#5k my ass

[awildwriter]

this fic is almost 30k and i haven’t even edited it yet

[toothwormfactory]

[ID: Digital fanart of Barbie facing forward and smiling with her right hand reached out. She is dressed in a cardigan over a collared shirt, pink tie with gold stripes, and skirt with her hair blowing to the side. Sketchy pink eyes surround her and cast a pink glow onto her. The title “Barbie in the Magnus Archives” is written on the bottom. End ID]

I kinda want to draw the barbiestortion now.... maybe the barboneturner too...

EDIT: they have been drawn :]

[mushramoo]

nobody told me how much fun making an au is. I can just make shit up however I wanna and draw my characters in situations. THIS SHIT ROCKS

[stevethehairington]

summary: "slowest burn you'll ever read"

word count: 5k

me: 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 please

[shukruut]

🤑

[blueskittlesart]

blue i need to see your loz content so bad i’m literally tweaking (not literally) but i want to experience eow blind and i’m… i’m losing it… i need to read your essays and see your art on it.

if it makes you feel any better im (mostly) saving the essays for after i finish the game so half the stuff that's spoiler tagged rn is just like one-sentence posts where im incoherently losing my mind over random background scenery

[olde-scratch]

every time i wanna talk about my fics and the writing process of them i think about how i could get bluesky, or i could do it on tumblr (which i already have, but feel like my fics arent "important enough" to talk about since tumblr is more suited for longer pieces of texts about projects, or shitposts)

[cysomen]

The first chapter of can't commit to a thing is finally real and posted and I get to talk about it! spoilers for the first chapter below of course :)

First, writing process!

The first chapter being an introductory one instead of an opening scene was something I debated on for a pretty long time. Originally it was just the second chapter, and then Sova's POV would start further along in the story. I thought that created too much of a challenge with establishing both his backstory and the plot, because some of it is too dense to get through with the POV flipping around three people.

It was originally a Cypher/Sova fic (about a year ago, when i started writing it)! And a (lot) shorter. This and just off the key of reason were the same work at one point; The plot was more emotionally driven, but it still opened with Icebox, and Cypher needing to help Sova with his bloodthirst. I split it into two because I didn't think I could properly write their relationship developing over the course of the fic with it jumping from: tentative allies-disliking each other further-friends again-in a relationship. Felt kind of fragmented. Eventually I'll explain the whole original plot but it has some spoilers for can't commit to a thing so I'll save it for later :0

Sova's backstory as to how he became a vampire is very different from just off the key of reason; hopefully I can make that clear enough through the story, but his recruitment with Brimstone and Viper was something I decided on really late. Writing it meant I had to be concrete on how the Protocol worked in the early days, and usually I try to keep things vague (in my head, idk how much of it translates) on certain aspects of canon because there's so little content on what it actually looks like. I thought it would be a good introduction to how vampirism has altered Sova's character, though.

The details for how vampirism work are also fairly similar to just off the key of reason-- I just finally get to go more in depth with it in the context of the story. I hope to eventually share both the outlines for the story and the details for the AU. I've done a RIDICULOUS amount of research and refining for how the biology works, and I'm so excited to continue showing y'all through the story!! You WILL see me infodumping through Viper and Killjoy even it takes a bit to get there.

and finally, THANK YOU FOR READING!!! Seeing people's responses to just off the key of reason and all of my other fics is incredibly inspiring, and it's very reassuring to know I'm not just talking into the void abt my fic stuff :D I have a lot of fun writing valorant fanfic, and I hope you have just as much fun reading it!

[kacchanot-fucking-deal-with-this]

me: i just have to power through writing this to get the first draft done, and then i can go back and edit and add scenes that feel missing- the worms in my brain: but you will forget the scenes you want to add if you don't go back and add them right now so you should definitely do that instead

[kittykatninja321]

Speaking as a personal autonomy enjoyer I hate the way the fanon conception of “lazerus pit rage” not only treats Jason’s actions as not his own but also his feelings as not his own. To me personally even if there was no evil green Jacuzzi and no Talia, the question of “why is that clown not a funny ass corpse” would still come up and there’d still be some hard feelings about Tim. Just probably with less killing and maiming

[leahnardo-da-veggie]

A Tale of Love, Death and Maggots, part 22-G

Parts 1-15, 16-G, 17-G, 18-G, 19-G, 20-G, 21-G

I looked into her eyes desperately. Was this a trick? I couldn't sacrifice her. But that steel in her gaze told me not to disobey. “Do. It.”

So I did. “We'll make that sacrifice,” I told Not-Athena. “No, I'll make that sacrifice. Together. Let me take on her burden. For Brett and Athena and our safety, I'll do it.”

The maggots halted for a second. “You mean that, little mortal? You would endure unspeakable agonies just to lessen your love's? You would sacrifice that much?” She paused, as though wagering something. “Would you sacrifice your entire being, take on the witch's agony and carry twice the burden? Would you die for them?”

I nodded resolutely. “I would endure it a thousand times over. I would die and be reincarnated in the flames of hell for them. What greater cause is there than to die for the ones you love, after all? Take my life, Lurker. I will go willingly into the night for love.” 

As a boy, I'd never understood those tales of men holding down the fort, sending themselves off to certain death in a faraway warzone for their wives and children. I'd always told myself that I would desert, flee like a sane person, live a life of comfort far away as hostiles ripped the land I loved to shreds. 

Damn, but I was wrong then.

Not-Athena cackled. “What a fine choice, little boy. What a fine choice indeed. I will release those children, and my young will slither out of the witch, and then I shall have you. I shall take you until you scream and tell me that you can bear no more. Then your bargain shall expire, and I will feast upon you and your loves.”

Her maggots clung to my eyelashes, crawling into my ears and nostrils. I felt them in my innards. “Deal,” I managed to say, swallowing maggots as I did so. They tumbled down my gullet, squirming like butterflies all the way into my stomach.

Then everything went black.

No, that wasn't quite right. Everything went to pain.

Maggots slithered under my nails, like those bamboo stick the Japanese used on POWs. They wiggled past my eyelids and into the sockets, gnawing through flesh where needed. They were everywhere, at my crotch, into my belly button, deep in my ear canal. I was swimming in maggots. 

Hot damn, it hurt. There weren't words for the agony. I would have scrubbed my skin clean, ripped my ribs free from my chest, strangled myself with my own intestines just to be free of the itch. I screamed, but it only let more maggots in. 

They chipped my teeth, ripping at the sensitive nerves beneath the enamel. Sobbing, I clawed at myself. I'd do anything to rid myself of the sensation. Anything to get rid of the pain, the itch, the squirming. Anything at all.

“So do you go back on our deal? I'm more than happy to release you,” came the reply. It reverberated inside my bones, where worms ate their way through my marrow.

No. Never that. Anything but that. I couldn't sacrifice them for me. I wouldn't. I-

A new wave of agony overtook me. I clung to sanity by the tips of my fingers, trying to think of anything except the pain of those little mouths biting into me. 

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[applestorms]

hi!! may i please ask you 4 and 14 for the fic writer asks :-)

hell yes you can :)) original post for ref

4. a story idea you haven’t written yet

stares dead eyed at my 10 page doc of fic ideas. uhh ok i have No Idea what kinda plotline this would be, but i Desperately wanna write something with bunny near... perhaps also ft. a catboy mello. i don't have a goddamn clue what kind of au would produce that, but i need it. somehow. it has to be stupid and mello has to suffer lol 👍

14. where do you get your inspiration?

a whole amalgamation of things-- i latch onto different visuals/themes/motifs from the Various Medias i consume and the connections sneak their way through whether i'm conscious of it while writing or not. specific story ideas literally kinda come to me in Visions lol, or like i'll make a connection between two things and 🤯 (though admittedly usually i just write something if i think it's funny =3=")

e.g. praise the sweetness (my lawlight cult au) was heavily influenced by me playing cult of the lamb and going "i sure hope this doesn't awaken anything in me :]" over and over, but a lot of other stuff too-- originally that story was a lot more midsommar inspired, actually, before i changed the setting to wammy's house. which, once i did that, then all the post apocalypse shit started coming out of nowhere, which was quite literally influenced by my dreams cuz i dream about the apocalypse a lot :] but also like uhh the poppy thing i think came from sabrina the teenage witch lore bc iirc in the live action show witches are allergic to/can be killed by (??) poppies and that idea/imagery has always Stuck with me.

i take a lot of inspiration from the fucking massive number of fics i've read over the years too-- superegos for example was heavily influenced by all the weird robot sex fics i've read over the years (in particular a bts fic which i'm not even sure is on the internet anymore, it was taekook and called Neptune and fucking changed me fundamentally when i read it at like 13 LMFAO) and also weird robot movies which i watch a lot of for some reason (i've had to watch ex machina for like, 3 separate classes by this point...) though i actually like that it ended up going against a lot of the classic tropes with the memory transfer shit (clearly influenced by my homestuck/dirk strider roots. laughs). also the sex scene was Very Much influenced by this old ass dirkjake fic everybody on your knees and testify, specifically ch.4 which is. very good AHAHASHL :]

[loud-whistling-yes]

Y'know an obnoxiously detailed post-ep51 oneshot would fix me I think

[saintajax]

No one ever expects the aggressive zenyatta playstyle

[mothbart]

i've been sitting in the library for three hours how am i supposed to be here for another FOUR

[flwoie]

Finally writing stupid ass strawberry scented strings who cheered 😐 (im somewhere around 6k and im not halfway done)