smut was so fucking hot—ugh! i need slytherin!chan to make me cockdumb too! i don't think i will ever be over this fic and i kinda wanna write an epilogue for it too but i will stop myself because i am already overcommitted ˚ 𝜗𝜚˚⋆｡☆

‎‧₊˚✧ LAST FIC OF 2024 | published : december 31 ✧˚₊‧

: ̗̀➛ marked by krampus ⇾ kth. | twisted christmas au, monster kink, s2l | 11.1k |

retrospection: okay i just finished this fic yesterday so i don't know how much real introspection i can truly muster but i will do my best. as the last fic of taecember, as well as the year, i decided to indulge in my very big, very embarrassing monster kink. i was kind of focused on that which meant that the worldbuilding for this fic was not my best. i could have done better...anyway! this may be the final fic for 2024 but it will not be the final monster au i write ᡣ • . • 𐭩 ♡

‎‧₊˚✧ HONOURABLE MENTION | published : november 1 ✧˚₊‧

: ̗̀➛ elixir of the damned ⇾ bgc. | vampire au, s2l | 19.5k |

retrospection: this fic was written as the last fic of chantober, but it had been in my drafts for about two years. now i obviously do not know bang chan in real life, but he seems to wear his heart on his sleeve and is very forthcoming about his struggles on camera. so this fic was heavily inspired but the sentiments of sadness and wistfulness, about missing his family in australia. i remembered this v-live where he was back home and he was doing his chan's room (which omg i miss so much) in his old room. and the room had become his little brothers. and i just couldn't stop thinking about what that must feel like. just imagine walking back into a familiar room and it looks the same, like the layout is exactly how you left it, but all the stuff in there does not belong to you. how uncanny must that have felt? to tiptoe around a room that was once yours? idk it just inspired his character in this fic and i hope that i was able to capture that well enough ૮₍´˶• . • ⑅ ₎ა

‧₊˚✧ SPECIAL EVENTS OF 2024 | published : november 1 ✧˚₊‧

: ̗̀➛ chantober 2024 & taecember 2024

retrospection: god, i love bias months so much—even though they wreck me by the end. being able to fully express my love and devotion to my biases just makes me feel so full and happy. it's like even if my day might be shitty, it's okay because i have something to work towards and look forward to. i also have the chance to celebrate both chan, and taehyung with you, which is always so exciting and fun! i literally cannot wait to do it all over again in 2025 ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

‧₊˚✧ TOP TRACKS OF 2024 ✧˚₊‧

𐙚 hurt — newjeans 𐙚 espresso — sabrina carpenter 𐙚 i like it — stray kids 𐙚 red lights (bang chan, hyunjin) — stray kids 𐙚 venus fly trap — marina 𐙚 work — ateez 𐙚 perfect night — le sserafim 𐙚 chk chk boom — stray kids 𐙚 mon amour — gemini 𐙚 na — hwasa

‧₊˚✧ GOALS FOR 2025 ✧˚₊‧

𐙚 stick to my posting schedule !! (writing two fics a month) 𐙚 properly plan ahead for bias months (i'm literally the worst at this) 𐙚 finish the rotten angelcake series 𐙚 breathe... (sometimes i forget that i just need to take a minute and breathe)

many thanks again to dia for tagging me, this was really fun ♡︎ i wanna tag jen ( @anobodyslove ) , dee (@awrkives ) , ghost ( @ghxstwrites ) , lixie ( @bunnliix ) , minerva ( @yourlocaljonghoe ) , and stardust ( @skzdust ). there's no pressure to do this !!

♡¸.•' happy new year lovelies '•.¸♡

[shadowkoo]

Kinktober Fic Recs

I won’t be able to fully commit to writing for Kinktober this year, so instead, I’ll be participating as a reader. I’ll be reviewing fanfics that align with each day’s theme (list provided below).

Want to get involved? You can send me your fic recommendations through my submission box using the format below:

writer name / url

fic title

link to the fic

the day & theme it falls under

what you like about it (can be just a sentence or two)

My personal preferences:

20+ idols

x reader fics or x o.c. only

oneshots preferred

series with up to 5 parts will be considered

ideally less than 30k words

tumblr links for fics (no wattpad, ao3, aff, etc.)

bts, ateez, seventeen, exo, got7, monsta x, stray kids, nct

please read the disclaimers at the bottom of this post

𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖗 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖒𝖊𝖘

⋆˙⟡ OCT 1 ⟡˙⋆ phone sex ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 2 ⟡˙⋆ mutual masturbation ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 3 ⟡˙⋆ thigh riding ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 4 ⟡˙⋆ shower sex ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 5 ⟡˙⋆ double penetration ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 6 ⟡˙⋆ bondage ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 7 ⟡˙⋆ mirror sex ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 8 ⟡˙⋆ face fucking ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 9 ⟡˙⋆ car sex ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 10 ⟡˙⋆ breeding kink ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 11 ⟡˙⋆ body worship ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 12 ⟡˙⋆ hate sex ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 13 ⟡˙⋆ blood play ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 14 ⟡˙⋆ power imbalance ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 15 ⟡˙⋆ humiliation ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 16 ⟡˙⋆ caught in the act ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 17 ⟡˙⋆ daddy kink ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 18 ⟡˙⋆ sloppy oral ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 19 ⟡˙⋆ age gap ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 20 ⟡˙⋆ cum play ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 21 ⟡˙⋆ pain kink ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 22 ⟡˙⋆ weapon play ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 23 ⟡˙⋆ gang bang ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 24 ⟡˙⋆ brat taming ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 25 ⟡˙⋆ orgasm denial ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 26 ⟡˙⋆ using toys ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 27 ⟡˙⋆ exhibitionism/voyeurism ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 28 ⟡˙⋆ sex tapes ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 29 ⟡˙⋆ dom/sub ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 30 ⟡˙⋆ big hands ↳ read reviews here

⋆˙⟡ OCT 31 ⟡˙⋆ monsterfucking ↳ read reviews here

*Please Note: You must be 18+ to interact with my page and submit fic recommendations. Submissions are not anonymous, and you're welcome to recommend your own fic or someone else's. Please limit your submission to one fic per day/theme (no pressure to submit for every day—that would be way too much to ask!). If you have recs for multiple days/themes, I’d really appreciate it if you could submit each one separately! Some days I may only review one fic, other days I may have multiple reviews. Not every fic submitted may be reviewed. I am starting this early so I can schedule my reviews ahead of time.

[painterofhorizons]

A Year in Writing: 2024

Reviews for 2020 (222k), 2021 (205k), 2022 (95k), 2023 (20-30k?)

Total wordcount as of Dec. 31: 74.090, which is a monthly average of 6174 words. So 74k is nowhere near close to the 200+k that I used to do, right? But don't be fooled, it's AMAZING 74k, because after two years of utter struggle I am finally having fun again with writing! So 74k might be even a bigger win than the 200k I used to do. Big Win. Like, Big.

General review: Remember (you don't, neither did I, but my last review clearly states it) how I wrote in my yearly writing review last year:

The blorbos might even be knocking at my door again - quietly and very politely, but I can see them. So, here’s hoping.

And boy. Little did I know.

So, this has been a very good writing year. Don't ask me what was going on in march and april, I honestly have no idea. Zero. No memory. As opposed to former years it was not like some big scary thing going on, I guess I was just busy with work maybe? Not feeling it? Who knows? Even better: who cares? Because bitch, I came back strong!

First of all, I did start tracking again, which now gives us nice statistics. And I set a monthly "goal" of 5k, which is something I can do, but like not as an actual goal but more as a number for tracking. And despite these two blurry nonexistent months I did that great.

But it's not about numbers. It's about being back in my since-I-can-think-favourite-hobby and outlet, and I am having fun with it again. There has been plenty of days when I didn't write anything, and I only wrote when I felt like/inspiration hit. But more often than not, when it hit, it HIT.

And I have to give a big shoutout to @kyratittyfish for this. (Which was already mentioned as a highlight in my 2022 review! Love ya, friend. <3) A lot of these words would not have happened if we didn't have that amazing Berlin trip in May with all the ideas that it sparked and if she wasn't such an amazing encouraging friend who always supported my late night "listen, what if..."-messages. Who always went all in "do tell me more about it" and "I like how you think" and I don't think I have to tell you, but that is fuel for writers. So the biggest part of these words would not have happened if dear Kyra wouldn't have supported all those small and huge what if's I have encountered this year. You know who you are, girl. (And then we met again and went on a fabulous winter island trip which has been another highlight of this year for me. <3)

So yeah, very good year, after two very hard years. Here's hoping for 2025.

Things posted: Plenty! Which includes two oneshots finished and posted on AO3 (a James/Steve ME3 banter and a James/Shepard post war scene) as well as a couple of WIPS from the post Akuze fic that has basically been my main focus this year (with a side of post war angst and some ME3 smut, mind me), which was tense knees, about cake, TBI, sleeping in the Kodiak, jello, two aces in disguise, post akuze promotion, sign language, James wrecks his knee, Corporal Giles, being stuck.

Things I would like to do next year: Write? Ehehehehe. Well, I would like to bring those MANY many many words of post Akuze notes into something I can start to post on AO3. That would be cool. As much as I love the fic, it's giving me a little trouble in terms of putting all those notes and ideas into one form to publish a fic with it. I would like to do that soon. Also, most recently the blorbo sleeper agents from 20 years ago woke up again, so maybe we will also see some King Arthur (2004) fic next year? Who knows?

Most important: take it easy and have fun. That's what I wanna do writing wise next year.

Since the Corporal Giles mini WIP was my most popular things this year, have it here once more.

“How’s Giles doing?” It’s a macabre question to ask, but it cuts to the chase. Shepard shrugs. The answer is as simple as fucked up. “Better.” Well, obviously Giles isn’t better. There’s no way he can get better, because he’s dead. He’s rotting in the dirt of Akuze, eaten alive by thresher maw acid, cowering behind a rock right next to Reda. He’s taken most of the hit, and she hasn’t (still got enough damage to need a trachea transplant and eighteen percent third degree burns on her skin, but she’s alive and he’s not, so that’s that). Corporal Giles won’t get better. But he stopped haunting her every single night, and every single minute of the day, and every single art therapy session. Because he’s the only thing of Akuze she remembers and while she’s bad at drawing, she’s apparently gifted in the horror genre, and she’s gotta draw something. Maybe she’ll draw something else tomorrow. Or maybe she won’t. Because Giles is better, but he’s still dead.

[godsmistake13]

hello again.

sorry that is has been a little while since i made one of these. been kinda feeling slumped, and all, but finally, after a couple of days of finally pushing my body to do something, i finally got this done.

if you are getting this post in this tag, then that means that this tag is currently popular enough to show this post for better visibility. i do apologize for annoying anyone by doing this, however we should not forget anyone during all of this.

reminder that even in the new year, we should not forget about anyone that is going through genocide. whether that be palestine, congo, sudan, haiti, west papua, etc. there are so many genocides going on right now as we speak, so your contributions for them are very much needed.

there's 3 more things that are worth mentioning:

1. as of now, i don't have enough money to donate to anyone. sorry about that.

2. i am not an official vetter by any stretch of the imagination. i am only the messenger.

3. some of the info might be outdated (specifically the last two donations, and the last time they have posted. i do apologize for the confusion.

if anyone is able to donate, please do so, regardless, please reblog this, so more people can help. thank you.

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[thecharmedburrowspn-files]

OctoWriMo update

19,810/30,00 words written

3 chapters completed

I have managed to stay focused on my TVD fic and not get distracted by other plot bunnies/WIPs (honestly, the biggest accomplishment)

[pansysgothgf]

Tease Tidbit Tuesday

Tagged by the lovely @wildlife4life !! Thank you :)

Here’s a few paragraphs from my sequel of My Brother’s Keeper! I’m still working on it however Whumptober has caught the attention of my brainworms, so it’s probably going to be delayed… again 😅

Summers for Buck in the past meant a lot of different things.

When he was a kid summer was the time of year everyone on his block went out to play until the streetlights went on, all of his friends darting around from house to house to play or have sleepovers. It was the time of year when his parents kept an extra eye on him, made sure he didn’t do anything that could risk his precious cargo. Bone marrow, organs, blood. He hated summer, because it was the time of year, he felt the most like a walking blood bag.

Time just… didn’t matter when he was a SEAL. He didn’t count the days until he was discharged or had to re-up the way some of his teammates did. He was okay with fading out of existence, becoming a ghost.

Then he was home, studying even through the summer so that he could get his degree faster, become someone new faster, shed everything about that life except for the nickname that became more real than Evan ever had been.

In Peru, summer was the time of year he spent traveling around South America. He scraped and saved, taking busses from Ecuador to Colombia to Brazil then back to Peru. He picked up under the counter jobs slinging drinks to afford rent and bus faire (and to pick up) and for a while summer seemed like what it was for other people his age. Time to find himself, to explore and make mistakes and drink in a way that wouldn’t have scared him so much if he didn’t have Danny’s lifeless body always stuck in his peripheral vision.

Now, Buck is a teacher and he’s dating a firefighter with an eight-year-old. Now, this summer, Buck spends so much time playing outside he has an almost permanent tan, as well as a small sunburn on his nose and over his ears where he always forgets to reapply on himself.

Thanks for reading! I love this fic so dearly, I can’t wait for it to be ready to share :) I also have another fic around the same length (~30k right now) that should be done soon-ish! (And 31 whumptober prompts that I’ve just started haha!) so at some point I’ll have something to share :)

[lonniemachin]

TIME SENSITIVE: HELP MARAM AND AHMED REACH €30k BY 08/31

Thanks to everyone’s help, we managed to get my friend Ahmed’s evacuation fundraiser to €28,150 last night — a milestone that couldn’t be reached so quickly without your compassion and generosity. However, Ahmed asked me a couple of days ago if I would help him reach €30,000 by the end of the month, and so I come to you asking for your continued support to help he, his wife, and their three little children reach this goal. It’s the amount of their initial goal before raising it to €40,000.

Please do not give up on them now. With news that talks of opening the Rafah crossing have advanced, it is as dire as ever to ensure they have the amount needed to register and coordinate travel. €30k is a huge step towards ensuring the safety of 5 irreplaceable souls, 3 of which are under 5 years old. Give what you can to make this goal a reality. We have 12 DAYS and €1,850 LEFT — entirely doable if we give it our all for this family. Please do not forget their daily struggle to survive; disease, shelter in an active danger zone, skin infections, malnutrition, and more, all with the hope they will be able to escape and live their lives until return in peace and safety.

GOFUNDME LINK

€28,150/€30,000 SHORT-TERM GOAL.

Tagging for reach under the cut. Let me know if you'd like to be removed.

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[syndrossi]

Writing progress round-up

I set writing goals on the NaNoWriMo site every two months of 30K per month. We just wrapped up the last period of Jun 1 - Jul 31, which had an end goal of 145K.

How'd it go?

Ended up at 5K over the target, though I was on pace to smash it by about 15K before burnout/sickness hit hard (you can see it in the near-flat portion on the chart). I also took it very easy for the last 2-3 weeks of it, since I was so ahead of pace.

Gonna try to get back into the 1K/day swing of things with the new writing period, though how painful this will be depends on how solid I feel about the pacing/direction of the current arc.

Chapter progress slowed some. Again, part of this was the burnout, but also hitting a tough section of the story to figure out the flow of, plus chapters getting longer. Since we hit the twenties, the average chapter length is around 6,500 vs 5,600 for chapter 1-19.

Next goal: 205K by the end of September! This miiiight slip? I was planning to take some time off in September to visit friends, which would probably be a two week thing. This is why we have chapter buffers!

(Another reason we have chapter buffers: so that when you realize you want to set something up a little earlier, you can still do it. I do wish I'd stopped double updates earlier to give myself even more of a buffer leeway, but oh well.)

[thecouchsofa]

📚December Stats 2024 (Month in Review)🌻

Total words written: ❗50,806 words ❗

No. of days written on: 22/31 days

No. of days used for editing: 3/31 days

Most productive week: December 22-31, with 23,639 words written

Most productive day: Sunday the 1st - 9,045 words written

Fics worked on: 10, including:

Like London to a Brick (Drarry - 4k, T)

TTPD server gift fic (completed + posted to collection)

AAF/Something in the Orange (Drarry, currently stands at 45k total and est. 60% complete)

Dronarry fest (yee haw 🤠)

Hand and finger kink PWP parts 1, 2, and 3 (Drarry, all parts titled + complete)

A fan of the classics, aka 'fluffy omelette thing' (Drarry, 4k, T)

Admissions to a Lover, aka Bottomianos PWP (Damen/Laurent, 5k, E)

Gladiator Damen, (still to be titled, Damen/Laurent, currently 15k, estimated 20% complete)

Favourite fic written this month: This might be the first month where I can't pick just 1! My TTPD gift fic, fluffy omelette, and Gladiator Damen have all been an insane amount of fun to write for completely different reasons

Longest Fic written this month: Gladiator Damen - 30k inc. fic and drafting notes

Fics posted this month: 1:

Like London to a Brick (Drarry - 4k, T)

Thoughts: I've had a blast writing in the second half of this month in particular! Last month I mentioned trying to finish a fic I'd been working on for a while - ding dong, I was wrong (I started a new WiP for a different fandom). By the end of January I hope to get this new WiP finished and then crack on with both my Dronarry fest fic and SiTO, which will be my longest worked on WiP of all time by far when I finally get it sorted out. I have five shorter things that are completed and sitting in the docs ready for posting, which is an incredible feeling. This week my Erised and TTPD gift fics will hit my profile, so I'll probably hold off on posting anything else until at least the end of Jan, but we'll see how we go.

Stay tuned for a 2024 AO3 wrap up after Erised reveals!

January goal: 40,000 words - kickin it in the summertime ☀️🌻🌇

⭐ Total word count for 2024 : 415,488 words ⭐

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